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*f»s Hpctor Garland Hurt, aged s:.
,‘ArRs, died YYtdncsdas evening
IdsSf- S) o’clock at his homo mi
SEikSl street after a short sick
KS|t with pneumonia. It was
■HRed Wednesday la hi i'rion
SSHP family that at his advanced
, s-f h'-Ebie could hardly bo carried
BHKgh a siege of sick ties., and
gS$sR came not unawares.
HBRe funeral service were coii
ggP% by Rev. J. W. Smith at
SRSO o’clock in the afternoon
=Rgjn the residence, the remains
REmg laid to rest at Walnut
[Strove.
^E The deceased was born in Vir
IRinia and had practiced his pro-’
Hbssion in St. Louis for thirty
Hears, and during this time was
^Hjljgried to Miss Kate Wallace.
HHf the /past ten years he has
HRn a resident of this city.
Bmo one stood higher in
HBgnmunity than Doctor Hurt.
|R§ was a member of the An Uv
Hfet church, the teacher of the
R|§unday school biblc class, in
^Rhich work he found much in
^Beresi and pleasure. A scholar
BEn in jhis advanced years, a
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wmmm. a a
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ha r a c t e r.
BHH|R\V; a... :
fu kji uunsumuun wiucii
athy of many other
wFers to those bowed
■prow by closer ties
^called to his,reward.
P
GE
ECT§ OFFICERS.
Ison Lodge No. 191, A. F.
. M., held their annual
i of officers Wednesday
(g, Dr. 0. E. Jones being
id with the office of wor
1 master. He is both the
est man and youngest Ma
be thus honored by the
local lodge. Heretofore the dis
tinction has fallen to different
men. J. R. Mayhan holding the
record of being the youngest
Pnan elevated to this high office,
Lhile, G. W. Beard was the
fkningest member so honored in
point of years’ service.
Dr. 0. E. Jones was initiated
Aug. 13, 1902, passed Oct. 8 of
& that year, raised Nov. 12, 1902.
„' ' arid elected junior warden . Dec.
10. 1902, and is now but 25
years of age.
The other offices elected are:
Wm. Mosby, senior warden; Rev.
G. B. Norton, junior warden; J.
R. Mayhan, secretary; J. M.
Jones, senior deacon; S. M. Beat
ify tie, junior deacon; R. O. Duffer,
\tyler; C. W. Beard and E. A.
Shaver, masters of ceremonies.
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BANKRUPT STOCK SOLD.
The Wolff-Goldman Mercantile
Company and Wilmans Bros, oi
Wednesday purchased the stocl
of S. Steinburg & Company
bankrupts, at public sale fron
W. A. Billingsley, acting as as
signee for the different creditor
of the firm.
The stock brought 52 1-2 cent:
on the dollar and will be sold ou
in a few days by these joint pur
chasers, who will place the store
house/ for the Walnut Ridge
Light, Power & Transit Compa
ny was let today to W. R. Stew
art of Newport. The structure
is to be 49 by 105 feet, and to be
built of red hard brick, laid in
cement. It is to be completed
by February 15, 1904.
The contract for putting in the
car track between Walnut Ridge
and Hoxie for the electric street
railway has been let to the St.
Louis Construction Company,
and the track will be completed
by the time the power house is
ready.
SELLS’ STORE SOLD.
W. E. Bevens of Helena, but
formerly of Jacksonport, on Wed
nesday afternoon purchased the
drug store and stock of J. L.
Sells and will continue the busi
ness at the same stand.
Mr. Sells has made many
friends in Newport, who will re
gret his departure, and that of
Mrs. Sells who is spending the
winter in California, but we wish
them success wherever they may
decide to locate.
Mr. Bevens is too well known
here to need any introduction at
our hands, for he engaged in the
drug business in Jacksonport
from 1864 to 1880, and has al
ways been a successful and popu
lar business man.
Mr. Sells has not decided upon
anything definite for the future,
but will remain here until after
the first of the year.
THE REV. IRL R. HICKS’
1904 ALMANAC.
The Rev. Irl R. Hicks’ alman
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dining room 20x45 feet, one par
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large kitchen, pantry and stor
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sensational reports as- to its supposed
efficacy in treating intractable disekses.
As might, have been expected, its claims
have been very much exaggerated, even
in cases that offered plausible excuses
for their possible vindication.
; The latest news is to the effect that
this mysterious agency is capable of re
storing gray hair to its original color.
How such an effect can be brought about,
no one attempts to explain. Nor would
; It be wise to offer any reason for it says
j the New York Herald, in the face of cer
j tain well-known facts connected with
the physiology of hair and its anatomi
cal character.
All very well know that the color of
| the hair is a part of its nutrition and is
dependent upon the secretion of a pig
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| When the hair loses its pigment vitality
; grayness ensues as a natural evolution
I ary process. The youthful tinge disap
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! decay as age advances. The hair itself
| becomes virtually color dead, and all
efforts to restore its former life are ad
mittedly as futile as similar efforts to
revivify other defunct processes.
But now the X-ray must come in as
an alleged miracle worker and give new
hopes for the gray heads. Alas! many
of the latter are desperate enough in
their vanity to try any new thing that
may present itself. To such it may be
necessary to sound a note of warning.
Even if it should prove to be a fact
that the X-ray can do what is claimed,
the remedy is certainly a dangerous one
to become popular. If “several hundred
exposures” are required, not only will
a great deal of valuable time be lost in
the sittings and many fees exacted, but
the positive damages ensuing after such
prolonged treatment are not to be light
ly considered. How to avoid the terri
ble X-ray burns, which sometimes occur
even with experts is still a great prob
lem. Edison, in a recent interview in
the Herald, emphasized this fact in a
j manner not to be misunderstood. Thus
there may be a chance, with such as may
be determined to try the new tiling, for
the traditional “old fool” to multiply
I himself over the land.
SILK IMPORTS ENORMOUS.
StntiMtes by Department of Com
merce Shows Larjsie Inorenxe In Im
portation of the Raw Article.
The imports of raw silk in the fiscal
year recently ended were the largest
in the history of the government.
Statistics just compiled by the depart
ment of commerce and labor, through
! its bureau of statistics, show that for
| the fiscal year ending June 30, 1903.
j 15,271,340 pounds of unmanufactured
silk, valued at $50,011,819, were im
ported, as compared with 14,200,000
j pounds in 1902 and 10,400,000 in
1901. Prom this silk our manufactur
j ers will make finished products valued
at over $125,000,000.
Many attempts have been made to
j produce raw silit in this country. As
| early as 1623 mulberry trees were re
' miired to be nlanted by all settlers in
| Virginia, and some silk was grown in
the early days of the colony. In the
J second quarter of the last century the
| cultivation of silk seemed to give
| promise of success, but the enterprise
| degenerated into a speculation in Chi
! nese mulberry trees, and ended in ut
ter failure. The recent experiments of
; the department of agriculture are
again directing attention to the prac
ticability of raising on our own farms
a share at least af this material,
| which forms so considerable a part of
! our imports.
During recent years the importation
! of raw silk has increased almost con
tinuously, until in the fiscal year just
j closed it amounted to over $50,000,000.
j The nearest approach to this value was
in 1900, when forty-five and one-third
millions of dollars’ worth was im
ported.
FINDS four-legged chicken.
Bostonian DWcover* a Ouri«l«ity In
tlie Fowl Lino In the Rhode
lMlautl Red Variety.
M. Goodman, of Minot street, Bos
ton, is showing his friends a four
legged hen which he purchased in
Pittsfield, Me., a short time ago. So
far as known this is the only bird of
its kind in the world.
"You will notice,” said Mr. Goodman
to a reporter the other morning, "that
the tail grows on the right side of
the bird, and yet does not interfere
with the use of its wings.
"Two of the legs grow in the or
' diuary manner and support the body
The other two are perfectly normal
except that they grow backward in
stead of downward, and the feet ar<
carried closed most of the time.
"She weighs three and one-hai
’ pounds and was hatched on May I
' last,” he added, showing the bill of sah
1 as evidence.
The bird is of the Rhode Island rw
' variety, and so highly does the owne
2 prize it that instead of shipping it ii
1 rectly home he kept it with him durini
a four weeks’ business trip.
' The chicken seems to be in perfec
i health, and, in the words of the own
er, "she likes to have you watch hei
See her strut!”
S Part of the Maneuver*.
Prof. Chittenden, of Yale, has
- starvation squad—a corps of me
H from the regular army on whom t
will experiment to find on just how li
tie food a man can do good work. H
!. had to take regulars, says the Phili
delphia inquirer, because he could m
get volunteers for any such exper
ment as that.
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i
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>
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Dentist
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Successor to Black Bros.
Office: Watson Building
Rooms 1. 'V 3.
TELEPHONE :v> !.
Newport, - Arkansas•
Jack Herron
For Granitoid and Stone Walks,
Curbing, all kinds of Brick Work.
Don’t fail to get my figures
before contracting.
My Work Talks For Itself ^
Parties wanting crushed Lime
Stone Walks apply to me.
W. H. SNETZER.
Contractor
& Builder
Plans and Specifications
furnished on short notice
All Work is Guaranteed
Henry Owen,
Physician, Surgeon
■ ■nd Oculist.
Office - - Sells’ Drug Store.