Newport daily independent., 1903-05-26


 their return home from St. Louis.
 c. W. Beard and Jewett Box held the lucky numbers in the Good Luck Store shoe club drawings Monday night.
 For sale My residence on Laurel street, terms made known on appli- cation. Wm. Snyder, 4o6 Pulaski street, Little Rock. 20.d.6.t
 The Bracy Confectionery Company pays special attention to the serving of short order lunches and meals and pieases it's patrons. Is btf
 o. B. and J. fl. Ferguson left Mon- day night for Kirkland, Indiana, where their mother is reported very low and hardly expected to live.
 Prof. R. L. Bennett, director of the experimental stotion of the state uli- versity at Fayetteville, has rendered his resignation to President Hartzog.
 The drawings of the Good Luck Store shoe clubs will be held hereafter upon Monday nights at 8:30 o'clock 1 instead of Wednesdays as heretofore. i
 E. V. Holt, cashier of the Bank of Tuckerman and a very pleasantyoung 1 gentleman of enterprise and ability, | was visitor at the county seat Mon- day.
 Breads and cakes, fresh every day from one of the best steam bakeries in the state Try them and you will buy no other. Bracy Confectionery Company. Is btf
 A ticket with every cigar you buy at the Bracy Confectionery Company which entities the holder to a chance at a box of cigars given away every Saturday night. 13 btf
 Positively the greatest line of novel ties in Ladies' Strap Sandels and OK ford Ties ever offered for sale in New port are now on sale at Chas. Meyers Great Bargain Store, 13ftf
 Among the changes in salaries of Arkansas postmasters recently an nouneed, are Batesville increased from $17o0 to $500; Brinkley $140O to $500 and Augusta $12oo to $500.
 Invitations have been received by Jackson county friends to the twenti- eth wedding anniversary of MT. and Mrs. II. II. Luckett Saturday evening, May 30th at their home in Batesville.
 The Bracy Confectionery Company IS now open for business and prepared to serve the public with the very best in every line handled, cigars, candies, canned goods, breads, cakes and etc. l3 btf 1 The post office was moved into its handsome new quarters Tuesday afternoon in the Remmel building. With new fixtures, the Newport office compares favorably with any ill the land for town of this size.
 White river has begun to fall and cannot go down too rapidly to suit the wishes of Jackson county farmers in the bottom lands. The guage register Tuesday was 24.S feet, fall of 5 of a foot the past twenty four hours.
 R. F. Drummond shipped casket to Batesville Tuesday morning, which was ordered from Cleburne county for a Mir. Massey once a resident of Jaeksonport, who died Monday night after lingering sickness with con sumption.
 The three-year old son of Mrs. Allen, of Walnut Ridge, is quite sick of congestive fever at the home of Rev. M. B. Umsted. Mrs. Allen is a daughter of Bro Umsted, and she and her child arrived last week to spend several days visiting .-Paragould Sol iphone.
 Dr. o. E. Jones attended the meet ing of the board of examiners of the state medical society in Little Rock Monday, when c. R. Shinault of Helena was elected president and J.. P. Runyan of Little Rock, secretary. pr. Jones was assigned the branch of ''Materia Medica and Therapeutics, " for examinations before the board.
 The erection of a $14O00 Y. M. c. A. building is to be begun at Hoxie in the near future. The site has been selected upon the Iron Mountain yards and the contributors to the fund are Miss Helen Gould 5000; Y. M. c. A. of the United States S4,0O0 and the Iron Mountain Railroad S5,000 in cash, together with the land and free transportation for the material.