|r tie Rock October 16, and will
H travel through Tennessee, Ken*
1 tucky, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Illi
nois, Indiana and Missouri, vis
iting only the principal cities.
There will be four exhibit qars,
four Pullman coaches, one ob
servation car and one dining
( car. The trip will occupy twelve
i ^ days and will cotfer about 2500
wiiles. Exhibits are now being
: arranged, and will be of a supe
r rior character. Among the uni
que exhibits will be a 110 pound
pumpkin from Union county, a
105 pound watermelon from
Drew county and a 17 ounce
| peach from Nashville. The par
ty will be accompanied by Prof.
C. H. Brough-of the State Uni
versity and Prof. Marion Nel
son Waldrip, who will lecture,
and Miss Hettie Dunaway of
onway, who will recite, featur
f ing “My Happy Little Home In
Arkansas.”
| Birthday Party.
1 Master Claude M. Erwin* Jr.,
I was tendered an enjoyable lit
■ tie party Thursday afternoon in
P honor of the fifth milestone in
I the little man’s life. A number
I of little boy friends were invited
B and Miss Dove had planned an
f elaborate afternoon’s entertain
|r ment for the children,
I " Miss Erwin was asisted in
aavvincr CTPflTTl and cake on the
lawn by Mrs. Claude Erwin and j
Miss Stella Wallace.
| The little boys present were
Dlaude Erwin, Jr., Martin Bains,
i Louis and Edwin Weisburg,
.•eeman Irby, Boswell United,
eorge Anderson, Freeman Ir
y, Fred and Tom Parish, Chas.
, Wilmans, Claude Herron, Ru
8 Martin, Edward Wilmans,
Wter Harris, Martell Bowen,
.nie Williams, Edwin Boyce,
on Ballew, George Hays, Jr.,
tinman, Charles Branden
. E. Jones, Charles
>f Wallace Dutton, Geo.
, Curry Martin.
r
Fpr Newport.
of Jonesboro
t is putting
the pho
onable
s the
tion by the Board, succeeding
Dr. Stinson. He was chosen
from among a large number of
applicants from all parts of the.
country, and comes most high
ly recommended. He will re
ceive a salary of $5,000 a year,
and will have full charge of the
institution.
Dr. H. C. Stinson, who retires
from the position, has taken
charge of the Confederate Home
as superintendent. It is the
purpose of the Board to increase
the efficiency of the institution,
which is to be equipped with all
the latest apparatus for the in
vestigation and treatment of
mental disorders.
Auto Tax Brings Returns.
Specla! to Independent.
Little Rock, Sept. 1.—The
State Automobile Tax act is
yielding a larger revenue than
had been estimated by the state
officials at first. Only one
thousand tags were ordered, as
it was thought there were not
more than many cars in the
state. That supply has been ex
hausted, however, and another
and another supply ordered, the
applications in the meantime
accumulating in the office of the
Secretary of State.
The licenses are $5 each. It
has already yielded $5000, and
it is thought there will be about
$2500 more. There has been no
trouble whatever over the appli
cation of the law, and there is
no record of any conflict be
tween the state and city laws
anywhere.
Still Dry In Tennessee.
The editor is in receipt of a
letter from our friend and for
mer townsman Prof. W. L. Wal
lace, who now has a fine posi
tion as head of the Morristown,
Tennessee schools. His old
friends particularly will be in
terested in the news of this let
ter. ■
“People say it has been hot
here and it has seemed hot,
though the temperature has not
risen above 90 degrees more
than five or six days since I
came over. While you have
been having floods, we have had
a long continued drouth which
is not yet broken in this imme
diate vicinity.
“Our schools here with move
than a thousand pupils begin on
next Monday. I am delightfully
situated and am ready for the
fray. My work is purely of su
pervision.
“I am keeping in touch with
Newport doings through the In
dependent, and while disap
pointed in the delay in your get
ting a new school building, here
is hoping this is the last year of
the old rattle trap now in use.”
“Yours
W. L. Wallace.
Fined For Shooting.
John Johnson, negro, arrested
for disturbing the peace by
king, was tried before Es
Nuckolls Friday and fined
dollars and costs.
; shooting was done by
, who is a barber, on
it Street near the
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To Determine Whether Turner
Jacobsen^ili Can Be Re
ferred To People.
Special to Independent.
Little Rock, Sept. 1.—The!
suits to test the Tumer-Jacob- j
sen revenue measure, and to see j
whether or not it became a law;
by its being signed ahead of thej
Initiative and Referendum en
abling act, will be filed by the
Arkansas Tax Commission in*
Chancery Court of Pulaski coun
ty on Saturday. The Tax Com
mission contends that the bill
does not have to be submitted
to the people, as it is already a
law.
The action'will be in the shapQ
of a mandamus suit to force As
sessor W. M. Moore to value the
property of large corporations
in the city under their true val
ue, as provided for under the
Turner-Jacobsen bill.
The Tax Commission will at
the same time certify out the
value of property of Pine. Bluff,
Texarkana and Fort Smith cor
porations, and ask the assessors
of the counties in which the
sijdes are located, to assess them
at full value. Hot Springs is al
so in the list.
This will make the fight a
general one, and up from
several'counties at once, as the
supreme court, either way, will
be asked to place a construction
upon it. •
Will Repair Guage.
The government will repair
the river guage in a few days
for the last time as the guage
has been renewed and repaired
being repeatedly damaged and
destroyed by people tying their
boats to or running against it.
The following is a letter in re
ply to the last request to Sec
tion Director Alciatore by Local
Observer Sprigg for repairs and
the river men and the people
who use the river should be
more careful if they wish to
keep the river service.
Little Rock, Aug. 31, 1911.
Dear Mr. Sprigg: This is the
last time that the Department
will make any repairs or put in
iny new guage at Newport,
therefore if the people of New-*
port want a river service of per
manent character, they ought to
take action to see that the Gov
ernment guage is protected
against boats, rafts, etc. Kind
ly bear in mind that the law
against interfering with or dam
aging Government property is
very severe. Let your people
about the landing know it. Ac
tion has been taken to have this
guage watched, and any one
caught in the act of using tne
guage to make fast any craft
will be prosecuted.
Yours very truly,
H. F. A. .
First Bale Sell At 11 Vi
The first bale of 1911 cotton
which made its appearance on
the Newport market was sold !
for 11^4 cents, Wolff-Goldman
being the purchaser.
The cotton before it was gin-;
ned weighed 1604 pounds and
the bale weighed 456 pounds
and was classed strict low mid
dling.
There was considerable ex
citement among the buyers
caused by the report of the bale
and non-appearance of same,
delayed by getting steam up to
gin the cotton.
c.
up
Nowell
Mrs.
writing.
Mr.
of the
the
J.
of the
oquet,
guests
Mr. and
are visiting on
week.
J. F. Parsons
Peters Construction Co. at
oquet, was a business visitor
here Tuesday.
Rev. Brownlow Taylor preach
ed at the school house Sunday
night to a large and attentive
congregation He will begin a
protracted meeting at Oak
Grove in the near future.
Messrs. Wilmans, Slayden,
West and Guin are having land
cleared and ditched in this
neighborhood and it adds much
to our already beautiful sur
roundings. There is a great
deal of this land which could be
treated in a like manner and it
might offer inducements for
homeseekers instead of being a
haunt for mosquitoes and bull
frogs. Nevertheless why don’t
some of these land-owners give
it a trial?
George L. Dameron, who has
been taking his vacation, re
turned to his section Monday
and G. W. Gordon, who was re
lieving him, left that morning
for Cotton.
On account of the rain Satur
day the ball game between Tad
pole and the local team has
been postponed until next Sat
urday.
Will Black is on the sick list
this week.
W. W. Kidd of Newport was
here on business Monday.
Sidney Herring of the Island
was mingling with old friends
and acquaintances here Tues
day.
Mrs. B. W. Haffner and little
daughter, Marie of Newport
were the guests of Mrs. W. F.
Hurley Monday.
Many thanks for the contribu
tions from Bright Eyes in help
ing to write up the happenings
from our city. Come on with
your news as ye scribe is think
ing of taking a vacation soon
the “homefolks” do not wish to
miss the “dope” from our city.
Miss Ollie Martin of the
Campbell neighborhood is visit
ing with the Misses Vaulner
this week.
There is some talk of having
our little city incorporated and
we think that this is a step in
the right direction. We second
the motion and nominate Crom
well West for city marshal.
L. E. Phant.
Village.
We are having • some fine
weather and the wind blows like
it was winter.
We are sorry to hear of the
death of Tiney Hankins, who
has been sick several days.
Toney Ray had business in
the Upper country Sunday.
John Wilson made a visit to
his sister in Lawrence county;
he says cotton is very good
Mr. Stillwell has moved back
to his old stamping ground on
the Holden farm.
The people of this section
are now
our
Ray
widow living
farm, drowned in
hundred yards
early Sunday morning,
fifteen years of age and was I
out in a boat fishing, and being'
subject to epileptic attacks, it is
thought he was seized with one'
and fell out of the boat. He was
found Monday evening at four
o’clock and buried at the Wat
son graveyard Tuesday after
noon.
I. W. Tilley and family have
returned from a short visit to
Newark.
W. D. Runyan, Lawrence
Mantooth and families have
written homefolks that they will
be home .Monday, September
! the 4th, after having visited rel
atives at Newport, Tennessee
for several weeks.
Miss Artila Haldaway of Lo
First Autumn
of Authoritative
New York Styles in
BENJAMIN CL(
Fabrics and Fashions of
Importance to Critical
We have just received shipments o
Benjamin Clothes, flume unique, ma^p
ments for Men and Young Men and we
announcing the first Autumn
1 These clothes reach the topmost quality
1 iveness. They combine the tailoring
§ ordinarily found in custom tailor gai
I Your early inspection of these cleverly
I garments is respectfully suggested
| $20.00 and upward.