:D OVER
Embankment
of No. 5 Near
•
Aug. 8.—Train
Iron Mountain,
the north at 12:
partly wrecked six
here near Ivlande
today. Only
and the dining
the rear of the
tracks, but all of
completely over
the embank
persons were
up, but the only
any serious in
cook on the
sustained a bvo
going at a slow
se the damage
would have been
forward part of the
mail and day
was delayed only
. The cause of the
said to be due to the
pot weather of the
lays, which caused a
iwarping of the rails.
I* * * *
to Win. Mosby
who with little
passengers on
while they oe
the Pullmans
over and rolled
she re
scratches and
her young
unhurt. They
their trip to
the second tele
Palestine, |
j
Farm.
8.—Lewis
er
t Sunday
, who has
near Jackson
Dr. Strange
who is mak
Arkansas. Dr.
retired from
his old Indi
Arkansas.
he purchas
in cultivation.
will average
acre, and cot
over a half
To Join Summer Schools.
Special to the Independent
Little Rock, Aug. 8.—Corres
pondence is going back and
forth between President J. N.
Tillman of the University of Ar
kansas and George B. Cook, Su
perintendent of Public Instruc
tion which it is believed will
soon result in the combination
of the summer normals which
have heretofore been conducted
at the University of Arkansas at
Fayetteville, and the Arkansas
State Normal at Conway.
“This summer there were 215
attending the summer school
for teachers at Fayetteville, ar.d
150 at the Normal,” states Prof.
Cook, “and the Board is now
considering the advisability of
combining the two and permit
ting the faculty of the Normal
to join with the faculty of the
University, in one big Normal
at Fayetteville. There is no j
town in the state so suited for j
this work as Fayetteville. The ,
town is a summer resort and it j
IS lOOl Cl 11 UUIJilg L11C O . ;
There are large dormitories for
men and women. There are
plenty of boarding houses on j
the outside. Fayetteville can be [
easily reached by fast trains,
from all Arkansas, Louisiana,
Texas, Oklahoma, Missouri and
Kansas points. If we decide to
combine the summer schools, it
should draw all the teachers
from these states, and instead
of an enrollment of 365, it
should the first year have 1000
teachers in attendance. We
could have a faculty there se
cond to none, and keep in Arkan
sas the 75 or more teachers
which each year go to Knoxville
to attend the Summer School of
the South. I believe the combi
nation will soon be arranged.”
Would Return to Arkansas.
Special to IcdepeEdect
Little Rock Aug. 8.—Some
paper with a wide circulation,
containing one of Commissioner
Clay Sloan’s bulletins on turnip
greens and hog jowls wandered j
out to Portland, Oregon and]
there fell into the hands of J.
W7. Westbrook, a former Arkan
san, who read it with his mouth
watering, and immediately pen
ned the following to Commis
sioner Sloan:
“Now please do not do that
any more or else all of us ex
Arkansans will come trooping
back and over run the state,
clean up all the turnips and hog
jowls as the grasshoppers do
country of milk and honey, but
for good eating, it is about as
far behind Arkansas as the Fi
jians are behind the English m
civilization. I never was much
of an eater, but when I allow
myself to think of Arkansas tur
nip greens, hog jowl, cornbread
and buttermilk, 1 become as a
caged lion, and would break
away and return to Arkansas
but for the fact and necessity
of deserting my wife and boy.
;he world cannot come within
‘ .ile of Arkansas on fruits,
fables, melons, molasses,
lOtatoes, and in fact, ev
v [ood to eat.” And this
man living in the
claims to be a lead
iduction.
riends.
t for one oi
1 ansas Dem
s. Will m>
;he coupor
them foi
s or bo
STATE AID
FOR HIGH SCHOOLS
Las! Act *s Bringing Private
High Schools Under
Control of State.
^Vrzo&j to Independent.
Little Rock, Aug. 9.—The leg
islative act which created the
Arkansas Educational Commis
sion is making the state richer
in property every day. The pri
vate high schools of the state
are turning their property over
to the state in order to come
within the provisions of the act,
which specifies that all institu
tions which receive state aid,!
must be public schools.
This Board will meet in the
office of Superintendent of Pub
lic Instruction George B. Cook
next Monday, receive the com
missions from Governor Dona-,
ghey and take up the work of j
apportioning the $50,000 set
aside for aid to county high!
schools, among the schools of I
the state. This is to be given!
out, $400 for high schools with j
two year course, $600, for three j
year course; and $800 for four j
years. The high schools which j
have a normal course in connec- j
tion will receive $1000 per an-1
num. t
in spe<u«~cr of the apportion- j
ment, Supt. Cook states ui«!. ‘-’--.I
$50,000 will not be felt by the
schools of the state, even though
it is taken from • the common
school fund of the state. He
says that the school districts all
over the state have annually,
since the county examiners be
gan to file itemized reports,
shown a surplus in the treasury
at the end of the year.
The amount each district will
be called upon to contribute to
ward the $50,000 will be but a
few dollars, runing from $3 to
$15, and in 'consideration for
this sum, the district will be en
titled to free schooling in the
county high school for all its
district graduates. Under the
old law the pupils had to pay
$1.59 per month each to take ad
vantage of the high schools it
they lived out of the district.
i
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Assessor Notice.
Thp undersigned as assessor
for Levee District No. 2, Jack
son county,. Arkansas, will as
sess the lands within the boun
dary limits of said District, at
his office in the City of New
port, Ark. Commencing Aug.
7th and continuing the same un
til Sept. 1st excepting Aug. 22
and 23. On said days he will be
| at Jacksonport to assess lands
! in said district, after which date
the said Assessment will be fil
ed with the Board of Directors
of said District.
C. R. Hite,
Assessor Levee District No. 2,
Jackson County, Arkansas.
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River Receding.
The river reached its highest
point of fifteen feet sometime
Tuesday as it is now receding.
It fell to fourteen and six
tenths feet Wednesday and is
still falling.
Some concern was felt for the
crops along the river as some
land was inundated but all dan
! ger of high water has passed foi
awhile. f ___
Just Received.
New kraut,* evaporated
■ es, tomatoes, celery, egg
beets, field peas, sw
apples,
kens.
Searcy Boosts
Keeping abreast with the oth
er iive towns of the state, a good
roads meeting was held at Sear
cy on Aug. 5th, to select a road
and to make preparations for
the working of same.
Dr. J. B. Grammer called the
meeting to order and E. A. Skil
lern was elected secretary.
Quite a representative body was
present and all were enthusias
tic.
It was decided to build 12
miles of road on the Searcy and
Little Rock road, commencing
at Searcy and running to the in
tersection with the Antioch
road.
Messrs. W. M. Watkins, P. A.
Robertson and J. S. Sanford
were appointed a committee to
interview the business men and
get everyone to close their
places of business and see that
proprietors and all of their
clerks were on hand on the day
appointed.
Drs. Moore, Hassell and Ma
jors were appointed a committee
to call on all of the physicians
and request them to close their
offices on that day.
Messrs Cypert and DeBois
were to see the lawyers, county!
and township officials on the;
same questions, ana Messrs. |
Henderson, Wakenight and Roth
to call on the plumbers, carpen
ters and other workmen and so
licit uiv.*. this popular
movement.
Messrs. Watkins, Skillern ana1
Wood will correspond with par
ties who have assisted in this
road movement in other parts of
the state and secure their ad
vice on the manner and material
used by them.
Another committee composed
of Messrs. Jesse Simpson, A. D.
Watkins and J. H. Lawrence to
discuss and boost this matter
with the country people that ail
may have a hand in this move
ment and Messrs. W. B. Stanley
and H. 0. Nipper will take the
matter up with the residents
along the proposed route and see
what time would best suit them
to put in the day.—Searcy Citi
zen.
Surprise—Watermelon Party.
Several nights ago this week
’Squire Nuckolls was startled by
a bevy of ladies swooping down
upon him about eight o’clock at
his home in Chastain’s Addition.
r\ r\ r. o / « VI tVitv cfivp for the in
i ;:v i --%/ o
vasion was that it was a sur
prise party which statement the
squire did not care to contra
dict.
The squire, like the
dier that he is. stood !li^Bfl|||
! though, in his own words.^BM
| were just naturally too
: women for one man,” but^B
held up his end of the party all
went out and got an abundant!
of watermelons which were imi
mensely enjoyed by all.
Those who were present were
Mesdames Snetzer, Watson, Iflli
bert, Hinkle, Whitten, Gardn
and Davis and Misses Lizzie
Roxie Hubert and Whitt
Bridge Over Li
The new steel b
Little Rehi^vpr wil
ed this wee
tion of the
j be laid and
j abutment o
crow
J
I WILL TAKE
000
To Refer Revenue Bill To Peo
ple Says Secretary Of
State.
j Special to Independent.
Little Rock, Aug. 9.—Instead
of the 8000 signatures the op
ponents of the Turner-Jacobsen
bill expect to cause a reference
of the bill to the people, it will
take 12,000 according to the cal
culations of Secretary of State
Earle W. Hodges. He states
that the Initiative and Referen
dum requires 18 per cent of the
number of votes cast for gov
ernor in the last general election.
This would be a fraction over
12,000 for the vote cast for gov
ernor shows 150,856.
Secretary Hodges does not ex
pect the petition to pass with
j /* • i . I. it _ l. i i i
uui <x ligni, Miuum unc wiiii tncii
number of signatures be filed
before Sept. 10, when the act
will otherwise become effective,
because there will be contests
on the signatures in many in
stances, and the courts will
probably be called upon to settle
the question.
Notice M. W. A.
There will be a special meet
ing of the M. W. A. Camp, No.
at the-hall in the Board
building on - ^ n
1911, at 8 o’clock p. inT
ness to be transacted is to the
special interest of every mem
ber of this camp.
W. A. Mink,
Clerk of Camp.
Providence Saved
j Bellefonte, Aug. 8.—Provi
dence played its part in the fail- ' j
ure of a plan to assassinate
Prof. J. C. Eaton, of this place.
Someone crawled under the
porch of his residence and plac- g
j ed there four sticks of dynamite, I
which were bound together with ^
heavy cord. A long fuse was at
. tached to one stick of the dvna
, mite, but after being lighted on
ly about six inches of the fuse
burned.
j The citizens of Bellefonte have
I held a mass meeting and offer
j ed a reward of $2000 for the ar
, rest and conviction of the guilty
person or persons.
i
Brings Back Prisoner.
Deputy Sheriff McCuistion
returned Tuesday from Cairo,
Illinois with John Redus, a ne
gro, as his prisoner, whom he
captured there, and placed him
in the county jail to await his
trial on the charge of killing J
George Gould another negro j
near Diaz several months ago. I
On account of some delay I
! the requisition papers were nev^^^J
or secured but Redus came back^H
to Arkansas to face trial for his
life willingly, probably prefer- V
ring that to living an exile. H
Swimming. Swimming.
Lard to beat the world: 7500 i
pounds of lard in 50 pound cans j
at $4.50 per can. Come before J
it is all gone at the City Meat i
Market. \
09bl7 W' B- Chastj^ M
Ladies, the natural colored
linen you have all been looking ^
for is at Heinemanms. 98d6t m