Newport weekly independent., 1902-03-07

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 Judge L. Lippmann, of Olyphant spent Friday night and Saturday in this city.
 Geo. w. Decker came down from St. Louis Monday morning to look af- ter business here
 Mrs. and Mrs. F. H. Heinrich spent Sunday in the Weldon community visiting relatives.
 Hon. F. D. Fulkerson, judge of this circuit, spent Saturday in Newport callidg on his friends.
 o. F. Craig, editor of the newsy Newark Journal, paid this office call while in the city Saturday
 Take look at the display window at the Right Place and note the heavy cuts on strap slippers and Oxfords.
 267 b.tf Miss Lucille Randy returned Monday on the noon train from visit to her friends, the Misses Rogers, of Walnut Ridge.
 Dr. J. M. Jones made professional trip to Tupelo Sunday to see MT. Will Shoffner, whom we are glad to know is improving.
 Miss Leah Campbell, of Tupelo, is the guest of Miss Mary Laird, who has just returned from visit to the for mer.
 Miss Cora Stacey arrived Saturday afternoon from Augusta, called here by the critical illness of the late Dr.. Ford Willis.
 Mrs. o. s. Lawrence returned home to Texarkana, Sunday night after a visit to her mother Mrs. Elizabeth Watson.
 J. M. O'Hara came in Saturday morning to ospend the day on the New port pearl market, as has been his custom the past season.
 Prices cut from $1 25 and sl.75 to 98 cents on strap slippers and Oxfords, at the Right Place. Take a look at the display window. 267 b.tf James Martin, court stenographeri this judicial district, was here Sunday on his way to POWhattan, where Judge Fulkerson convened court Monday. E. Copeland returned Saturday morning from a visit to his son at New Madrid, Mo, where the lynch ing of the negro minstrel occurred the first of the week.
 Sam J. Meyer returned home Sat- urday noon to visit the family and tlke his fathers place at the store next week, while he goes to the St. Louis and Chicago markets. Tyl,I ., 41- Pruning between here and Brinkley lon the Choctaw, says section boss at yCotton Plant informed him that. there are sixty cases of smallpox there. The rainfall Sunday night amounted to .35 of an inch. The river showed a rise of O.1 of foot Sunday, but with the present rain, will probably show higher water mark than for some time. Mir. and Mrs. Frank Orff, of St. HLouis, arrived Sunday morning to att Itend the funeral services of Dr. Ford Willis. The former is a brother of Mrs. l.. B. Willis, with whom they are stopping.
 Mir. Geo. w. Hunter, the St. Louis \railr4ad man, who was reported to \a1c6 bought the Searcy & Des Arc III Odu oOulCUlillC dSO, WdS III uDC CIUy
 ursday and closed the deal for the
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 kASeMife of Rufus Curry, colored, died Saturday afternoon about one o'clock from consumption. She was about middle age and lived on the lower end of Second street. The bur ial was held Sunday afternoon at the city cemetery.
 The remains of Lewis F. Wright, the negro minstrel who was lynched at New Madrid last Sunday night, were taken to Chicago Thursday for burial. The expenses of removing the body were defrayed by his sister. Poplar Bluff Sentinel.
 Dr. F. G. Smith was down town Sat- urday for the first time after a six weeks sickness. Though he is slight ly behind in making his canvass, the
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