Newport weekly independent., 1901-06-21


 tate man of Walnut Ridge, while here Monday said that options were being secured on lands near his home and the final preparations made for boring for oil.
 Col. l.. Minor has 35 acres of fine wheat which will be threshed next week provided labor can be secured to do the threshing. Col. Minor says the yield will be about 20 bushels to the acre.
 Jno. A. English returned Tuesday from a trip through White and Wood- ruff counties, the former of which he reports is suffering from very seri- ous drouth that is playing havoc with the crops.
 c. w. Smith, of Philadelphia, a brother of Mrs. T. J. Copeland, ar rived Saturday on a weeks visit to his sister and will go from here to South Carolina, where he expects to make his home.
 Jas. A. Watkins, wife and baby, have been visiting at the home of E. L. Wat son, called there on account of the serious illness of Mrs. Watson. Mir. and Mrs. Watkins returned to Little Rock Monday noon.
 Mrs. I. N. Barnett, accompanied by Misses June Glenn and Elsie Maxfeld, two very captivating Misses, passed through Newport Wednesday, return ing to their homes in Batesville from a visit to Paragould.
 Charles Mosby, brother of our fel- low townsman Wm. Mosby, visited a third brother Ed at Helena this week returning to his home in Batesville Thursday. All three brothers are in the jewelry business.
 Mrs. c. B. Crook and Miss Imogene Randy returned Wednesday from the Ladies' Missionary Board meeting, held at Paragould this week, where they were delegates from the Meth |
 Mrs. M. A. Neill returned Wednes- day morning from Asheville, North Carolina, where she attended the na- tional board of missions convention. She stopped off here for visit to her daughter, Mrs. s. R. Phillips.
 G. s. Kennard, son of Prof. M. S. Kennard for several years connected with the Newport schools, passed through here Thursday on his way to Batesville, summoned to the bedside of his father who is dangerously sick.
 The arrivals at the Planters Monday from Arkassas points were: A. Law son, Grand Glaize; Mrs. w. A. Nelson, Springdale; L. N. Buckley, Tupelo; M. w. Marlitt, Iron Mountain R. R. ; L. Ginochio, J. w. Ray, Little Rock. A party composed of Misses Punt ney, Bassett and Edith Cooper, Ed. Moore, Prof. Crawford and wife and Fred Crawford, from the college at Sulphur Rock, were in Newport Sat urday en route to their respective homes.
 l We regret to learn of the loss to MT. Ben Simmons, tax assessor for this county, of 100 acres of cotton two miles south of Tupelo, by hail in Tuesdays storm. MT. Simmons says two of his neighbors also lost their entire crops.
 | J. w. Sullivan has rented the resi- dence of Mrs. J. E. Brown at the cor ner of Vine and Third streets, as Mrs. Brown expects to live in Memphis after this summer. MT. and Mrs. Sul- livan will go to house keeping about September 1st.
 The Orlando is due to arrive at New port Friday morning at eight o'clock. Capt. R. G. Ashford telegraphed Capt W. A. Joyce Thursday to send John Warner to Augusta to serve as pilot as Chess Wilcox was sick and incapa- citated to serve.
 Miss Bertha May Albro, of Poplar Bluff, who has been visiting her grand mother, Mrs. L. J. bills, for the past few days, went to Batesville Saturday morning on a short visit to friends She will return to Newport later for a more extended visit.
 Mrs. G. B. Johnston and children left Tuesday noon for visit to Mrs Johnston's parents at Hot Springs, where they will spend the summer