The Van Buren press., 1894-03-10
Mr.. AL. Reynolds is reported much

Atu.l0Hs VI rHy oetoVlll0, ulou W6u-
aesday night.
Mrs. w. II. Wallace spent few days
IN Greenwood this week, as guest Of
Mrs. }. s. Wood.
Miss Rena Harrytlett Monday last,
for Van Buren,, Ark, to attend school.
--Wagoner Record.
Mrs. Geo. Austin and Miss Lizzie
Clegg spent several days this week
visiting friends at Fit. smith.
What have:.we done that we should
be SO uthlessIy dropped from the ex.
list of the TT. Smith Times?
We acknowledge pleasant call
Thursday from Mr.. Hugh Dodson,
editor of the TT. Smith Times.
Mesdames VIII Denton and Will
Barnes are visiting relatives and
friends in ~. Louis They will be-
absent two weeks.
The M. E. Church South will not be
open Tomorrow. The new chairs have
been received and will be putin place
as soon rs the painting is finished.
Capt. Black, of the Border City Ice
Co., was In the city Saturday trying
to make arrangements with the Water
Co., for supplying the factory with
water for running during the coming
season.
At q recent meeting Of the Arkansas
horticultural Society In the city of
Little Rock the following officers were
elected: Prof. w. s. Thomas, presi-
dent; w. X. Upton, secretary; John
Karr, corresponding secretary.
An effort is being made to organize
State base ball league. Will Van
Burer join An association of this kind ?
Venture.
Ofcourse she will, and make things
hum besides
Burrow Fleming, grandson OF Mrs.
N. r. BurrOw, formerly of Van Buren,,
but now of Pierce City, Mo-, has our
! thanks for generous piece of birthday
cake. This was his sixth birthday
and he has our best wishes for the
future.
Two more attorneys have hung out
their shingles at Mulirow-J. w.
Bald win and H. L. Rogers Muldrow
Register.
So the festive ]. w. has dropped the
bible and taken up Blackstone.
Mcfarland & Rogers have opened a
pant shop next door to the Baptist
Church and are now prepared to
| act v,,r IN, r. ~, LII
They are first-cass workmen and we
can recommend them 10 those wanting
painting, etc. done.
The Arkansas game law makes 1t
unlawful to kill, catch or take buck,
doe or fawn from February LIST to Au-
gust lat; wild turkey, from May LIST to
Sept. LIST; quail from March lst to
October lst, prairie chicken. unlawful
to XII !. catch, take or injure, until after
five years from March "a, 1893.
F. McKibben, an extensive capt.
to ist Of Van Buren, was In the city
this week making arrang sments for
pasture, and will bring lot of cattle
here this spring. Mr. McKibben Is all
enterprising man, chuck full Of blsi-
ness, and we are glad to see him be.
come identified with this country
Wagner Record.
Mr.. D. w. Moore has sod the stock
and fixtures or his store (The Farmers
Store) to a. G. Gooding and others,
and the business will be continued at
the old stand under the firm name of
A. G. Gooding & Co. We are sorry to
lose Gen. Moore from the commercial
field, but wish the new firm abundant
success.
A Kansas editor says that when the
merchants of his town want u little
advertising or job work done they 70
around and solicit bids for the same,
and the lowest bidder gets the work.
The editor IL now ready to receive
sealed bids for sack of flour, q pair
of pants, hat, cord of wood and the
pull z of an aching tooth also for q
pair Of brogans, for his six-mouths-
old baby.
w. A. Mahara's mammoth colored
Ministries appeared at the opera house
Saturday night to IN overlooking
house and they certainly gave a spleil-
did entertainment which was all good,
and If all shows that come here gave
US good satisfaction there would be
no cause tn complain of tue patronage
Of Portage amusement lovers.--Portage
Gazette.
At Murta Opera House next Mon
day night.
DIED-Atat his residence near Drip
ping Springs, Ark, at IL as D. M.
March 2. 1894, William M. Turner.
Mr.. Turner was born April Is, 1918, In
Tennessee He moved to Arkansas In
1850, and since that time has resided
in era wford county. He has been q
consistent member Of the Cumberland
Presbsterian church for the past forty
years. He was man of intellect, and
was beloved by all who knew him.
1t was wise Soloman who wrote
In Proverbs daughter Is medicine for
the heart" he was wiser physician
than he who dupes you with = cure
all-"three times day, we'll shaken
before taken" Some people imagine
they are sick when they only have the
paIitod or the dumps: all they want
Is a raising of tho visibles. 1t was q
cute down east doctor who wrote as q
prescription, "take one visit to w. A.
Mahara's mammoth colored MINISTRIES
aud repeat the dose until cured"
Opera House, March II.
Through the efforts of our enterprise
ing citizen, J. l.. Rea, Messrs. Elsword
and McCormac, representing the
"Adamant Manufacturing Company
of America" with headquarters at
Minneapolis, uinn., spent two days
in our city last week prospecting for