The Van Buren press., 1897-08-21


week.
The report comes from Muskogee
that Grant SWEET has been released
from custody, J. d. Knowlton having
decided not to appear against him.
Mr.. Knowlton becomes receiver of the
Standard Cigar company until he is re-
imbursed for money invested in it.
1.-The Browns Won. was the head
ing, and then followed six lines, that
was all the Fort Smith Times Democrat
had to say of Wednesday s ball game.
Had Fort Smith won it would have
taken a half column of the valuable
space of our contemporary to do its
Growing in.
The Fort Smith school board has
decided to dedicate the new High School
building Thursday, September 9, with
solemn civic ceremonies. United
States Senators Jones and Berry will be
invited to deliver an address, as also
will Gov Jones and other distinguished
Arka1sans.
The new sidewalk in front of the old
Valley House will prove a wonderful
improvement to that portion of the
street, especially during the wet season.
There is only small space-between
the hotel building and Shibley &
Wood s-that now needs attention ON
that side of the street.
A young man named Ferrier, whose
home is in Dardanelle, dislocated his
neck while diving from boat in
shallow water in the Arkansas river at
Fort Smith Tuesday and the doctors
connected with st. Johns hospital
made an x ray photograph to see if the
vertebre had been correctly adjusted
At the prices which peaches-and
they of a superior quality-have been
selling this year it appears to US it
would have been profitable to have
operated the canning factory and
preserved the surplus crop. Good
peaches were selling over town during
the past week at 15c per bushel.
The Frisco railroad is at work closing
the gap between Bolivar and Osceola,
Mo. The building of this section of
road to connect Bolivar with the Kansas
City, Osceola & Southern gives the
Frisco entrance into Kansas City over
its own tracks, and makes the Frisco a
competing line for the Kansas City
traffic.
The first bale of cotton for this section
was received at Fort Smith Tuesday.
This is considerable later than the first
bale received last year. 1t was raised
in the Indian Territory and sold for 9
cents pound with premium of zee
on the bale offered by the business men
which brought it up to 1917 cents a
pound.
The United States Railway and Ex-
pressmen Association is the title of an
association that was incorporated under
the state laws last week. 1t is pat
termed after the Expressmen 8 Invest.
ment Association whose farm is near
Van Buren,. The new society has pur
chased a 800 acre tract of land near
Fort Smith for truck farming.
The state league of baseball clubs is a
thing of the past Texarkana and Fort
Smith were dropped because their teams
proved not to be drawing cards away
from home. Numerous games between
home teams may now be looked for
/ Fort Smith has park and Van Buren, a
good amateur team. We can guarant ee
that games between home teams will
prove drawing cards
Argus Hook Il Ladder company held
meeting Thursday night and elected
the following officers: w. J. Martin,
foreman; Alvin Nicodemus, assistant
foreman Roy Campbell, secretary,
and L. H. Southmayd, treasurer. The
following new members were enrolled
Roy Campbell, John Brooks, T. w.
Edmondson and A. w. Sewers. 1t
was decided to participate in the parade
next Wednesday afternoon.
County superintendent Neal has
mailed the following circular to all
the school boards in the county and
it will no doubt trouble some of the
teachers who failed to attend the county
normal this year: "A word concern
ing teachers who did not attend the
normal The law requires every
teacher to attend under penalty of
revocation of his license, unless he is
excused. / mention this because few
teachers who did not attend. under
stand, have contracted to teach. The
county treasurer will not pay warrants
held by such teachers. Every teacher
holds certificate of attendance showing
his standing If it shows rs per cent.
or more of full attendance he is
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