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Independent VOLUME III NEWPORT, ARKANSAS, SATURDAY, AUGUST 29. 1903 NUMBER 106 -:—;-: ——-- ——— | GET THE HABIT mm j 1' * 1 THE VERDICT of public estimate is usually 3: unerring in recognizing the undercurrent ^ of fact's and principles—upon these facts repu- 3 tation is established. 3 We are building reputation upon the merit of 3 our offerings and the truthful statements of their 3 worth. The results of our efforts are a class of rsj clothes that have never before been attained in 3 ready-tailored garments; distinguished in ap- =3 pearance, retaining their excellence when you’ve 3 3 cast them aside. 3 These are the merits which have made for us 3 an ever-increasing patronage of particular men. 3 Our line this Fall will comprise a selection of the swell, tailor-made, ^ ready-to-wear Alfred Benjamin & Co. Correct Clothes ^ | $16.00 ' ...to... $30.00 | WATCH OUR ANNOUNCEMENTS. Get the habit—go to 3 5E Specialists in Men’s and Boys’ Apparel. —IB Specialists in Men’s and Boys’ Apparel. 3 -i-— - 4UiUU4U4U44U4U444UiUi4UU^ -- - -. - - ! r . ~ ' "" ^ TrYes,? Cut Price Sa!e!== ! - ■; ’ Now is yoar chance to get good goods cheap. j Just a few of the Bargains: 25 pieces of Scotch Lawns worth 6c I* now. vL Apron Gingham worth 7 i-2c.. now • *'•' Children’s Drop Stitch Hose Red, White, 1 Blue and Black worth 35c, now.£wv 50 pieces of Fine Lawns, Regular 15c ft Value now.. 30 pieces of best quality of Lawn, Regular jr Price 25c and 35c now.lt/v Ladies Shirt Waists and Skirts at Cost. 72-inch White Table Linen worth $1.00 rft_ now. vvv All Ladies and Children’s Slippers at Cost===We Mean Cost. THE BAILEY flERCANTILE COJTPANY ^......-J r--—.. ... Needless Constipation. •Constipation shortens life.' It kills by inches, but none the less surely. The condition is seldom necessary; it is due to a morbid condition of the liver that can be over come with the proper remedy. Sells’ Liver Pills I x if persistently used, are a radical cure for constipation. They do even more, for with the disappearance of the chief trouble many minor ones will vanish. Complexion will be keener, and a new supply of energy will appear. trice 25 cents SELLS’ DRUG STORE NEWPORT, ARKANSAS. L______> HENRY OWEN, PHYSICIAN, SURGEON AND OCULIST. i ... — JACK JONES, The Crack Barber, keeps a neat and busy little shop. Upper end of Front street. Expert tonso rialists. Easy shaves and the best haircuts. Our work pleases. “Come on, ye stubby beards.” TRY THE ...Weems Laundry... When yon want good work. They make a specialty of DYEING AND CLEANING CLOTHES Let them show you how well they can please you. Leave orders with FRANK IYNN, Local Agent, f L. 8. HARRIS, S {Justice of the Peaces 7 UNION TOWNSHIP. ^ 7 All papers executedjproraptly. C C Write Deeds, Mortgages, Acknowledge- ( f ments, and Bills of Sale. \ \ All cases decided according to law and r l evidence, irrespective of persons. 7 \ A specialty of the blending of hearts, \ C causing two to beat as one. Ceremony C C short and to the point. f \ Office at Grocery Store, 209 Walnut j V street. / WESTBOUND BATES. Special west bound tourist rates via the Iron Mountain Route—One fare plus 60 cents to Denver, Colorado Springs, Pueblo and Glenwood Springs. Tickets on sale June 16th to September 30th, with final limit of October 31st for return. 47btf T. H. Reamey, Agt. For liberal prices, send your pearls and baroques to C. A. Windau, New 1 port, Arkansas. 305 btf STUCKEY APPOINTS MAIDS AND SPONSOR. Mrs. Q. A. Hillhouse Named As Chaperon for Young Ladies Sent to State Encampment. Govern ment Contributes Rifles and Ammu nition for Encampment. Brig. Gen. M. M. Stuckey, Jr., com manding the First division, Arkansas State Guard, has named the following ladies to represent his division at the annual encampment at Hot Springs, September 7-13: Sponsor, Miss Ethel Beloate of Jonesboro; maids of honor, Miss Rosina Locke of Eureka Springs and Miss Lucy P. Rhodes of Osceola; chaperon, Mrs. George A. Hillhouse of Newport. These ladies will surely add to the pleasures of the encamp ment, and will be quite an addition to the enjoyments at every social func tion. The First division may well be proud of their ladies of honor. Gen. W. H. Haynes, commanding the Arkansas State Guard, has been noti fied chat the war department has or dered magaz ne rifles and ammunition to be shipped by express from the Rock Island arsenal to Hot Springs tor use in the two sham battles dur ing the state encampment. There will be 80,000 rounds in the shipment. FARMERS’ TELEPHONE COMPANY ORGANIZES. The Farmers’ Telephone Company with a capital stock of $i 00,000, of which $20,000 has been paid up, was organized Friday at a meeting of the stockholders held in this city. The old Newport-Elgin line has been ab sorbed by the new company, which will be incorporated at once. A line from Elgin to Centerville, Bat tle Axe and Deckerville will be con structed in the near future, but the company may build and operate lines anywhere in the state, and the high capitalization would indicate that such are the plans of the promoters. The officers of the company are: G. W. Decker, president; W. A. Joyce, vice president; L. Minof, secretary and treasurer, who, together with T. B. Stewart and C. West, constitute the directorate. THE ONLY BABY MONKEY. Gentry Bros, famous shows are com ing to Newport on Thursday, Septem ber 3, for two performances, starting at 2:30 and 8 o’clock p. m., have a novelty this season in the way of a baby monkey, the only one of its kind ever born in captivity. Although not yet out of its mother’s arms, little Bud when he gets to cutting up is a whole menagerie of monkey artists by him self. At times this future king of mimicry assumes a dignified air and looks for all the world like the mana ger of a court train at a coronation. Then again Bud takes it into his head to play the part of a monkey dude, doctor, judge, burlesque, acrobat or boss, just as the fancy seems to strike him. As an all around entertainer Bud can put some comedians to the blush and the Gentrys are proud of •this recent acquisition of theirs. Chastain’s addition. FIRST ARKANSAS BALE. The first bale of cotton of the new crop was received in Little Rock by express Friday by the Lesser-Goldman Cotton Company. It was shipped by Muse & Harris of Junction City. Mr. Hamberg, who represents the Lesser Goldman Company, and is also presi dent of the board of trade, is in St. Louis and has been notified of the re ceipt of the cotton. The bale weighs 465 pounds, classes strict middling and its staple,, is one inch and one-sixteenth. It will be sold at auotion at the board of trade next Tuesday morning at i0:30. Last year the first oale made its ap pearance on August 14. SOME LATE STRAWBERRIES. Eureka Springs Flashlight: O. R. Burnett, who lives northeast of Eu reka Springs, near the tunnel, pre sented the Flashlight with a box of fine strawberries on Tuesday. Mr. Burnett is satisfied that this county beats the world for fruit. His first crop of berries came at the proper season and this second harvest is a surprise. Some vines have as many as four ripe berries besides blooms and half grown berries. The fruit is fine flavored and sweet. SPECIAL RATE Via Iron Mountain Route. 34.25 round trip to Hot Springs account colored carnival. Tickets on sale August 22, 24, 27 and 29, return limit August 30. T. H. Reamey, Agt. DAVY CROCKETT’S CAMPAIGN. Language of This Rugged Frontiers man Suggestive to the Arkansan Just at Present. As an example of Crockett’s early electioneering methods one might I mention his first canvass for the leg- j islature. Regarding this he says: “I didn’t know what the govern- j ment was. I didn’t know but General ’ Jackson was the government.” Meeting Col. Polk, later to be Presi- ! dent Polk, the latter remarked, “I j i think it possible we may have some j changes in the judiciary.” “Very likely,” replied Davy, “very likely,” and discreetly withdrew. “Well,” he comments, “if ever I knowed what he meant by ‘judiciary’ 1 wish I may be shot. I never heard there was such a thing in all nature.” Again Crockett in wbat is called his “autobiography,” a work which he no doubt in part dictated or at least au thorized, gives the following account of one of his speeches to a stranger at Raleigh, while Crockett was enroute to Washington to take his first seat in congress. Said he: “Hurrah for Ad ams” and said I “Hurrah for hell and praise your o\*n comcry.” And he said, “Who are you?” Said I, “I’m that same Davy Crockett, fresh from the backwoods, half man, half alliga tor, a little touched with snapping turtle, can wade the Mississippi, leap the Ohio, ride a streak of lightning, slide down a honey locust and not get scratched. 1 can whip my weight in wild cats, hug a bear too close for comfort and eat any man opposed to Jackson.”—Emerson Hough in Out ing. _ SEEK TO PREVENT CHANGE IN LEVEE. Osceola, Ark., August 28.—In the county court of Mississippi county Judge L. D. Rozell granted the peti tion for an injunction against the St. Francis levee board, applied for by a number of planters and citizens of Pecan Point, who are opposed to the construction of the proposed loop of new levee around and in back of Golden Lake and the abandonment of the old line. At the hearing before Judge Rozell the St. Francis levee board was rep resented by Judge J. C. Hawthorne of Jonesboro, and the petitioners for the injunction were represented by Judge N. W. Norton and William Driver. There was a battle royal in court between the lawyers and the levee board served notice that an appeal would be taken, which will be heard in December. - —. - SUNDAY SERVICES. At the Christian church—Sunday school at 9:30 a. m., and communion services at 10:30, conducted by R. P. Morrison. The pastor, C. C. Cline, will fill his pulpit at the usual hours, Sunday, September 6. * * * At the Methodist church—Sunday school at 9:30 a. m. The pastor, J. W. Smith, will fill his pulpit at 11 a. m. and 8 p. m. “The Incomparable Words” is the subject of his morning sermon, and he will preach on “The Record of Memory” at the evening hour. All are most cordially invited to attend. -»■ Fresh oysters at Riley Mayhan’s. d BODY SEVERED BY SAW. Charles Foster Meets Horrible Death Just Before Closing Hour Friday at Saw Mill Below Newport on White River. Charles Foster, a middle aged man, employed at a saw mill five miles be low Newport on the west bank of White river, met a horrible death Friday afternoon just a few minutes before 6 o’clock, when the mill would have closed down. , In saw mill parlance, he was setting the head blocks, when he became overbalanced and fell forward toward the circular saw. Before the carriage could be stopped the man’s body had come in contact with the saw, catting off both arms, splitting the head and throwing part of it from beneath the shed. The body was terribly muti lated, but death was almost instanta neous. The deceased leaves a wife and four children, his remains having been buried at Surrounded Hill graveyard Saturday. PROHIS WON BY HUNDRED VOTES. Texarkana, Aug. 28.—Full returns from yesterday’s election in Bowie county, Texas, show a victory for the prohibitionists by a majority of one hundred and five votes. The whisky men charge that there were irregu larities at some of the voting places, and there is, on this account, some talk of contesting the election, but it is not generally believed that such action will be taken. A movement was started on the Arkansas side of town this afternoon in the way of a petition asking the city council to raise the city saloon license from its present figure of 8700 to 82,000, the object being to prevent the ousted saloons on the Texas side from settling over on that side of town, and it is likely the council will take some such action. Another movement, however, is almost certain to be inaugurated, its purpose being jS to invoke what is known as the “three-mile law” and drive the liquor men from the Arkansas side of town also. The saloon men are very much put out, and the immediate outlook before them is anything but promising. When you have pearls, slugs and baroques, send them to P. O. Heide, Prairie du Cbien, Wisconsin for top market prices. o.f.t.f. APPOINTMENTS. JSsl May be made JsSyfijSL and conversa tion held, giv ing all the advantages of a personal interview through the use of The Long Distance Telephone. SOUTHWESTERN TELEGRAPH & TELEPHONE CO. ...COMING TO NEWPORT... ONE DAY ONLY Thursday, Sept. 3 GENTRY BROS.SHOWS An Educational Feature Without a Parallel! Half a Thousand Pigmy Pets! Marvel’s Menagerie from Lilliput! inn PRICELESS PONIES IN jnf| ILfU’KALEIDOSCOPIC COMBI NATI O NSlvV ..Ponies Playing the Latest Popular Airs on Musica[ Bells.. lAA Blue-Blooded Educated Canines! irin IUU Dignitaries and Dudes of Dogdom! IviU FOUR SCORE MONKEY COMEDIANS SEE DON JUAN LOOP SEE MONKEY dare-devil LOOP 2“Herds of Lilliputian Elephant Actors-2 Watch for the Tremendous Free SPECTACULAR STREET CARNIVAL A Snoerb, Original Array of Miniature Magnificence at 10 a. m. Exhibition Grounds, Chastain Addition.