The Russellville Democrat., 1881-06-16
Icecream tonight at s. webbs.

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 -The eclipse of the moon came of
 Saturday night as announced, and was
 witnessed by great many people. MT. D. l.. Bourland, a prince
 among drummers and recent acqui' sition to the newspaper gang of Arkan- sas, favored us with social call Mon- day afternoon.
 -The school board of this district has employed T. $. Johnson, (col.) to teach a three months public school for the colored children of the district. Twenty-Five dollars per month is the price paid.
 The temperance people of Atkins have complied with the provisions of the new law regulating the sale of whisky in this state, and will present a petition to the county court favoring prohibition. After December 3lst no saloons will exis. in Atkins.
 We acknowledge a very agreeable call Tuesday last from Mir. w. Mills, who with his family, has recently come to Russellville from the everglades of Florida. We are pleased to bid these new corners welcome to our town and hope they may continue well pleased.
 Last Tuesday morning a defective flue in the kitchen of Mr. A. B. Will- iamson set fire to the building and for short while created considerable ex- citement in that locality. The fire was extinguished before any great damage was done.
 Halls Vegetable Sicilian Hair re- newer is no new preparation for the public to experiment with; it's success is unparalleled for restoring gray hair to it's natural color, promoting it's growth, and producing new hair on bald heads.
 Ice cream every Tuesday Thurs day and Saturday at $. Webb & Co.'S.
 ---Messrs. John II. and J. Taylor Gordon, who, with their families, have spent happy three weeks vaca- tion in Russellville and vicinity, de- parted for their homes in Illinois yes> terday, carrying with them the hearty good wishes of a large circle of admir- ing friends.
 The heat of summer is upon us, t, opened, vegetation has grown rank, which may breed disease, and in our rounds we have not yet seen an effort made to clean the alleys and other places where filth has gathere We would once more urge the cleansing of these places upon the authorities.
 Our list of fat men was rendered incomplete last week by reason of our inability to get the weights of all our big men. Below we present six addi- tional names and may be enabled to add more next week: J. NJ. Harkey, 20I; J. T. Still, 207; Drew Perry, 210; J. ". Pruitt, 206; J. ". Tucker, 2O4; and J. W. Wilson. 210. Total S4l.
 If there's anything that makes us mad it is to see paragraph start off just like it's going to be an item of in- terest to the reader, and then the very first thing you know you jump right on to bottle of Hop Bitters, or some other patent medicine, and have swal> lowed the whole thing before you have time to think. We never treat our readers in such way, but we would like to be permitted to call attention to the fact that Ed Bernard is making an excellent article of ice cream at Mir. Webb's. We've tried it, and it was Eds treat, too,
 The Little Rock Gazette of the 14th inst. contains this notice:
 ''A circular from Mr. w. c. Ford, of has been received asking the donation to their new public school building of maps, harts, pictures, paint ings, chromos, notices, portrains or any articles suitable to be placed apon the walls of public school building The building has been erected by pri- vate donations, the tax being insutfi- cient to erect and run it both. The re- quest of MT. Ford is laudable one, and it is to be hoped that it will meet with prompt response"