The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1897-02-20

c. B. Fontaine returned Saturday
from Kansas, where he had been for
some weeks in the interest of the Union
Central Life Insurance company.
Leave your orders for strawberry
tickets at this office. We guarantee
the quality of our tickets equal to those
of any turned out in the city or state.
Secretary of State Hull has our thanks
for copy of the biennial report of the
secretary of state S office, compiled by
his predecessor, Hon. H. B. Armistead.
Miss liberia Daniels returned Mon
day from visit of several months
duration in Ohio Miss Daniels return
is hailed with delight by her many
friends.
Arthur Merrill has been confined to
his room the past week with an attack
of pneumonia, but is now rapidly
recovering and will be out again in a
few days.
Edmondson & Britt will shortly put
on the street new delivery wagon
especially for bread to handle the in
creasing demand for the product of
their oven.
A minstrel performance, copied after
the one given by the ladies composing
the Columbian Club of this city two
years ago, is being arranged by the
ladies of Fort Smith.
Sharpley s company has been receiv-
ing very fair patronage during their
stay and they certainly deserve good
houses. Tonight is their last appear
ance. Don t fail to go.
During the past five years l have suffered
intensely with female weakness: l was advised
to take Hoods Sarsaparilla and am now on my
sixth bottle am feeling better and stronger
than | have felt tor five years-Mrs, William
Hall, Jenny Lind, Ark
Hoods Pills cure all liver ills.
New potatoes of the Bliss variety
were the attraction at Edmondson &,
Britt s store Thursday They were
raised in the county having been
planted early in the winter.
Mr.. W. H. H. SHIRLEY attended the
commercial convention at Little Rock
this week, going down Tuesday. None
of the other delegates appointed by
Mayor Smith were able to attend.
Mayor Pollard, Col. Hugh F.
Reagan, Col. Jones and Judge Hill, of
Fayetteville, were in the city a few
hours Tuesday en- route to the com
mercial convention at Little Rock.
j. L. Rea is engineering the organ
ization of Mo. Pacific employees into a
fruit raising organization, similar to
the Expressmen s Association, which
has an extensive farm near Van Buren,.
DR.. Steel, Of Nashville, Tenn. ;,
lectured two successive nights at the
Methodist church this week and those
who had the pleasure of hearing him
speak of his lectures in the highest
terms.
A special train of ten Pullman s
passed through Van Buren, over the
Frisco Sunday, carrying the Northern
and Eastern delegates of the National
Editorial Association, bound for
Galveston.
The street commissioner has been
doing some filling on lower Main street.
Now if the sidewalks could only be cut
down to grade it would make that end
of the main thoroughfare fit for
pedestrians.
Sharpley's Lyceum Theater company
carry with them the best band and
orchestra of any troupe that has been
here in year. The music discoursed
by the orchestra is worth the price of
admission alone.
A meeting was called for Thursday
night for the purpose of electing officers
for the Argus Hook and Ladder
company, but as there was no quorum
present the election was deferred till