Independent
VOLUME III NEWPORT, ARKANSAS, SATURDAY, AUGUST 29. 1903 NUMBER 106
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Just a few of the Bargains:
25 pieces of Scotch Lawns worth 6c I*
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Apron Gingham worth 7 i-2c..
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Children’s Drop Stitch Hose Red, White, 1
Blue and Black worth 35c, now.£wv
50 pieces of Fine Lawns, Regular 15c ft
Value now..
30 pieces of best quality of Lawn, Regular jr
Price 25c and 35c now.lt/v
Ladies Shirt Waists and Skirts at Cost.
72-inch White Table Linen worth $1.00 rft_
now. vvv
All Ladies and Children’s Slippers at Cost===We Mean Cost.
THE BAILEY flERCANTILE COJTPANY
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Needless
Constipation.
•Constipation shortens life.' It kills by inches, but none
the less surely. The condition is seldom necessary; it is
due to a morbid condition of the liver that can be over
come with the proper remedy.
Sells’
Liver Pills
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x if persistently used, are a radical cure for constipation.
They do even more, for with the disappearance of the
chief trouble many minor ones will vanish. Complexion
will be keener, and a new supply of energy will appear.
trice 25 cents
SELLS’ DRUG STORE
NEWPORT, ARKANSAS.
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HENRY OWEN,
PHYSICIAN, SURGEON AND
OCULIST.
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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.”
TRY THE
...Weems Laundry...
When yon want good work.
They make a specialty of
DYEING AND CLEANING CLOTHES
Let them show you how
well they can please you.
Leave orders with
FRANK IYNN, Local Agent,
f L. 8. HARRIS, S
{Justice of the Peaces
7 UNION TOWNSHIP. ^
7 All papers executedjproraptly. C
C Write Deeds, Mortgages, Acknowledge- (
f ments, and Bills of Sale. \
\ All cases decided according to law and r
l evidence, irrespective of persons. 7
\ A specialty of the blending of hearts, \
C causing two to beat as one. Ceremony C
C short and to the point. f
\ Office at Grocery Store, 209 Walnut j
V street. /
WESTBOUND BATES.
Special west bound tourist rates via
the Iron Mountain Route—One fare
plus 60 cents to Denver, Colorado
Springs, Pueblo and Glenwood
Springs. Tickets on sale June 16th to
September 30th, with final limit of
October 31st for return.
47btf T. H. Reamey, Agt.
For liberal prices, send your pearls
and baroques to C. A. Windau, New
1 port, Arkansas. 305 btf
STUCKEY APPOINTS
MAIDS AND SPONSOR.
Mrs. Q. A. Hillhouse Named As
Chaperon for Young Ladies Sent
to State Encampment. Govern
ment Contributes Rifles and Ammu
nition for Encampment.
Brig. Gen. M. M. Stuckey, Jr., com
manding the First division, Arkansas
State Guard, has named the following
ladies to represent his division at the
annual encampment at Hot Springs,
September 7-13: Sponsor, Miss Ethel
Beloate of Jonesboro; maids of honor,
Miss Rosina Locke of Eureka Springs
and Miss Lucy P. Rhodes of Osceola;
chaperon, Mrs. George A. Hillhouse
of Newport. These ladies will surely
add to the pleasures of the encamp
ment, and will be quite an addition to
the enjoyments at every social func
tion. The First division may well be
proud of their ladies of honor.
Gen. W. H. Haynes, commanding the
Arkansas State Guard, has been noti
fied chat the war department has or
dered magaz ne rifles and ammunition
to be shipped by express from the
Rock Island arsenal to Hot Springs
tor use in the two sham battles dur
ing the state encampment. There
will be 80,000 rounds in the shipment.
FARMERS’ TELEPHONE
COMPANY ORGANIZES.
The Farmers’ Telephone Company
with a capital stock of $i 00,000, of
which $20,000 has been paid up, was
organized Friday at a meeting of the
stockholders held in this city. The
old Newport-Elgin line has been ab
sorbed by the new company, which
will be incorporated at once.
A line from Elgin to Centerville, Bat
tle Axe and Deckerville will be con
structed in the near future, but the
company may build and operate lines
anywhere in the state, and the high
capitalization would indicate that
such are the plans of the promoters.
The officers of the company are: G.
W. Decker, president; W. A. Joyce,
vice president; L. Minof, secretary
and treasurer, who, together with T.
B. Stewart and C. West, constitute
the directorate.
THE ONLY BABY MONKEY.
Gentry Bros, famous shows are com
ing to Newport on Thursday, Septem
ber 3, for two performances, starting
at 2:30 and 8 o’clock p. m., have a
novelty this season in the way of a
baby monkey, the only one of its kind
ever born in captivity. Although not
yet out of its mother’s arms, little Bud
when he gets to cutting up is a whole
menagerie of monkey artists by him
self. At times this future king of
mimicry assumes a dignified air and
looks for all the world like the mana
ger of a court train at a coronation.
Then again Bud takes it into his head
to play the part of a monkey dude,
doctor, judge, burlesque, acrobat or
boss, just as the fancy seems to strike
him. As an all around entertainer
Bud can put some comedians to the
blush and the Gentrys are proud of
•this recent acquisition of theirs.
Chastain’s addition.
FIRST ARKANSAS BALE.
The first bale of cotton of the new
crop was received in Little Rock by
express Friday by the Lesser-Goldman
Cotton Company. It was shipped by
Muse & Harris of Junction City. Mr.
Hamberg, who represents the Lesser
Goldman Company, and is also presi
dent of the board of trade, is in St.
Louis and has been notified of the re
ceipt of the cotton.
The bale weighs 465 pounds, classes
strict middling and its staple,, is one
inch and one-sixteenth. It will be
sold at auotion at the board of trade
next Tuesday morning at i0:30.
Last year the first oale made its ap
pearance on August 14.
SOME LATE STRAWBERRIES.
Eureka Springs Flashlight: O. R.
Burnett, who lives northeast of Eu
reka Springs, near the tunnel, pre
sented the Flashlight with a box of
fine strawberries on Tuesday. Mr.
Burnett is satisfied that this county
beats the world for fruit. His first
crop of berries came at the proper
season and this second harvest is a
surprise. Some vines have as many
as four ripe berries besides blooms
and half grown berries. The fruit is
fine flavored and sweet.
SPECIAL RATE
Via Iron Mountain Route. 34.25
round trip to Hot Springs account
colored carnival. Tickets on sale
August 22, 24, 27 and 29, return limit
August 30. T. H. Reamey, Agt.
DAVY CROCKETT’S CAMPAIGN.
Language of This Rugged Frontiers
man Suggestive to the Arkansan
Just at Present.
As an example of Crockett’s early
electioneering methods one might I
mention his first canvass for the leg- j
islature. Regarding this he says:
“I didn’t know what the govern- j
ment was. I didn’t know but General ’
Jackson was the government.”
Meeting Col. Polk, later to be Presi- !
dent Polk, the latter remarked, “I j
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think it possible we may have some j
changes in the judiciary.”
“Very likely,” replied Davy, “very
likely,” and discreetly withdrew.
“Well,” he comments, “if ever I
knowed what he meant by ‘judiciary’
1 wish I may be shot. I never heard
there was such a thing in all nature.”
Again Crockett in wbat is called his
“autobiography,” a work which he no
doubt in part dictated or at least au
thorized, gives the following account
of one of his speeches to a stranger at
Raleigh, while Crockett was enroute
to Washington to take his first seat in
congress. Said he: “Hurrah for Ad
ams” and said I “Hurrah for hell and
praise your o\*n comcry.” And he
said, “Who are you?” Said I, “I’m
that same Davy Crockett, fresh from
the backwoods, half man, half alliga
tor, a little touched with snapping
turtle, can wade the Mississippi, leap
the Ohio, ride a streak of lightning,
slide down a honey locust and not get
scratched. 1 can whip my weight in
wild cats, hug a bear too close for
comfort and eat any man opposed to
Jackson.”—Emerson Hough in Out
ing. _
SEEK TO PREVENT
CHANGE IN LEVEE.
Osceola, Ark., August 28.—In the
county court of Mississippi county
Judge L. D. Rozell granted the peti
tion for an injunction against the St.
Francis levee board, applied for by a
number of planters and citizens of
Pecan Point, who are opposed to the
construction of the proposed loop of
new levee around and in back of
Golden Lake and the abandonment of
the old line.
At the hearing before Judge Rozell
the St. Francis levee board was rep
resented by Judge J. C. Hawthorne of
Jonesboro, and the petitioners for the
injunction were represented by Judge
N. W. Norton and William Driver.
There was a battle royal in court
between the lawyers and the levee
board served notice that an appeal
would be taken, which will be heard
in December.
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SUNDAY SERVICES.
At the Christian church—Sunday
school at 9:30 a. m., and communion
services at 10:30, conducted by R. P.
Morrison. The pastor, C. C. Cline,
will fill his pulpit at the usual hours,
Sunday, September 6.
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At the Methodist church—Sunday
school at 9:30 a. m. The pastor, J.
W. Smith, will fill his pulpit at 11 a.
m. and 8 p. m. “The Incomparable
Words” is the subject of his morning
sermon, and he will preach on “The
Record of Memory” at the evening
hour. All are most cordially invited
to attend.
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Fresh oysters at Riley Mayhan’s. d
BODY SEVERED BY SAW.
Charles Foster Meets Horrible Death
Just Before Closing Hour Friday
at Saw Mill Below Newport
on White River.
Charles Foster, a middle aged man,
employed at a saw mill five miles be
low Newport on the west bank of
White river, met a horrible death
Friday afternoon just a few minutes
before 6 o’clock, when the mill would
have closed down. ,
In saw mill parlance, he was setting
the head blocks, when he became
overbalanced and fell forward toward
the circular saw. Before the carriage
could be stopped the man’s body had
come in contact with the saw, catting
off both arms, splitting the head and
throwing part of it from beneath the
shed. The body was terribly muti
lated, but death was almost instanta
neous.
The deceased leaves a wife and four
children, his remains having been
buried at Surrounded Hill graveyard
Saturday.
PROHIS WON BY
HUNDRED VOTES.
Texarkana, Aug. 28.—Full returns
from yesterday’s election in Bowie
county, Texas, show a victory for the
prohibitionists by a majority of one
hundred and five votes. The whisky
men charge that there were irregu
larities at some of the voting places,
and there is, on this account, some
talk of contesting the election, but it
is not generally believed that such
action will be taken.
A movement was started on the
Arkansas side of town this afternoon
in the way of a petition asking the
city council to raise the city saloon
license from its present figure of 8700
to 82,000, the object being to prevent
the ousted saloons on the Texas side
from settling over on that side of
town, and it is likely the council will
take some such action. Another
movement, however, is almost certain
to be inaugurated, its purpose being jS
to invoke what is known as the
“three-mile law” and drive the liquor
men from the Arkansas side of town
also.
The saloon men are very much put
out, and the immediate outlook before
them is anything but promising.
When you have pearls, slugs and
baroques, send them to P. O. Heide,
Prairie du Cbien, Wisconsin for top
market prices. o.f.t.f.
APPOINTMENTS.
JSsl May be made
JsSyfijSL and conversa
tion held, giv
ing all the advantages of
a personal interview
through the use of The
Long Distance Telephone.
SOUTHWESTERN
TELEGRAPH &
TELEPHONE CO.
...COMING TO NEWPORT...
ONE DAY ONLY
Thursday, Sept. 3
GENTRY BROS.SHOWS
An Educational Feature Without a Parallel! Half a Thousand Pigmy
Pets! Marvel’s Menagerie from Lilliput!
inn PRICELESS PONIES IN jnf|
ILfU’KALEIDOSCOPIC COMBI NATI O NSlvV
..Ponies Playing the Latest Popular Airs on Musica[ Bells..
lAA Blue-Blooded Educated Canines! irin
IUU Dignitaries and Dudes of Dogdom! IviU
FOUR SCORE MONKEY COMEDIANS
SEE DON JUAN LOOP
SEE MONKEY dare-devil LOOP
2“Herds of Lilliputian Elephant Actors-2
Watch for the Tremendous Free SPECTACULAR STREET CARNIVAL
A Snoerb, Original Array of Miniature Magnificence at 10 a. m.
Exhibition Grounds, Chastain Addition.