The Russellville Democrat., 1893-02-16
COUNTY CORRESPONDENCE.

phoid fever :. .P. F. Winningham has gone into the mercantile busi- ness at Lamar, and moved his fami- ly to that place Sam Winning ham has bought s::ia:aproved land :: :.s:.. ss:.. te;5 nope and is clearing with vim. T. K Bonds has also bought piece of land in the neigh borhood, formerly owned by J. D. Wait. x. k. E. Bonds is making considerable improvement on his new place, just east of his mothers place. <. J. $. Bonds has set up housekeeping again. We hope he may never be burned out again <.
 understand that Mir. J. D. Wait has bought the shingle mill former ly owned by Forrest Turner & Go. Mir Wait is clever gentleman, and understands the shingle business, and we hope he will be successful in the business Messrs. Henry and Manley are doing very good busi- ness with their saw mill <. MT. and Mrs. Joseph of Ill. are visiting rela- tives in this neighborhood {. Miss Mary E. Bonds is visiting relatives at Lamar and Clarksville :. This neighborhood is soon to be connect ed by telephone. Four lines have already been put up and they work splendidly. The longest, oyer twelve hundred yards, is so plain that you can hear the ticking of the clock on it. We use homemade phones, buy the wire, and put them up ourselves, at small cost. They are great con, venience, and 1 do not see why we did not think oft sooner, perhaps one reason was, we did not know how. J. c. B.
 CENTER VALLEY, Feb. 7.--Some of our farmers are preparing for spring work. James Muller of this place lost one of his fine gray horses on last Saturday night with distemper. =. Will Humphrey and sister Lily, of this point went to Hartman on last Friday on visit to relatives, return ing on Monday. {. Married on last Sunday at Center Point two miles east of here by Rev. Montgomery, Miss Sena Ashmore to MT. John i Barton, both of Gum Log. This was quite a surprise to some of our young people, and. rumor says that Alsey Smith has returned to Russellyille to remain all winter, also that John Brashear has ceased his visits to 1 this part; they fear the epidemic is catching Sam Davis, one of Rus sellville's genial clerks worshipped here on last Sunday Road Over soer J. J. Stout hurls a chunk of Arkansas law and gospel at us with others here, to appear on the high way with shovels the last of this week. Our natural feelings demur. ;. It is expected there will be preaching here next Sunday by the new pastor appointed for this cir cult. We have not learned his name. -. Married on the 3d, Miss Julia Stout of this place to W. D. Smith, of Hartman, Ark. Miss Stout is one of our wide awake, intelligent girls, who has host of friends here. w. D. Smith is a genial business young man of Johnson county, who shows by his actions that pluck and per severance, even in courtship, are the only roads to success. Their many friends join in hearty congratula- tions for happy future. ~. Ed Ew- ing, who went to the Nation nearly year ago to seek fortune, return
 ed to this place last Monday, wis CT if not richer man. :. Green Bull lock one of our leading pedagogues, 1 closed two months term of school at Liberty Hill last Friday. Funds non -auantum- sufficit for a longer term. There will be prize offer ed for the best declamation deliver ed here on next Saturday night
 1t is not what it's proprietors say but what Hoods Sarsaparilla does that tells the story of it's merit. Hoods Sarsaparilla CURES.
 CENTER VALLEY, Feb. 13.-Mr. J. Thompson of this place will move Rev Shipley and family to Boone county, this week. They go over land by team. A little girl of Mir
 s. Mullen, of this point, has been very sick of late John Brashear of Russellville, and his best girl, worshipped here last Sunday. J. H. Gamer, photographer of Rus sellville promises to be at c. V. next Friday and photograph our school enmasse. Everybody invited on that day. Services of a matrimonial nature have been announced here for next week, wherein prominent GUEST will figure, and thus our peo
 pie continne to obey the divine in Junction of the Scripture. q. Revs
 Fletcher and Shipley attended the entertainment given here by our pu
 pile Saturday night and each deliv
 cred fine eulogy in reference to tho contest, showing to the pupils that we may reach higher spheres o
 usefulness in life through this meth
 cd of training. Rev. Fletcher o
 Russellville, the new pastor for this
 field the coming year, preached his
 introductory sermon last Sunday tC a large audience. The Elder is 6
 fluent, able and pleasant speaker and was listened to with marked at
 tention Rev. Shipley and family
 returned last week from Ft. Smitt and have been visiting friends il 1 the nelghborhood, but will leave thil
 week for Harrison, where he has beer assigned work the coming year.
 Ten pupils of the Valley school de
 claimed for prize here last Satur