THE INDEPENDENT
PERCY H. VAN DYKE
Publisher and Editor
front Stn NEWPORT, ARK.
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Appeal For United Effort.
All over Arkansas, farmers,
lawyers, bankers and merchants
are now organizing to work
the roads on September .*1 and 4.
The interest is intense. Do you
share it? If you do, stop now,
see your neighbors and associ
ates, form an organization and
do your part in making these
two days a success. Act quick
ly—the time is short.
Ask the merchants, bankers,
and all other places of business
to close. Ask your farmer
friends for teams.
Select the road to be worked.
Fix the time and place for your
meeting on the morning of Sep
tember 3d. Each road should
have its workers organized into
squads, and each man should be
assigned to work he can do.
Work the bad places in the
road. Take out the rocks. Re
move the stumps. Fill the ruts
and holes. Cut out the under
brush. Make the road passable.
Remember, someone has to
take the lead. Do you know of
any reason why you can’t?
Yours for good roads,
REUBEN G.DYE
Chairman State Highway Com
mission
Morgan s Fiasco.
Since the death of J. P. Mor
gan and the elimination of Pres
ident Mellon from the control ol
the New England railroads il
has been discovered that Meller
was merely a figurehead or er
rand boy for the great house of
Morgan that absolutely domin
ated the situation. Many of the
purchases ordered by Morgan
were opposed by Mellen, who had
not the power to prevent a con
summation of the deal. Morgan s ^
dream of monopoly in New \ ork ;
was fully realized but at an enor- '
mous and crushing expense. And
it was shattered to pieces as soon
as the great financier passed
away. Without Morgan to hold
him in position Mellen was soon
ousted, because he was blamed
for the sins committed by Mor
gan, and it was necessary to get
rid of him. Bankers have never
been much of a success as rail
road men, and they usually come
to grief when they attempt to do
that which only a trained and ex
perienced railroad man who has
“come ud from the track can
do.—Memphis News-Scimitar.
All Boy Scouts are ordered to
meet at the court house this ev
ening at 7:15.
G. A. Hillhouse,
Scout Master.
There will be a meeting of the
Tribe of Ben Hur Tuesday even
ing, September 2. State Mana
ger J. T. Wells will be present to
make arrangements for the
Northeast Congress to be held in
Newport October 15. All mem
bers are urged to be pi-esent.
By Order of Chief,
Cora E. Folk.
Mrs. Eugene Fearherley and
daughter, Camille, who have
been visiting the former’s sister,
left yesterday for a further vis
it to Mt. Carmel, Illinois before
returning home to Minneapolis.
On account of Labor Day the
postoffice and some places of
business were closed during the
day.
Extraordinary Tonight
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James. K. Hackett
i America’s Greatest Actor in the
Prisoner
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A Four-Reel Feature: Also
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Additional Local.
Ben Burton of Shoffner was
in our city Sunday.
Mrs. Hettie B. Wilmans left
Sunday evening for Kentucky.
Mr. and Mrs. John W. Ferrell
of Batesville were in our city
Sunday night.
Eugene Copeland of Little
Rock spent Sunday with New
port friends.
Mrs. E. R. Beane and daugh
ter, Mrs. Folsom of Russell are
spending the day with Mrs. Mc
Hugh
S. R. Phillips returned from
Heber Springs this morning,
where he spent Sunday with his
family.
Mrs. Leon and little son Lion
ell left Sunday for their home in
St. Louis after a month’s visit to
Mr. and Mrs- Joe Weisburg.
Mr. and Mrs. Morris Gorman
of St. Louis, who were married
in that city a week ago, arrived
Sunday and will board with her
brother, Morris Solomon on Lau
rel street.
W- P. Wilbanks and Jos. M.
Berger arrived home this morn
ing from a delightful month’s
vacation trip through Colorado.
W. A. Billingsley and Norman C.
Wolff, also of the party stopped
off, Mr. Billingsley for only a
day, the latter to spend the week
in St. Louis.
Nearly 8,000 School Children
County School Superintendent
W. M. Shaver has filed his report
with the county court showing
the school enumeration by dis
tricts and a total of 7,968 boys
and girls of school age residing
in Jackson county
District No. 1_57
District No. 2_164
District No. 3_312
District No. 4_179
District No. 5_125
District No. 6_20
District No. 7_223
District No. 8_142
District No. 9_374
District No. 10_262
Dustrict No. 11_129
District No. 12_102 -
District No. 13_225
District No- 14_159
District No. 15_100
District No. 17_173
District No. 18_104
District No. 20_129 1
District No. 21___83 ;
District No. 22_228
District No- 23_124 ]
District No. 24_162 t
District No. 25_134 js
District No. 26_168 , i
District No. 27_116 jp
District No. 28_72 j ii
District No. 29_50 b
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E Ladies. We Would Be Pleased
i To Have You Call and See our New Fall Good
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Or At Least The Part Which Have
Arrived.
Brocaded Velvet,
Brocaded Paon Velvet for trimmings
The new Mandaline light weight
Duryea stripes.
Diagonal Serges, 52 inches, all colors.
We cau Show You All The New Silks
in Corticelli and Pine Tree Mills.
| Heinemann’s Dry Goods siw
ran !7=>n
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District No. 30-80
District No. 31-29|
District No. 32-14
District No. 33-1”9
District No. 34-H*j
District No. 35-8
District No. 36-^1
District No- 37-^48
District No. 39
District No. 40-1^8
District No. 41-99
District No. 42-99
District No. 43-192
District No. 44-80
District No- 45-43
District No. 46-46
Jacksonport Special-159
Grubbs Special-145
Denmark Consolidated to \\ hite
County.
Tuckerman Special-514
Newport Special-1055
Grand Total_7968
Women prove Fire Fighters.
Ashdown, Aug. 31.—Working
as heroically as the men as mem
bers of a bucket brigade, the wo
men of Ashdown battled the
flames of a $60,000 fire here to
night, the fight being won after
four hours of work. The insur
ance is estimated at about $35,
000. An appeal was made to
Texarkana for aid and a special
train with a steamer and a hose
wagon was sent here, but by the
time the train i*eached Ashdown
the flames wei’e under conti’ol.
The following firms estimated
their loss and insurance as fol-1
lows: Little River county bank,1
$3,000 loss on building and $500 j
on fixtures, covered by insur-1
xnce: H. L. Toland & Co., gener
al merchandise and furniture, j
loss on stock $27,000, insurance
$13,000, loss on building about
$8,000, including insurance; Mo
del Drug Store, building owned
by G. C. Harris, loss on building
$5,000 with $2,000 insurance,
loss to drug store $10,000 with
$6,000 insurance; Sanderson
building, loss $3,000, covered by
insurance. The following firms
sustained losses on stock being
lamaged by removal from the
buildings. Fred Throckmorton,
fry goods, $5.000; Rosenweig &
Bro., dry goods. $5,000; Owl
Drug Store. $1,000. The ex
change of the Southwestern Tel- {
cplxone and Telegraph Company
was damaged by broken wires, !
he loss being estimated at about
?500.
The fire originated about 6:30
). m- from an unknown cause in
he Toland & Co. ware house and
oon spread to the Model Drug
•tore. Ashdown has no fire de
artment and the citizens joined
l fighting the flames. A bucket
rigade was formed, the men j
throwing the water on the flames
as it was brought from near-by
wells by the women. About 8
o’clock it was feared that the en
tire business section would be de
stroyed and an appeal was sent
to Texarkana for aid. However,
the fight was continued and by
10:30 o’clock the flames were un
der control.
c. R. GRAY
PHYSICIAN
AND SURGEON
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