Newport weekly independent., 1901-07-12

of Batesville, left here Monday noon for trips west, the former to Colorado points, the latter to California.
 Born to MT. and Mrs. E. G. Ferrill, of Little Rock, who are visiting at the home of Wm. Mosby, a ten pound baby girl, mother and child doing nicely.
 The river is so low that the earth had to be removed from around the government gauge in order to deter mine it's standing, which has been O.7 for the whole week.
 Mesdames Will Robinson and c. B. Van Pelt went to Cushman Tuesday morning returning the same day with Mrs. Frank Whitaker and Miss Mary, who have been visiting there.
 Miss Minnie Lightle of .Searcy pass ed through here Wednesday noon on her way to New York to spend the summer. She was met at the depot by her friend, Mrs. Ed. Wilmans.
 The sympathy of friends is extend- ed c. H. Waring, representative of the Continental Tobacco in this part of the state, in the loss of his father, who died at Little Rock Tuesday.
 The vacant store room at corner of Front and Walnut streets, owned by J. D. Goldman of St. Louis, is under l>0 o1I ,f, being replaced by one of concrete.
 D. A. Carr is shipping out window and door frames for Graham Bros. new brick building at Tuckerman. This store will be a handsome one for that sized town, A by 70 feet in di- mensions.
 S. A. White went to Batesville Monday morning to see his parents and will spend the remainder of his vacation at Dexter, Mo. While away, his position will be filled by Wm. Snyder.
 F. T. Holiday, who has served as night operator at the Iron Mountain depot in this city during the absence of o. D. Hawn, left Wednesday for Little Rock, where he has accepted position.
 G. H. Brown, wife and son, Linville, left Monday noon for Des Arc on a visit of three weeks. This is the old home of both MT. and Mrs. Brown, and they were looking forward with much pleasure to a return visit.
 Jno. M. Malang of the firm of Ma lang & Cowan, contractors and en- gineers of Joplin, Missouri, came down Saturday to conclude terms of contract with the directorate of the Newport Oil Prospecting Company.
 Miss Esther Neill after a short visit with her sister, Mrs. s. R. Phillips, left Wednesday afternoon for a visit to California. She will meet at Little Rock and be accompanied upon her trip by Miss Mary Fuller of Augusta,
 J. L. Root, notary public, before whom large number of land dona- tion cases come up, was taken sick Monday morning shortly after his ar rival in this city and has been confin- ed to his bed since with malarial fever.
 Mrs. Jno. w. Wallace returned Sun day morning from a visit with rela- tives and friends in several towns of Southern Indiana. Her aunt, Mrs. N. Pascoe, of Newark, who kept house while she was gone for MT. Wallace, left Monday noon for Cabot on visit.
 A new outfit will be purchased by Malang X Cowan for boring at this point, and as one of the specifications of the signed contract calls for the commencement of work within 30 days, it will not be long before the necessary apparatus is on the ground.
 The ladies of the Christian church went down to Netherlands mill, eight miles below here on the White Tues day morning and will there hold their fortnightly meeting with Mrs. McFar- land, who is one of the members of Christian Workers Society. The day will also serve as an outing and as a visit to the home of one of their most valued members.
 In reply to a letter of Col. L. Minor, asking that work be undertaken to protect the bank of White river at this point, Capt Graham D, Fitch of the corps of engineers writes that he