Newport weekly independent., 1902-05-23

tives.
 Mrs. Charley Campbell has returned
 from her Dallas trip and visi t to rel
 atives in Texas.
 Mrs. J. s. Wilmans returned Tues
 day from Memphis, where she has
 been visiting for several weeks. Mrs. s. Brundidge, Jr., the wife of
 our popular congressman, is expected
 here Saturday on a visit to her father,
 Esquire w. H. Morris and Mrs. Jessie Carpenter.
 Clede Martin of Newark was down
 Friday to meet Miss Kirk Martin and Miss Nina Rutherford of Batesville,
 who were returning home from their
 Dallas trip.
 Miss Bessie Lippmann, of Olyphant,
 is visiting her aunt, Mrs. M. H. Pat
 terson at this place. We wish her a
 very pleasant stay while in our city. I-McCrory News.
 Andrew Thompson, the Prairie
 county negro who was pardoned by
 Gov. Davis, upon condition that he emigrate to Massachusetts, is at Des Arc waiting for something to "turn up."
 R. F. Drummond, at the meeting of the State Funeral Directors Associa tion in Little Rock, delivered a paper upon me Educational Features of Associations and Benefits Derived Therefrom."
 Capt. F. w. Tucker, the recently appointed internal revenue collector for this district, vice Ii. L. Remmel resigned, came down from Clover Bend Thursday morning and returned on the noon train.
 A telegram sent from Fayetteville on the 2Oth instant, states rain of 1.04 inches had been received there. The river has already begun to show rise and was standing Thursday at 7 feet on the guage.
 Ben Louis Dehls from Stone county, editor of the Heber Jack sonian, was here Thursday on his way to Elmore, in the southern part of the state, where he enters the employ of the Hall Lumber Go.
 H. B. Scott has returned to his position at Bailey Bros., after being called home to Burlington, Iowa, to the funeral of his mother, in which trial and grief, he has the sympathy of the people of Newport.
 l.. M. Sedgwick, one of the largest stockholders in the Bonneville branch who has been here the past week on business, during which time he has purchased considerable timber land east of here, left Friday noon on No. 4.
 Dr. and Mrs. J. M. Jones left Thurs day night for St. Louis, where the latter will enter the Protestant Hos pital. It is the hope of her many friends that the hospital treatment by eminent specialists may prove bene- fcial to her health.
 J. B. Woodin from Lexa, Arkansas, is reported to have found Wednesday afternoon below Grand Glaize on White river, a handsome pear shaped pearl, worth probably $15O0. He will have this offering on the market the Iatter mart of the week
 John M. McLain arrived Tuesday night and will spend the summer with his brother w. D. McLain. His health has been greatly improved by his stay in New Mexico and Manitou, Colo rado. He likes the West, but doubt less not so well as his old home, which he is always glad to visit.
 The steamer Liberty, is to be re- sold, the court having granted such a decree, though the date has not yet been set. The stockholders of the Memphis Newport Packet Company grounds that the boat did not bring its value at the sale under the ham, mer.
 The ladies of the Baptist church cleared quite snug sum, between $20 and $25, at the strawberry supper Thursday evening in the store room rented by Henry Bordwell. They were we'll pleased with the attend ance and everything ran smoothly and nicely Light was furnished by the