Sharp County record., 1881-05-12
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Town and County.

Summer weather has smothered cur
spring poet.
Probate court is still in session. VIII
probably adjourn tomorrow.
"A mad dog was killed in town, this
morning, belonging to. ". John AcCalob'
The "rod and gun" are being effect
ively used in the forests and streams in
this section.
Our merchants are almost daily in
receipt of new goods, to supply the ready
demand of the spring trade.
Thanks to State Secretary Frolich
for a neatly bound cory of the recent acts
of the Arkansas Legislature.
The heavy rains for the past ten days
have caused the farmers to get considera-
by behind with their crops in this sec
ton.
"A newspaper, called the Herald, is
now published a Ravenden Springs, Ran
dolph county, and the publisher says Its
fixed fact"
See programme of preachers meet
ing" in another column. Read it, and
hunt up and coop up your "yaller leg'd"
chickens.
We publish in to-day's paper the act
passed BY the iastiegisiaruro, entitled An
act to regulate the practice OF medicine in
this state Read it.
AIR; Joseph Ault and wife, Of Sharp'S
Gross Roads, are visiting the Shade this
week. Mr.. Ault reports fruit and crop
prospects good, in that portion of lnde-
>pegdenoe,
We learn that MIR, Jordan, living
near Maxville, this county, drew 81 80
cash, at the Gazette drawing, which took
place on the % inst. "Luck'sa fortune"
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Robert Jones and N. A. Mobley, j.
X. Holt and Harriet Abbot, j, c. Shirley
and Agnes E. Morgan have procured
licenses, within the past two weeks, with
the intent to continuously prosecute mat,
rimonial felicity.
"A cotillion party was INDUCED in by
some Of the young people of the town, on
last Friday night, at the residence of Capt.
John NJ. Wasson. The attendance was
large and the time passed rapidly, bat
pleasantly, to the participants.
Gould not the merchants of Evening
Shade, Ash Flat and in other portions Of
the county, send US the number of bales Of
cotton, of the last crop, shipped by them
from Oct. lst, 1880, to May lst, 1881? It
would be an item of general interest
which we would gladly publish, together
with the names Of the shippers.
The Sabbath school picnic, we learn,
is to take place on the 9th inst, at or
near the spring Immediately south of the
residence of Mr.. W. NJ. Davidson. Vocal
and instrumental music, speochifying and
eating will be the leading features of the
days programme. A pleasant time is
looked for.
Prof. MagoAin has organized a sing
ing class here with q very good patronage
to begin with. His pupils are among the
best musical talent of the town, and we
are forced to believe that Evening Shade,
in the near future, can boast Of a good
choir, which the Sabbath school and
churches have long felt the need of. The
class meets again tomorrow (Friday)
night at the Christian church
Correspondents should remember that
we never publish communications unless
the writer's name accompanys the manu-
script; though, We are always proud to re-
&c eei ifFa itet tu5 Uf uewS or communications on
subjects Of general interest, and fer such
will endeavor to find space, however poor
ly written or dictated, when the writer
places his name on the sheet, not that it's
the name we wish to print, but that we
may know who it is that has au anxiety,
so expressed, for the welfare of his county
paper and the commVaity in which he
lives.