Newport weekly independent., 1903-09-25

The little station of Portia above Hoxie on the Frisco shipped out 210 car loads of watermelons this season. They probably brought an average of over $1O0 to the car or an amount in excess of $21, ,OO0. There's nothing the matter with Portia.
 Mir. and Mrs. Al Wassell received telegram from their son, Corrie, aged 20 years, announcing that he had ar rived safely at the Pasteur Institute, Baltimore, Md, and that he could be cured of the bite of a pet dog which went mad last Friday Rock 1 Democrat.
 Jno. c. Hayes and trimmer, Miss May Kennedy, returned to Cotton Plant Wednesday very much pleased with their business here. Their dis play of millinery was generally com plimented by the fair sex of Newport and Miss Kennedy pronounced a trimmer of fine taste and workman ship.
 Miss Marjorie Alexander, the ac- eomplished teacher of stripged in struments at Maddox College, was here Tuesday on her return to Little Rock from Batesville, where she at tended a dance Monday evening. Miss Alexander and Mir. J. Q. Allen of Van Buren, the guest of honor, led the german.
 Drs K. K. Kimberlin and H. E. Dowell of Bird township spent Tues day in Newport. Both are preparing to go away to school, the former to complete his course at the Indianap oils Medical College and the latter to take his second year in the dentistry department of Washington Univer- sity, St. Louis.
 Contractor Stewart is putting in a concrete flooring for the hose house and upon the completion of this work will put in granitoid walk in front of the office building of Col. L. Minor. The latter has also written to J. D Goldman of St. Louis urging him to extend such a pavement along his property on Walnut street.
 MT, and Mrs. H. Bernstein announce the engagement of their daughter, Miss Blanche, to Dr. Seldon Cohn of 1 Fulton, Ky. The Independent ex- tends congratulations, for the pros pective bride is very attractive and handsome young lady, and the man of her choice has already attained eminence in his profession and is an excellent young gentleman. R. B. Johnson, who was sent to the penitentiary from Jackson county for two years, was among the number who escaped from the railroad con vict camp near Perry last Saturday evening. The water boy, it seems, snatched the gun of the guard, who was forthwith marched three miles through the woods before turned loose.
 T. D. Kinman, Jr., returned last week from St. Louis, where he went after making the trip through to Yell vile over the route of the Morning Star in company with E. D. Chadick and George Locke, representative of Northern trust company. He has nothing to give out in regard to the prospects of the roads construction.
 s. s. Prewitt came in off the road Tuesday night, and Mrs. Prewitt ar rived Wednesday noon for few days visit with Newport friends before go- ing to Little Rock, which will be their home in the future. Mir. Prewitt's territory has been changed, giving him more of Arkansas. John and Miss Laura Prewitt are expected here the last of the week.
 Miss Nina Rutherford was seriously hurt last Friday afternoon by being thrown from a mule. She had gone into the woods on hunt for musca- dimes and from some cause the mule was frightened and threw her, but fortunately she sustained no fatal in- jury. She is reported as recovering rapidly from her injuries and it is hoped that she will be entirely we'll in short time.- Bee.
 Was ever such deliberate selling of official clemency indulged in in any commonwealth? The very idea of the governor of Arkansas issuing a  pardon and turning it over to such rascal as Farmer, virtually telling him to go ahead and get what he could out of it. This is just like the John- son pardon was issued, though Farmer was not able to bleed his victim as much as the Eureka Springs lawyers did.