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In order that we may devote our entire
attention to the Lumber and Planing Mill
business, as well as shelf Hardware, we
have decided to close out our entire line of
Furniture,
Farming Implements,
Wagons, Buggies, Etc.
Beginning on this date we offer every
thing contained in these departments at
bargain prices for cash. Don’t miss the
opportunity to furnish your house or to
supply yourself with
Buggies, Wagons, Plows, Cultivators, Etc.
Be sure and bring tbe cash, as all pur
chases not accompanied by the cash will
be charged at reg'ular prices.
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Newport, February 20, 1906.
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DR. HARRY E. DOWELL
DENTIST
Special attention giv
en to crown, bridge
and inlay work.
Office over Chas. Meyer and
Joyce’s Drug Store.
For dray at any hour call up
Hazel hotel. 83dtf
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Dentist
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Crown and Bridge Work,
And correction of Irregularities
of the Teeth.
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Newport, - Arkansas.
Read the Daily and Weekly
Independent.
THE INDEPENDENT
PERCY H. VANDYKE,
Publisher and Editor.
NEWPORT, - - ARKANSAS.
Entered at the postoffice at Newport, Ark., as
second-class mail matter.
ADDITIONAL LOCALS.
County Clerk Burton Arnold
has received a copy of a contract,
says the Guard of Batesville,
between the Pacific Stone Com
pany of that city and the United
States, for limestone to be fur
nished the Pfeiffer Company to
be used in building the new fed
eral penitentiary at Fort Leaven
worth, Kansas.
MASS MEETING OF CITIZENS.
Called by Mayor Thompson]ifor Friday
Evening to Formulate Plans
for City Primary.
Newport, Ark.,
Feb. 28, 1906.
To the Citizens of Newport,
Arkansas:
Having received a petition
signed by a number of promi
nent citizens requesting that I
call a meeting of the people for
the purpose of taking steps to
formulate a city primary election,
I, by virtue of my office, do here
by call a mass meeting of the
citizens and voters who are in
terested in such movement to
assemble at the court house, on
Friday March 2nd at 8 p.m. to
take such steps as they deem
; advisable.
W. R. Thompson,
Mayor.
Court Settles Guardianship.
In the Probate court of Inde
I pendence county Wednesday, the
! contest over the appointment as
: guardian of tue heirs of Louis
Hindman, deceased, between
! Alex, and Francis Hindman,
‘ brothers of the deceased, was
| settled by the appointment of
Alex. Hindman by the court,
says the Batesville Guard. The
two contestants were represented
by lawyers in the case, and some
time was consumed in the hear
ing. Both applicants tiled their
application for the appointment
on Feb. 19, and as a contest was
on hand, the county clerk re
fused to make the appointment, j
referring the matter to t e,
court. There were originally hve
heirs to the estate, four girls
and one boy, but the boy has
died since the filing of the ap
plications for guardianship b\
his uncles.
AN ARKANSAS BANK CLOSED.
Southern Bank and Trust Company At
fort Smith Closes Doors
Pending Sale.
Fort Smith, March 1—The
Southern Bank and Trust Com
pany, a recent corporation with
an authorized capital of $600,000,
failed to open its doors today.
A notice was posted to the
effect that the bank interests
had been sold to Tom Neal, an
attorney of Fort Smith, who, it |
was stated, would pay all depos-j
itors in full,
The deposits amount to about
$80,000. The assets consisting5
of notes, loans, discounts, office
fixtures, amount to about a like
sum.
The Southern Bank and Trust I
Company was a branch of the
Southern Bank and Trust Com
pany of Dallas, Texas.
The Southern Bank and Trust
Co. was organized less than a
year ago by its president, C. C.
Walter of Dallas, Texas.
Some time ago there was a ru
mor on the street to the effect
that none of the authorized capi
tal stock of $600,000 had been
paid in. It is known that Walter
gave bank stock for real estate,
which was placed in his own
name. As a result of these
rumors small depositors began
withdrawing their money.
Assignee Neal said today that
the failure was due to lack of
capital, the entire assets of the
the bank being made up of the
deposits, loans and discounts
and the lease on the bank build
ing.
None of the officials of the
bank could be seen today. A
majority of the board of direc
tors live in Dallas, Texas.
BATTERED BUT CHEERFUL.
A Uttle Necro Patient at a Sew York
Hospital Makes the Doc
tors Lujigh.
Mirth and misery commingle oddly
it, times to lig-hten the burden of
wretchedness and woe which is the lot
of the unfortunates who are inmates of
the city’s great hospitals. A score of
wan-faced sufferers were distributed
among the neat white cots of a medical
ward in Bellevue one day when a new
patient was brought in. lie was a
diminutive colored man, short, squat,
thick-set, black as ebony, with heavy
protruding lips and a bullet-shaped
head sparsely sprinkled with kinky
gray black hair. He said he was George
Smith, 33 years old, and was born in
“Loudon county, Virginy, sah.” All
was quiet in the ward save an occasion
al groan from some weary sufferer,
I when the doctors, four of them, grave
facsd and dignified, came to examine
the new arrival.
“Well. George, how do you feel?”
asked the house physician, bending
over the cot.
The little darky looked at the doctors
askance for a moment, rolled his big
eyes around, and said mournfully:
“I'se hungry.”
“Have you any pain?” asked the doc
tor.
“No, sah, ’ceptin’ I’se hungry.”
Then the doctors proceeded to make
the usual examination. In the middle
of his back they found a criss-cross
cicatrix.
“How did you get this?” the doctor
asked.
“Cow-bunkle,” replied the patient,
tersely.
“What’s Jils?” continued the inquis
itor, placing his Anger on a big depres
sion in the calf of the patient’s leg.
“Dorg chawed it,” said Smith, apa
thetically.
A smile Altted across the faces of the
doctors and a patient in the next cot
forgot to moan. Next the physician
found a mass of irregular scars, which
looked ns if an eight-inch shell had
exploded and left its marks upon th'b
patient s tace ana neca.
“Explosion?” queried the doctor,
pointing to the spot.
“Mewl kicked me,” sa* ’ Smith with
• you-make-me-tired air.
Even the grave equanimity of the
men of medicine was disturbed, and pa
tients in adjacent cots laughed out
i right. Further examination showed a
network of scars on his face and neck
j resembling the tracks in the New York
I Central freight yards,
i “Razer fite,” was Smith’s explana
i tion. (
“And vvhere did you get these?" said
; the doctor, with an amused smile, lay
i lng his Ungers on three big welts on the
negro’s scalp.
“Cakewalk. Kin I hev a chaw uv ter
baker?" he went on. and the ward was
In »p outburst of laughter,—N. Y. Sun.
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We are authorized to announce the following j
candidates subject to the action of the Democratic ]
oriSary: j
For Prosecuting Attorney —
CLAUDE M. ERWIN,
Newport.
R. E~ JEFFERY,
Newport.
S. M. CASEY,
Batesville.
GEORGE A. HILLHOUSE,
Newport.
For Circuit Judge —
J. C. YANCEY,
Batesville.
PAUL BUTLER,
Batesville.
F. D. FULKERSON,
Batesville.
j OTIS W. SCARBOROUGH,
Newport.
For Sheriff—
FRANK J. HARRISON,
Tuckerman.
H. S. SIMMONS.
Newport.
JAMES R. DAVIS,
Breckinridge Township.
For County Judge,
E. L. BOYCE,
Newport.
For Assessor—
R. L. CONDITT,
Tuckerman.
For Treasurer—
DR. F. G. SMITH,
Newport.
For County Clerk —
GEO. L. ROBINSON,
Newport.
G. A. LOCKARD,
Newport
I For Surveyor—
VV. A. BO'.VMA
Remmel.
For Con.-table —Jefferson Twp.
R. W. WALLACE
For Representative—
JOHN GALE,
Swifton.
J. U. ARD,
Tupelo.
DR. W. N. PIERCE
Breckinridge Township.
G. L. GRANT,
Newport.
For Coroner,
HENRY GRANTr-*^#~*>
Jefferson Township.
JOHN YELVERTON
Bird Township.
J. C. MASTERS,
Bird Township.
For Constable—Union Tp.
ABE BALLEW.
J. L. BISHOP,
Newport.
W. T. GUIN,
Newport, R. F. D. No. 1.
For Justice of Peace—Bird Twp.
S. L. BOGLE,
Tuckerman.
For Justiceof Peace—Union Twp
T. W. SHAVER
Newport.
For Road Overseer—Union Twp.
J. C. HOGAN.
For Road Overseer, Bird T’w’p—
W. M. SEXTON.
MUNICIPAL OFFICERS.
For Mayor—
R. W. BANDY.
JAMES M. PORTER,
Teacher of Piano.
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