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1 VOLUME IV. NEWPORT, ARKANSAS. WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER.16 1904. NUMBER 174.
■PROGRAM FOR THE
TEACHERS’ MEETING
■Northeast Arkansas Associatior
to Meet at Wynne Novem
Mj ber 24, 25 and 26.
P^ The Northeast Arkansas
■Teachers’ Association will hole
|Pits next session at Wynne Nov
■24, 25, and 26t.h. The following
■subjects will be discussed, be
■ginning at 9:00 o’clock Thursday
■ morning;
K 1. Conscience; Its Office ant
^Relation to Education.
■■ 2. The Concrete vs. the Ab
Mstract in Teaching.
3. Teaching Primary Branch
4. Mental Development and
■Method of Instruction.
B 5. Needed School Legislation.
6. , Co-operation.
f 7. Natural Sciences.
8. Commercial Branches.
1 . 9. Defects in Our Education
al System.
• 10. Languages in the High
, School.
11. Teaching Intermediate
Branches.
12. Why Should Not a Diploma
^ from a Reputable College be a
License* to teach?
( 13. English Language and Lit
erature.
14. Teaching as a Profession
and Why I Teach.
15. School Government.
16. History in the High School.
16. Should Any But a Public
School Teacher Be Eligible to the
Office of County Examiner?
I Civil Government,
rs. Ella Box of this city is
on the program for a paper
English Language and Litera
J. Bell, editor of the
Teacher, Nashville,
, and W. J. Mcllwane, edi
the Arkansas School Jour
Rock, will attend.
N. M. Williams, of the
High School, Memphis,
will deliver an address
evening. Prof. J. D.
r, A. M., L. L. D., Presi
of Peabody College for
ers, Nashville, Tenn., and
Superintendent Hinemon
deliver addresses Friday
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rate of one and one-third
has been secured on the
Mountain railroad,
chers should get certificates
the Agents so as to receive
t of reduced rates.
SOCIETY. |
f BOWLING ALLEY PARTY.
, One of the prettiest at-homes
5 during* the season took place on
Tuesday afternoon when Mrs. C.
E. Crook entertained a dozen
.YOunjg*>*dies Tn honor of her ac
^complished sister,/ Miss Gersta
Neal of Dyersburg, Tenn.
The hospitality was enjoyed
| amid most enchanting surround
| ings. The Crook home, with its
! air of elegant simplicity, is ad
mirably suited for the entertain
ment of guests on such occasions.
During the afternoon the guests
were treated to excellent music
by the hostess and guest of honor,
which was a treat indeed to those
' present, and this was followed
by a dainty lunch, after which
Mrs. Crook invited her guests to
follow her to the bowling alley,
which she had engaged for one
! hour. It was fine sport and the
w^y those balls did roll was hard
to keep up with, but for ama
teurs some fine scores were made
and those who competed for the
prize at the Star clothing house
were Misse3 Ray and Lucy Bran
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Idenburg, Mabel Stay ton, Lula
1 Wolf, Della Bernstein, Sarah
Foster, Alma Futral, Sue Arm
i strong, Elizabeth Gullette.
JEALOUS NEGRESS
■ I SLAYS RIVAL.
; Tragedy at Dewey’s Mill on Sun
day Results in Throat
Being Cut From '
Ear to Ear.
Marked Tree, Nov. 15. — A
ghastly tragedy occurred at Dew
ey’s Mill Sunday evening. The
trouble had been brewing for
some time and the climax was
precipitated when Annie Fell en
tered the house abruptly and dis
covered Mamie Threestate in a
compromising attitude with her
husband.
The infuriated negress grasped
the situation at a glance and
i drawing a razor she pounced, up
on the guilty woman and cu ; her
throat from ear to ear. Casting
the victim of her bloody revenge
; aside, she attacked her husband
| with her fists and beat him until
his cries rent the air.
After the killing Annie Fell
walked the three miles separat
ing Dewey’s Mill from this place
and surrendered to the officers.
: LIVERY MAN"
ACCIDENTALLY SHOT.
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i Denning, Nov. 15.—James
Muir, known here as “Doc.”
Muir, is in a critical condition
from a wound accidentally in
flicted by himself during an al
tercation with R. 0. Ralston, a
livery stable man. In an at
tempt to draw a pistol Muir dis
. charged the weapon, the ball
passing through his foot. The
wound became inflamed and is
regarded as serious. Ralston
J had been a witness against Muir
j in a trial of the latter for shoot
! ing a young man named Jones,
j and from this the difficulty had
j arisen.
GRAND GLAIZE ITEMS.
It is said the National Benevo
lent Society at Coffeyville will
| build a lodge room in the near
future.
Esquire Mardis made a flying
business trip to Bradford Sunday
last.
Thomas Hale has received his
check from the grand lodge for
I the sick benefit which the Na
! tional Benevolent Society guar
| antees to its members when sick
!or overtaken by accident, and
this ought to encourage all mem
bers to be good workers.
- NEWPORT PEOPLE
LOSE MULES.
; Texarkana, Nov. 15.—F. A.
I Gilmore, a white man, was ar
rested and lodged in jail herb to
day on a warrant, charged with
stealing four mules, harness and
a log wagon from the Kelly Lum
ber Company at Homan, Ark.
The property was* located by
the officers in Texas and has been
replevied.
BABY CONTEST
DRAWS OUT VOTES.
Following is the total vote cast
in the Baby Contest up to this
date.
Charles Jones Brandenburg 371
Wm. Wallace Dutton. 354
Jas. Edward Wilmans 525
Edwin Johnson. 287
Ernest Theodore Phillips 212
Dorotny Stephens . 182
Jeannette Henry. 125
For Rent—Front room furnish
ed. Apply to Mrs. Park Dead
erick, corner Third and Walnut.
BIG LAND DEAL
IN ARKANSAS.
117.000 Acres Reported Sold to
Michigan Syndicate—Are Lo
cated in White River
Bottoms.
The purchase of 117,000 acres
of land in the White river bot
toms in Arkansas and more than
14.000 acres Jn the St. Francis
river bottoms in Missouri by a
Michigan syndicate, following
the recent drainage congress at
Brinkley, Ark., presages more
than ordinary progress in that
| part of the great region known
as the Southwest, says the Pop
lar Bluff Citizen.
It was proposed at the drainage
congress at Brinkley, at which
there was 115 delegates, to ask
the state legislatures of Mis
souri and Arkansas and the
United States government for an
appropriation which will in the
total amount to nearly $3,000,
000, for the purpose of building
| ditches which it is designed will
carry the water from 3,000,000
| acres of land reported by the
| boards of agriculture of the two
states and members of the fed
eral geographic survey to be as
, fertile as any section of tha
United States.
The purchase of the Michigan
i syndicate is designed to cover
timber lands, fruit farms, in
vestments and vast tracts for
growing wheat, corn, tame
| grasses, cotton and tobacco, and
houses will be built on each forty
acres.
The sale, it is understood, was
i made on a basis of $6 an acre'
! for swamp lands and $7.50 an
| acre for the uplands, or that part
1 of the tract bought that will not
need drainage.
Five years ago this land was
valued at $1.25 an acre for the
; swamp lands and aoout twice as
j much for the uplands.
NEGRO GIRL’S CRIME.
Helena, Nov. 15.—Yesterday
on the Roach place near this city
a young fiegro girl was shot and
, killed by her sister. The girl
! who did the shooting is sup
! posed to be mentally unsound,
which is the only reason that can
be given for her horrible act.
The parents of the children
were not at home at the time of
the killing and the children, two
girls and two boys, were left
alone at the house.
KILLED BY TREE.
Brinkley, Nov. 15.—Bob San
ders was instantly killed late
yesterday evening near Midway,
a small statioh eight miles south
of here on the Cotton Belt. San
ders is a white man about 33
years old, and was unmarried.
He was a timber man and went
to Midway some time ago from
some point in Missouri. He was
cutting down a large tree, which
lodged in a sapling. 9
In cutting away the small tree
I the large one fell on him, crush
ing him to death instantly.
THE FAST TRAINS.
To California are run over the
Union Pacific. Via Omaha 16
hours quicker to San Francisco
than any other line. No change
of roads, no detours, “The Over
land Route” all the way. Be
sure your ticket reads over the
Union Pacific. Inquire of
J. H. Lothrop, G. A.,
903 Olive street,
St. Louis, Mo.
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OF NEW BUSINESS IN TEN DAYS IN NEWPORT.
THIS IS THE RECORD OF
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STATE MANAGER FOR THE
Metropolitan Life Insurance Co.
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Arkansas, Oklahoma and
Indian Territories within
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And absolutely reliable. We
give1, especial attention to
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Arkansas Bank am1 Trust Co.
Capital $100,000.
OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS.
J. W. Grubbs, President. Nathan Graham,‘V.-Pres.
Chas. G. Henry, Cashier.
B. B. Bond, M. D. Campbell, S. D. Campbell,
G. D. Clements, R. F. Drummond, v VV. D. McLain,
F. D. Fulkerson, C. J. Saenger, Abe Heilegers,!
0. D. Watson, L. Minor. L. E. Willis,
J. S. Wilmans.