Newport daily independent., 1902-07-23

Huffman's cream bread takes the lead
 Dr. Geo. Tunstall, of Swifton, spent Wednesday in Newport.
 For your six o'clock breakfast order Huffman's light rolls, fresh baked. 4-dtf
 Mir and Mrs. Rufus Randy, of Amarillo, Texas, are visiting the fam fly of his father, Rob't. BandyN
 Mrs. Dr. Heard and son, Walter, of Arkansas City, Kan, are visiting relatives and friends in the city.
 Huffman & Son serve ices, cream and cake and everything in that line to parties and receptions at reason able prices. d-29S
 Mr. w. E. Benton, of Bowling Green, Ky, is in the city, having ac- cepted a position with A. H. Mize, the photographer.
 There are now 750 inmates of the penitentiary. Fifty have been par doned by Governor Davis and sev enty five have escaped.
 Try the new rigs and good drivers at the R. L. Robinson Livery Stable, upper end of Front Street. Good service at reasonable charges. 62dtf
 A fruit train was wrecked between Little Rock and Texarkana last night, causing No. 6, due here at 1O:46 p. m. to arrive at ? o'clock this morning.
 The Misses Morrison gave their friends quite a delightful outing on the steamer Harry Waltz last night.
 Round trip tickets to Camden on account of State Missionary and Christian Endeavor Convention one and one- third fare via Choctaw route
 l pay highest prices for pearls, ,baroques and sIugs. l.. WILSON. Office at Chas. Meyers Store.
 Five prisoners dug out of the county jail at Texarkana Tuesday night. Lucius Ammonetth (white) | was recaptured. The rest were ne- groes who escaped.
 Round trip tickets to Salt Lake i Jity via Choctaw, Oklahoma & Gulf route, return limit Sept. 30, only $35, with stop over allowed. Dates of sale | August to 10 inclusive.
 Chas. King, colored, was up before Acting Mayor Mayhan Wednesday morning charged with wife beating, and his failure to prove himself inno- cent cost him $5 and trimmings.
 Misses Imogene Randy and Della Bernstein left on the noon train for Springfield, Mo-, to be in attendance at house party given by Miss Pogue. They will be absent about week.
 MT. and Mrs. E. P. Tetwiler and Miss Mollie Neal and MT. V. M. Axe | spent Wednesday evening at Bergan Lake, where they lunched and other wise enjoyed themselves for a few hours.
 Round trip tickets to San Francisco or Los Angeles, Cal, via Choctaw, Oklahoma SJ Gulf Route, with final limit to return September 30, only $47.5O. Stop overs allowed. Dates of sale July 20, August to 10 in- elusive.
 Bro. E. 0. Waterman, of the News, had his hand severely cut while on his way to Little Rock Tuesday, caused by a freight train failing to get in the "clear'' for No. 3 and ear door struck the chair car, breaking out a window where MT. Waterman was sitting and otherwise damaging the coaches.
 The day of the street medicine man is upon us. The whole of last week one of the fakirs held the attention of crowds on the corner with his snakes and banjo player, while this week an- other one is giving us cake walks and coon songs, interspersed with rattle snakes, to the delight of the small boy and the colored population.
 Two bus loads of young ladies, ac- companied by three young men, had a picnic lunch at the Confederate park Tuesday night. The following made up the party, and they say it was the best time of the season: Misses