Newport weekly independent., 1902-08-01

St. Louis, where he will join his wife and together they will visit Saratoga New York. While away MT. Wolff will do his buying on the eastern mar kets.
 Thomas Shaver, proprietor of the Newport Dye and Cleaning Works, owing to the recent fire, has moved into No. 207, Walnut Street, adjoining W. B. Chastain's, where he will be pleased to see his trade. b.S4.t.f.
 The following ode to Winter is tritely expressed by the editor of the Black Rock Telephone: Backward, turn backward, o Time, in your flight, and make me an iceberg, all silvery white. Roll me all up in the beautiful snoW."
 Round tri tickets to San Francisco or Los Angeles, Gal, via Choctaw, Oklahoma & Gulf Route, with final limit to return September 30, only $47.50 Stop overs allowed. Dates of sale July 20, August to 10 in elusive.
 Fred Jones, wife and baby returned Tuesday afternoon from months visit to MT. Jones' brothers and sisters at Savannah, Georgia. w. A. Bill ingsley and wife expect to leave about the first of next month on an exten- sive Western trip.
 The residence of Capt. w. A. Joyce is being remodeled and added to by Contractor Campbell of St. Louis, and will be made more convenient as we'll as attractive. Two large rooms and bath room are being added up on the north side and the porch ex. tended.
 Miss Marie Bach leaves Monday fol Asheville, North Carolina, where she w;u spend month visiting and al other resorts. Her friends say that she is in receipt of an invitation from the Vanderbilts to make her stay al
 
 will be delightful one.
 The showers of Monday exceeded Tn the amount of rainfall what was generally expected, the total being 1.6 inches. This with the showers of last week enjoyed by several parts of the county, almost insures big cot ton crop for Jackson county and will add the finishing touches to the corn
 Miss Hannah Meyer came over Tuesday afternoon from Searcy and returned the next day at noon. Their new home is about completed and has all modern conveniences, being piped for hot and cold water. Miss Meyer will accompany her brother Charles Meyer to St. Louis next week to buy furniture for the house.
 w. R. Stewart has secured the services of several good brick layers and as soon as Contrastor Beane com pletes the stone foundation, which will be in the next few days if weather permits work, the upper structure work will be pushed along with the celerity which characterizes MT. Stewards undertakings.
 Mayor Grubbs fined Walter Smith and J W. Price Thursday morning for the city ordinance, pro- hibiting the discharge of firearms within the corporate limits. The two parties had been arrested by Marshal Stephens near the river, where they were using small target rife, but the officers wish it understood that such offenses will be punished, whether the guilty parties be boys or men and that the fines will not be remitted.
 Frank A. Brewer, law student in the office of Smead and Powell, of Camden, shot and killed a negro by the name of Joe Kidd on the court house steps Saturday afternoon. The negro fell dead from the threshold of the courthouse to the ground six feet below. The trouble was over a debt. The negro became abusive and drew long knife with which he had intimidated several citizens during the past few days. The coroner's jury exonerated Brewer.