Newport weekly independent., 1902-07-04

4th of July via the Iron Mountain.
 Miss Ruby Blackwood returned Tuesday night from visit of several weeks to Jonesboro and Koko, Ten nessee.
 Hon. H. L. Remmel came up from Little Rock Tuesday night and spent Wednesday morning here on busi- ness, returning on the noon train.
 The Iron Mountaini offers special rates to the lake resorts by rail and steamship. For information call on Gus Coffin, Ticket Agent at Iron Mountain. 4Obtf.
 Cameron Ritter of St. Louis arrived Wednesday morning on visit to his mother, Mrs. Charles Niemeyer. He has many friends among the young people who will be glad to see him.
 The Newport Athletic Association have had seven challenges for games on the Fourth. They have a game with Bernstein's Drummers on that day, but will play all corners as fast as dates can be arranged.
 T. T. Ward, the veteran editor of the Herald and his daughter, Miss Allie Ward, left Wednesday morning for Gates, Tennessee, where the former will spend a week and the latter remain for longer visit.
 Capt. and Mrs. B. M. Black of Mar celia, Arkansas, are visiting their son Dr. B. E. Black and wife in this city. Dr. R. M. Black returned Monday night from his trip to California and went to Batesville next morning.
 Judge M. M. Stuckey will deliver an address on Independence Day at Mul- berry in Crawford county. Judge Stuckey is patriot, every inch of him, and broad progressive thinker, whose oratory is entertaining and elevating,
 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. The little daughter of a pearl hunter named Ballard, who has been camping on the river above town !, died of congestion at o'clock Monday night. A subscription was taken up by Mayor Grubbs, among the business men to pay the expenses of the burial, which was held Tuesday afternoon. 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. B. Willis while here and was accompanied by his daughter Miss Marguerite, who is visiting her friend Miss Hilda Bailey. A Walnut Ridge paper criticizes S.. | c. Dowell for his failure to land the round house and division point of the 1 Iron Mountain. It is an evidence of the materialism of the age, when suc- cess is worshiped above that spirit, which brings it about and when turned into failure is openly rid iculed.
 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 S7. Mrs.
 Marshall proved to be the expert angler, having hooked ten of the fifteen.
 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 ou
 from where it has been located neal
 the mouth of Buffalo, and are coming in this direction.-Harrison Exchange Col. V. Y. Cook, of Elmo, mem |. Der of the board of trustees of thu University of Arkansas, was in thu city Tuesday. He stated that Dr
 Harrison Randolph, of Virginia, ha ? not vet heen heard from in regard tl