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Rise—Idea
Trains
iintain.
of 4.30
couple of days,
ve occurred
the railroad is
for Sat
1.50
was recorded
at 12 o’clock
as .44 i
y morning the
feet and at 12
The flood car- j
cars of lum
en the incline
to the river,
drift and logs
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telegram was
local weather ob
Sprigg Tuesday
Section Director
Rock:
is 25 feet, six
Rock and will
stage at New-1
-eight hours. I
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jRthorities are in
Bore optimistic and
fte river will hard
Rd 25 feet, while a
kR feet. Jackson
River back-j
RBkI not much.
that stream.
RBfCotter Monday
BBhe rainfall was
||B and no rise in
^Rpoticeable. The
I were out of
B ver and at Cal
B f 25.6 feet was
B orning.
B tom farmers
B bove and be
B be heavy.
B n estimates
B 00; William
B and Sanders,
B d Charley
B losers in
B Chastain &
B Eros., T. S.
B h Ste
B and S. M.
B of fine corn
B seem cer
B suffering
B the river. ,
B Hoxie to
B to Hoxie.
B only pas-1
B Newport
B unless the
B to be
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Again On Trial For His Life.
j Yellville, Aug. 14.—For the
1 second time Russell Davenport
was placed on trial today for the
' murder of his aged father. His
! mother and the judge who tried,
him before will aid in his de
fense. His sister and two broth- i
ers are working against him and
aiding the prosecution.
The killing of Davenport was;
one of the most horrible mur
ders recorded in the criminal an
nals of Marion county. The son
killed the father, it is alleged,
because he abused the mother
and filed proceedings for divorce j
against her.
Judge George W. Reed will oc
cupy the bench when the case is
called.
The young man will be defend-;
ed by Judge B. B. Hudgins, who
occupied the bench when he was |
tried before. The jury was then
hopelessly hung and returned no
verdict.
Harvev-Moon Marriage.
Mr. Sidney Harvey and Miss j
Cecil Moon of Swifton were mar
ried Monday evening at 8 o’clock
at the office of the counfy clerk
in the court house, Rev. B. L. j ■
Harris, pastor of the Methodist,
church, performing the rite.
The popular young couple
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and Mrs. Lula Moon and others,
who witnessed the ceremony
were Messrs. E. R. Williamson,
Charles Smith, J. S. Jones and
George Hays.
The young couple represent
prominent families of Glass
Township, the groom being a
very successful and capable far
mer, while the bride is a pretty
and attractive daughter of Mr.
Nat Moon, a leading citizen of
Swifton.
The Independent voices the
congratulations and good wishes
of many friends in the hope that
their wedded life may be long
and happy.
Miss Georgia Walker of Eng
land, Ark., arrived today to vis-(
it Miss Elise Hooker on her re
turn home from Vandalia, Illi
nois, where she attended the fu
neral of her uncle who was kill
ed m an automobile accident.
Roy Moon, one of Swifton’s
progressive young business men,
spent Monday in our city.
Miss Katherine Morris is ex-1
pected home tonight from a sev
eral weeks’ visit to Little Rock. |
Swimming, Swimming.
Lard to beat the world: 7500
pounds of lard in 50 pound cans
at $4.50 per can. Come before
it is all gone at the City Meat
Market.
W. B. Chastain,
09bl7 Proprietor.
Special Rates Via Iron Mountain
$26.70 to Detroit, Mich, and
return Aug. 21st to 26th. Ac
count National Convention Loy
Order of Moose. btd.
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system has set-,
of Dr.
Mr. W. G.;
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Soldiers'
men. The
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that the
his obli
stomaeh,
forty
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free
o write
advice
him Dr.
building.
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Wants Balm From Railroad.
Special to Independent.
Spokane, Wash., Aug. 14.—Ju
rors in the Spokane county supe
rior court, to be convened the
first week in September, will be
'called upon to decide what is a
reasonable balm when a passen
ger, suffering from toothache,
is ejected from a train and forc
ed to walk 24 miles to enlist the
services of a dentist-surgeon.
John H. Larson, who is the
central figure in this hard luck
story, wants $20,000 from the
Great Northern Railway compa
ny for what is described in his
complaint as ‘ humiliation, dis
grace, shame and physical pain.”
Counsel for the company has
asked for details.
Stripped of its legal verbage,
the complaint sets forth that
Larson boarded a Spokane
bound train in Lincoln county on
June 29, 1911. He was told by
the ticket agent to pay the con
ductor, as there was not suffi
cient time to sell a ticket. On
the train Larson tendered a $20
gold coin, but Conductor Steel
man refused to accept it in pay
ment of fare, saying the coin
vas spurious.
Larson had $3.15 in silver, but J
:hat amount was not sufficient
to pay his fare to Spokane, so
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passenger ejected. He sought
[he agent in the station at Wau
kon pronounced “walk on,” and
was told the next train would be
along in 14 hours, so he decided
to follow the “tip” on the sign.
Meanwhile, the pain of the
aching tooth became more ag
gravated and when Larson
reached Spokane, following the
long hike on the grade, his jaw
was swollen so his friends failed
to recognize him, and this con
tinued until the offending molar
was extracted.
Moreover, Larson found the
gold coin was one of LTncle Sam s
own make and he readily obtain
ed $20 when he tendered it at a
local bank. This and a few oth-j
er things prompted him to en
ter action against the corpora
tion, which will contest the suit.
Priest Announces Church Dance.
Special to the Independent
Spokane, Wash., Aug. 14.—
Invitations to a dance under
church auspices on church prop
erty have been extended to ev
ery family in St. Francis Xavier
parish, Spokane, by Rev. Fath
er J. Rebmann, pastor, the affair
taking place in the parochial
school the evening of August 16.
The priest, who announced the
dance irom tne puipu at tne;
Sunday services, urged the par
ishioners to attend, promising
all a good time. Officers and
members of the ladies’ altar so
ciety will be the hosts. Father
Rebmann thinks the dance is
harmless with proper association
and supervision, but he is oppos
ed to public dances, saying that
the evil is not in the dance itself
but in the abuse of it. Father
Rebmann is among the veteran
priests in Spokane and was for
years an officer of Gonzaga col
lege. He is liberal in his view’s
and believes the right kind of a
dance is a good form of whole
some amusement. It is given
out that another dance will fol
low’ if the coming entertainment
is as successful as promised.
Some of the pastors in Spokane
denounce dancing, saying that it
leads to perdition.
John Morrow of Batcsville
was a guest at the McLain hotel
last- night en route to LittF’
Rock.
BIG BARBECUE
AT FISHER
Judge M. M. Stuckey One Of
Speakers On Woodmen
Day.
Weiner, Aug. 14.—Today was
a big day for Fisher, Ark., hav
ing the Woodmen of the World
picnic and barbecue on hand
there. The Harrisburg concert
band of Harrisburg, Ark., fur
nished music. Hon. M. H. Patter
son of Augusta, Ark., prominent
candidate for congress, and M.
M. Stuckey of Newport, Ark., j
spoke to the crowds. Mr. Stuck
ey spoke in the interest of the1
Woodmen of the World.
In the afternoon there werej
two base ball games between the j
teams from Hickory Ridge and !
Weiner, resulting in a victory
for Weiner, score 8 to 3. Bat
teries: Hickory Ridge, Green
wood and Lewis; Weiner, Woo
ten and Huber.
The teams from Hunter, Ark.
and Fisher also played a game,
resulting in a victory for Hunter
score 21 to 7.
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Hot Weather Hurts The Skin. :
Poisonous perspiration causes
rashes, hives, blotches, pimples
and prickly heat, often the be
ginning of serious skin troubles.
To wash away the poison en
tirely, apply a simple solution
known as D. D. D. Prescription
for Eczema. D. D. D. is gener
ally sold in $1.00 bottles, but for
25 cents we can now give you
enough to prove that the very
first drops soothe and heal the
inflamed skin as nothing else
can.
We vouch for the wonderful
properties of D. D.D., for we
know that it brings instant re
lief 'from all kinds of skin trou
ble.—W. W. DUTTON.
Ladies you should go to Heine
mann’s and see their line of the
celebrated Argensinger gloves
for driving, riding, automobil
ing and the finest of dress gloves
in all colors. Guaranteed. They
are simply nifty. 15d6
j THE ARKANSAS
FREE LANCE,
A Real Newspaper—A Flaiuln ::
Sword Of Truth
About the middle of Septem
ber or the first of October, the
Parke-Harper News Service, of
Little Rock, will begin publica
tion of this crisp, scintillating,
truth telling publication.
The Arkansas Free Lance is
to be a twice a week newspaper,
and will be everything the pub
lishers claim for it. It will deal ■
largely with affairs of state gov-1
ernment. It will make every ef-1
fort, through publicity, to fore
stall the efforts of political free-'
booters to fasten their tentacles
upon the treasury of our great
state.
This is a paper that will be dif
ferent, and one which has been J
needed to ventilate—to fan out'
some of the chaff, of the Arkan
sas General Assemblies as well
as state, county and city office.
It is not to be a paper of sensa
tion, but of fact. It will not deal
in scandal or slander unless the:
good name ot Arkansas is at!
stake.
Clio Harper, editor in chief of
the paper, was 18 years with the
Arkansas Democrat, retiring to
enter the Parke-Harper News
Service. He will write editorials
that will wake up the state.
A. W. Parke, associate editor,
is also well known to the people
of Arkansas through his many
years service in Arkansas jour
nalism. He has a pen which can
strike fire, and which can be ex
pected to do so.
Do you want such a paper?
Do you want to help purify and
upbuild Arkansas? if so, get
busy now with your subscription
—that is the kind of apprecia
tion which brings results.
You can get the Arkansas j
Free Lance and the Weekly In- j
dependent for $1.75 per annum.
This is a bargain the like of
which you have never before en
countered. All the home news
in the Independent and all the,
state news worth printing in the,
Free Lance. j
Come in today. bl4t ,
For dray age, see B. G. Gra-J
ham, the transfer man. Phone
334. OOdtf
Darrow Defender Of Labor.
In The American Magazine for
September, Clarence Darrow
writes, an article on “Why Men
Fight For the Closed Shop.”
This brilliant Chicago lawyer is
labor’s foremost defender in the
courts. He was attorney for the
strikers in the Debs strike case,
for the miners in the famous
Anthracite coal strike arbitra
tion, and for Moyer-Haywood.
Says an editorial note in The
American Magazine:
“From all parts of the coun
try came the unanimous call of
organized labor that Clarence
Darrow of Chicago conduct the
defense of the McNamara broth
ers, labor leaders, charged with'
dynamiting the Times building
in Los Angeles—where a bitter
war against the closed shop has
been going on for years.
“Mr. Darrow closed his home,
gave up his practice, in order to ~ -
devote his whole strength and
energy to this case. He does
not enter these contests, be
tween capital and labor unpreju
diced. In his address to the
jury in the Haywood trial, libs*. -
says: .uy mum is nui imuiastm
in these great struggles. For
thirty years I have been work
ing in the cause in which men
have given their toil and risked
their lives. I have given my
time, my reputation, my chances.
I may have been unwise, I may
have been extravagant in my
statements, but this cause has
inspired the strongest devotion
of my life.’ ”
Busy Bee Withdraws.
Mr. R. G. Parvin of the Busy
Bee has also withdrawn from
the Herald contest and will here
after conduct his piano contest
entirely independent of that pa
per. Announcement of this fact
was made in an advertisement of
L. C. Cullison, in which he says:
“I take this stand to relieve Mr.
Parvin. Gossip bothers him to
the limit of his patience, so I
will go it alone.”
The Herald also announces
that it will close its own con-^
test September 15, 1911.
Maury Stevens and Harvey>J
McCollum went to Tuckerman
today. _
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is respectfully directed to the
fact that we have made plans for ^
an unusually large fall business.
We will soon have on display—
goods arriving daily—by far the
largest and finest collection of
good things for men ever shown
in Newport.
We have left nothing undone
to make this the best place to
get needs for men of particular
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