The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1885-10-16
LOCAL NOTES.


The Synod of Memphis convened a
at Jackson this week.
The butchers Of Bolivar are handling
some extra. fine beef at present.
Barrett Bros. want fifty thousand
bushels cotton seed.
Prot. Irving Is teaching a large must
cal class at the b ptist church in Bolivar.
The minutes Of the Central Missionary
Baptist Association, colored will be issued
about November 1st.
The contract for the new opera house
has been let, and the work Oh same will
co & mence very soon.
The Forked Deer Blade Of jackson has
been enlarged to an eight page and is full
of spice and push.
The Jackson Fair will open on the 21st,
and continues five days. The managera
promise an unusually interesting Fair.
Cotton sold at SIS high as 101
cents in this msrket Yesterday.
This price was paid by J. w. Tate &
Co.
The new buildings in the burnt district
are rapidly going up, and viii probably
be ready for their occupants by tho first
Of November.
Mr. r. L. Montgomery was in Bolivar
on Monday with drove Of fine Norman
mares, which he had just purchased in
Illinois.
Mr.. Noah Euckolls has built new cot
ton platform, and is prepared to do his
share on the weighing and hauling Of the
staple.
The ladies and gentlemen of the Metho-
6irt Church are holding series of inter
e.ring prsyer-neetings weekly, alternating
at their respective residences.
We are under obligation for a season
ticket to the panoramic display OF the
battle # Sedan" now on exhibition in
CINCINNATI. 1t ia the finest and larges;
picturo ever exhibited in America, and
is highly spoken Of by the press.
The Madison county Fair promises to
be very interesting thisseaaon, and large
crowd is expected in Jackson. Why can't
Hardeman county have similar meeting
to bring money into our community every
year, and bring cur co9nty and town into
prominence. Hardeinan will have fair
yet
Barrett Bros have run up bright new
Gag over their business house and under
it propose to lead the vaa in.cheap goods.
The flag is an attractive ornament, and
they announce in another column the fact
that 80 long as its folds shall wave over
them they viii not be uudsrsold. See
their card, and the bright folds Of the
stars and stripes.
Considerable interest is manifested in
the proposition to get up a fair for Iar-
deman county ITsrdeman ought to have
= f.,ir, and We believe that an association
Of the best mea Of the county can easily
be formed and everything arranged ia
time to hold meeting next fall Nov
Is the time to DO it, and the farmers arr
the ones to take the lead in the matter
The columns Of the Bulletin are open for
Communications on thesubject.
We acknowledge the receipt OF an invi-
tation to attend the formal opening Of the
rOo,ns Of the Memphis Cotton Exchange
yes erday, With omplirnent, Of J. L.
Goodwin * CO. The,AfAir will be mem
or,be enc N the commercial history q
,hatrap;dly craving city. The invitation
il legautly gotten up, and bears upon in
/ fac. tine nan,,s Of some of the leading bust
Ness men Of Mcmphis.
We understand thA; Wrn. Gitcheii the
inau who was tried at the July term Of
clrcui, court charged with malicious stab
bling at Grand Junction some time ago.
and while tn jury WA out on his case
iumpvd.his bond, has been arrested in
Alabama, where he is.held for unc u
ninety dolIare
Since writing the shove we learn that
ar. Mitchell wss brought back to Grand
Junction By constable Is, B. Branch, 1t
which place he gain made his ecape.
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