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"THE INDEPENDENT
! PERCY H. VAN DYKE
Publisher and Editor
front St„ NEWPORT, ARK.
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Opposes Appropriation Endorsed
Mr. Editor Independent:
I wish you would allow space
in your paper for the following
as I believe every man, woman
tnd child is interested.
Last week, during the County
Teachers’ Institute that conven
ed in your city, a movement was
started by the teachers petition
ing the county court of Jackson
county and the quorum court
thereof, to appropriate funds to
the extent of $500 for the sole
purpose of having the govern
ment to send and maintain an ag
ricultural expert into this county
to demonstrate ways and means
of agriculture to the children of
this county.
wnen me quorum cuun ap
propriates this amount, then the
government will do likewise to
the extent of $200, which will
be $700.
Now, Mr. Editor, what I’d like
to do, is to have a full explana
tion from the promoters of this
enterprise, in print, so that the
people of our county—yes, • the
citizenship— could know what
this appropriation would ac
complish.
It may be that I’ll be a mem
ber of that quorum court, but I
am sure that I will not vote for
a measure to use the people’s
money where it will not do any
good. Mr. Editor, I cannot see
now where there would be any
good accomplished.
First, will the demonstrator
be from some other state, or will
he be an Arkansas man, and if
from Arkansas would he be se
lected from the agricultural in
tellects of Jackson county.
You see, Mr. Editor, I do not
believe in supporting a man
from another state, to the extent
that we rob the public high
ways and drainage districts in
so doing, for it is my honest o
pinion that if half of those so
called experts were to be tested
they could not tell the difference
between a garden rake and a sec
tion harrow.
I am, Mr. Editor, only in favor
of spending the county funds
when it will do the most good.
And it is my opinion that only
a few places like Newport,
Tuckerman, Swifton, Tupelo and
maybe Grubbs, that would be
graced with the countless splen
dor of the expert, and then. Mr.
Editor, what would those thou
sands of boys and girls do who
live in the country.
It seems that a body of people
as intelligent as those that com
posed our last institute would
think about such conditions as
this before such a movement
should be started. Even though
some one nicely dressed and
having a smiling countenance,
imd an eloquent voice, appears
from an elegant office, and ask
that those things be done.
Mir. Editor, when I take this
Seriously to Heart I am almost
persuaded to believe that half of
those teachers that signed that
petition do not know by this
time that they signed, now what
for. Only Mr. So and So said
he signed it, or she did so.
Now, Mr. Editor, what the
teachers of this county need is
higher and better wages, and in
SO doing, they should aim their
petitions to the right parties
and in the right direction.
We need all the surplus taxes
the county affords for repairing
roads and bridges that the teach- 1
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crs may go safely to and from
their schools.
And I say again I’ll never vote
for this measure, but will try
to defeat it unless it be made
plainer, so the people who pay
the taxes will better understand
it, and find what accomplish
ments they will receive.
When I sit in that quorum
court, if I ever do, I’ll feel that
I am there for the benefit of the
people, and not for the purpose
of taking care of some man who
probably never had his hands on
a half dozen plows in his life,
while he expounds an unlimited
amount of hot air and sits
around the hotels with a tooth
pick as long as a fence rail in
his mouth, and a cigar as large
as a saw log, likewise while the
good old trusty and true farm
ers and laborers are toiling weak
and weary out in the hot sun
aided and assisted by their tir
ed wives to coin thoughts ftito
gold and sweat into silver, la
boring for the helpless and the
innocent, while this expert sits
in his reclining chair, fathom
ing over and seeking whom he
may devour.
I say, Mr. Editor, my vote is
for only those measures that
bring about the best results.
H. S. GRANT.
CONSTIPATION VANISHES
Discovery From World’s Great
Health Resort That Doctors
Prescribe as Best on Earth
For Torpid Liver.
In Hot Springs, Arkansas, the
great remedy for constipation,
sluggish liver and all stomach
and bowel trouble is HOT
SPRINGS LIVER BUTTONS.
Every visitor to Hot Springs
has heard of these little wonder
workers because learned physi
cians there prescribe them and
everybody takes them when a
laxative is required.
They are the really perfect,
gentle, safe, sure liver and bow
el regulator.
Take one tonight—Cut out
calomel and harsh cathartics.
All druggists at 25 cents.
For free sample write Hot
Springs Chemical Company, Hot
Springs, Ark. (Adv.)
RAILROAD TIME TABLE.
IRON MOUNTAIN
. SOUTH BOUND.
No. 3 leaves..5:29 p. m
No. 1 leaves.5:40 p. m
No. 29 (arrives 6:28) departs
at..'. 6:38 a^m.
No. 5 leaves.5:60 a. m.
No. 17 leaves.5:20 a. m.
No. 7 leaves... 9:62 a. m.
No. 23 (arrives 7:47) leaves 8:05 p. m.
<Jo. 91 (local freight) leaves 8:25 a. m.
NORTH BOUND.
No. 24 leaves.*.10:05 a. m.
No. 4 leaves.10:22 a. m.
No. 28 leaves.8:50 p. m.
No. 18 leaves.10sl5 p. m.
No. 6 leaves...1* SO p. m.
No. 92 (locai freight) ieaves2:10 p. m.
WHITE RIVER DIVISION.
WEST BOUND.
No. 210 leaves.7:00 a. m.
No. 232 leaves.9:00 p. m.
No. 246 (local freight) leaves
.11:40 a. m.
EAST BOUND.
No. 209 arrives.8:00 p. m.
No. 231 arrives.6*18 a. m.
No. 245 (local freight) arrives
.10:20 a. ra
ROCK ISLAND.
No. 607 arrives 12:35 p. m.
No. 608 departs 1:50 p. m.
No. 681 local freight arrives
No. 682 local freight departs
Local freight arrives Monday, Wed
nesday and Friday; Departs Toes
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Want Game Preserve.
Paragould, Ark., June 6.—Local
lovers of wild life have put on
foot a movement to establish a
game preserve for elk and deer
on Crowley’s Ridge, nine milest
west of Paragould. The matter
has been under discussion for
some time and has resulted in
a proposition coming from C.
W. Stedman of Paragould who
agrees to give a 40-acre tract of
woodland to the government if
the authorities will stock it
with elk and deer. Members of
the local hunting clubs state
they will donate the funds nec
essary to fence the preserve. The
tract is ideal for a game pre
serve, embracing two ridges and
a splendid valley.
It is proposed to make an arti
ficial lake in the valley and get
the government to stock it with
game fish. Governor Futrell,
who has been spending several
days at home, has become inter
ested in the game preserve
movement and has promised to
use whatever influence he has
to influence the federal govern
ment to get the elk, deer and fish
for the preserve. It is under
stood that E. V. Visart, secre
tary of the Arkansas Fish and
Game Protective Association,
will also join in with the local
sportsmen to carry the move
ment to a successful conclusion.
Additional Local.
Hickory Wood for Sale—Call
Handle Factory Grant Mfg. Co.
Phone No. 246 or see Wm. Ris
ner. Delivered promptly. 4dtf
1 Knox mends shoes cheap. Ill
■ Walnut street. 32dti
| Mrs. Arthur Umsted and chil
j dren went to Batesville this
i morning to visit Rev. and Mrs
; M. B. Umsted.
j Hickory wood for sale—Call
! Handle Factory, Grant Mfg. Co
Phone No. 246 or see Wm. Ris
ner. Delivered promptly. 4dtf
Dibrell Vaughn of the Iror
Mountain office returned this
morning from a visit to home
folks at Little Rock.
W. H. Wilsey and Mr. and Mrs
Raymond P. Lavin of Poplar
Bluff arrived last night to joir
Mrs. Wilsey on a visit to Mr
and Mrs. J. E. Roseborough.—
Batesville Guard.
Mr. Joseph M. Berger had £
pair of shoes in his store this
morning that attracted the at
tention of many. The shoes
were a special order for Andj
Johnson, our veteran colorec
1 teamster, and the size of th(
shoe was No. 23, and cost $10
They were made by the Edwir
Clapp Shoe Company and were
as fine work as can be founc
anywhere. Andy says a pair ol
shoes like this order will Iasi
him two years.
A Bug’s Prayer.
Oh, Mr. Man, if you have hearc
of that Ross’ “Dead Quick’
spray, forget it I pray thee, oi
J die. Be merciful and use or
me anything else, and I maj
pull through. The mosquitc
said, “Amen!” Ross’ “Deac
Quick” spray sold in Newporl
by your druggist. (advt.)
Something Lacking.
McCarthy—“An’ how do jo lotto tfea
■•w tireless cooker 0< hear ye*ri
got?" Maloney—"Rotten! Shore
there’s no satisfaction takln’ off mi
shoes and restin’ me feet on the edg<
at a thing loika that* "—Juris:?
:d to meed a doctor
'■'-•.i "itrrents of tfte Somewhr
..tid Family as Catalogued
by the Moth<»*\
1 woe," said the mother of a
... ; of nine to the young doctor
ho i •! ridden H miles into the
• i ■) In the dead of night, “we
- ; me what afflicted fam’ly, an\
s hnn--' doctorin’ don't seem to d#
'' I. I thought I’d send for you
. u“; if you could straighten us out.
ancy a_.o, si.a a got something
...—. her bror.ical tubes so sh«
breathe like she should. 1 been
■fin' a rag spread with goose
n' sprinkled with red pepper
' MM.stard on her front chist, but
tot. ms to add to her ag’ay. Jake
* a mis’ry all up an’ down his
- 'cone, an’ I been usin’ ker-sen*
•h ",-oal an’ Interna!; but It ain’t
..t n:m no good. Lizzie Belie, she’s
r-ady to give up with plum
her sister Nancy has bee*
s-wi' mean for a week. I think that
’■> skiatlc roomatiz that alls Nancy,
■ jhe’s afraid it’z the new disease
■oy calls appendesbetus The old
nan has been turrthfo slimsy for sqm*
lays, an' Rube, our oldest boy, la at
broke out with a rash that shows his
iiood ain’t all right. He had a tur>
Mbie spell las’ sight, an’ I thought
aa was In for cholery Infantum. He’s
had it off aa* on ever slnee ho was if
rears old. 1 rwkoiM he’d outgrown
)t, but It grabs him ag hard now that
he's 24 aa It did whan ho .was young
ar Wtsbt, Haw, that you’d' just turn
rourself loose an’ see If you Un serf
•’ straighten ua art. "—Judge.
The Wonder of It.
The wonder In It all la, not that
we can convene with a very few
words, but that the human mind la
so all-embracing in Its power to
think, that it can employ hundreds
ot thousands of words to give ex
pression to Its thoughts.
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bug extermination.
By the easy, and rapid process
of exterminating, bedbugs, ants,
fleas, roaches, mites, lice, pota
| to bugs, etc., with Ross’ “Dead
Quick” spray, only a short time
is required to free the horn]
all insects. Death to their J
also. Nice and clean. Kills!
quitoes too. Sold in Kew!
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