i HE INDEPENDENT
PERCY H. VAN DYKE
Publisher and Editor
,-ront St., NEWPORT, ARK.
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DEMOCRATIC NOMINEES.
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For Congress—
W. A. OLDFIELD
For Circuit Judge—
R. E. JEFFERY
For Prosecuting Attorney—
HUGH WILLIAMSON
For Representative—
W. M. SHAVER
Tor County Judge—
W. D. McLAIN
Tor Sheriff— _
J. F. McCUlSTION
Tor Circuit Clerk—
C. E. SMITH
For County Clerk—
G. L. ROBINSON
For Treasurer—
J. H. CAMP
For Assessor—
W. M. TIMS
For Surveyor—
J. H. AITKENS
For Coroner—
W. H. NOLEN
For Sdhool Superintendent—
E. H- BOWMAN
For Justices of Peace—
J. M. BELL
L. B. HARRIS
For Constable—
TERRY GUIN
For Road Overseer—
W. F. HURLEY
Giving The Nation’s Patrimony.
The success of Frederick Wey
crhauser, whose fortune is es
timated at $1,500,000,000, is
credited to his German thrift. It
consists mainly of 40,000,000
acres of forest and the sugges
tion has been made that there
should be some form of partial
restitution of the public domain.
The timber lands cornered by
this man will be of far greater
value as time goes on. In future
years they will be of almost in
estimable value. This colossal
fortune represents as none other
ever has or can the operation of
old world thrift under laws
which have taken little account
of the claim of the people as a
Whole to the great generous nat
ural resources of a continent.
There ought to be some fair
and legal ground for contesting
the right of any man in a dem
ocracy to appropriate to private
■v_ ownership or to perpetuate in
his heirs so vast a share of the
standing timber once the rich in
heritance of a nation.
Poverty and want ought not to
■exist and public education not
appeal in vain for endowment in
a country so richly endowed by
nature. We have sacrificed too
much of the social conscience in
the encouragement of individu
al initiative. The halt has been
called a little late. We have
been too prodigal of our patri
mony.—Oklahoma City Times.
kHuauerue mejuairefuaue (usiuaueruc
For Better Schools.
After a year’s study of 659
rural schools, with 9,000 others,
and 395 schools systems, a spec
ial Ohio commission has publish
ed its full rpport.
The deplorable conditions re
vealed all over Ohio as regards
sanitation i nthe schools, and
everything that relates to the
education of body, character and
mind, are only the counterpart
of what prevails in many parts
of the union.
This is not saying that the pic
ture lacks its brighter side. But
facts picked up on every page—
that 80 per cent of the town
ship schools provide no supple
mentary readers, with “result
ing aridity in the teaching of
geography and history”; that
25 per cent had no dictionaries;
that 72 per cent were never
scrubbed, or not more than once
a year; that 98 per cent never
tested their water; that 34.2 per
cent were so ill ventilated in Oc
tober that the air was offensive
to the nose; that in 17 per cent
the English of the teachers was
not merely poor, but flagrantly
bad—ought to awaken a public
sense of duty.
To this sense the commission
appeals in 50 pages devoted to
“out-side co-operation.” To the
impoverished rural schools wom
an’s clubs have already contrib
uted pictures, books and music
90 granges have undertaken to
secure township, high or central
ized schools, and 14 have school
visiting committees; business
organizations have becrun to
work; the efforts of public li
brarians in widely scattered lo
calities have been valuable, and
j medical and dental organizations
j live given talks, promoted ath
letics and secured medical ex
amination.
The new Ohio law, based upon
| the investigation, is described as
j a model by the United States bu
j reau of education. It prescribes
; a minimum monthly salary of
$40 to teachers and denies state
laid to districts which pay less
| than $45 to teachers with six
j weeks’ professional training,
j $55 to those with two years, or
$70 to high school teachers.—
Memphis News Scimitar.
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Kirby Spent $7,462.
Special to Independent.
Little Rock, April 25.—Judge
W. F. Kirby has filed with the
Secretary of State a statement
of his campaign expenses in his
recent campaign for the United
States Senate. The total is $7,
1 462.06, which does not include J
his actual personal traveling j
and hotel bills. The largest of j
the items are $2,619-61 for j
; postage, $1,955 for printing, and
bL178.50 for advertising.
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Connally’s Characteristic Reply.
Special to Independent.
Little Rock, April 27.—M. W.
Connally, managing editor of
the Memphis News-Scimitar,
will be one of the visiting jour
nalists at the annual meeting
of the Arkansas Press Associa
tion May 18-20. In a letter to
Secretary of State Earl W.
Hodges, Secretary of the Asso
ciation, he says:
“In a moment of temporary
aberration, and when I did not
have the fear of the cudgel of
retributive justice before my
eyes, I accepted an invitation to
deliver the annual oration be
fore the Mississippi State Press
Association, which meets in
Jackson on the Second Tuesday
in May. I expect to get over
this ordeal, but I never expect
to look the same. If I get back
all in one piece and can arrange
to steal the time. I will surely be
with you becuse Arkansas is my
old stamping ground, and if I
cannot meet some of the news
paper friends of my youth, I
can at least find some of their
sons or grandsons, because the
crime of journalism runs in the
blood.”
Additional Local.
Clayton Hailey of McCrory
was here on business today
Mr. and Mrs. G. L. Green
have returned from a few days’
stay at Newark.
Bulk ice cream 35c a quart.
No credit, no deliver—Camille
Cafe. 23d3t
Mr. and Mrs. John Regii re
turned last night from a visit
to Mr. Regli’s mother at Joplin,
Missouri,
W. E. Beloate of Walnut Ridge
was hede zfififfffi 0$ PaBGKQ
was here last evening going
home from Batesville.
Mr. T. B. Padgett, who was in
jured at the depot a few morn
ings ago between a car and the
platform, is resting as well as
could be expected. His condi
tion is not thought to be dan
gerous, though he has suffer
ed considerable pain since the
accident. Mr. Padgett considers
himself quite fortunate in es
caping alive. His friends hope
for a speedy recovery.—Bates
ville Guard
Wanted— 1,000,000 dozen eggs
a l the Happy Hollow Grist Mill
and Grocery, H. S. Grant Mgr.
wtf
Members of the Civic Im
provement Association will
meet with the council this even
ing at 8 o’clock.
For graduation gifts, how suit
able is jewelry and where the
girl or boy who does not appre
ciate such a gift. See Newport
Jewelry Co., Hazel Hotel Bld’g.
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“Votes For Women” Campaign.
Special to Independent.
Little Rock, April 27—Much
interest is being displayed in
the state convention of the Ar
kansas Political Equality League
which will be held in Little
Rock Saturday, particularly as
to the identity of the speakers.
It is known that a number of
prominent citizens of Arkansas
have consented to address the
suffragists, but it is also known
that they have requested that
their names be kept secret until
th time comes fe~ the addresses
tc >e delivered. Mrs. 0. F. El
iii ton, president of the “votes
fo women,” is now working
up i the program for the con
vei .ion, which she declares will
be qually as interesting as an
F lish suffrage discussion,
i gh not so bombastic.
he sessions of the convention
will be held in the old State
House, and a banquet will be ten
der .1 the visitors. Covers for
In' will be laid, which indicates
tht 0 are quite a few suffrage
sympathizers jin [Arkansas—or
people who are willing to break
bread with them anyway.
Newport Wins From Tuckerman
In one o f the hardest fought
gamps of the season the New
port High School team defeated
the Tuckerman City team 12 to
10 Saturday at Tuckerman.
The Tuckerman team was
I sore at the defeat handed them
! by the Newport High school
'team two weeks ago and were
! determined to win one way or
another. Neither pitcher show
ed up well until the seventh in
i ning when the score, was 8 to 5
in favor of Tuckerman, but the
Newport team settled down and
batted in run on a base on balls
to McMinn and a three base hit
by Wise. Then Finley settled
down and held Tuckerman help
less for their half of the seventh
to start the eighth.
McDonald and Bevans singled
to center and Hirsch came
through with a scorching three
bagger to left field scoring Mc
1 Donald and Bevans and tying
I the score 8 to 8. The game then
[developed into a pitcher’s battle
J between Finley and Skinner
^and neither side scored until the
12th inning when Newport came
to bat; Wise singled to left
and Stallings doubled to right.
Umsted walked with the bases
loaded. Bevans hit to the cen
ter field fence for three boys,
and Wise, Stallings and Um
sted all paraded home and Urn
uonaici next siammeu a nn to
center and Bevans scored with
the fourth run of the inning and
the rest had hollered so much
that they didn’t try to hit the
ball, so Tuckerman came to bat
for their half of the 12th. The
first man up beat out an infield
hit and Roberts then hit for a
home run, making their total 10,
but Newport soon tired of this
and Wise and Finley took care
of the next three in order- Fin
ley struck out the hard hitting
Richardson for the 3rd out,
Newport winning score 12 to 10.
There wasn’t much harmony
in the game as the umpire had
| a bet on Tuckerman, and anoth
Jer reason why is that any mem
j her on the Newport club has
forgotten more baseball than
‘‘Dick,” the umpire will ever
know.
The Newport team batted
hard all during the game, every
member of the team getting one
or more hits. Tuckerman
i bunched their hits in 3 innings.
SCORE BY INNINGS.
Newport
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
003020120 0 0 4
Tuckerman—
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
122030000 0 0 2
Newport—Runs 12; Hits 21;
| Errors 2.
I Tuckerman—Runs 10; Hits
11; Errors 6.
Batteries — Newport, Finley
and Stallings; Tuckerman,
Skinner and Churchwell.
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Newport Second Team Wins
Wins.
The Newport Independent
baseball team won from the
Tuckerman Second team Sat
urday afternoon in a five in
ning game by the score of 8 to
!°.
This was the Newport Inde
pendents’ first game this season.
Batteries—For Newport, W’est
and Wallace; Tuckerman, Par
rot, McCool and Moore.
Only one Tuckerman player
readied third base
We invite you to call and in
spect our stock of jewelry, sil
verware, diamonds, watches etc. j
We do repair work promptly.—
Newport Jewelry Co. 23dtf.
The Red Ball was wrecked at
Sulphur Rock this morning, four
cars going off the track. No one
was hurt. The rails were torn
up for quite a distance and it will
take about twelve hours to clear
the track so that passenger
trains may go through, but it is
possible passengers will be trans
ferred- —Batesville Guard.
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Six Cord Spool Cotton and compare it with the thread
you are now using. We know that if you will once use
Bowstring thread, you will say that no other thread
equals it in strength, smoothness and freedom from defects*
The Sea Island cotton used in Bowstring thread has a
fibre longer and finer than any othei cotton in the world.
Dressmakers say that Bowstring is so f ree fr om defects,that
with it they can run their machines all day long without
a skip or a break. The price is as usual—5c a spool.
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This Coupon is Worth 5C
This coupon will buy at our store a 5c spool of Bow
string thread. But the coupon must be presented in
order to get the spool as we must send to the manufacturer
a coupon for every spool put out in this way. . We want
you to know by actual experience the high quality of Bow
string thread. This coupon is good for one week only be
ginning to-day.
HEINEMANN’S DRY GOODS STORE
Letter To Boy Scouts Of Brink
ley From Rev. A. T. Galloway- (
Dear Boys:—I have not for- <
gotten the pleasure of my asso- (
eiation with you the two Sun- .(<
days Mrs. Bickell was away, nor (
my promise to write you. i
We reached Key West at the J
end of a journey of almost three (
days and over twelve hundred
miles. We were most kindly re
ceived. Three of the pastors of;
the city and many of the mem
bers of the church and of the !,
people generally met us at the
train. We were taken at once to
the parsonage, which had been
thoroughly renovated and newly
furnished, and were there made (
to feel very much at home.
We are delighted with Flori- ■
da in general and Key West in I
particular. The people are geni
al, and friendly. In this re j
spect they are not unlike our j
good friends in Brinkley.
The climate is delightful, never
[hot nor cold, splendid sea breeze
day ana nigm. it iooks uuu iu
us to see all houses with no 1
I chimneys nor stove flues. Fruit *
and vegetables grow every 5
month in the year- Cocoanuts (
and bananas in almost every 1
yard. Tt is truly a tropical cli
mate. [1
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Key West is a city of about ]
30,000 population. The chief in
dustry is the manufacture of ci- (
gars. The tobacco is brought
from Cuba. It is only about 75
miles to Havana, and we are far- j*
ither than that from the main- r
land of Florida, the island of 11
Key West being reached by the , J
Over-Sea Failway of the Flori- e
da East Coast Line. The city ; t
of Kev West is situated on an I
I
island surrounded b ythe Atlan-, t
tic Ocean on the East and the j\
Gulf of Mexico on the south and s
west. The island is about two a
miles wide by six miles long, and e
about one-third of it is covered f
by the city. There are great
steamships passing daily to and
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> LODGE DIRECTORY. ®
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> WOODMEN OF THE ®
5 WORLD. 9
) Pecan Camp No. 3, meets ®
3 1st and 3rd Thursday nights ®
j) of each month in the Board ®
Building. Visiting brothers wel- O
1 come.
3 Joe Younger, C. C.
3 P. S. White, Clerk. ®
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3 JACKSON LODGE NO. 191, O
3 F. & A. M. ®
3 Meets Second and Fourth 0
3 Tuesday nights of each month 0
3 in the Opera House Building, ®
3 Second and Hazel streets.
3 Visiting brothers always wel- 0
3 come. Geo. M. fcink, W. M. ® **
3 S. M. Beattie, Sec. 3
3 ®
3 NEWPORT LODGE NO. 71, ®
3 I. 0. 0. F. O
0 Meets each Monday night in 0
3 Board Building, corner Second O
3 and Walnut. All brothers in- ® ^
3 vited to attend. ® f
3 W. T. Guin, N. G., 3
3 W. B. Hurley, Sec. ®
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'rom Havana, and to numerous ^
Dorts of various countries.
Next to the manufacture of
:igars, sponge fishing is a lead
ng industry. This .ith turtle
ishing and fishing generally, to c
'ether with the cigar business, i
institutes the principal employ
nent of the people.
The population is possibly one- *
hird Cuban, with perhaps an r
iqual number from the Bahama
slands, in the British posses
ions. Others are here from ev- ’f'
rywhere- - .
I find my church work inter
sting among people from so y
riany countries. The congrega
ions are large and attentive.
’he Sunday School is much larg
r, but not better otherwise, than
he one in Brinkley. ^
I think of you boys when I .. \
ake my daily plunge in the sea.
Vish you could be with me. The
wimming is fine. Come down
nd visit me and we will swim
very day and eat tropical
ruits. I may write again.
Your friend,
A. T. Galloway, y
Your Success and Ours
The success of this institution is in helping others to sue*
ceed whether their dealings be large or small. It is the
help we are able to give them that helps us. That* the
reason for our constantly growing list of customers and
accounts for our increase in business. We offer a helpful,
I consistent, understanding service, ■**
WE WELCOME SMALL AS WELL AS LARGE ACCOUNTS.
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