Newport weekly independent., 1902-08-22

Con CT Stacy returned to Augusta Tuesday after a visit to his cousin Jesse Mcdonald.
 Miss May Ward has returned from visit to relatives at Riverton and Springfield, Illinois.
 Silvy RedmapSwas able to be at the store Wednesday, for the first time since his recerit sickness. The thermoReter registered 1o1 degrees TuesdaA and the lowest tenn perature that nigAt was 72.
 The maximum teNQperature record ed Wednesday was 102 degrees by the government thermometer. Miss Addie Hamel of Little Rock, arrived Wednesday noon on a visit to Mrs. H. Hamel and family.
 Vic Axe went to Little Rock Wednesday noon on business to con- fer with his brother H. B. Axe. Prof. D. L. Paisley, superintendent of the public schools of Conway, was here on a business trip Thursday. c. E. Crook has offered the cotton buying firms of the town Sc for the first bale of cotton brought to this market.
 Jesse J. Sinclair returned Wednes- day noon from Dallas, Texas, where he attended his mother in her last sickness.
 Summer Tourist Rates-Cheap rates to nearly all resorts, via the Iron Mountain. For rates call on w. M GREGG, Agent.
 There will probably be a game of base ball Saturday on the local grounds between Tuckerman and Newport teams.
 Miss Ruby Blackwood leaves Friday | for a visit of several months to her | brother Herbert s. Blackwood and l wife at Clarendon.
 Miss Stella Lippmann and Miss Allie Lippmann are here this week the guests of Mrs. Gustave Jones. The former is attending the teachers institute.
 When going to Memphis take the Iron Mountain Route. Leave New port at 6:22 a. m. and take dinner in Memphis. Close connection made at Bald Knob. b4w
 Mrs. R. F. Drummond writes from Rutherford College, North Carolina, where she has been spending the summer, that her daughter Maude is greatly improved in health. The list of seven young ladies who will probably enter Maddox Seminary at Little Rock, from this city has been further increased by two additions, Misses Nellie Terry and Myrla Gravitt.
 Mrs. George R. Hays and children, accompanied by her friend Mrs. Kemp of Mountain View, have returned to Newport and are the guests of Mrs. l Hays sister, Mrs. M. M. Stuckey in East Newport.
 l w. w. Dutton and son Roy re- turned Wednesday noon from two weeks visit to Hot Springs, Malvern, Little Rock and Scott's Station. Mrs. Dutton and Miss Annie accompanied by her cousin Miss Christine Scull of Little Rock arrived that night.
 The ten inch piping ordered by the Newport Water Company, was re- ceived Wednesday morning and work commenced at once toward putting in working order the supply pipe, which extends into the river. Shortly after noon, the pump was working away and service Id been resumed.
 The Choctaw railroad has always enjoyed big freight business into | Newport through the favor of the merchants of this city, but with the present service, it seems that the road will secure but a small share, as the yards which are usually crowded had but one car of fir eight Tuesday afternoon.
 Lon Rutherford of near Greenville, Texas, spent Tuesday night here with John w. Wallace and family on his way to Batesville to visit his father. Referring to the cotton prospects, he