Newport weekly independent., 1902-04-25

Vic Axe went to Little Rock Satur
 day noon to spend Sunday with Lls brother Harry B. Axe.
 Tony Martin, convicted in Jackson county October 10, 1901, of petit larce- ny and fined $50 and costs and one hour in jail was on Thursday restored to citizenship by the governor. Robert w. Leigh and son, repre- sentatives of the Unitype Company, of Chicago, were here Friday, having just put in simplex type setting ma chine in the office of the Batesville | Bee.
 Marcus B. Brewer has been appoin. ed cashier of the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway offices at South McAl- lister, Indian Ty. He is working right up in railroad circles and has a bright future before him.
 A party of veterans from Swifton came down Monday morning to take the Choctaw special to Dallas, but arrived too late. They probably thought the special left at the time of the regular train.
 Misses Nettie and Nora Glenn, of Batesville, and Mrs. Treadway, of Lit tie Rock, were here Friday morning on their way to the latter city. They were accompanied by MT. Charles F. Cole, referee in bankruptcy. Roland Johnson, who returned Thursday night from Little Rock after apportioning the arms and uniforms for the First Arkansas Regiment, says that the equipment for the local com pany will arrive in about ten days.
 Mrs. s. M. Mcfarland entertained Friday evening at her home on Ash Street the children of the Christian Sunday School, at which very nice re- treatments were served and the affair 1 was heartily enjoyed by all present.
 Mrs. A. H. Mcdonald and MT. and l Mrs. John w. Ferrill of Batesville | left Saturday noon over the Iron Mountain for Dallas, Texas. MT. and | Mrs. Ferrill will also visit in Calves 1 ton and San Antonio before returning. | The Wolff Goldman Realty Comp any of Newport on Saturday filed articles | of incorporation with the secretary of | state. Sigmund Wolff, president; Mamie Goldman, president; Isaac Goldman, secretary; Elise Wolff, treasurer. The capital stock is $50, ,0OO. |
 George Sexton lost horse on April 9th, which he had insured with the Arkansas Live Stock Insurance Com pany. He sent in proof of claim Cn the 11th instant and was paid Friday by MT. Guy Hatfield, agent for the company in this section of the state.
 J. s. Handford, John Q. Wolf and wife and child, M. J. Erwin and wife, Misses Nina Rutherford, Sophia Rutherford and Kittie Martin of Batesville were registered at the Hazel Sunday night and left on the early morning Iron Mountain train for Dallas, Texas.
 The Newport nimrods, 0. R. Hite, Alcorn Ferguson, George Hillhouse, E. L. Boyce and Ben Simmons of Tu- pelo and Lon Bowen of Forrest City, who each year enjoy a hunt in the St. Francis river bottom, left Thursday morning for their old hunting grounds and will be gone about ten days. Misses Lee Johnson and Bessie Townsend, the young ladies who have been visiting Mrs. Lucy B. Green for several weeks and who have made many friends in our city, left Monday morning for their home at Belgrade, Mo. Their train, No. 2, due here at 4:45 a. m. did not arrive in Newport until S:30 a. m.
 Officers Stephens and Laird search ed north bound train No. 4, on it's ar rival here at 11:22 Friday morning, but failed to find the young man, whom they had been instructed by wire from TeXarkana to arrest and hold. An IS year old, blue eyed boy, with slight limp in his walk, was wanted in that city for robbery and was seen to board No. 4, but had probably left the train before reaching Newport.