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NEWPORT, ARKANSAS, WEDNESDAY, AUGUSTwHI^r^^^^^^^^ NUMBER 116.
CROPS
Thousand
Land
at 1 o'clock
registered
tvport gauge,
t in the last
crest of the
o. reach this
t.
Black Ri\
;hat conflict
t river has
omparatively
had fallen 5
tesville Wed
nd reached a
V the fall of
nee it sets in,
pid. For this
anters predict
owed, but not
long, will make
ractical and ex
such as T. S.
on Dean state
en their person
H. Snet
and
E.
land and
corn he
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corn and cotton are wiped out.
Clete Bell loses 75 acres of corn
and Mason Bros, below Jackson
port have 100 acres of cotton
and corn under water.
The Massey farm of 40 acres
of corn on Black at Point Ferry
is hopelessly lost.
In Upper Oil Trough, 100
acres of cotton and corn on the
! V. Y. Cook place is gone,
i The Dunnington place has
over 100 acres of corn under the
river’s flood and at Oil Trough,
| the big Jones bottom of 200
j acres of corn is ruined.
I At Oil Trough, the river reg
; istered in this rise 4 feet higher
' than in April, while at Newport
the gauge reading will probably
be less now than for the April
overflow, showing how largely
White River alone contributed
to the destructive overflow.
From all sections of the coun
ty, reports show that the rains
were general over Jackson and
the loss to the cotton crop from
the excessive rainfall will doubt
less materially reduce the coun
ty’s yield, for in many fields the
plant growth has been prolific
with little fruitage as a result.
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Be Keerful, Autoists!
Tor the benefit of the many
automobile owners in this city
we print the following rules
which were adopted by the Far
mers’ Anti-Automobile Society:
“1. Upon discovering an ap
proaching team, the automobil
ist must stop offside and cover
his machine with a blanket
painted to correspond with the
scenery.
“2. The speed limit on coun
try roads this year will be a se
cret, and the penalty for viola
tion will be $10 for every mile an
offender is caught going in ex
cess of it.
“3. On approaching a corner
where he cannot command a
view of the road ahead the auto
mobilist must stop not less than
100 yards from the turn, toot
his horn, ring a bell, fire a revol
ver, halloo, and send up three
bombs at intervals of five min
utes.
“4. Automobiles must b e
seasonably painted—that is so
they will merge with the pastor
al ensemble, and not be startling.
They must be green in spring,
golden in summer, red in autumn
and white in winter.
“All members of the society
will give up Sunday to chasing
automobiles, shooting and shout
ing at them and making arrests
and otherwise discouraging
country touring on that day.
“6. In case a horse will not
pass an automobile, the automo
bilist must take the machine
apart as rapidly as possible and
.conceal parts in the grass.
“7. In case an automobile ap
a farmhouse when the
are dusty, it will slow
one mile an hour and
r will lav dust in
house with a hand
over the dash
(Wis.) Weekly
7500
cans
before
Meat
IDRAIN CACHE
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Will Reclaim 150,000 Acres Of
Good Land in Border
County.
Jonesboro, August 15.—The
i Cache River Drainage Ditch As
: sociation was organized yester
day in this city by land owners
along the Cache river in this
county. The following board of
directors were elected: A. M.
Ponder, Walnut Ridge, A. E. •
Lockhart, Jonesboro, and J. H.
Hamilton Cash.* Mr. Ponder
was elected president, and Mr.
j Lockhart, secretary.
; The board employed the Mor
gan Engineering Co., of Mem
phis, as civil engineers, and Sen
ator T. A. Turner as attorney
for the district. The drainage
will be connected with the .drain
age ditch of Greene and Law
rence counties.
It is estimated that the drain
age will redeem at least 150,000
acres of fine bottom lands. The
estimate of bonds is $500,000.
Work will be started at once to;
get everything in line for the i
granting of the district in this j
county and to have the work:
done at the earliest possible i
time.
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Edgar Robinson Captured.
Edgar Robinson, the negro
who escaped from the county
jail several days ago was appre
hended in Poplar Bluff Monday
by the police of that city.
Robinson, who was held on
several charges in the county
jail took advantage of his posi
tion as trusty and used a hatchet
on the roof in an effective get-a
way last Wednesday.
Robinson caught a freight
train that morning and went to
Poplar Bluff unknown to the of- j
I ficers who took a different trail. ‘
| Deputy Sheriff McCuistion re
| ceived a tip that Robinson had
an aunt there and had probably j
gone to that place. He telephon-,
eel the authorities there who cap j
tured Robinson and held him for ;
I the deputy sheriff who returned '
! home with his prisoner Tuesday. j
Breaks Record Five Feet.
; Beebe, Aug. 14.—Railway
1 traffic has been paralyzed,farms
| inundated and all field crops
j greatly damaged as the result of
j floods which followed the terrif
: ic downpour of rain which has
; occurred here in the last 24
. hours. The railroad tracks
i across the Bull creek bottoms,
> two miles north of Beebe, have
: been swept away by the water,
: which is five feet higher than j
ever known before.
Great damage has been done
the crops, in many places noth-!
ing but the tassels of the corn
can be seen above the water.
Hundreds of acres of cotton are
covered with water, and the crop
i may be almost a total loss in the
flooded sections.
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A Helpful Letter.
Shoffner, Ark.,
August 15, 1911
Mr. P. H. Van Dyke,
Dear Sir: Enclosed find my
check for pay for one year’s sub
scription for the Independent, so
please keep it coming for 1 don’t
want to miss an issue. I am al
ways glad to get the Independ
ent.
Yours truly,
W. F. Roberts.
THE ARKANSAS
FREE LANCE.
A Real Newspaper—A Flaming
Sword Of Truth
About tiie middle of Septem
ber or the first of October, the
Parke-Harper News Service, of
Little Rock, will begin publica
tion of this cri.-p, scintillating,
truth telling publication.
The Arkansas Free Lance is
to be a twice a week newspaper,
and will be everything the pub
lishers claim for it. It will deal
largely with affairs of state gov
ernment. It will make every ef
fort, through publicity, to fore
stall the efforts of political free
booters to fasten their tentacles
upon the treasury of our great
state.
This is a paper that will be dif
ferent, and one which has been
needed to ventilate—to fan out
some of the chaff, of the Arkan
sas General Assemblies as well
as state, county and city office.
It is not to be a paper of sensa
tion, but of fact. It will not deal
in scandal or slander unless the
good name of Arkansas is at
stake.
Clio Harper, editor in chief of
the paper, was 18 years with the
Arkansas Democrat, retiring to
enter the Parke-Harper News
Service. He will write editorials
that will wake up the state.
A. W. Parke, associate editor,
is also well known to the people
of Arkansas through his many
years service in Arkansas jour
nalism. Pie has a pen which can
strike fire, and which can be ex
pected to do so.
Do you want such a paper?
Do you want to help purify and
upbuild Arkansas? if so. get
busy now with your subscription
—that is the kind of apprecia
tion which brings results.
You can get the Arkansas
Free Lance and the Weekly In
dependent for $1.75 per annum.
This is a bargain the like of
which you have never before en
countered. All the home news
in the Independent and all the
state news worth printing in the
Free Lance.
Come in today. bl4t
For drayage, see B. G. Gra
ham, the transfer man. Phone
334. OOdtf
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$50,000 WANTED j
TO EIGHT PESTS1
Ask National Fund To Eradi
cate Boll Weevil And Cot
ton Pests.
Washington, Aug. 14.—Repre-1
sentative Heflin has introduced
a bill appropriating $50,00) for
material to be used by the de
partment of agriculture for the
eradication of the boll weevil and
caterpillar. j
Mr. Heflin has been advised
, that the cotton crop in Alabama
has been much injured by the
ravages of the caterpill.v’ partic
ularly. He contends that the
bears who have been predicting
a bumper crop have far overshot
the mark since, with recently
heavy rains, the mischief done
by the boll weevil and caterpillar
has been enormous.
The congressman has just re
ceived the following letter from
Dr. W. E. Hinds, professor of en
' tomology at the Alabama Poly
technic Institute, Auburn, in
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Cannot Supply Poison.
“For some time we have been
doing the utmost to awaken the
planters to the seriousness of
the present situation and have
them fully prepared to meet it.
I believe that our efforts will at
least meet with this measure of
success; that there will be a de
1 mand for more poison than the
entire Eastern United States can
' supply. We have taken steps al
j ready to bring into Alabama the
1 entire available supply of the
large insecticide manufacturers
centering around New York and
the Middle West. This amounts
to several hundred tons of Paris
green and powdered arsenate of
lead. It is all that can possibly
be secured, and, in addition, sev
eral firms are starting to manu
facture in anticipation that the
demand may continue long
' enough for the new product to
be placed in the field.
“At the present time you will
be interested to know that we
have reports of the worm in fif
ty counties of the state. In many j
places even this first crop is do
ing extensive damage. As you
know, the next crop will be the i
_ one to determine largely the
' damage for this season.”
DOUBLY PROVEN
Newport Readers Can No Long
e^^pubt the Evidence.
This Newport citizen testified
long ago.
Told of quick relief—of last
ing benefit.
The facts are now confirmed.
Such testimony is complete—
the evidence conclusive.
It forms convincing proof of
merit.
W. I. Hall R. F. D. 2, Newport,
Ark., says “I have never lost an
opportunity during the past six
years to praise and recommend
Doan’s Kidney Pills for what
they have done for me as well as
other members of my family.
They have made such complete
cures of kidney trouble that it
has not been necessary for us to
take them or any other kidney
medicine during the past three
years. One member of the fam
ily took Doan’s Kidney Pills for
trouble with the kidney secre
tions, together with a weak and
painful back. They cured her
later I used them for a similar
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case was just as satisfactory and
I was quickly cured. Doan’s
Kidney Pills were obtained at
Dutton’s Drug Store and have
always been so beneficial that I
willingly verify our former en
dorsement of them.”
For sale by all dealers. Price
50 cents. Foster-Milburn Co.,
Buffalo, New York, sole agents
for the United States.
Remember the name^BoaukSy-'-**
and take no other.
Station Agent Departed.
D. H. Nelms, the station
agent for the C. R. I. & P. rail
road at Tupelo, after notifying
the company on July 1 that he
desired to be relieved and hear
ing nothing from headquarters
August 1 notified the proper of
ficial by wire that he expected
to leave August 10.
On that date, no one to suc
ceed him had shown up and
Nelms checked up his accounts
and took his departure.
Don Ethridge of the local sta-^^
tion was sent there to hold the
position down until another
agent could be appointed.
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5enjan\in Clothes
Your Attention
is respectfully directed to the
fact that we have made plans for
an unusually large fall business.
We will soon have on display—
goods arriving daily—by far the
largest and finest collection of
good things for men ever shown
in Newport.
We have left nothing undone
to make this the best place to
get needs for men of particular
and refined "taste.
Watch for our future an
nouncements and remember that
the best only comes from