Newport weekly independent., 1902-06-06

 left Texarkana at noon, which would make it at least seven or eight hours late
 Mrs. c. H. Hungerford of Louisville, Ky, arrived Monday night on visit to her parents, Capt. and Mrs. w. A. Joyce.
 Mrs. Addie Willis who went to New port last week for a few days re- turned Wednesday. y.-Augusta Vii dette
 J. L. Root and son of the Western Tie & Timber Company drove in from Eight Mile Monday and spent the night here.
 w. M. Hord and brother of Augusta, well known lumber men spent Mon day night here and went down the river Tuesday.
 Mrs. w. w. McMinn and son Wiley, left Tuesday noon for Hot Springs where they will join MT. McMinn, who has been there for several days.
 Judge J. w. Butler returned to Batesville Tuesday morning after a visit to St. Louis, which was cut short by important legal business at home
 The restaurant of James Davis has been closed since Sunday, as the men left ill charge departed Sunday. MT. Davis has been in Batesville for sev- eral weeks for medical treatment.
 Mammoth Spring will have a Chau- tauqa the last week of June. Among the noted lecturers and orators that will be there are Hon. Wm. J. Bryan, Gen. Fitzhugh Lee and ex-Gov. Bob Taylor.
 MT. and Mrs. J. R. Cox, left Monday night for Maryville, Mo-, where the latter Will spend the hot weather with her parents Mir. and Mrs. Wm. R. Jones. MT. Cox will return to New port shortly.
 Jno. w. Ferrill and Miss Stella Hardy of Batesville spent Monday night here and met Miss Myrtle Brawdy of Van Buren, who accom- panied them to Batesville Tuesday morning on visit.
 L. B. Wilson, the owner of the Planters House peanut and popcorn stand, has rented the corner store room and will open temperance drink house and short order lunch stand there in the near future.
 Charles w. Martin returned home Sunday night from Louisville, where he has been attending medical col lege. He will probably spend the summer in Texarkana, working for his old employers, a drug house in that city.
 Ben and L. H. Heinrich arrived Tuesday morning from Ft Smith and will make this their home. They are brothers of F. H. Heinrich, local manager of the telephone system and expect to engage in the pearling business.
 A telegram was received from Washington City Wednesday night stating that Conference committee on public buildings bill had agreed and the same would go to the preside ent carrying S7o,oOo appropriation for Batesville. Also that the conference committee had agreed on River and Harbor appropriation which gave upper White river $27O, 1000. Bates vile Guard.
 J. w. Hutchinson of the American Grocer Company leaves next month for his home in Oxford, Mississippi, and does not expect to return here, but will go to St. Louis, where he has a position under the Hamilton Brown Shoe Company No young man in Newport has more friends than MT. Hutchinson and it will be with much regret that the society and business circles of the town lose him.
 Mrs. Josephine E. Brown, now of Memphis but former resident of Jacksonport and later Newport, who retains her friends and acquaintance ship by occasional visits to her old home, returned to Memphis Saturday after visit to Mrs. T. J. Watson. Mrs. Browns visits are occasions of great pleasure not only to herself but her many friends and she should not