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VOLUME III. NEWPORT, ARKANSAS, FRIDAY, JULY 10. 1903 NUMBER 63
^Slimmer Suits
that are cool, correct and com
fortable bear this famous mark
Note the individuality of fit
and style; the broad shoulders,
close-fitting collar and shapeli
ness of coat and trousers. But
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, $ ' can do BENJAMIN Clothes full
justice; you must see and wear
them to really appreciate them.
The price is right. Your
money back if anything
goes wrong. BENJA
MIN Summer Suits at
this store $15 to $30.
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Edwin Clapp Manhattan Shirts
Shoes and
Oxfords, best known,
complete line known as
to be found the best,
here,
$5.00 to $7.00. to $3-5°
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J. \V. Lindley Pres. L. T. Slayden Vice Pres. E. V. Holt Cashier.
BANK OF TUCKERMAN,
CAPITAL STOCK $20,000.00
We are open to the public for all business which constitutes safe and re
liable Banking.
'■*— ~ COLLECTIONS A SPECIALTY.
Your Patronage Is Solicited.
TUCKERHAN = - ARKANSAS.
PEARLS.
We pay the highest prices for
Pearls, Slugs, Points or Baroques.
Send your pearls to us, if our offer is
not accepted, we will return them at
our expense.
Try us on a small lot.
Wm. Barthmaim,
174 BROADWAY. CORNER MAIDEN
LANE, NEW YORK, N. Y.
DEALER IN DIAMONDS, WATCHES
AND .JEWELRY.
Ravenden ■ Springs, = Ark.
SOUTHERN HOTEL.
Is open for guests. 110 miles west of
Memphis, Tenn. Ozark Mountains.
On Frisco Ry. Rates $7.00 per week.
Lithia Waters.
R. D. WELCH,
Owner and Proprietor.
SPECIAL RATES.
Summer tourist rates Searcy, Ark.,
§£.00; Ravenden Springs, §2.65. Tick
ets on sale to September 30, final re
turn limit October 31st on all trains.
47btf T. H. Reamey, Agt.
JACK JONES,
The Crack Barber, keeps a neat
and busy little shop. Upper end
of Front street. Expert tonso
rialists. Easy shaves and the best
haircuts. Our work pleases.
“Come on, ye stubby beards.”
SPORTING GOODS
Baseball Bats, Masks, Gloves, Mitts,
Fishing Tackle, Hooks, Lines,
Trolls, Trot Lines—in fact
EVERYTHING NEEDED
FOR OUTDOOR SPORTS
A Complete Line »< Books and Stationery
Glassware, China, Lamps,
Fancy Goods, Toys, Notions,
Papers, Musical Instruments,
Croquet Sets, Hammocks,
Late Books, Magazines, Paper
Covered Novels, School Books,
School Supplies, Pens and
Pencils, Inks, Tablets and
Box Papers.
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Agent for St. Louis _ Will take sub
Republic f A DPltJ R scriptions for any
and 1* LJm fir l\lvU« paper or maga
Globe - Democrat. • v zine published.
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MONEY TO DEFEAT
DEROSSITT LAW.
Arkansas Sportsmen Contribute Funds
for Testing Constitutionality of
Law—Meet Next Year at
Little Rock.
Jonesboro, July 8.—At the business
meeting of the State Sportsmen’s As
sociation, held at Elks’ hall tonight,
one hundred dollars was appropriated
to be used to defeat the DeRossitt
game law in the supreme court.
The secretary read a letter from
Joe Franklin to the Little Rock Gun
Club, asking to be reinstated, he hav
ing been dropped for refusing to sur
render medals won by him twelve
years ago. He offered to surrender
medals on conditions. It is decided to
accept medals, but without any con
ditions.
A resolution was passed that the
state championship medal contest
shall only be held at the state annual
meeting.
W. R. Duley invited the club to Lit
tle Rock and offered a purse of $600,
which was accepted.
A resolution was passed that non
residents be barred from participating
for money in the state shoots.
Officers elected for the ensuing year
were: W. R. Duley, Little Rock,
president; J. T. Lloyd, Pine Bluff, vice
president; E. A. Howell, Pine Bluff,
treasurer; Paul R. Litzke, Little Rock,
secretary.
The State Sportsmen’s Association
convened in this city today.
About iifty of the crack shots of the
state are present, besides several
visitors from other states.
Pine Bluff won the three-men state
championship by a score or 7U—uoie
25, Clements 23, Howell 22.
There were eleven teams in the
contest.
The ten highest scores made today
were out of 160 pigeons. The follow
ing is the record:
Starr, Paducah, Ky., 152; Peer,
Bridgeport, 147; Akard, Fair play,
Mo., 146; Dixon, Joplin, Mo., 143; D.
Y. Timberlake, Seneca, Kan., 142;
Frank, Memphis, 143; G. B. Timber
lake, Seneca, Kan., 141; Brady, New- j
berne, Tenn., 140: Powell, England, j
Ark., 140; Coles, Pine Bluff, 110.
WHITE RIVER LEVEE
BIDS TOO HIGH.
There was only one bid opened
Wednesday by Capt. E. Van C. Lucas
of the United States engineers for the
construction of a levee along White
river front south of Helena, Ark.,
and that bid was submitted by Straub
& Cheshier of Helena. The total
amount of their bid for 215,000 cubic
yards was §68,796—more than the
government is willing to expend for
the contract, and in view of that fact
Capt. Van Lucas stated to the Com
mercial Appeal reporter that new
bids would be solicited. Straub &
Cheshier’s bid was 24.7 cents per
cubic yard for 40,000 cubic yards, 35
cents per cubic yard for 40,000 cubic
yards and 34 cents per cubic yard for
135,000 cubic yards. The government
asked for bids on 379,000 cubic yards.
Capt. Van Lucas said that the bid of
Straub & Cheshier would not be con
sidered, as it was too high to be en
tertained. New bids will be solicited
right away.
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MURDER TRIAL BEGUN
AT EL DORADO.
El Dorado, July 9.—The case of the
state vs. Albert Matthews, under in
dictment for the murder of Ed Yount,
was called for trial yesterday morn
ing. The jury was completed early
in the afternoon, after which the evi
dence was heard both in behalf of
the state and the defendant.
The jury was placed in charge of
special officers and court adjourned
until this morning, at which time the
case was argued. At 11:30 the jury
retired and shortly after 2 o’clock re
turned a verdict of murder in the
first degree. A motion for a new trial
in behalf of defendant was filed and
overruled and defendant was sen
tenced to be hanged on the 28th day
of August.
The case will be appealed to the su
preme court.
BATESVILLE PASSENGER
DELAYED BY WRECK. |
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The Batesville passenger train was
wrecked this side of Mount Olive a
few miles Thursday afternoon, the
rails having spread, causing the en
gine to turn half way over.
Another engine had to be sent up
from here, as the derailed locomotive
could not be placed upon the track
and it was not until Friday morning,
shortly before the regular hour of de
parture, that the Batesville passen
ger returned to Newport.
SEEMS TO HAVE WINCED.
A “J. P.” down in Breckinridge
township by the name of A. B. Collier
has indulged in a few personalities
which he terms a reply to a recent ar
ticle in the Independent. A sad
mockery upon what should be the in
telligence and fairmindeduoss of a
court is such a defense, when argu
ment, facts and reason are thrust
aside and billingsgate resorted to.
Such mean, personal flings are as a
rule the retort of an individual who
realizes that he is in the wrong and'
smarts under just censure. It is the
language of the bully who is governed
by brute passion and not by reason,
and is disgusting to any reader of re
finement.
The original article appearing in the
Independent simply gave the story
of Exter Gentry, who was at that time
confined in the jail with a number of
half nude negroes, and if the condi
tions had been known to the Justice,
wa don’t believe he would have sent
her there. At least we credit him
with this much of a humanitarian
spirit and sense of decency.
The jail officers, sheriff and other
Newport papers were unanimous in
the opinion that the jail was no fit
place for any woman, and especially
one who gave every evidence of being
bereft of the full powers of mind. A
review of these few facts is the only
defense we feel it necessary to make.
We have never charged the Tupelo
Justice with any wilful or intentional
indiscretion, but the manner in which
he has winced under a simple publi
cation of the woman’s story and
statement of the jail’s condition now
charge him with conscious guilt be
fore the bar of public opinion.
GRAVES OF VETERANS
STREWN WITH FLOWERS.
A large representation of our citi
zenship, both ladies and gentlemen,
congregated at Walnut Grove ceme
tery Thursday evening about seven
o’clock to do honor to the veterans of
our recent civil strife, both of the
North and of the South, who now lie
in rest beneath the sod of this beauti
ful cemetery.
In the sweet language of flowers was
tribute paid to those warriors of “the
blue and the grey,” rather than in the
eloquence of man’s tongue, though
appropriate and touching remarks
were made by James Henderson and
T. S. Stephens.
The old national air “My Country,
’Tie of Thee,” which tells of a reunited
people, was borne afar by scores of
voices and after a prayer by Rev. W.
F. Walker, the graves of the soldier
boys were strewn with flowers by
comrades, mothers, wives and friends
of the dear departed.
The music was in charge of Mrs. R.
W. Bandy and closed with that popu
lar hymn “Nearer My God To Thee,”
after which a volley was fired by a
squad of Company G under command
of Capt. W. A. O’Neal, concluding the
exercises.
In the flowers, which give up their
own lives upon the graves of dead
heroes, who fought for the right as
they saw it from ’01 to ’65, is offered
the tender sacrifice of comrades, who
have not yet been called and of
younger generations, devoted to the
memory of men, who have won es
teem and admiration not only by rea
son of personal virtues but as brave
soldiers in great armies, who now
share alike the love of a country
which knows no North, no South.
BOB TAYLOR PAYS
TRIBUTE TO HER VOICE.
Under the caption of “A Tennessee
Singer” the Nashville Banner con
tains a letter from Ex-Governor
Robt. L. Taylor, the noted lecturer of
that state, in which he pajs high
compliment to the sweetness of Mrs.
Champ Simpson’s voice.
Mrs. Simpson has become an Arkan
san by adoption and the only portion
of the article we would find fault with
lies in the heading of the Nashville
paper, which our own pride insists
should be changed to “An Arkansas
Singer.”
Following is the letter of Bob Taylor
to a friend:
“Mrs. Lillian Neal Simpson, daugh
ter of my life-long friend, Col. Tom
Neal of Uyersburg, Tenn., sang for
me not long ago, and in her song 1
heard music as sweet and tender as
was ever breathed from human lips.
In every note there was the rapture of
love and the pathos of tears; in every
trill there was a warbling bird and in
every swell of her voice the dim
shadow-tone of an invisible harp. I
was wafted to the heaven of the beau
tiful whose rivers are songs, whose
continents are dreams and upon whose
shadowy shores the surfs of phantom
seas forever break. And I said thank
God for the musicians of the world;
they are its honey bees, its songbirds
its ministering angels.
B. VV. Staiuback passed a fairly
good night Thursday and is thought to
be some better.
CHRISTIAN SCHOOL PICNIC.
The members of the Christian Sun
day school and a number of invited
outsiders spent an unusually pleasant
picnic day on Village Creek Thurs
day.
The contents of many huge baskets
embraced every delicacy that could
be carried in a lunch and were enjoyed
by all.
A number took their bathing suits
and others their fishing tackle and
with a ball game on the side, diver
sions were not lacking to occupy the
time.
JUDSONIA RECEIVES RAIN.
Judsonia, July 9.—After six weeks’
continued drouth, a good rain fell.
Ground was getting very dry and early
corn was badly damaged. The hay
crop will be cut short and cotton more
or less injured. Instead of there
being 25 per cent, increase in yield, as
expected, a decrease appears certain.
The tomato crop was almost a fail
ure on account of the exceedingly
dry weather.
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CLOVER CLUB ENTERTAINED.
Mrs. Narcie Minor entertained the
members of the Clover Club and a few
invited guests quite pleasantly Thurs
day afternoon. Refreshments of ice
cream and cake were enjoyed.
The invited guests present were
Misses Eleanor Neill of Batesville,
Ray and Lucy Brandenburg and Susie
Jones.
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