Newport daily independent., 1902-07-01

One fare for the round trip 3d and 4th of July via the Iron Mountain.
 For your six o'clock breakfast order Huffman's light rolls, fresh baked. 4-dtf
 Miss Ruby Blackwood returned Tuesday night from visit of several weeks to Jonesboro and Koko, Ten nessee.
 Roy Dutton of Newport spent sev- eral days last week with his grand father, Col. Orr Malvern Times Journal.
 Huffman's candies are the best on the market-the three leading candy firms of St. Louis and the leading one of Little Rock, say so. 275-dtf
 In future 6Oc will be price for soda water delivered anywhere in the city. Cash on delivery. Diamond 70" Bot ting Works. Telephone 73-2 rings.
 The Iron MountainE offers special rates to the lake resorts by rail and steamship. For information call on Gus Coffin, Ticket Agent at Iron Mountain. 4Obtf.
 Prof. Skaggs and Prof. o. N. Gard ner returned last night from Nam moth Spring where they attended the Chautauqua. Prof. Skaggs also att tended the teachers association at I
 Hot Springs. Paragould Soliphone.
 The Southern Hotel, of Ravenden Springs, Ark, is now open for guests. Lithia water for kidneys, liver and stomach troubles. I12 miles west of Memphis on the Frisco System. Write for rates. Address, Manager, Southern Hotel. 59b3m. l Newark has extended an invitation to Company "G" First regiment, Arkansas State Guard, to attend the celebration of the Fourth at that place. All members who will attend, are requested to meet at the court house Thursday evening at o'clock sharp.
 Rev. R. B. Willis, president of Speers- -Langford Military Academy, came up Tuesday afternoon, looking after business for the school. He was the guest of Dr. L. E. Willis while here and was accompanied by his daughter Miss Marguerite, who is visiting her friend Miss Hilda Bailey. Several members of the bridge and building department of the Iron 1 Mountain passed through the city this morning en route to Newport, Ark, In conversation with reporter, one of the number stated that nothing had been settled upon in regard to the new depot at this place. Poplar Bluff Citizen.
 MT. and Mrs. Gustave Jones and children, Miss Carrie Stevens, Mes danes w. w. McMinn and Maude Marshall and MT. A. B. Lippmann spent Tuesday fishing on Whitstein Lake. The party caught and 7, but to be brief they call it ST. Mrs. Marshall proved to be the expert angler, having hooked ten of the l fifteen.
 MT. R. H. Dorsey, who has from time to time been in the employ of the Choctaw in various positions, ar rived Sunday from Newport, where he has been interested in the con- struction of the Morning Star route. For the present he has accepted a position in the office of Mir. R. F. Blankenship, general storekeeper for the Choctaw.- Little Rock Democrat.
 The latest reports from the Missouri Pacific railroad, building this way from Batesville, seem to indicate that Harrison may get that railroad. A line has been surveyed through by Lead Hill, but it has not been approved by the company, and that another corps of engineers have started out from where it has been located near the mouth of Buffalo, and are coming in this direction Harrison Exchange. Col. V. Y. Cook, of Elmo, a mem Der of the board of trustees of the | University of Arkansas, was in the city Tuesday. He stated that Dr. Harrison Randolph, of Virginia, has not yet been heard from in regard to his intentions. Dr. Randolph was re- gently elected president of the Uni