Newport weekly independent., 1902-10-17

Dr. J. w. Coffman returned Monday noon from short visit at Black Rock, where his wife is the guest of rela- tives.
 Henry Bragg was quite sick Satur- day and Sunday with a high fever, but we hope his illness may not prove serious.
 Miss Nelle Pence of Van Buren ar rived Saturday on visit to Miss Mae Smith and to attend the Mann Smith wedding.
 Mrs. E. G. Ferrill and baby returned home to Little Rock Monday on the noon train after visit to Wm. Mosby and family.
 Suit was filed in Justice Robinson's court Friday morning by J. A. Duke, being laborer's lien against w. E. Hults for $225. The trial of the case was set for October.22.
 Phil Waters of Little Rock, repre-
 senting the International Cores pondence School in this state, ar
 rived Thursday on business trip that
 will keep him several days.
 w. J. Ward, who was shot Septem-
 Der 30 at Batesville by Dr. J. P. Dorr of Dota, is reported as recovering
 from the pistol shot wound, which it was first thought would prove fatal.
 Miss Annie Clements, who has been visiting her sister, Mrs. J. L. Conner, returned to Auvergne Tuesday, ac- companied by her little nephew, Mas
 ter Clements Conner.-Augusta Vii dette.
 Dr. J. I. West came up Tuesday noon from Bald Knob on his way to
 his farm in Oil Trough, to which point
 he has ordered his paper changed as
 he expects to be there most of the
 time.
 Prosecuting Attorney s. D. Camp bell, Judge M. M. Stuckey and attor-
 ney Poindexter of Pownattan were l among the passengers to Batesville } Monday morning, where Judge F. D.. ], Fulkerson IS holding court. The Lucien Cause Chapter of the U.
 D. c. desires to extend a special invi- tation to the membership of Tom Hindman camp to attend the recep- tion to be given Wednesday morning, October 22, in honor of the delegates
 and visitors to the state convention. .. c. Davidson of Evening Shade arrived Tuesday noon and has &C.,
 cepted position as compositor on the INDEPENDENT. His brother Sterling
 Davidson has been made foreman on
 this paper and is an excellent young
 gentleman and first class printer, of whom we hope to find duplicate in his brother.
 R. B. Shell, travelling auditor of the
 Iron Mountain, spent Friday here
 checking out MT. w. M. Gregg, who
 expects to leave Monday for his new D station, which has been made Arka- delphia, instead of Prescott. MT. Ra- mey of Gurdon, who succeeds him here, was expected on No. A., but
 failed to arrive.
 A. J. Scales, who has been in the employ of the Newport Builders Sup ply and Hardware Company, left Fri day noon for Poplar Bluff, where he has accepted position as timekeepe1 for the Iron Mountain. Our best
 wishes go with MT. Scales, though his friends will regret his departure. MT Scales family will remain in Newport for some time yet.
 A drummer at the Hazel Tuesday
 morning presented Mrs. H. Bernstein
 with stick pin souvenir purchased o l Carrie Nation the other day while or the train. Mrs. Nation is now lectur ing in Arkansas, but her fondness fol c smashing joints and chasing dowr Q blind tigers seems to have left her, o1 @ more would have been heard from the
 indomitable "Carrie," with such { S field as many Arkansas towns afford = Mesdames Wm. Bailey and R. B e Hooker returned Sunday morning e from Brinkley, where they assisted il Z receiving at the crystal wedding cele z, bration of MT. and Mrs. Wm. Hooker
 The function was very elaborate an( d elegant one, to which some seventy t five to hundred invitations had beer e issued. The affair had been careful.