Newport weekly independent., 1901-08-30

room, next door to Bracy's on Hazel street, has been rented to the Ameri- can Grocer Company, whose increas- ed stock demands more room.
 H. E. l.. McCollum has accepted a regular position with Otto M. Bowen for the fall season and will commence work Monday. He is known as very reliable, energetic clerk and good salesman, whom MT. Bowen is fortu nate in securing.
 J. B. Wilmans and c. B. Irby spent Wednesday at Bowen's Ridge, listen ing to the Schultz Vermillion debate. The speakers are reported to have waxed warm in their arguments, and controverted by direct denials the statements of each other.
 Miss Annie Puddle came down Wednesday afternoon with Miss Mona Yancey, who was on her way back to Beardstown, Kentucky, where she is attending college. Miss Puddle spent the night with Miss Josie Phillips, and is now visiting Miss Allie Ward.
 To repair a shoe right takes an ex- perienced mechanic, one who knows how a shoe is made in every detail and has every shape of lasts to re- pair on, which gives the original ap- pearance to shoe, besides all kinds of material necessary. Knox has these, try him. 107 1w
 A fellow from one of the back town ships, a little under the influence, dropped into the county clerks office the other day and paralized Deputy Burt Arnold by calling for Ca pair of gosling yokes." He finally explained that he wanted marriage license, and got it.-Batesville Guard.
 Misses Pearl Earnhart, Allie Puddle, Nora Yancey, Dorothy Reardon and Messrs. D. A. and J. c. Yancey were registered at the Hazel Wednesday from Batesville. Misses Yancey and Earnhart left for Beardstown, Ky, where they will attend school and Miss Reardon returned to her home in Chester, III.
 Geo. F. Crosser, buyer for the Southern Cotton Oil Company, at Newark, was here on business We'd nesday, returning home next morn ing. He thinks his section of coun- try will raise one-half cotton crop, and one-half corn crop, as some of the best land will produce 35 and 40 bushels to the acre.
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 Plato Lott, the negro employe of the Kelley mill, whose skull was fractured by a blow over the head Thursday, August 22nd, died Wednes- day morning at o'clock at his home north of the railroad track. The re- port that Quincy Webster, implicated in the assault upon Lott, had been captured at Augusta, can not be veri- fled.
 George Brabbson, living in Grubbs township, brought a wagon load of the finest peaches of the season to this city Saturday, which he sold to MT. Bowen of The Cash Grocery. They were very large, yellow free, stones, beautiful to look at and better still upon tasting. MT. Brabbson says he will have about 75 bushels of this peach, which he expects to market here.
 The arrivals at the Hazel Tuesday included the following: O. c. Harb, Corning; Geo. A. Evans, John w. Evans, Greenville, Mo-; w. P. Mus grove, Grays; John w. Ferrill, R. D. Williams, Batesville; J. E. Corley, Ft. Smith; E. E, Wright, o. s. Lawrence, Wm. Jibb, G. A. Leiper, Geo. M. Will Hams, Little Rock, J. T. Jones, Poplar Bluff, Mo-; J. c. Dowell, Walnut Thos. H. Bagnell, St. Louis.
 Major w. H. Haynes, general man ager of the Arkansas Cotton Oil Com pany was here Thursday on his way to Batesville. He is very interest ing old gentlemen, and though he has