Newport weekly independent., 1902-12-19
J ABOUT PE0PLE-M MAINLY.

l. N. Greenhaw of Tuckerman was down on business Thursday.
 Judge A. J. Witt of Pocahontas was here on legal business Tuesday.
 c. J. Tucker spent Tuesday night here on his return to Batesville.
 s. s. McHugh of Jonesboro came over Tuesday night on business.
 Bert Snetzer has had no fever for several days and is improving right along.
 w. E. Colson of Hot Springs came up Tuesday night and is registered at the Baltimore.
 Misses Gertrude Smith and Barbee Craige of Tuckerman spent Wednes- day here shopping.
 Henry Bragg left Wednesday night for La Plata, Missouri to attend the funeral of his father.
 Miss Mamie Weaver of Batesville came down Thursday on her way to Little Rock on visit.
 Dr. N. G. Hardister was here Thurs day on his way to Hoxie, where he is to build new home.
 w. l. Smith of the Ayer-Lord Tie Company came down Wednesday from Black Rock on business.
 MT. and Mrs. James J. Webster and wife of Nashville, Tennessee are visit ing at the home of J. E. Wilmans.
 J. M. Glass of Swifton was down Wednesday on business and renewed his subscription to the INDEPENDENT.
 Frank Gullett 4 returned Friday evening from Batesville, where he was a witness in the compress fire case.
 Mrs. w. T. Allison of Batesville came down Wednesday night on a visit to her brother Clyde Wood and family.
 Miss Beulah Baird left Thursday afternoon over the Choctaw for her fathers home near Corley on Mount Magazine.
 Miss Josephine Phillips returned home from Little Rock, where she has been attending Maddox College, on No. 4, Wednesday.
 The s. M. & A. is ing all of it's engines to Springfield, Mo-, to be used on the Frisco, as they are too heavy for their track. They ran them over the I. M. to Hoxie.-Poplar Bluff Journal.
 The preliminary trial of Ed Wilson, the negro y'no is alleged to have stolen gold watch from Miss Lou Minor and whose capture was made by Sheriff Randy upon Dec. 10th, will be held Saturday before Justice L. B. Harris.
 The Iron Mountain received 50 cars of coal Monday in one train from the east and sent most of it to the Arkan sas division. All freight trains were delayed here several hours Monday waiting for coal. - Poplar Bluff 
 J. D. Harrison, prominent citizen of Beebe, is being given a preliminary hearing before Commissioner O'Hair in Little Rock on the charge of send ing unmailable matter through the mail to Mrs. E. J. Shocks, a Holiness preacher.
 General Superintendent Tyler and Division Superintendent Hartigan re- turned Wednesday evening from trip up the extension. The washout at Walls Ferry was expected to be repaired Thursday, so that service may be resumed to Penter's Bluff.
 J. R. Mayhan is is receipt of letter from James McCroskey, who left here two years ago for Camden. He is now in Marshall, Texas in the employ of B. Roth and his many friends here will be pleased to know that he made mauy inquiries after his old acquaintances.
 By the terms of the will of the late Alex Adler, which was filed for pro- bate this week in St. Louis, each of the children of Sigmund Wolff is left s2OOO and after all bequests named in the will are paid, they will come iu for division of the residue of the estate.
 Captains H. o. Brazee and H. O.. Waltz, government inspectors from Memphis, came over Tuesday evening and went to Batesville the next morn ing to inspect the "Ozark Queen" On their return trip, they will look over "The Evening Star" of the Kelley line of boats.
 The guage on Wednesday morning registered 22.7 feet and though sec ond risa ia ranOrtad from Black river