Newport weekly independent., 1901-09-06

1 unleeflng Tor the war with Spa " BatesviIle guard.
 J. M. Stayton and NJ. M. Stuc returned home Saturday night afte trip across the larger part of NorI ern Arkansas. They found the droui to have been very severe in man places and the shortage of corn so great, that it was often hard to secure feed for their team.
 Paul Ferbos, who has been billing clerk for the American Grocer Com pany, left Monday for his home in St. Louis, where he expects to live. We wish him success, though it is with re- gret that we lose him. R. J. Carter of Riverside succeeds him at the Ameri- can Grocer Company.
 Joe Lilies was the first planter to bring bale of this seasons cotton to the Searcy market, and the price paid was 5-8 cents a pound, which the Citizen claimed was the highest price paid by any neighboring town. How about Newport and the price of 10 cents paid for the first bale brought to her market?
 c. J. Pfund left Monday noon for Little Rock, where he has a good po sition for the next year with the Lit tie Rock Compress Company. Mr. Pfund is very jolly soul who adds @ life to any crowd and good citizen to'any community. The INDEPEND- ENT will continue to inform him of the doings of people in his old home.
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 Len c. Ryland who has been ap- pointed claim agent for this division of the Iron Mountain, was here Tues day on his first visit. He is an old college friend of the editors and a son of Judge Xenophon Ryland, who is we'll known here. It was under him, that Judge F. D. Fulknrson read law before being admitted to the bar in Lafayette county, Missouri.
 Pepper, Staley and Ford bought the largest ball pearl yesterday ever brought to the Black Rock market. It weighed over 116 grains and was perfect. It was bought of T. H. Me- Caleb, of Hardy, who is a brother of = Judge McCaleb of the 18th Judicial circuit. This pearl was found by Hay wood, the 16-year- son of MT. Me- Caleb, in Black river east of Neeley- vile. Price paid Black Rock Blade.
 w. A. Oldfeld, of Batesville, passed through here from Walnut Ridge Tuesday on his way to Little Rock. Mir. Oldfeld is a candidate for prosecuting attorney and when it comes to shaking hands with people and making them your friends, he can't be beat as an electioneer. But being an able attorney, capable in every way, the people would not be losers even if he should be elected on the ground that he is "go0d fellow'' at all times we'll met. "t..
 Charles P. Bateman, of Oil Trough, was in Newport Tuesday on business and handed the reporter for this paper the price of years subscrip- tion. MT. Bateman was on the last Federal grand jury and his friends say that he made a model member push ing the cause against moonshiners, the motive for which was afterwards discovered, when still of his own was located. As the friend who told us the story, loves joke beyond the truth, no voucher will be attached.
 The excursion party which left here Saturday night upon the Harry Waltz for trip up the Black, returning ~ Monday night, was composed of, Walter Cotter, T. l.. Cox, G. L. Mey- CTS, F. H. Powell, Arthur Neill and H. B. Axe, of Little Rock, Walter Dry den, of Memphis, G. w. Clawson, Phil McDermott, Al Martin and MT. Hayden, of St. Louis, T. E. Morrison and Victor Axe, of this city. It is reported that a case of soda pop was taken along, but this paper refuses to