Newport weekly independent., 1903-08-07
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 tuckey left Saturday for
 Kansas, on a visit to his mother.
 ,hemwell and L. V. Ruff of SMA were here Sunday night on 'o<@ay to Batesville. .> D. Mendenhall has resigned his aI ( kon with 0. M. Bowen and has 54uA}- Succeeded by Homer Buford. Hz new born child of Mir. and Mrs. SS Brinkley of Oil Trough died Fri Afternoon and was buried that iENpb
 he rainfall Sunday afternoon to but .04 of an inch here,
 south of here few miles, a much
 iavier shower was enjoyed.
 Editor Williams of the Jonesboro oimes, one of our most esteemed ex- Changes, spent Sunday here the guest of R. w. Randy and family. !, The 6-year- old negro boy Sampson Hendrix, son of Silas Hendrix, living on the Robt. Anderson place n0ar Jacksonport, died Friday afternoon.
 Miss Barbee Craig of Kenyon re- turned on No. Monday from Spring field, Missouri where she has been attending college, and spent Monday here.
 Mrs. A. 6. Collier returned to her home in Tupelo Monday, after several days. spent with Brinkley friends, the guest of MT. and Mrs. w. D. Pugh.- Brinkley Argus.
 Mrs. J. H. McHugh and daughter Beatrice left Saturday morning for Russell on visit to Mrs. E. R. and Miss Carrie Beane, both of whom are reported much improved.
 E. 0. Waterman, editor of the News, left Friday night on trip East, going first to Jerseyville, Illi- nois, his old home, and thence to New York City on visit to his nephew.
 Miss Elizabeth Tayler, better known as ''Sister'' Taylor, and very popu- lar young lady in Newport, arrived Friday night from Friar's Point and is the guest of Dr. o. E. Jones and wife.
 Representative John H. Keel of Newport was in Little Rock Saturday He says he will probably enter the race for auditor of state.-Little Rock Correspondence of Commercial App peal.
 Arthur F. Bailey returned Saturday morning from purchasing trip to St. Louis on No. 5, which was delayed several hours by wreck on the Mis- souri division. No. Il was also de- layed.
 Mrs. Wm. Bailey entertained at an elegant six o'clock dinner Friday eve ming Misses Mary Narcissa McKinnon of Searcy, Margaret Beattie of Mary vile, Mo-, Carrie Stevens and Lou Minor.
 Mrs. R. D. Wilmans entertained | Friday evening very pleasantly at a six o'clock dinner in honor of Miss Eleanor Neill of Batesville, Misses Susie Jones, Ray and Lucy Branden- burg and Bessie T. J. Watson.
 Rev. R. B. Willis, one of the ablest l divines in the Southern Presbyterian church in this state, came up Saturday to fill the pulpit of the local church. Arrangements have been made for Mir. Willis to divide his time with the Newport and Searcy churches.
 L. H. Conditt of Bird township, was here trading Saturday. He thinks the chances for average crops very poor this year, owing to the drouth, which has been endured for six weeks in his section, though showers have visited many nearby points in the meanwhile.
 Word comes in from the railroad camp that the graders are blowing out zinc in number of places along the line just north of town. Some nice specimens have been exposed on the Richardson and Seawel land, also in the big cut at Joe Bryan's. Melville will some day have mines in opera ton within her corporate limits.- Melville Echo.
 Dr. J. H. Meyers will set his fine To- acre tract west of Black Rock to paper shell oceans. He says this is the most certain and profitable crop that grows. The trees bear at six years old and that an acre in these oceans is worth $1,000. The doctor will put a cut stone dam across that drain on his place, stock it with muckets of a high pearl bearing variety. plant the