Newport weekly independent., 1902-04-25
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ABOUT PEOPLE MAINLY. X

Mrs. George Magness came dowr from Newark Thursday morning to visit Mrs. Maud Bayles.
 J. A. Albright returned from Little Rock Thursday morning on No. which was nearly four hours late.
 The river Thursday stood at Al feet on the guage and is still falling. Rains are needed if navigation is to continue. P. H. Crenshaw of Pocahontas, and a prominent attorney of that city, was here on business Thursday morn ing.
 Miss Mayme Goss, popular young lady of Poplar Bluff, arrived Thursday on the noon train to visit her friend Miss Katie Bishop.
 Little Allen Martin, the son of MT. and Mrs. Gus Martin, has been sick for several days with chills, and shows little improvement.
 Misses Lizzie Jones and Lizzie Me- Collough, of Alicia, were shopping in Newport Wednesday, and spent the day with Miss Minnie Ross.
 John English left Tuesday night for his old home at Whitehall, Ill.,, where he will live in the future. He was joined by his family at Hoxie.
 Mrs. Cabel Minor left on the noon train Thursday for Hot Springs and will leave there in two weeks to join her husband in the Philippines.
 Several Newport boys are in receipt of invitations to ball to be given at the Nettleton Hotel in Mammoth Spring on the evening of Friday May 8.
 Mrs. Mamie Simpson and son Low ell Johnson arrived on the early morning train Thursday from Mem phis to attend the funeral of the for mer's husband.
 The piece of ground finally selected by the Valley Button Company for a factory site is the triangular shaped
 
 levee and the Iron Mountain track. 0. A. Windau on Monday purchased very pretty 32 grain pearl, white and perfectly round, on which he places $500 valuation. The same was found by a negro on the Confederate Park bar above town.
 The weather bureau made a serious mistake when it promised this section frost Wednesday night. The dew was heavy one but the temperature was far too high for any chance of a frost.
 Mrs. Simon Adler. returned to- Batesville Thursday morning after a short visit to her daughter, Mrs. Ar thur Fels. Mrs. Adler returned Tues day morning from a visit to Kansas City and St. Louis.
 Why run your old worn out sewing machine, until you wear yourself out, when you can apply it as part pay ment on new Singer, the best and lightest running machine made. H. B. l.. McCollum, M. S., 121 Hazel st.
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 Martha Tims, negro woman, had a dispute with a negro man named Douglass Monday morning about ten o'clock and took shot at him, the bullet from her revolver passing through his hat.
 Wanted: Four good salesmen and collectors, Must furnish bond, and have horse and wagon. Good open ing for hustlers. Apply early. H. E. L. McCollum Managing Salesman for the Singer Mfg. Go. 121 Hazel St. Newport, Ark. 3d6t.
 In about ten days the strawberry shipping season will begin, and things will then liven up. There is only about half stand of plants, but those are loaded with berries and blooms. and are in fine n.-Judsonia Advance.
 A. F. Caldwell and Porter Martin have entered into partnership a. greement for the purpose of entering the pearling business. They ex- pect to employ about twelve men and have contracted for eight boats. George Robinson and a few other friends of the governor expressed