Newport weekly independent., September 27, 1901, Image 3

About Newport weekly independent. (Newport, Ark.) 1901-1929

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GOOD LUeK STORE. j
J About the 25th or 28th with a full line of Dry Goods, Clothing, Boots, Shoes, Ladies’ and Gents’ Furnishings and Notions. ]
We wish to inform the good people of Newport and Jackson County that we will open our store with a large stock of new, up= >
to=date goods at the lowest prices in the city. It will pay you to call and see our bargains before buying your fall and winter ||
goods.==WE WILL SAVE YOU FIFTY PER CENT ON THE DOLLAR.— NOTE SO'VIE OF OUR PRICES* 1
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| Slothing.
\ §20 00 Overcoats. §12 00
( §15 00 Overcoats. 9 00
y §10 00 Overcoats. 5 50
f § 7 50 Overcoats. 4 00
/ §15 00 Men’s Suits. 9 00
( §18 00 Men’s Suits. 10 50
/ §20 00 Men’s Suits.......—:. 12 00
f 1 §12 50 Men’s Suits. 6 25
j j §10 00 Men’s Suits. 5 75
? § 8 50 Men’s Suits. 4 25
y ; § 6 00 Men’s Suits. 3 00
) § 1 50 Trousers. 80
J ' § 2 00 Trousers. 1 50
c § 3 00 Trousers. 2 00
S § 3 50 Trousers . 2 50
L § 4 00 Trousers. 3 00
I f?omren.’?Suits 75c up to $6.00.
Dry Goods.
Dress Goods and Calicoes.3 i-2c
Brown and Bleached Domestic—yard wide.4c
Heavy Cotton Flannel.4 i-2c
Woolen and Worsted Goods at 50c on the dollar.
Cloaks.
915 00 Ladies’ Jackets..99 25
910 00 Ladies’ Jackets. 6 25
9 7 50 Ladies’ Jackets. 4 25
Capes.
9 4 00 Ladies’ Capes..93 00
9 3 00 Ladies’ Capes. 2 00
9 2 50 Ladies’ Capes. 1 50
9 2 00 Ladies’ Capes. 1 25
9 1 50 Ladies’ Capes. 1 00
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Ladies’ Tailor Made
Suits. ' jhL.^
•820 00 Ladies’ Tailor Made Suits will be sold for .812 00 I S
815 00 Suits. 9 00 ' I1
810 00 Suits. 6 00 /
8 7 50 Suits. 3 50 C
Skirts. |
Ladies’ Skirts at all prices and many other articles at such
bargains as above. Come early and get the first choice. /C
Shoes. j
Ladies’ Fine Shoes from 75c to.82 50 9
Men’s Fine Shoes from 81.00 to. 5 00 ■
^ J. GOLDBERG & COMPANY <D 518 FRONT STREET. I
FIRE AT SEARCY.
Business Block Destroyed By Flames
Early Monday Morning.—Wind
Was Favorable Or Loss
Would Have Been
Worse—The Work
of Incendiaries.
One of the best business blocks of
our neighboring town of Searcy was
burned to the ground early Monday
morning, and had it not been for the
favorable wind which carried the heat
in the opposite direction from the
nearest adjoining building, Searcy
might have been reduced to ashes, as
the town has no fire company, with
which to fight the flames. As it was,
one whole block was lost and nearby
buildings were only saved by the use
of wet blankets and the whole town
turning out as a bucket brigade to
fight any further encroachments of
the flames.
The fire started between two and
three o’clock in the store of J. A. Pet
ty, which had probably been robbed
and then set afire to cover the tracks
of the criminals. This is the view held
by most citizens of Searcy, Mr. Petty
being out of town at the time of the
occurrence. He carried a stock of
general merchandise and with $4000
insurance, his loss is thought to be en
tirely covered. The building was
owned by S. Perry, insurance upon
the same not known.
The next a double store building
was the property of S. Brundidge and
heirs with only $1800 insurance, a very
small part of the loss. This was oc
cupied by R. S. Booth and the con
tents consisted of furniture and hard
ware stock, which was insured.
The third building was occupied by
the shoe stock of R. R. Wilson, who
carried insurance. The store building
was owned by W. H. Lightle and was
only slightly protected by insurance.
Onljr one of the buildings was two
stories in height, the second floor be
ing occupied by the local exchange of
the Southwestern Telephone and Tel
egraph Company, the dental office of
Dr. R. S. Tullen and the law office of
Green & Rachel. The last named firm
lost an excellent library and had only
$500 insurance. Most of the fixtures
and furnishings of the two other
offices were saved.
“A happy thought”—buy your drugs
and toilet articles of Sells. 119
WANT THE EXTENSION.
The White River extension of the
Missouri Pacific railroad has the line
surveyed up White river to a point
above Syllamore. The surveyors are
still at work and are completing the
survey as they come. It is reported
that the 3rd twenty miles of the road
has been let. The work is being
pushed on this road and they are ad
vertising for men and teams and
offering free pass to hands until they
get the number of hands they need.
This road will pass through Marion
county from the southeast corner to
the northwest corner, and will touch
some of the very best mineral dis
tricts in the county. It will pass
through the Warner Creek and Hall
Mountain districts before reaching
Yelleville then it will passthrough the
Georges Creek and part of the Jim
mie Creek sections and the Dodd City
and Sugar Loaf districts before going
out of the county at or near the north
west corner. This road when built
can with very little trouble reach all
the mineral of Marion county. The
people of Marion county are confident
that they will get a road and they are
willing to do anything that is reason
able to obtain it. They know this line
will do them more good than any
other proposed route through the
county from the simple fact it passes
through and near all the developed
mineral lands of the county.-Yell
ville Echo.
SIX TIMES AROUND THE EARTH.
While the general public is vaguely
aware that enormous quantities of
material are used in the making of
the modern magazine, comparatively
few persons have any idea of the vast
amount required. If the paper used
in the last twelve issues of the Ladies’
Home Journal, for instance, were in
one gigantic strip a foot wide, it
would go nearly six times around the
earth at the equator, or almost forty
three times from New York to San
Francisco. In other words, such a
strip would be more than 140,000 miles
long! If the copies of a single edition
of The Journal were piled one on top
of another, they would tower to a
height of nearly two miles, almost
two thousand feet more than the
average height of the Alps, or half as
high again as Mount Washington. To
print the Journal on this hugh mass
of paper takes almost 6000 gallons of
ink every year.
SATURDAY NIGHT’S SHOOTING.
The business portion of this peace
fully inclined city, was disturbed Sat
urday night between 9 and 10 o’clock
by the discharge of seven pistol shots
at the corner of Front and Beech
Streets.
The affray did not end seriously
however, as one of the parties took to
his heels upon the first discharge of
the pistol. A negro came into the
restaurant of Davis & Powell and be
gan cursing a white man named Jim
Smith. One of the proprietors James
Davis and a clerk James Bryan or
dered the negro out. He made sev
eral threats, and after put upon the
street, went after a gun.
Davis was warned in the meantime
and when the negro returned, opened
fire upon him, with a revolver kept at
the store. Seven shots were fired,
but no one was hurt.
FACTS ABOUT THE FIRE.
The fire at Searcy, as related in
Monday’s Independent, proved a
very disastrous one to the little city
and the loss will probably aggregate
$15,000, to $20,000.
Several citizens engaged in saving
the goods of threatened stores were
badly injured by the explosion of a
keg of powder in J. A. Pettev’s store.
Those carrying insurance, together
with amounts of same, according to
the Searcy Citizen, were as follows: —
R. R. Wilson & Co., in Springfield
Fire Insurance Co. $2,500.
Mrs. Molly Neelly on two brick
stores, Hartford, $1,000.
J. H. McCollum, adm’r. Brundidge
heirs, Hartford, $800.
!
Mrs. W. H. Lightle, two-story
Brick, $2,000.
R. S. Booth, Agricultural of N. Y.
$1,500.
R. S. Booth, German of Freeport,
$1,500.
R. S. Booth, in Helvetia of Swiss, N.
Y. $2,000.
Grant Green, in Palatine of Lon
don, $700.
J. A. Pettey, in Phcenix, of London,
$2,000.
S. Perry, in Connecticut, $1,200.
J. A. Pettey, in Fire Association, of
Pennsylvania, $2,000.
Dr. J. W. Fuller, in Tutonia, $350.
Corn and oat chops, corn chops,
corn, bran and hay for sale at The
Cash Grocery. 80btf
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CLARKE’S REPLY.
To The Speech of Senator Jones And
The Latter’s Closing Words.
Owing to the lateness of the speak
ing, the Independent of Wednesday,
could not furnish a synopsis of the re
marks of the other Senatorial candi
date, Ex-Governor James P. Clarke.
We give the account of the same as
published by the Arkansas Democrat:
“Governor Clarke was the second
speaker and was applauded as he was
introduced by Senator Hillhouse. He
went right into the main issues and
dwelt on the senator’s long term in
office only a few minutes, leaving off
the usual address in an opening
speech. He was prepared to show
that Senator Jones had 8850,000 stock
in the round-lap cotton “trust” and
produced a copy of a certificate show
ing that Senator Jones voted that
amount of stock at a meeting of the
company. Governor Clarke said he
didn’t think the senator had watched
after Arkansas’ interests as he should,
and seemed to think he had been
“monkeying” with the trusts too
much and watching after his own per
sonal welfare. He said the records in
New Jersey, where the company was
organized, were against the senator.
He read two affidavits from Texas, and
referred to one or two instances in
Arkansas, where they were putting in
the round-bale and knocking out the
square bale. He discussed national
politics to some extent, and gav^- .
views on some of the main is^o?.
They agreed as to the trusts. He then
explained how he came to be connec- j
ted with the Hudson Bank claim and
at once referred to the “Fly” pam- j
phlets, the senator’s speech and the
“Arkansas Democrat.”
One incident of the speaking to-day
that provoked some interest and ap
plause occurred when Gov. Clarke
stated in reply to an intimation of
Senator Jones to the effect that the
Republicans were hostile to his re
election, that the big Republicans who
count when it comes to outlining the
policies of the party were plainly
anxious to bring about his election to
| the senate. As evidence of this fact
he said that when the senator ob
| tained the president’s consent to
name one of the World’s Fair com
missioners, he named P. D. Scott, a
practical politician, and turned down
the endorsements and applications of
Governor D. W. Jones and ex-Con
gressman W. L. Terr*, thus
plainly that the Republicans wer fur
nishing him with valuable patronage
to be used in building up a political
machine to advance his personal for
tunes. This created a slight ripple of
applause, but this was quickly turned
by the senator when he began bis re
joinder. He said Mr. Scott was a
first class business man, and that al
though comparatively unknown, this
was no crime, and that in his opinion
to be fit for such a commissionership
one need not be an ex-governor, ex
senator, ex-congressman, nor any
other kind of a broken-down politi
cian. (Cheers and long applause.)
Senator Jones took up his thirty min
utes’ rejoinder to the satisfaction of
all, and Jones’ friends claim he will
carry the county by a good majority.”
MARRIAGE LICENSES.
W. N. Love, Olyphant and Callie
Jinks, Olyphant.
Harry Williams, Newport and
Eutopia Folks, Newport.
Otis Jackson, Kenyon and Estella
Miller, Kenyon.
Lawrence Fields, Newport and Clara
White, Newport. .j~-« \
S. W. Luster, Eight Mile and Mrs.
Rebecca Jane Wilson, Eight Mile.
Ned Turner, Auvergne and Mrs.
Nannice Mooreman, Village township.
W. L. Parmer, Newport and 1
Annie Walker, Newport.
Wesley M. Shaver, Newport
Mary Elenor Smith, Newport. ^
MS. Wells, Oil Trough and Minnie
r! As, Oil Trough.
me Bone, Swifton and Ethel Dea
torf* Swifton.
J. A. Sherrell, Tuckerman and Jan
nie Baker, Tuckerman.
“NOTHING DOING.”
The minutes of the meeting of the
city council Monday night, Septem
ber 23, are not in the least voluminous.
The most important proceeding was
the calling of the roll and about the
second order on e program, was a
motion for adjournment.
All bills approved by finance com
mittee were by motion of Willis and
second by Mayhaij, allowed and treas
urers, instructed to issue warrants for '
same.
Alderman Willis, West and Mayhan
and Mayor Grubbs were present.
For sale—§125 cash register for
§85—new machine. Will place out on
trial. Can be seen at this office.
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