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THE BANK OF NEWPORT
Solicits thefacccounts of depositors who desire
the accommodations of a first-class, well
equipped and reliable banking house.
OFFtOERS AMD DIREOTOMS•
Geo. W. Decker, President. R. M. Johnson, Cashier.
A. D. Bailey, VicepWt. T. D. Kinman, Ass’t Cashier.
Thos. J. Graham. Ed. P. Shoffner. J. T. Henderson.
Jos. M. Stayton. Dr. J. M. Jones. T. S. Stephens.
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W. H. BARNES & CO.
NEWPORT, ARK.
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BANKERS AND BROKERS,
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Cotton, Stocks, Bonds, Grain,Provisions,
Handled on Commission.
Private Wires direct] to New York, Chicago,
St. Loots, and New Orleans.
Write for daily Market Letter.
Watches, Clocks, Jewelry,
Diamonds, Cut Glass Etc.
Largest Stock in town to Select from.
Prices the lowest.! Quality considered.
For First-class
Watch Repairing,
Diamond Setting
And f
Jowe'ry Repairing
The Palace Leads.
Palace Jewelry Store.
Newport^ Leading Jeweler._
^oao=o==aoc3 ^
Standard Fountain Pen. ®
Note at a Glance
Its Advantages.
| Also agent for the celebrated
Parker Fountain Pen.
For Watches, Clocks, Jewelry, Silverware and Expert II
| repair work go to U
' WM. MOSBYf ™Jeweler. 5
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WINCHESTER
FACTORY LOADED SMOKELESSl
POWDER SHOTGUN SHELLS 1
i* B Good shells in your gun mean a good tag H
■ in the field or a good score at the trap. #
Winchester “Leader” and 4 Repeater
Hft if s' IE Smokeless Powder Shells are good shells. I
E Always sure-fire, always giving an ever. 1
spread of shot and good penetration, their I
great superiority is testified to by sports- ■
v j,. (f^j men who use Winchester Factory Loaded 1
Shells in preference to any other make. 1
bTSB a LL dealers keep them!
5 HERE AND THERE. 1
I. D. Price for hammocks. 9
For dray at any hour call up
Hazel hotel. 83dtf
A full line of fishing tackle at
I. D. Price’s. 9
Try Invincible flour at the
Standard Grocer Co. OOdtf
For Rent—Furnished rooms
with board. 222 Laurel. Oldlm
Jackson sells house paint for
$1.15 a gallon, .iign grade. 78
Invincible flour at Standard
Grocer Co. Best on earth. 00
Julius Kempner of Cincinnati
called on his Newport customers
Thursday.
Go to I. D. Price for base ball
supplies, balls, bats, masks,
mitts, etc. 9
The Woman’s club will meet
tomorrow afternoon at 3 o’clock
with Mrs. C. R. Hite.
Be sore and see the white
linen for 35c a yard. Wolff
Goldman Merc. Co. J9
W. A. Uldneld and J. S. Hand
ford were down from Batesville
Thursday on business.
Dr. T. W. Toler of Swifton
was a pleasant caller at the In
dependent office Thursday.
James R. Davis and J. D. El
dridge were representatives up
from Auvergne Wednesday.
R. L. Robinson and John
Loftin, Jr., have returned from
a horse-purchasing trip in Mis
souri.
Rev. T. F. Richardson will
preach at the Litchfield school
house Sunday afternoon at 3
o’clock.
Now is the time to have
your guttering and tin work
done by the Wolff-Goldman
Merc. Co. 9
Wm. Roberts and wife of
Jonesboro are guests at the
Creighton, having arrived Wed
nesday night.
For three days we are going to
offer a swell line of Ladies’ Street
Hats for 89c, worth up to $2.25.
Otto M. Bowen. 21
The closing exercises of the
colored public school will take
place tonight at the opera house
and an interesting program will
be rendered.
Get a water filter and
drink pure water and enjoy
good health. Wolff-Gold
man Merc. Co. 7
When you wish to speak to me j
about your dress making call |
over ’phone for residence 206
Walnut street. Mrs. Nettie
Seay. 13d6t
John W. Glenn and wife of |
Batesville were guests of the
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ing home from a three weeks’
visit to Hot Springs.
The Newport lodge of Eagles
will run an excursion to Poplar
Bluff and invite everybody to go
with them. Cheap rates and a
good time guaranteed.
Mrs. S. W. McFarland and
daughter, Miss Ida, have re
turned from a several weeks’ de
lightful visit to relatives in Sel
ma, La., and Homan, Ark.
Let all members of the Pastime
Book club who have not sent in
their old books do so by Satur
day at noon or a fine will be im
! posed. Send books to the secre
tary, Miss Hal Phillips.
The friends of C. E. Smith,
i the pleasant young deputy sher
iff, will be glad to know ihat he
is improving. He had the mis
fortue to suffer the cramps
while climbing the court house
fence Tuesday afternoon and one
of the spears was forced into his
leg two inches by the fail.
The graduating exercises of
the Arkansas Military Academy
will be held in Little Rock Friday
morning at 10 o’clock. Among
the graduates we notice the name
of Charles Robert Rhodes of
Osceola, an excellent young man
who has many friends in New
port from former vis
I Phillips and family.
I. D. jrrice for croquet sets.
Eagles5 excursion to Poplar
Bluff Sunday.
Only four more days of the
great- special sale at Bowen’s
Cash Store. dlt
Sigmund Wolff has been suf
fering intensely with rheuma
tism for several days.
Household Goods for Sale—
Bedroom Sets, Rocking Chairs^
Stands, etc. 523 Hazel st.
Jackson is the cheapesi
paints, glass, putty, oils,
nishes, brushes, fillers, staind?
room mouldings, picture frames,
wall paper, window shades of
any retailers in Newport, Ark.
Ernest Richardson, who has
been in Pine Bluff several weeks
on Y. M. C. A. business, spent
Wednesday in the city with his
parents, Rev. and Mrs. T. F.
Richardson, en route to Parsons,
Kansas. Mr. Richardson is an
enthusiastic worker in the Y. M. i
C. A. and has done much good
for the organization in Arkansas, j
The Independent is in receipt |
of a beautifully engraved invita
tion to the commencement exer
cises of the graduating class of
the Memphis Conference Female
Institute at Jackson, Tenn., of
which school Miss Birdie Bains,
formerly of Newport, is one of
the class. Her r any Newport
friends extend congratulations.
“The faculty and senior class,
Searcy Female Institute, invite
you to be present at the com
mencement exercises Monday
evening, June 12, 1905, at 8
o’clock, Presbyterian church.”
The foregoing handsomely en
graved invitation, with the cards
of Misses Kathryn Louise Price
and Mary Laura Bailey enclosed,
was received by the Independent
Thursday, and was very much
appreciated. Misses Price and
Bailey are the graduates of this
school, and are among Newport’s
sweetest girls, whqse friends
rejoice that they will soon be
home to stay.
Would you accept a position
that will pay you a straight sal
ary of $3.50 per day ($21.00 per
week) for whole or spare time?
If so write us at once. This is
no book canvassing scheme, but
a straight forward business prop
osition, which will be as perma
nent as you may be able to make
it, and will afford an excellent
chancs for promotion. No bond,
red tape nor unreasonable re
quirements. Act quickly, as we
wish to employ some one in your
locality without delay. Sprague
Wholesale Co., Wabash avenue,
Chicago. 19bl2t
$100 REWARD $100.
The readers of this paper will
be pleased to learn that there
in lAoef nriA rllCPOQP
that science has been able to
cure in all its stages, and that is
catarrh. Hall’s Catarrh Cure is
the only positive cure now known
to the medical fraternity. Ca
tarrh being a constitutional dis
ease, requires a constitutional
treatment. Hall’s Catarrh CUre
is taken internally, acting direct
ly upon the blood and mucous
surfaces of the system, thei’eby
destroying the foundation of the
disease and giving the patient
strength by building up the con
stitution and assisting nature in
doing its work. The proprietors
have so much faith in its curative
powers that they offer One Hun
dred Dollars for any case that it
fails to cure. Send for list of
testimonials. Address
F. J. Cheney & Co.,Toledo, 0.
Sold by druggists, 75c.
Take Hall’s Family Pills for
constipation. x
MARRIAGE LICENSES.
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Virgil A. Ivey, 35, and Maggie
Roheecheide, 18, both of Dun
nington.
Dan W. Wormack, 35, Russell,
and Laura Cantrell, 30, High
Rock.
J. W. Ray, 48, Estill, and Al
lie Baber, 25, Melbourne.
Will Seward, 24, and Ella Hen
derson, 26, both of Layton.
Charles Banks, 24, and Ella
Cren, 14, both of Remmel.
Tf/RST NATIONAL BANK
! Newport, Arkansas*
Under the supervision of the United States Government.
| PAID IN CAPITAL $50,000.00
- - $21,500.00
upwards will be re
xtended both small
ORS:
I T. J. Graham W. A. Joyce Sigmund Wolff
Jos. S. Harvey T. J. Gregg J. W. Ferrill
J. D. Goldman, J. 0. Taylor, W. A. Joyce,
President. Vice-Pres.
W. A. Billingsley, F. A. Jones, !
Cashier. Ass’t Cashier.
W. T. Parish, Assistant Cashier.
$ . .COUNTRY . . S
| CORRESPONDENCE. $
HICKORY GROVE.
Too much rain is the cry of the
farmers of this community.
Tom Churchman of Kenyon
was down Tuesday on business.
The F. E. & C. U. of A. will
meet at Hickory Grove Saturday
night.
Some of the boys went on the
excursion up the Batesville road
Sunday.
There is talk of putting up a
farmers’ union gin in this neigh
borhood.
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The school election passed off
Saturday, electing W. F. Perry
as director.
Rev. Brownlow Taylor will
preach at Hickory Grove Sunday.
Everybody invited.
We notice Cromwell West in
this community quite often on
Sundav afternoons.
As I see nothing from this
place, will send a few happen
ings of recent date.
Miss Nora Hunter has returned
home from Tuckerman, where
she has been attending school.
Some of the farmers will lose
part of their cotton in the low- i,
lands. Perhaps this will reduce ,
the acreage.
Henry Grant, who has been at
tending Keys institute at Little
Rock, was home on a visit Sat
urday and Sunday.
Several of the boys took ad
vantage of the excursion to St.
Louis Saturday night. Those
going were C. E. Penix, J. E.
Bowen, J. B. Thompson, J. M.
Gawf and G. L. Smith.
Wonder what has become of
the Jacksonport correspondent?
11 suppose he has taken a trip on
| that great boat he writes about
I so much or maybe the high water
has claimed a victim. Come,
let's hear about the “Welcome”
again, “Sunny Jim.”
We will bring our news to a
close as this is our first. We
are waiting to hear from Jack
sonport. Come on, Jim.
Twilight.
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PRESIDENT PARDONS
ARKANSAS CONVICT.
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Washington, May 23. —Presi
dent Roosevelt has commuted to
j expire immediately the sentence
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'Stone county, Ark., who has
been serving a five year sentence
:at the Leavenworth, Kansas,
federal prison since January,
1903, on a charge of counterfeit
ing. He recently contracted
consumption in caring for others.
Clear white clothes are a sign
that the housekeeper uses Red
Cross Ball Blue. Large 2 oz.
package, 5 cents.
Read the Daily and Weekly
Independent
zomulsion
Cure for Consumption
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WHEN IN NEWPORT
STQP AT THE
Grand Central Hotel
Lunch Room. Service all hours,
lay and night. Barber Shop in
connection with hotel.
W. F. BISHOP, Prop.
jack Herron
For Granitoid and Stone Walks,
Curbing, all kinds of Brick Work.
Don’t fail to get my figures i
before contracting. /
My Work Talks For Itself (
Parties wanting crushed Lime- *
Stone Walks apply to me.
Ballew & Shuford
Undertakers.
Office, 211 Walnut Street,
Opposite Cook’s Hotel.
E. L. WATSON, M. D.<|
OFFICE OVER MOSBY’S. |
NEWPORT, ARK. §
TRY THE
Weems . Laundry.j
When you want good wl
work. They make a
specialty of Dyeing and
Cleaning Clothes. Let
them, show you how well
they can please you.
Leave orders with
T. P. Umsted&Co. ,
Local Agents.
SAW MILL FOR SALE. J
Saw mill and 1,000 acres of
oak for sale cheap. Party de
sires to look after other business.
Apply at this office. This mill
is a bargain and can be securec
for $450.