The Van Buren press., 1898-02-12

Judge w. T. Morgan and wife ar
rived Tuesday from Wagner, l. T..
on a visit to friends and relatives.
Judge Morgan is former citizen of
Crawford county and has many friends
here.
Mr.. futile has about completed his
work in the getting up of descriptive
matter, ETC., for the Van Buren, edition
of the Headlight, and expresses himself
as well pleased with the encouragement
they have received.
While the pupils of the ''Deestrick
Skule'' were progressing very nicely it
was feared they would not be far enough
advanced for public exhibition on the
date first set and it has been decided to
postpone it until after Lent.
Col M. l.. DeMahler, in a letter to
the Gazette under date of Feb. 8, an
nounces his intention to comply with
the requests of his friends throughout
the state and make the race for com
missioner of mines and agriculture,
The putting up of street signs and the
numbering of houses has been ordered
by the city council and our people will
find that it will be great comfort to
them as we'll as strangers coming to
our city when the work is completed.
The 3-year- old child of Neil Cooper,
living at Rudy, got hold of bottle of
carbolic acid while playing in the barn
and drank part of the contents. It's
mouth and throat were horribly burned
by the poison and it died within short
time. -N
Col. Robt. G.. Ingersoll will lecture
at the Fort Smith opera house next
Monday night for the benefit of the
cyclone sufferers. His subject will be
Liberty of Man, Woman and Child. -
A special train is being arranged for
from here.
The PRESS requires all candidates for
Office to pay in advance for their an
nouncements in this paper. This rule
will be found to result to the advantage
of both the candidates and ourselves.
Remember that we will make no
exceptions.
T. E. Morgan has rented the Jas.
Orme building In the East End and
located his laundry there. Mr.. Nor
gan is building up good business.
His work is of a superior character and
there can be no need of patronizing
out of town concerns.
Work has been begun on the long
distance telephone line between this
point and Little Rock at this point.
Work at the Little Rock end of the line
has been going on for some time. The
Southwestern Telegraph & Telephone
company are the promoters.
Merrill Bros. delivery horse took
fright last Sunday morning and John
Coke, the driver, had his leg broken.
Arthur and Len Merrill, who were also
in the wagon, escaped without injury.
Coke is reported doing we'll, though he
will be laid up for some time.
W. P. Sadler and E. B. Peirce were
at Monday night s meeting of the school
board appointed to investigate on the
part of the school board the case against
the principal of the colored school. who
is said to have beaten a colored girl I'M
mercifully for an infraction of the
rules.
Is our city council afraid of the town
hog and town cow2 We had hoped
they would do something at their last
meeting to relieve the people from those
nuisances. 1t is bad enough to have
your yard plowed up by a razor
back in winter, but, as will soon be
the case, to have your favorite rose
bushes rooted up and a midnight lunch
made of your bulbs requires consider
able self control to keep from mention
ing words not used in prayer books.