Newport weekly independent., 1901-06-28

J. L. Root went to Batesville Satur- day morning. Hugh Kyler went to Batesville Sat turday morning to meet his wife. Willard Hardin of near Tupelo was , in Newport Saturday on business. Alcorn Ferguson and E. L. Boyce returned Sunday night from a short visit to Augusta. } Miss Lula Empie, who was taken much worse Saturday, is reported bet ter this morning. MT. and Mrs. Wm. Hooker and two little daughters of Brinkley are visit ing the family of w. M. Bailey. Miss Mabel Ford, one of the instru- mental performers in Tuesday nights
 entertainment, is visiting Mrs. Sid Walsh.
 There will be church services both morning and afternoon Sunday at Erwin's Switch, six miles south of
 here on the Choctaw. Sam Meyer left Tuesday morning
 on two weeks vacation trip and will
 spend his time with friends in Searcy,
 Little Rock and Conway.
 Mr. and Mrs. s. Wolff and son, Nor man, returned Saturday morning from
 St. Louis and will spend the summer, occupying the residence of I. Gold
 man.
 The city council at meeting Monday night purchased from L. Minor 40 acres of land to be used for pest house site, paying $1ooo in script for
 same.
 Archdeacon Rhames of Little Rock , stopped over Monday with T. J. Wat son and family on his return to Little
 Rock from Batesville, where he spent
 Sunday.
 T. B. Stewart and wife returned
 from Hot Springs Friday night, where the former attended the meeting of
 the State Retail Hardware Dealers
 Association.
 John Keel, Jackson county's rep
 resentative, returned Sunday night from trip east, where he visited New
 York and Philadelphia, enjoying a splendid trip.
 J. G. Handel, popular clerk of the Wolff Goldman Mercantile Company, left Monday night for visit to rela-
 tives and friends at his old home in
 Grayville, Illinois. The guests of the Hazel Monday
 from Arkansas points were: l.. B. l Jackson, Searcy; A. B. Lippman, Oly- 5 phant; E. F. Coombs, Batesville; J..
 w. Ray, Little Rock. Campbell Robinson, good farmer of Grubbs township, while here Tues
 day, said that rain was badly needed , in his section, as the dry, hot weather t was twisting and running the corn.
 c. B. Best on Friday received from 7 Memphis pair of Belgian hares and , expects to open up the industry here,
 which has grown to such mammoth
 proportions in the cities of the north. Thos. Legan of Maiden, Missouri,
 came in Thursday and has chair at G. w. Sexton's tonsorial parlor. He , is first class barber, as they have to
 be to secure position with MT. Sex
 ton.
 Died, on Monday night, June 24th, the six months old infant child of
 Henry Miller, colored, at his home on Vine street. The burial was held Tuesday afternoon at Newport ceme- tery.
 Miss Bertha Albro left Saturday noon for her home in Poplar Bluff
 after a visit to her grand mother, , Mrs. l.. J. Dill. She leaves many
 friends who will look forward to an- , other visit.
 : Miss Corrella Climer and children,
 after visit to G. w. Yeast and fami- ly, left Saturday for Swifton, where they will be guests of E. B. Gillian,
 UOIOIS ISUuIIlIS UO UuolT uOIno III Poplar Bluff.
 Geo. Johnson and William Conner, both of whom handle the guitar well,
 came in from Memphis on the Orlan- do and stopped off here. They played
 at the Hazel last night and expect to do so again tonight. Capt. w. A. Joyce, local agent for