Newport weekly independent., 1902-12-26

morning to Batesville from Little Rock
 Miss Nirgie Baker of Batesvlle spent Friday night here on her return home from Galloway College, Searey
 Mrs. s. w. Richardson arrived Fri day morning from Cleveland, Ohio on a visit to the family of her son Rev. l.. H. Richardson
 o. c. Harb of Corning came down Thursday night and returned home on No. f. Friday afternoon.
 C. A. Windau has returned from business trip to our neighboring towns of Augusta and Batesvlle.
 Henry Kath, the shell buyer, who has been sick for several weeks with slow fever, is reported better and on the highroad to good healsh.
 w. F. Walker and wife of Paragould arrived Thursday night on a visit to H. G. Drummond and family.
 Miss Mary Case, who has been trimming this season in Indiana, was here Friday night on her way home to Batesville.
 J. l.. Crosser, L. s. Arnold, w. I. Long and R. A. Barnett of Newark spent Friday night here, being regis tered at the Baltimore.
 John R. Lotion Jr. was in town Sat urday. He says the census of that district within three miles of Jackson port has been almost completed.
 Lonnie Campbell who is attending Arkansa State University at Fay yette- < vile, arrived home on No. 2, Saturday morning to spend the holidays.
 Miss Dove Erwin returned Friday night from Galloway College, Searty, where she is senior this year, and will spend the Christmas season at home.
 The physicians of Woodruff county will meet at Augusta Tuesday of next week for the purpose of organizing a county medical association. Vidette.
 c. D. Jones of Canton, Missouri ar rived Friday morning, having accept ed the position of superintendent of the local button factory to succeed E. B. Becker.
 Rev. J. R. Williams of Tuckerman was down Thursday and renewed for the INDEPENDENT. He was com pelled to remain over for the night. owing to the bad roads.
 The Newport Club is arranging for a big ball to be given the evening of January first and an orchestra in Memphis has been engaged to furnish music upon that occasion.
 The rainfall Friday night was .3e of an inch and though the early report showed the river to stand the same on the guage as Friday 24.4 feet, the fall began later during the day.
 Mrs. J. T. Warnsr returned to her home at Batesville Friday morning after visit to her husband, Capt. Warner, who has charge of the gov ernment boats at Little Rock Little Rock Democrat.
 Four young boys were taken before the Mayor Friday afternoon and fined $500 for firing torpedoes upon the street. The fines were allowed to stand however and will not be col lected unless the offense is repeated.
 F. M. Johnson and a party of six gentlemen from Browns, Illinois are here looking over Jackson county land, with view to investment. Among the prospectors is Mir. Barnes, ex sheriff of that county in Illinois.
 Miss Laura Johnson was here Sat- urday and left in the afternoon for her home at Weldon. She has been attending Galloway College and had with her two school friends, Misses May McElwee and Cora Price of Au- gusta, who will visit her before going home.
 Miss Rosa McHenry of Newark and Misses Lula and Babe Shaver of Strawberry, who are attending Central College at Conway, came in on No. 2 Saturday morning and owing to the lateness of this train, had to wait over for the local They were en route home to spend Christmas.
 White river, contrary to expecta- tions rose 4 of 8 foot Thursday and stood at 24.4 feet Friday morning. Black river is reported on a stand at Elgin, while White is falling slowly at Batesville but fast at Mount Olive, which means that the worst is over, pIQsp fin nrtb raipc