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Fifteen Free Trips.
Washington, D. C., May 3.—A
unique contest was today inau
gurated by the Southern Com
mercial Congress, which offers
fifteen free trips to the Panama
Canal for the best suggestions
for a memorial to commemorate
the opening of the canal. The
announcement was made today
by Senator Duncan U. Fletcher,
of Florida, preident of the con
gress.
The congress believes com
pletion of the canal should be
marked by some suitable me
morial, and the contest will a
rouse interest in the study ol
the trade relations of the canal
to the United States, Latin A
merica and the world.
The memorial can take any
form, a statue, an international
celebration, a book, a conven
tion. anything that the jury
of award decides is the best sug
gestion to commemorate the
completion of the canal.
Secretary of Sfate Bryan and
John Barrett, Director >
of the Pan-American Union,
with others to be selected by
themselves, will constitute the
jury of award. They will de
cide the fifteen best suggestions.
The trips to the canal will be
made in October next from Mo
bile, Alabama, where the fifth
annual convention of the South
ern Commercial Congress will be
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LODGE DIRECTORS.
Royal Arcanum.
Newport Council , No. 322.
Royal Arcanum meets 1st and
3rd Friday nights in each month
in the Opera House building.
Visiting breihren always wel
come.
S. M. Beattie, Regent,
W. C. Wishon, Sec.
Woodmen of the"World. "
Pecan Camp, No. 3, meets 1st
and 3rd Thursday nights of each
month in Masonic Hall. Visit
ing brothers welcome.
R. T. Simmons, C. C.
P. S. White, Clerk.
Modern Woodmen.
Newport Camp, No. 13,674,
M. W. A., meets Second Friday
night of each month in Opera
House. Visiting brethren invit
| ed.
R. T. Simmons, Consul.
! Jackson Lodge, No. 191 F. &
A. M.
Meets Second and Fourth
Tuesday nights of each month in
the Opera House Building, Se
cond and Hazel Streets.
Visiting Brothers always wel
come.
Geo. M. Sink, W. M.
S. M. Beattie, Sec.
The I. 0. O. F.
The I. 0. 0. P. meets every
Monday night in Masonic Hall
corner Hazel and Second streets.
Visiting brothers afways wel
come.
Grover C. Gates, N. G.
J. F. Parish. Secretary.
Tribe of Ben Hur.
The Tribe of Ben Hur meets
in the Board Building every
Tuesday night at 8 o’clock by or
der of the chief.
If you use ball blue, get Red
Cross Ball Blue, the best ball
blue. Large 2 oz. package 5
cents.
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§ Your Business 1
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§g of dollars annually to the railroads and express compa
■a nies in overcharges and never know it, thus deliberately y=>
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Josephs Versus Briant Reversed
Little Rock, May 5.—The su-;
preme court today reversed and !
remanded for a new trial the
suit of Louis Josephs, executor,
vs. Mrs. Mai Sparks Briant, from
the Lawrence circuit court. This
is a very interesting case, grow
ing out of a claim held against
the estate of the late A. W. Shi
hey, who was assassinated in his
store at Minturn in 1910. Shi
rey left most of his estate to the
Odd Fellows, of which he was a
member, and Louis Josephs rep
resented the order in attending
to the affairs of the estate.
Mrs. Briant, a grandniece of
the deceased, claimed she had an
agreement with Shirey to secure
for him papers which had been
taken by Madame Rudolph, a
spiritualist, for which he was to
pay $10,000. The contention
was sustained in the Lawrence
circuit court, a verdict for the
entire amount being given.
It was shown that Shirey was
a believer in spiritualism anci
while consulting the spiritualist
he was persuaded to write ob
scene letters to his wife, from
whom he was seeking a divorce.
Shirey, an aged man, had mar
ried a young woman, and both
had applied for a divorce, which
the courts had refused to grant.
He claimed the letter was taken
by the spiritualist for the pur
pose of showing the wife, under ■
representation it would aid him '
in getting the divorce.
Later Shirey learned the let
ters were to be usedagainst him,
and Mrs. Briant was employed
to get them back, which she did,
coming to see the spiritualist in
Little Rock and paying $50 for
them.
In reversing the case the Su
preme court declares there could
be no defense on the part of the
estate of A. W. Shirey if the
services of Mrs. Briant alone
were devoted to getting back the
letters. But* according to the
evidence of Mrs. Briant’s daugh
ter, and to the bill rendered by
Mrs. Briant, the services were to
secure evidence which might al
so be used in securing a divorce.
Instead of reversing the case On
these grounds, the court sends it
back for another trial.
Mrs. Briant was postmistress
of the last House of Representa
tives and Mr. Josephs was a
member.
The supreme court also denied
a rehearing of the appeal of A.
L. Howard versus Laura Belle
Grant, in which the lower court’s
judgment had been affirmed.
Yellow Clothes Are Unsight
ly. Keep them white with Red
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large 2 oz. package, 5 cents.
The Wonder of It
The wonder In it all Is, not that
w« can converse with a very
words, but that the human mind U ;
ao all-embracing In Its power to
think, that It can employ hundred*
of thousands of words to glv^1
Vrosslon to It* thought*.
neid, coincident with the open
ing of the canal. At this con
vention the American Commis
sion of the congress, which sail
ed April 26th for a three month?
tour of fourteen European coun
tries to study agricultural and
co-operative rural banking will
make a report of its investiga
tions.
Great preparations are now
being made at Mobile for the
convention. Many of the 10,
000 delegates will attend a tom
of several hundred business men
through South and Central A
merican countries to study al
first hand new’ trade condition?
and possibilities that will come
writh the opening of the canal.
The contest is open to any
newspaper, chamber of com
merce, board of trade, commer
cial organization, college or high
school, or individual. Each sug
gestion for the memorial should
if possible, be printed in some
newspaper and a copy of the
newspaper containing the sug
gestion, must accompany the let
ter of each contestant. Eact
suggestion must be limited tc
one hunderd words. The contesl
closes July 15. The awrards wil
be announced within thirty day?
thereafter. All suggestion;
should be addressed to “Contest
Department,” Southern Com
mercial Congress, Southerr
Building, Washington, D. C.
Would Increase Capitol Grounds
Special to Independent.
Little Rock, May 6.—Cass Gil
bert, architect for the State cap
itol, with his assistant, Geo. H
Wells of New York, met with the
Capitol commission Monday anc
plans for the completion of the
building were considered. The
commission went over the build
ing with the architect and the
various heads of state depart
ments were consulted about the
quarters which they occupy or
will move into, to see what
changes were desired. It is the
intention of the commission to
have every state official pleased
with his quarters, and to ar
range the rooms as requested,
provided it does not cause too
great a change in the building.
The architect has only tenta
tive plans for the completion of
the building, but as the heavy
work is already done.it will make
no change in its appearance.
The question of landscape gar
dening was not considered, as
that will be done by a person en
gaged in that line of work, anc
not until the building is ready tc
be turned over as completed.
“It is a shame the state does
not own the two blocks in front
of the Capitol,” stated Architect
Gilbert, “but I guess that will
come in time. The State should
really, own the property all the
way to the Union station, which
would make a great park, and
give everyone passing through
on the trains a good impression
of Arkansas.
“The Arkansas Capitol is a
good structure, and one which
will stand for years. It should
be placed where everyone going
through on the trains would get
a good look at it. They would
then go hack home and say the
Arkansas people have something
better than their own state capi
tol.”
SEEMED TO NEED A DOCTOR
Varied Ailments of the Somewhat
Afflicted Family as Catalogued
by t!ie Mother.
“Yer, Doc,” said the mother of a
'amily of nine to the young doctor
tv ho hrid ridden 16 miles Into the
oackivoods In the dead of night, “ws
arc a somewhat afflicted fam’ly, .an1
is heme doctorin’ don’t seem to do
no good, 1 thought I'd send for you
in’ st - if you could straighten us out.
Janey here, she’s got something
vroiig with her broulcal tubes so shs
Vn't breathe like she should. 1 been
, r 1 n' a rag spread with goose
;rease an’ sprinkled with red pepper
*n' mustard on her front chlst, but
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*ie'3 got a mls’ry all up an’ down hl»
.irinfil bone, an’ I been usin’ ker-sene
1 both Axteraal an’ Internal; but It ain’t
lone him no good. Lizzie Belle, she’»
I shout ready to give up with plum
bago, an’ her sister Nancy haa been
' lee'ln’ meaa for a week. I think that
It’s sklatlc roomatlz that alls Nsncy,
but she’s afraid It’s the new disease
they calls appandeehetus. The old
■ man has been turrlhla all may for soma
days, an’ Rube, our oldest boy, Is aL
broke out with a rash that shows his
blood ain’t all right. He had a tnr
rlble spell las’ night, an’ I thought
ne was In for efcolery Infantum. He’s
had it off an’ on ever since he was If
i years old. 1 reckoned he’d outgrown
ft, but it grabs him as hard now that
he’B 24 as It did when he was young
er. Wlsht, Doc, that you’d Just turn
yourself loose an’ see If you kis sort
*’ straighten u* or/."—Judge.
Wearing of tho Hood.
In England the hood was not final
ly given up until the early part of
fUtaanth century. The "great velvet
haft furred" worn by the mayor of Lon
don, John Welles, in 1483, la cltad as
a singularity by Stow, who otatso that
piwvtoaaly "the ooverturo of man’s
Hands was hoods, for neither cap or
hat Is spoken of." In point of that
there are a faw earlier Installnaa of
hats being worn by nobles and swan
the middle classes
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