The Van Buren press., 1898-10-01

''' oao Az 10 couple months Off vet.
Jasper Peeveyhouse returned to
Checotah, |. I. Saturday after spend
ing rev days with Crawford county
friends.
Another cleaning up of back wards
along Main street would be of
aavanage In making the city more
Miss Maud Farrow is back from a
visit to relatives and friends in Missouri
and has resumad her position at South
mayd- Miller
Lloyd & Tate will move their stock of
groceries to the East End in few days.
The room they vacate will be occupied
by Thurman Hunt.
And that watering trough at the
head of Main street still continues TO
make quagmire out of of the upper
end of Main street.
Conductor Will Woolum has been i'm
proving 30 much of late that he ex-
poets to be shortly able to resume his
run on the Mo. Pacific.
The new undertaking establishment of
Ballentine & Stockard is very tastely
arranged and they have been receiving
considerable stock this week.
Rumors anent new Frisco depot
continue to circulate. We hope they
will turn out to be reality and that
the Mo. Pacific will follow suit.
Rudy Lyons returned to his home in
New York city Wednesday after
pleasant visit here with his brother.
Max Lyons of the New York Store.
A. j. Thrash, at one time engaged
here in the shoe business was up from
Fort Worth, Tex. Tuesday and spent
a few hours with friends in the city.
And still the price of cotton continues
to fall. AT the present rate of fall two
years hence the grower will be com
PEELED to give it away to get rid of it.
Prof. Frank Mclean has an engage
ment to play with the Sloan Springs
band at the Kansas City carnival next
week, also Will Miller aud Ernest Col
lins.
Geo. W. Cottrell returned Wednes-
day from Toronto, Canada, where he
had been attending a meeting of the
international organization Of locomotive
fremen.
Section Foreman Bayless has been
doing some work along the track near
the section house for which the resi-
dents Of the East End are calling him
blessed
Capt. S. l.. Jeffers, after spending a
few days here left Saturday for Little
Rock, where he intends entering the
A. |. U. law school as soon as m uster-
ed out.
The low price of cotton is injuring
trade very much, and but little of the
old time stir is to be seen on our
streets that cotton season always
brought.
Mr. and Mrs. T. E. Rafferty, left
Wednesday for Kansas City to take in
fall festivities and they will visit Mr..
RS, home at Florence, Kas., before
returning here.
Dudley Heard, formerly a resident
of Crawford county arrived Saturday
from Mckinney, Tex, on visit to
Crawford county relatives and friends,
and left for home Tuesday.
A handsome monument of Missouri
marble was last Saturday placed over
the grave of the late Thos. Ribling.
The monument is a very handsome
one and the handiwork of w. S. Hicks.
Southmayd- Miller have had the arc
light in their store replaced by num-
Der of incandescent lamps, which makes
quite marked improvement in the ap-
pearance of that popular establishment
after night.
Van Buren, doesn t care about catch
ing an occasional circus. Enough
money is carried away when five miles
from here, besides we could not expect
a first class circus to stop both here and
at Fort Smith.
Henry Phelps, who is now holding a
position on the P. q Ct. road, arrived
here Wednesday on visit to relatives
and friends. Since he was here last he
met with an accident which amputeted
several toes from his right foot.
Fred Britt had a three pound bass
story on ice Wednesday and Jim Orme
was unable to see any of his friends be-
cause his head had swelled so on &C
count of his having been its capturea.
The Point was the scene of their
Henry Steele is just back from stay
in Michigan where he has been, for the
first time in that section, introducing
refrigerator cars for the transportation
of farm and orchard products and he
reports that the shippers there are
greatly pleased with the Innovation.