The Forrest City times., 1894-04-06
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 solved to await the issue of the special election, and send the whole party as Forrest City's contingent to Ge's Coxcy's great army of the cOmmonweai. It is to hoped that they may meet with better success than they did here in try ing to convince the folks up north that they are needed to ''fll a long felt want"
 Walter Mallory Is now employed with Landvoigt & Vadakin as news boy. He will see to it that all persons who wish the daily papers are promptly supplied. He carries the Memphis Ap- ai-Ayalanche, which gives all the news, and is the old reliable Southern newspaper, the Arkansas Gazette and Press, the St. Louis Republic, Chicago Saturday Blade and Ledger, Puck Judge, and will supply all leading pe- riodicals, magazines, etc, on short nO- tice. Give him your orders.
 c. H. Ravens is a candidate for your Patronage when you want anything Tn The way of Woodwork or Blacksmith ing. He has also gone into the under taking business and is prepared to fur. nish caskets, cofins, etc., on short n0- 1 tice at reasonable figures, should you
  thing of this kind. He employs none, but the best workmen and guarantees | his work to be first-class. Mir. Ravens l is still engaged in the lumber and mill ] ing business and also solicits your pat | ronage in those lines
 J. B. Wood makes his own meat every year and lives at home, but his home made rations have been cut short this season. Saturday night thieves provided themselves with a shovel and | hied themselves to Jim's smoke house, where he had lot of fine middlings and shoulders. They dug their way under the side of the smoke house and helped themselves to four choice shoul- ders and six middlings. Jim thinks he has no clue to their identity. It seems that the same parties undertook like raid on the larder of Mrs. Matte | Woods, on Friday night, but failed to get anything,
 Russell Graham & Co.,, have a box which contains S20 in gold. They have a bunch of Keys, one of which will unlock the box. Every person who purchases One Dollars worth of goods for cash at their store, will be given a key from the bunch, and whoever un- locks the box will get the $20. This is an opportunity to avail yourself of their liberality. Remember that their stock is the largest and their prices the lowest and that they are anxious to have your trade and give you satisfac- tion. Every person who spends dol lar gets their choice of the keys and no one knows which key will unlock the box. All persons holding keys will be | ivx cd to v1 ha Sofn July 2, 1894.
 Those who never read the advertise ments i'll their newspapers miss more than they presume. Jonathan Kenison, of Bolan, Worth county, Iowa, who had been troubled with rheumatism in his back, arms and shoulders, read an item in his paper about how promi- nent German citizen of Fort Madison had been cured. He procured the same medicine, and to use his own words: It cured me right up." He also says: "A neighbor and his wife were both sick in bed with rheumatism. Their boy was over to my house and said they I told him of Chamberlain's Pain Balm and how it had cured me, he got a bottle and it cured them up in week" Fifty-cent bottles for sale by Winthrop < Co.,, druggists.
 The Uncle Toms Cabin Co.," ap- peared at the opera house last night Go one of the largest audiences we have seen there this season, although that is not to say crowded house. The per- formance was very good, though one of the principal characters-the mule was barred, we presume on account of l ofa offensive in the performance, though many persons remained away on ac- count of prejudice and bOrrOr. Some of the scenes were quite touching. and others most ludicrous. The play has been criticised 80 often that we do not feel that we could add anything which would turn on more light" The company is a good one, consisting of twelve people. Their band concert was heartily enjoyed.
 Some time in September Mrs. Hatch or aud Miss Hattie Moseley offered prizes to the pupils in their respective rooms for the sgreatest improvement in chirography. On Thursday evening ! of last week the copybooks were sub- mitted to R. q. Bradfald and Squire Boyle, who, after careful examina- tiOn, recommended that the prizes be awarded to the owners of ''J" in Mrs. Hatcher's room and book "P" in Miss Moseley's room. The books were desig- mated by letters, and the judges were entirely ignorant of the pnpil to whom they belonged. Martha Hatcher was the winner in Miss Moseley's room, while Eula Rolls bore off the prize Tn Mrs. Hatcher's room. These prizes consist of handsome gold pins. For good les sons and good behavior, medals were awarded to Mary Lancaster. Olive