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VOLUME II. NEWPORT, ARKANSAS, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1903, NUMBER 247
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(' HERE’S A SACRIFICE!
^ ©f Men’s Shirts.^
WEDNESDAY, FEB. 4.
One Day Only.
To close out and make room for our mam= I
moth Spring line, we will sell all of our
Capital, Hajestic, B & B and Opera Shirts, I
$1.00 and $1.25 for
5eventy=rive Cents. I
Remember for one day only, I
Wednesday, Feb’y. 4. Come I
early and get your size and I
selection. Open ’till 10:30 I
p. m. I
Hanhattan Shirts Hlanhattan Shirts ®
| $1.50, $2, $2.50. $1.50, $2, $2.50. I
Best Known. Best Known. ■
Known as the Known as the J
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THE GOOD OLD SUMMER TIME]
YOU WANT GOOD PRINTING.
KIND WE bO-AND IT COSTS YOU NO MORE
^ TiHAN poor work.
So much has it come to be realized that the only place for
really good, up=to=the=times printing is at the Tetwiler Print=
ery, that to keep up with the demands of our customers, and to
supply their wants promptly, we have been running our presses
to their fullest capacity during the busy season. We are bound
to get our work out on time; ii we can’t get through in daytime
we’ll stay by night to finish.
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THE DAILY INDEPEND
HAS DOUBLE THE CIRCULATION OF A
OTHER NEWPORT DAILY.
THE WEEKLY INDEPENDENT
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CLAIMS ALREADY TO LEAD IN POINT OF CIRCULATION, AND
IS ENJOYING A RAPID GROWTH THAT WILL SOON MAKE ITS
POSITION INCONTESTIBLE. YOU GET RESULTS WHEN YOU
Advertise in Jackson County’s Best Mediums,
The Daily and Weekly Independent.
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Henry ©wen
PHYSICIAN, SURGEON AH*
OCULIST.
'«VER BAILEY BROS1. DRY QOOOB STORE
MARDI GRAS AT NEW ORLEANS.
One fare plus $2.00 for the round
trip via the Iron Mountain route.
Tickets on sale February 17 to 19.
Good for return February 28. Tickets
can btfextended to March 14 for re
turn. /
i T. H. Reamey, Agent.
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JACK JONES,
The Crack Barber, keeps a neat
and 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.”
COMPETITIVE TELEPHONE
COMPANY INCORPORATES.
Bald Knob Telephone Company Pro
poses to Give Long Distance Ser
vice in This Section—New
port a Connection.
One of the largest of recently incor
porated telephone companies had its
legal birth in the office of the secreta
ry of state. The Bald Knob Telephone
Company was incorporated with a
working capital stock of 85,000, which
may be increased. All the stock has
been taken. Nearly twenty towns in
Jackson, White, Cleburne, Prairie and
Independence counties are to be con
nected by long-distance telephone.
The objective points of the new line
are Heber, Cleburne county, Searcy
and Des Arc, on the south, Newport,
Jackson county, and Pleasant Plains,
Independence county on the north.
The circuit will be several hundred
miles.
Among the points touched are:
Bald Knob, New Augusta, Judsonia,
Searcy, Russell, Bradford, Newport,
Pleasant Plains, Denmark, West
Point, Des Arc, Heber ard other in
tervening points.
The headquarters will be in Bald
Knob, White county, at the junction
of the Memphis branch of the Iron
Mountain with the main line from St.
Louis to Little Rock.
The officers and corporators are:
E. R. Wynn, president; George
Dickey, vice president; L. G. Wynn,
secretary and treasurer. It is under
stood that construction work will be
gin immediately.
PROCEEDINGS OF LEGISLATURE.
The house, on Tuesday, by a vote of
47 to 38, passed the Daniel bill provid
for three state medical examining
boards, representing the allopaths,
homeopaths and eclectics. Speeches
were made for the bill by Mr. Toney,
Mr. Chapline, Dr. Butler and Mr.
Parks. Against the bill speeches wore
made by Mr. Kerwin, Mr. Futrell, Mr.
Whitley, Mr! Perry, Mr. Gannaway
and Dr. Greene of Benton county.
The house lobby and galleries were
crowded with visitors and the debate
was heard with much interest.
The senate passed Senator Nor
wood’s bill appropriating 840,000 for
an insane asylum annex at Little
Rock. The bill was transmitted to
the house, where it was read twice
and referred to the committee on
charitable institutions, to-gether the
amendments providing for the erec
tion of the building at Pine Bluff,
at Hope and at Searcy.
With only three dissenting votes,
the house passed Judge Merriman’s
fellow-servant bill.
RECENT INCORPORATION.
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The Barnett Mercantile Company
was incorporated in the office of the
secretary of state Tuesday with a cap
ital stock of $50,000. The place of
business of the new concern is in
Batesville. All the capital stock has
been subscribed and paid in. The
company will deal in general mer
chandise and supplies. The officers
and corporators are J. N. Barnett,
president; J. F. Barnett, vice presi
dent; C. A. Barnett, secretary; W. M.
Ball, treasurer.
The Lawrence County Bank filed a
certificate of the increase of its capi
tal stock from $30,000 to $35,000, The
certificate is signed by J. C. Dowell,
president, and D. Sloan, cashier.
SMALL POX SCARE.
A man was found in the white wait
ing room at the Iron Mountain depot
Wednesday morning who was broken
out badly enough to look like a vic
tim to small pox. He came in on No.
2 and was making for his home at
Poplar Bluff.
Agent Reamey ordered him out and
the last seen of him, was when he was
footing it northward on the Iron
Mountain track. The board of health
made an investigation and ordered
the waiting room closed until
thoroughly fumigated. If the wayfar
er had small pox at all, which many
are inclined to doubt who saw him, it
was a very light form. The prompt
action of the board of health will
doubtless prevent any other cases
resulting from this visit.
NO HOPE FOR FISHBACK.
Fort Smith, Feb. 2.—The condition
of ex-Gov. Fishback, who is suffering
from progressive paralysis, this after
noon reached an alarming stage, and
the attending physician expends no
hope of recovery. The paralysis now
extends along the entire length of the
ex-governor’s right side, and his mind
is clouded. The sufferer’s speech is
seemingly most difficult and is gutter
al of tone.
Mrs.Wheelis of Texas, Miss Mazie
Fishback, who is visiting in the North,
daughters of Gov. Fishback, have been
sent for. The attending physician
states that the paralysis has been pro
gressing for days and its force has
increased almost imperceptibly.
MISS EMPIE ENTERTAINS.
Miss Lula Empie on TuesdlV fit "ter
noon entertained the membt£ ^he.
Whist Club at her home on Laurel St.
The afternoon was very enjoy ibly
spent at this fascinating and interest
ing game.
Delicious refreshments of cake, cof
fee and salted almonds were nicely
served.
Those present were Misses Ray
Brandenburg and Mary Laird, Mes- s_ -
dames, A. G. Anderson, L. Hirsch,
B. M. Crow, J. L. Sells, O. D. Watson,
Gus Martin, L. Minor, W. A. Billings
ley, R. M. Johnson, C. R. Hite, W. W.
McMinn, T. E. Morrison and L. A.
Sherwood, of Little Rock.
CHARLES R. HITE
Buys and Sells Farms,
City Property,
Timber Lands &c.
Money To Loan,
Farm Insurance.
NOTARY PUBLIC. yf
Gall or write, No. 107 Hazel Street,
NEWPORT, ARKANSAS.
WILL F^AY YQ.Ua TAXES Y-i
JACK HERRON.
Back again in Newport and
Prepared to do all kinds oi
Brick Work. . . . .
Repair Worfik Promptly
Attended ns
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--of the
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& Telephone Company.
Because it
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saves expense.
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