The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1896-05-30

The bicycle craze has struck the fair
sex OF this city.
Charley Roberts, son of the late R
! 5. Roberts, is home again.
Col. Clarkson of Omaha. Neb. was
IN the city Thursday, guest of Mrs. G.
u. Scott. The Colonel was on his wav
to Fayetteville.
The Grand River bridge was again
made unsafe for crossing by the rains of
Thursday. GranANRiver was booming
Friday morning w
Drs. Bourland and Quarles and Mr..
Ed b. PIERCE are now located in the
handsome office rooms over Kerr 8
Horse Shoe Drug Store.
Will Peirce arrived home from a siv
months stay at Atlanta, Ga, week
ago yesterday, He expects to return to
Atlanta after short stay.
Mrs. DR. Blackburn, Of Fayetteville.
who has been visiting her sister Mrs,
Jesse Wood, for two weeks past
returned home first of the week.
The 4Old Reliable Merrill Bros is
the place to get your meats, salt and
fresh, fish, chickens, etc. Deliveries
prompt Ring up by telephone.
The irrepressible Sam Edmondson,
OF Fort Smith, was over last Wednesday
to shake hands with his many friends
IN the best town in Western Arkansas.
Among the attendants at the
Missionary Mass Meeting in Van Buren,
this week was our former townsman.
W. A. Dyer, who is now located at
Sloan Springs.
Mr.. f. E. Cooper returned from st.
Louis Wednesday, He left his wife
comfortably fixed and very much better
ana we hope to see her soon returned
well to her home.
By order of Gov. Clarke Sheriff Wood
Monday destroyed by fire the house on
the Stevenson farm occupied by the
small pox patient. The Sheriff made
satisfactory payment for the same
Henry Britt brother writes him an
interesting letter and description of the
devastation by the cyclone at Sherman,
Texas, recently. No one can imagine
the distress oecasioned by such sudden
disasters.
The PRESS acknowledges pleasant
call Wednesday from one of its Oldest
subscribers, Dr. j. S. Bushong, of
MOUNTAINEERING. The Doctor has been
an almost constant subscriber to the
PRESS since its first issue, more than
thirty seven years ago.
Engine 372 was brought up Monday
night from the Barring Cross shops to
take the place of Engine 627 on the run
to Coifeyyille, Kansas, the latter going
to the shop for eyerhauling after steady
service for several months past.
The dry goods and millinery
merchants of Van Buren, have agreed to
close their respective houses of business
every day at Z o clock P. NJ. Saturdays
and paydays of the Missouri Pacific
excepted, from June 1st to September
10, 1896.
The Greenwood Terror was a
trifile late last Tuesday, but Conductor
Harvest, the popular and Engineer
McCollum, the ''old reliable, got her
in safely. With such efficient men at
the helm, it is an impossibility for an
accident to happen under ordinary
circumstances.
Advices from all the country tributary
to Van Buren, indicate that the crop
prospect was never more promising,
and, barring unforeseen mishaps, this
bountiful harvests, and cause the
farmers to rejoice in well filled cribs,
granaries, and potato cellars.
Miss Fannie Scott being compelled to
decline an invitation of the Daughters
of the Confederacy of Benton and
Washington counties to visit them, she
suggests that reunion of the Daughters
of the Confederacy of Northwest
Arkansas be held at Van Buren, in
September next, or any other con
venient time that may be suggested.
George Titles, State general agent of
the Provident Savings Life Assurance
Society, has resigned that position to
accept the responsible and important
functions of general manager of the
Equitable Life Assurance Society at st.
Louis, succeeding Mr.. Harry Way, who
resigned. Mr.. Titles, In his new field
of labor, will have charge of a large
territory, including Arkansas.
The fruit growers of this county are
an enterprising class of citizens, but
they should be on guard lest they fall
into the gross error so prevalent in times
mast among our farmers, and that IS,
the lone crop idea. Many a good
farmer was financially wrecked by
planting cotton ONLY and buying corn
and meat to feed his stock and family.
Men can be 'swamped' by planting
one kind of fruit alone. Diversity your
fruit crop as we'll as other products OF
of the farm.
Engines 372 and 37s, now in service
in pulling passenger trains between TINS
CITY and Coffeyville, Kan, over the Il,
& A. v, take the place of the engines
long on the same run. The reason for
the change is that the engines hereto
fore used were not of sufficient power
to satisfactorily perform the service
reouired and were replaced by those
mentioned. which have cylinders one
inch larger than the others. The
Missouri Pacific people are always on
fine oui viye to render the best possible
service for the patrons OF the ROAD IN