Newport weekly independent., 1901-04-25

For Sale, No. cook stove, good as new, apply at this office. d-tf Iron Mountain trains Nos. 1, and 5 carry through chair cars and sleepers ] to Dallas.
 Reclining chair car free or Pullman sleeper to Dallas via the Iron Noun | tain.
 Onion sets, just arrived, for sale at The Cash Gro-
 cery. b-2o7 Rev. L. H. Richardson, assistant chaplain to General Green of the United Confederate Veterans, is think ing of taking the Dallas trip.
 Joseph T. Tally of Batesville was here Wednesday on business. He is Tennessee friend of w. J. Knox, Sr., and was for twelve years circuit clerk of Tipton county, Tenn.
 Ol Kirkland, of Bald Knob, was here Wednesday on business relative to subletting the Planters House, but no action upon this proposition had been taken up to the hour of going to press.
 Mrs. A. J. Stevens left Saturday morning for Galveston, Texas, to visit Louis Stevens for several weeks. She was accompanied as far as Little Rock by Gustave Jones and daughter Leah.
 The Steamer Kennedy will not come further down the river than ters Bluff, for the present. The railroad freight will be carried by rail to that place and transferred to the Kennedy, which will carry it to points further up the river. Batesville Guard.
 It gives the Journal pleasure to an telephone system. 0. J. Magness can vassed the town Monday and succeed in securing enough subscribers to make the proposition certainty
 Pearls and 2 ugs=-Sen d your pearls and slugs to J. M. O'Hara& Co.,, Mem 1 phis, Tenn. Best prices and quickest returns.
 Mrs. c. A. Hillhouse expects to go to Dallas, Texas, next week where she will meet her sister, Mrs. L. c. | Bevans, and will also visit the latter's home at Gainesville. Mrs. Bevans will probably return with her to Newport and make this her home.
 The INDEPENDENT regrets to chron icle the death of Miss Fannie B. Wat son which occurred upon the even ing of Thursday, April 10th. The de- ceased was a good and sweet and true character, whose friends mourn deep ly her demise and extend most sincere condolence to the family in this sad hour.
 J. J. Johnson, one of the best known and most respected citizens of Big Bottom township, died very suddenly at his home in this city Saturday from neuralgia of the heart. He was 60 years old and leaves no relatives but wife and an adopted daughter, Mrs. J. P. Magness. His remains were in- tered at the Blue Springs cemetery Sunday Newark Journal
 The percentage of condition of wheat in Missouri at this time is 89 per cent. Unless there is a material change for the worse, the winter wheat at present gives every promise of being the largest raised in the his- tory of the United States Missouri holds forth a fiattering prospect for a banner yield on an increased acreage.
 Poplar Bluff Sentinel.
 l.. J. Adams has written Capt. ". A. Joyce that he has secured rooms at the Windsor Hotel in Dallas, for the Newport contingent of veterans. The special train over the Choctaw on which the veterans expect to leave, departs from Newport at 2:30 Monday morning. There will probably be about 30 from this city and Batesville, who will attend the Dallas reunion.
 Dr. H. G. Campbell returned Fri T r