THE INDEPENDENT
PERCi H. VANDYKE,
Publisher and Editor.
NEWPORT, - - ARKANSAS.
DEMOCRATIC COUNTY TICKET.
For Representative.
JOHN H. KEEL.
County Juiltre,
E. L. BOYCE.
CircuitlClerk,
J. 1). NEAL.
County Clerk.
GEO. A. LOCKARD.
Sheriff.
H. S. SIMMONS.
Treasurer.
I)R. F. G. SMITH.
Assessor,
R. L. CONDITT.
Surveyor.
W. A. BOWMAN.
Coroner.
F. J. HARRISON.
■K Constnble— Union Township.
W. H. CAIiOUTHERS.
Justice" )f the l’eace,
GUY SMITH.
J FOREST DILLARD.
That meeting of the Arkansas
Travelers in Newport this week
appears to be warm doings. Why
didn’t somebody try to get it for
Jonesboro next time.—Jonesboro
Sun.
Hon. S. D. Campbell is having
a nicely arranged law office fitted
up over the Arkansas Bank and
Trust Company, and will be as
sisted by James F. Martin of
t Batesville. Judge J. W. Phil
lips and G. L. Grant will remain
at the former office of the dis
L J firm over Wm. Mosby’s
; tendered
*> A. T. A.
formal re
ing at his
lunch was
2 had. His
•e Messrs.
Steininger,
lie Leach,
L. Smith,
ager of the
advertising
this morn
hat Arkan
itate in the
talk about
ey pleased,
ad been on
;een years,
the conti
ica, and he
„ _be beat. —
Jonesooro
CARROLL COUNTY
CHOOSES CLAYTON.
1
—
Berryville, May 8.—The Re
publican convention met here
Saturday and elected Powell
Clayton, John I. Worthington, B.
J. Rosewater, J. W. Freeman j
and Andy Kusseii delegates to
4-u.. convention. Powell
E. Phillips, W. B. i
r. Rosewater and
were elected dele
congressional con
was en-;
s candidate for governor;
. John I. Worthington
for congress.
en. Powell Clayton, ambassa
to Mexico, was present and
a speech denouncing the
present state election laws and
the administration of Governor
Davis.
I THE FINAL DANCE.
1 Owing to the showers Satur
J day afternoon the boat trip was j
f*is abandoned and a large crowd of
town people, visitors and travel
ers enjoyed a musicale and dance
the opera house.
That evening the First Regi
ment band of Little Rock was in
duced to remain over by the
young men of the city and a final
dance enjoyed that night. This
explains much of the hobbling
next day, but as the soreness was
more than paid for in the pleas
regrets were
enjoyed the’
sf stay of the
the rush of
appropriately j
rest.
GLOVES FROM RAT SKINS.
Only One Pair Was Ever Made and
That Was Very Small—Inter
esting Olove Lore.
A report comes from Copenha
gen that a great rat hunt has been
organized there, and that the
skins of many thousands of the
victims are to be used in making
gloves. If the rat hunters in the
Danish capital cherish any such
hopes, says the Pall Mall Gazette,
they are doomed to disappoint
ment.
Rat skins cannot be made into
gloves fit for commerce. The be
lief that a valuable raw material
is being neglected here survives
only in the minds of the inexpert.
The glove maker knows much
better. A Norwegian merchant
once came to England and in
formed a well known glove maker
that lie had collected over 100,000
rat skins and was prepared to re
ceive offers for them. lie was
fully' convinced that the skins
were suitable for glove making.
But the manufacturer found that
the largest skin was only some
six inches long, and he held up a
kid skin for the smallest size of
glove, a child’s, which was eight
inches long, and asked how he was
to cut such a glove out of a rat
skin.
Then he took up the smallest
kid skin for a lady’s glove, 11 inch
es long, and when he asked how
mat was to oe cut out ot rat sitin
the Norwegian merchant laughed
at the idea rfind went away disap
pointed. The best offer he got
for those skins, which he had col
lected with so much care, was five
shillings a hundredweight from a
man who was willing to boil them
down for glue.
A famous glove making firm has
a collection of curiosities relating
to the trade, and one of them is
the largest pair of gloves ever
made out of a rat skin. The be
lief that such skins could be made
into gloves was laid before the
managers so confidently that they
resolved to put it to the trial, and
they ordered a number of skins of
the largest rats which could be
found in Grimsby. But the rat is
a fighting animal, and bears the
marks of many battles on his
body, and it was found that the
skins w-ere so scarred and torn
that it was with the utmost diffi
culty that perfect pieces large
enough for the purpose could be
obtained. In the end, after ten
skins had been used, a pair of
gloves was cut and made, and
they are retained in the collection
to this day. But they are so small
that they wmuld only fit the small
est of small boys. Thus it was
shown that, however cheaply rat
skins might be obtained, they
would offer no advantage to the
glove maker. The rabbit skin is
equally useless for the purpose,
ana nuniane people may also dis
miss from their minds the fear
that the skins of pet dogs are
made into gloves. The dog skin
glove of which we used to hear is
made of nothing but the skin of
the Cape goat.
Cuban Cave-Fishes.
An interesting addition lias re
cently been made to the Natural
History museum, South Kensing
ton, London, by the receipt of
specimens of some of the blind
cave-fishes of Cuba. The special
interest of these fishes lies in the
fact that their alliance is with
salt-water forms which exist in
the neighboring sea, and not with
fresh-water fishes, as is the case
with Amblyopsis and its allies of
the great cave of Kentucky.
There can be little doubt that the
Cuban caves in which the blind
fishes are found were formerly in
communication with the sea, and
that the ancestors of these fishes
entered the caves from the adja
cent ocean.
Children Labeled tor Traveling.
The practice of labeling chil
dren and sending them across the
Atlantic, addressed as parcels,
would appear to be getting rather
general. A number of children so
labeled have passed through
Queenstown from time to time
lately. From the Dominion liner
New England, which has arrived
there from Boston, was landed a
little boy not quite nine years old.
He was addressed to his uncle at
Kilkenny. He had traveled from !
Chicago unaccompanied, and had
been transferred just as a parcel
would be by the various forward
ng ^companies through whose
aands he passed.
WORLD’S FAIR RATES.
Louisiana Purchase Exposition,
St. Louis, April 30th to Decem
ber 1, 1904. Rate for ten day
excursion ticket will be one fare
and one-fifth for the round trip.
Tickets on sale daily April 27th
to November 30, 1904. Rate for
sixty day excursion ticket one
fare and one-third for the round
trip. Tickets on sale April 25th
to Nov. 20th. Rate for season
EXCURSION TICKETS eighty
per cent, of double the standard
one way fare for the round trip.
Tickets on sale daily April 15th
to Nov. 15th, Final return limit
Dec 15, 1904.
Thos. H. Reamey, Agt.
BIG LINE OF
New Goods Arriving.
Crown, Schiller & Shaeffer
—PIANOS
AND
Crswn Organs.
Patronize a Home Man.
Z. B. REID.
JAS. V. RIDLEY.
TRAVELING MACHINIST,
REPAIRS ALL KINDS OF MACHINERY.
-TWENTY YEARS EXPERIENCE.
Tell me your Engine Trouble
Phone No. 51—Three Rings.
NEWPORT, - - - ARKANSAS.
== MONEY |
THROWN AWAY DAILY
No. 1.
ON ADDS IMPROPERLY WRITTEN.
WHY? (Not catchy).
No. 2.
ON UNATTRACTIVE SHOW WINDOWS.
WHY? (Poorly Displayed).
No. 3.
DULL BUSINESS, which you are responsible.
WHY? (New Ideas None).
1 WRITE ADDS THAT BRING RESULTS,
Furnish Drawings, with Full Instruction, which make Attractive Show Windows
ADVANCE UP-TO-DATE IDEAS, WHICH GET BUSINESS.
I - A.LL BY MAIL -
jj Estimates furnished on any line of business, on application.
| Address B. C. CROOKE,
331 Main St., Memphis, Tenn.
LETTER TO POND-DECKER
MFG. CO., NEWPORT, ARK.
Gentlemen:—Mr.-,
president of a cotton mill at
Union, S. C.,— he don’t want to
see his name in print—had two
offers of 500 gallons of paint;
$1.30 and $1.25. Took the $1.25
and got skinned. He’d have got
three-quarters skinned if he’d
taken the other.
The $1.30 was full gallon; the
$1.25 was 18 per cent short. The
full measure paint was adultera
ted 40 per cent; the short meas
ure paint was adulterated 45
per cent, besides benzine in the
oil, don’t know how much.
Devoe lead-and-zinc wasn’t
sold in the town then.
It don’t pay to monkey with
paint.
Devoe costs less than any of.
’em; not by the gallon, of course, i
by the house and year. That’s
how to reckon it. Go by the
name. Yours truly,
F. W. Devoe & Co.,
i)3 New York and Chicago, j
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ROAD NOTICE.
Notice is hereby given that the undersigned will
apply to the Couny Court, at the July term, j
1904. thereof, for an order establishing a new road
in Glass township, to run as follows, to-wit:
Beginning at the quarter section line running I
east and west through section 33. town !
ship 14 N„ range 1 west, where said quarter sec- !
tion line crosses Village creek, running thence !
west on said quarter section line through sec- !
tions 33 and; 33 to the southwest corner of the
N\V 1-4 of section 33. said township and range,
thence north on ecstion lines 1 mile, to the north
west corner of the S\V 1-4 of section 29. there in
tersecting the public road.
This April the 24th, 1904.
F. M. PARSONS,
\V. H. CRANE,
and others.
Just arrived! What? The'
drummers. Also the best as-!i
sortment of lace we have ever
received. 5c a yard, worth 12 1-2 •
tb 20c. Bowen’s Cash Store. 7dtf <
Time Tells
The 5tory.
There is a big difference be
tween the cost of making a first
class sewing machine, embodying
the best materials and workman
ship, and one which is made in the
cheapest manner. The buyer of
the cheap machine soon pays the
difference of price in the constant
cost for repairs, to say nothing of
its annoying inefficiency.
Singer Sewing Machines do
good work during a lifetime.
Sold on Installments,
Old Machines taken in exchange
Liberal Discount for Cash.
Oils, Needles, Attachments and
Repairs for all makes of machines.
The Singer Manufacturing Co.
"The Sewing Machine Makers of the World.”
FRANK W. LYNN. M'g’r.
121 Hazel St., Newport, Ark.
FOR SALE.
Residence corner Sixth and
Hazel streets. Eight rooms, re
ception hall electric lighted,
bath room, hot and cold water.
Inquire of
55d20 J. Volkner.
If you want to look neat have
^our suit cleaned and pressed by
A. Mortensen. In new quarters
opposite city jail. 86d
First drawing of shoe club
Saturday 8:30 p. m. All mem
bers urged to be on hand. If
,'ou can’t come send your fifty
:ents. Bailey Merc. Co. 92t
s
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FURNITURE
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.-Also, Exclusive Agents for
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They will interest yoa.
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