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, J AM ARY 7. 1911. M'MIIKR 2:17.
I bonds sold
^KjgtricL and Contract
K0 Action In Vil
K'k and White
^^Bj^tfk has been an
-in three of Jack
>H starts improvement and
■ri studlB projects- In the
-n to pSugh drainage dis
^ard.»cing 20,000 acres ot
when reclaimed as
) ^J/'in Arkansas, the
Be sold Tuesday to
MlTAii Bond Company of St.
ept SmjBgogier & Cummings
Bis°for $90,000 bear
art IiB^nt interest and the
t frombidder offered 96.35
Bid by agreeing to pay
r for$2^Bon the deposit, the bid
by Cu^tounted to about 98
Bract for the drainage
Bs let to Moffett Con
Da^B Company of Des
UP°n a ^ ^
^“j^fcbic yard of earth re
-m total cost of con
i "mpon this basis being
$76,000 and the
Ej^fcmey’s fees, engineers
administration ex
DBS I A/l AAA
I.OOUU <p«,wv.
t runs from a point
e to the Cache Riv
oodruff County and
■valuation of lands
district i& about
1 a population of
igth, it is 12 miles
3 miles. The total
ifits by reason of
is fixed at $278,
l Engineering Com -
phis are engineers
"ict and -Jones'&
the attorneys.
[STRICT BIDS,
illage Creek and
Levee district, cre
il act of the last
id embracing 18,
rich land in the
bottoms of Jack
no bids were re
the proposed bond
)le to the commis
act creating this
:1s bonds bearing 6
est to bring par
;ency in the money
es it hard at the
to sell bonds un
ditions,
issioners received
the contract, the
Is being those of R
McWilliams of Chi
)n and Ramsey o:
|wKana and Peter? Bros, o:
jj^Rock. The contract how
■oving Pictures
PJjeOpera Housi
■ seeds of w ealth
■ excellent drama—LUBIN
■OSE LITTLE FLOWERS
■ Comedy—BJOGRAPH
■TER SPRIGGS BUYS .
■ DOG
■** Comedy—BIOGRAPH
SENORITA’S REPEN1
i ■ ANCE
P00*1 Western drama—SELI
■™®®on, 5 cents and 10 een
■JNRSDaY’S FEAT l 'RE
V F**8 of The Jungles
ever was not let, but these bids
'retained and a contract may be
' awarded to one of them when
, the bonds are sold later.
I The commissioners in the dis
j trict are John H. Keel, T. S. Ste
phens and George R. Hays. The
(attorneys for the district are
Phillips, Hillhouse & Boyce,
| Stuckey & Stuckey and the en
| gineer W. A. Bowman.
COMPLETE LEVEE CON
TRACT.
The Mayberry levee in Drain
age District No. 1 of Jackson
County has completed its levee
! of one mile at a cost of $2,700.
/fhe commission Monday accept
ed the work and settled with the
| contractors McCartney and Peay
of Little Rock.
The district has never issued
i bonds and has an outstanding in
: debtedness of $6,500, which will
i be retired by the district taxes
jin five years. W. A. Bowman
| wras the engineer for this district
’ and Phillips, Hillhouse & Boyce
; are attorneys.
Railroad Commissioners Contest.
Special to Independent.
Little Rock, Jan. 6.—The can
didates for the Railroad Com
missionerships are probably all
announced, and it is possible to
.indicate the complete slate for
the March primaries.
Commissioner J. Sam Rowland
of Harrison will probably have
no opposition for re-election
from the Northwestern District.
C'' Ammic’cmncr' W TT \1n.
Knight has announced for an
other term from the Southern
district, and is opposed by State
Senator J. F. Hughes, who has
been in the race for several
weeks.
There is a hard fight on in the
! Northeastern District. Maj.
i George W. Bellamy of Mammoth
I Spring is a candidate foranoth
er term, and is opposed by State
* Senator T. J. Raney of Newark,
■and T. E. Wood, editor of the
Marianna Courier. Senator Ra
ney and Mr. Wood are making
an active canvass of the district.
The High Cost of Living Solved
At Last.
Look here you have been pay
ing the other fellow’s bills. Now
on a cash basis what you save:
Porter House steak was 27i/£c,
how’_ 25c
Loin steak was 25c now__22'/2C
Round steak was 2214c now __ 20c
Pork of all kinds was 22c and
now-_ ”’**c
1 All other meats in proportion at
the Busy Corner. Come over
| and see just what this saves.
You buy 4 paunds meat per day
this is 10c; thirty days $3.00;
_ rr. _ £OCU\
.lone year r-—
You have saved two years’ liv
i ing in ten years. Isn t this
' good? Now come on and let us
’ have 1914 the best year and the
most agreeable year of all our
lives and get out of the rut oi
* paying other fellows’ bills, a.~
well as interest on draggy ac
counts. Come one, come all tc
jthe Busy Corner, where all go
! the same treatment,
i Respectfully,
34d6t W. B. Chastain.
V Matinee and Night.
! As there are eight reels of h<
'mammoth production “The Las
Days of Pompeii,” there will b<
'only two shows, one the mat
nee commencing at 2:30 ocloc
S sharp and the evening perforn
ance at 7:30 sharp, Thuisday
s January 8th. Let those wh
w“sh to see the full product.o,
be'present at the hours namec
Palace Theatrg.
i -i- r .
FAKIR TO BE
BROUGHT BACK
To Arkansas Where He Fleeced
Business Men on Advertising
Scheme.
Special to Independent.
Little Rock, Jan. 7.—Deputy
Sheriff J. J. Hawkins left last
night for Chicago to bring back
J. R. Atkins, who is under in
dictment here in four counts on
a charge of obtaining monej
under false pretenses. Gov.
Hays issued a requisition for
him, but he is resisting extra
dition, and the case has been set
for a hearing before the Chicago
court for Thursday.
Atkins came through the city
several months ago represent
ing himself to be an advertising
agent, taking orders for ad
vertisements to be printed on a
map of the state and hung in
every railroad depot in the state.
He secured about $300 in Little
Rock, and when his prospective
clients found that he had no au
thority for placing the maps in
the railroad stations, as he
claimed to have, they instituted
a prosecution against him and
procured his indictment. He was
arrested several days ago in
Chicago.
Mountain May Have Bought J.
L. C. & E.
A rumor is current on me
streets of Jonesboro, says the
Tribune, that the Iron Moun
tain railroad has closed a deal
whereby the company will own
and control the Jonesboro, Lake
City & Eastern Railroad. The
rumor, however, could not be
i verified ,as the general manager
J. Burns of the J. L. C. & E.,
I could not be located over the tel
ephone.
It is known, however, that ofli
icials of tTie Iron Mountain were
I here today in close conference
j with General Manager Burns. It
I is also known that for some
Time negotiations between the
i two roads have been pending
jand the fact that the sale has
'been effected is not a surprise
to many.
In the event this sale is a cer
tainty it will mean much for
■ .Jonesboro, giving three trunk
lines into the city. The Tribune
does not usually publish stories
on hearsay, but owing to the
! fact that the Lake City officials
! could not be seen, and the in
formation obtainable seems cor
rect, the item was used.
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May Be Ready Saturday.
1 Special to Independent.
Little Rock, Jan. 7.—Managers
! of the liquor campaign in Littk
Rock intimate they will havt
!their petition ready for publica
! lion about Saturday. They hav<
'tabulated 11,500 names so far
and expect by Saturday to haw
12,000. The liquor men do no
expect to be in a position to re
' open before the first of Febru
'ary.
Party Leaves For Texas.
A party of Newport and TucV
erman people left here on No.
i Tuesday in a special Pullman fo
: a pleasure and business trip t
: Texas, stopping at many of th
- j leading cities in southern an
;! Eastern Texas.
-1 Among those who left froi
, this city were W. W. Dutton, I
)'b. Wishon, Roy Dutton, Mr
lj John D. Neal and son, Victo
. Mrs. Rich Wallace and Miss E\
Graham.
W. C. T. 1'. Reception.
The ladies of the Woman's
.Christian Temperance Union
tendered an informal reception
to their friends Tuesday even
ing, which was held at the home
of Dr. and Mrs. 0. E. Jones.
The entire first floor was in
holiday attire of red and green
bells, vines and crepe paper,
which lent its charm to the com
modious surroundings.
The ladies of the society com
posed the reception committee
and a jollier crowd or more en
joyable social event has not been
given during the holiday season.
An excellent program of mu
sic was rendered by our best
singers, and a traveling orches
tra, which happened to be in our
city added greatly to the pleas
ure of the company by playing
many popular sell, ctions.
Among those present were:
Messrs, and Mesdames Edgar
Williams, A. T. Hubly, R. T.
Robertson, J. J. Blanshard, W.
B. Grant, Otto M. Bowen, H. S.
Simmons, Ben White, H. G.
Drummond, T. P. Umsted, Fred
Suits, P. S. White, J. C. Jowers,
F. B. Morehead, S. M. Stuckey,
A. B. Drummond, J. D. Carvel,
B. L. Wilford, S. D. Grumbles,
and Dr. and Mrs. L. E. Willis.
Mesdames J. W. Stayton, B.
W. Hafner, J. W. Phillips, Chas.
E. Carroll, Fannie Robinson, H.
O. Walker, H. E. Cobb, Walter
tt ... t__ - 17 T
i I l •' j yamvo a/ mi v* ,
Boyce, Harry Brandenburg, Will
Reed, A. G. Anderson, Geo. K.
Stephens, Emma Holland, Mol
lie Porter, Grant Minton, T. S.
Stephens, C. P. Dunaway, Celia
Wallace, Charles Hedges, J. A.
Barker, James Ridley, B. E.
Snetser, Etta Kelly and G. L.
Robinson; Misses Lutie Mae
Stephens, Mabel Stayton, Willie
Smith, Birdie Marion, Katie
j Price, Willie Mashburn, Dove
Erwin, Lizzie Gullette, Birdie
Kirkland, Elizabeth Pugh.
Messrs. W-. M. Dunaway, Gro
ver Gates, Arthur Umsted, Lu
cien Harris and Will Barker.
i Notice of Administrator’s Sale.
Notice is hereby given that I,
the undersigned, as administrat
or of the estate of E. P. ShofF
ner, deceased, will offer for sale
in front of the store-house of
the Shoffner Mercantile Com
pany at Shoffner, Jackson coun
ty, Arkansas, on the 24th day
of January, 1914, the following
personal property belonging to
said estate, to the highest bid
der upon a credit for three
months, to-wit:
23 1-3 shares of stock of the
, shoffner Mercantile Company of
i Shoffner, Ark.
8 1-6 shares of stock of the
: Breckenridge Company.
4 2-3 shares of stock of the
i Auvergne Gin Company,
t i 1-16 shares of stock of the
- Jackson County Telephone Com
- pany.
One sawmill located at Shofl
ner, Arkansas.
Given under my hand this 7tl
> day of January, 1914.
r 4iw2 D. L. SHOFFNER,
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e
d J. B. Jefferies, a former cit
zen, who with his family ha
n many friends in Newport, is no1
I. located at 217 Sumset Stree
3. Oak Cliff, Dallas, writes the Ii
r, dependent regarding his pap<
a and wishes a prosperous Ne
Year to his friends here.
TWO STORY
BRICK STABLE
Now I nder Construction lor
John R. Loft in, Jr.—Will
He Credit To City.
John R. Loft in, Jr., is to re-en
ter the livery, feed and ale bus
iness in the near future in a
modern two-story brick stable,
that is now under construction
at the corner of Front and Reech
Streets.
The building is to be 00 by 00
feet with a shed in the rear IS
by 00 feet, which will be protect
ed by a fire wall along the cotton
platform. WollT-Goldman Real
ty Company are constructing the
building and the contractor, \V.
H. Snetser, has begun work.
The site is low at present and is
to be filled in until the concrete
Hoot’ is cm a li-val with tho IVanl
on Beech street.
Number of Banks Designated.
Special to Independent.
Little Rock, Jan. 7.—Bank
Commissioner Davis has desig
nated a number of reserve agent
banks, as provided by the stat
ute creating the department,
and it is expected that practi
cally all the banks of the state
will qualify.
To become a reserve agenty
any bank or trust company is
required to make application and
file a statement of condition not
more than five days previous to
the date of application. If such
statement shows that the bank
has on hand as a cash reserve an
amount equal to at least twenty
per cent of the aggregate sum of
its deposits, the Commissioner
shall designate it as a reserve
agency for Arkansas banks.
Two-fifths of this twenty per
cent reserve shall be in cash in
the vaults, and the remainder
may be in balances due from
'other banks or trust companies.
Such banks shall furnish the
Commissioner with five state
ments annually, to show that the
required reserve is being main
tained.
Notice Of Administrator's Sale.
Notice is hereby given that I.
the undersigned, as administra*
or of the estate of E. C. Jon<
deceased, will, on the 21th ci
of January, lfil 1. offer for s< I
at tlie E. C. Jones farm in Jef
ferson township, Jackson count;..
Arkansas, near Jacksonport, Ar
kansas, the following personal
property belonging to said es
tate, to the highest bidder, upon
• i of tVirpi. months Io-wit -
One lot of mules and other
live stock; corn and farming im
plements.
J. W. JONES,
Administrator of the estate of
E. C. Jones, deceased. 41w2
i
Notice.
Lots 5 and C> of Lyon’s Second
Addition to the City of New
port, will be sold to the highest,
’ idder on January 8,1914, at the
court house, in Newport, Ark.
C. M. Erwin.
J. E. Mann,
Executors of Estate of
F. G. Smith, deceased.
jd6.
Mr. and Mrs. L. W. Watson
left this morning for Jonesboro
'on a visit for a few days.
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