The Osceola times., 1883-09-08
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The government hands received
their lnss months wages this week.
MIR. F. B. Hale is on the sick
list this week
VIXEN you want good smoke,
70 to- GAYLORD & HOWE.
MFR. James Liston is still rcceiv-
ing more goods almost daily.
If you want choice fragrant
Cigar call at r. c. PHEwrT's.
-Mr. and Mrs. Dave Lawrence's
youngest child died last Sunday.
-Thurber's Choice Chiquita CT
gars for sale at GAYLORD & HowE's.
Everybody was glad to see the
dust settled down. 1t was beconl-
ing intolerable.
Mr.. and Mrs. Peter Brickcy are
are absent on a visit to Mr.. Brick
ey's folks at Cliff Mo.
-Sickness still prevails to con-
siderable extent throughout the
county.
Mrs. JEFF. Stratton, has been
quite i'll during the week, having
been attacked with conjestive chill.
Mrs. H. D. Thomlinson, came
pp and spent the week with the
old folks, and visiting friends.
Misses Ida Hale and Seville
Driver left Tuesday for Kirkwood.
nos where they go to attend school.
Mr.. VIM. Moss took a trip to
Memphis during the week, and laid
in another supply Of goods
Mrs. ]. J. Hearn, who has been
spending the heated term in Middle
Tennessee, returned home this week.
Miss Lizzie Norton came up
last Tuesday, on visit to her siste,,
Mrs. T. c. .Edrington.
Ness GAYLORD & HOWE are
agents for Thurber's Nos. s and 10
Cigars, which they keep constantly
on hand.
Mrs. ]. NJ. Lawrence is lying
very low, with consumption, and is
not expected to live many more
days.
Mrs. Geo. f. Pettey came over
from Gold Dust this week to attend
the bedside of her sister, Mrs. j. NJ.
Lawrence, who Is very low.
MRS. Laura Glenn, daughter of
Dir. and Mrs. Gains, died last Mon
day. Her remains were taken to
Tennessee for interment.
Mr.. Geo. w. Thomson, after
staking in the Louisville Expose,
and visiting his mother, who lives at
Dresden, Tenn, returned home last
Sunday.
Mr.. James ID. Driver, who has
been very i'll for the past two weeks,
is, we are happy to say, improving,
and able to be up.
Mess. Stowell & Heinz took $50
extra copies of the Times last week,
which they distributed among their
friends and customers. They be-
heve in printers ink.
MIR. and Mrs. Bush, of Kenton
Station, Tenn, are visiting friends
and relations, and are the guests of
dr. and Mrs. J. L. Driver.
The first bale of Mississippi
County Cotton was picked by Mr.. f.
B. Hale, who had it ginned and ship
on Thursday boat.
Two more men were drowned
in the river, this week. OF Of the
Government works. Too much blind
tiger juice renders them dizzy and
they invariably walk overheard, and
drown their sorrows sure enough.
Mr.. Adams and family, of llli-
nois, son-in-law and daughter of Mr.,
Miles Bevils arrived last Thursday
and are stopping on Carsons Lake,
and will no doubt make this their
future home. Mr.. Adams is well
pleased with the country, and coz
templates buying land, on which to
build him a home.
Miss Minerva Lynch, daughter
of Mr.. Josiah Lynch, living on
Crooked Lake committed suicide
few days ago. Oflate, she has been
low spirited, and stated that she was
tired Of life. She told her parents
that she would die on certain night;
but no attention was paid to the re-
mark. At exactly the time fixed Cor |