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r PERCY H. VANDYKE,
Publisher and Editor.
NEWPORT, - - ARKANSAS
^ RAILROAD TIME CARD.
ST. L. I. M. & S. RAILWAY.
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NORTH BOUND.
No. 72, Local Fiijjght .. 11:46 a. m.
No. 2.. 3:20 a.m.
N,o. 4. 2:00 p. m.
/' No. 12. 8:48 p.m.
jjfc ' No. C. 10:60 p. m.
No. 8. 10:25 a.m.
SOUTH BOUND.
No. 73, I,ocal Freight. 7:30 a. m.
No. 7. 11:28 a.m.
No. 6. 6:00 a. m.
No. 11. 0:37 a. m.
No. 3. 4:47 p. m.
No. 1. 10:60 p. m.
BATESVILLF BRANCH.
Passenger T,eaveH. 7:00 a. in.
Mixed “ 11:45 a.m.
Passenger Arrives. 8:30 p. m.
Mixed " 10:15 a. in.
ROCK ISLAND SYSTEM.
Passenger Arrives. 2:20 p. m.
Passenger Departs. 3:20 p. m.
Local Freight Departs. 0:80 a. m.
On Tuesday. Thursday and Saturday
ANNOUNCEMENTS.
FOR1REPRE3ENTATIVE.
We are authorized to announce T. T. Ward as a
candidate for the office of representative of Jack
son county, subject to the Democratic primary
election.
FOR SHERIFF.
To the voters of Jackson county.
I am a candidate for re-election to the office of
sheriff of Jackson county, subject to a Demo
cratic primary, if one is held. Feeling that 1
have discharged the duties of that office in such
a manner as to merit your confidence, and thank
ing you for your support in the past and asking
your help in the future. If elected I will do my
duty. Your fellow'citizen, R. W. BANDY.
We are authorised to announce Snell Simmons
as a candidate for election to the office of Sheriff
of Jackson county, subject to the action of the
Democratic party.
FOR COUNTY AND PROBATE JUDGE.
We are authorized to announce E. L. Boyce as a
candidate for the office of county and probate
judge of Jackson county, subject to the Demo
cratic primary election.
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FOR^cmcurr clerk.
We are authorized to announce John I). Neal as
a candidate for the office of circuit clerk of Jack
son county, subject to the Democratic primary
elect ion.*5HI —
Wo are authorized to announce James S. Jones
as a candidate for re-election to the office of cir
cuit clerk of Jackson county, subject to the Dem
ocratic primary election.
FOR TREASURER.
We are authorized to announce Dr. F. G. Smith
as a candidate for the office of treasurer of Jack
son county, subject to the Democaatic primary
election.
COMMISSIONERS
FILE REPORT.
The report of the commission
ers, G. W. Hurley, A. D. Bailey
and J. M. Stay ton, for the Front
Street Improvement district, was
filed with the council Monday
evening, but no action upon same
was taken by that body.
In this report are itemized the
expenses of the commission,
amounting to $576.70, incurred
for advertising in the Memphis
and Little Rock papers for bids,
Capt. J. H. Haney’s bill for ser
vices in making survey and speci
fications for the paving of Front
street and incidentals.
The commission ask that this
indebtedness be levied uponlthe
district and that their resigna
tions be accepted by the council.
ine ordinance promoting trav
eling horse traders the use of the
streets and commons was given
another reading.
All the members were present
except Alderman N. B. Wishon
and the minutes of the previous
meeting were approved and the
accounts allowed.
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The “blue laws” are being en
forced at Poplar Bluff, cigars
and other such items being placed
beyond the pale of the law so
far as Sunday sales are concern
ed. Such radical and impracti
cal reforms are short lived. A
rigorous Sunday closing law is
a good thing, but when applied
to the sale of cigars, newspapers
and the like it oversteps the
bounds of reason and finds little
public sentiment to back it up.
F. P. Skipwith has accepted a
position with W. A. Short &
Company, a well known cotton
firm, and will continue to buy on
this market. His friends are
glad to learn this good news, i
though they were confident so
desirable a man as Mr. Skipwith
would not long “be out in the {
cold,” after the failure of his old
POLITICAL POKER.
I(aeiitlim> of Moment Deter
mined l>y the (Same in the
State of Kintal.
Topeka is much agitated over revela
tions of draw poker in high places, and
nothing could better show than this up
roar what inroads the civilization of the
east is making on the life of the bound
less prairies. Once upon a time, states
the Kansas City Journal, draw poker was
to Kansas what bridge whist is to the
parlors of the fashionable. It was prac
tised as an art, a pastime, a profession.
No one thought then of concealing his
play of the game, but, rather, it was a
subject of pride and boasting. Indeed,
It was more than a game, for it served at
times in the adjudication of the most
serious problems of state or government.
At present the law of Kansas recog
nizes the game of chance known as
“drawing lots” as the proper means of
deciding all ties in elections, but form
erly draw poker was resorted to as a
more orderly means of compromising.
For example, in one of the western coun
ties, when two amiable gentlemen tied
for the office of representative they
played a game of “freeze-out” to de
termine which should enjoy the office.
Again, not so many years ago, when the
senate committee, on congressional ap
portionment came to a deadlock over the
divers plans for dividing the state into
congress districts, the members ad
journed to a room in the Copeland, took
each a generous stack of chips and
played to a finish. Under the terms of
this historical game the committeeman
who lost his chips withdrew himself and
his apportionment plan from further
consideration; and when the game was
reduced to two gentlemen, the one who
froze the other out fixed the plan of ap
portionment, which stands with little
change as the plan of to-day.
Volumes could be written of poker in
cidents in Kansas. Once a well known
congressman, wrho, by the way, has reap
peared in Kansas politics, had to meet
the charge made by some overprudish
nn/vr\1 /v fUnt Vs a tirn o n /I /j 1 o t A rl t A tVio O O ns a
of poker. He appealed to his political
asociates to help him out. The one who
came most energetically to his recuse
was Capt. Bill Hackney, the Winfield
statesman. “I am in a position to state,"
certified t he doughty captain, “that Mr.
Blank is less addicted to the game than
any man I ever played with.”
More elaborate but quite as effective
was the defense once made by Steve Os
born, ex-speaker of the Kansas house.
Some 12 years ago Steve was running for
reelection to the office of district judge
in western Kansas. The pops got out a
handbill accusing him of being a “poker
player” and circulated It widely.
IMPROVEMENTS IN TRAVEL.
Comfortable FlttlnRs of Railway
Cara for tbe Benefit of Sub
urban Pnaaeimera.
Some newspaper attention has lately
been attracted to the “club cars” by
which little groups of wealt hy New York
and Chicago business men increase the
comfort of the daily trips between their
suburban homes and their city offices,
states Youth’s Companion.
Each car is in effect a club house on
wheels. Most of the gorgeous fittings of
the ordinary cars are removed, and simp
ler and more tasteful decorations are j
substituted for them. Movable wicker
chairs replace the fixed seats. Electric
fans cool the air in summer. There are
dressing rooms, libraries, appartments
for the women, in short, everything
which can contribute to the comfort of
the travelers.
The cars are open only to members of
the group which hires them, but they
represent merely the climax of a con
stant improvement in travel, both by
water and by rail.
At the other end of the scale we see the
steerage accommodations of the ocean
steamships. Persons who are familiar
only with the horrible conditions for
which “a steerage passage” used to stand |
would be astonished if they were to visit j
a modern liner. More room, more light,
more privacy, better food, better sleep- j
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an abundance of water, both for drinking
and for bathing, are now possible even
to the poor immigrant. The steerage
passage of to-day is a more comfortable
mode of travel than was the second
cabin passage ten years ago. First
cabin accommodations have Improved
correspondingly. One of the newest
vessels has between 40 and 50 suites of
rooms, each provided with Its private
bath.
What is most needed now Is a substitu
tion of wicker or leather seats for the
unsanitary plush so dear to American
car builders and album makers, and
greater seating capacity In street cars.
Joke on the Professor.
Once upon a time Prof. Wilson, of j
Edinburgh, wrote on the blackboard in
his laboratory:
"Prof. Wilson informs his students
that he has this day been appointed hon
orary physician to the queen."
In the course of the morning he had
occasion to leave the room, and found on
his return that a student had added to
the announcement the words:
“God save the queen."—Michigan
Gateway.
Atmosphere as Mirror.
There is one place where a man sees
a reflection of himself as big as he fancies
himself in his dreams. It is on the
Brocken, a mountain in Prussia, where
the vapors of the atmosphere act as a
great concave mirror, magnifying the ,
image thousands of times.
Tailors In I.ondon,
In 1861 there were in London 37,000
tailors; in 1871,38,000; in 1881,40,300; in
1S91, 52,300, and in 1901, 80,074.
j Women in the Trades,
f in Worcester there arc 703 women
who make needles and 1,044 female n&il
makess. )
TWO ARE KILLED
WITH SAME GUN.
Negro and White Man Mixed
Things Up at Baxter Mon
day and Both are Dead
as the Result.
Dermott, Ark., Jan. 4.—This
afternoon at Baxter, a small town
about four miles from here, a
quarrel between two negroes re
sulted in the death of Jerry Bu
ford, one of the negroes, and W.
D. Singleton, a white man.
The negro Buford was quar
reling with another negro near
the store at which Singleton was
employed, and Singleton tried to
stop the quarrel. Buford made
an insulting remark to Singleton,
and Singleton pulled a pistol and
shot the negro. Buford closed
on Singleton and wrenched the
pistol from his hand and shot
him, killing him instantly.
He then ran and it was thought
he had escaped, but a short time
later his lifeless body was found
aboyt three hundred yards from
the spot where Singleton fell.
The bullet which killed him was
fired by Singleton and entered
his body just above the heart.
The bullet fired by Buford and
which killed Singleton entered
the left cheek and ranged up
ward.
Singleton was employed last
year as a traveling salesman by a
Pine Bluff house. He leaves a
wife and one child.
$390 FOR LETTERS TO
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
with the writers’ experiences
since he settled in the Southwest.
They should tell how much money
he had when he arrived, what
measure of success has attended
his efforts and what he thinks of
that portion of the country in
which he is located. Letters
should not be less than 300 nor
more than 1500 words in length,
and will be used for the purpose
of advertising the Southwest.
Letters are desired not only
from farmers and farmers’ wives,
but also from merchants, school
teachers, clergymen, from every
one, in brief, who has a story to
tell and who knows how to tell it.
For circular giving details write
to John Sebastian, Passenger
Traffic Manager, Rock Island
System, Chicago.
FOR*~SALE.
Frame store house of two good
rooms good location for mercan
tile business at Jacksonport,
Ark. b30d J. M. Grubbs.
Judge M. M. Stuckey left
Tuesday afternoon over the Choc
taw for Nashville on legal busi
ness.
Dr. Mendenhall’s
CHILL and FEVER
CURE
(This Picture on Every Bottle)
Cures Chills. Favers, Malaria. Bilious
ness. Take it as a General Tonio and at all
•imos in place of Quinine. Breaks up Coughs,
Colds and LaGrippe. NO CURE. NO FAT
J. C. MENDENHALL,
icle Owner FvansviUe. Indian.
Henry Owen,
Physician, Surgeon
t n d Oculist.
Office - - Sells’ Drug Store.
To the many Friends and Patrons of Our Store, we
extend greetings for the New Year which we would
hope may be a happy one to each. The year just I
closing has been a very satisfactory one to us in the 9 I
increased volume of our business and to the friends re- £
sponsible for this good showing, we would offer our
thanks. We hope that our methods of doing business
may continue in effect these pleasant relations. ■
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Newport Builders I
Sllf Hardware Co. I
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“BOB'S IN TOWN’’
He buys cotton seed and
don’t forget it. With no ill
will to any company, he
buys for himself and pays
for the same.
R. L. JOHNSON
CHAS.R.HITE
Buys and Sells Farms,
City Property, Timber
Lands, etc., Money to
Loan, Farm Insurance.
Notary Public.
| Call or write, No. 107 Hazel
street, Newport, Ark.
Will Pay Your Taxes.
Surprise PriZ8S
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Given away to get the people to
talk about Bixler Physical Train
ing in Penmanship, the best
method of instruction in the
world—Saves 90 per cent of time,
etc. Merit Prizes, Surprise
Prizes, Prize Prizes, Sure Prizes,
Big Prizes, Little Prizes, Con
tingent Prize and other prizes
for little folks and big folk. Send
10c for Business Penman, 12
writing mottoes sample rapid
writing, skilled Bird Flourish,
and full particulars. (1 Surprise
Prize will be included, worth
from 10c to a $1, and a $10 prize
goes with each 100th 10c order
conditional.)
Prof. G. Bixler,
97 Ogden Ave.,
Chicago, 111.
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W. H. SNETZER.
Contractor
& Builder
Plans and Specifications
furnished on short notice
All Work is Guaranteed
LIVERYMEN
j FARMERS
DRAYMEN
And all users of axle grease
that want the best grease on the
market and that recognize a good
thing when shown its merits, we
recommend our Golden and Cas
tor Oil brands of Axle Grease.
It is put up in 1 pound tin boxes
and 3 pound tin buckets. For
i sale by all up-to-date merchants.
Ask for it and take no substitute.
! It is guaranteed to have no equal
; for quality on the market.
WATERS-PIERCE
OIL COMPANY.
Huffman the baker is still bak
, ing. _ 05dtf
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I Watches, Jewelry, Diamonds,
Silverware, Diamonds and Pearls
Mounted. Repairs a Specialty.
NEWPORT’S ..^LEADING,* JEWELER
I Palace Jewelry Store —*
I 2 \ 2 North Front St. Newport, Arkansas.
Bad Blood?
Bad blood shows itself in a thousand familiar ways.
Pimples, boils, muddy complexion, headache, backache and
a general tired-out feeling are among the more common
results of impure blood. Johnston’s Tonic Capsules purify
and enrich the blood.
Rhematism, gout, eczema, catarrh, anemia, scurvy, scrofula, etc.,
result from impurities forced'into the blood with food or drink, or from
the lack of certain necessary food substances.
Johnston’s Tonic Capsules are the surest, safest, most reliable, conven
ient and satisfactory medicine that can be taken to purify and enrich the blood.
They unload it of every impurity and at the same time so promote the nutritive
functions as to abundantly supply it with new, rich and self-sustaining
qualities. They make the blood pure and rich, and through pure blood the
bodily structures come right because they depend on the blood for nourish
ment and renewal.
For over 40 years Johnston’s Tonic Capsules have been held in high
esteem as a most reliable and satisfactory remedy for scrofula, rheumatism,
eczema, old sores, painful swellings, kernels and enlarged glands, catarrh,
scurvy, boils, liver complaint, dyspepsia, jaundice, constipation, kidney
troubles and a long list of common ails and ills.
We have great confidence in this medicine, a confidence born of many
years’experience with it, and we make the following extraordinary offer:
Send us a dollar for a large box of Johnston’s Tonic Capsules, or buy the same
of dealer whose name appears below, use half of them, and if you are not
satisfied, mail the balance to us and we will return your money. Test them at
our risk and be your own judge. Michigan Drug Co., Detroit, Mich.
DR. KERM01 f'S LIVER REGULATOR Positively Cure9 Pimples and Dyspepsia.
blot^hBsTI^L?t«iwttG;mnBhefrAio,<urtno^iU1iy faoe Prosented a horrible appearance from^plm^i'es and MS
medicines h i u i with (lyspopBia and constipation; had tried phyBlcians and patent Jj||
f? ill thet ln,.id hedT.U i V' A lrlon? recommended Dr. Kermott’s I.iver Regulator, I found "
it all that could be desired, it having removed all my troubles and willingly bear my testimony. »
Mrs. Wesley Stafford.
Price. 25 cents per package or five packages for $ 1.00. Ask for FREE sample. I
_For sale at Dutton’s Drug Store. |
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