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Clothing House Announcement.!
A GREAT REDUCTION IN SUITS.—*- j
We have a very large stock of Clothing—all
of the very newest and latest in the art of tailor
construction. In order to reduce our stdek we
have made great reductions!
Without doubt they are the most remarkable
values ever offered, even surpassing the greatest
values ever given before.
Thrifty people will be quick to take advan
tage of these remarkable values, so come early,
before the choicest are selected.
Men’s Suits, made up from the strongest and
most durable fabrics—
* Real $18.00 value— ^ q p*
Now only . lO.OU
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Men’s Suits, splen lid specimens
| of modern tailoring, made from
1 rich, plain and beautiful fab
rics—
Real 820.00 value— {b * a a
Now only. tplO.UU
Real 822.00 value— « o r a
Now only lO.oU
Men's Suits that are equal to
any made by the highest class
of custom tailors—
Real $26 00 value—^ -4 q / w \
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Real $30.00 value— OO C A
Now only
Copyrighted 1902.
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Merrie Christmas and Happy New Year!
1 The Good Luck Store
Christmas Presents of all kinds to be found
x at our store.
Below we mention a few, just as a reminder
Girls, for your best fellow a pair of our Gloves wouldn’t be bad. We
[ljave them both in dressed and undressed kid, all the newest colors,
from 75c to $1.50.
J. Silk and Linen Handkerchiefs, both gentlemen’s and ladies.
Silk and Velvet Mufflers, 50c to $1.50.
Ladies’ Kid and Golf Gloves, in all the latest shades.
A beautiful line of Men’s Shirts and Neckties just received for the
holidays; shirts, from 50c to $1.50; ties, 25c to 50c.
Men’s Underwear from the cheapest to the finest. /Ten’s ribbed cot=
ton underwear, cotton fleeced, silk fleeced, silk and wool ribbed
underwear.
A big assortment of Ladies’ Underwear. Ladies’ ribbed vests and
pants, fleeced cotton vests and pants, ladies’ union suits; also a
I nice line of ladies’ wool underwear.
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I Special Reduction in Men’s and Boys’ Clothing
all thrdugh the holidays.
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I voui^tojiease. The S. Steinberg Dry Goods Co.
I —. . J. D. CARVEL, Manager. ==
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BUTTON FACTORY
FOR LITTLE ROCK
Another enterprise is on the tapis
to be established in Little Rock, and
tests and the search for material to be
used in the output of the factory were
begun Tuesday says the Democrat.
E. B. Becker of the Standard Button
Works of Erie, Pa., accompanied by
Frank Vandeventer and John W. Wal
lace, button cutters and experts in
the shell business, are in the city, and
will make a trip on the Arkansas riv
er in search of mussel shells, which,
if found in quantities sufficiently large,
will mean the establishment of a
branch factory in Little Rock. The
Standard Button Works formerly con
ducted a branch at Muscatine, Iowa,
but this has been discontinued, and in
searching around for another site Mr.
Becker has hit upon this city. He
says the factory which is likely to be
opened here will be a fifty-saw plant,
and will employ fifty-five men. There
are already three button factories in
Arkansas, located at Newport, De
Vall’s Bluff and Black Rock, and they
are all of about the same capacity as
the institution contemplated for Little
Rock.
BAFFLED THE FOOTPADS.
The hold-up, which was reported to
have occurred Saturday night, but of
which the marshal and sheriff had
received no notice Monday and was
discounted for this reason, did occur,
says Lee Bauguess, who visited the
Independent office Wednesday and
gives the following version of the
affair.
He boards at Henry Kath’s and was
returning home about dark Saturday
evening, when at the cotton yard of
the Wolff-Goldman Mercantile Com
pany he was accosted by a fellow,
about 5 feet 10 inches in height, with
a dark mustache, who pretended t(
have a crippled hand and asked for
help.
Just then a smaller man, about five
feet in height and shabbily dressed,
jumped from the darkness at Bau
guess’ throat, but the latter landed on
his forehead and knocked him down.
Seeing what a good account of himself
Bauguess was able to give, the foot
pads lost no time in getting away.
HEAVY COTTON RECEIPTS.
The cotton receipts of Little Rock
for the first eleven months of the year
indicate that the crop is much larger
than last year’s, and this is further
emphasized by the reports which come
from all parts of the State of in
creased receipts. The receipts to
date, this year, have been 141,234
bales, compared with 135,897 for the
entire twelve months of the preceding
year. Another evidence of commer
cial advancement in Little Rock is
the fact that the 1 ak clearings for
the last eleven months were $48,855,
754, while they were only $34,808,283
for all of last year, $27,223,440 for 1900
and $17,631,462 for 1898.
MR. BRAGG’S FATHER DEAD.
Henry E. Bragg on Wednesday
morning received a telegram announc
ing the death of his father W. E.
Bragg at his home three miles north
of La Plat x, Missouri and leaves to
night for his home.
The father was sixty six years of
age and in good health, the son having
just received a letter from his mother
when the telegram came, but the
former missive gave him no reason to
believe that all were not well.
Mr. Bragg has the sympathy of
many friends in this bereavement, who
realize the depth of such a sorrow and
would offer this meed of consolation
LOOKS LIKE SENATOR JONES.
R. M. Moorman wires to the Atlanta
(Ga.) News from Washington, D. C.,
the following:
“Robt. Lowry of Atlanta, (Ga.) will
not be one of the isthmian canal com
missioners. One Democrat will be
appointed, and the fight seems to be
between Senator Jones of Arkansas
and Governor Sayers of Texas.
“Jones will likely get the place.
This information was practically given
to a Texas delegation that called on
the president. Henry G. Hester of
New Orleans is also a strong appli
cant.
HOLIDAY GOODS.
Our stock of holiday goods is now
complete and open for your inspec
tion. Don’t fail to see the greatest
assortment of Christmas presents ever
shown in Newport. No trouble to
show goods. Come early and often.
I. D. Price. 197 btf
THE RAILROAD SYSTEM
OF THE UNITED STATES.
The special Transportation number
of the Scientific American, bearing
date of December 13, contains an
article which shows up very impress
ively the colossal proportions of the
railroad system of the United States.
The following extracts are of particu
lar interest:
“If one were called upon to name
the field of engineering in which the
vast scale upon which things are done
in this country is most strikingly
shown, he would be safe in pointing to
tho colossal railroad system of the
United States. In respect of the total
length of track, the total number of
locomotives and cars, the veritable
army of employes, and the gross value
of capital invested, our railway sys
tem is so huge that it stands absolute
ly in a class by itself among the rail
road systems of the world. It is
equally true that in Yespect to the
character of its track, rolling-stock,
general equipment, and methods of
operation, it is marked by national
characteristics which distinguish it far
more sharply from the great European
and Asiatic roads, than they are dis
tinguished from each other.
“When we remember that there are
in the United States to-day nearly
200,000 miles of railroad track, or
about 50,000 miles more than there are
in the five other great railroad sys
tems of the world combined, namely,
rip.rmflnv Frflnn.p R.iiHflia Qrpni Rrit,
ain and British India, it is difficult to
realize that at the date of the founda
tion of the Scientific American in 1846,
there was less than 6,000 miles of track
in this country, and that this was
made up of a few short, disconnected
and scattered lines in the Atlantic and
Southern States, and some unrelated
systems in the Middle States.
WARRING FACTIONS
SETTLE DIFFERENCES.
Birmingham, Ala., Dec. 16.—After a
day of wrangling and numerous cau
cuses the warring factions of the
Southern Baseball League got together
to-night and adjusted all differences.
The agreement will be ratified at a
meeting of the board of directors to
be held at 9 o’clock tomorrow morn
ing. The terms of the agreement aie
as follows:
Chattanooga will be dropped from
the circuit.
^Montgomery is taken into the league,
and the franchise awarded to the pro
moters of the new league club.
Shreveport will be retained in the
association, and, as a compromise,
Bobby Gilks, who had the Savannah
franchise, has been given the place of
manager for two years.
Savannah and Mobile will be
dropped.
The Memphis club is reinstated and
Charles Frank will be put in good
standing with the national board.
The Southern Association assumes
all obligations made by the promoters
of the new league, and will take care
of players who have been signed. All
advance money to players will be re
funded to the persons paying it.
The settlement was brought about
principally by President Kavanaugh,
James Palmer of Nashville and
Caruthers Ewing of Memphis.
LEWIS MORRISON IN FAUST.
Lewis Morrison, an actor of world
wide reputation, who has achieved
this distinction in the finest exposition
of Mephisto, the stage has ever shown,
was greeted by a very shall house
Tuesday evening at the local theater.
The show probably promised more
than any attraction for several seasons
in the way of something high-class
and Newport people by their failure
to patronize such an entertainment,
haven’t anything coming to their lot
on the score of deserving good attrac
tions. It rather seems they have been
the recipients of more than their
deserts.
Nothing but compliment can be said
of Lewis Morrison, but he surely
knows the art of impersonation better
in himself than others, that is, if he
had anything to do in the selection of
his company, who while what m’ght
be called a very lame “fair,” were not
fit traveling companions of so great
an actor.
CONFIDENCE IN PROMOTERS.
Ike Goldman and L. W. Penix,
prominent citizens of Newport, were
at the capital Monday on private busi
ness says the Little Rock Democrat,
and while here said that the people of
Newport are very much encouraged
at the prospects for the building of
the Morning Star road next spring.
“Those who say they are on the inside
assure us that the road will be built,
and they are men of known integrity,
upon whom we have reliance,” said
Mr. Goldman.
FAVORS DISPENSARY LAW.
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Augusta, Dec. 16.—Prof. O. L. Duna
way, principal of the Augusta city
schools and one of the representative
teachers of eastern Arkansas, is an
earnest advocate of Senator Collins’
dispensary bill. He estimates from
the reports of profits in states having
dispensaries, that if one-half of the
profits from dispensary sales in this
state be given the schools, it will dou
ble the fund we now have. He also
sees better school buildings, better
paid teachers, without additional
taxes. He sees also in the measure
the preservation to the people of local
option, by which they can vote out the
dispensary.
LOCAL HOLIDAY
EXCURSION RATES.
The Choctaw, Oklahoma & Gulf R.
R. will sell holiday excursion tickets
locally at one fare for the round trip,
December 24, 26 and 31, 1902, and Jan
uary 1, 1903, limited for the return un
til January 2, 1903.
DO IT NOW.
Have your watch repaired at the
Palace Jewelry Store. 202 dtf
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