The Forrest City times., 1891-08-28

The ditches on Front street are gone | gone forever. We hope. D. C. Cook, the entarprising contractor. finished
 his contract Wednesday forenoon. Per
 sons living in town, and who have watched the progress of the work, can
 not fully appreciate the wonderful change m the appearance of our prin-
 cipal thoroughfare. But to those who look upon it in its completeness for the
 first time, remembering at the same
 time its appearance two months ago,
 will be impressed beyond expression with its beauty. its convenience, it's incalc,;lable value to Forrest City.
 Every citizen who has the welfare of
 the town uppermost in his heart, every
 man who has proper spirit of enter
 prise, is glad of the improvement It
 shows the enterprise of our city all- 1 tiIorities, and is especially compli- | mentary to the spirit of Messrs. Baugh. | Williams and Stone. who compose the street committee. They have shown a
 disposition to bring Forrest City to the ' front. They have demonstrated the l fact that they have the best interests
 of the town uppermost in their minds. 1 They have done their duty to the peo- | pie. They have pleased very nearly the whole people in this matter. They have done that which should have been done years ago, and on behalf of 1 the people we thank them for it. In this connection we believe we should
 give credit where credit is due, and be- sides the gentlemen above mentioned the people are certainly under obliga- tions to Messrs. Loda X Bro. Wolff x Coleman, T. C. Folbre x Co.,. $. D. Apperson & Co. and E. A. Drewry S Go. The money paid for this enterprise
 came from them. Had it not been for the revenue coming from them For rest City would still be ''pegging along" getting duller and deader. until in few years we would play
 out altogether. We must say right ! here. although 1t Is d Aggression from our subject. that it will Ike Il fearful calamity for Forrest City, from bu,i- 1 ness standpoint. should the supreme court decide the pending license case
 against these gentlemenl. The com
 mittee has contracted to have the
 streets sodded with Bermuda grass.
 which it is hoped will stop the washing
 away of the dirt. They have the
 proper idea in this matter, and we
 venture to say that when they shall
 have completed the job as they have
 1t mapped out the work will prove to
 be the biggest enterprise, the greatest
 improvement ever inaugurated in this
 town. All honor and glory of this pro-
 gressiveness to those wio have inaugu-
 rated and paid for it. Hurrah. for
 the disappearance of the ditches.
 | Our boys went over to IIazen We'd 1 ,an 10 L.lI ..f, d.
 the second of series of games. The
 train arrived there about noon. and the boys were immediately escorted to
 Il hotel. where they ate dinner and pre- pared themselves for the game, which
 should have commenced at l o'clock. but was delayed thirty minutes wait l ing OH one of the Hazen players, who had not come in from stacking hay
 early enough. At l;So the game was
 commenced. with Forrest City at the
 bat. The boys succeeded in making four runs in this inning with little l trouble. Our boys have been often
 famed out" but when they faced Piager, the Little Rock pitcher, they
 made 1t quite evident that unless he
 Was removed iia1en would not be in i it. IlsZen. hy errors, made five runs l in the first inning, but our boys knew 1 the game was theirs, for the next in- ming they put up lo runs, which con- vinced the ilaZen boys that Prager was uo good. The next inning Sanders was put m the box, and did much bet 1 ter work than Prager The feature of i the game was the battery work done 1 by Broggiana and Freeman. The Lit | tie Rock battery for Iiazsn were not
 only deficient III ball playing, but were
 utterly devoid of the principles of gen- 1 tlemen. Of the two, Steinhof was the
 more odious and disgusting. In fact, 1 the treatment received there was not
 such as was anticipated by our club ill return for the nice treatment lIaZen re- ceiyed here when they played in this city. This was not the fault of the | Fazen players. but the imported play
 CTS, the umpire Eatou) and some of 1 the citizens. Umpire Eaton was heard i to tell some of the llazen boys not to i be afraid of striking out as he would give his decisions in their favor. Manager Lynn and the home players | tried hard to make 1t pleasant game, 1 but they had little influence over the
 rougher class of citizens, who seemed
 to be in the majority. The marshal 1 took great pleasure i'll partially show 1 ing his authority, and also in making
 himself very disagreeable to our peo-
 pie. He even went so far as to threaten 1 to get out d search warrant and search
 all of our boys for a ball claimed to have been lost by one of the Iiazen
 men. The boys went to Uazen with
 the expectation of having nice qulet,
 sociable game, but were badly disap- pointed, as the outsiders tried to take possession and run the game from the start. But with all this our boys won 1 the game with ease, and after the
 game were presented with nice bou-
 quet by Manager Lynn, of the Hagen
 club. The boys ali join in extending
 thanks to Manager Cleo Lynn and his
 home players, but We are sorry to say
 we have nothing to thank the other citi-
 zens of Hazen for. At the close of the
 game the score stood 27 for Forrest
 City and 2l for Hazen. The umpires
 were Lewis and Eaton; scorers, Stew
 art and Sanders. Time, 2:30.