Newport weekly independent., 1901-06-14

Geo. Decker returned Sunday from a trip to Little Rock,
 F. M. Short, a farmer of Cache township, was here Friday on busi- ness.
 B. w. Stainback returned from business trip to Batesville Friday noon.
 G. s. Spraguis and family and Miss Evelyn Wilson of Hope went to Bates vile Friday.
 Dr. J. W. Coffman went to Walnut Ridge on the noon train Friday on professional visit.
 c. s. Ellis of Oil Trough left here Friday for Texas points, where he will seek location.
 Miss Rosalie Hynson of Mammoth Spring was here Saturday going to Batesville on visit.
 Mrs. Wm. D. Gray, the guest of T. D. Kinman's family, returned to her home in Batesville Friday.
 Miss Stella Warner, who has been teaching school in Soui heast Texas, returned home to Batesvh 9 Friday.
 J. R. s. Meek and wife, of Warren, Ark, passed through here Friday en route to Batesville to visit relatives.
 Mrs. Laura c. Ewing of Batesville returned home Friday morning after a short visit with Mrs. J. S. Wilmans.
 The post office in this city will be open on Sundays in the future from 9 to 10 a. m., the only hour during the day.
 Mrs. w. M. Gregg is expected Mon day from Cincinnati, Ohio, where she has been visiting the family of her parents.
 | L. A. McKinnon, of. Ruston, La, went to Weldon Saturday, where he will make a short visit before return ing home.
 John Murphy, a highly respected citizen and merchant of Grubbs, died at his home Friday, June 7th, about 12 o'clock noon.
 1 The pastor-elect of the Baptist church, Rev. H. E. Gabby, of Louis vile, Ky, is expected here to preach by Sunday, the 18th inst.
 Rev. J. G. Harris of Philadelphia was here Saturday and says he will spend the summer as a missionary in the Baptist White River Valley Asso- citation.
 Mrs. J. w. Garrett and daughter, Miss Lucy, arrived Monday night, called here to the death bed of w. D. Brown who passed away before their arrival.
 F. A. May and O. P. Scally were in Newport a short while Saturday evening en route to Tampa, Fla, after a two weeks visit with friends at Tuckerman.
 | ,J. T. Northern, who has been visit ing his brothers, w. w., z. T. and J. N., near Sharp, Independence county, left Tuesday for his home in Perry county, Tennessee.
 Judge Xenophon Ryland, who oc- cupied the Presbyterian pulpit in this city Sunday and is state evangelist for the Southern Presbyterian church, left Monday for Batesville.
 Rev. J. G. Doyle, corresponding secretary of the Baptist Sunday School and Colportage Board of the Arkansas convention, is visiting the churches of Independence Associa- tion.
 General Superintendent Wm. Cotter of St. Louis and Superintendent w. J. Mckee of Little Rock, both officials of the Iron Mountain, passed through Saturday noon in special coach att tached to 54.
 T. L. Powell, general manager of the Southwestern Telephone com pany, left Tuesday noon for Little Rock, after contracting with Jackson County Telephone company for a con nection of wires.
 The Wolf Goldman Mercantile Go. recently sold to Leon s. Keiffer, buy CT for a New Orleans house, their stock of cotton, amounting to about 2,300 bales, which has been stored at the compress and is now being pre- 1 cl,;