“Get the Habit.”
Good News for Boys!
Perhaps we ought to say great news for the mothers
0f hoys—for they are the ones who COUNT THE CASH.
And 'mothers of Newport boys will be glad of this news
of the Smartest and Best Fall and Winter OUTFITTINGS
FOR YOUNGSTERS at prices hardly covering the cost of
the materials.
Star Clothing House Clothing
Has become a household word with every mother—c.
synonym for Clothing that “Stands the Racket” and looks
well while it is doing it. And no wonder. If you take
all-wool materials, put them together firmly and well, stay
and re-enforce the suits wherever the wear and tear on
them is the hardest, you are bound to get Clothing that
will make a boy work hard to wear out. That’s our Boys’
Clothing. And it’s as notable for style and price as for
wear. School days are here and our Boys’ Clothing brings
good cheer. Let us fit out the “Chap” and make him
happy. “GET THE HABIT.” GO TO
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Specialists in
Men’s and Boys’
Apparel.
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Specialists in
Men”s and Boys’
Apparel.
FIRST NATIONAL BANK"
* NEWPORT, ARKANSAS.
Under tlie supervision of the United States Government.
— d 04/.D IN CAPITAL. $50,000.00.
Deposits in sums of one dollar and upwards will be re
j ceived—the same careful attention is extended both small
and large depositors.
OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS:
T. J. GRAHAM W. A. JOYCE T. J. WATSON
: SIGMUND WOLFF, J. O. TAYLOR G. W. HURLEY,
President. Vice-Pres.
W. A. BILLINGSLEY, F. A. JONES,
Cashier. Ass’t Cashier.
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TRY THE
...Weems Laundry...
When you want good work.
They make a specialty of
DYEING AND CLEANING CLOTHES
Let them show you how
well they can please you.
Leave orders with
T. P. UMSTED * CO,
Local Agents.
WEST BOUND RATES.
Special west bound tourist rates via
the Iron Mountain Route—One fare
plus 50 cents to Denver, Colorado
Springs, Pueblo and Glenwood
Springs. Tickets on sale June 15th to
September 30th, with final limit of
October 31st for return.
47btf T. H. Reamey, Agt.
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This is notice to you that we are looking for the
“BEST OF IT!”
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We have been tearing down the high walls of profit, and to )
prove to you that this is true we give below a few of the many ) (£n
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A good, serviceable Man’s Suit, $3.90
value, $2.00*.
Men’s cotton Serge Suits, $4.75 value, $2.95
Men’s guaranteed all wool Serge Suits,
military cut, $9.00 value, $5 25.
Men’s all wool Scotch Suits, $9.75 value,
J $5.85.
Youth’s long pant Heavy Suits, $4.50
value, $3 10.
Boys' Knee Suits up to 15 years, $2.50
value, $! 60.
Boys’ Knee Suits up to 15 years, $4*50
vain© 85c
Boys’ Wash Suits, only a few left, $1.00
Men’s Work Shirts, 50c value, 83c.
Men’s fancy pattern Negligee Shirts, 75c
value, 55c.
Men’s Panama Shirts, 75c value, 50c.
Men’s Full Dress Shirts, $1.25 value, 85c.
Men’s Belt Suspenders, the latest out, 42c
Ladies’ Oxfords, $3.00 value, $1.90.
Ladies’ patent tip Dongola Shoes, $1.50
value, 98c.
Job lot ladies’ $1.50 and $25.0 Shoes, 75c.
Men’s Oxfords, $3.25 value, $2.15.
Men’s calfskin, patent tip Shoes, $2.00
value, $1.25.
Job Men’s Shoes, 85c.
Mirmil 5° doz- ^en’s fancy lace Lisle Half Hose, 20c value, lip
1 \Hr |g I III" pair—not more than 3 pair to a customer. IIU
VI kvini-i BLEACHED DOMESTIC 4ic.
All Summer Dress Goods at actual cost. A big line of Ladies’ F:ancy
Hose, Colored Skirts and Waists. We carry the best Trunks on the
market. Prices here are figured with strictest regard to economy.
This sale for % /y \ ry j T f*e Two
~ te^r Bowen s Cash Store «ores
Remember we carry everything in the Grocery and Feed line.
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A NATURAL CURIOSITY.
Some of the ^gndefful Things About
the Blowing Cave, Five Miles
From Batesville.
One of the severrl natural curiosities
in which Independence county
abounds is a cave situated on the bank
of Polk bayou, about five miles north
of Batesville, commonly known as
“Blowing Cave.”
On one of the hot days last week
when the thermometer registered 115
in the sun, the writer had occasion to
go by this place and before starting
placed in his pocket a small ther
mometer to really see what difference
in temperature there was between the
outside air and that of the cave. Im
agine his surprise when the mercury
began falling rapidly, and flually
stopped at 55 degrees, a clear drop of
60!
A peculiar feature of this cave is
that it blows out for half the year or
through the warm season, and in the
opposite direction during the other
half.
Another remarkable fact is that at
the entrance the draught is amply suf
ficient to extinguish a candle or even
a pine torch, while back in the cave
some 75 yards the air is perfectly still
and the flame burns steadily. Where
does this strong current of air disap
pear? Surely not through the bottom,
sides or roof, for these can be plainly
seen by means of a light, and no open
ing is revealed in either. Yet this
strange breeze which blows at the
rate of 20 miles an hour must origi
nate somewhere, but as yet no one
has been able to find out whence it
comes. In the winter it is the same
way. You follow the draught going
in for some 200 feet, when suddenly it
leaves you, going you know not
It is asserted that about one and a
half miles from the mouth there is a
swift stream of water which no one
has been able to cross, running in a
direction parallel to the bayou, but
the writer will not vouch for this, as
it is second hand.
We earnestly recommerd this cave
to all who are seeking a cool place
these hot summer days, but we take
the liberty of advising them to go
prepared with wraps, as the difference
in temperature is great and the change
a little more than has likely been bar
gained for. A Cool Spot Hunter.
DAUGHTER OF “THE SPY”
STAR OF COMPANY.
To the ex-Confederate veterans of
the community there will be an added
interest in the forthcoming produc
tion of “Darkness and Daylight,”
which opens the Newport Opera
House on September 11, because of
the fact that the particular star of the
organization is Miss Sarah Boyd, a
daughter of Belle Boyd of Virginia,
who was known to fame as “The Con
federate Spy.” These same people
will be delighted to know that Belle
Boyd’s daughter now is one of the
most prominent of the younger ac
tresses of the country, and that her
present tour of the South has been
almost a social triumph, as well as the
usual hard grind of theatrical life, as
the ex-Confederate veterans every
where along the route, as well as their
wives and daughters, have vied with
each other in extending their hospi
tality to the daughter of their late
“comrade in arms.”
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TRIP OVER ROUTE.
T. D. Kinman, Jr., went to Bates
ville Thursday morning, where he will
meet and accompany to Rush and the
mineral districts of Marion county, R.
D. Chadick of Chicago and George
Locke of St. Louis, a representative
of a St. Louis trust company.
Messrs. Chadick and Locke drove
I through to Batesville over the sur
veyed route of the Morning Star,
leaving here Wednesday, and were
accompanied by T. D. Kinman, Sr.
The trip of these gentlemen is to
show to the representative of this
St. Louis loan company the richness oi
the mineral district the Morning Star
railroad would drain and the practi
cability of the surveyed route.
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ARTICLES FILED.
Articles of incorporation of the
Walnut Ridge & Hoxie Light, Power
| & Transit Company were filed Wed
I nesday in the secretary of state’s
! offio*. The company’s place of busi
| neejLa at Walnut Ridge. The amouni
| of capital Btock is 665,000, o
' which $10,000 has been subscribed
I TuerJirectors are S. C. Dowell, So
Bertia, H. L. Ponder, M. A. Isaac
! and Richter.
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POPLAR BLUFF BOY
DROWNED IN BLACK.
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Lyman Croy Drowned While Bathing
in Black River Wednesday—Com
panions Attempted to Con
ceal Death.
Lyman Croy, 12-year-old son of Mr.
and Mrs. H. C. Croy, living in Poplar
Bluff, was drowned while bathing in
Black river Wednesday morning, says '
the Citizen. He in company with his
brother, Gale, 8 years old, and John
Clevlen, 10 years old, had run away
and gone into the water, although ‘
none of them could swim. They went
to a place near the trestle on the Iron
Mountain track just south of the
pumping station, where the current
is very swift and the river abounds in
deep holes. In some way young Croy
got beyond his depth and was swept
away to his death by the swift cur
rent.
His companions hid his clothes in a
bramble patch about two hundred
yards from the scene of the drowning.
They then came to town and told a
wild tale of how a mysterious stranger
had struck the boy and kidnaped him.
The whole city rang with the tale and
searching parties went out in every
direction to seek the miscreant. Gale
Croy was taken in charge by the
sheriff, but stuck stubbornly to his
tale.
A systematic search for the body
was made and after half an hour’s
diving and dragging it was found.
When questioned as to their motive
for telling the tale about the kidnap
ing, the boys stated that they feared
to tell of Lyman’s death because they
feared the news would be too great a
shock upon his sick mother. The
probabilities are that they expected
that the boy’s disappearance would
be credited to the stranger and their
own part in the affair never suspected.
DOINGS AT DIAZ. '
Mrs. A. Bowles returned home
Thursday from a week’s visit to Mem
phis.
Wm. Toothaker of Guion is here
visiting relatives and friends.
John Wilson of Guion is here visit
ing relatives and friends.
James Crawford, section foreman
at this place, left Sunday for a few
days’ visit to Judsonia.
L. Hackney of our city visited New
port Sunday.
Will Hurley of Newport visited
friends and relatives in our city Sun
day.
Will Crawford left Sunday for a
week’s visit to Judsonia.
R. L. Pierce, after a few days’ sick
ness, was able to go to work Monday.
Miss Mabel Craft and Tom Craft,
after a week’s visit to relatives and
friends in our city, returned home to
Denieville Tuesday.
There are a good many on the sick
list this week.
Mrs. Nora Craft returned home
Wednesday to Denieville, after a
week’s visit to her mother, Mrs. M. J.
Hackney. Rattle Box.
Newport enjoyed a good shower
on Thursday forenoon.
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LICENSE QUESTION
STIRS TEXARKANA.
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Prohia on Arkansas Side flh'ek'J^Take
Advantage of Three Mile
and Bar Saloons.
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Texarkana, Sept. 9.—The temper
ance question is greatly agitating
Texarkana this week on both sides of
the state line. The antis have em
ployed able lawyers and these have
sued;out an injunction before Judge
Talbott of the district court on the
Texas side restraining the commis
sioners’court from declaring the re
sult of the prohibition election which
was held in the county August 27, and
which showed a prohibition majority.
Judge Talbott will give the injunc
tion petition a hearing on Saturday.
The antis will on tomorrow also file
formal notice of a contest, alleging
irregularities, illegal voting and some
technical defects of the order under
which the election was held.
Meantime the partisans of license
and prohibition are lining up for a
test of strength on the Arkansas side,
and a decidedly interesting time is in
prospect. The friends of license are
working to get the city council to
raise the city license on saloons from
its present figure of §700 to §2,000,
while the temperance folks are out hi
force circulating petitions to the
county court, under the three mile
law, asking that the saloons be done
away with entirely. Many men and
nearly all the women are signing the
petitions and the temperance people
are sanguine of success.
Rev. E. A. Tabor, editor of the
Searchlight, has been in the city sev
eral days engaged in efforts to work
up an anti-saloon, sentiment on the
Arkansas side. Several - ggf
ings have been held at which Mr.
Tabor and others made strong appeals
for temperance and prohibition*
Many business men are opposed to
local option, while others strongly
favor it.
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS.
F. P. and M. E. Altman to C. C.
Nicholson, lot 9 block 29 Swifton, $560.
Geo. W.,Cole and wife to Dan Jack
son, lot 10, block “K,” Chastain’s ad
dition, Newport, $60.
Helen S. Constant to S. 0. Dowell,
240 acres 20-11-1 and 12-12-2, $300. ^
N. B. Wishon and wife to E. L.
Boyce, one-half lot 49, Walnut Grove
cemetery, $15.
R. W. Anderson and wife to The
White River Cooperage Company,
one acre 27-12-3, $200.
Dave White et al to C. E. White,
lot 11, block 1, Davis’ addition, New
port, $600.
Jas. F. Henderson and wife to J. G.
Handel, lot 11, block 1, Auvergne, $25.
Jas. F. Henderson and wife to J. G.
Handel, lot 3, block 4, Auvergne, $60.
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LITTLE ROCK, ARK.
One fare plus 50 cents for the round
trip, account Triennial Convocation,
Grand Chapter Royal Arch Masons.
Tickets on sale October 3 to 5, in
clusive, return limit October 11.
T. H. Reamey, Agt.
C. A. Wooten of Helena came in
Thursday morning.
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CHILL
BREAKER
ONETHAT IS GUARANTEED
For past two years we have been endeavoring
to produce A Chill Tonic that we could offer
the public with this guarantee, your money
back if it does not break the chill.
Our efforts have been rewarded and we are
now able to offer to those suffering with chills
and fever a remedy that is pleasant to take and
one that is effective.
Ask for and take only Sells’ Laxative Chill
Tonic 50 cents a Bottle For Sale at—
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SELLS’ DRUG STORE
' NEWPORT, ARKANSAS. ^
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