Newport weekly independent., 1902-05-02

l amounted to 10 of an inch, but the river continues to show slight fall.
 Misses Katie Price and Guila Chunn returned to Searcy Tuesday on the noon train, after short visit at the l formers home.
 The one-year- old child of Adam Lax, colored, living six miles east of here, died Monday night and burial was held Tuesday.
 The ladies of the Baptist church will serve cream and cake at the church Friday, from 4 p. m. to 10 p. m. Charges 15 cents.
 A cyclone swept "a space 300 yards wide last week between Searcy and Heber and blew away the residence of a MT. Doss.-Searcy Citizen.
 Misses Katie Price and Guila Chunn came up from Searcy Saturday night on visit to the formers parents, eX- pecting to return to college Tuesday morning.
 Mrs. A. J. Brewer returned Tuesday afternoon over the Choctaw, after at tending the Dallas reunion and making short visit to her son Marcus Brewer at South McAllister.
 | J. L. Root of the Western Tie and l Timber Company was here from Eight Mile Tuesday. He says that the ] tie business is brisk and that his com pany is now employing about 150 | men.
 l A hail storm is said to have struck Bald Knob and vicinity Friday night, but the damage if any, is not known | The cool atmosphere of Saturday | would indicate there had been hail storms nearby.
 The Lesser Cotton Company on Thursday purchased of the Allen West Commission Company 2,5OO bales of cotton. The average price per bale was $45, making the con- sideration $112,5OO.
 Miss Lefty McLain, the accomplished daughter of MT. w. D. McLain, enter | tained number of her young friends at her beautiful home across the lake Friday evening. Excellent refresh ments were served and the event much enjoyed by those present. | Charles Flanigan, treasurer of the Poplar Bluff fire department, yester- day received a voucher for $50 from the Iron Mountain Railroad, as re- ward for their services in saving the coal chutes in the yards during the H. D. Williams fire.-Poplar Bluff Citi- zen.
 The shell market is by no means a steady one and prices vary almost every day. On Thursday c. A. Win dau, who has been a bull on the market, forced prices up as high as
 $9.6O ton, but these figures were
 not maintained and Friday the ruling
 price was $50 delivered in Newport 1 o. M. Bowen has demonstrated his enterprise and hustling go-ahead pro- gressiveness in retailing groceries to , the pearl hunters on the river. He
 has secured Geo. Anderson's launch
 the Rowena, and carries line of sta pie groceries as we'll as seasonable
 vegetables and delicacies. He is vel
 pleased with the business secured. Edwin D. Chadick, chief promoter and s. L. Shellenberger, chief engineer
 of the Morning Star Railroad, arrived , Friday morning from the north, anC P seem well pleased with the prospect.
 of the road. MT. Shellenberger spen
 Friday looking over the the site fol the company's terminals in East New port, laying out grounds for depot ant round house.
 J. G. McNair, the great fruit pro
 moter, was in our town Friday. I no unforeseen calamity befalls the frui
 crop, he confidently expects to have
 250 cars of peaches on the St. Elmo
 fruit farm and 40 cars on the Blacl
 Rock fruit farm. He also expects
 yield of 1000 crates of strawberries ol
 the Black Rock fruit farm.-Blacl Rock Blade.
 D. o. Kirkland of Bald Knob, lesse' , of the Planters House from J. D Goldman, and who last year subrentet l the hotel part of the building, includin, 7 all except the corner store room to H