The Umpire Gazette, Mar 22, 1912, Howard County, Arkansas *********************************************************** Submitted by: Christina Ray Date: Feb 7, 2003 Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm *********************************************************** THE UMPIRE GAZETTE, Volumn One Umpire, Howard County Arkansas March 22 1912 No 33 THE UMPIRE GAZETTE W. LACEFIELD UMPIRE - - - ARKANSAS Published Every Friday _____________________________ Entered as second-class matter september 26, 1911 at the post office at Umpire, Arkansas, under the Act. of March 3, 1879 50 Cents Per Year LOCAL NEWS Gardening was the order first of the Week Church was well attended last Sunday, and also singing in the afternoon Decoration Day at Union Church the 2nd Sunday in May We, the people of this place, organized Sunday School last Sunday Jeff Hobson was on our streets first of the week. J. M. Jackson paper his dining room and kitchen today Rev. Johnson and wife who have been sick are reported better Mrs. Redhedge was shopping in town Monday Miss Mamie Baber is assisting in this office this week Mrs. Mary Chadwick was shopping in town Monday Royal Morris has purchased the T.P. Patterson stock of goods Mr. Parsons was down from Mineola monday on business Festus Jackson and wife visited at uncle Tom Jackson's Sunday Hemp Hobson was on our streets one day this week Carl Pannell who has been away attending school was on our streets today Rufus and Jack Manasco were in Umpire Thursday John Bedwell of Euclid was called to the death bed of his mother last Wednesday Miss Paralee McCauley was shopping in town today Mrs. Nevett who has been quite sick is reported better Frank McCauley and Blant Seales ae attending the teachers' examination at Mona this week Mrs. Lola Morris gave us a call Wednesday afternoon DIERKS RUMBLINGS The weather is unsettled but the farmers are busy Boon Morris of Umpire was on our streets Monday J.E. Ruth of Center Point was moved to Dierks as we will miss him The Dierks Telephone is moving its office this week A.S. Hester has ? from Lockesburg where ? in respond to a call to as ? Lockesburg Telephone Co. replace their cables which were cut down by theives Burley Hester and John akley have gone to Mena to the teaches' examination Bennie Kilgore of Athens was in Dierks on business Tues. Flora Vrix, Pearl and ? Henry have gone to Nashville to attend the examination. Notice for Publication Department of the ? U.S. Land Office at Camden Ark. March 3, 1912 Notice is hereby given this ? H. Barnes of Eldridge ark, who on Oct. 7, 1907 made homestead Entry (Serial no 03453 No. 30948 for N1-2SW1-4 and ?-2SE-4 Section 13T. 5 South R: 30 West 5th Principal Meridan has filed notice of intention to make Final five year proof to establish claim to the land as have described, before the county Ark of Polk County at Mena, Ark on the 10th, day of April, 1912, Claimant names as witnesses Lee Myers, J.H. Plunkett, D? Lance and J.T. Lance of Eldridge Ark. H G Friedheun Register GRANDMA BEDWELL Died at the Age of Eighty Two Grandma Bedwell, mother of Uncle Jesse Bedwell quitely passed away Wednesday night at 10:30 O'clock after an illness of about a week. Grandma was exceptionally strong mentally but very weak and feeble physically, being 82 years old, She was one of our country's best aged ladies being always kind and gentle to every one, To know grandma was to love her. We extend our sympathy to the bereved. B.F. ARNOLD Candidate For Representative. March Primary, FAVORS 1. 60-Day Session of the Legislature. 2. Initiative and Refrendum and Re-call. 3. County Depository for Howard County 4. Elections every four years instead of two 5. Prohibiting members of the legislature from drawing pay while absent from duty. 6. Rigid economy in the administration of public affairs in state and county government. 7. Opposed to any bill introduced in the legislature which directly or indirectly proposes an increase of taxes. 8. UNREADABLE FARMERS NEED IT The progressive farmer is regarded as the TYPE of independence. He lives well, had practically everything he wants, and had monty in the bank. Do you know what made the successful farmer Why, it was simply the application of "busines, principles and methods to agriculture. If you are a farmer and havn't a business edgucation, you are simply making old Mother Earth give you a bare living, when she ought to yeild you a surplus. Apply business principles book keeping, etc.--to your farming operations, and you will be astonished to see how much more can be done by a little ??????? than by SWEATING ?????????????????? Practical Business College. Little Rock or Ft. Smith or Texarkana or Memphis. VOTE FOR SIMS F. DILLARD Mr. Dillard believes that if the salary of the judge is big enough for the candidate to ride the county asking for office, that it is big enough for the judge to ride the counts looking after the public roads and other public improvements, and if elected he promises to actually do this. Dillard believes that the peoples money should be equalty distributed as to bridges, and if elected he will see that the people of the North will have the same consideration in this matter as the people of the South. Dillard believes in economy and if elected he will apply the same business principles to this office as he has to his private business. Dillard believes that the judge should give his personal attention to all matters pertaining to the office, and if elected he will be the Board/Commissioner and recieve all bridges and inspect them in person, and not by appointees. Dillard is the peoples friend. Clem Hobsen had withdrawn his announcement from the entry of road overseer. SECOND PAGE COUSIN OF JESSE JAMES ACCUSED Tom James relative of Famous Bandit, Mortally Shoots John Knotz Camden, March 14---Tom James a second cousin of the famous Frank and Jesse James, is in jail here on a charge of killing John Knotz, a German mill man, this morning. The shooting occurred at the mill of O.C. Burke, one mile from Obear, a small town ??????????? of this city. James claims self defence He fired three shots, two taking effect. The quarrel is said to have resulted from a discussion over some logs taken from the property of James. WOMAN STABBED BY UNKNOWN MAN Mrs. F.W. Hughes Injured by Mysterious Attact in Capital Theater Building Little Rock, March 17---While resisting an effort which she says was made to rob her by an unidentified man, whom she encountered in the hallway leading to the apartments of her mother in the capital Theater building, Mrs. F.W. Hughes was stabbed several times in the left arm and shoulder last night. The wounds are not thought to serious, but Mrs. Hughes was prostrated last night as the result of her experience. While on her way to the Capital theater, but after waiting some time he went up stairs. Hughes said he found his wife in a fainting condition in the darkened hall. He found, he said, that she had been stabbed in the left shoulder and had three cuts on the left arm. Mrs. Hughes said that, finding no one in her mothers rooms, she started to return to the theater and that as she passed through the hall she was grasped by a man, who ordered her to give him her rings and money. When she tried to release herself, she said, the man cut her and then fled, escaping through a window and climbing down a fire escape.