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W VOLUME III NEWPORT. ARKANSAS, SATURDAY, AUGUST 15. 1903 NUMBER 94
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f Greeting:
We take this medium of expressing our gratitude to the
people who honored this institution with their presence and patron
age during the past season.
The universal scope of the house of Star Clothing House
k makes them pre-eminently the store THAT ARE “SPECIALISTS”
r in Men’s and Boys’ “Apparel.”
m J This season finds us better equipped to serve your every
fancy than ever before. Naturally! We’re a half-year older and
more experienced—we know your needs “exacter.” How well we '
have chosen for you and how moderately we’ve priced, is a tale
that tells itself in our merchandise itself—Our fall goods are com
ing in now and watch for announcements later—among the fa
mous brands we handle are the “Alfred Benjamin & Co. Correct
Clothing,” “Bamberger Bros., Juvenile Clothing,” “Knox’s, Hawes’
and Stetson’s Hats,” Manhattan Shirts, “Edwin Clapp and Stacey
Adams Shoes,” Waterhouse Cravats, “Crown Trousers,” Faultness
Night Robes and Pajamas.
We will take pleasure in showing you through at any time.
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=Yes, Cut Price Sale!=^
Now is your chance to get good goods cheap.
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—^Vtibst a few of the Bargains:
25 pieces of Scotch Lawns worth 6c I*
now.
Apron Gingham worth 7 i-2c. C
now
Children’s Drop Stitch Hose Red, White,
Blue and Black worth 35c, now.
50 pieces of Fine Lawns, Regular 15c A _
Value now.
30 pieces of best quality of Lawn, Regular |P_
Price 25c and 35c now.
Ladies Shirt Waists and Skirts at Cost.
72-inch White Table Linen worth $1.00 CA
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All Ladies and Children’s Slippers at Cost===We Mean Cost.
THE BAILEY flERCANTILE COHPANY
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WE CARE.
People get more than they ask for x when they have us
till their prescriptions. The public at large is nor hall
so particular as we are in these matters.
We know that our drugs are both pure and of standard
strength. We take no chances whatever, and never hesi
tate to pay the cost of making sure.
Your physician writes a prescription expecting defi
nite results; we see to it that he is not disappointed.
All prescriptions have careful,
scientific compounding, and we
also make the price right.
SELLS’ DRUG STORE
NEWPORT, ARKANSAS.
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Low Rates
via
To Eureka Springs.
Round 0| ■■ Round
Trip . V V Trip .
Denver, Colorado Springs,
Round Round
Trip Trip
Through Sleepers. Tickets on
Sale August 15th.
Write for full information to
J. N. CORNATZAR,
Div. Passenger Agt.
Memphis, Tenn.
WEST BOUND RATES.
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Special west bound tourist rates via
the Iron Mountain Route—One fare
1 plus 50 cents to Denver, Colorado
Springs, Pueblo and Glenwood
: Springs. Tickets on sale June 15th to
j September 30tb, with final limit ol
i October 31st for return.
! 47btf T. H. Reamey, Agt.
For liberal prices, send your peark
and baroques to C; A. Windau, New
port, Arkansas. 305 btf
HENRY OWEN,
PHYSICIAN, SURGEON AND
OCULIST.
OFFICE * SELLS’ DRUG STORE.
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JACK JONES,
The Crack Barber, keeps a neat
and busy little shop. Upper end
of Front street. Expert tonso
rialists. ^asy shaves and the best
haircuts. Our work pleases.
“Come on, ye stubby beards.”
| SUPPLY SUFFICIENT
FOR THE WORLD.
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Charles A. Pfeiffer, president of the
Pfeiffer Stone Company, producers of
the Batesville marble, which will be
used for the superstructure of Ark
ansas’ new million-dollar capitol, was
in Little Rock Friday, says the Ga
zette, and states that the company
will be able to supply promptly the
marble needed for the new capitol.
The company ownes 740 acres seven
miles from Batesville, and it is from
this tract the marble is taken. There
is being put in at the quarries the
largest plant west of Bedford, Ind.
Mr. Pfeiffer says that the best ma
chinery will be used and that there
will be no hitch in getting out and
shipping the stone. The Iron Moun
tain railroad has a spur running out
to the quarries and the shipments can
be made with reasonable promptness.
Otto Pfeiffer, superintendent of the
company, resides at Batesville with
his family and gives constant atten
tion to the quarries.
President Pfeiffer says there is
enough of the Batesville marble to
supply the world. For many years
the stone has been in use in Batesville
for trimmings and for cemetery mon
uments, and one or two buildings in
Batesville have been constructed of
the material. As an evidence of its
durability he says there is a Bates
ville marble monument at Batesville
over the grave of General Porter, who
was killed in the Mexican war, which
has been standing since 1849, and
which shows no signs of the ravages
of time, fifty-three years after its
attonf i r\n
The stone has attracted attention all
over the country, but it is only of late
that facilities have been provided for
bringing it into general use. Tech
nically, it is a gray oolitic limestone,
and is said to be equal, if not superior,
to the celebrated Vermont marble. It
was given much prominence in the
official reports of Dr. J. G. Branner,
former state geologist of Arkansas,
who is now a memoer of the faculty
of Leland Stanford university. Pres
ident Pfeiffer’s attention was called to
it by specimens exhibited in St. Louis
several years ago. He made a per
sonal investigation and the absorption
of the quarries by his company fol
lowed. Mr. Pfeiffer predicts that Ar
kansas will have one of the handsom
est capitols in the Union by reason of
using this marble in the superstructure
and declares it will do more to adver
tise Arkansas than anything of recent
occurrence. It is the purpose of the
company to make a display of the
marble at the world’s fair.
HURLING EPITHETS.
In concluding its report of the
speaking at Newport, the Gazette
says: “Many, to show their disgust
of this style of campaign, of personal
flings and vituperation, left during the
speaking.” We have no doubt it was
disgusting to self-respecting citizens.
However, they should charge the re
sponsibility to the person who inaugu
rated that kind of tactics, and deal
with him accordingly. Here, for in
stance, is a paragraph from the Wal
dron Reporter giving an account of
the speaking there. That journal
says;
“This personal abuse got to such a
hot stage that a personal difficulty was
harelv avoided. The vilest enithets
were hurled at each other and vul
garity was dished out without regard
to modesty. In several instances the
language used by the governor him
self was an insult to the intelligence
and morality of the good people of
Scott county.”—Arkansas Democrat.
WIFE MURDERER
HANGED AT MARION.
Marion, Aug. 14.—Will Diamond, a
middle-aged negro, was hung here to
j day at 12:30 o’clock for the murder of
| his wife. The crime was committed
I last spring and was a foul and coward
ly murder.
Diamond killed his wife to be rid of
her in order to be with another ne
gress. He implicated two other ne
groes in the crime and they were in
dicted at the last term of court, but
were discharged on account of the
total lack of corroborating evidence.
The execution was private and was
witnessed by about twenty persons,
yet a large number of negroes gath
ered in town at an early hour this
morning and stood in a drizzling rain
for an hour to gratify the morbid de
sire of catching a glimpse of the con
demned negro as he was led from the
jail to the scaffold.
The execution passed off quietly
and without special excitement.
The “Little Bakery on the Corner”
has the largest shop between Texar
kana and St. Louis. 87dtf
CAMPAIGN COMMENT.
ANENT DAVIS BEEBE BANNER.
The campaign banner displayed at
the Davis-Vandeventer meeting last
week must have been an atrocious
thing. One can imagine the standard
of artistic excellence to which the
perpetrator of such an ill-conceived
piece of work would attain. Davis
represented as being “Hell on Carpet
Baggers” is originality indeed. The
“carpet-baggers” referred to is Mr.
Vandeventer, whose Virginia parents
moved to Illinois. Already in this
campaign Governor Davis has referred
to Vandeventer as a carpet-bagger,
which is about as near as Davis gets
to the truth of anything. It is a nar
row, near-sighted, picayunish policy
that urges against a candidate the
fact that he was born in another state.
The constitution defines the qualifi
cations of candidates, and does not
bar them because they are natives of
other states. Arkansas would be a
howling wilderness today if people
had not immigrated here from other
states.-—Jonesboro Sun.
Vandeventer may not be popular at
home, as Gov. Davis’ friends claim,
but a few figures may not be out of
place. The last race in this county in
which Mr. Vandeventer was a candi
date he received a total vote of 1319
out of a total vote cast of less thau
1900, his running mate, Hon. G. W.
Griffin, receiving 1280 and Gov. Jones
only 1290. In his home township he
receiver* 430 votes and JoneB only 417.
lr vanaevenier is not popular hi nome
and cannot carry his county then fig
ures lie.—Morrilton Democrat.
NOTHING MORE
THAN MERE TALK.
“We have it from a reliable source
that of Hon. T. C. McRae of Prescott
is a candidate for governor and that
he will lay his claims before the peo
people in due time. Tom McRea is a
clean man and withal a power in state
politics.”
But the Pine Bluff Graphic, which
was a supporter of James K. Jones in
the recent senatorial fight, thinks dif
ferently.
'‘The mention of Mr. McRae in con
nection with the gubernatorial race
is a matter of mere talk only,” says
the Graphic. “Mr. McRae attached
himself to the Davis band wagon two
years ago and supported the Davis
Clarke combination on a promise from
Davis that he (Da' ’a) would not be a
candidate for a third term for gov
ernor, but would support McRae for
that office. Some of Mr. McRae’s
friends stated that the only reason
they had for supporting the Davis
Clarke combine was that McRae had
been promised the governorship ‘next
time.’ The ‘next time’ is here, but
Davis is a candidate for a third term,
and Tom McRae is not a candidate
and will not be. He has been thrown
down, and while the Graphic has al
ways had a high regard for Mr. Mc
Rae, it has no sympathy for him in
the political pulverizing he has oeen
given by Davis. Mr. McRae should
have formed a combination with no
such disgusting demagogue as Davis.”
WHAT SUCCESSFUL MEN DO.
When we were publishing a paper
in Mt. Vernon, 111., on the second
floor, a store was opened in the room
under our office. The senior proprie
tui uaiuc up ouvun anu tuuuav/vcu iui
three columns of space for twelve
months, with locals each issue and
2,500 dodgers each week. This firm
started on borrowed capital. In less
than two years it had money enough
to start two stores, one in Sedalia and
one in St. Louis. It dissolved part
nership and each partner took a field
to himself. Byron Nugent was the
partner who is now the senior mem
ber of B. Nugent & Bro., the great St.
Louis house. He not only owns the
store building and ground, but is
erecting a modest little cottage home
which will cost $87,000. We might
add that some of the old mossbacks
who were in business before Byron
1 Nugent ever saw the place are yet
grumbling about dull trade and hard
times. And Nugent is worth more
than a million in cold cash.—Poplar
Bluff Republican.
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IN HONOR OF HER NIECE.
Mrs. R. P. Morrison entertained
very pleasantly a small party of young
people Friday evening in honor of her
niece, MisB Ida Soles. Refreshments
of ice cream and cake were served
during the evening.
Those present were Misses Myrla
Gravett, Maggie Barker, May Byrum,
Ida McFarland, Allie Hicks; Messrs.
John McFarland, Ray Pace, Curry
Stephens, Thos. Chastain and Arthur
| Bouie.
OFFICIALS ON TRIP.
General Superintendent W.T. Tyler,
Division Superintendent J. G. Harti
gan and Trainmaster VV. S. Hobbs
left here Saturday morning about 7
o’clock on a special train behind en
gine 435, one of the fastest on the
road, for an inspection trip over the
White River branch.
It is expected that a new schedule
will be put into effect soon on the
White River road and the passenger
run through from here to Cotter, re
quiring two crews, alternating every
other day. This would throw the ar
rival of the passenger here late in the
evening, though under the new order,
this train would no longer handle the
local freight above Batesville as at
present.
Just when the change will be made
has not been announced, but this trip
of the officials will probably determine
the time.
POCAHONTAS PEARL NOTES.
(Pocahontas News-Herald.)
One of the best finds made lately
was that of Gail Lomax, who found a
45-grain pearl at the ferry just above
the railroad bridge Tuesday of this
week. He sold the pearl to Dr. Pep
per of Black Rock for §350. The gem
was a beauty and several thought it
ought to have sold for §600 or §700.
George Slayton of Noland found a
pearl last week in Black river which
he sold for §80o. The pearl weighed
67 grains.
a ropiar uiun paper states mat a
boy from Biggers sold a pearl at that
place one day last week for §220. The
boy said his name was Hamilton.
George Slayton, the man mentioned
above as finding the §800 pearl, is in
town today with another fine pearl
for which he asks §1,000. Slayton is a
one-armed man and seems to be one
of the luckiest pearlers on the river.
YELLVILLE WANTS A GAME.
The Yellville base ball team, who
are said to be “crack-a-jacks,” will
play Batesville August 24 and 26 and
Melbourne upon the 20th at Bates
ville. They have also written here for
an engagement on the 27tb, provided
their expenses from Batesville, while
here and return are paid.
K. T. Simmons, who is a base hall
enthusiast, is working up the affair
and hopes to meet with enough en
couragement to insure a game.
Grounds and funds are the necessary
articles, as we have the talent. ' .
APPOINTMENTS.
May be made
and conversa
tion held, giv
ing all the advantages of
a personal interview
through the use of The
Long Distance Telephone.
SOUTHWESTERN
TELE ORA PH &
TELEPHONE CO.
GRAND
EXCURSION
—AND—
Special Train
Newport, Ark.
—TO
St. Louis
AND RETURN
VIA THE
Iron Mountain Route
Saturday, Aug. 15, ’03
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Round Trip From Newport $4.00
Train Leave Newport at 9:40 p. m
Tickets will be good returning only on
Special Train leaving St. Louis about
9:00 p. m. August 16th.
Visit the World’s Fair Grounds
BASE BALL GAME
American League
ST. LOUIS vs. PHILADELPHIA
Theatrical Matinees at the Summer Gardens.
\musements and Pastimes of all Kinds.
See Focal Agt. information.