Newport weekly independent., 1902-07-11
/ ABOUT PEOPLE, MAINLY.

nesday but is reported much bette
 today
 Teigo Fushida, quite versatile Jap
 anese, delivered an interesting lecture
 Wednesday evening at the Baptist
 Church.
 The INDEPENDENT was mistaken IT
 stating that Mrs. Coffman remained in
 Memphis, as she returned with her
 husband.
 A number of the "Upper Ten"
 crowd left early Thursday morning
 for days picnic on the river below
 the bridge.
 The river Thursday showed fall of nearly one foot from the report of Wednesday and stood at 4.5 feet on the guage.
 Mrs. D. H. Pilkington of Searcy, re- turned home on the noon train Thurs day after a visit with MT. and Mrs. Robt. Harder
 Judge F. D. Fulkerson of Batesville came down Wednesday afternoon on business. Circuit court convenes here next Monday.
 Esquire J. J. Martin shows no signs of improvement and his physician thinks he will have to go through a siege of malarial fever.
 Mrs. Dora Albright and daughter Miss Sarah left Wednesday night for their home in Kansas City after visit to Arthur Fels and wife.
 Mrs. T. D. Kinman, ST., left Thurs day over the Choctaw for Mt Mag azine, the highest point in Arkansas and very popular resort just now.
 Friends of MT. F. F. Skipwith will be glad to know that he is about we'll again, after being sick ever since his return home to Oxford, Mississippi.
 MT. and Mrs. William Robinson of Jacksonport and Dr. N. G. Hardister were here Thursday morning on their way to Clover Bend, called there by the critical condition of Mrs. Eugene Shaver.
 Miss Hazel Jones accompanied her sister Mrs. c. D. Hays to Cape Girar- deau Wednesday night and together with MT. Hays, will take the river trip to St. Paul on large Mississippi river steamer.
 Dr. Henry Owen on Wednesday purchased handsome 53 grain ball pearl, found near Grand Glaize by s. K. Wallis. Dr. Owen wants to realize $1000 on this pearl before he is willing to part it's company.
 The eleventh of June still holds the record as the hottest day of the year thus far. The government thermom- eter registered 1O1 degrees Wednes- day and the humidity of the atmos- phere made the heat almost unen- durable.
 F. H. Heinrichs while in Walnut Ridge and Hoxie Wednesday, secured from the councils of those towns tele- phone franchises and it is probable the Southwestern Telegraph & Tele- phone Company will extend it's lines there from here.
 In Wednesdays ball game between the local negroes and an Augusta team, three innings were played without a man reaching first and five before either side scored. A row broke up the game in the seventh inning, when the score stood 10 to 9 in favor of Augusta.
 The foundation of the new depot will probably be completed in another ten days. Contractor Beane ran out of concrete and this has delayed the work somewhat. Owing to the very hot weather, night work is being tried and up to twelve o'clock We'd nesday night the noise of the work men could be heard.
 A man passing field where smal boy was blowing corn noticed the corn being yellow, stopped and said to the boy: "Your corn is very yell low" "Yes, sir; we planted yaller corn" "You won't make more than half crop there." "No, sir; we are working on the halves" "You are not very far from blamed fool, are you?" "No sir; only fence between us. .''-Ex.
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