The Forrest City times., 1897-01-01
MADISON TIM s.

days in the City of Roses.
 Miss Pearl Crippsn, of Forrest City, is visiting the Misses Eppeo and Crippen thls week.
 John Fay Or, of Redwood, Miss, is in our town. He is stopping with his sister, Mrs. H. H. Divine.
 Our young friend. J. l.. Berry. has a recipe for making biscuit that Is said to br excellent. We did not know until recent ly that Bob was so well versed in tho cu- mary art.
 Hunter Crippen is suffering from an at- tack of sciatica, which has confined him to his bed for several days. He is resting better at this writing. We sincerely hope that he may have speedy recovery. Miss Belle North left Tuesday for Hagen the regret of her many friends. Miss Nina GLrley and Miss Lucy Eppe, are both confined to their rooms with La. Grippe.
 Mrs. R L. Berry is critically ill., but W. hope soon to hear of her convalesence.
 Dr. White has made several profession al calls at Madison thls week.
 Dr. ". II. Alley passed thrsugh oul town Monday, on professional visit ir the bottoms.
 A social entertainment at the hoslitablt home of Mr. and Mrs. Dave Thorn Mon North, was greatly enjoyed by all present Lee Murdock, aged nineteen years. dieC at the hotel last Sunday morning at 9:3t o'clock, after a protracted illness of five weeks. He was comparatively a stranger here, having resided here only few months. He was in the employ Of Wlee Ter X Co. up to the time of his sickness His close application to business soon woi the esteem and confidence of his employ CTS, and his department is worthy of imi tat.on. Although his suffering was in tense, he bore it almost unnurmuringly A4C OitCu CAPlCbeCu & uSsitC tO bC NHNltN to return home and see his parents once more, but an allwise Providence decreed that his spirit should return to Him who gave it. 1t is sad for one a'ar iron the parental roof 10 be stricken down among strangers and deprived of a mothers ten der care an l fathers caresses,in their last moments, bu. Leo fell in good hands. Toe much cannot be said in praise of Mrs Eppes, the landlaiy, for htrvigilant care of him. She did not spare any pains to have everything done fer him that would tend to ameiorate his sulferings. His re- mains were shipped 10 Hszen, Ky, for iIterment The family have the syinpa- tiny of the entire community in ths thet sad hour of bereavement.
 As it is only short time until the legis lature meets, we would like to impress 1t on the representative of this county that the people expect him to do all in his pow CT to help pass "a road law" It Is very unjust as it is now, and it his duty to try and give the class of people relief whQ have to keep up our public highways, and let taxation be equally divided. No doubt the wealthy will oppose this law. But. however, we would like 10 see a law pass ed whereby our public roads could be kept up by taxation. Let the county courts have power to levy such tax as a majority Of the qualified electors of their respective counties may vote as a public road tax. and we will have better roads, lands will increase in price. In other states that have road law, it has proven a success. and farms along the public highways have almost doubled in value. Wha. is the matter with grand old Arkansas3 Why not be in the procession. She to day is one of the grandest states in the Union, but we are far behind some of our sister states with our road system, and we hope that our representative will not let his energy lag, and will always be ready 10 vote for better system of roads