Newport weekly independent., 1902-11-21
J ABOUT PEOPLE MAINLY. '

reported quite sick.
 A. B. Polk of Sulphur Rock was down on business Friday.
 M. D. Campbell came up Friday night from Tupelo on business.
 Gustave Jones returned from Little Rock on the noon train Friday.
 George w. Decker left Thursday night for his home in St. Louis.
 Little Farley Price Jr., is reported better today, though he was quite sick yesterday.
 F. l.. Williams and wife of Phos- 9phate spent Thursday night here on }their way south. Mrs. H. Devereux came down from Batesville Thursday evening on her way to St. Louis.
 Roy Dutton left Friday noon for Little Rock, to resume his studies at Arkansas Military College.
 Mrs. E: B. Johnson and Miss Mary Paddock of Batesville spent part of Friday here on their way to St. Louis.
 Mrs. J. H. McHugh and daughter Beatrice left Friday noon for Arka- delphia on visit to the family of w. M. Gregg.
 Charley Owens, representing the Rea- Patterson Milling Company of Coffey vile, Kansas, came in Friday noon from the south.
 Cotton was not so bad after all. Col. w. M. Ponder raised 1,2OO pounds per acre on his 25 acre tract adjoining the town site.-Walnut Ridge Blade.
 Harry Blackstone, ex-caller at the roundhouse, went to Newport We'd nesday morning, presumably to call on two lady friends. ds.-Poplar Bluff Sentinel.
 Miss Mae and Jennie Cook, daugh- ters of Gen. V. Y. Cook, were here Saturday from Elmo on their way to Batesville to visit their sister Mrs Paul Butler.
 Farmers, when you come to New port, put up your rigs and horses at Robinson's Feed and Livery Stable. The horses will be well fed and looked after carefully. 10wtf
 w. A. Allison of Batesville, buyer for the cotton firm of w. A. Arthur and Company in that city, has been assisting O. E. Crook here for several days owing to rush in business
 Samuel Powell returned home to Little Rock on the noon train Friday, He is state manager of the Metropoli- tan LifeI ffS-1aance Company and has beenys ss successful here in writing several policies.
 Mrs. Jefferson Davis, wife of the governor, who has been seriously ill, was slightly improved Friday and Governor Davis spent portion of the day at the gubernatorial office.-- Little Rock Gazette.
 J. L. Younger, who was quite ser iously hurt about two weeks ago in a fall from the second floor of the Wolff Goldman Mercantile Company's warehouse, is just about recovered and able to do light work again.
 Mrs. Marshall, widow lady living on the Warren farm across Village Creek, died Thursday afternoon from pneumonia. The deceased was about forty years of age and her remains were buried Friday morning in the Williams graveyard.
 w. F. Baker of Carthage, Missouri and Mrs. Addie M. Parker of Tucker man were married in this city Satur- day by Judge F. D. Fulkerson They left in the afternoon for short visit to the home of the bride, who was formerly a Miss Graham.
 Mrs. M ary Baker Eddy, the famous Christian Science leader, has called a halt on her followers, and they will treat infectious diseases no more. Failure to cure a case of diptheria in the east, and the publicity of the case, partially caused Mrs. Eddy to make her decree.
 The remainder of the party of New port business men, who went to Little Rock to become Elks, returned Thurs day night in company with Messrs. H. Bernstein and J. M. Berger, Jr., old members of that lodge. They were Ike Bottenstein, Charles Meyer and Vic Axe.
 Dr. L. E. Willis and George Sexton returned Saturday noon from ten days hunting trip down in'the Missis- sippi river bottom. They were mem bers of party of sixteen hunters, most of whom were from Kentucky. Their game consisted of deer, turkey, wild duck, quail and squirrel.