Newport weekly independent., 1903-01-09

Harry Snapp was here trading Wednesday from Fitzhugh.
 Judge J. w. Phillips went to Little Rock Wednesday morning.
 Capt. J. T. Henderson of Auvergne came up Wednesday on business.
 Miss Vivienne Wise of Batesville was here Tuesday on her return to Philadelphia to school
 Cash buyers will find housefull of bargains at Wolff Goldman's during the January clearing sale. d3t
 Nathan Adler, Jr., of BatesvilIe came down Tuesday night on his way to St. Louis to visit relatives.
 Immense reductions in the hard ware and furniture department during Wolff Goldman's January sale. d3t
 Colonel V. Y. Cook of Elmo re- mained over Tuesday night on busi- ness returning home Wednesday.
 w. B. Egan and family are prepar- ing to move into their new cottag home erected by Dr. 0. West on Elm street.
 Wm. Hooker left on the Wednesday afternoon train for Brinkley, after few days visit with Wm. Bailey and family.
 Mrs. Elizabeth Watson and daughter Miss Bessie left Wednesday noon for Little Rock on a visit to Mrs. J. A. Watkins.
 Buy your stoves while the weather is cold for you will not need them in summer. Twenty per cent off at Wolff Goldman's. d3t.
 Clarence Holmes, who has been sick at his home in Batesville, returned Tuesday to his work here in the Iron Mountain freight office.
 Thos. w. Shaver left Wednesday morning for Augusta and will make a number of Arkansas towns collecting for the defunct One Price Company.
 Simon Ball and Sim Williams came down from Batesyille Tuesday night on their way to Little Rock. The latter has secured a position in the capital city and goes to accept it.
 Mir. and Mrs. Lowery Grant of Jacksonport were here Wednesday on their way to Lincoln, Missouri to visit the formers sister They expected to take No. ? and go by way of St. Louis.
 Capt. T. J. Watson leaves about the fifteenth of this month for pleasure trip to points in Texas and Louisiana and while away will visit his son Dr. Ebert Watson of Crowley, Louisi ana.
 Mrs. w. B. Lawrence was here Tuesday with little Kate Brown, | whom she accompanied to Hoxie and put her on a Jonesboro train. Mrs. 1 Lawrence returned to Batesville We'd { nesday.
 w. H. Denison and son Walter, who 1 passed through Tuesday with Miss Belle Chiles of Jones, La, and ac companied her as far as Little Rock returned home Wednesday morning to Cushman.
 The condition of Elise Hooker re- mains the same and is regarded as critical. With so many friends among the old and young, the hope is gen. orally expressed that more encourag i ing news may soon be reported
 Lyman F. Reeder and sister Miss Pearl of Lexington, Missouri and Miss i Rama Purton of Higginsville, Missouri cal Tuesday on their way home after a visit to the first named and the fam fly of Judge F. D. Fulkerson.
 Mrs. B. ". Reeves, wife of the pro- prietor of the Lone Star boarding house, while descending the outside steps, made misstep and fell the entire length of the stairway to the walk below. Her left ankle was broken and her body badly bruised from which she is now under the care of physician.
 The smallpox situation in Poplar Bluff can be considered as somewhat improved today, says the Citizen of Tuesday. Only one new case was found, that of the little daughter of Mrs. Tom Bullock. There are now six cases in that city pest house and about twenty cases have been released in the past few days.
 Miss Marjorie Alexander, the ac- complished instructor on stringed instruments at Maddox College, after spending the holidays in Batesville, was here Wednesday on her return to Little Rock. She was accompanied by Mrs. Dudley s. Robinson and daughter Miss Wirta and Miss Leila