TIE INDEPENDENT
( PERCY H. VAN DYKE
Publisher and Editor
Front St., NEWPORT, ARK.
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Telling the Truth.
It is not pleasant and profit
able always to tell the truth in
the columns of a newspaper.
Men who have tried this hereto
fore have always come to grief.
Only a few days ago the editor
of a papsr in Indiana grew tired
of being called a liar, and an
nounced that he would tell the
truth in the future; and the'
next issue of t he paper contain-j
ed the following items:
John Bonin, the laziest mer-!
chant in town, m?.de a trin to '
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Belleville yesterday.
John Coyle, our vr '-man,
is doing a poor busines--. His
store is dirty and* dusty. How
can he do much ?
Rev. Styz preached last Sun
day night on “Charity.” The |
sermon was punk.
Dave Son key died at his home
in this place. The doctor gave it
out as heart failure. Whiskey
killed him.
Married—Miss Sylvan Rhodes
and James Conlin, last Saturday
at the Baptist parsonage. The
bride is a very ordinary town
girl, who doesn’t know any more
about cooking than a jack-rabbit
and never helped her mother
three days in her life. She is
not a beauty by any means, and
has a gait like a duck. The
groom is an up-to-date loafer.
He has been living off the old
folks all his life, and is not
worth shucks. It will be a hard
life.
The governor of our great
state, a very ordinary mat., and
who was elected by accident,
was here yesterday. He has
very few friends here now. He
promised some of the voters in
this precinct a piece of pie in
event of his election, but had
forgotten all about it when the
time to hand over the little offi
ces rolled around.—Publishers’
Auxiliary.
Getting Hid of Worries
It is easy to have a cheerful
smile for the troubles of others,
the pessimist will say, but our
own troubles are not so easily
gotten rid of.
Well, that’s not true. Our
own troubles are chiefly of yes
terday and tomorrow. We bor
row them mostly of imagination
and fear.
Real troubles are easily
bourne; it is the imaginary
ones that are intolerable.
True, life has its real trage
dies and pains from which there
seems no escape. When death
takes those we love, or when
disease siezes us, or misfortunes
apportion us a pinched face and
laborious old age, more than
cheerful maxims are required to
bring us happiness.
But it is still true that happi
ness and discontent are entirely
a state of mind that can be con
trolled.
Nine-tenths of the little ills
and worries would disappear if
the will were resolutely set
against them.
Actual afflictions we learn to
bear. The cripple, the hopeless
ly diseased and the poor have,
since time began, taught us our
best lessons — patience and
cheerfulness.
But the unhappiness, that
comes of absorption in self, fills
the world with doleful moan
ings.
It is the gloom of self-apsorp
tion that darkens lives.
We can get out of it, and keep
out of it, if we will.—Memphis
News-Scimitar.
GENTRY BROTHERS BRING
NEW FEATURES
While Gentry Brothers shows
which will visit this city next
Saturday, September 20, are not
new to this community, they
bring with them many things
that are new to America this
season. Among these features
are many trained animals, but
first of all is the list of Europe
an novelty acts.
During the winter the agents
of the Gentry Brothers made a
very careful and thorough can
vass of Europe, gathering to
gether the most novel features
possible for America’s most
closely censored shows. In
France the agents secured Bou
chard and Blanchard, the great
est gymnasts that ever claimed
the home of Napoleon as their
own.
For many seasons this troupe
of performers remained in the
old country, persistently refus
ing to come to America. When
a man has something to sell and
the other fellow wants it, then
the seller is sooner or later tem
pted by the fancy price offered
for his ware. This was the case
with these performers- They
put, as they thought, a prohib
itive price on their services, but
when the figure was agreed to
by Gentry Brothers the French
men decided they would acept
the alternative and come to A
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your fiarvest money
is In this bank
Look at these two men. They have been to market their 1:
cotton. One put his money in the bank and the other did F
not. They were held up on their way home. The silly fel
low who wanted to take his money home had to “deliver" 8
to the robbers. The other was able to give them the laugh C
—his money was in the bank.
ARKANSAS BANK & TRUST CO. (
merica, for one season at least.
When the contract for an A
merican tour was closed Marcell
and Lennett, another French
! company, decided to visit Amer
ica. In this way Gentry Broth
ers Shows annexed the services
of the “International Coiques”,
a clever set of tumblers, who also
have long hesitated to leave their
native land.
In Germany at the time these
contracts were closed, was Mad
ame Heloise. whose act was the
talk of Continental Europe. She
| is the world’s greatest woman
' horse trainer. The horses she
* used before royalty are said to
1 be the finest in the world. Mad
ame Heloise, through the offorts
1 of an American consul acepted
j a contract to appear in America.
This season she is one of the es
pecial features with Gentry
! Brothers Shows.
Through Madame Heloise the
Cevene Trio, who, three years
j ago startled the medical and
’dental worlds by acts of daring,
' were engaged. This company of
performers are accustomed to
dangling m tne air wnne sus
pended bv their teeth. Time was
when no medical man would ad
mit that the human being could
| accomplish such a thing, but
the Cevene trio have disproven
the theories of the scientific
world.
; Another feature with Gentry
Brothers shows is Don Boucha
ro- This man, a Spaniard, has
subdued and trained a ferocious
family of leopards and lions, and
with animals of the domesticat
ed kmd, he presents a perform
ance of unusual merit. In ad
dition to these new features
Gentry Brothers All Feature
Shows will present many others,
the product of years of study on
the part of animal trainers. The
Gentry shows are this year twice
as large as ever before. (Adv)
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! The American Indian will soon
i exist only in history. His exter
I mination has been gradual, but
i will be sure. He has gradually
been driven from his happy
! home in the east to a few barren
reservations in the west, where,
by amalgamation, dissipation or
separation he is fast becoming
! extinct.
The Redskin has always been
one of the most picturesque as
well as cunning of the races. He
is quick of perception, fleet of
foot, loval to a friend and un
yielding to an enemy. There are
many other things that make
the Indian interesting to people
who know very little about them
or their habits. Even at this ad
vanced period there are many
people in America who have nev
er seen an Indian.
The Buffalo from which the
Indian secured almost all his
supplies, is also nearly extinct.
Once the vast herds had almost
undisputed title to and posses
sion of as many thousand miles
of miles as the Indians had to
their hunting grounds. Count
less millions of these monarchs
of the plains roamed over the
west, but today they can be
counted by some few hundreds.
With KIT CARSON’S BUF
FALO RANCH BIG THREE
RING WILD WEST CIRCUS
there are some of the most not
ed of the different tribes of In
dians as well as the largest herd
and most magnificent specimens
of Buffalo in existence today.
The American Bison is now one
of the rarest and most expensive
animals and it will pay to visit
this world famous attraction if
for nothing but to see the last of
the Buffalo.
Will exhibit the day only, af
ternoon and night, at Newport,
on Wednesday. Sept. 17. (Adv)
No. 666
Thie is a pre-cription prepared especially i
for MALARIA or CHILLS & FEVER. |
Five or six doses wiil break any case, and
if taken then ns a tonic the Fever v.-iU not
• eturn. it acts on the liver belter than
’ ' arc ’cc' nc>! -'ripe or sicken. 25c ' I
8 Ladies. We Would Be PleasJ
I To Have You Call and See our New Fall Gopjl
Or At Least The Part Which Have I
Arrived. I
B rocaded Velvet, I
Brocaded Paon Velvet for trimmings. 1
The new Mandaline light weight. 1
Duryea stripes. I
Diagonal Serges, 52 inches, all colors. 1
We cau Show You All The New Silks I
in Corticelli and Pine Tree Mills. I
1 Heinetnann’s Dry Goods st J
Don’t Wait^Don’t Waste
Every one who waits is a waster, of both time and money.
A bank account will stop that little leak and putting off
opening that bank account is costing you possible savings
every day. You will be surprised how easy it is to save
after you once get started. One dollar starts you here.
The Farmers Banh
—‘^TnEWPORT. ARKANSAS
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TUCKERMAN NEWS
j Mrs. H. T. Brewer and chil
dren of Earle are visiting rela
tives and friends in this town.
Miss May Stephens, who has
been visiting for several weeks
in Indiana, came in home Friday
night.
J. B. Slayden and Will Allen
spent a few days last week in
Memphis and while in the city
Mr. Slayden bought a nice stock
of dry goods.
Miss Eva Harris of Swrifton
spent Friday in this city and
while here was the the guest of
Mrs. F. W. Hardgraves.
The Woodmen of the World at
this place will meet in regular
session on the night of the 20th.
Head Consul R. E. Miller, the
highest official of Woodcraft in
the state will be present. The
State Manager and District De
puty have been invited and will
probably be present. Arrange
ments have been made for bar
becued meat and other refresh
ments to be served on that oc
casion. Every member is re
quested to be present and assist
in making this the best meeting
of the year.
Mrs. Mary Hogan is right sick
at her home in this city.
Misses Maude and Jessie Lit
tleton have returned home after
a week’s visit to Mrs. Gertrude
Graham.
The Tuckerman Civic Im
provement Club will make an- j
other effort to clean up the cem
etery at Pleasant Grove on the
19 of September and it is hoped
that all who feel an interest will
help and come prepared for
work.
The writer visited on last
Monday, one of the best roads,
he has seen in this county and it
is a road that Mr. A. J. Goetz
built free of cost to the county- J
Mr. Goetz built a shoot on the
dde of the road near a sand hill,
where he could back his wagons
.aider and then took scrapers
aid ran them on the shoot, pulls
i trap door and the wagons are
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loaded with very little work. He
put several wagon loads of sand
on the clay and the two mixed
^ake a fine road. It would be
money and time well spent if
every road overseer in the coun
ty would go and look at the road
Mr. Goetz built free to the coun
|ty.
James Striaer and wife came
in home Monday after spending
several days at Heber and Eu
reka Springs. Mr. Strider is
much improved in health of
which his many friends are glad
to learn.
J. F- Guiltner spent a few
hours in town Sunday. He left
Sunday night for points up the
road on business.
Mrs. Lula Dunn left the first
of the week for Oklahoma,
where she will spend several
days visiting G. T. Dunn and
wife who live in that state.
Ihe Methodist people have
just closed one of the greatest
meetings in the history of the
church at this place. Brother
Ben May and a cousin of Bi'oth
er W. P. Talkington assisted in
the meeting.
Brother J. A. Roberts has
been elected first assistant in the
public school at this place.
Mrs. H. H. Luckett of Bates
ville spent several days in this
town last week visiting her
friend, Mrs. Gertrude Graham.
School will open at this
place Monday with Prof. D. K.
Hubbard as principal. The
school board have done every
thing in their power to make
this the best school year in the
history of the town. Pupils who
are thinking of entering school
should investigate the Tucker
man High School.
Mr. Fred Guire of near this
place has been elected marshal |
of the city.
Grack Smith and wife of New- J
port spent Sunday in this town J
with their friends and relatives.
Alph James of Jamestown was
in town a few Hours Monday, re
turning from a business trip to
the county seat.
w. A. MIN
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