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INDIA RUBBER.
Tsats by Which the Quality Of aba Ms
 teriaI May Ise EstahlIahaa.


 Some few years ago LieHtenAnt yls. dimiroff of the Russian navy made sss ries Of experiments to establish the tat. ing Of rubber goods on a sound and sA4> isfactory basis, the following being ths main conclusions at which he arrived. 1t will bc seen that the tests advocated are physical ones, as he came to ths cen. clUsion that chemical testing gave Rs reliable results.
 First.-lndia rubber should not eiva the slightest sign of superficial cracks on being bent to an angle of is0 ae. grees after five hours exposure in e closed air bath to temperature of I9J degrees C. The test pieces should ls about centimeters thick.
 Second Rubber containing not 1uars than 50 per cent by weight of metallic oxides should stretch to five times its length without breaking.
 Third.-Pure caoutchouc free flalga all foreign matter, except the sulphur necessary for its vulcanization, sheaA stretch seven times it's length without breaking
 Fourth - The extension measured immediately after rupture should not exceed 13 per cent of the original length of the test piece The test pieces shpale be from to 13 millimeters wide, end not more than 6 millimeters thick and 3 centimeters long.
 Fifth. The percentage of ash gives Q certain indication of the degree of softness. and may form basis for the choice between different qualities fGE certain purposes.
 Any excesses of sulphur over that re- qaired for vulcanization should bs Ce- moved at the works, and should not ap pear on the surface of any object.
 Now, these tests on the whole ssana very well calculated to give useful ia4i. cation to engineers as to the quality Gs the goods they are buying, only we would interpolate here the remark thsa unless good price is paid for the Eah- Der it IS no use submitting is to sRcb physical tests as these. India rabb&g substitutes made from oil and ''rscovsV. cd dfubbers that is, old rubber worked up again with Oil-have nothing like tAs elasticity appertaining to new. souua rubber, and they are quite incapable of standing the elongation or heat tests mentioned.--Engineering.
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Hn,s1lttaru snioihs

An extraordinary instance of heredi. eAFy tendency to saiCide was told by Professor Brouaroel in Paris lately. 1 farmer HeaT Etampes hanged himself without apparent csuse, leaving fam, ily of sevAh son and four daughters. Ten of the II subsequently, followed the fathers example, but not until they had @arFled and begotten children, all of whom likewise hanged themselves. The asly survivor is son, who is now Cjs years of age and has passed safely be- yoRa the family hanging age.
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Inopnortuns shnl,,o.

The troops were storming il tcm-ie O, a palace and O'Shaughnessy stoDDed Ueiore mirror and stood twirline bis mustaohe and admiring himself fbnTgb the bullets wero whistliug round him
 Bedad, Shaugb, hc said to him. Q man. ," '''-e 'sure or Crash came a bit of lead, which s.5 starred the said mirror into n thoasa, cracks quito obliteratiug sbap.6 . features. '-''-'"''a 5
 "Bedad, " said he ooollv. e,o sp lied a foine view that I had ef
 self. "-London Mail '''
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Medical Students.

The ratio of medical students to the population in this country is about twice as great as it is in Eatops. The TeasoR of this curious difference is found in the gFes teF ease with whieh a diploma csB he obtained in thS United States, rhe medical schools Of Europe requiring much more complete previous preparation and compelling ths staasatH !e undergo longer course of stAay Ss. tsrs he is eligible 10 dsSrss
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HE DID.

0 Yn eaAdy fer you, said Jack ct tha stsrS As he stole shy glance at the maid of his
 heart.
 He picked up the niblleh, ths braEsy and clssk, She srsspsd her pet driver, too busy Ia sBsAk- Her club. soon she s0led it, hazard within, And sat on B bunker o'ercems with ehheriu. 4Rew are yopf' cried huRat1s- fiEour down.
 ehs replied 9NeVes naind. said vhispSr. "Rin ygu he
 my bFidef" 'Twas Jack who had spoken. "Thy, yssl" an-
 awered shs. sf'1 marry you, Jack, if you'll caddy for me" ]"
 Harvey Rickham in New York San.
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Inc aIlnister,. nris.a1...-

In a rural parish in the Neag,.. a.. ApeFaeen divine, who bau dr.ven 544r n..g in hired vehicle, occupied the nir4
 Vniy one person attended saryjta s..s Ine minister apologized for the lar7fl
 S: Si DIS discourse. His audience sigDified ms approval of his preaching and tbo minister minister continued Guess his copster- nation l: when he discovered his audjenao consisted consisted of his driver, who had bee3 patch. '0uisa Dis
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HER ACCOUNT DOGl0ReU.
This Girl Krpt an Expense Book and Lost
 a Husband.

Husband.
 There ! | North Side girl who has q laudab}e ambition ta kHow just where her money goes. She has tried two or three times 10 keep mental mack of her Expenditures. but gbis always proved unsatisfactory. Al last she decided that she must keep an exact and minute ac- count of everything she spent She got herself small b0oH with rulings and margins and q pliable cover and set to work in earnest sho put down reli- siously everything she spent, the exact amount. the article and che date She never allowed the slightest matter ta Qa till there was a chance of her forget, ting it. ! hen she made any purchases down tos =he HeaH uye1 fhe Izst earq- fully in t.ts ear on haF Was home and put tbe amounts m the outside aH 8 package In this way she succeeded in keeping very satisfactory record of her expenditures.
 There w0s only up drawback. She was forever leaving the book araau- uI caurse there arc a great many people Who are oulr fec glad t1 read su-d things The servant W0nld see ii. T4e man who came 70 tmo tho piano miaht easily have d5nejt if he liked, and She did not lnoW whether he had ocp5f \ ueighlor had once picked ii mp m ths lawn in front of the house and brought If ns but what was Wurse than all tine rest was tho fact that a couple of girl friends pefused ii one day. There were some things which. she had talked a good dead aboUt that she got for down right bargains In fact. after this cata. t}ephe everything OH her record seemed to be fhamef0llF cheap. However. she was unwilling to give up the bo8kkeeD. ing, and If she didn't carry Il notebook around with her she would certainly forget something, so she bethoughr her. self ot another eXpedieut She deterlniu- cd for the purpose of mysti6cation to multiply everything she put down by ten-that is, to add Il cipher to each en- try. In this way she could always tclI that every item really cost one.tenth of what appeared on the book. After this she didn't care who saw it.
 There Is lot at the side of her fa. ther house and q rustic seat. One dav she left the book on this scat In tbe evening the young man wh6 had about concluded to ask her hand in marriage came along. Henoticed the book, picked It up and looked through it carelessly. He was amazed. She had always claim. ed to be such il prudent girl, and he had believed she was. Stil there he sa1r.
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Too Menk to rIold IL.

Charles ncle, I want you to try this limburGcr It was imported all the way from ermany, each pound care. fully wrapped in tinfoil
 Uncle JosE >-Gosh Air you spre they didn' t have to do it up in b'iler iron?-- Indianapolis Journal
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Her Sphere.

'PFofasso@ " sah Miss slyliRht. q want you to suggest a course in life fo1 me. l have thought of jou1nalism''-
 What are your natural inclinations?''
 "Oh, my soul yearns and throbs and palsates with an ambition to give the world life work that shall be marvel. ous in its scope and weirdly entrancino tn the yastness of its structural beauty :,
 Woman, you're born to be q lnilli Fer. ''-London Fun
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The trial of Ghas. Jones. for ob- taininR money under false pretenses, Is occupying the attention of Justice Iiven's court this morning. Jones Is the man who was collecting tags from children at the fair and selling them on the outside of the gate. The case Is stIll in progress tais alter paar
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An excursion coach of Little Rock hnsine~s men, euroute to Stuttgart, delayed the A,theimer braach one hour this mnrninR The party Is go- ing ia Stuttgart In the interest of a railroad to be built from Stuttgart north
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On account of yellow fever, Miss Eusenla JameN has left her school at Memphis and ia now at Southeried Hotel, St. Louis. She will remain there until cold weather has extermi- mated th fever In the South.
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In many parts of Central and South America sensitive plants arc SO numer. ous that the course of 8 man or animal through tks undergrowlh may for an hour be traced by the wilted appearance of the foliage.
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The Police Department will give a grand ball on November S0th for the purpose of raising funds with which to purchase patrol wagon for the city This Is very laudable enter p ise and should receive the encour- agemeni and patronage al all our citisens.
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4 flne address was given at the Institute by Rev A. o Evans and a large number of men were present tO enjoy if. The next address of the series will be delivered next Sunday by the Rev. c. F. J, Tate. pastor oi the Baptist Church Hlssubject will be. "The Dollar Trap" All men are Invited.
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There is q species of pine tree which grows in California and is known as the giant pine which is the largest of the pine genus. often rising to & height of 200 feet, with trunk 70 to 80 feet in girth.
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Two ladies driving along the Bathurst (N, s. WI road recently overlook 8 s1all boy trudging wearily along Ga bare feet When given lift. " it was fonnd he had walked from Lawson to the valley ca milesl to bay loaf of bread, which wns a penny cheaper there, Twenty .four miles to save . pea. Ayi
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The territory composing Western ARs,
 Ialla, according to the latest eompatA- tloa, covers nearly 1000, 600 square miles and constitutes about one-thiud of the Australian continent The arsa o6 thls single colony is larger than thst af eishJ leading countries in Europe coua'
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Miss Sarah Well, daughter of Alderman Well, will give debut party at the Bluff City Hall next Thursday evening.
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Nr. M. H Benson is receiving the conRratuIRtI ms of his friends upon his discharge tr, m the charge of petit larceny. The charge wss a frivolous one fron the beginning. and hsd no place in court.
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Dr. Holderneoe passed through the city today enroute home to F0rdyce from Beebe, where he has been in attendance upon his little grand son.
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Four tramps who came into the city on freight trains and over the dirt roads, were run out of town this morning because they had no heGlth certificates. Hereafter the dirt roads and railroad crossinKs will be guarded by quarantine ohi- eerH,
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A sea captain has found thatthe saits of ship when filled with na1ab@T ot small holes bear it along more rapidly than when they are perfectly whoIA lie says that an ordinary sail csan0t receive tue full force of the wind, owing 10 the bulk of stationary air thas 6lls op the hollow of the concave canvas.
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Scot of RemarhAh,. ra.ter,.

As tasters tho sect of Jains, in India. are lar ahead of all rivaIR Fasts cf rom 30 to 40 days are very common, s qua once year they are said to ahssais from food for 75 days
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The young people enjoyed a de- liRhtful german at the Bluff City Club hall last night. Full proceed ings wj.l be given In our society column sunday,
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Miss Ida J. Hunter and sir. Gray Atkinson are expected in today from Star City to be present at thc Cole. maa-Atkinson wedding.
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The dance and supper at the With CTS building last night, given under the auspices of St. JoSeph's Catholic Church, was both & social ana flnan. clal success.
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The Young Mems Heb ew Ass ocia. ton will hold their drst meeting at cir elegantly furnished rooms on sd Ave, next Sunday.
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The case against Wolf Notchols in Justice EIven's court, charged with bribery, was dismissed on tn. sug- goatlon of the prosecuting attorney
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Mr. H. Coleman, of Dewitt, q brother of Mir. ". T. Coleman, will arrive this nftetnOon to attend the COloman-AtkInson wedding which takes place tonight.
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CIR. Mcswlne and wife left sester- day for San Antonio, Texas, where the former hopes to recuperate his health Gasette.
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Messrs Frank Gray and Harry Lawrence, of Fordyce. are registered at the Arlington.
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@oR0FUGA In It's wOrst form ~ yields to the blood cleansing power of Aecd's Ssrsaparills. Thousands of easss have eeea perfectly CURED.
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Dame Rumor ia whispering that a Second avenue young business mBn will soon wed fair maiden who lives on Second avenue
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At the home of Mir. and Mrs. Geo. Lindsay on Lakeside next Friday night, there will be q pleasant party given in antIeIpatIon of nalloweeb.
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The gas lights on Wsst Fifth avenue are now lighted at nights. We understand ths arrangewent K X temporary one
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Train No. } on the Cotton Belt. due from the south, Is reported seven hours late. The Althelmer branch train was one hour late.
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Notwithstanding the low price. cotton continues tO come to this mar ct In large quantities..
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The Coleman-AtkmsOn nuptt occur at t'e Firat PresbA ,etinn Ghurch tonight at 9 n'clnck nhArL
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The case against Sam Franklin, in the Police Court this morning for committing nuisance, was con. tinued till o'clock this afternoon.
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Messrs ] F Ouattlebaum. ? N. vauginc and Dr 4 R SherrIll, of Sherrill, were visitors today.
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Only two cases before tho Police Court this morning. Both were for drunkenness and the fine was SS In each case.
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Mr. ". E. Rupe. of Lincoln ountl hns accepted poEiti ln with H. ralbnt & q.
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The people of the United States reod gnu sl support as many newgpapers '',,, as England, France and c3e,,n papers pup aS bined. many eom-
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Mir. c. " Pettlgrew returned veg terday from TN Ter. Texas, where he had beet al ing position In the office of the Cotton Bolt.
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Iie was getting @ fairly good salary. but ho felt wholly unequal to the fasl; or supporting girl with tastes like that In order to put himself out of any possibility of such q thing he married soon afterward a girl on the West Side Tribnne. lllIV,l5o
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Mir. Ed Rosenberg has q very prct- ty display of papetries and Sane, stationery In his show window on Second avenue.
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Mr. C. T. Coleman csTae down from Little Rock to be present at the Coleman Atkinson nuptials to- night
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Mr. J. T. RouRers has returned from an Otfictal visit tu Craighrad county.
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Nr. Andrew Nunn came up from RIves yesterday afternoon and will return tomorrow
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ea A , Californian ,,o,,i claims to have ;nvsn4. iors I~ new machine which lann5or. ersens' sal sdge l0u' producing saw
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Mrs. j. s. Mcdonnell Is expected home tomorrow from Denver, Col i, where she has been spending the sumner.
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>rr. Edxn Alt ietcrsoH, "i Jonerhoro, ir YistClnR her parents, Mir. and Mrs N. I. Hilhard.
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Niss Edna Tucker return wrdDenday to her home at Tucker after visit tu 'riend- in this eft.
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The steamer York, from Galveston Tex, to Bremen, had one.third of hes sergo burned
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ur A NJ. Barrow laa visitor to the city today
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Mr. E. 4. Bntler. nt N,nv Gascnu5 Is visitor te the citS.
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are Q oia,myn,s for cA,srrh
 nnn.ain M.tcnrr

N"niSin Metcury.
 as mercury will surely destroy tho sense 01 smell and completely deI Suge the whole sYs- tenn ~hen entering 1t throuah the mucous surfacef. Such artic es should never be used except on prescriptions from reputable phy- sicians, as tho damage they will do is ton foAd to the good you can possibly derive from them. Hall's Catarrh Cure, manufactured by F. j. Cheney k Co.,, Toledo. O.. contains nc mercury, and Is taken internally, acting directly upon the bloom and mucous surfaces of the system In buying Halls cattart cure be sure you get the genuine. It Is taken internally, aud na ade in Toledo, O., by r. ] Chen A Co Testimonials frs.
 Sold by druggists. 76c per bottle.
 Hail's Family Pills are the best.
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Mir. W. C Lee. of Yorktown. is q visitor to the city today.
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Mr ]. " Cra wf0rd is quail hunt ing today.
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Mr. s N. ourtHey. of Winchester Is registered at the Trnlock
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Good Advice to Follow.

Somebody gives the following anti thetieGt advice; Drink less, breathe more; eat less, chew more; ride less, walk morei clothe less, bathe more; Worry less, work more; waste less, give s'ore; Write less, read more; preach less. practice more. l"
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R. nl4t rtaAer Heeti1n i Lskr. side church tonight
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From Wednesdays Daily }

Mir Ab Knox hae returned from New Mexico
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Mir jess, Core, of Plum Bay ou, is in the city today.
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MT. George F Burchsrd, of Little Rock, is calling on the trade today.
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Mir Edgar Brewster has returned from business trip to Little R''ck.
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Jeff HIcks left this afternoon for Texas
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ur. John Nj Oracle came down from Little Rock this morning,
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Nr. N ( Day's. ot Red6eld, is q visitor today.
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The pay car on the cotton Belt ar rived yesterday.
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Nr l.. M DaIy. of Eng ish, WAS D Pi"e Bluff visitor Thursday.
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N ,rn N q S rrptt aHvt turn eng nv visIs t0 | Iormec'e parents In rhru' county
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apt Jack Horn, of St. Lcuis, is ealing on the trAde today.
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Mir W D Brad uf Shreveport, K visiting his family.
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r. k, Adams, "f Malvern, ia a Piue Bluff visitor today.
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Ar ". J. Shelby. of Wabbaseka, ia pgisterpd af the Arlington.
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Nr. K L. Elliott, of Wabbaseka, Is registered at the Arlington.
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In total population of a little ovsr 9'0o0, 900 Switzerland now has over i'OQO, 600 depositors in savings bank& With an average for each family af ea7S n cash deposits
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Mir L. Andrews, of Helena. Is greet ing Pine Bluff friends today.
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E b Jackson hAH returned trOa shrt vrport, where he had bee wttl his brother fnr the psst f.w wFek-
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Mir. ". H. Gibhens. representing the St. Louis Post Dispatch, Is il. the city.
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apt l. l. Hunter Hnd Hr. c. [ Atkinson. af Star City. arr visitor ID the cit, today
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Mir L. Nj ouattlebaum, of Rot Roy, is in the city.
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Hon Charles ottin. of WalnuI RltRp. tx waiting his slster. Mrs. 2 Ort0
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From Thursday's Daily

Mir W D Brad ,uf Shreveport, is visiting his family.
 ----- apt Jack Horn, of St Lcuis, is e1s''ing z on the trade today. r. k, Adams, nf Malvern, is a Pine Bluff visitor today. dr. John M Oracle came down from Little Rock this morning.
 =--------~----- ur LA Daly. of Enx ish, WAS Q pi"e Bluff visitor Thursday. --------------------------- Nr. K L Elliott, of Wahbaseka, Is registered at the Arlington. Ar W j Shelby, of Wabbaseka, ia pgistered at the Arlington. Mir. L. Andrews, of Helena, Is greet ing Pine Bluff friends today
 ------~----z-----~ Mir L. Nj ouattlebaum, of Rob Roy, is in the city.
 
 Mir. ". H. Gibhens. representing the st. Louis Post Dispatch, Is h. the city.
 ----------- Hon Charles 1ottin, of Waln;d RltRp. ia visiting his slster. Mrs. 2. Orto
 ---------- apt I. l. Hunter And hr. C. ktklusoa. If Star City. arr visitor ID the elf, today
 -------------g-- E u Jackson haH returned trOa ~hrt vrport. where he had bce wtth his brother fnr the pasr few wFeke ren Nj q S r,ptt a4vt turn eng nv visIf to F formers parents in hIco' county Niss Edna Fucker return, wrdperday to her home at Tucker, after visit iu friends in this oIt' The Coleman-Atkmson nuptt l occur at t,e Flrnt PrpsbA ,eflnn