f AVIS CASE WILL
SE ENDED TODAY
Charged With
m to the Jury
Probably.
was completed in
e case of Will Davis, charged with
Srst degree murder or the killing
: John Barton near Amagon last
’ovember 8, by noon today, ‘and at
he beginning of the afternoon ses
ion, attorneys in the case commenced
heir arguments. It is probable that
he jury will consider the evidence
nd return a verdict late this after
oon.
Barton and Davis with their fami
lies moved to Jackson county from
klahoina several months before the
illing, and were neighbors near
magon, Barton being employed by
avis on the farm. In March, 1918,
it is stated, the men engaged in a dis
pute, but the matter was settled. In
ovember Barton, it is said, sold his
)ssessions at Amagon to Davis, pre
paring to move away. A few days
before the killing both men came to
Newport, and from all accounts were
in a friendly humor. On the 8th of
November the men met in the road
way near their homes, with the re
that a short time later Barton’s
body was found, Davis surrendering
to the officers late that afternoon.
There was no witness to the killing.
Davis claims that Barton shot at him
first, there being no explanation of
the trouble which led to the killing, j
Witnesses for the defense claim that
a gun was found in the wagon in
which Barton was riding when he
met Davis.
HAYDEN-HOLLOWAY CO.
WILL ALSO PUT IN LINE
OF HARDWARE HERE.
The enterprising firm of Hayden
Holloway Furniture Company is pre
paring to add , an extensive line of
hardware, implements and queens
ware to its business. The new de- j
nartment will be located on Front
street a few doors south of the furni
ture store, and the store is being
made ready now by carpenters,
the work to be completed in a few
days. Mr. Holloway says the store
will be open in a short time.
ELKS YAMA YAMA DANCE.
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Probably not ift the history of the
Elks club has its ball room been the
scene of a more brilliant or a larger
crowd of people than was gathered
there last night for the Yama Yama
dance given by the young men of the
city and to whom is due the credit of
its splendid success. The ball room
was decorated with lanterns, the
lights being dimmed and was charac
teristic of the occasion. Fully fifty
couples were on the floor and all j
dressed in masqued costume. At the J
midnight intermission a lunch of
sandwiches and hot coffee was
served, and dancing continued until
two o’clock. The Reamey-Sartorious
orchestra furnished the music, and a
number of couples from out of town
were in attendance besides the large
number. 6f home people.
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BANKERS WILL MEET
IN NEWPORT ON TWEN
TIETH OF NEXT MONTH.
Group No. 2 of the Arkansas Bank
ers’ Association will hold its annual
meeting in Newport March 20, ac
cording to announcement made Fri
day. E. V. Holt, cashier of the Bank
of Tuckerman, is chairman of the or
ganization, and H. C. Argo, a banker
of Cotton Plant, is secretary.
The meeting a year ago here was
one of the most spirited and benefi
cial ever held, having to do princi
pally with banking affairs incident to
the conduct of the war. But the
meeting next month is expected to be
even greater, when after-the-war
problems are to be discussed.
C. M. Cottrell, chairman of the
Arkansas Profitable Farming Cam
paign, has promised to attend, and
there will be many other prominent
men here for the occasion.
ATTENTION PARENTS!
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Are you co-operating with the
teachers in seeing that your children
observe the following health rules and
health chores?
CRUSADERS HEALTH RULES.
1. Keep the windows open or stay
outdoors when you sleep, play, work
or study. Breathe fresh air always
and through your nose. Take ten
deep breaths every day.
2. Eat wholesome food, including
fruit and vegetables, and chew it
thoroughly. Avoid greasy fried food,
soggy bread, heavy pie and cake. Eat
little candy; none that is impure.
Drink no tea nor coffee. Never take
beer, wine nor other alcoholic drinks
or soft drinks containing injurious
drugs. Do not smoke tobacco in any
form.
3. Make sure that everything that
you put in your mouth is clean. Wash
your hands always before eating or
handling food. Wash your ears and
neck as well as your face and clean
your finger-nails every day. Bathe
your whole body twice a .week at j
least and shampoo often. Brush your j
teeth thoroughly twice every day, af
ter breakfast and supper. Have all
cavities in your teeth filled. Consult
a dentist twice a year.
4. Play and exercise every day in
the open air. Sit and stand up
straight. Have a regular time each
day for attending to toilet and each
need of your body. Whenever you
cough or sneeze, turn your head aside
and cover your mouth with your
handkerchief. If you must spit, spit
only where it can be removed before
person or fly can touch it. Have
complete medical examination each
year.
5. Get a long night’s sleep. Get
up smiling. Keep your clothes neat.
Brush your shoes before going to
school. Keep your mind clean and
cheerful. Be helpful to others.
CRUSADERS HEALTH CHORES.
1. I washed my hands before each
meal today.
2. I washed not only my face but
my neck and ears and I cleaned my
fingernails today.
3. I tried today to keep my fin
gers, pencils, and everything that
might be unclean out of my mouth
and nose.
4. I drank a glass of water before
each meal and before going to bed,
and drank no tea, coffee nor other in
jurious drinks today.
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in the morning and in the evening to
day. , ,
6. I took ten or more slow deep
breaths of fresh air today.
7. I played outdoors or with win
dows open more than thirty minutes
today.
8. I was in bed ten* hours or more
last night and kept my windows open.
9. I tried today to sit up and stand
up straight, to eat slowly, and to at
t nd to toilet and each need of my
body at its regular time.
10. I tried today to keep neat and
cheerful constantly and to be helpful
to others.
11. I took a full bath on each day
of the week that is checked (x).
Total number of chores each day_
* Boys and girls thirteen years of
age may change this to “nine hours.
Those under nine years should sleep
eleven hours at least. -
INFANTRY OF THE SKIS.
Gives vivid idea of the dare-devil
stunts of mountain fighters. At the
Madaline tonight. It
Deportee Creek Drainage
District Mag Be Formed
As a result of a meeting held at the
Chamber of Commerce Thursday
steps are being taken to employ a
civil engineer at a cost of $1,500 to
make a preliminary survey of the
proposed Departee Creek Drainage
District, which would operate from
the head of Oil Trough for a distance
of 22 miles, ending about five or six
miles this side of Augusta and em
bracing 300,000 acres of land in Jack
son, Independence, Woodruff and
White counties.
A petition will be presented to the
circuit court at once asking for the,
'ormatibn of the district and for the !
appointment of commissioners, who
would await the report of the prelim
inary survey of the engineer, togeth
er with the report of the government
surveys made recenttly, and act ac
cording to what the report showed as j
practical.
The proposition is for a canal to be 1
established to care for the water'
which nearly every year places crops '
in the territory of the proposed dis-1
trict under water. The practicability
of the project would be determined by
the engineers. The estimated cost of
the enterprise would be contained in
the suvrey report. It is probable
that the cost would reach more than
one million dollars, but those who fa
vor the canal say they are willing to
pay a tax of from $7.50 to $10 per
acre'in order to secure the benefits,
which would include an increase in
land values and certainty of crop pro
duction. The city of Newport is in
cluded in the proposed district. It is
said that many persons in all the
counties mvolved heartily approve
the project.
It is practically certain that an ap
propriation for a considerable portion
of the cost of the improvement can be
secured from congress It is not im
probable, we are told, that an appro
priation for the entire cost cap be had.
If the engineer’s report., is favorable,
and if the district is-}/Taced in actual
operation, a strong and concerted ef
fort on the part of interested persons
will be made to secure our delegation
in congress to assist in securing what
ever government aid possible.
NEW LUMBER MILL
ILL BUILD HEBE
James Buchanan, Formerly of Swif
ton, Will Manufacture Auto
Stock, Etc., in t^e City.
James Buchanan, formerly of
jSwifton, but who moved to Newport
recenttly, announces that he will with
in a very short time establish a lum
ber mill here and engage in the man
ufacture of automobile stock, spokes
of all kinds, dressed lumber, etc. The
site for the factory has not been an-,
nounced.
Mr. Buchanan’s mill will give em
ployment to forty men, a great as
set to the growing town of Newport.
HORSE RACING.
Special to Independent.
Little Rock, Feb. 21.—An unsuc
cessful effort was made in the house
yesterday afternoon, just preceding
adjournment, to call up the Doyle bill
to prohibit horser-racing within three
miles of any church or school house in
the state. The proponents of the bill
had been sparring for an opening, and
it came on the roll-call of Representa
tive Porter of Boone. The opponents,
led by the Garland county delegation,
had opposed the proposition, and
while no open fight was made on the
floor, they succeeded in preventing a
two-thirds vote for the suspension of
the rules to take up the bill.
Subscribe for the Independent.
ANOTHER ROAD IS
II PROSPECT NOW
Independence County Citizens Wants
Jackson County to Meet Them
With A Highway.
C. P. Vaughan, a well known citizen
' and good roads enthusiast of Newark,
was in Newport Thursday for the
purpose of interesting Jackson county
in the building of a highway from
Diaz to a point near the Black river
bridge to connect with a road which
will be built in Independence county
from Newark to Paroquet bluff, and
for which an improvement district
has been formed. The proposition
met with the approval-'” of those to
whom it was presented, and an ef
fort will be made to build the road in
Jackson county, to be embodied in the
proposed Road Improvement District
No. 5. Such a road would greatly
shorten the distance between this city
j and Newark and Batesville, and also
would mean the development #of a
splendid section of both counties.
ABOUT REAL ESTATE
Special to Independent. 1
Little Rock, Feb. 21.—Mr. Choate
of White County yesterday afternoon
introduced a bill to provide: “That
i hereafter title to real estate in this
state shall never be acquired merely
by actual notorious, continuous, ad
verse possession thereof where such
possession was obtained by trespass
or by mistake or misapprehension as
to the true location of boundary-lines.
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WIFE FAILS TO COME
AND MEXICAN IS BUR
IED IN POTTER’S FIELD.
Upon the failure of the dead man’s
wife to arrive here from Little Rock,
the remains of Louis Costello, the
Mexican who died in the county jail
Tuesday night from knife wounds in
flicted Saturday morning at Swifton
by Francisco Martinez, whom Costello
cut to death, were buried in the pot
ter’s field near Newport Friday. The
body was held since Tuesday by the
undertaking department of Hayden
Hoyyoway Furniture Company, the
firm being informed that the dead
man’s wife would come here from
Little Rock to take charge of the re
mains.
WEDDING ANNOUNCEMENT.
Mi*, and Mrs. W. S. Hinkle of our
city announce the marriage of their
daughter, Miss Fannie Hinkle to Mr.
Frank D. Allen, the wedding taking
place February the 9th. The cere
mony was said by Rev. C. Bridenthal
of the Christian church. The mar
riage was a secret one and took place
alUhe home of Mr. and Mrs. Dixon
Bandy, friends of the family. On
hearing of the nuptial event friends
are hastening to extend congratula
tions. Mr. Allen was for several
months with the R. D. Brown Drug*
Company, but is now with the Up
john Company of Kansas City, which
is a traveling position. His wife, the
eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Hin
kle, of our city, is a lovable girl, and
will be greatly missed in her home and
by her friends, as she leaves tomor
row morning for Kansas City to join
Mr. Allen.
WOULD ELECT COMMISSIONERS.
Special to independent.
Little Rock, Feb. 21.—The Senate
yesterday afternoon rejected the pro
posal to make the contemplated Ark
ansas Corporations Commission elec
tive instead of appointive as origi
nally provided in Senate Bill No. 133
Senator Emory’s measure creating
the commission.
The senate’s action’ was taken in
two votes on the amendment offered
by the joint house and senate com
mittee which considered the bill mak
ing the membership of the commis
sion elective instead of appointive.
The first vote was vive voce and there
were none in the negative.
Senator Ward of Lee County, who
was not on the floor of the Senate at
the time this action was taken pre
cipitated a fight on it when he re
turned, and succeeded in bringing the
amendment up for reconsideration.
After heated arguments for and
against the appointive system, a
standing vote was taken, and the
amendment was again defeated by a
vote of 17 to 14.
Following Senator Ward’s attack
on the amendment, Senator Cald
well submitted an amendment which
would have exempted electric water
and gas companies from the provis
ions of the bill. /This amendment pre
cipitated another fight, which ended
in the defeat of Senator Caldwell’s
amendment.
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Senators Emory and Cazort told Sen
ator Caldwell.
“In view of the powerlessness of
the present railroad commission,
which the new commission would take
over, and the huge expense it will be
to the state, I think we might as well
kill the bill,” Senator Caldwell re
torted. “This railroad commission of
ours is as useless right now as a $100
saddle without any horse to put it on.
The government is handling the rail
roads and no commission can do any
thing with them.”
Senator Ward attacked the bill,
with its provision for appointment of
all three members of the commission
by the governor, as the “most vicious
instrument ever presented in this
body.” The bill now goes to the en
grossing committee, after which it
will be brought out for final action on
the floor of the senate.
POSTOFFICE HOUR FOR
FEBRUARY 22—WASHING
TON’S BIRTHDAY.
General delivery and registry win
dows open from 8 to 11 a. m. and 4
to 6 p. m. The usual morning hty
df ivery service, and collection only in
afternoon. No money order business;
no rural delivery service.
Geo. R. Hays; P. M.
MEMORIAL DAY IS
PLEASANT AFFAIR
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More Than One Hundred W. C. T. U.
Workers Attend Willard Service
Here Last Wednesday.
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It has, long been the custom of the
local W. C. T U. to observe “Willard
Memorial Day” some time in Feb
ruary, near Frances E. Willard'*
birthday. The occasion is not one of
sorrow, but of joy and thankfulness
for the beautiful life and noble work
yf Miss Willard as National, and then
as world president of the W. C. T. U.
On Wednesday afternoon about one
hundred guests assembled at the J
home of Mrs. A. T. Hubly to celebrate
this sweetly joyous occasion.
The hostess had decorated her re
ception room and dining room with -J ‘
beautiful, fragrant hot house flowers.
The program was an unusually
good one. Rev. W. C. Mitchell of the
Baptist church spoke first on “The
Past of Prohibition” followed by Rev.
J. F. E. Bates of the Methodist
church, whose subject was “The Pres
ent Status of Prohibition.” Rev. C.
Bridenthal spoke on “The Future of
Prohibition.” All of these are com
paratively new men in our commun- ; p
ity, and each group of those present £
must have felt especially proud of the
address of their pastor. Mrs. Dor- . J
sey’s address followed, and when she
spoke of how Mrs. Tom Johnson and
Mr. Fred R. Suits had stood in the
same archway just one year ago and
talked to the same gathering, many
were moved to tears.
Mrs. Carl BellincrratJi nriH Bpv W
C. Mitchel
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The
the Red Cross Magazine in adfiapu
to those who subscribed during the
Christmas Roll Call. A committee of
ladies will take subscriptions. C. L.
Mariner announces that those who
subscribed to the magazine during the
roll call campaign should receive
their magazines this month, both the
January and February numbers, as
he has sent in the subscriptions.
MRS. SCARBORUGH’S ^ *
FINAL REPORT OF THE
KNITTING DEPARTMENT
The knitting department of the
Jackson County Chapter of the Amer
ican Red Cross made its fifteenth and
final shipment of knitted garments
on February 15, inst., and has re
ceived orders to discontinue the work.
This shipment consisted of 48 socks
and ten sweaters, making a total of
3911 knitted garments made and
shipped to Division Headquarters at
St Louis since its organization May,
1917.
We desire to express our apprecia
tion of the earnest work of the wo
men of Jackson county, which has
made this work possible. The chair
men of the various knitting units over
the county, have been faithful and
conscientious, and have responded
promptly to every call. Sometimes J';
there have been long delays when
yarn could not be obtained, then when
a shipment of wool arrived, there
would frequently be more willing
hands than available material. When
we had the material to distribute the
work always progressed steadily and
without the slightest friction or un
pleasantness; we were working for ■
a common and noble cause—our coun
try and our men in uniform.
Mrs. 0. W. Scarborough,
it? Chairman. V;
/ ' Mrs. T. J. Watson, Instructor,
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