The Forrest City times., 1897-06-25
Ed Taylor was in Wheatly couple of days this week on business.

Mir. Dawson brought us cotton bloom No. 3, from the Horton place, east of town.
 The officers elect of Forrest City Lodge. No. lgS, A. F. x A. M., were duly installed last night.
 "S5 co fine for riding bicycles on the sidewalks" was cOnspicuously posted about town by Marshal Wolff, in the early part of the week.
 The season for oats has been above the average. and some very fine speci- mems have been observed. The faim- CTS who have planted are pleased with the results.
 The subject of the sermon at the Baptist church next Sunday morning will be "WtU is on the Lords Side!' All Christians are especially invited to be present. Every boJy is invited and will meet a hearty welcome.
 0. A. Ezell has rented lis business house on North Washington street to Mir. Will Kirk. of Memphis, who will occupy it next Tuesday. He is candy manufacturer. Mir. Ezell has moved his gunsmith establishment into the building at the rear of the Magnolia saloon.
 During the storm Of Tuesday even. ing. large barn on the b. NJ. Wilson place, north of Widener. blew down. Three families were living in it. hay ing spent the overflow period in the elevated structure. The building went down with a crash. but strange to say not an occupant received scratch. some chickens were killed and few farming tools broken. 1
 The exhibition of animated pictures produced for the first time in this city by Messrs. Durborow & Folbre, Mon- day and Tuesday nights, WAS fairly satisfactory. In fact would have been entirely so, but for some unavoidable delays. etc. occasioned by the new ness of things, and which will be easily overcome by the enterprising prOprie- tors. Rs they progress upon their route. The attendance was not so large. but what they lacked in numbers they made up in appreciation and attention. The cineOgraph casts it's pictures in animated life size nh CANVASS. and the effect is quite marvellous, and truly one of the wonders of this progressive age.
 A letter from our senior. dated at Nashville. June 23 states that he. or wha, is left of him. is in town: that there are O,OOO visitors in the city, and the ac'nmmOdatiOnsg g0Od-nit. Speak. ing of the old soldiers ke says: Ill is. indeed, a sad sight to one who SAW and fought with them thirty-six years ago. to look upon the ''old rebs'' so bowed down with age" Yet they are stall warts. and have enjoyed the reunion and exposition immensely. He says also that the exposition is flrst.class show. and that Vanity Fair" caught the Forrest City contingent, and they became separated and have not been able to meet again. He thinks he will return tomorrow.
 Peter CoyingtOn, respectable col. Ored man from Madison. was in the city this morning and related an act Of vrfy mean spirit on the part of Capt Spencer. of the Steamer Rosa. a small boat plying on the St. Francis. The county ferryboat at that place is propelled by the assistance of half inch wire spanning the river. In the steamers passage up the stream the wire was temporary obstruction, and the captain, in fit of rage, dolib- eratelv cut the cable, and even while Covlngton's boy was lowering it from the capstan on the bank. d fact of which the captain was aware. The steamer was in no danger and in one minutes time the rope would have b; en under water. While the capta may dodge behind the marine law to justify the act. there is a strong moral sentiment which condemns him.
 MT. B. B. Milan, from Shelby. Bo- ivar county, Mississippi is visiting relatives in the community and WAS in town yesterday. Interviewed bv reporter concerning the levee and it's malntainance in his county. he gave us some interesting points. He stated mat before the leyee became practi. Cal protection to the county. wild land could be bought for 50c. to So per acre. The same quality of land now is wo,th from SS to Sl0: that improved land is worth from S21 to $50 p0r acre. and that each bale of cottun is taxed S2 30 Tor the support of ,he levee, in add- ton to the advalorum tax Land rents Tn his locality at from 8 to SS Der acre, and l. in demand He remarked that the St. Francis basin folks were ignorant of what soft snap they have III the way of protecting their lands rom overflow; with only four rivers to levy against. while the lower coast has A dozen or more. That the four cent taX was mere moonshine to what they pay. He remarked that his valley would still have been in tue soup lswamp) had it not been for the levep: that he big Valley railroad, which brought thousands of people into the country and enhanced values would never have been thought of had it not