Newport weekly independent., 1901-10-11

Ol Kirkland, of Bald Knob, arrived Tuesday noon on short visit.
 Jno. M. Hines, of Little Rock, with the Cotter Commission Company, visited the local office Tuesday.
 w. w. Dutton and wife went to St. Louis Tuesday noon to take in the and carnival events.
 Morris M. Cohn, the Little Rock attorney was here Monday night and left next morning for Batesville.
 Mrs. T. J. Gregg and Miss Gertie Billingsley are in St. Louis this week attending the exposition and fair.
 Joseph Evins, of Mt. Nebo, the father of Capt. J. A. Evins, was here Thursday and went to Batesville.
 Ben Lowry, special agent for the Fidelity and Casualty Insurance Com pany, is here this week on business.
 Mrs. w. B. Empie is still quite sick at Utica, N. Y., and the return home of the family has been further de- layed.
 Frank Caldwell on Tuesday entered upon the duties of his new position with the St. Louis Compress Com pany.
 Mrs. J. L. Carpenter went to Searcy Tuesday on 53 to visit the family of her sister, Mrs. s. Brun- pidge.
 w. G. Req, representing the Req Patterson Milling Company, of Cof- feyville, Kansas, went to Batesville Tuesday for the day.
 Rev. P. J. Robottom, of Little Rock, former rector of St. PauPs Church, this city, arrived here Monday night on a short visit to his friends.
 Colonel L. Minor and Capt. w. A.. Joyce went to Little Rock Tuesday to attend the state encamp ment of the United Confederate Vet erans.
 Mrs. A. G. Holland, accompanied by her little niece, Miss Mary lowers, Monday night from Texar- kama. MT. Duffer remained for a longer visit.
 Mrs. G. M. Richter and daughter, Edith, of Pine Bluff, returned home Tuesday after a visit to her sister, Mrs. J. w. Pettet and the family of H. B. L. McCollum.
 L. Hirsch, representing the Mutual Life of New York, who has recently returned from an extended trip over the state, went to Batesville Tuesday on business.
 The arrivals at the Planters Monday were: A. J. Shell, Swifton; w. M. Prater, Pocahontas; R. s. Thomas, Searcy; F. w. Quilt, Augusta; w. E. Welder, McCrory; J. B. Osborn, Kan sas City.
 The Frisco system will receive nine new engines this month from Pitts burg. They are the largest type of freight engines and are part of an order of fifty, the balance to be de- livered by February 1, 1902.
 s. c. Dowell, president of the Law renee county honorary Worlds Fair commissioners, announces that the first meeting of that body will be held in Black Rock on Wednesday, October 23, for the purpose of organization.
 F. H. Betts, one of the Worlds Fair Commissioners of Hartford, Connecticut, was here Monday in with several other capital sts, on their way to Northern Arkan- sas, where they have mining interests.
 The benefits of competition are already manifest along the I. M. & s. since that company has made a re- luction of from 25 to 40 per cent. on all classes of freight, to points reached oy the s. M. & A.-Doniphan Hustler.
 Mrs. Charles Wilmans, delegate of the local chapter of the Daughters of he Confederacy, and Mrs. w. A. alternate, left Tuesday noon for Little Rock, where they will attend the state meeting of the D. DC.
 The arrivals at the Hazel Monday were: E. R. Lewis, R. H. Powell, w. A. Hinkle, Batesville; w. O. Moore, Oil Trough; Ed McElwee, Rev. P. J. 2obottom, Ben Lowry, w. H. Hayes,