HE INDEPENDENT
PERCY H. VAN DYKE
Publisher and Editor
#fuut St., NEWPORT, ARK.
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Entered at the postoffice, Newport,
Arkansas, as second class mail mat
ter.
i/ ANNOUNCEMENTS.
The Independent has been au
thorized to make the following
announcements of candidates,
[nibject to the action of the Dem
acratic Primary.
For Congress—
GEORGE T. HUMPHRIES
W. A. OLDFIELD
For Prosecuting Attorney—
EARL C- CASEY
H. U. WILLIAMSON
For County Judge—
W- D. McLAIN
' JAMES H. JOHNSTON
JOHN A. MELVILLE
O. W. SCARBOROUGH
For Sheriff—
J. F. McCUISTION
ABE BALLEW
For Representative—
J. M. MARDIS
W. M. SHAVER
J. U. ARD
R. T. §IMMONS
For Treasurer—
JOHN H- CAMP
JESSE W. SHUFORD
J.M.IVY
J. I. HASTING
For School Superintendent—
H. L. LAMBERT
E. H. BOWMAN
J. M. BALCH
For Coroner—
HENRY GRANT J
J. T. CRAFT
W. H- NOLEN . »
UNION TOWNSHIP
For Justice of Peace—
L. B. HARRIS
For Constable—
W. T. GUIN
CLYDE WOOD
MUNICIPAL OFFICES.
Subject to the Action of City
Primary, February 26.
For Mayor— y
JOHN P. PAUL
A. T. HUBLY
For Recorder
B. G. GRAHAM
For Marshal—
W. H. CAROUTHERS
GUS C. MARTIN
For City Treasurer—
GARLAND HURT
PERRY CLARK.
For Aldermen First Ward—
T. P. UMSTED.
C. R. PATE.
JOHN R. LOFTIN, JR.
S. HEINEMANN
For Aldermen Second Ward—
W. B. GRANT.
W. H. SNETSER.
Curses.
The alcoholidays are here,
But we are all in Dutch;
We’ll have to stick to beer this
year,
The eggnog costs too much.
—Cincinnati Enquirer.
The unalchoholic days, they say,
Soon’ll put us on the blink;
We’ll have to stick to water, for
There’ll be nothing else to
drink.
—Commercial Appeal.
Prohibition days are here
The dryest since you’se bawn;
For wine and “whis” and also
beer
Are “Going, “Going”, Gone.”
—Fort Smith Times-Record.
Duties of Newspapers.
It is not any mere the duty of
a newspaper to give its time,
space and money to the promo
ion of good things in a com
munity than it is the duty of
any other citizen or business en
terprise.
And yet, these things are ex
pected of a newspaper, and
when one does not give its space
and its money, and its time to
boosting everything from a char
ity bazaar to a railway enter
prise, it is condemned for its
narrow-minded policy.
Where a newspaper is always
loyal and always boosting, it is
seldom that the general public
ever gives it any credit for the
good it does, and it is more of
ten the case, when a newspaper
champions some movement of
enterprise and progress, and
such movement fails, the failure
is charged up to the newspaper.
The Fort Smith Herald has
published a very timely edito
rial on this subject, which ought
to be read with interest by
Batesville people. It says:
“That newspapers should give
freely of their time and work
and space to promoting every
movement for the general wel
fare, every charitable plan and
philanthropic purpose—to a
thousand and one things that are
under way all the time—is some
thing that most people expect as
a matter of course.
“Their taking it for granted
that in all such cases editors will
lend a helping hand is really a
high compliment to the newspa
pers. It proves that they have
been doing these things so long,
I We have just finished taking stock and find many 55
broken lines of good seasonable merchandise that we ||
must move in the next few days. Below we mention jjQ
a few of the many bargains we have for you. ng
$3.50 wool nap blankets SR
only_$2.19 ~jp
Comforts from__90c up £p
12 yards good, heavy brown jg|
domestic for__$1 gp
12 yards Amoskeag ginghams Be
Ladies’ $18.50 and $19.00 E§
coats, only_$10.00
Ladies’ $13.50 and $12.00 coats
only_$7.50 y>
Men’s extra heavy fleeced shirts K
and drawers, each_39c K
Men’s Ladies’ and Children’s Kg
Munsing union suits at a big Kg
Men’s and Boys’ Clothing at Kg
one-third off. Bid reductions Kg
on shoes. Come to the New Sg
Store and save money. Kg
J. D. Carvell S Co. 1
Front St. The New Store I. d'PRICE ffj
■——cmmm—
so willingly and so insistently
that it is a habit and that for
ithem to do anything else would
l seem a radical change in their
policy.
‘•‘For our part we believe that
a newspaper would fail in its
mission if it did not support cor
dially measures to advance the
general welfare in any way. We
doubt, however, if the average
man or woman has the least idea
of the sum total that a metro
politan paper devotes to this
kind of work in labor, or in dol
lars and cents.
“There are a few other points
that come to mind in this con
nection. One is that if in the
pressure of making and printing
a newspaper,any particular mat
ter of this kind is neglected 01
even partly overlooked, criti
cism is quickly heard. The oth
er is that no matter how much
aid a newspaper may give to any
particular project or enterprise
of a public nature, commenda
tion is seldom accorded in any
w-ay.
“Once in while, however, some
body does something which
shows that in his opinion a little
recognition of help cheerfully
given by the press does the edi
tor and the newspaper no harm.”
—Batesville Guard.
Roosevelt’s Stick.
Our ex-president, Roosevelt, is
interested in all countries, and
we believe that real men and un
real men look alike to him in any
country, and that the world is
his home. After submitting his
speeches to the representatives
of South American governments,
out of the spirit of courtesy of
the visitor, and having them ap
proved by these foreign am
bassadors of South America, he
is intruded on by a prominent
citizen or official of Chile, in the
intrusion of a mooted question,
the Monroe doctrine, when Mr.
Roosevelt is known as a believer
in it, and as a believer in the
constantly growing influence of
America, though a benign influ
ence.
Mr. Roosevelt is sufficiently
a friend of the world to applaud
anywhere virtue, and to rebuke
vice or stupidity or demagogy,
as he sees it. Of all the effect
ive services he rendered this
country, probably the greatest
was his rebuke to Senator Lori
mer, in declining to eat with
him, though the invitation to do
so was extended by the most in
fluential club in Chicago. It will
be remembered that this was be
fore any determined action in
the senate was taken against
Lorimer,and it probably was the
particularly effective stroke that
so influenced public sentiment as
to override the fellow feeling of
some senators, and to displace
this man; and the purification of
public life is essential to the ex
tension of a larger share, which
means a larger distribution to
all the people of the common
wealth of the country, because
the unconscious genius of the
people will not extend public con
trol or public ownership faster
than they feel that public hon
esty and efficiency grows; and
this matter of cost of living and
prosperity or the activity of
business, depends finally upon
the degree of distribution of
wealth, or surplus to spend, of
the many; while bank laws of
the more intelligent kind will
help some, temporarily, finally
real prosperity and lasting pros
perity must depend on the larg
est number of people having
some surplus to spend, because a
few people, no matter what their
relative expenditures or purchas-1
es may be cannot consume e
nough in pleasure or otherwise
to keep our vast machinery of
commerce and industry in mo- j
tion, and the man in New York
or elsewhere who has seven
teen automobiles, worth proba
bly $10,000 apiece, or $170,000
has appropriated to himself a j
year’s labor of 170 men at $1,000
apiece, who are so many taken
out of productive industry to
supply the necessaries of other
men.
So it is that Mr. Roosevelt, as ,
usual, strikes at the root when
he rebukes stupidity or dema- j
gogy or dishonesty anywhere, j
(And as wealth is more wide-,
ly distributed, the few will
not have so much surplus to
spend on themselves, and will
not appropriate the labor of so
many men, and hence of neces
1 ?ity more men’s labor will be de
moted to producing for others.)
And the gentlemen of Chile
had hardly good reason to be a
fraid or jealous of the northern
collossus, when the latter has
devoted so much of wealth and
life, and exposed itself to so
much danger in the protection of
the Latin Americas without ter
ritorial aggrandizement, when it
| has freed Cuba and restored it
i to her own people, has shown
maybe too much patience with
the disturbances in Mexico, and
j when a large minority of its peo
ple are overhasty in desiring to
restore self-government to the
1 Filipinos. — Memphis News
Scimitar
Mrs. Frank Biggers of Paw
nee, Okla. and Mrs. Mae Craw
ford of Tuckerman , nieces of
Mrs. Rich Wallace, spent yester
day with her and accompanied
her on the big prospecting trip
to Southwest Texas under the
management of Mr. Frank Big
gers. They left here on No. 3
with a full Pullman car of Jack
son county folks. Mrs. Wallace
will stop off on the return for an
extended visit to her daughter,
Lena in Dallas, Texas.
RAILROAD TIME TABLE
IRON MOUNTAIN
SOUTH BOUND
No. 3 leaves.5:20 p. m.
No. 29 (arrives 6:28) departs
.6:38 a. m.
No. 5 leaves.6:10 a. m.
No. 17 leaves.4:43 a. m.
No. 7 leaves.9:06 a. m.
No. 23 (arrives 7:20) leaves 7:45 p. m
No. 91 (local freight) leaves 8:26 a m.
NORTH BOUND.
No. 24 leaves....9:20 a m.
No. 4 leaves.10:20 a m.
No. 28 leaves.8:35 p. m.
No. 18 leaves.10:15 p. m.
I No. 6 leaves.10:45 p. m.
No. 92 (local freight) leaves 2:10 p. m.!
WHITE RIVER DIVISION.
WEST BOUND.
No. 210 leaves.7:00 a m.
No. 232 leaves.9:00 p. m.
No. 246 (local freight) leaves
.11:30 a m.
east bound.
No. 209 arrives......6:18 a. m.
| No. 231 arrives.6:18 a m.
: No. 245 (local freight) arrives
.9:40 a m.
| No. 607 arrives 12:35 p. m.
I No. 608 departs 1:50 p. m.
Local freight arrives Monday, Wed
| nesday and Friday; departs Tuesday,
| Thursday and Saturday.
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o ROYAL ARCANUM. O
O Newport Council, No. 322, O
O Royal Arcanum meets 1st O
O and 3rd Friday nights in each O
O month in the opera house O
O building. Visiting brethren O
O always welcome. O
O S. M. Beattie, Regent, O
O W. C. Wishon, Sec. O
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o WOODMEN OF THE O
O WORLD. O
O Pecan Camp No. 3, meets O
O 1st and 3rd Thursday nights O
O of each month in Masonic O
O Hall. Visiting brothers wel- O
O come. q
O R. T. Simmons, C. C., O
O P. S. White, Clerk. O
O - O
O MODERN WOODMEN. O
O Newport Camp, No. 13,674, O
O M. W. A., meets Second Fri- O
O day night of each month in O
O Opera House. Visiting breth- O
O ren invited. O
O R. T. Simmons, Consul. O
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O JACKSON LODGE NO. 191, O
O F. & A. M. O
O Meets Second and Fourth ©
O Tuesday nights of each month O
O in the Opera House Building, ©
O Second and Hazel streets. O
O Visiting brothers always wel- O
O come. Geo. M. Sink, W. M. O'
O S. M. Beattie, Sec. O
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© Meets each Monday night in O
O Board Building, co-ner Second © !
O and Walnut. Al1 ’ "others in- O ,
O vited to attend. O
O W\ T. Guin, N. G., O
O W. B. Hurley, Sec. O
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| Oreeti»gs of
| Our BestW^T^Lf/
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^ The world famous contralto will appear in ^B
^ Rock at the Auditorium, January 16, under fttH
[Ucj pices of the Little Rock Festival Chorus. ^B_ ^
O^j SONGS IN GERMAN AND ENGLISH. Iconnec
^ will be rendered by this, the greatest of all singetsHincreas
jUEj she has promised to be libera* in her encores. Jbank.
AUDITORIUM BEING REMODELED
an! . Hour sc
up to provide seating capacity for the immense aniiB
which is expected on this occasion. The Auditorii^B—
sHl now being heated and lighted for the occasion. BL
^ building was selected because of its size and eis^B
^ acoustics. ^B^
jUcj SEATS RESERVED BY MAIL, JANUARY 11
^ Send your orders to W. P. Hamilton, ^B^\
O. K. HOUCK PIANO CO., Little RocttK’
^ SEATS $2, $1.50, $1.00 HH
lys _Mrs. Ernestine Schumann-Heink will stop
[yp Little Rock on this visit to Arkansas, so those H|
“5 ing to hear her on the evening of January 16th, £
5m reserve their seats early. The Auditorium haseijrH
^ ing capacity of 2,800, but this will no doubt be
[uej too large for the crowd drawn by^this wo^nulw^M
Humility First
We shall never be the "light of the
world*’ except on condition of being
the “salt of the earth" Ton have to
do the humble, Inconspicuous, silent
work of checking corruption by a pure
example before you can aspire to do
the other work of raying out light Into
the darkness, and bo drawing men to
Christ himself.—Alexander McLaren.
Society People Claeslfled.
Storekeeper—“They are society
people. They belong to onr first and
last families." Customer—**Tou mean
•first families*r Storekeeper—“No;
drat and last First to ask eredlt and
last to pay.”*-Puck.
Small Wonder.
A lady suffering from a severe cold
directed her maid to procure two pen
nyworth at ammonlated tincture o<
quinine. Great was her amusement
on the return of the maid, who ex
pressed ner mammy 10 ooiam
two animated pictures of Queen
Anne."—London Telegraph.
China Opening to Foreign Trade.
China has 64 treaty and other ports i
apen to foreign trade.
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Lost—Fraternity pin, star and
crescent shape, pearl studded.
Finder please return to Ralph j
Hirsch and receive reward. d3.
Notice Of Sewer Tax.
The tax books for the collec
tion of the Special Sewer Tax
>n real property in Sewer Dis
I
trict No. 1 for the
Assessment to
erate said sewer
been placed in my
owners of real property
district and required
their taxes to me
days from date. If
ment is not paid action
commenced at the end
time for the collection
assessment, and f<>r
penalties and cost.
Given under my
29th day of December,
L. Minor,
Sewer District No. 1>
Arkansas.
Office of The Chi«*ffc
Pacific Railway
Chicago, ii*i mj,
To **
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era of the company
office of the company gj
Chicago, rim°is, *
31st day of fJ*nJJ^0rponJ
ars?
ansas, in a south ”?rje »nd
the counties of P» r«a
to Stuttgart, Ark*n
as-iptfi*
term of 999
1.914, upo®
as may be
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