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Mrs. Rittenhouse returned yester- |
day from Poplar Bluff. ; £
Mrs. Kelley and little son, returned 1
to their home in Springfield, Mo., on j
Monday, after a visit to her brother, j ]
J>ee Kimbrough.
Mprs. E. A. Shoffner moved from j
jjnoffner to Weldon last week. ! i
Miss Beulah anti Mr. Ben Torian '
leave the 7th of September for Bus- <
fcn, Tennessee, where they will enter I
«eju>ol. 1
^lr. J. Sherrill has been on the sick
list for the past few days.
Mr. and Mrs. Bickley and little son ,
left Tuesday morning for their home j
it Pocahontas after a visit to their ,
parents.
* jMiss Alma Rittenhouse went to Au
rtrgne Sunday to spend a few days.
T Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Baxter and
daughter, Mary, left Tuesday for liot
Springs for a week’s visit.
‘Mrs. Vaughn and little Miss Imo
gens left Friday for Pine Blulf for a
visit to Mrs. Ida Henderson.
Mrs. W. P. Evans of Waco, lexas,
Is expected Tuesday to spend the
test of the summer with Mrs. W. f.
Little Charles Vaughn Harris lias .
Men sick for the past few days.
Mrs. Dee Kimbrough was shopping
la Newport Monday.
Mrs. Emma Holland and niece,
Martha Duffer, are the guests of Mrs.
A. M. Ballew.
' Mr. Charles Henley from Newport,
spent Thursday transacting business
fat our little city.
Mr. Grigg and son from Sumner,.
111., spent last week with Mr. Verd
Jones. They were so pleased with
the location of our little town that j
they expect to make their home lieie
in the near future.
BATTLE AXE.
We claim the biggest crab grass,
the smallest cotton ami tlie poorest
prospect lor price on the staple, vve
nave known xor many years. i ut
tuose three items together and see
jfjdie result is likely to make tne
Jfton planter smile. ,
Saw a man here finishing plowing
over his cotton on the second of bep
tomber, knocking out many locks wiui
cultivator, team and etc., as lie went.
Saw another man over bwiiton way,
1 on! August aist, who told me that lie
iuilanded yet to plow over his entire
cotton crop. ...
uegan pretty generally tins
,3b pf the nottom crop is not
Inhered soon, it will be lost m the
•mss and weeds. . , ,
■jifiss Johnnie Gardner returned last
.week to be at home till her work be
gins about October the first. She has
niently accepted a place for next
year in Little Rock Blind School, 10
atening from the place to which she
had been elected in Alabama. Change
•as made with the consent of the su
Mrintendent of the Alabama school,
who has notified her of his success in
gaging n teacher to take her work
S. Garner and wife have the
adind responsibility of three small
children to raise—children of Mrs.
Gtraer’s brother, Morgan Dickey, de
mised, whose widow is now in the
emnty jail charged with taking up
with the wrong man.
The arbor meeting at tlie Jackson
■tore closed Tuesday night. Result
of meeting, about seventy conversions
lad the organization of a .Methodist
(torch at that place. They plan to
told a tabernacle there. Among
(tone converted, thirty-one preferred
immersed and were accordingly
in Black river Tuesday after
gjon by Rev. Mr. Weir, in the pres
ence of a large congregation of peo
Gins are ready and will perhaps
start in a day or two.
I F Tyer is still at Newport help
w' check over accounts of the
fofficials. Hopes to get through
V; ' {Ufa V6ek.
' Quarterly meeting at Dowell’s
Oapel Saturday night, but service
Sunday all moved to the arboi
- w where Presiding Elder Skin
as invited to preach.
' * W. Lindley is nursing a sore ,■
tw»h about well though now, how
WE% 4o as to allow him to sleep
EIGHT MILE.
p Nance and W. A. Bail loft
IMaly for St. Louis with two cars j
John Frazier was a very pleasant
4©r at A. J. Meed’s Monday
meeting is progressing nicely. ;
had very good attendance, <
^OM^tering the bad weather. '
Ms Jf. Anderson made a trip to Mc
[ Tuesday and returned home on f
Emery Bigham was in town lues- t
j Iling produce, and he also went
Emerv says business was ^
FAlgoa. He states that he dis- s
all of his produce at a reas- i
* of Fakes Cliapel was over \
elping D. J. Nance witli his \
T
Pace has been very busily s
hauling wood for the Eight (
Company this week. 1
Ireland our candidate for road I
er, was in town Saturday. j
Frazier will leave for his (
—■ v next week. We re- d
but business is s
him home.
..... have a carload of t
next week. 1<
has been very busy for j
in preparing his mill for ■ e
■ft . , V
Aught Blankenship of Balch f
preaching here Saturday,
and Sunday night. I1'
O’Guin was a caller at j n
Sunday. j o
[rs. W. N. Nance, 1 j
arrived early
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'uesday morning.
Several from Auvergne are over on
week’s camp hunt—hunting deer
iear the bayou.
T. J. Jones was over from Cow
jake trading some Tuesday.
R. W. Bigham is on the sick list.
Dr. M. B. Owens is having some
mprovements done on his property,
fhe contractor is his brother, R. D.
Iwens.
G. C. Nance has a large crop of
ate potatoes. What are you going
;o charge per bushel Grover?
Several farmers have began picking
:otton. The Eight Mile Gin Company
s getting the machinery ready for
iperation. Mr. Desha Owens is off
'or a few days’ camp hunt.
Mr. F. A. Ireland makes regular
irips to Balch now.
Prof. Albright of Salem was a vis
itor at this place Tuesday.
J. S. McFadden of Cow Lake was
in town Wednesday.
W. I. Birdsell and Luther Land
massed through our burg Wednesday
jn route to Newport.
E. E. McFadden is able to be at
work again.
2550—Grubbs Drainage District, ex
DENMARK.
Here we come again.
This country was visited by a fine
rain last week, being the most that
las fallen at any one time since May
1th.
Some of the boys of this neighbor
lood have given the deputy sheriff the
lighball. It is said their parents are
soon to be wanted at the county seat.
Rev. S. B. Vick, Thos. Scoggins and
Prof. J. W. Adams have been con
ducting a series of meetings here for
the past ten days.
Elder C. W. Johnson shipped a car
oad of cattle to St. Louis.
The U. S. postoffice inspector made
lis regular semi-annual trip here last
week. k
Jurd Nelson is a candidate for con
stabe of Barren towmship at the
September election.
The Red Legs baseball team of this
ilace played the Union Hill Bilies a
natch game last Saturday and the re
set was 5 to 15, in favor of the Reds.
Prof. G. E. Land, captain of the Rad
Legs, has authorized the Independent
correspondent from this place to say
hat a challenge is made to any nine
n Jackson or White, or adjoining
counties for a test or match game, any
:ime this fall, who will come to their
ground to play.
M. L. Ransom is buying young mules
Dr. W. H. Fraser says he con
;emplates buying another carload of
•attle.
Uncle Billie Cox of Oak Ridge was
n town last Saturday evening looking
ifter egal affairs.
With much successvto the Independ
ent, we close.
More Anon.
BANDY’S CHAPEL.
Charles Hutton’s father died at
Minturn on the 17th of August.
Lharley and family, Mrs. <J. D. John
son and Miss Nellie Reppetta went to
die burial.
James Cleveland took down anoth
er lot of melons to Tuekerman to sell,
tie has some that weigh around J5
sounds.
The officers came out and arrested
lohn Milligan the 20th.
_ Mack Townley started after school
dismissed and took his family to Cala
ninc, arriving there about midnight
if the 21st. His wife and children
will remain a week at her mother’s to
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.harge of his school Monday.
Misses Amanda and Willie Hallibur
ton and some of their kindred came in
from the hils the 21st.
James Cleveland took another load
)f melons to Tuckerman the 21st.
George Harkey has rented the
Widow Buck Van field south of the
ng road. He and two sons-in-law and
2dint Townsley will occupy the dwell
ng houses on the land.
R. L. Conditt has about 15 acres of
apd cleared and several ties made.
Albert Biggers has no fever.
B. P. Hartwick went on the 23rd,
to meet his wife at Little Rock. She
-vas on her way from her Oklahoma
risit.
Protracted meeting began at the
irbor by Decker’s store the 22nd. Bro.
Weir and Bro. Talkington were the
ireachers.
Miss Fay Reeves who has been vis
ting Wm. Hurst’s family, has re
turned to Nettleton. ' i
TUPELO.
More rain, more rest, as the old
aying goes, but I suspect the farm
rs are beginning to think, “More
ain, spoiled hay.”
It certainly has rained the past
ew days. In fact, is has rained so
lard Dr. Pierce has not been auto
nobile riding much the past few days.
Several farmers have sowed winter
arieties of rye. Never mind, Jack
on county will do scientific farming
ltogether in the near future. I
There was a little mistake in last
reek’s paper. A new bale of cotton
res hauled to J. N. & J. F. Gard
ens gin Monday, August 24th, in
tead of S. W. Collier’s gin. Mr.
Ihaney raised the cotton on the ■
lobinett farm, four miles west of ,
'upelo. Gardner Bros, offered a
remium for the first bale hauled. Mr.
'haney won the premium by just two J
ays, over Ras Baker, who hauled the i
econd bale. 1
Cotton crops are fine, but we hear ]
here will be no market —at least it i
>oks that way just now.
A very very favorable report reach- ]
:1 this place. Will D. Morgan, Jr., i
ho went to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, j
)r treatment, is doing nicely.
A recital was given at the school j
ouse August 29 by Olive and Ben- ,
ett Patterson of Jelks. There were i
nly a few present, but everyone en- ]
>yed the program. <
Dan Harris, who has been y
i
teaching school at Algoa, returned
home for a few days’ visit. We are
glad to welcome Professor Harris to
our midst again.
The rain kept the Methodist peo
ple from having Sunday School. Sup
pose Professor T. A. Morris, our S.
S. superintendent, is no Baptist all
right, for he failed to venture out to
Sunday School.
Mrs. J. M. Dennison of Conway, '
Arkansas, returned home after a few i
days’ visit.
Wonder why Ed Morgan didn’t go
to Weldon Sunday.
Allen Collier was in our burv one
day last week on business.
B. F. Simmons of Simmons’
Switch came to town Sunday.
Arthur Snow is now on the
sick list.
Ml1, and Mrs. B. F. Simmons of[
Simmons’ Switch came up to see Mr.
Arthur Snow, who is now on the sick
list.
Lye is not good for one’s complex
ion, as Homer Patrick learned last
Saturday.
We have some very brave bucks in
this burg. Some even hung from the
boughs of a tree near the school!
house to get a birds eye view of the
■recital, in progress on the inside.
Wouldn’t give two bits to see the
thing, but they took precious good
care to reach the most convenient lo
cation.
Mrs. L. B. Morgan returned Mon
day after a few days’ visit in New
port.
Mrs. H. L. Lambert is visiting her
mother, Mrs. Frank Harris.
The contractor has suspended work
on J. N. & J. F. Gardner’s store,
waiting the arrival of steel girders.
Mr. Charlie Taylor visits Jno. Gard
ner’s often. If he doesn’t look sharp
Professor Harris’ dog will do him up
and turn him down, Oh! He’s easy. |
Mr. W. E. Bevens was in our midst
a few weeks ago, collecting and get
ting subscriptions for a Confederate
monument and statue. This statue is
to represent an old Confederate sol
dier. The monument will contain the
names of the brave soldiers of Jack
son county. We trust the young gen
eration will contribute liberally for
we can look at this monument which
will be placed in the court yard and
think of the hard times these brave
men underwent.
Mackey Morgan left Sunday for
Memphis.
Fletcher Oliver came up on the noon
bound train.
Our young depot agent, J. T. Tuck
er, left, for the southern part of the
state Friday.
Mutt.
Lumber Sawed Or For Sale.
Am now operating saw mill at
Diaz and will saw for or supply
trade from stock on hand.—R.
D. Wilmans, Diaz, Ark. 27btf.
Notice.
Notice is hereby given thart
the Board of Improvement of
Walnut Street Improvement
District Number One of the
City of Newport, Arkansas will
receive bids for the construction
of a concrete pavement and
curbing on Walnut Street in the
City of Newport, Arkansas,
from the intersection of said
Walnut Street with East Third
Street to its intersection with
Remmel Avenue.
Said bids will be received up
to 1:30 p. m. of September 7th,
1 Q1 A of fVia nffiAA nt' I It* VTnntnr
Jwen, Newport, Arkansas.
Plans and specifications of the
work can be seen at the office of
Dr. Owen or at the office of
Ford & McRae, Gazette Build
ing, Little Rock, Arkansas. The
right is reserved to reject any
and all bids.
J. R. COX,
Secretary Board of Improve
ment of Walnut Street Im
provement District No. 1, of
the City of Newport, Ark.
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Good Housekeepers Use The
Best. That’s why they use Red
Dross Ball Blue. At leading
grocers, 5 cents.
C. R. GRAY
PHYSICIAN ,
AND SURGEON
EARL BUILDING
)FFICE HOURS:
• a. m. to 11 a. m.
I p m. to S p. no.
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TUCKERMAN NEWS.
Aunt Mary Armstrong, who
has been sick for several weeks,
is much better, and will go home
Wednesday. She has been with
her daughter, Mrs. L. D. Smith,
and her son, W. S. Armstrong,
lor several weeks.
Mrs. Massie Slayden, who has
been sick for several weeks with
typhoid fever, is able to be up.
Mrs. Lizzie Hopkins of Her
man, Arkansas, is visiting her
father, Uncle Sam Bogle, at this
plaee.
Mrs. Joe Greenhaw and child
ren, who are visiting in Tennes
see, are expected home one day
this week.
Protracted meeting started at
the Baptist church in this town
Sunday. They are having a fine
meeting.
For fire and life insurance see
Judson N. Hout, with Jackson
County Realty Company at
Tuckerman, Ark. wl.
Miss Johnnie Gardner and
little Miss Ruth Lindley of Ken
yon were in town for a few
hours Tuesday.
The many friends of Mrs. E.
V. Holt are glad to hear that
she is improving and getting a
long fine.
Everybody knows that prop
erty is the road to wealth, but
less than one per cent of the peo
ple of America have taken this
road. You see "this little one
per cent of your neighbors al
ways ‘getting rich and getting
richer. You see them always
buying a lot or buying a farm—
always investing in property.—
Why don’t you refuse to be "hap
py until you have something to
be happy about? Follow the
few, not the many. Whether you
have a hundred dollars or a hun
dred thousand, make some real
estate investment and when you
get old you will have something
to be happy for. Jackson Coun
ty Realty Company of Tucker
man, Arkansas, will make the
safety of your present a turn to
the certainty of your future, wl
Uncle Sam Bogle spent Mon
day at Newport on business.
Mrs. Burkhalter came in home
Tuesday from the lower part of
the state, where she was called a
few weeks ago to the bedside of
her daughter.
Ed Bowen and W. H. Terrell
left Monday for Independence
county to buy stock.
Geo. L. Smith is spending this
week at Heber Springs for his
health.
Prof. J. A. Roberts and family
came in home Wednesday from
Judsonia, where they spent sev
eral weeks.
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Rev. W. P. Talkington of this
place and Rev. James Weir of
McRae, have just held a great
revival at Decker’s Store. The
good people of that community
built a splendid brush arbor for
the occasion and otherwise as
sisted in every way possible
throughout the meeting. The
meeting ran ten days and as a
result there were ninety-eight
professions and a Methodist
thurch organized with eighty
liree members. This church <
starts off as one of the livest <
churches in all this part of the 1
country. The officers have al- 1
eady been appointed for the 1
•emaining conference year. Not 1
i dry or dull service at any time
vas held. It is said the largest
rowds were in attendance <
hroughout the meeting that t
lad ever been seen in these i
>arts. Bro. Weir was an untir- £
ng and enthusiastic worker, and f
las won the friendship of all \
vho heard him. e
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Sunday, August 30, Rev. A. F. g
kinner, presiding Elder, preach- e
d at night a very helpful ser
non and Monday morning at 9 r
’clock, held the fourth quarter
y conference for Tuckerman 0
hurch. _
Rev. W. P. Talkington left g
his morning for Searcy, to 0
ring his son home.
PUBLICITY METHOD
PROVES SUCCESS
YVas Tried In Chicot County,
Says Judge Harry E.
Cook.
“Chicot county has been using
the publicity method of conduct
ing public affairs for the past
two years and with marked suc
cess,” County Judge Harry E.
Cook of Lake Village, secretary
of the County Judges’ Associa
tion of Arkansas, said yester
day.
Judge Cook was one of a num
ber of the county judges in Lit
tle Rock to attend the conference
of the county executive officers
with the Arkansas World’s Fair
Commissioners, who commented
favorably on Act No. 3, the pub
licity bill to be voted on at the
general election Monday, Sep
tember 14.
Judge Cook said that on his
recommendation two years ago
the Quorum Court of Chicot
County appropriated $100 to be
used in having published, quar
terly, all allowances, made by
the County Court, covering all
general claims, all road claims,
and all other allowances made by
the court and issued by the
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KEEPS PEOPLE ADVISED.
“We find it an excellent check,
and the people are constantly ad
vised of the disbursements of
their funds, to whom paid and
for what purposes. This sys
tem has a tendency to make
more careful those presenting
claims for allowance; keeps the
county judge advised of certain
expenditures; enables the cor
rection now of any useless or
needless expenditures rather
than years later.
“This method places a public
servant in a better and fairer
position should he again seek
public favor, because the voters
have his record before them long
before he is a candidate and are
constantly advised of his efforts
to serve them intelligently and
honestly or ignorantly and reck
lessly. I found in the last elec
tion, in which I was a candi
date for my fifth term as county
judge, that it pays to take the
people into full confidence and
partnership in the administra
tion of their public affairs.
DEFECTS ARE OUTWEIGHED
“There are some features of
Act No. 3 that do not meed; with
UUL tXICIC X^>
so, much good in the measure
that the defects are greatly out
weighed. The act does not go
far enough. Levee and school
matters are of as much public
concern as the other matters
provided for in this measure,
and the sunlight of publicity
should reach these expenditures
the same as others.
“I have always advocated pub
licity in all public matters, and
particularly matters of public
inance, and feel a great satis
faction in knowing that every
nan can see monthly what be
:omes of the taxes he pays. We
:ould not be persuaded; to discon
;inue the publication of our af
'airs, and no one would venture
o advocate, openly, a discon
inuance of the practice.”
OTHER JUDGES OPINIONS.
“Every public officer,” Judge
Della of Miller county said rela
ive to Act No. 3, “who has the
nterest of his county at heart,
hould be in favor of this act,
or it certainly is a measure
ffiich will have a great deal of
fleet in educating the public in
flfairs which they as citizens
hould have the fullest knowl
dge.”
County Judge Williams of Ma
ion county, Judge George of
ell county, Judge E. B. McCall
f Ouachita county also ex
ressed the belief that the act
hould be adopted for the good
f the public.
“Act No. 3 will more than pay;
the expenses of letting the peo
ple know,” Judge Wiliams said,
“in the suppression of extrava
gance and payment of unjust de
mands."
“I think that it pays to take
the people into full confidence in
the administration of their pub
lic affairs,” Judge George of Yell
county said while in Little Rock.
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NEW ELECTION
JUDGES NAMED
To Serve In General Election of
September 14th, and For ^
Next Two Years*.
The election judges for he
thirty-three precincts of Jack
son county have been selected
by the county commissioners.
These officials will serve in the
general state election of Septem
ber 14, and hold office fo? a
term of two years.
They are as follows: ^ ^
UNION TOWNSHIP.
First Ward—J. W. Wallace, Jake
Ivy, H. C. Patton.
Second Ward—Sam Phillips, Joa
Bevens, Carey Davidson.
McLain Precinct—Fred Parish,
W. K. Coe, J. M. Sellers.
Diaz—E. B. Wilmans, J. M. Witt,
Willis T. Moyer.
BIRD TOWNSHIP.
Tuckerman— C. E. Harrison, A. R.
Anderson, Jud N. Hout.
Kenyon—J. A. Lindley, C. C. Wil
1:_ T TT_1_
Elgin—Ernest Mauldin, E. J.
Brock, S. J. Hout.
Denton Island—N. J. Gass, John
Biggs, George Painter.
GLASS TOWNSHIP.
Swifton—Joe G. Smith, Ed Dukes,
Ben Brann.
JEFFERSON TOWNSHIP.
Strider’s Store—J. M. Jackson, L.
B. Rogers. J. S. Cameron.
Jacksonport—W. B. Verdell, J. J.
Massey, L. E. Moore.
BATEMAN TOWNSHIP.
Surrounded Hill—Leon Mack, J.
H. Shook, L. B. Young.
Bridge School House—H. G. Man
too:h, Wm. Dunham, A. C. Bradley.
GLAIZE TOWNSHIP.
Old Glaize—John Walker, C. R.
Shelley, G. W. Roberts.
New Glaize—R. L. Stuart, T. J.
Heaton, Bruce Frizzell.
BARREN TOWNSHIP.
McDougal School House—S. C,
Vick, J. T. Ragen, Will Biggs.
Denmark—Garland Land, W. A.
Alexander, H. B. Fraser.
GRUBBS TOWNSHIP.
Grubbs—John McElrath, Jno.
Grizzle, Jr., R. W. McMurry.
Stegall School House—Pearl Ste
gall, B. F. Carter, W. L. Sullins.
VILLAGE TOWNSHIP.
Greenhaw School House—Will R.
Littleton, C. K. McDainiel, T. C. Lit
tle.
Harper School House—W. A. Eil
and, Sam Hewitt, W. W. WTiybrew.
CACHE TOWNSHIP.
McCall School House— W. A. Mc
Cartney, E. B. Bridges, H. Murphy.
Burton’s Store—A. A. Hite, W. B.
Gibson, C. M. Benson.
Algoa—R. L. Strigner, H. K. Heath
erby, Jack Conn.
RICH WOODS TOWNSHIP.
Ford School House—T. J. Adcox,
A. D. Huey, H. Welty.
Balch—J. C. Ball, W. B. Overstreet,
Dallas Johnston.
COW LAKE TOWNSHIP.
Eight Mile — W. N. Roy, J. S. Me
Fadden, H. D. Brown.
iivvn, l» . V. UIIllUl. 1. J. •
Phillips, J. Y. Plunkett.
BRECKENRIDGE TOWNSHIP.
Auvergne—A. Johnston, Forrest
Bleakley, J. F. Gipson.
Weldon—Jno. Starnes, E. H. To
rian, L. D. Livingston.
Tupelo—J. H. Wooley, W. E. Baker,
L. D. Morgan.
; BRYAN TOWNSHIP.
Ingleside—P. A. Worley, W. B.
Foster, W. H. Mustain.
Horseshoe—C. C. Dawson, Tem
Ray, F. C. Chester.
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Use Eed Cross Ball Blue and
keep them white as snow. All
grocers, 5 cents a package.
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C. H. WALTON
Proprietor
Washing called for and delivered
to all pasts of the city
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