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Toe f^Veather and are doing
work and are anxiously
„uch held ij needed rain,
siting f«r » 1 Henry and quite a
prof. J- "uerf left Monday and
«S f Attend the institute at
■oesdaj w
e*rcy- , • „ and his two workmen,
aJd« AS 8nd Clyde Alfrey, are
wrence steer , n the house for
S5<« u" are glad that
!Sr«W?*i_ *? ‘r“ aice resi
hJSTrfl help to improve the
^ pierce of RusseU was in to*“
"“'.11 crowd went to the river
* “fired.,- The crowd was
j /Mrs W. F. Pearson and
imposed of, My • gtrowel, Prof.
*br01?deMrJBob McSpadden of
rCk Miss Minnie Pearson and
•1“° dSL clay, Miss Pearl Moore,
« b«th Fonest and T. M. Stroud.
fitJd . "ice time with lota of
tfe glad to see the smiling face
' IS Mamie Allen, the music
E her in our town again.
She Alfrey of this place spent
fweVk with her sister near Den
Si. Ed Plant was in Bradford this
5 riefwarrinTand^amily of Des
week in their auto.
Miss Ethel Plant of Russell was in
wE McDaniel of Swifton spent
few hours in our town last \\ edne3
Paul Durham has opened a new bar
r shop in our town. HappyG.ri
repairs on the Methodist church, en
larging its seating capacity.
Mr. W. S. Williams of St. Louis is
manager for the Weldon Stave Com
pany.
Mrs. Ruth Bickers and Mrs. D. F.
Kimbrough have a nicely arranged
program for Children’s Day the
third Sunday in this month.
Mrs. W. S. Wiliams of St. Louis
entertained quite a number of her
lady friends at the Weldon hotel Mon
day.
Mrs. C. L. Harris served a nice ice
cream supper in behalf of her friends
Tuesday evening.
Miss Corinne Sweatt. who is taking
a normal course in the University of
Tennessee, is at home on her regular
school vacation.
Dr. Bell made a rushing trip to
Newport Tuesday on a special call.
Mrs. Edna Hall has returned from
a visit to Brinkley.
Little Master Mann Shoffner is an
all-round boy for city or country.-. He
is not short in anything, but his size.
Oscar Vaugn has completed his ag
ricultural course, and he is now giving
us boys some hints as to how to make
practical farmers.
The boys organized an ice cream
club here last night, officers as fol
lows: Lawrence Lowe, president;
Duffer Ballew, secretary; Houston
Barber, treasurer. All the boys
pay 10c apiece. They are entitled to
all the cream they can eat from 8
to 9 o’clock p. m.
S. V. Lamb had charge of the young
men’s bible class last Sunday at the
Methodist church.
L. J. Bickers has made some nice
extensions to the Weldon Hotel, in
stalling a dandy bath room and en
larging the kitchen department. While
Mr. Bickers is a practical hotel man,
HARPER’S SCHOOL HOUSE.
Hot and dry now. _
Cotton is still coming up, the seed
ring laid in the ground about two
eks The wire worm is not report
ed and the people are getting a
1(r well with their crops.
Rev. Hamilton preached at the
iool house Sunday at 11 a. m. He
[1 preach next Sunday, -June 8th.
11 a. m. Everybody come out ana
irhim. .
Mi. McDaniel and wife and girls
ited Mr. John Wilson Sunday.
There was a W. 0. W. unveiling
Mr. Robert Young’s grave at
mes’ Graveyard Sunday,
lert Birdsong was a visitor on the
and Saturday night and Sunday,
also, were Will Goodman and wife.
I, J. Smith has sold his crop to Ar
ir McBride and moved.
Womans Mercantile Company of
a is having lots of ditching done,
fill Lambkins of Grubbs passed
ough our burg Saturday on his way
Newport. He had been at work on
Bonnerville Southern railroad,
toy Hamilton of Newport was out
our country Sunday.
Ir. McNeely says he is going on
fiver pearling for he believes he
i do well there.
Tuf Nut.
v WELDON.
r, T. S. Henderson, who was hurt
tui log woods a few days ago, is
iun.
1b Rev. Mr. Roberts of Earle is
Bng the Rev. Mr. Blevins of this
• R» Barber returned home from
Brside, where he has been doing
* mill wright work.
E. Herndon of Tuckerman is mak
jjLBhort visit among friends here,
jwjallew is doing some special
he is also a practical farmer, and he
cites old Beck up and down corn rows
like a real farmer, too.
Bob Torean reports crops looking
fine in his section.
D. F. Kimbrough is having some
special repairs to his ice cream foun
tain this week.
JACKSONPORT.
Misses Grace Richardson and Min
nie Lee Verdeil are attending the
commencement of the Batesville high
school.
Prof .Frye is in Pocahontas this
week'on business.
Mr. and Mrs. Coiiier and family
spent last Saturday fishing on Horse
Shoe Lake.
Robt. and Chas. Anderson attended
the Ben Hur dance in Newport last
Thursday night.
The ice cream social last Thursday
night, on the lawn of the parsonage,
was well attended and the second one
will be held at the same place Sat
urday night, June 7th.
Messrs. Jim McDonald, Ernest and
Arthur Massey, Stinson Verdeil and
Frank Anderson spent last week fish
ing and hunting on Wall’s lake.
Several families from here enjoy
ed a fish fry on Bergen lake Wednes
day.
On account of so much dry weather
R. W. Anderson is selling his pota
to* plants at $2.00 per thousand.
Joe Cathey of Newport spent Sun
day here with his mother. ,
We understand R. W. Anderson will
retire from business the first of July,
tenting his store, postoffice arid drug
stoife, combined. He has been in bus
iness here for fifty years and we will
sure miss seeing him bright and early
every morning at his place of busi
ness. Mr. and Mrs. Anderson are
having their home refurnished, both
inside and out, and will live in_their
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pretty home alone, as ail the children
will be away at school next winter.
The big revival at the Methodist
church begins Wednesday night and
we expect enormous crowds every
night. Rev. Mr. Champion will be as
sisted by Brother Blevins of Weldor,
and Brother Sewell, our beloved pre
sidir.r elder.
i ..i music will be in charge of j
Roo: Anderson, organist, Miss Ella!
And- -on, lyric soprano, Dillon Biour.tj
and , sorge Freeman and Bennett
\ ere ... horns, George Powers, violin.
Fra k Cathey attended the I. 0. 0.
F. lodge in Newport Tuesday night.
Mrs. J. S. Anderson entertained a
i crowd of young people at her home
Monday night with a card party.
Miss Alice Cathey has been or. the
sick list the past wek.
Miss Koenig is expected home from
Emporia. Kansas, this week, where
she finished the normal course in the
State University.
Jasper Cleveland spent last week in
Independence county on his farm, a
bove Batesville,
McCurdy Hughes left for McGhee
Tuesday, where he has accepted a po
sition.
AUVERGNE.
| We are needing rain again.
Dr. W. P. Neai left Friday for Cros
sett where he wa; called to his sis
ter’s bedside.
Mrs. G. D. Clements and daughter
left for Heber Springs Wednesday.
Misses Etta Johnston and Florence
Johnston attended the institute at |
Newport last week, and returned to I
their home Thursday,
i Lyster Beard of Chicago was visit-!
I ing his father, G. T. Beard, last week. |
j Mrs. W. P. Neal and daughter
spent Sunday with her sister, Mrs.
Neal Foushee of Shoffner.
Dr. G. D. Clements and M. B. Hare j
went to Augusta Sunday in the Stod
dard-Dayton car.
Mrs. G. W. May and daughter spent
Saturday and Sunday at Tupelo vis
iting.
Mrs. Davidson of Little Rock was
here last week visiting Mrs. Handel.
Roof Gibson spent from Friday until
Sunday at Tupelo with friends and
relatives.
We are going to have Children’s
Day the third Sunday in June. Every
body is invited to come.
TUCKERMAN.
Dan Doweli and James Graham will
in a few days, return home from the
City of Vapors.
Very warm here last Friday and the
marshal says' the temperature rose
forty degrees in less than five minutes
on that day, in the town calaboose.
Dr. Norris of Kenyon spent Friday
in town, assisting our local surgeon
in some operations.
The traveling opinion as well as our
citizens, are elated over the fact that
obscene and profane language and de
bauchery are no longer permitted in
and around the depot. To Mr. and
Mrs. Congleton, our new agents, be
long the credit.
The Tuckerman baseball team seem
ed to have been disappointed when a
third report of their last game did not
appear in the last issue of the Inde
pendent.
If the parents of the boys who con
stitute the , two baseball teams of
Tuckerman would investigate a lit
I tie and learn something about the
I condition in which some of the boys
returned home from their last game,
I am persuaded no more such games
will be played until the saloons of
Newport ars closed.
Dr. Jernigan was called to Swifton
Saturday to do some surgical work.
6ird township was well represented
at the Good Roads Convention Sat
urday, by the following citizens: J.
A. Lindley, Wesley Mitchel, Hub
James, Ulis Pemberton, W. M. Tims,
John Skyrmes, Judge C. B. Coe, Dr.
Jamison and L. D. Smith, and since
returning home, these citizens have
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run the “spat log" over every road in
this township without getting ten
reet from their places ot business.
Ir. Kirkpatrick t Pocahontas
spent Sunday ner--. v.-.ting hi- wue
and son. who is in the .-atmanum.
Children's Day Serv. at the Meth
odist church Sunday was a de
cided success. The program u
furnished by the publishing house, to
gether with some supplemental .dele -
tions and songs, were rendered to a
iarge and appreciative audience.
Mrs Mary Armstrong has moved
into her new home at the c >rner of
Front and Beech street.
Contractor A. R. Anderson will, I
within a few £ays, complete a nice j
six-room cottage for Mrs. Emma Tur- |
pin on Dowell avenue, Holt and Dow
ell Addition.
Rev. W. P. Talkingt.on preached a
very interesting and entertaining ser
mon Sunday at the Methodist church.
Sorry that more parents were not
present, as he had prepared this dis
course especially for them.
Members of Village Creek Camp.
0. W., on Sunday last, unveiled the
monument erected at the grave of
Harry Ledbetter. Ed and Grover Par
rott of Newport attended the unveil
ing.
Our townsman. Charles Penix, while
in Memphis last week, purchased a ;
Tennesse-' thoroughbred roadster for
the sum of $250. Young ladies wall
please make a note of this, as Charlie
has not yet passed into the state of j
an old bachelor and more, he and a !
younger brother have just purchased
one of the best $20,000 farms in Jack- [
sor. countv. Perhaps I had better;
not give the name of the younge1' j
brother, as I understand s r'.aims
already attach to him.
J. P. candidates for the primary ar-v
modestly coming to the front ami
within the next few days the w
will he full of them.
P ■ W. M. Shaver and famiiv. Mrs. j
Emma Cook, Misses Nora Yelvertov. )
ar. i Wiliie Penix will leave Saturday
for Jacksonville, Florida. Dr. J. r •
Cook will go along to chaperone *
crowd.
The city council are having our
town laws registered, and are also
passing some new ordinances, some
of which include the state law, in ref
erence to selling or giving away cig
arette paper and selling or giving to
minors under the age of fifteen years
pmokmg tobacco in any form, also
the stats law against using profane
language.
The contractor will get the roof on
the new brick parsonage this week;
when completed our town can boast
of having the best arranged^ most
comfortable and neatest parsonage in
this part of the state. In fact. I be
Iie-e it will be the only brick house of
the kind in Jackson county. Tucker
man is not satisfied in keeping pace
with other towns, but is continually
forging ahead.
SWIFTON.
Mr. McFadden of Memphis, Tenn.,
formerly of Swifton, was visiting
here the first of the week.
Mrs. Jim Moon is visiting her pa
rents in Memphis this week.
W. T. Altman has been on the
sick list lately.
Miss Olgie Roberts of Tuckerman
was visiting at Mrs. Lula Harvey’s
Sunday.
Miss Josie Hodge of Paris, Ark.
was visiting here this week.
Miss Caroline Strider, who has
been connected with the Walnut
Ridge school during the term just
closed, and her sister, Miss Mattie of
Cotter, visited Mr. and Mrs. Wiles
Monday and Tuesday.
Mr. Lambert is conducting a week’s
normal here for the benefit of those
expecting to take June examination,
or for anyone else desiring to take
advantage of it.
Quite a nice little rain in this sec
tion Monday, but much more is need
ed.
Shelby Taylor of Imboden was vis
iting at Will Harvey’s this week.
Mr. Tonney is having the founda
tion of his new residence put in this
WWA.
T. M. Beard and W. H. Harbison
lost a good mule each, last Saturday.
Children’s Day will be observed at
the Methodist church the 3rd Sunday
in June.
Mr. Wiles’ mother and brother, El
more, of Ward, and his brother Lu
:her of Cotter, are visiting him this
veek.
As a result of the Civil Service ex- j
imination for rural carrier at this j
mint, Taylor Keaton and John Shafer
stand at the head of the eligibles, one
>f which is liable to receive the ap
mintment soon.
Miss Beulah Shaver left Monday
norning for Cabot.
Prof. Shaver spent Tuesday here.
Quite a number of our townsmen
.re camping on Cache river this
reek.
BATTLE AXE.
Last Sunday was quarterly meet- '
ig occasion here with the Methodists
nd the regular monthly appointment
nr the “Christian” order. Conflict,
owever, could not be well avoided. ,
'he presiding elder, Rev. E. K. Sew
1!, not finding it practical to be here .
n Rev. F. H. Champion’s regular
mnthly time, it was decided to sub- ^
titute this for regular June service, j
o Rev. Champion will visit us no j
lore until Julv. On this trip he f
rought Mrs. Champion and the two ,
ttle Champions. .
P. B. Gardner, who ha? just cmu
lcted hi® second year’s work at Tu
me Medical school in New Orleans,
ame in home Sunday evening to
vend t’nc si'Kiwo’. Will toach f,/je j
lew Homo SchooV four mile® "orth. j
One of the English ooets told "»"•
eautifullv in rhvm» “How the water
nmes down Lcdo^e.” A® one :
cads the t^ioping ,!nes. ho can |
most se« the sparkle and hear the ■
nurmuring of the wa+er. pdidmg, I
rinding. =uraving. twisting, whirling
ind tumbling downward in the little
nountain stream.
It is not so pretty a sight to see
;he dust go up and around ar.d throug
and over and into ct., etc., these dry |
hot days.
It fills your eyes and nose,
Just gets all over your Sunday
clothes.
Oozes through the web your dainty i
hose.
1 hen civ -ns slowly downward between
your toes.
Only one who ha- tried it really
know -
The unrelenting misery a’d agoniz
ir.g woes.
This pest can bring, a- it denser '
grows,
[' i suffering mortals—friends or foes, i
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But when the gentlest little zephyrs
blow, [
Just hear the increasing sighs and
ohs'.
For if your parching lips you fail to
close,
Eight into the carelessly opened
mouth it goes.
The breeze subsiding, it may repose
A very short time in the road whence
it rose.
To gain new vigor for attack on those
Who venture themselves to its wrath
to expose.
A fellow or two over this way are
verv much interested in defeating Mr.
Brundidge, and are zealously nosing
around to learn of his faults; when,
if thev would confess the truth, their
opposition grows out of the fact that
he dared run against Jeff Davis. Why
is it that voters who are comparative
ly just in their ordinary treatment of
their fellow-men take so much pains
to magnify the faults and conceal
the virtues of a candidate who does
not happen to be their choice. The
fact that I prefer to cast my vote for
Mr. Brundidge should not, and, I think
does not, make it pleasant for me to
hear of anything wrong that Judge
Ilavs ma-- have said or done.
Mrs. J. W. Bindley is amusing her
self this week by having some light
chills. . ,
UV have heard thunder, seen vivid i
lijrhtnin. and very encouraging look
•mr cloud-, and almost been impelled
to run to shelter to prevent being
soaked several times recently, but
the rains have “passed by on the oth
er side” and we are »eft dry.
Scribbler.
GRUBBS.
D. I). Camp left last Monday for
Batesville to attend Federal Court
where he was a petit juryman.
Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Gibson left Fri
day for Newport and returned Sat
urday.
A. G. Steadman and J. S. Penning
ton made a business trip to Newport
Saturday, returning home the same
day. . ,
Misses f'elia Hankins, <)lue Lash
lee and Mrs. Clara Grizzle attended
the Institute at Newport last week.
Crops are needing rain here very
badly but everything looks favorable
for a rain.
The excitement over the mad dog
question is very high here and every
body is scared half to death since
Mike Denton was bitten by his dog.
The people are killing every dog that
has been bitten by any dog.
A. T. Guffey has been made depu
ty sheriff and* took the oath of office
Monday.
The Children’s Day service at the
I. 0. 0. F. Hall Sunday was good.
There was dinner on the ground and
everybody had plenty to eat. The be- j
havior during the day was never bet
ter in the history of Grubbs Town
ship at any gathering and the officers
of the town and also the Sunday ,
school thank the good people of
Grubbs and surrounding country for j
the interest taken in making the ser- ,
vices a success. The services were \
composed of three classes—First, Se- .
cond and Third. Mrs. J.. T. Ma- .
lone, primary teacher, has thirty-nine 1
in her class and we must say that ’
they were the best drilled children we ,
ever saw, considering the number in
the class. Mrs. Malone worked al- 1
most day and night to prepare her (
class and she did her work well. The
little fellows of the class love her for I
the interest she manifests in them. ’
mi n_A_2. 1 .Li L.. ‘
X lie UCWI1U vaoo
C E. George, who did her part well, 1
having her children well drilled. She
did not have so many, only about 15 or
20. All did well and they all love her -
as a teacher and at all times look to ;
her for advice.
Mrs. D. J. Browning has charge of J
the Third class, which numbers about
twenty. They were all well drilled in
drills and marches, and Mrs. Brown
ing deserves great credit for her
work and the people at large compli
ment her. The class is composed
mostly of girls who love their teacher ]
for what she has done to make Chil
dren’s day a success. In the after- J
noon the audience gathered at the j
nail and music was rendered by the
'hoir, which lasted till about four
j’clock. At the conclusion it was an
nounced that there would be an un
veiling at Cook cemetery on Sunday
lune the 8th, with dinner on the i
rround and everybody invited to J
:ome out. . _
We have Sunday school every Sun
lay at 10 o’clock, singing at 9 o clock
>y the choir.
_Happy Jack.
No. Six-Sixty-Six
Thia ia a preacriptioo prepared especially
or MALARIA or CHILLS & FEVER.
?ive or aix doses will break any case, and
f taken then as a tonic the Fever will not
etum. It acts on the liver better than
Calomel and does not gripe or sicken. 2Sc
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Stove Wood
Any hue Guoo Mill W »*oc
Close Prices on Carloads.
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$1.00 and $2.00 Loads
Phone 58
West’s Livery Stable
DIAZ.
Misses Willis Guin and Gertrude
Allen attended the Teachers’ Insti
tute in Newport last week.
Austin Monroe spent Saturday at
Bradford with friends
H. B. Bradford, 3rd tri-k operator,
has Keen relieved by E. B Bowen and
loft Thursday for his home at Buana
Vista, Ky.
Walter' F. Hurley, our popular
road overseer, attended the lecture by
[> Ward King at Newport Saturday.
Mrs. Dora Albright left Saturday
For her home at Conway.
Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Armstrong
spoilt Sunday here, the guests of Mr.
ind Mrs. J. R. Stanley.
Mrs. A. Meeker and sister, Miss
Eva Mae Wilks, were shopping in
Newport Saturday.
Mr. and Mr.-,. Monroe Witt attended
:he W. (). W. unveiling at Harper’s
Sunday.
While excavating for a big drain
age ditch last week on the Guthrie
arm one mile east of here, workmen
iug up the remains of a man, and
:he skeleton, which was or had been
n a box, was in a perfect state, even
:he hair remained on the scalp. How
Lhe body came there no one can tell,
mless it was the remains of a sol
lier who \va- buried there during the
war. Old --ettlers say that this field
was the scene of a bloody, battle be
tween Union soldiers and the Confed
erate forces, and perhaps this wan
me of the many who were slain in
this conflict, otherwise it cannot be
accounted for.
Crops are in a healthy state, free
From grass but needing rain badly.
Oscar Roberts and Wm. Chisholm
liad business in Newport Monday.
Bobbie Sconyers of Ratesville is
visiting bis brother this week
Slim Jim, the writer, was down on
the Island Monday, but did not see
vou. Perhaps you were seated in
. clinilif fppH -
ncr the fishes er fitrhtin^ mosquitoes.
Wore you not"
Murphy Birdsong1 left Sunday for
Fort Smith, where he will accept a
position with a building contractor.
Mrs. Rovd of Ripley, Tonn., is vis
itoiir her son. J. P. Boyd, this week.
L. E. Phant.
IN NEWPORT.
rhe Evidence Is Supplied By
Local Testimony.
If the reader wants stronger
proof than the following state
ment and exprience of a resi
dent of Newport, what can it be?
W. I. Hall, farmer, R. F. D.
Mo. 2, Newport, Ark., says: “I
(lave never lost an opportunity
during the past six yearn to
praise and recommend Doan’s
Kidney Pills for what they have
done for me, as well as other
members of my family. They
have made such complete cures
jf kidney trouble that it has not
jeen necessary for us to take
ihem or any other kind of med
cine during the past three years.
Dne member of the family took
Doan’s Kidney Pills for trouble
with the kidney secretions, to
gether With a weak and painful
jack. They cured her and later
[ used the mfor a similar com- .
jlaint. Their action in my calae
vas just as satisfactory and I
vas quickly cured. Doan’s Kid
ley Pills were obtained at Walk- ,
»r’s Pharmacy and have always
jeen so beneficial that I willing
y verify our former endorse
nent of them.”
For sale by all dealers, rrice
50 cents. Foster-Milbum Co.,
3uffalo, New York, sole agents
’or the United States.
Remember the name—Doan's
—and take no other.l (Adv.)
Don’t Spoil Your Clothes. Use
led Cross Ball Blue and keep
hem white as snow. All gro
:ers, 5 cents a package.
[)r. Ray A. Whipple
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