The Van Buren press., 1898-12-03

Hy Tinsley returned Wednesday from
Claremore |. T. where he was stricken
with severe attack of erysipelas while
on hunting EXPEDITION. His physician
hopes to have him all right again in a
few days.
John Kerwin moved his household
goods to Fort Smith the first of the week
and expects to make that city his per
manent home. We are very sorry to
lose such n good citizen as Mr.. Kerwin
from our midst.
A fair audience greeted the Breezy
Time company at Murta opera
house Saturday night and they were
well entertained by two and 3 half hours
of fun and nonsense, as was shown by
the repeated encores.
Noah Parsley, one of the old citizens
Of Crawford county, well known to
many Van Buren people, died last Tues
day night at his home near Rudy, after
an extended illness and was Wednesday
afternoon inferred in Winfrey cemetery.
Bob Rogers says his friends have
been acting without his knowledge in
booming him for prosecuting attorney,
but that does not detract from the fact
that he possesses the necessary qualifi-
cations to fill that office acceptably.
Our local nimrods have been enjoying
the pleasure of turkey hunting within
walking distance of town this week A
gang of them showed up on lower Lees
Creek and a number of them were
brought to town as trophies of the hun
ter IS skill
We see by the Little Rock papers that
Waldo E. Lyon, of Leominister, Mass. :,
who it will be remembered performed
some wonderful feats of trick bicycle
riding on our streets year or more
since. is again in the state giving exhi-
bitions.
John Molly, who last week received
a divorce in the circuit court here, evil
IDENTIFY does not believe that marriage
is failure for he Immediately pro-
cured license and launched out upon
the sea of matrimony Saturday with
Mrs. Motley No. 2.
Conductor L. H. Stevens, who had
the misfortune to have his left hand
badly mashed sometime since, while
compiling cars at Sallisaw, through a
misunderstanding of signals, is back
from the hospital, though still carrying
the injured member in sling
A letter received from New York city
dated the 9th announced one of the
worst blizzards in years raging there,
that all the car lines, with the exception
of two elevated roads were tied up by
snow. which had reached depth of
two feet in places by that morning.
The following from the Little Rock
Democrat will be gratifying news to
the many friends of DR.. Shibley in Van
Buren,, where he is well known "Dr
J. S. Shibley, of Paris, and Mrs. Ellen
Allen. of near Ozark, were married at
the residence of the bride Tuesday,
November %.
The revival sermons at the Cumber-
land Presbyterian church are attracting
large audiences both day and night and
a great deal of interest is becoming
manifest. Quite number of conver-
sions have been made and many more
are hoped to be gathered into the church
before the series of meetings closes.
A telegram conveying the sad news OF
the death of his sister, Mrs. George l..
Cleaver. was received Sunday by Mr..
R G. Davies. of this Office, at Waynes-
vile Ohio. Mrs. Cleaver had been all
inc for some time and a short time since
left Van Buren, for her former home in
Ohio. hoping that change would prove
ho,a6cial. While knowing her health
was not improving, her relatives here
,,ors rnnrepared for such sudden de-
mise The many friends of the family
- Van Buren extend the bereaved hus-