The Osceola times., 1883-02-17
Osceoia Rain Drops,

next meeting at Mrs. Fletcher
Catching drift wood was made
profitable this week.
Mrs. g.. r. stowell went down
to Memphis last Tuesday.
Mrs. Ed ii. Mathes left Thurs
DAY on visit to her fathers family
at Covington, Tenn.
Mrs. IL. c. Dunavant went down
to Golden Lake, Tuesday, on visit
to her sister. Mrs. J.<W. Rhodes.
Don't forget your Cash or Tick
cts when you send to Pcttey's Meat
Market for meat.
Mr.. N. b. Lafont, OF the Bayou
reports having ginned 400 bales OF
cotton up to 9th of February; total
reported-2 1920 bales.
After short business trip to
Fort Smith taking in Little Rock
on the way-Capt. II. NJ. Mcveigh
returned home last Saturday.
Mr.. Chris Huffman, late of Mem
phis, is in charge of Pcttey's Meat
Market, and has instructions to sell
no meat except for CASH or TICKETS.
MIR. Morris Heinz, who has been
absent at Hot Springs for some time,
returned home last Tuesday, looking
as fresh and sound as a newly coined
silset dollar.
Last week, one couldn't keep
warm astraddle red hot stove; this
week, the thermometer is up in the
eighties, and linen duster would
be considered superauous.
Owing TO the great expense
and amount of time consumed in
keeping and collecting accounts, Mr..
o. E. Psttey vii! hereafter keep no
MEAT BOOKS.
DIR. II. c. Prewitt, who took a
run over to the Rock and Springs, to
take a peep at the natural curiosiiies
Of the state-The Legislature and
the healing waters Of Hot-springs-
returned home last Tuesday.
Renewals since our last: Mess.
]. NJ. Cook, II. G. Dunnavant, Fred
Keiser, A. J. Lynch aud Mrs. Ruth
Cheek; while Messrs ". Bert and
Vim. Tucker were added to our list
Of new subscribers.
Mr.. Ed. II. Mathes leaves in a
day or two for Cincinnati, on busi-
ness, and on his return contemplates
q trip to the Western part of the
State, with the view of looking up
healthy locality in which to locate.
We are not a prophet, nor the
son of a prophet, but we are firmly
Of the opinion that the people all
over the bottom had better be max
ing preparations for another over
flow. Indications are propitious.
Rev. w. R. Foster, 7. Z. came
came up last Tuesday and presided
at the Quarterly Conference of the
NJ. T.. Church S. From here he
goes to Bar6eld, Blythesville and
Big Lake.
Owing to continued bad wealth
er, the Ladies Aid Society will hold
its meetings in the afternoon, be-
tween the hours Of 2 and o'clock.
Members will take notice and govern
themselves accordingly.
Valentines have been all the go
since the 14th. The editor received
: sweet, tender, loving Valentine,
traced in n delicate feminine hand,
and briming over with sentiment and
poe try, with little cupids and darts
flying ali over the page. His better
half got glimpse of it, and then
there was trouble. Fortunately it
was soon discovered that the little
missive was intended for the TINES
Carrier, who answers to the same
name, and peace was restored.
After reading the fearful ac-
counts Of the food up the Ohio, de-
failing the Wholesale destruction of
properly, suffering and distress in the
submerged portions of the city of
Cincinnati, one feels like contenting
himself by remaining in this lower
valley, until he begins to reflect that
Ill the water that is causing so much
devastation up there, is bound to
come down this way; then the ques-
ton .what shall we do to be savedy"
comes up like that historical spook
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