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f ^ PERCY H. VAN DYKE
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A Real Road Needed.
The story of Newport’s neg
lect of an opportunity to secure
the extension of the Bonnerville
Southwestern, now a branch of
the Frisco, is too well known to
need repetition and too sore a
subject to he ever referring to it
unless some good results can
come from the discussion.
With .the trade of the Eastern
half Jackson County dipping
awy from its r ■rtitf.il slid nat
ural metropolis :,r.d -tributing
-■ center,
with us of bringing to our mar
ket the trade, intercourse and
friendly relations of this impor
tant section, and that is by a
real and permanent public high
way, good for travel the year
round from the eastern border
of Jackson county to this city.
The county will not build this
road, for the road money is
needed in the respective town
ships. The city would have no
right to build such a road and is
not financially able. The way to
build such a road is through an
improvement district that shall
take in both Newport and
Grubbs and the land upon either
side of the said roadway for a
distance of perhaps three miles,
not Jbss than that and perhaps
-fltSre. This would need to be a
macadam road for at least, parts
of the way if not all, though a
system of drainage and regular
dragging of the road, might
maiite'a less expensive road feas
lo every citizen of Grubbs
with whom we have talked, the
project found favor and enthusi
astic support. These people are
ready and willing to enlist in
such an enterprise,to tax them
selves to build and maintain a
road whereby they may reach
Newport. They prefer to do
business in their own county
seat rather than go to another
city, to which they have easy
and ready access by rail.
This is a time of a call to your
public spirit, your business in
terests, your own and our city’s
future welfare and growth.
Can’t we build this road and pre
serve unto ourselves and our
successors the trade of that half
of the county, whose reclama
tion and development is only be
gun?
Why not have a meeting of
our business and professional
men to decide upon some definite
plan of roadway and prepare pe
titions f<»r circulation among the
property owners affected, ask
ing the creation of this improve
ment district. Let's not sleep
on our opportunities, until they
are hopelessly lost.
The time of good road build
ing is near at hand even in
Jackson county, where we have
made a start. The coun
Peeds a system of permanent
from border to border, but
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particularly urgent is the New
port-Grubbs road if we are to in
vite and secure the trade of our
eastern territory.
The city has an ordinance pro
hibiting the burning of papers
in the alleys and streets, which
to merchants that have no real
yards or delivery wagons, im
poses a hardship. It will tend to
create deposits of waste paper
in buildings and to increase tire
risks because it puts an unneces
sary expense upon the business
man. Put the penalty on the
business man who does not -ee
that waste paper is burned
cleanly in the allev's but ghe
him -ome place in which to burn
refuse paper and trash and not
require it to be hauled to me
outskirts of town, there to be
thrown out and let fly to the
four winds, a considerable pai t
of t he -a me being blown back
into t he city.
Complaints are numerous that
sickness has resulted in many
cases from impure city water.
The company recently drained
and cleaned the reservoir tower,
OUT H IIlUic >,y ..~
quent flushing of the street
plugs ought to be required by
! the council or board of health.
Even were the water supply
found not to be responsible, the
regular flushing of the mains is
! a preventive recognized and
! called for by the franchise or
dinance.
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Governor Futrell is being op
portuned to call a special session
of the legislature. The present
crisis can be handled without a
special session. No extraordin
ary session was had last year
and every relief was extended
the stricken people and district
that could have been with the
legislature in session. We are
to have a sufficiency of elections
in the near future without the
further politics upon which a
legislature fairly lives a n d
breathes.
When the city cupboard was
bare, we didn’t expect much in
the way of streets, but with
money in the bank, why not
have better graded streets and
more uniform, serviceable gut
ters. To properly care for the
surface drainage of this city as
well as to provide good streets,
this kind of work ought not to
be delayed.
Friday, April 18 is clean-up
day and as a special inducement
for citizens to rid their premises
of rubbish, the Civic Improve
ment League is offering to pro
wncrnn« for hmilinir iiwav
rubbish. This a “free horse" of
course and ought not to be rid
den to death by citizens who can
afford to pay for such service.
Manager Whitson, the very
accommodating manager of the
Southwestern, has placed before
the higher officials of his com
pany the matter of installing a
free telephone in the Iron Moun
tain passenger office, for the
convenience of subscribers, who
wish to ask about the times of
trains. It’s a little thing, but
often means a great deal as a
convenience.
Make Newport a clean and
' sanitary city by improving your
own premises and then demand
i ing that the proper officials look
after the streets and the alleys.
Faith. Hope and Charity
The days of revelation are not
ended.
In the recent floods, as in the
thunders of Sinai, the Almighty
; speaks to His people.
| In narrow selfishness we be
| come pessimistic and rail against
I humanity as base and absorbed
| in greed. Brotherly love turns
[ cold and suspicion strangle.'
j sympathy in our souls. Class ar
! rays itself against class, and
man turns against man.
So once again the Almighty
must speak in tones that strike
us with terror and teach us the
world-old truth:
“And now abideth faith, hope
and charity.”
The stricken nation is recov
ering from the -hock to reaiize
these do still abide indeed.
In the terror of flood and fire
men have turned in their help
fulness to one another, and for
getting greeds and hates and
' jealousies, clasp hands across
the continent in sympathy and
love.
Yes faith, hope and charity
-till abide.
Faith?
While the ruins of cities -till
quiver from the dread causes
that destroyed them work is res
olutely begun in rebuilding.
Hope ?
Even through the mud and
ashes, human purpose already
-ees a future brighter than the
past in new cities greater than
| the old.
Charity?
j The marvelous capacity of the
j world’s greatest railway lines is
taxed to the full in arraying the
country’s generous offerings to
the needy.
So slow is mankind to learn
mutual love and helpfulness—
the sweetest lesson of this life
on earth—that the Almighty
must teach it to us in the deluge
and the conflagration.—Memphis
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ASHCAKE.
(By James A. Ford.)
This poem was written in Sep
tember 1907. while Ford was
stationed at the navy yard.
Washington, D. C. Knowing
well that it was a violation of
the rules and regulations of the
U. S. Navy to converse with any
one while on post, except in the
line of duty, the Marine listen
ed to Dave Ashcake. an old ne
gro working on the dump in the
S. W. corner of the yard, iorg
enough to catch an idea of the
subject. After being relieved
from duty he went to his room
and wrote these words in negro
dialect:
Well, yes, -ah; dat am a comical
name.
It are so, for a fac’—
But I knowed '-ne down in Ferginyer,
Could ’a’ toted dat on its back.
“What wuz it?” I’m gwine ter tell yo'
'Twas berry long ago:
'Twas "ashcake,” sah: an’ ail ob us
Use ter call ’um jes’ “ashcake,"
so.
Yo' -ee, sah, my ole marster, he
Wuz a powerful wealthy man
Wid mo’ plantations dan haihs on
yo’ haid.
Gre’t acres of lowground lan’.
i .Jeems river bottoms, dat use ter
stall
A fo’ hoss plow, no time;;
An’ he’d knock you down if you jes’
dyared
Ter study ’bout guano and lime
De corn use ter stan’ in de row dat
thick
Yo’ jes could follow de balk;
An’ rank? Well, I ’clar’ ter de King!
I’se seed
Five ’coons up a single stalk.
He owned mo’ niggers ’n arr’ man
’Bout dyar, black and bright;
He owned so many, befo’ de Lawd!
He didn’t know all by sight.
Well, sah, one ebenin’ ’long to’ds dusk
I seed de marster stan’
An’ watch a yaller boy pass de gatt
Wid a ashcake in his han’.
He never had no mammy at all—
Leastways, she war dead by
dat—
An’ de cook an’ de han’s ’bout de place
Use ter see dat de boy kep
fat.
Well, he trotted ’long down de paf
dat night,
An’ de marster he seed ’im go,
An’ hollered, “Say boy; say, what’s yo
name ?
“A Ashcake, sah,” says Joe.
It 'peared to tickle de marster ter def,
An’ he called ’im up to de do’.
“Well, dat is a curisome name,” says
he.
“But I guess it suits you, sho’ ”.
“Whose son are you,” de marster
axed,
“Young Jane’s,” says Joe,
“She’s daid.”
A sperrit coudden ’a ’growed mo’ pale,
An’ “My God!” I heard him
said.
An’ de marster grieved so ’bout dat
thing,
It warn’t long, sah, befo’ he
died;
An’ he’s sleep ’way down in Ferginyer,
Not fur from young Ashcake’s
side.
Beedeville.
This rain will put a stop to
corn planting, though some few
are through.
Prof. Z. D. Barber began his
school Monday at this place.
Mrs. W. W. Beede has been on
the sick list for the past few
days.
H. F. Lassiter, who has been
sick for some time, is improving.
Mr. and Mrs. J. F. McFadden
were guests of Mr. and Mrs. H.
M. McFadden Sunday.
R. V. Cain has been repairing
J. Chilson’s saw mill.
R. C. Roy and F. H. Beede
caught a fine lot of fish yester
day.
J. A. Beede went to Newport
on business Tuesday.
Uncle Tobe has resigned his
position as mail carrier. G. W.
Robins, his successor, is enjoy
ing the privilege of carrying the
U. S. mail.
J. F. McFadden has just pur
chased a fine cow and calf from
0. E. Johnson. o
Mississippi Outlook Better.
Memphis, April 10—Optimism
marked the expressions tonight
of those in charge of the battle
to hold the levees in the central
section of the Mississippi valley
against the mighty flood-swollen
river. Conditions, while still
grave, were generally more hope
ful.
Two gaps in the levee near
Wilson, Ark., are serving as out
lets for a great volume of water,
relieving the strain on the em
bankments south of that point,
and a day of sunshine has had
its effect both on the dikes and
the spirits of the flood fighters.
North of Wilson, at Osceola.
Luxora and Barfield, the situa
tion still is critical, although not
so desperate as last night. South
of Memphis preparations are be
ing made for a hard fight near
Helena and in the levee just
north of Beulah. Miss., the filled
in crevasse of last February has
shown signs of weakening.
At Memphis the river fell 1.2
feet today, standing tonight at
the high stage of last year. 45.3
feet.
Mound City, north of Mem
phis, which was in danger of
collapse last night, reported ap
proximately the same fall.
The two breaks near Wilson.
one at the upper end of Golden
Lake and the other at the lower
end near the village of Random
shot, occurred last night. The
first was about 6 o’clock and the
second at midnight. The result
will be a more rapid spread of
the overflow over a somewhat
greater aera. Wilson, a town of
250 persons, is flooded to a depth
of about three feet. No loss of
life has been reported.
The Randoms hot crevasse is
along the same stretch of levee
that gave way during the flood
of 1903.
Near Beulah an old levee over
which railroad tracks had been
| built to convey material used in
closing the break caused by the
early spring flood settled several
feet for a distance of about 50
! yards. The tracks have been
I torn up and large forces are en
gaged in bolstering up the em
bankment.
The Mississippi Levee Com
mission met at Greenville today
and authorzed the issuance of
$150,000 bonds as an emergency
fund, to be used during the high
water fight. Chief Engineer
Shackleford assured the com
mission that the levees in that
district would be brought to a
height two feet above the high
stages of last year within a few
days.
An Osceola, Ark., dispatch de
scribes the storm of last night
as the most severe of years at
that point. The levee workers
were driven from the banks by
the washing of water over the
dike -v.'d at Barfield the waves
carried l?r?e timbers over the
embankment.
Relief expeditions began the
exploration of the flooded terri
tory about Wilson today. A
number of refugees were taken
to Blytheville and from the ter
ritory overflowed by the
Graves bayou break, below Mem
phis, 250 were brought to this
city tonight aboard the govern
ment steamer Wyanoke to Camp
Crump, where 1,500 persons are
being sheltered.
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