Newport weekly independent., 1902-09-19
/ ABOUT PEOPLE MAINLY.\

w. A. Schnable of Corning, was here on business Saturday
 Homer Buford left Friday morning on the early train for Fayetteville, where he will attend the state uni versity.
 The rainfall Thursday night and Friday morning amounted to l.l9 inches according to the government register.
 A baby girl was born Thursday afternoon at 4:30 o'clock to Mir. and Mrs. T. J. Copeland and both mother and baby are doing nicely.
 The Rock Island took charge of the Searcy & Des Arc By. this week. It is believed that the road will be ex- tended both ways.-Advance.
 Augusta's new $50, ,oOO courthouse is nearing completion. It is made or pressed brick and will be one Of the finest in the state when finished.
 Miss Della Bernstein returned Fri day afternoon from pleasant VlSit with the family of J. s. Handford at Batesville.
 Gustave Jones returned Friday noon from a visit to his father ana mother at Maryville, Mo. His family did not accompany him upon hls re- turn.
 Mrs. !. E. Brown, formerly of New ,ort has returned to the home of her daughter in Memphis after spending the Summer at Cold Sulphur Springs, Virginia.
 James A. VanBrocklin, the well known insurance man, was here a short while Friday morning on hls way to points above here onSthe Iron Mountain.
 c, A. Windau, well known pearl and shell buyer of this market, who has been away several months on the Upper Mississippi markets, returned Saturday morning.
 Miss Jamie Stephens, one of New ports most popular young ladles' leaves Monday for Columbia, Mis- souri where she will enter ChristianV College, this being her second year.
 MT. o. Pool, formerly ticket agen at the Cotton Belt depot, who re- signed recently to accept position at rnt1Tnp6 Bluff, and is now revising clerk with the Cotton Belt.-Pine Bluff Graphic.
 The tie between Matheny and Stroud, candidates for the legislature still stands The governor will most probably solve the difficulty by ap- nointment. There isn't much left for a special election in Arkansas.-Bates- vile Guard.
 Maurv Stevens and E. P. Tetwiler left Saturday morning for Black river bridge on the launch Rowena, pre- pared to fish and hunt. Vic Axe, Gus Coffin and Geo. Hillhouse left on the branch local at noon to join them and return by river.
 No good offerings are reported to have been sold on this pearl market Saturday and even the amount of smaller stuff usually here for sale has decreased very perceptibly due doubtless to the demand for labor in
 
 Prof. Witherspoon, principal of one of the public schools of Pine Bluff, together with his family stopped off here Friday noon on his way home from trip up the Batesville branch. The family were guests while here of Mrs. Sallie Martin and left Saturday morning.
 John Hencke writes the editor from Sugartown, Ohio, and sends us a copy of the Weekly Budget of that city, which is a country paper of 4,O37 circulation. These figures sound ap- palling to a Jackson County editor. MT. Hencke leaves the first of next week for a visit in St Louis.
 MT. and Mrs. Nathan Smith left Friday noon for Jonesboro after a visit to their son, Rev. J. w. Smith and family. They will return to their home in Lincoln county, Tennessee, after a visit to Jonesboro relatives. MT. Smith was in very poor health