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thanksgiving sermon.
•lent Address Delivered on
THE BANK O
signed fey a whole people, ' says
Benson I. Lossingin ' ‘Our Coun
try, ” (p- 207.) .♦»
On December 22,1620, tb'
grims landed upon a —| Orp
d f Plvnon^ ^ V/ fV 1
Solicits the acccounts of depositors who desire
the accommodations of a first-class, well
equipped and reliable banking house.
' ' OFFICERS AMO DIRECTORS.
Geo. W. Decker, President. R. M. Johnson, Cashier.
A. D. Bailey, Vice Pres’t. T. D. Kinman, Ass’t Cashier.
Thos. J. Graham. Ed. P. Shoffner. J. T. Henderson.
Jos. M. Stayton. Dr. J. M. Jones. T. S. Stephens.
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CHAS. R. HITE
Farm, City and Timber
Lands Bought and Sold.
Farm Insurance
Notary Public.
Will Pay Your Taxes.
#all or write, No. 107 Hazel
street, Newport. Ark.
DR. CHAS. E. CARROLL
Dentist
Gives special attention to
Crown and Bridge Work,
And correction of Irregularities
of the Teeth.
Office Watson Bldg. Phone, 63.
Newport, - Arkansas*
LIVERYMEN
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
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.
Dr. Mendenhall’s
CHILL and FEVER
CURE
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(Thia Picture on Every Bottle)
Ouyoa Chill*. Paver*. Malaria. Bilious*
nets. Take it a9 a General Tonic and at all
tim^g in place of Qninine. Breaks up Concha,
Colds and LaGrippe. NO CURE. NO PAY
J. C. MENDENHALL,
Solo C-*ner rvansvillo Xndiant
TO CALIFORNIA.
Via Union Pacific. Millions
have been spent in the improve
ment of this line, and all human
ingenuity has been adopted to
protect its patrons against acci
dent. The line is renowned for
its fast trains and the general su
periority of its service and equip
ment. Fast time, shortest line,
smoothest track. Tourists sleep
ers a speciality. Inquire of
J. H. Lothrop, G. A.,
903 Olive street,
St. Louis, Mo.
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Enlarge Portraits in Oil, Water
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BRADFORD. - ARKANSAS.
TOJTHE FAIR.
Tickets on sale to St. Louis
daily via the Iron Mountain route.
$9.55 for the round trip; return
limit fifteen days from date of
sale. T. H. Reamey, Agt.
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ONE-WAY RATES.
Every day from September
15th to October 15th, 1904, inclu
sive, the Union Pacific will- sell
one-way tickets from Missouri
River Terminals ( Council Bluffs
to Kansas City, inclusive) as
follows :
$20.00 to Ogden and.Salt Lake
! City.
$20.00 to Helena and Butte,
Montana.
$22.50 to Spokane and Wen
atchee, Washington.
$22.50 to Huntington and
Nampa, Idaho.
$25.00 to Portland, Tacoma and
Seattle.
$25.00 to Vancouver and Vic
toria.
$25.00 to Ashland and Astoria,
Oregon, via Portland.
$25.00 to San Francisco, Los
Angeles and San Diego.
rnrroannndinorlv lour rat Pa tri
many other California, Oregon,
Washington, Montana, Utah, and
Idaho points.
Through Tourist cars run every
day on Union Pacific between
Missouri River and Pacific Coast:
double berth $5.75. For full in
formation call on or address,
J. H. Lothrop,
903 Olive St., St. Louis, Mo.
18tilOct. 10.
WINTER IN COLORADO.
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Your own physician will tell
you that the dry mountain air of
Colorado as an elixir of life
stands pre-eminent. Always
rigorous and stimulating, the
crisp atmosphere of Colorado is
at its best in winter. To accom
modate winter tourists to the
Rockies, The Union Pacific has
put in effect from Chicago a
round trip rate of $47.20 and
from St. Louis a round trip rate
of $39.20, with proportionate
reductions from all points within
its immediate territorry. Tick
ets on sale every day until May
1st, 1905, and with return limit
June 1st, 1905. Be sure your
ticket reads over the Union Pa
; eific, the popular route to Color
ado. For full information in
I quire of
J. H. Lothrop, G. A.,
903 Olive Street,
S. Louis, Mo.
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Read the Daily and Weekly
i Independent.
INDEPENDENT’S
BABY CONTEST.
Here is the proposition and the
rules governing the contest:
There is a handsome $25.00
>Jid gold locket with diamond
NIiving and solid gold chain, on
ay at the Palace Jewelry
CR(V to he givpn away Decem
.4th, 1904, to the baby boy
_,irl under two years of age,
wno wins the highest number of
votes as the prettiest and sweet
est baby. Now the baby that is
not pretty is surely sweet, and
if the wee tot be a little cross at
times, beauty must offset this
badness. Fond parents at least
are expected to think their ba
bies are both sweet and beauti
ful, and so they do. But to set
tle once for all the claims of the
under two, and put at rest this
j rivalry of mothers and fathers,
; the Independent has inaugurated
a contest that is to be determined
by that cherished right, popular
ballot, and in accordance with
the following rules:
BABY PRIZE CONTEST RULES.
First—No baby that has reach
ed the age of two years Nov. 1,
1904, is eligible to this contest,
nor shall any employe or party I
connected with this paper be eli
gible to vote.
Second—Every issue of the
Daily and Weekly Independent
from November 1 to December
24, will contain a ballot entitling
the holder to one vote in this
contest. For every dollar’s worth
of job, work, advertising and
subscription paid for between
these dates a coupon good for ten
votes will be issued, but no cou
pons will be issued for sums less
than $1.00. Coupons will not be
sold, and will only be issued for
job, ad and subscrpition busk"
ness, but extra copies of the In
dependent at 2 cents per copy,
each containing one ballot, will
be sold at this office.
Third—All votes must be sent
to this office and will be de
posited in a lock box, to be opened
at 8 o’clock each publication day
and counted. The daily issue of
that afternoon will contain the
total of the several candidates
1.1 11* Ml , 1 1 1 1
ana me puouc wm uius at; itcpt
informed of the voting each day.
Fourth—A committee of three
good business men will be select
ed to canvass the ballots the
morning of Dec. 24 and announce
the winner. All ballots must be
deposited at this office by 11 a.
m., Dec. 24, 1904.
Read the rules carefully.
ROBERT CROSBY’S
NERVOUS PROSTRATION.
Batesville, Nov. 24.—Robert
Crosby, under sentence of death
for the murder of Sheriff Jeff
D. Morgan here September 15
last, will be hanged at 11 o’clock
tomorrow. Among the limited
number of witnesses at the exe
cution will be sheriffs from a
number of the counties in this
section.
Crosby is a mere shadow of his
former self. Some days ago he
refused to eat regularly and only
a day or two ago he seemed to
be afflicted with a nervous pros
tration.
Batesville has not been the
scene of a legal execution since
1879, and tomorrow’s event has
aroused the usual interest, al
though under the law it can be
witnessed by no more than twen
ty-five persons. Nevertheless
there will be a large number of
visitors in town.
THE FAST TRAINS.
To California are run over the
Union Pacific. Via Omaha 16
hours quicker to San Francisco
than any other line. No change
of roads, no detours, “The Over
land Route’’ all the way. Be
sure your ticket reads over the
Union Pacific. Inquire of
J. H. Lothrop, G. A.,
903 Olive street,
St. Louis, Mo.
At the open meeting of the
Woman’s Missionary Society of
the Methodist church Sunday
night the program of music prom
ises to be a rare treat. An or
chestra of five instruments will
play the instrumental selections,
accompanying the songs.
NEED ALL-ROUND EDUCATION
Desire for Physical Development
Comes to Parents Slowly—The
Views of One Mother.
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It Is a curious fact that the desire foi
physical development for their childrer
comes to many parents more slowly than
that for intellectual development, sayt
Youth’s Companion. It is pretty well
acknowledged now by everybody—from
the illiterate immigrant to the “pool
white”—that “book-learning” is a good
thing for the children. But the schools
in England meet the same opposition as
those in America when they try to put
the development of muscle on the same
basis as that of memory. Many a school
principal has listened to protests sub
stantially like that of the good woman
who carried her views of education to
the grammar school-teacher:
“I want ye to teach me girl readin’
writin’. and ’rithmetic,” said she, “but
she ain’t t’ larn anny more of this
physical torture. If it’s jumpin’ she
needs, I c’n teach her jumpin’ meself!”
Presently we shall make good our re
turn to the Greek system, which in
cluded music and gymnastics as essen
tials to education, and so produced a
wonderfully balanced creature—with
body, mind and spirit in such due pro
portion that no one could overtop the
other. The professional athlete, the
puny scholar and the religious recluse
are each the result of the separation of
one department of education from the
others. The symmetrical man is the re
sult of the well-considered union of all
the departments.
INCUBATOR ON DESERT.
Birds in Vast Wastes Cool Their Eggs
Instead of Giving Them
Warmth. ®
Many a person who has watched a
mother robin nestling patiently on her
eggs in a blossoming apple tree has
wondered how the little creature or her
ancestors ever learned that the long
process would cause the eggs to hatch.
A greater puzzle is set for them, says
the author of “The Land of Little Rain,”
in the great desert, where the same birds
have learned to cool their eggs Instead
of warming them. In the unsheltered
nests of the sandy plains it becomes nec
essary to keep the eggs from cooking.
One hot, stifling spring in the Little An
telope, a traveler had occasion to pass
and repass the nest of a pair of meadow
larks located unhappily in the shade of a
very slender weed. The birds were never
sitting except at night, but at midday
they stood or drooped above the nest,
half- fainting, with pitifully parted bills,
spreading their wings between the sun
and the eggs. Sometimes both of them
together, with wings spread and half
lifted, maintained a spot of shade in a
terrific temperature. Their patience
was in this case rewarded, for the com
passionate traveler at last spared them
a bit of canvas, which she mounted over
the nest as a permanent shelter.
JAP COMPANY FOR ARMY.
Majority of Sandwich Islanders Hail
from Far East—.Are Organizing
Militia uommana.
It may not be generally known that
the United States army of the future
will include a command of Japanese
soldiers, but this is a fact, claims the
New York Herald. They will not come
from the armies which are fighting in
the far east, but will be enrolled from
our Japanese citizens in the Sandwich
islands. It is needless to say that a
very large portion of the population of
the islands, and especially of Honolulu,
is composed of this nation. They are
found among the bankers, merchants
and professional men. and are included
among the wealthiest residents of the
city. One of the principal schools of
Honolulu is attended exclusively by
Japanese children, and here has been
enrolled a command of cadets which is
to be mustered into the United States
militia as soon as its members.are old
enough. It is drilled by a former Japan
ese army officer, and although organ
ized but a few years ago, this battalion
has already attained a high standard of
efficiency. It is frequently seen on
parade in Honolulu and attracts much
attention.
“SMART SET” AT RAT PITS
Fashionable Society Women at French
Resort Enjoy Revolting
Spectacles.
The latest attraction for the ‘‘smart
set” at Aix-les-Bains, France, is a rat pit
where fashionable foreigners gather on
Sunday afternoons to witness rat and
dog fights. At a recent fight the grand
stand facing the ring was packed with
screaming women, who seemed to
revel in the proceedings. Inside the
wired ring was a man who let out so
many rats for each dog. Some of the
rats were already so feeble that they
could scarcely crawl, and had to be kicked
toward the dog that killed them. Scores
of rats were left half dead, and lay
writhing, while the well-dressed sight
seers shrieked with excitement. H. V
Barnett, an Englishman, who was pres
ent, ventured to protest against the cru
elty of the affair, and was promptly
iurned out by the police.
Mountain Air to Blame.
A new guesl arrived at a New Ham
shire farmhotfle where a Boston gentle
m4, happened to be holding forth on
thil piazza, says the Rochester Herald
Thi newcomer was much impressed by
the speaker's fluency. “I declare,” he
remarked to the landlord, “that man has
an extensive vocabulary, hasn’t he?’
The landlord was mightily pleased.
“That’s so,” he said. “That’s whai
mountain air will do for a man. He
ain’t been boardin’ with me but twc
weeks, and I know he must have let hit
waistband out much aa four times.”
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Over 1,500,000 suffering women have been
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Wine of Cardui recommends itself to modest
women of moderate means, because it can be
taken in the privacy of the home without sub
I mitting to a humiliating local examination and
subsequent dangerous treatment.
It is not costly and every sufferer can afford it.
If you are a victim of female weakness in any form
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ment. Your trouble is ever growing worse—never better.
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Houston and other Texas points. Also to all
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Tickets on sale Sept. 13th and 27th.
ROUND TRIP, ONE FARE PLUS $2.00.
To all points in Texas, Oklahoma and Indian Terri
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