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VOLUME IV. NEWPORT, ARKANSAS. THURSDAY. OCTOBER 6. 1904. ~ NUMBER <39.
PUSHING WORK ON
WHITE RIVER ROAD.
Longest Tunnel On New Line
Reported Completed—Train
Service Promised Shortly.
Superintendent J. G. Hartigan
of the Arkansas division of the
Iron Mountain was on the White
River road Wednesday says the
Little Rock Democrat on a tour
of inspection. The work on this
line is progressing as fast as is
y possible under the circumstances
and it is said that there are spe
cial efforts being made to com
plete the road as soon as practi
cable.
In thi3 connection it is said
that the longest tunnel, that
west of Cotter, has been com
pleted and the trains are now
running through it.
The work on the lower, or
southern end, is especially hard
from the great amount of grad
r1g which is necessary. There
are places that it looks almost
impossible for a railroad to cross
which are being graded up to
the line, and in a short time
trains will be running over the
entire length.
This is one of the most expen
sive lines in the entire south
west, and it will open a country
which has heretofore been with
out facilities at all. There is no
doubt that the line will be a pay
ing one from the start, and that
the great country through which
it passes will be made to blos
som as a rose in consequence of
the road coming through there.
RAILROAD RUMBLINGS.
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L. F. Loree, president of the
Eoc]s Island system has been
forced to step down and out
owing to a disagreement with a
majority of the members of the
executive board and B. F.
Winchell will become the operat
ing head of the system. Loree’s
application of eastern methods
to western railroading is said to
have proven a failure and result
ed in a great falling off of the
earnings of the company. Loree
was given $500,000 bonus to
quit the B. & O. and a salary
of $75,000 had been guaranteed
him for we years.
The Pere Marquette syndicate
of roads, with which Russell
Harding and William Cotter have
Recently become allied, is under
' stood to have purchased the
Clover Leaf, or Toledo, St.
Louis & Western, 454 miles in
length and operating trains into
St. Louis.
BOOZE DESTROYED
AT BENTONVILLE.
Bentonville, Oct. 5. — Some
months hgo a barrel of whisky
was found on the premises of
Mr. McGrarah at Rogers and
the liquor was brought here by
Sheriff Pickens and placed in
jail. Today Judge John N. Till
man of the Benton county circuit
court cendemned the whisky and
ordered it destroyed. Sheriff
Pickens rolled the barrel out of
the jail into the square, knocked
the head of the barrel in and
poured the contents out, amid
the cheers of a crowd. It is the
first instance of the kind in Ben
ton county.
STEEL BRIDGE OVER
LITTLE RED RIVER.
Searcy, Oct. 5.—The levying
court of White county, after a
session of two days, has adjourn
ed. The progressive spirit of the
citizens of White county, espec
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schools, was shown by the ap- i
propriations which were made, i
One mill of the county levy was
appropriated as the beginning of
a fund for the erection of a steel
bridge over Little Red river, to
cost some $12,000, uniting the
county north and south of the
river.
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS.
V. Y. Cook to Henry Cham
berlain, 320 acres, 23-10-4, $1.00.
F. M. Henry et al, decree of
court confirming report of com
missioners to partition lands in
Hot Spring and Jackson coun
ties belonging to late James M.
Henry.
Alice E. Douglass and Jennie
M. Walsh to Sam Henry, h inter
est in 320 acres, 23-10-4, $1,000.
A. J. Shell and wife to J. B.
Knight, lot 12, block 28, Swifton,
$400.
W. R. Harvey and wife to S.C.
Crawford, 40 acres, 15-14-2,
$400.
Mrs. J. E. Brown to Geo. W.
Yelverton, lots 11 and 12, block
2, Brown’s addition, Tuckerman,
$215.
Sedgwick Tie company to ceo.
H. Brabbzson, 80 acres, 31-12-1,
$240.
0. C. Bettis and wife to Gus
tave Jones, 80 acres,6-13-1, $1.00.
E. L. Hogue to John Lynch,
gum and elm on 80 acres, 21-11-3,
$100.
T. W. Gill to Sedgwick Tie
Company, right of way 100 feet
wide across 80 acres, 8-11-1, $75.
Miss Lou Minor to Dr. J. C.
Minor, lots 5 and 6, block “H,”
Chastain’s addition, Newport,
$300.
A. B. Lippman and wife to
Elza Lippmann, 840 acress, 6, 7
13-1; 23, 24, 28, 34-14-1, $1.00.
MARRIAGE LICENSES.
B. A. Hale, 21, and Mrs. Ida
Haggard 22, both of Tuckerman,
George Smith, 32, and Kansas
Hampton, both of Elmo.
John Brown, 48, and Mrs.
Florence, 47, both of Newport.
J. H. Hall, 24, and Dove Mur
phy, 18, both of Auvergne.
Western Mitchell, 21, and Mrs.
Minnie Davis, 24, both of Tuck
erman.
Walter Jenkins, 21, and Lena
Arnsby, 19, botlj of Newport.
James Lott, 22 and Georgia
' Lott, 18, both of Auvergne.
I A. F. Skinner, 43, and Mrs.
; Nora Harpool, 30, both of Rem
j mel.
D. W. Saylor, 26, and Ida Bell
Massey, 21, both of Jacksonport.
H. C. Nicholson, 26, and Lena
Wilson, 18, both of Swifton.
John Hindman, 73, Newark,
and Mrs. Mary J. Fuller, 63,
Pleasant Plains.
John Mathis, 24, and Virgil
Nelson, 18, both of Remmel.
Jas. F. Rich, 50, and Mrs. Mary
B. Dye, 40, both of Elmo.
THROUGH TOURIST CAR SER
VICE TO CALIFONIA.
Commencing Saturday Septem
ber 17th, the Iron Mountain
Route will inaugurate through
car service to Los Angeles, Cali
fornia. This is the ‘ ‘True South
ern Route” via Texarkana and
El Paso. Special low rate colo
nists’ tickets to California points
will be on sale September 15th to
October 15th, via Iron Mountain
Route. For tickets and reserva
tion apply to local agent.
H. C. Townsend,
G. P. & T. A.
SAYLOR-MASSEY.
Mr. D. W. Saylor of St. Louis
and Miss Ida Massey of Jackson
port, were united in the holy
bonds of matrimony on Monday
i evening, Oct. 3, 1904, at 7:30
it the home of the bride’s par
ents. Misses Eyrye Massey and
(Vrkie Dean and Messrs Herbert
Hoe and Finis Massey were at
;endants. The bride was charm
ingly gowned in white silk mull
with .white geraniums in her
liair. The groom wore the con
ventional black. The brides
maids were sweetly dressed in
white organdie. Rev. J. L.
Brown officiated.
Friends and relatives from
Batesville, Jamestown, Little
Rock and St. Louis were pres
snt and many handsome gifts
were received.
After the ceremony delicious
refreshments were served and a
number of friends accompanied
the newly wed to Newport,
where they and Mrs. Saylor,
the groom’s mother, departed
amid a merry shower of rice and
?ood wishes on No. 18, Hot
Springs special, for St. Louis
where they will spend a few
days visiting the bridegroom’s
parents, and will then return to
Jacksonport, where they will
make their home for the preseht.
Miss Ida is one of the
sweetest and most popular young
ladies of Jacksonport and Mr.
Saylor is a prosperous young
business man with many noble
qualities. He is vice president
the White River Cooperage
Co.. Hosts of friends join unan
imously in wishing them a life
full of usefulness and love.
EIGHT MILE TIMES.
As there is little sickness in
this vicinity, Dr. Holloway ia
very busy hunting.
The wolves came up in town
Friday night and killed two
sheep near the postoffice.
The only pet pig in Jackson
county that will tree squirrels is
owned by R. R. Crawford.
Mr. and Mrs. R. Stephenson of
Eight Mile spent Sunday with
friends near Martin Bridge.
Esquire W. N. Nance has been
very busy for the past week at
tending to the duties of his of
fice.
The clerks of Eight Mile have
a few leisure hours now, as the
farmers are busy gathering their
crops.
Let us hear from “Rattle Box”
and others who have been writ
ing to our best county paper, the
Independent.
A good many of the children
and some of the older one9?of our
neighborhood are suffering from
whooping cough.
Newton Edwards has just laid
the foundation of a fine mansion
for J. T. Bigham, one of Eight
Mile’s leading farmers.
Our enterprising saw mill men,
Peacock and Newsom, have pur
chased a grist mill and’ are now
ready to serve their patrons.
We have been wondering who
was driving the mule team over
on Bowen’s Ridge Sunday. The
mules looked like they came from
Weldon.
Mr. Frank Carter greets every
one with a smile since he com
menced work for Esq. Roy. We
often wonder why he is so well
pleased.
A. J. Mead, our worthy consta
ble and road overseer, suggests
that the people be good and let
him work the road instead of at
tending law suits.
W. W. Beede, Eight Mile’s
only attorney at law, has beer
very busy the past week attend
ing to his official duties. If coun
continues his entire crop wil
have to be gathered by Mrs
Beede.
Mr. Silas Mead, a prominen
young man of Eight Mile, mad'
A Style That Never
Grows Old—
the single-breasted sack. When it bears
this famous label
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it is never out of date—always full of
snap and go.
| This season the regular
I sack has
rather
long, wide
lapels, 3 buttons, and drapes long and
loose from high, broad shoulders. The
slight cutaway at the coat bottom gives
it a semi-military effect.
The fabrics are cheviot?, thibets and
| smooth and unfinished worsteds in plain
blues and blacks and mixed browns and
! grays. The fit, the trimmings and the
! workmanship are up to that high stand
ard of excellence which this famous
house established thirty years since.
breasted&ickSuits $15.00 tO $30.00
^ For sale in this city by us exclusively.
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MANHATTAN SHIRTS, KNOX AND HAWES HATS.
CROWN TROUSERS FAULTLESS NIGHT ROBES
I EDWIN CLAPP SHOES AND PAJAMAS.
WATERHOUSE CRAVATS.
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DR. A. KELLETT.
Tho Oanoar, Sorafula and
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We make a cure of above without the knife or
or pain. We challenge the world for the radicar
cure of cancer. It matters not the size o| your
eancer or the length of time you have been labor
ing under it. We will cure same in from eight to
twelve days. We must in all cases make a person
al diagnosis at our office in Newport, or, at your
suggestion, we cure by a special written guaran
tee on our part. Please drop us a card or call at
our office.
We make a specialty of female diseases.
Yours, very truly,
A. KELLETT, M.D.,C. S.
Newport, Ark.
a flying trip to Cow Lake Sun
day. If Mr. Mead is going to ;
make a habit of lending that new
buggy, we will bnng some one ,
to church too.
The box supper given at the
Gourd Neck school house was
largely attended by that com
munity, and also a small num
ber of young people from Eight
: Mile. The box belonging to Miss
Carrie Daniels, a most charming
young lady of sixteen summers,
I was sold to one of the Eight Mile
boys, but not the one whose
heart failed him when the price
soared to $4.50. The cake that
was given to the most popular
I young lady who attended the
supper was awarded by a large
I majority to Miss Mollie Bigham
II of Eight Mile. The beginning of
the contest looked slim for the
■ small crowd, but when the Gourd
; Neck boys found that they could
[ not purchase votes with “hot
air” their yells ceased. Three
cheers for the Eight M ile boys.
Ground Hog.
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money in a
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And it will be there when you
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OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS.
J. W. Grubbs, President. Nathan Graham, V.-Pres.
Chas. G. Henry, Cashier.
B. B. Bond, M. D. Campbell, S. D. Campbell,
G. D. Clements, R. F. Drummond, W. D. McLain,
F. D. Fulkerson, C. J. Saenger, Abe Heilegers,
0. D. Watson, L. Minor. L. E. Willis,
J. S. Wilmans. ,
THE BANK OF NEWPORT
Solicits the acccounts of depositors who desire
the accommodations of a first-class, well
equipped and reliable banking house.
OFFICERS AND DIREOTQRS.
Geo. W. Decker, President. R. M. Johnson, Cashier.
A. D. Bailey, Vice Pres’t. T. D. Kinman, Ass’t Cashier.
Thos. J. Graham. Ed. P. Shoffner. J. T. Henderson.
Jos. M. Stayton. Dr. J. M. Jones. T. S. Stephens.
Jack Herron
For Granitoid and Stone Walks,
Curbing, all kinds of Brick Work.
Don’t fail to get my figures
before contracting.
My Work Talks For Itself
! Parties wanting crushed Lime
I Stone Walks apply to me.
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Physician, Surgeon
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Office - - Sells’ Drug Ster*.
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