Newport weekly independent., 1902-06-13
/ ABOUT PEOPLE, MAINLY.

Ernest Mcdonald and Homer Buford went to Batesville Monday morning to spend a few days visiting.
 Mesdames Maude Bayles and c. L. FOX spent Monday at Newark, the guests of Mrs. Geo. Magness.
 Miss Pearl Foushee returned to Batesville Monday morning after a short visit to her sister Mrs. L. N. Nouss.
 MT. and Mrs. c. w. Rhodes returned Thursday morning from Chicago, where they had delightful visit with the formers parents.
 Elder James H. Brooks will preach at Swifton Thursday and Friday nights. He will deliver two discourses on "Sanctification.'
 There was rumOr current on the streets Thursday morning that three negroes had been killed down the river, but the story has all the ear- marks of fake.
 
 over here Wednesday night with I. D. Price and family on her way home to Batesville from Elmwood Seminary at Pennington, Missouri.
 Little Thelma, the infant daughter of MT. and Mrs. D. R. Brumfield and grand daughter of MT. and Mrs. s. w. Mcfarland of this city, died at her home at Selma, La., June g, 1902.
 Wednesday was by several degrees the hottest of the year thus far, the mercury in the government ther- mometer running up to 103 degrees in the afternoon, while those down town in the shade ranged around 101.
 w. T. Magness, of Newark, pur- chased from negro a globe pearl weighing about 100 grains for $500. The pearl will have to be peeled as it had dead color. The negro found bar.
 Mir. and Mrs. Samuel Powell, who have been guests of Mrs. R. D. Will mans and Miss Ray Brandenburg, re- turned home to Little Rock on the noon train Thursday. They made large number of friends in taeir brief visit, who hope it may again be their pleasure to see them in Newport.
 Hon. H. L. Remmel, of Little Rock, spent Wednesday in Newport and re- turned to the city on the noon train Thursday. He seems to have things coming his own way and the conven tion of insurgent Republicans will hardly have enough attendants to properly distribute the convention offices.
 James L. Blasingame of Pocahontas, Tenn, who has been filling the po- Choctaw depot during the latter's illness, left Thursday morning for Memphis to attend the bedside of his mother. He expects to return to Newark in few days to begin work for live stock insurance company.
 Miss Mary Harshaw, who was mar ried Sunday afternoon at Beebe to Mir. Fred Fucker, cashier of the Bank of Beebe, died Tuesday night. The bride was not expected to live when the ceremony was said, but it was her wish that it be performed. It will be remembered that Miss Harshaw was a cousin of Mrs. Guy Brown, who is still in Beebe.
 The factory of the Valley Button Company is running and the stock holders express themselves as well pleased with the outlook. They ex- pect to secure IA more laborers from the Northern factories and with the number of local men that will prob ably learn the trade, the full capacity of the plant will be reached, when the 32 machines are in operation.
 Will F. Williams, an experienced and skilled laundry man from Neosho, Missouri, has been employed and placed in charge of the plant by the Newport Laundry Company, which is now prepared to do the highest class of laundry work. Being home in- stitution, the excellence and prompt ness of it's work will secure a better