DEMOCRATIC TICKET.
District Offices.
For Congress:
S. BRUNDIDGE, JR.
For Circuit Judge:
F. D. FUEKERSON.
For Prosecuting Attorney:
W. A. OEDFIEED.
County Offices.
For Representative:
JOHN H. KEEE
For Sheriff:
R. W. BANDY.
For Circuit Clerk:
JAMES 8. JONES.
For County Clerk:
E. L. BOYCE.
For County and Probate Judge:
J. M. JONES.
For County Treasurer
W. A. JOYCE.
For Surveyor:
H. S. SIMMONS.
For Assessor:
PASSMORE WHITE.
For Coroner:
F. J. HARRISON.
Township Offices.
F'or Justices of the Peace:
J. J. MARTIN.
GUY SMITH.
EUCIAN B. HARRIS.
For Constable:
R. M. EAIRD.
Meatber jforecast.
Washington, June 16. -Forecast for Ar
kansas: Tuesday; fair.
J ABOUT PEOPLE—MAINLY. V
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Huffman bakes bread every day.
Huffman’s cream bread takes the
lead.
For fishing tackle a nd base ball
goods go to I. D. Price’s. 45 btf.
Charles Martin is assisting at
Joyce’s drug store temporarily.
The Cash Grocery is the only place
in town to get fresh raspberries and
blackberries every day. d3Gtf.
Drink Pepophote for thy stomach’s
sake. Diamond “C” Bottling Works
Telephone 72-3 rings.
Miss Imogene Bandy accompanied
by one of her young lady friends went
to Tuckerman Monday morning on a
visit.
Mr. a'Jjd Mrs. Thomas Yarnell of
SfVu-cy, |f.e visiting Mrs. L. J. Dills
_ and the fiddly of Mrs. FitKibeth
Watson.
Laborers Wanted—-Negro men,
with families to work in saw mill.
Apply to Du. Washburn in Watson
Building. b6t
Huffman & Son serve ices, cream
and cake and everything in that line
to parties and receptions at reason
able prices. d-298
Miss Noreene Kinman will enter
tain a number of her young friends
this evening, in honor of her guest
Miss Stella Echols.
General Auditor Adams, of the
Southwestern Telegraph and Tele
phone Company spent Friday and
Saturday in Newport.
“Afrieolor” and “Pepophote,” the
latest drinks, delivered anywhere in
the city 75c per case. Diamond “C”
Bottling Works. Telephone 72-3 rings.
Anyone wanting employment can
secure same at the camp of McCollum
& Bishop, near Grand Glaize, $1 a day
and board or 25 cents a box without
board. b38-2w.
Mrs. W. M. Gregg left Sunday
night for St. Louis, where she will
spend Monday and meet her mother,
who will return with her to Newport
on a visit.
Sam Meyer of New York, a travel
ing salesman for Libby & Wickel, a
wholesale millinery house, spent Sun
day with his cousin Charles Meyer of
this city.
Pearls, baroques and
slugs. The highest prices
paid by J. E. TULLY 6c
CO., 14 Maiden Lane, New
York.
C. R. Hite has raised a'crop of dew
berries this year which should give
him recognition among horticul
turists. The Independent reporter
saw one specimen of this fruit, the
product of his garden which
measured 3 inches in circumference
and was 1 3-4 inches long.
Will F. Williams, an experienced and
skilled laundry man from Neosho,
Missouri, has been employed and
placed in charge of the plant by the
Newport Laundry Company, which is
now prepared to do the highest class
of laundry work. Being a home in
stitution, the excellence and prompt
ness of its work will secure a better
support than previously enjoyed
locally. 45 btf.
I. D. Price’s for hammocks.
Huffman’s kisses are the best, d.tf
Huffman runs the only bread wagon
Grocery. d 19
Nice line of hammocks at I. D.
Price’s. 45 btf.
Huffman can bake cakes for the
most fastidious. d-tf
Bird cages, feather dusters and
alarm clocks at I. D. Price’s. 45 btf
For your six o’cl ock breakfast
order Huffman’s light rolls, fresh
baked. 4-dtf
N. B. Wishon returned Sunday
night from a week’s business trip to
St. Louis.
For Rent—One room with board.
Day boarders wanted also. Apply to
Mrs. Wolf on Hazel Street. 45 d6t
Huffman’s candies are the best on
the market—the three leading candy
firms of St. Louis and the leading one
of Little Rock, say so. 275-dtf
In future 60c will be price for soda
water delivered anywhere in the city.
Cash on delivery. Diamond “C” Bot
tling Works. Telephone 72-3 rings.
Henry Hutchinson spent Saturday
in Newport and returned that night to
Little Rock accompanied by his
brother R. K., who will visit him
there.
Master Joseph Adrian Balmaz ac
companied his mother Mrs. Joseph
Balmaz to Batesville Sunday morning
to visit the latter’s sister, Mrs. Bell
Adams.
The Iron Mountain offers specia
rates to the lake resorts by rail and
steamship. For information call on
Gus Coffin, Ticket Agent at Iron
Mountain. 40btf.
Any two persons wishing a furnished
room with board, man and wife pre
ferred, call on Mrs. M. C. Lee, corner
Third and Laurel streets. Day board
ers also wanted. 41-d4w.
Section Foreman Daniels on the
Iron Mountain left Monday noon ac
companied by his wife for Texar
kana, where he will continue to work
under Mr. Sheedy.
The Presbyterian Sunday school ex
tends a cordial invitation to any of
its friends of other churches to ac
company them on the picnic trip to
Batesville to-morrow.
W. II. Sheedy and family left on the
noon train Monday for Gurdon, which
they will make their home in the
future as Mr. Sheedy was recently
transferred to that division.
Pearls and SIugs==Send
your pearls and slugs to
J. M. O’Hara & Co., Mem=
phis, Tenn. Best prices
and quickest returns.
The arrivals at the Planters Sunday
were G. O. Magness, W. T. Magness,
Newark; Jno. A. Hinkle, Chas. Mosby,
Batesville; Jim Graham, Tuckerman;
E. J. Conklin, J. H. Allen, Little
Rock.
The main depot building is being
moved and Contractor Hubert, who
has the work in charge, says he ex
pects to have it upon its new founda
tion, south of the present site by to
morrow mgni.
The arrivals at the Hazel Saturday
were T. H. Hutchinson, A. T. Creigh
ton, Little Rock; E. H. Hippie, Mem
phis; E. R. Butler, Batesville; G.
Waddell, Bloomfield, Mo.; Berta Aron,
Cushman; J. L. Bevens, Helena.
Peter Huffman returned! Sunday
noon from a prospecting trip through
Missouri, Kansas and the Indian Ter
ritory, but did not decide upon a lo
cation. He may continue to make
Newport his home, which it is our
hope that he will.
Henry Kepping left on the noon
train Monday with his family for
Muscatine, Iowa. He will return
however in about two weeks to buy
shells on this market. He anticipates
a lull in the shell business if the hot
weather of last week continues.
Jno. A. Hinkle, sheriff of Inde
pendence county, came in on No. 3
Monday noon with a man in custody,
whom he took to Batesville on the
local. Sheriff Hinkle has a way of
always landing his men and if he
makes as good a senator as sheriff,
his district will be faithfully and ably
represented.
J. Ed Mann, a popular young man
of this city, who has been in the em
ploy of William Mosby for several
years, leaves to-morrow for Helena,
where he will visit a couple of weeks
with his sister Mrs. R. E. Mosby
He will accept a position
with a Jonesboro firm and goes to
that city upon the tenth of next
month. The Independent repre
sents a large circle of his friends in
wishing him success.
Fresh tomatoes can be secured at
The Cash Grocery. 48 d.
Mrs. Henry Goldman and children
came home last week from Memphis
where she has been under surgical
treatment.—Brinkley Argus.
Rev. Geo. G. Woodbridge left Tues
day morning to join his family in
Belcher, Louisiana. It is with genuine
regret that we lose these pleasant
friends, and hope for them in their
new home everything that can add to
human happiness.—Black Rock Tele
phone.
Col. Jaijnes Mitchell, editor of the
Arkansas Democrat, who has been ill
at the Battle Creek Sanitarium in
Little Rock for several weeks, is re
ported much worse. Col. Mitchell is
one of the best newspaper men in the
State, and his many friends wish for
him a speedy recovery.
Mr. Pease, manager of the McNair
fruit farm near this place, has been
unloading a car of baskets this week,
about 7,000. They expect to com
mence shipping peaches next week
and Mr. Pease estimates that they will
have thirty car loads. It is an ex
tensive industry.—Black Rock Tele
phone.
Two fishing parties returned from
Whitstein Lake Saturday evening,
both having been smiled upon by the
goddess of good luck. The members
of one were Frank Caldwell, Charles
Thorne, Maury Stevens and Dr. Oscar
Jones; of the other, Alcorn Ferguson,
E. L. Boyce, W. A. Billingsley and
Charles Hungerford.
ANNUAL MEETING
Southern Educational Association
Chattanooga, Tennessee, July 1,
2, 3, and 4, 1902.
For the above occasion, the Sou
thern Ry. will sell tickets to Chatta
nooga and return from all points on
its lines at the rate of one fare for the
round trip, plus §2.00 June 27, to July
1, inclusive, with final limit for re
turn July 6, 1902, except by deposit
ing ticket with joint agent corner 8th
and Cherry streets, Chattanooga, on
or before July 6, and payment of 50
cents fee, extension of limit may be
extended until September 10, 1902.
For further information call on your
ticket agent.
The NEWPORT
LAUNDRY
COMPANY.
Has the Largest Plant in
Arkansas.
Equipped with Latest Improved
Machinery.
Uses Filtered and Condensed
Water and Positively Guar
antees all work.
Give Us A Trial.
We Will Please You. Prompt
Service and Special Work
Everyday.
Out of Town agents wanted.
NEWPORT LAUNDRY CO.
W. F. Williams, Mgr.
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THE BANK OF NEWPORT
(Oldest and Largest Bank in the County).
CAPITAL $50,000
.. OFFICERS— -- -■■■■■=
G. W. Decker, President, A. D. Bailey, Vice-President
R. M. Johnson, Cashier. T. D. Kinman, Asst. Cashier
Directors:—A. D. Bailey, V. Y. Cook, G. W. Decker, John T. Flynn,
Thos. J. Graham, J. W. Grubbs, R. M. Johnson, A. E.
Shoffner, J. M. Stayton.
We thank our patrons for the past year’s business out of which we are,
enabled to pay our stockholders their regular ten per cent dividend, aud toj
add to our surplus fund and reserve profit account $7414.99.
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W. A. Billingsley, Cashier; F. A. Jorfcs, Assistant Cashier
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