THE INDEPENDENT
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ANNOUNCEMENTS.
For County Judge.
The Independent is authorized to
announce the candidacy of W. D. Mc
Lain for the office of county and pro
bate judge of Jackson County, subject
to the action of the Democratic pri
pnary.
For Treasurer.
The Independent is authorized to
announce the candidacy of John H.
Camp for the office of Treasurer of
Jackson County, subject to the action
of the Democratic primary.
The Independent is authorized to
announce the candidacy of Jesse W.
Shuford for the office of Treasurer of
Jackson County, subject to the action
of the Democratic primary._
Expensive Justice.
A New York special to the
Minneapolis Tribune is authority
for the statement that in the
iTombs, the great New York pris
on, there were confined at that
date 731 prisoners awaiting trial
for crimes and misdemeanors.
,The institution is over-crowded,
and the conditions existing are
unspeakable. There are only
500 cells in which to accommo
date the 731 prisoners, and the
result in that people who are
confined for trivial offenses are
thrown in contact with criminals
of the deepest dye and degener
ates of every character. The
cause of this congestion is that
the judges have taken their an
nual vacations of from one to
four months. These judges are
paid $17,500 per annum, and
;when they are holding court they
work on an average of two and
one-half hours per day. Two
judges remained at their posts,
and refused to take any vacation,
and these are receiving high
praise because they exceed the
customary limit by holding court
on an average of three hours per
day- Some of these prisoners
have been incarcerated from one
to four months. This will not
appear long to Memphians, where
we have prisoners held in our lo
cal jail at times for terms ex
ceeding one year; but it is a seri
ous question in a great city,
where criminals are so numerous,
and where they must be tried and
^ disposed of in order to furnish
" an outflow that will make room
for the steady inflow. To the
ordinary man it will appear that
| a judge receiving $17,500 per
year could afford to devote more
than two and one-half hours per
day to the service of the public.
Laboring men have been clam
oring for an eight-hour day and
many employers think this an
j outrage, and that people who toil
l should do as their forefathers
did of old, and begin work before
daylight and quit only after
dark, winter or summer. Sitting
i in judgment is not laborious
work. Of course, it requires at
tention and acumen, but the
strain is not great, and a six
hour day or even an eight-hour
day for a judge on the bench
would not be onerous. The New
York judge seems to be a law
unto himself in these matters,
and he is taking himself too se
riously, while the people suffer.
Judges, like other people, should
be required to render a reasona
bly adequate service, and, con
sidering salaries they receive,
they ought to be willing to dis
patch a large amount of work.
—Memphis News-Scimitar.
Construction of A Road Drag.
j The ordinary road drag is a
contrivance so easily made and
so simple of construction, that
there is no excuse for each road
not having a goodly number of
them. The first drags were made
by splitting a good size log into
two equal parts, surfacing the
front side and cutting the edge
with a sharp ax or adze. These
two pieces of logs were tied to
_1-1_m nr, MCI C?
and timbers, keeping the two
flat surfaces towards the front.
This is how the name “Split Log
Drag” came to be applied to the
road drag. This “Split Log
Drag”, if well made, will last a
long time and give just as good
service as does the steel drag or
any other form of drag.
It has been found more con
venient in a great many in
stances to use heavy timbers in
stead of logs and the Highway
Department has made a plan,
calling for two blades of the drag
to be made of 4x10 inch timbers
8 feet long, tied together with
two or three pieces of 2x8 timb
er, and bolted with 7-8 inch
bolts. These should be spaced
about 2 1-2 feet apart, and can
be drawn with double-tree at
tached to drag by means of ord
inary chain.
The front of the bottom should
be protected by a sheet metal
strip of some kind, to prevent
the rapid wearing away of the
lower edge of the drag. Any car
penter can, is a few hours of
time, construct as serviceable a
drag as may be secured.
REUBEN G. DYE.
Malaria or Chills & Fever
Prescription No. 666 is prepared especially
for MALARIA or CHILLS A FEVER.
Five or six doses will break any case, and
if taken then as a tonic the Fever will not
return. It acts on the liver better than
Calomel and does not gripe or aicken. 25c
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TICKETS ON SALE
SEPTEMBER 25
TO
OCTOBER 10
INCLUSIVE
1913.
Write to
CHAS. B. SLOAT
Ass’t Gen’l Passenger Agent
LITTLE ROCK, ARK.
or consult
Ticket Agent Rock Island Lines
Station
Notice of Assessment.
The Assessor’s Book for prop
erty situated in Levee District
No. 2, Jackson county, Arkansas,
is now on file at the office of the
undersigned, and all persons in
terested in said assessment are
hereby notified to appear and file
their objection thereto from Oc
tober 1st to November 1st, 1913.
By order of the Board of Di
rectors.
C. R. Hite, Assessor.
Newport, Ark-, Oct. 1, 1913.
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The Boll Weevil.
The dreaded boll weevil is los
ing its terrors, and a way has
been found to minimize its rav
ages, or put it completely out of
business. Acting upon informa
tion gathered by experiment, the
department of agriculture is
sending out warnings to all far
mers in the cotton belt, caution
ing them against the spread of
this pest. It is also advising
them, through field agents, how
j to destroy and prevent the
spread of the insect.
“Destroy the cotton stalk ear
ly in October if possible,” advises
the department. “Destroy your
stalks even if your less progres
sive neighbor does not. It will
pay. Clear off and burn all your
rubbish on ditch banks and other
hibernating places for the wee
vil. This should be done early
in the fall.
Do not plant cotton after cot
ton but plant your cotton on
land that has grown a heavy
crop of cowpeas, velvet beans,
lespedeza or some other legumin
ous crop to supply the land with
nitrogen and vegetable matter.
Break the land in the fall or ear
ly winter that is to be planted to
cotton next year.
“Where sufficient teams and
tools are available to plow under
and bury the stalks this should
by all means be done. Where it
is impossible to plow the stalks
under they should be uprooted,
raked into windrows and allowed
to dry for a few days; they
should then be burned.”
To prove the value of destroy
ing the cotton stalks, the depart
ment conducted experiments in
Amite county, Mississippi, last
year, and the following results
are shown:
On 117 acres where no stalks
were destroyed, but where all
other instructions of the govern
! ment were followed, the average
yield was 619 pounds of seed cot
ton per acre. On twenty-eight
acres where the stalks were de
stroyed before October 10. and
the same cultural methods ap
plied, the average yield per acre
wasl,050 pounds of seed cotton,
or a gain of 441 pounds of seed
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I LADIES |
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I see our new fall stock of table linen, both ■
H towels and ladies handkerchiefs, the newest I
II designs ever shown in the city. Table linen
|1 in all widths. ■
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I Heinemann’s Dry Goods Store!
IsiS __ —. « ran an r=>fl H Ir3!! fr^n fr3!! FPfl fT^T ran
cotton per acre, worth at that
time $17.64, was secured by ear
ly fall destruction of stalks. If
it pays a few men $17.64 per
acre to cut their cotton stalks
before October 10, what would it
mtean to a county if every stalk
in it were cut before October 10 ?
cm the other farms in the
same county where none of the
government instructions were
followed it took from eight to
ten acres to make a bale of cot
ton.—Memphis News-Scimitar.
Notice.
Lost—On 17th, somewhere be
tween Planters’ Hotel and show
ground, one pocketbook contain
ing 2 notes, 2 checks of $2.00
each, signed by Frank Malone,
$1.00 bill and 10c in silver. Re
turn to me at Newark, Ark. or
Jesse L. Crosser at Earnheart’s
saloon. George F. Crosser.
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Splinter Proves Fatal.
Pearl Stegall was excused
from the petit jury Wednesday
by Judge Jeffery, being called
home by the death of his little
nephew, Theophilus, aged 3
years, and son of Mr. and Mrs.
M. M. Stegall.
The little fellow recently
stuck a splinter in his foot and
inflammation set in that resulted
in blood poison. Burial Thurs
day at Pleasant Grove grave
yard near Tuckerman.
Non-Rusting Tinware.
If new tinware be rubbed over with
fresh lard and thoroughly heated in
the oven before it is used, it will never
rust afterwards, no matter how much
it is put into water. For stained tin
ware borax produces the best results.
If a tea-pot or coffee-pot is discolored
on the inside, boil it in a strong so
lution of borax for a short time, and
all its brightness will return.
Purblind Mossback.
Nothing so astonishes the man of
! routine formulas and precedents as
1 success attending original methods.
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ly—Automobile Races—Running
and Harness Races—Grand Live
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P A big week of big events. You
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