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—paE INDEPENDENT
ri»*RCY H. VAN DYKE
PiUahw and Editor
*eut St, NEWPORT, ARK.
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ANNOUNCEMENTS.
The Independent has been au
thorised to make the following
mmooncements of candidates,
oubjeet to the action of the Dem
—ltlo Primary.
OBORGE T. HUMPHRIES
W. A. OLDFIELD
Per Prosecuting Attorney—
EARL C CASEY
For County Judge—
W« D. IfeLAIN
JAMES IL JOHNSTON
JOHN A. MELVILLE
O. W. SCARBOROUGH
Vhr Sheriff—
J. F. McCUISTION
ABE BALLEW
For Representative—
J. M. MARDIS
W. M. SHAVER
J. U. ARD
R. T. SIMMONS
For Treasurer—
JOHN H. CAMP
JESSE W. SHUFORD
J.M.IVY
J. I, HASTING
For School Superintendent—
H. L. LAMBERT
E. H. BOWMAN
J. M. BALCH
For Coroner— «'•
‘ HENRY GRANT ' «
J. T. CRAFT 3
W H. NOLEN
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UNION TOWNSHIP
For Constable—
iW.T.GUIN
CLYDE WOOD
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MUNICIPAL OFFICES.
Subject to the Action of City
Primary, February 26.
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For Mayor—
JOHN ‘P. PAUL
For Recorder
^B. G. GRAHAM
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For Marshal—
* W. H. GAROUTHERS
GUS C» MARTIN .
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For City Treasurer—
GARLAND HURT
PERRY CLARK.
All Up to Date Housekeepers
ifse Red Cross Ball Blue. It
Makes the clothes clean and
jiweet as when new. All Grocers.
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Newark Proposes Free Bridge.
There is considerable talk of
starting a movement to build a
free bridge across White river
at a point near Oil Trough that
will prove most convenient to
the traveling public. The move
ment has not yet assumed tangi
ble form but is being freely dis
cussed by the business men and
property owners of Newark and
the surrounding country as well
as a number of the leading citi
zens of the Oil Trough valley.
There is a real need for a free
bridge connecting this vast area
of the most fertile and produc
tive section of the county, and
as this section of the county
pays the principal portion of the
taxes of the county, it is a fore
gone conclusion that if the prop
erty owners get in behind the
movement in the right manner,
a bridge will be built.
It is suggested also that the
route of the proposed Newport
Batesville Highway, on which
considerable work has already
been done, and which has such
strong encouragement from the
people of both Batesville and
Newport, should be changed so
as to cross the proposed new
bridge and traverse the beauti
ful and fertile farming section
embraced in the famous Big
Bottom and Oil Trough valleys.
The entire project is a very
feasible one and one that would
prove of inestimable value to
this section of the country. The
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njeii wuu are . pruiiiutiii|$ me
matter seem to be thoroughly in
earnest and they are men who
do things when once they decide
upon a line of action. They are
now taking a quiet canvass of
the situation and if they meet
with the pi per encouragement
a meeting of citizens and prop
erty owners wilL be held in the
near future to take some defin
ite steps in the premises.—New
ark Journal.
Pitqick Enters Business.
Special to Independent.
Little Rock, Jan. 2.—J. A. Pit
cock, for many years superin
tendent of the Arkansas peni
tentiary, has entered business in
Little Rock, purchasing the Fis
cher market on West Capitol
Avenue. He is now remodeling
the place and will take active
charge next week.
Card Of Appreciation.
I desire to express my appre
ciation to my friends who show
ed many acts of kindness and in
terest during the fatal illness of
my husband.
Mrs. J. L. Bishop.
-Concerning Greenbacks.
Forty-five per cent, of the green
back* of this oountry are of one, two
ajp<t five dollar denomination.
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jgBBErlSHEfEKHnSfCfBDDi SffCDOBDlSvHOOOVJfll
I We wish our Patrons ifj
A Merry Christmas >S
and 9
A Happy New Year 1
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J. D. Carvell S Co. I
Front si. The New Store i.!d* pwce |
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Arkansas Notes.
It seems strange that nature (
made so many mistakes. It
placed horns on the heads of
cattle, but man saw a chance <
tending church. God expects it
the horn useless and they must 1
go. It placed tails on horses, ^
but man said the Creator was '
mistaken and the tails came off.
It placed whiskers on the face
of man, but populim faded from |
the face of the earth and man ■
bade adieu to the unnecessary jj
appendage. It placed seed in j'
oranges, but little children swal- '
lowed the seed and miniature
orange trees grew in their stom
aches, so Arthur Burbank grew 1
the seedless orange. It coated
chickens with feathers, but
man declares this coating must
go the way of the cow’s horns,
the horse’s tail, the whiskers,
the orange seed, etc. The de
partment of agriculture is now
looking for the hairless pig and
the Democracy of Poinsett coun
ty for county officers who don’t
ask perpetuation in office. —
Marked Tree Gazette.
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George Cooper, a progressive
farmer who lives a few miles
south of this city, marketed a
load of chickens in Russellville
one day last week for which he
received $76.30. There were
248 of the fowls and their com
bined weight was 944 lbs. Mr.
Cooper and his estimable wife
make handsome profits each
year from their poultry yard.
As mentioned some weeks ago,
Mrs. Cooper sold a load of tur
keys just before Thanksgiving
for $109.00.—Dardanelle Post
Dispatch.
W. E. Langston is using the
splitlog drag this week on the
hill west of town. This hill is
the hardest in the township to
keep up and the result of drag
ging it will show the value of
the $3 road machine. There is
no excuse for the road beds to
be allowed to cut into dep ruts
and wash into ditches when a
few minutes’ work with a drag
vyill fill the ruts full of dirt. Mr.
Langston is to be commerided
for his persistent effort to use
the drag and prove its efficien
cy.—Winslow American.
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The Bigelow Citizen Press
plainly states its "position as to
notices for political candidates.
The Press says: --
The Press is an advertising
medium through which you may
place your claims before the
public, at so much per line or j
indh, as the case may be. But i
when you buy this space it in j
no wise mean that it will in- i
fluence the editorial policy of
this paper. The editorial col- i
umn reflects the personal views ,
of the editor, and is not fejr
sale at any price, and the fact
that you are a liberal advertis
er, or that you have announced
in its columns, will not have thife
least inuuence on the editorial
policy of the paper. We give
dollar for dollar in the publici
ty we give your candidacy, and
when this is done our obligation
to you has elided. .We do not
want any candidate to announce
in the Press with the mistaken
idea that it yvifl influence its
editorial policy. " ?
This is the proper stand for a
newspaper. It should never ac
cept pay for news and should
not publish political advertise
ments free of charge any soon
er than it publishes advertise
ments of grocery stores or of
dry goods stores. Too many pol
iticians in Arkansas, and other
states, have been made by news
papers and then, after they have
arrived, have forgotten the
method of their making. —Lit
tle Rock Gazette.
Want* Commercial Value.
A man would think a lot more of
the Ten Commandment* If he could
deposit them In the bank.—New York
Pres*.
Garland Wins Loving Cup.
Special to Independent.
Little Rock, Jan. 3.—Garland
:ounty won the loving cup for
he best showing made in the j
•ural school contest that was
■onducted by J. L. Bond, super
visor of rural schools. This con
est was held in the fifteen coun
ts of the state that have su
jerintendency. All the rural
schools were graded on grounds,
juildings, equipment, teacher,
md community activities, under
vhich heads forty-two different
terns are considered. Class A
jchools rate from 90 to 100
joints, Class B from 75 to 90
joints, and Class C from 60 to
J5 points.
Garland county made a gener
il average of 33 1-3,i which is
jonsidered a very high initial
average. Seventeen out of its
51 rural schools scored as Class
A. The trophy has been forwar
ded to County Superintendent
D. A. Crockett, to be kept in
his office. Diplomas of merit
were also issued to all the
schools in the fifteen counties,
about 750 in all. The results
have been most gratifying,
i_n lmurnve
SiiuvYiug ** wr"
ment in rural school conditions.
The contest will be continued
and enlarged.
A WOMAN'S APPEAL
To sill knowing sufferers cf-''rheumatism*
whether muscular or of the joints, sciatica,
lumbagos, backache, pains in tae kidneys or
neuralgia pains, to write to her for a home
treatment which has repeatedly cured aU of
these tortures. She feels it her duty to send
it to all sufferers FREE. You cure yourself
at home as thousands will tesUfy—no change
of climate being necessary. This »>“P>0
discovery banishes uric acid from the blooa,
loosens the stiffened joints, Purlfi.®*.t.kf.|*1°?4
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FAMILY AVOIDS
SERIOUS SICKNESS
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By B«i>, Coututly SippM Wki
' TWford’i BUck-Dni(kL..
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McDuff, Va.—1”1 suffered for seven!
years,” says Mrs. I. B. Whittaker, of
this place, “with »& headache, had
Stomach trouble.
yev* ag? a friend told me to fry
Thedford s Black-Draught, which I dill,
and l found itto be.tbebesttajnily medi
cine for young and old.
1 keep Biack-Draught on hand all the
hme now, and when my, children feel a
little bad, they ask me for n dose, and it
does fheni more good man anjrmedicuie
they ever tried. , •
riWe jievec, have a long spell of sick
ness in our family, since we commenced
ffiihg Black-Draught.” ;
peMyd’s Black-Draught is purely
vegetable, and has been Found to regu
ate weak stomachs, aid, digeatidit,':F&>
lymptoms. . ;|jp. p. .
.B has, been in constant UK lor more
v 70 yearn, and has benefited more
hanamulibnpeople. • v ; r:
Yaih» HnuMrlc! eelle eni-—- *
ggjDgugfc fi* *ar acTSu
Find* Cure for Epilepsy
After^ Years of Suffering
: "My daughter .< was i ;< rOlcted wli h
aplleptte fK» for three yrara. the attaclra
■omlng every few weeks. YVo employed
several doctors but -they did her no
seed. About r
xm *.«• *•
heard ef Dr
Mlleel , Nervine.
it .certainly
has proved e
^ blearing to ou;
Wm glrl.. She; I*
n p w ,..apparently
cured and la en
joying the beat
•f health. It !•
over a year sine*,
ahe has had e
«. We cannot
. . apeak too hlghij
jf Dr. Miles' Nervine.1’
MRS. FRANK ANDERSON
Comfrey, Minn
Thousands of children in the
United States who are suffering
from attacks of epilepsy are a
burden and sorrow to their parents,
who would give anything to restore
health to the sufferers.
Dr. Miles* Nervine
15 one of tlie best remedies known
!or tins affliction. It has proven
Lienefitial i:i thousands of cases
ar.d those who have used it have
she greatest faith in it. It is not
i cure-all, but a reliable remedy
:or nervous diseases. You need
not hesiute to give it a trial.
*?'d j* Druggiata. |f tha flrat
>pttla falla to banaftt your monay it
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MILES MEDICAL CD* Elkhart ^
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A TRUE 1
bowel CLEANJ
I MLVtSlimJ
Is an effective system rent
tome. Persons of a ^
>t to be just what they
regular bowel movement
evxl effecu of ^dis^OH
blood. It drives out
have accumulated in the sy2“^®
sallowness, bad breath T***
tions, and restores t£’,W**5B
to the complexion. ^ hne«<^B
Oet the Genuine w|«h the ■
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9 Pric« $1.00 per BotUe, ■
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Notice Of Sewer Tax.
The tax books for the collec
tion of the Special Sewer Tax
on real property in Sewer Dis
trict Nor 1 for the Fifth Annual
Assessment to maintain and op
erate said sewer system, have
been placed in my hands. All
owners of real property lying in
district and required to pay
their taxes to me within thirty
m as m m as m m mi
days from date.
merit is not P3id^H§
commenced at thtfij
time for the coqB
assessment, andfjg
penalties and costH
Given under
29th day of Decen^l
Sewer District Ko.fl
Arkansas. H
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jjfi We extend to our friends!
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® Greetings of the Season!
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jjj Our Best Wishes for aI
23d !
® Happy and Prosperous !
i New Year I
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