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SHADDEN SPRINGS.
Shadden Springs school started
Monday with Miss Belva Cross as
teacher.
The recent rains caused great re
joicing, as it practically insures a
nice com crop in these parts.
Cotton is extra fine and every one
is in good spirits.
The social gathering of young peo
ple at the home of Mr. and* Mrs. R.
Foster, was well attended last Wed
nesday night. It rained that evening
and a good many had to stay all
night. A good time was reported, j
Coal has been discovered near here 1
and the vein seems to indicate paying j
'quantities, the quality also being
good. There is other mineral with
the coal, but the kind and quantity
has not yet been determined. We
are in hopes that an organization
will soon be formed to get at the
coal in good fashion.
Miss Mary Simmons has accepted
the Liberty school and her many
friends wish her well in her new
field of endeavor.
R. D. Foster went to Newport
Tuesday to meet some orphan chil
dren whom he will keep indefinitely.
W. M. Biggs is hauling hay from
Oil Trough this week.
A community council of defense
will soon be organized here with a
view to being useful in more ways
than one in winning the war.
Beard and sons are negotiating
with Mr. Graves of Bradford, H. S.
Simmons and R. D. Foster of Liberty
for their timber and if an agree
ment is reached will start a sawmill
soon.
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Special Three Months Summer
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DRAUGHON’S Practical Business College of Little Rock, Arkansas, announces the opening of a
Three Months Summer School, during June, July and August, for the benefit of teachers and others, *
who cannot remain in school longer than that time. The work will be exactly the same as that of our
regular departments and under supervision of best educators in the South. Those who desire intensive work in
Shorthand, Stenotypy, Touch Typewriting, Bookkeeping and higher accounting, English, office practice, multi
graphing, etc., will be given an opportunity such as is not provided elsewhere in this territory. The eourses
offered follow:
» DEPARTMENT OF GREGG
SHORTHAND, direction of
Mr. R. W. Manly, principal
| of the business department
of Little Rock High School,
Tuition rate, including all
text books and course in
touch typewriting, $38.75.
DEPARTMENT OF GRA
HAM SHORTHAND, direc
tion of Miss Joe Garvey and
Mrs. Blanche Eakin, highly
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system. Tuition rate, in
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course in touch typewriting,
$40.25.
DEPARTMENT OF STEN
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hand), direction of Miss
Clara Peloubet, a recog
nized authority on the Sten
otype. Our Summer tuition
rate, including all text books
and course in touch typewrit
ing, $39.75.
DEPARTMENT OF BOOK
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ED ACCOUNTING, direc
tion of Mr. H. H. Caudill, on®
of the South’s foremost in
structors in this depart
ment. Tuition rate, includ
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Other departements are in charge of experienced instructors, our staff being composed of twelve highly compe
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NOTICE.
*1 will pay $10 for information lead
ing to recovery of following stock:
One blue Broncho pony three years
old, branded Bar Five on left shoul
der and V on left hip, with bell on,
with rope collar.
One light red mare mule two years
old, branded W on left shoulder.
R. L. Wallender,
Route No. 1, Bex 34, Weldon, Ark.
STRAYED OR STOLEN.
One bay mare, 4 years old, no
marks, also one mare mule, 6 years
old, branded 7 11 on shoulder, white
nose. Will offer $10 reward for re
turn. Notify J. W. Anthony, Au
vergne, R. No. 1, Box 35. 15w2t.
WARNING ORDER.
In the Chancery Court of Jackson
County, Ark.
i Ernest Adams, Plaintiff,
vs. No. 3324.
Kinnie Adams, Defendant.
The Defendant, Kinnie Adams, is
warned to appear in this court within
thirty days and answer the complaint
of the Plaintiff, Ernest Adams,
j Witness my hand and the seal of
said Court this 13th day of July, 1918.
(Seal) R. W. BANDY, Clerk.
G. A. Hillhouse is appointed attorney
for Non-Resident Defendant.
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STOCK NOTICE.
Notice is hereby given that, as
marshal of the city of Newport, I
have taken up the following livestock,
to-wit:
One Jersey heifer, crop and split in
right, swallow fork and underbit in
left ear, one year old.
One black Jersey heifer, crop and
split in right, swallow fork and un
drbit in left ear, one year old.
One yellow and white heifer, crop
and split in right, swallow fork and
underbit in left ear, two years old.
The owner of said stock is hereby
notified to come forward and prove
ownership to the undersigned, and
that in default thereof, I will on
j THURSDAY, JULY 25, 1918,
offer for sale at public auction to the
highest bidder for cash, in front of
the city hall in the city of Newport,
Arkansas, between the hours of 10
o’clock a. m. and 3 o’clock in the af
ternoon of said date.
G. C. MARTIN,
69dl0t City Marshal.
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NOTICE OF COMMISSIONER’S
SALE.
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Notice is hereby given that the un
dersigned, as Commissioner in Chan
cery, under the direction contained in
a certain decree rendered in the
Jackson Chancery Court at the May
Term, 1918, thereof, to-wit:—On the
12th day of June, 1918, in a certain j
cause therein pending wherein C. W.
Newberry is plaintiff and Mrs. Daisy
Brewer, Mrs. Bertha Jackson, Mrs.
Etta Becker, Miss Ida Newberry,
Mrs. Hattie Smith and Jack New
berry are defendants, cause number
ed 3296, will on the 12th day of Au
gust, 1918, between the hours of 9
o’clock a. m., and 3 o’clock p. m., at
the East Third Street entrance to the
County Court House of Jackson
County, in the City of Newport, Ark
ansas, offer for sale at public outcry,
to the highest bidder, on a credit of
three (3) months, the following de
scribed real estate situate in the
County of Jackson and State of Ark
ansas, to-wit:
The South half of the Northeast
j quarter (S^NEVi) and the North
! Vinl-f flin QftiifKooof miavfav /Ml/.
SE1^), of Section Twenty-three (23),
in Township Twelve (12) North of
the Base Line, and in Range One
(1) West, containing One Hundred
Sixty (160) acres, more or less,
reserving, however, to the St. Louis,
Iron Mountain & Southern Railway
Company, its successors and assigns,
a strip of land One Hundred (100)
feet wide for a right-of-way or for
other railroad purposes. Reserving,
also, to the Bcnnerville & Southwest
ern Railway Company a strip of land
One Hundred (100) feet wide to be
used by said Railway Company, its
successors and assigns, for a right
of-way and for other railroad pur
poses.
The purchaser will be required to
give note or bond with approved se
curity, bearing interest at the rate
of six (6) per cent per annum from
the date of sale until paid, and a
lien will be retained on said lands as
additional security for the purchase
money.
In Witness Whereof, I have here
unto set my hand as Commissioner in
Chancery and affix the seal of said
Court, this the 15th day of July, 1918.
(Seal) R. W. BANDY,
14w3 Commissioner in Chancery.
* NOTICE.
To the Citizens of Newport and Un
ion Township:
I will be at the court house Mon
day, July 22nd to 26th to assess your
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personal property, also your poll or
per capita tax for the year 1918 and
you are warned to meet the board
of assessors and attend to your as
sessing in person or file list of same.
I ask that you come out and attend
to your assessing on the first days,
thus avoiding the rush of the last
day. v
Remember after Friday you will be
placed on the delinquent list.
D. J. Nance, Assessor.
ASSESSOR’S NOTICE.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that
the undersigned, as Assessor of Jack
son County, will meet the people of
the different Townships at the places
and times below given for the purpose
of assessing all the Personal Property
and per capita or Poll Tax for the
year, 1918:
Union Township, Court House,
Monday, July 21 to 26.
You are required, by law, to meet
me at your voting precinct and at
tend to your assessing in person, cr
at the Township in which your prop
erty Is located, otherwise, you will
be placed on the delinquent list, for
failing to assess.
Eight MUe, Arkansas, April 12th,
1918.
D. J. NANCE,
4wtf Assessor, Jackson County.
NOTICE OF CONFIRMATION
In the Jackson Chancery Court.
G. W. Rice, Petitioners.
vs. No. 3318.
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SW^i; Sec. 9, Twp. 10 N., R.
4 W.
Notice is hereby given that G. W,
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Rice did on the 18th At
1918, file a petition in th
the Clerk of the Chancei
Jackson .County, Arkansa
to be the owner of and in
of and praying for the ©
of the title and to hav
quieted in her to the fo
scribed real estate situate
county, Arkansas, to-wit:
The EAST HALF of 1
1AST Quarter; the SOL
Quarter of the SOUTH E
ter; and, the SOUTH E
ter of the SOUTH WES
all in Section Nine (9)
Ten (10) North, Range
West.
And that said petition
pear in said court on the
September, 1918, or as so
ter as said court will hear
mine the same, and ask t
title to said lands quieted
ed and confirmed.
Now, therefore, any ai
ons, firms or corporation
or claim any interest what
lands, are hereby warned
and present their object
said time above mentioned
any right or claim they n
said lands and show cau
said title of petitioner ah
quieted, confirmed and fo:
rest.
In testimony whereof, 1
unto set my hand as sue
affixed *he seal of said ©
the 18th day of June, 191
(Seal.)
R. W. B
'Jerk of the Chancery Co
soi County, Arkansai
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