Newport weekly independent., 1903-09-18
ABOUT PEOPLE, MAINLY.A

The White river has been on stand | at u feet for several days.
 White Silk Flour, the best on earth, at Bowen's Cash Store. 111btf Send your fine pearls and slugs to w. D. Burd, Newport, Ark. 37 btf
 We want to sell 200 kegs of new kraut. Bowen's Cash Store. 21btf
 For liberal prices, send your pearls and baroques to c. A. Windau, New port, Arkansas. 3O5 btf
 j. P. Berman went to Grand Glaize Thursday on business trip for $ Wolff Goldman.
 Harry Lasker returned to Little Rock Thursday morning, after short business trip to Newport.
 Mrs. Marcus Brewer of South Me Allister is here on a visit to her mother, Mrs. Estelle Claridge.
 Capt. T. B. Stallings left Thursday with the steamer Joe Wheeler for St. $ Charles and other points below.
 H. Bernstein returned home Thurs day morning from St. Louis, where he attended the funeral of Mrs. Sam Weisl.
 Judge M. M. Stuckey and wife left Wednesday night to attend the grand lodge meeting of Odd Fellows at Bal timore.
 Joseph Payne, aged 45 years, died Wednesday afternoon at 4 o'clock, and was buried Thursday at Bowen's Ridge graveyard.
 Mrs. J. A. Volkmer and sons, Leo and Roy, returned Thursday morning from a visit to their old home at Bur lington, Iowa.
 When you have pearls, slugs and baroques, send them to P. o. Heide, Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin for top market prices. 5.f.t.f.
 F. P. Shipwith, who has been spend- ng part of his vacation at his home at Oxford, Miss, is expected back about the first.
 The pay car was late in getting out Of Poplar Bluff Thursday morning, and is not expected to reach here un- til late tonight.
 w. O. Wharton and Wm. Mosby spent Wednesday on Horseshoe Lake, where they caught thirty pounds of game fish with trolls.
 Rev. R. w. Rhames was here We'd nesday night on his return home to Batesville from Columbia, Tenn, the guest of Rev. George B. Norton.
 Joe Weisberg of St. Louis came down Tuesday night to accept a posi- tion in the dry goods department of the Wolff Goldman Mercantile Com pany.
 Robert M. Hooker returned Thurs day morning on No. 5, which was about five hours late, from St. Louis, having gone up with his wife and daughter, Elise.
 Capt. T. J. Watson, Miss Bessie Watson and Mrs. T. J. Gregg and lit tie Miss Fanny Watson Gregg return ed Wednesday night from pleasant stay at Mountain View.
 A. Arndt, who has been spending several months in New York and at his old home in Cleveland, came in Thursday morning. His many friends are glad to know that he will be here a month before going upon the road.
 T. P. Tappan, who is buying here this season for the Wooten Cotton Company of Helena, went to Bates vile Thursday morning. w. T. Rey- burn is bookkeeper for the local office with quarters in the Hazel Hotel building.
 Capt. Jost of Rosedale, Miss, was here Thursday morning. He has re- gently purchased the Ozark Queen from the White River Grocer Com pany and will take her down the river this week. The reported sale price was $2,5OO.
 Alcorn Ferguson attended the meeting of the executive committee of the Arkansas Association of Local Fire Insurance Agents in Little Rock Tuesday and Wednesday. He is one of the delegates to the national con vention at Hartford, Conn.,, October 21 to 23 next.