The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1896-12-19

toefeeo ore, bftefiY, Ct6Fet or
Detatoare-one gallon or more at
800 per gallon; jugs 10cts per
gallon. riders may be sent
through the mail or left wtth
! EdH1oRdson =. Britt.
YOU WILL WANT THEM:
Oysters,
Cranberries,
Candies.
Fancy Groceries of all kinds.
WE HAVE GOT THEM
AT prices within
reach of all
Buy your Holiday
Groceries at
J e Jarvis THE STAR GROCERY.
1t seems somewhat strange that so
few of our bicyclists are taking
advantage of this almost ideal weather
for riding.
/ Writing Sets from the cheapest to the
best No other place in town handles
them in such variety as the Van
Buren, Book Store.
Fidelity Chapter O. E. s. elected
officers last night, too late, however,
for us to get the names of the newly
elected officers.
Mrs. U. G. Dunn returned to her
home at Fort Smith Sunday. after a
short visit to her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
| w. H. Fl. Shibley
Nut Sets, Manicure Sets, Odor Sets,
| Picture Frames, Mirrors and thousand
other nice things for Christmas at
JOHNSON DRUG STORE.
Mr.. Mons Comstock was down from
Uniontown Monday to replenish his
stock of groceries at the wholesale
house of SHIRLEY & Wood.
Mr.. Jno. D. White left Tuesday for
Denton, Texas, where he will spend the
holidays and portion of the winter as
guest of Mr. Chas. Donahower.
Those fancy baskets of Fine Candies
are the most suitable thing to give to
your best girl. Geo. Miller is the one
who keeps them for sale.
Although the weather would appear
to be almost ideal for fishing our
piscatorially inclined citizens report
very poor luck with rod and line.
Messrs. T. E. Bradley and J. D.
Knowlton went up to Muscogee Tuesday
with view to selecting building into
which to move their cigar factory
Just opened the largest stock of use
full and fancy Holiday Goods at the
Van Buren, Book Store. Don purchase
until YOU have examined our stock.
The Boston Store has had very
tasty Christmas display in its south
window this week. 1t was the pro
duction of the artistic genius of Mr.. Ed
Mclean.
No Christmas is complete without
candies and fruits, and there is no place
in town where a finer assortment is kept
than at Geo. Miller S.
J. P. Grady, at one time a resident
and sheriff of Crawford county is an
applicant for the U. S. marshalship of
the central district of the Indian
Territory.
A letter received in this city from A.
l.. Bing states that he is sergeant OF
Co. K. First Colorado Regiment and
stationed at Leadville, where strike is
in progress.
We have always carried over less
Holiday Goods than our competitors,
simply because we sell them Cheaper.
JNo. O'KANE s DRUG STORE.
If the picture in Sundays Post
Dispatch resembles Teddy Hale face
in any particular, the sooner he does
something for it the better, for it must
hurt him awfully.
Rev. S. L. Coward, of the East End
Mission, has been circulating paper
this week to raise money with which to
build parsonage. He is meeting with
encouraging success.
Why worry about baking fruit and
other cakes when you can buy them
from Geo Miller for less than they
would cost you to bake yourself.
The mammoth hog is now filling the
columns of our exchanges. Can t
some of our readers come to our rescue
with Il porker of say one or two
thousand pounds weight. Crawford
should not be outdOne.
DR.. J. F. Cope, formerly citizen of
Van Buren,, has, we learn from the
Fort Smith Times Democrat, accepted
position as travelling salesman with
the Van Vleet Drug Co., at Memphis.
Those Hairpin Fountain Pens are the
thing for a Christmas present, They
are both useful and ornamental. Elk
clusively at the Van Buren, Book Store.
The awning in front Of the Bowlin
Block has been raised to correspond
with that of the Smith Block and makes
the storerooms of Messrs. Kerwin and
Sewer and Mr.. Bryan s Office much
lighter.
Books for the children; books for
grown people, books for everybody,
make the best Christmas presents. The
Van Buren, Book Store is THE place to
get them.
Col. O. L. Miles has been in st.
Louis for ten days arguing the Long
Bell cases before the U. S. circuit court
to which the company appealed them
from the verdict in the U. S. court at
Fort Smith.
Fruit Cakes for the holidays
guaranteed to suit the most fastidious