The Harrison times. (Harrison, Boone Co., Ark) 1876-1938, 1886-11-20

hooh out lot DlR ulutIul 0A-
element soon. Many of our eiti-
zens have the fever already.
Z Weather prophets tell us that
we are not 10 have 50 severe win
ter this year as for the past two or
three years.
The next step for our council
20 take is to order first-elass side
walks in front of all buildings on
the public square.
Preparations will soon be in
order for our various holiday
amusements. OF course we will
have Christmas tree or two, but
what else?
Lead Hill is to have a Brass
Band at last. Our Band boys
have sold their old instruments to
the new organization and set
them up with full footing out
1t,
L Harrison is to be without
Dram-Shops during the coming
year; and this If nothing else
should make onr Christians feel
truly thankful on Thursday
next. -
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DIR young friend 7. NJ. Cory
takes the place of HI. G. King as
Clerk in the U. s. Land Office
here, Harrison has not more Ca
pable nor deserving young man
than Tommy. AZ
MIR w. B. Rose has returned
from his sojourn in Kansas. AS
might have been expected, his cat
tie turned out poorly, Unfortu-
nately, all who deal in cattle this
year do SO at a sacrifice.
There are but five newspapers
in Arkansas which openly adyo-
cate the dram-shop system, and in
eaeh instance appetite seems to
have quite as much -todo with
their policy as principle.
Harrison is paying thousands
of dollars every day for cotton from
the surrounding country. Our
town will handle almost the entire
crop of Boone, Newton, Searcy,
and Marion counties this year.
Rush up the sidewalks; we
must have a dry path pretty soon
or buy a new PAIR of boots, and
that would cause us financial en-
harrassment quite as appalling as
the recent Eureka bank failure.
"A number of friends of Mr. and
Mrs. G. K. Kemerer held sur
prise party at their residence on
Tuesday evening last, and enjoyed
themselves quite as much as if the
entire affair had been promedita-
ted
1T is lucky indeed that most
of our farmers have little cotton
tins year. With stock below zero
and produce but little higher the
feecy staple will have to furnish
a good protion of our spending
money at least until after Christ
mas.
Messrs. w. P.and Jas. Ba-
ker have Skating Rink in fun.
hlast in the third story of Phil.
lips Il Bakers brick, and our young
people nre all embracing the
opportunity to become proficient
in the use of the seductive little
rollers.
Preparations are being made
for grand Thanksgiving Dinner
at Mrs. Lebow's Restaurant next
Thursday. This lady understands
Just what is necessary to make up
a banquet and we feel certain that
all SO fortunate az to dine with her
will have true cause for thankful
ness.
The White River Mining
Company, with N. w. Dorsey as
Superintendent and Emil Holden
as Engineer, are preparing to push
things with vim at the Toma-
hawk Copper Mines as soon as the
gets ready for business,
which will be but a few days
hence.
\ -Rumor reached us yesterday
that the Office of the Home and
Farm at Forsyth, Mo-, had been
totally destroyed by fire on Thurs
day night. A. s, Prather, former
" Received of our Land Office
was ats owner and proprietor.
The fireis supposed TO have been
the work of an incendiary.
Tile reason why Harrison is
going to ship more cotton this
year than any previous year is be-
cause her merchants are paying
more for the staple than any Of the
neighboring markets, and they sell
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