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For Sale—Jersey milch cow.
Ira Best. 81dtf
For Sale—My home in East
Newport. C. W. Best. 71btf
Sunlight Flakes. The latest
out. Bowen’s Cash Store. 87dtf
EarlJoblin of Batesville was
in the city on business Friday.
T. J. Graham returned home to
Tuckerman Friday on the noon
train.
Judge J. W. Butler of Bates
ville spent Thursday night in
Newport.
J. D. Eldridge and children of
Augusta were at the Hazel Hotel
Thursday. t
W. T. Dunn left Thursday for
a week’s visit to his mother in
Greenville, Miss.
Six tons of extra fine cotton
seed for sale at $30 per ton. Ai
Poer, Tuckerman, Ark. 45w4.
A. Mortensen has moved his
cleaning and pressing shop to the
newly remodeled building oppo
site city jail. 86dtf.
Your vote is solicited for C-has.
K. Hite, candidate tor mayor oi
the city of Newport. Ark. 68
Miss Rena Mosher left at noon
Friday for Paris, 111., after a two
days* visit to Mrs. M. A. Dorsey.
Oscar Knight, Sol Cohn, Wal
ter Woods and Alva Dickinson,
prominent knights of the grip,
were in Newport Friday.
Mrs. S. W. McFarland and
daughter, Miss Ida, left Friday
morning for a several weeks’
visit to relatives in Selma, La.
Joe McGregor and J. B. Ech
ols, two prominent merchants of
Cotton Plant, were in Newport
Thursday on their way south.
Charles Sprigg came up from
Little Rock Thursday night to
spend Easter. He is attending
Arkansas the military college.
T. E. Allen and wife left Fri
day morning for Roswell, New
Mexico, for the benefit of Mr.
Allen’s health. We hope he may
’soon be able to return home
greatly improved.
At the flower bazar to be given
Saturday at the Hazel the doors
will be open at 10:30 a. m. All
kinds of pot plants, cut flowers,
Easter eggs and home made can
dies will be sold.
Mrs. A. A. Evans of Victor,
Arkansas, visited Newport Fri
day. She will be better remem
bered as Miss Jeffie Johnson, and
had a large circle of friends in
Newport and Jackson county.
Misses Stella Echols and Ruth
Lynch, who are attending Searcy
Institute, were in the city Thurs
1 , 1 1 J 1 J
uay uu uitiii way iiviius lu
Plant to spend Easter. They
were the guests while here of
Miss Helen Terry.
Judge M. M. Stuckey is sullkffg
ing from an injured ear'and
fears that his hearing may be
impaired. His little niece, Fran
cis Hays, was fixing him up as
an Indian and jabbed the sharp
end of a feather down his ear.
We hope nothing serious may re
sult.
The choir of the Methodist
church has arranged an excellent
program of music to be rendered
Easter morning and evening.
At the evening service instead
of a sermon, a special program
of music will be rendered. A
general collection will be taken,
the proceeds to go toward refur
nishing the church. Program
will be given Saturday.
The Black Rock Telephone in
forms us that the Newport levees
have broken and let White river
in over the town from three tc
six feet deep. The article further
says all the mills and factories
are closed down. Jacksonport,
» too, is under water and the ladies
use boats to make calls. What a
picture of desolation wrought by
the flood and the overworked
imagination of a pencil pusher!
Somebody has evidently been
guilty of prevarication if the halt
of this article was told the Black
Rock editor.
I .
Mrs. D. Terry and daughter
| have returned from Little Rock.
There will be preaching tonight
at the Christian church by Rev.
C. Monroe.
G. W. Decker and family have
recently moved to 4165 Washing
ton boulevard, St. Louis.
Anyone desiring a trained
nurse can find one at corner of
Third and Vine streets. Mrs.
5 A. E. Clark. 84d4w
If you want to look neat, have
your suit cleaned and pressed be
A. Mortensen. In new quarters
opposite city jail. 86dtf.
Leslie Coffey has been on the
river between here and Newport
buying wagon material, but the
high water has bothered him and
he reports one car load having
been washed away.—Black Rock
1 Telephone.
Owing to delay in arrival of
fixtures, consequent upon the ir
regular running of trains, the
brokerage office of Price & Boh
linger will not open this week,
but Mr. Price expects to be ready
for business by Tuesday, April 5.
Percy Finch came up from
Little Rock yesterday and re
vert a .Toff fe hut that the
Wood men hate to give it up yet.
And he also says that he heard
much feeling expressed against
Senator Berry for not coming
home and assisting in the fight,
and the people will take hold
now and help to defeat him. —
Black Rock Telephone.
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Parties desiring good
wood of all kinds should
call on
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Lower end of Laurel St.
All orders are promptly
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Louisiana Purchase Exposition,
St. Louis, April 30th to Decem
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Tickets on sale daily April 27th
to November 30, 1904. Rate for
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one way fare for the round trip.
Tickets on sale daily April 15th
to Nov. 15th, Final return limit
Dec 15, 1904.
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ENCOURAGE EMIGRATION.
The Rock Island system offers
twenty prizes of the aggregate
| value of $390 for letters relative
! to the territory along its lines in
Arkansas, Indian Territory, Kan
sas, Oklahoma, Texas and New
Mexico. Letters should deal
,
1 with the writers’ experiences
| since he settled in the Southwest.
They should tell how much money
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NOTICE TO"TAXPAYERS.
I will be in my office from 7:30
o’clock a. m. to 6o’clock p. m. to
collect tdxes. Office will close to
balance collections and answer
letters. Books will be closed on
April 10th and 25 per cent penal
ty will be added. Don’t wait un
til the last day or week.
Your friend,
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