Newport weekly independent., 1902-07-04

Mayor J. w. Grubbs took the noon train Thursday to Little Rock on business.
 Mrs. Little, widow living on the Pony Littleton farm in Village town ship died Friday of consumption.
 MT. and Mrs. R. M. Johnson went to Batesville on the noon train and will be guests of J. P. Coffin for a few days.
 Mrs. l.. A. McKinnon of Crowley, Louisiana, after visit with Mrs. F. H. Heinrich, returned to Weldon Thurs day.
 Mrs. Jennie McCauley returned Wednesday from camp down on the river, where her son Street has been pearling.
 Miss Luella Muslin of Tupelo came up Thursday afternoon to visit her sisters in this city, Misses Cora and Lodie Muslin.
 Mrs. F. Bosch and little daughter and Miss Addie Garner left Thursday noon for Clifford in Hot Springs coun- ty on visit
 B. F. Finley writes from Finley, Tennessee that his father shows no improvement and all hope of his re- covery is about gone. The cottage of k. c. Wallace on Hazel Street is about completed and will be occupied by a young man and his wife from St. Louis.
 Dr. John H. Dye has been in the city several days visiting his daughter Miss Patty, and the family of MT. J. E. Lightle.-Searcy Citizen.
 Rev. R. B. Willis, D. D. and daugh ter Miss Margaret, returned home to Searcy Thursday noon after brief visit to friends in Newport.
 Mrs. Bryant of Beebe came up from Beebe Wednesday and will be the guest of Mrs. w. J. Knox until Satur- day, when she leaves for Helena.
 Rev. w. M. Wilson and wife came up from Beebe Wednesday night and spent the night with Dr. M. M. Err win and family on their way to Bates vile.
 The people of Breckinridge town ship will have a big basket picnic on Pickett Lake the Fourth of July, which number of Newport people expect to attend.
 The friends of J. w. Hutchinson will be interested in knowing that he has gone to St. Louis, to accept position under the Hamilton Brown Shoe Company.
 Judge F. D. Fulkerson was here Wednesday arranging the docket for the July term of circuit court. He was the guest while here of Mir. and Mrs. J. s. Wilmans. The Wilmans family will celebrate the Fourth by picnic at the Village Creek bridge on the Island, to which they have invited a large number of relatives and friends. A 1,7O0 foot boom has been put across the river above the tie yards. Mir. Churchill has the boom made and fastened in substantial manner and will use it to catch ties.-Judsonia Advance.
 Gov. Davis leaves Thursday for Monte Ne, "Coin" Harvey's resort, where he will deliver Fourth of July oration. The governor will visit his family at Sulphur Springs, Benton county, before returning. g.-Gazette. Colonel Vincenheller, who has been touring the western part of Washing ton county estimating the apple crop, has returned. He says: "I do not believe there will be more than 10 per cent of the apples raised this year that there were last" The river Thursday had reached a standing of 12.6 feet on the guage. A telegram received by Capt. Joyce Wednesday evening from Penter's Bluff stated that the Upper White was still rising slowly and Black also is reported on the rise at Poplar Bluff,
 Lost: Brown alligator pocket book on Iron Mountain track between Oly- phant and Newport, containing 4 an nual passes, and $5 in currency. Finder