VOLUME H. ' NEWPORT, ARKANSAS, TUESDAY, MARCH 1908 NUMBER 294
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You can buy cheaper clothes
than the kind we sell, but don’t.
It won’t pay. You have never
seen a real good article that did
not cost more than a poor one,
have you?
We control exclusively for this town the production of three of the
best clothesmakers in all America, including the
ALFRED BENJAMIN CO., NEW YORK,
whose garments are so favorably known to thousands who wear good
clothes, as the equal to the custom tailor in every respect, except the
. price, and that is less than half.
Every garment that we sell at no matter what price carries with it
our guarantee of absolute satisfaction or your money back. Our odd
shaped clothes for odd-shaped men enables us to fit extremely stout or
slim figures with as much ease as the regular shaped man. Drop in
some day and let us show you these suits that get better and better every
year, and which were not bad thirty years ago.
SPRING SUITS,
$15.00 and up to $30.00.
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KNOX HATS HANHATTAN SHIRTS
Are sold all over the world to men Known as the best, the best-known
who wish to dress with taste and spring styl s now ready in imported
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“HAWES” $3.00 $1.50 and $2.00.
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$3*®^’ $3*5^» $4.00, §1.00 each.
Specialists
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JACK JONES,
The Crack Barber, keeps a neat
-. ^.nd busy little shop. Upper end
of Front street. Expert tonso
rialists. Easy shaves and the best
haircuts. Our work pleases.
“Come on, ye stubby beards.”
THE GREAT SOUTHWEST.
Farmers, farmers’ wives and daugt
ters, school teachers, doctors, clergj
men, merchants in the smaller town
anjr citizen who has something to sa;
are invited to write letters and long(
articles about the locality in whit
thej- live in the Southwest.
The territory includes Arkansa
Arizona, Indian Territory, Louisian
Southern Missouri, New Mexico, Ol
lahoma and Texas. Premiums th;
make it an object are offered, a s<
for each state and territory. Full pai
ticulars of the conditions of the coi
test, and a list of the prizes and aware
will be sent upon application, to,
J. W. Steele, Commissioner.
Colonization Agency, Southwester
lines. Columbia Theatre Bldg., S
Louis Mo. 46 b4w.
MEMPHI FLOOR STAIN
The Best Finish for Hardwood Floors,
Handsome, Dries
Durable, Over
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LOOK LIKE REAL HAR.DWOOD.
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MILLIONAIRE IN OVERALLS.
CORNEI.IPS VANDERBILT AS HE
WORKS IN HIS MACHINE SHOP.
Few wage earners work any harder
than doi young millionaire Cornelius
Vanderbilt, Jr. Unlike some other
young men who have come into the
inheritance of vast wealth. Cornelius
Vanderbilt. Jr., is a man of strong
principles and a firm believer in the
nobility of labor.
After his graduation from Yale uni
versity the young man decided to
equip himself with a thorough practi
cal knowledge of every branch of rail
road work. Donning a pair of overalls
and jumper, he worked side by side
with ordinary mechanics,spending two
years’ time in the motive power and
civil engineering department of the
New York Central Railway.
He is an expert mechanic, and has
already perfected several inventions
which have come into use as improve
ments in railway equlppage. One of
these inventions is a device for use on
locomotives which has the effect of
facilitating the removal of the fire box
from an engine, thus expediting the
work of cleaning the fire box.
In this picture Mr. Vanderbilt has on
one of Fincks "Detroit-Special” No.
755 Coats and Flnck’s “Detroit-Special”
No. 15 Reversible Overall. All other
“wage earners” are now asking for
Flnck’s “Detroit-Special” Reversible
Overalls. Union Made, made in Detroit.
For sale by all the leading dealers
throughout the country.
Star Clothing House1
Sole Agents.
CHARLES R. HITE
Buys and Sells Farms,
City Property,
Timber Lands &c.
Money To Loan,
Farm Insurance.
NOTARY PUBLIC.
3all or write, No. 107 Hazel Street,
NEWPORT, ARKANSAS.
WILL PAY YOUR TAXES
PENSION LEVY INCREASE
DEFEATED BY HOUSE
Sentiment Of That Body Favors One
Mill Levy For Confederate Pen
sions—Osteopathic Bill Passes
—Pinnix Bill Will Not Be
Reconsidered.
Little Rock, Mar. 31.—The house
yesterday failed to pass the Stockard
bill increasing the tax levy for Con
federate pensions from three-fourths
of a mill to one mill and a half. The
vote was 36 ayes to 27 noes, and a
two-thirds majority, or 42 votes, was
required. The sentiment of the house
as indicated, was for a one-mill levy.
The house passed the Chestnut bill
regulating the practice of osteopathy,
and providing for a state board of os
teopathic examiners, after adopting
an amendment striking out “obstet
rics” and “minor surgery.”
The house tabled Judge Keith’s bill,
with amendments, increasing the
penalty for violation of the Sabbath
law by liquor dealers. The bill pro
posed a fine of §100 to §300 for the
first offense and a fine of §200 to §600
and forfeiture of license for the sec
ond offense.
The Baskin bill allowing mileage to
jurors was amended by the house so
as to cut the mileage from 10 cents to
5 cents each way, and so as not to ap
ply to justice of the peace courts.
The house tabled a motion to re
con sider the vote by which Senator
Pinnix’s county school superintendent
bill failed to pass.
The senate passed bills as follows:
By Senator Flenniken—Providing
for registration of pharmacists.
By Senator Cotham—Providing a
lien on cattle for feeding.
Most of the day in the senate was
again taken up witn the Leatherman
impeachment proceedings.
RURAL DELIVERY ROUTES
FOR JACKSON COUNTY.
Washington, March 30.—The follow
ing rural free delivery routes will be
established in Arkansas on July 1: Al
myra, Arkansas county, with two car
riers, length of routes 46 miles, popu
lation 932; Holly Grove, Monroe
county, with one carrier, length of
route 22 miles, population 686; New
port, Jackson county, with one car
rier, length of route 21 1-2 miles, pop
ulation 613; Tupelo, Jackson county
with one carrier, length of route, 20
1-2 miles, population 618.
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The salary of the carrier for New
port Free Delivery Route No. 2 is to
be $600 per annum including horse
hire.
The route to be followed as laid
down in a report by Special Agent
Nevins, dated Oct. 23, 1902, is
as follows: Starting at the post office
in Newport, thence northeasterly in
zigzag direction passing fair grounds,
Mason’s Slaten, Baker, Holden and
Littleton to Wilmans corner, a dis
tance of 10 1-2 miles; thence south to
williams', a distance or a miles;
thence southwest in zigzag direction
passing Village Creek, Goldman’s and
United States Experimental farm to
postoffice, a distance of 8 miles, cov
ering a total distance of 211-2 miles
and reaching 114 houses with a popu
lation of 513.
The carrier is to leave the Newport
offlc by 7:30 a. m. and return with
his i .Elections in time to dispatch mail
by 3:00 p. m.
AUDIENCE ENTERTAINED.
(Contributed.)
Squire Guy Smith gave a free en
tertainment at his office Monday
night, which was much relished by
those in attend rnce, it having lasted
until twelve o’clock. The audience
was largo and enthusiastic. Duncan
Clark and his lady minstrels were the
performers. The officers of the day
were as follows:
Squire Guy Smith, stage manager;
Marshal T. S. Stephens, door keeper;
Constable R. M. Laird, bell boy; Dep
uty Sheriff Lockard Bandy, property
man; Attorney S. M. Stuckey, Usher
in Gallery; Attorney Dean Coleman,
of Batesville, Janitor; Attorney G. L.
Grant, carried water for the elephant;
T. G. Cushing, assistant manager of
the pugilist, Kidd Berry; also built
fires in the dressing room.
Prominent absentees were as fol
lows:
H. Bernstein, J. E. Doherty, J. Ri
ley Mayhan, Holly Cobb and W. R.
Stewart.
The curtain from over this exquisite
scene arose promptly at early candle
lighting, and went down at twelve
o’clock, by Judge Smith, holding Kid
Berry to await the action of the grand
jury at the next term of circuit court,
! with bail in the sum of three hundred
dollars, which he gave.
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TRIAL OF QUAPAW
PROVED SATISFACTORY.
The Quapaw, the new government
snag-boat, was given a satisfactory
trial trip Saturday on the Arkansas
river near Little Rock, and early in
May will leave for the summer work
on White, Black and Current rivers.
The hull was built at Jeffersonville,
Ind., last year, and towed to Little
Rock, by Memphis and Arkansas City,
under the direction of Capt. Graham
D. Fitch, captain of the United States
engineers’ corps. There are now
three snag-boats in this district, the
Arkansas, Reese and Quapaw, the
latter being the smallest, 12x30 feet.
Capt. John D. Warner, formerly of
the Sheldon, is master.
STEAMER COLLIDED
WITH RAILROAD BRIDGE.
Forrest City, Ark., March 30.—In at
tempting to pass the railroad bridge
at Madison Saturday evening the Ha
zel Rice, a steamer owned by the
Helena Box and Hoop Factory, was
seriously damaged, a barge of logs
which she had in tow sunk and der
rick of the boat wrecked by coming
in contact with the draw of the bridge
and the bridge piers. Will Griggs,
colored, was assisting Station Agent
Chaney in operating the draw of the
bridge and amid the crash, lost his
head, leaped into the river and was
drowned. The steamer proceeded to
her post for repairs.
PENITENTIARY OFFICIALS.
The state penitentiary board held
its regular monthly meeting Monday
in the state auditor’s office and the
election of penitentiary officers came
up. All the officials were elected by
the board with the exception of a
penitentiary physician, the vote re
sulting in a tie after casting fifty-one
ballots.
The deadlock resulted from the fact
that there were but four members of
the board present. These were Attor
ney General Murphy, Secretary of
State Crockett, Auditor Monroe,
chairman of the board, and Commis
sioner of Agriculture Bradford. Gov.
Davis was not present at the meeting.
Another meeting will be held today
at 2 o’clock for the purpose of settling
the matter.
PRAISE FOR TEACHER.
Editor Independent:
Our public school at this place, un
der the management of Mrs. Jean
Romeiro Diaz, of Batesville, Ark.,
closed with an entertainment given
at the echool house last Friday night.
The school has been a grand success,
and the pupils acquitted themselves
in a manner that reflected credit to
themselves and speaks in the highest
terms of their teacher.
We take pleasure in recommending
Mrs. Diaz to all who stand in peed of
a teacher who is untiring in her ef
forts in behalf of her pupils, generous
and kind of disposition, yet im-r . •*
yielding and firm in her deportment^
We desire through the colums of your\
paper to extend to her our heartfelt
thanks for her efforts here and to as
sure her that as she goes forth to new
fields of labor that she carries with
her the best wishes of a host of friends
who mourn her departure and who
will ever cherish her short stay
amongst us as one of mutual benefit
and pleasure to all.
Grand Glaize, Ark., March 28, 1903.
NEWTON-BRUTON
Mr. Charles Newton and Miss Mary
Bell Bruton were quietly married Sat
urday evening at the home of the
bride, Justice Lucien Harris officiat
ing. The Independent extends con
gratulations and best wishes that the
union may be a happy one.
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