Newport weekly independent., 1903-10-23

Mrs. Arthur G. Miller and baby ar rived Friday afternoon overI the Choctaw on visit to Mesdames Q. E. Jones and Harry Brandenburg. Mrs. Miller was formerly Miss Elsie Cpd dard and one of Newport's most polp- ular young ladies.
 Butler county has new prosecuF- ing attorney this week, in the person. of W. Sprigg Brown. Prosecuting At [ torney Stanley is away on a short val cation and, in his absence, the duties of that office have been delegated to MT. Brown.-Poplar Bluff Citizen.
 MT. and Mrs. Taylor of Los Angeles have been heard from regarding the Arlington Hotel and it is thought that they will rebuild on the old site an up-tod date structure. This step will no doubt have the hearty support of the entire community .-Batesville Bee
 Jno. w. Stayton and Alcorn Fergu- son left Thursday night on a trip East. They will visit New York and other points. One of the purposes of MT. Ferguson's trip is to attend the nat ional convention of local fire insurance agents at Hartford, being a delegate from the Arkansas body as we'll as it's president.
 Henry Schott, wife and little daugh- ter, Hortense, returned home Monday morning after a long absence. MT. Schott has spent several months abroad at his former home in Ger many and returns greatly improved in health. Mrs. Schott and Hortense have been visiting the past month in St. Louis.
 A handsome clock presented the Baptist church of this city by MT. J. E. Mann, was stolen between last Wednesday and Sunday by some in- truder, who secured entrance to the church building through a window. The town evidently has some inhabi tant of a meaner character than we had supposed.
 John Skeggs of skeggs' ferry was in Pocahontas last week and showed queer specimen of an image found in one of many Indian mounds upon his place. It was of stone, the head and neck of some sort of a heathen image, we'll shaped head, nose, mouth and holes for eyes, with a sort of crown or other like device upon the head.
 Mayor J. W. Grubbs and H. F. Kath returned Sunday morning from trip to Little Rock, Alexandria, New Or leans and Texarkana with the immi- grafton agents of the Missouri Pacific system. They lived off of the fat of the land and were royalty treated at every point visited. The special train of sleepers passed through here Sun day morning about 7 o'clock on it's way North.
 F. Wellington Ruchstuhl, the New York sculptor whose design has been accepted for the proposed $10,OO0 Confederate monument to be erected in Little Rock, has reached New York from his tour abroad and is expected in Little Rock about October 25 to look after the details for the prosecu- ton of the work. He is also erecting a $20,000 Davis monument on Capitol Hill, Nashville.
 Newport was in land of midnight darkness Saturday night, nor was this the sum total of her troubles. For the primary trouble lay with the water company, upon which the elec tric light company depends for it's water supply. The trouble lay with the pumps of the water company, which failed to perform their work. Hereafter the electric light plant pro- poses to be independent and will sup ply it's own water as soon as pipes can be laid to the river. The appro- priateness of the name "pubIic con- venience" is truly appreciated by the people after the experience of last Saturday night.