The Van Buren press., 1898-03-26
ADDITIONAL LOCALS.

lHe EleCIllC Sdlo udo ouoPOiu0u
operations.
A fraction over seven inches of rain
has fallen SO far this month.
BORN Friday morning to Mr.. and
Mrs. Jesse Wood, a daughter.
The Bell Telephone company is re-
placing some of its pelesen Main street.
A number of Almaites intend taking
in the Sam Jones lecture here next
Tuesday.
The Crawford County Bank Is pre-
senting its patrons with very handy
day book.
Gooding & Butler made shipment
of so bushels of seed sweet potatoes to
Russellville Thursday.
Nose Dixon has accepted position
with a leading drug house at Little
Rock and will leave for that point first
of next month.
The Little Rock Gazette states a
rock ribbed truth in the following:
I'm case of war with Spain the poor
man will do the fighting and also pay
the bills. -
Ed. Gilmore, of Covington, Tenn.
editor of the Gospel Echo, - was the,
guest of e. and F. D. Gipson Thursday
and filled the pulpit of the Christian
church that night.
The northbound Frisco passenger,
known on the schedule as No. 2, was
wrecked near Antlers Saturday night.
Two coaches and the sleeper left the
rails, tearing up the track for a couple
of hundred yards. No one was hurt.
Crawford County Medical Society
held very interesting meeting at DR..
Dibrell's Office Thursday. DR.. O. NJ.
Bourland will be the attending physi-
clan at the hospital next month.
Several cases of measles were reported
around town and also some whooping-
cough.
We call especial attention of all our
readers interested in tree planting and
fruit culture to the unusually liberal
offer of the Arkansas Valley Nurseries
of Sedgwick Kansas, which will be
nd oil -,
are reliable people and make this special
offer only to introduce their stock in
this vicinity. Orders should be sent
enem without DELAY. 42-52t
Knowing Prof. Morris as we'll as we
do we feel assured that he will make
the Fort Smith Journal, of which he is
editor and manager, power for good
politically, morally and educationally.
The Professor is one of the best
editorial writers in the state and has
friends wherever he is known.
Rev. Andrews will deliver a sermon
to ladies only at the NJ. E. church this
afternoon and Sunday afternoon at
3 O'Clock one to men only. Good
congregations have greeted Mr..
Andrews at each service during the
week. The music has been very fine
and over forty conversions have been
noted since the revival services began.
Prof. Jim Hughes aggregation of
colored histrionists gave their long
talkedof exhibition at Murta opera
house Thursday night and from what
we can hear the affair must have been
one that will go down in history with
out parallel. The street parade in
the afternoon was something itself that
will go down in history. 1t should have
gone down in mud.
We shall be pleased to see our sports
men organize league for the protection
of game and fish, especially has the
fisherman cause to wish for thorough
enforcement of the law regarding the
use of dynamite. Angling in some
almost ruined during the past two dry
seasons by the use of explosives. We
are informed that the Point Gun Club
will endeavor to stop these depredations.
The gravel which the present street
commissioner has been using on Main
street is already showing its good effects
and the mud which formerly during a
rainy spell, such as we have had the
past two weeks or more, would have
been almost fathomless, is barely more
than an inch or inch and half deem
A continuation of the policy pursued nv
the present commissioner will put Main
street into fairly passable condition IN
another year. Mr.. Hayman has the
right idea that It takes something
harder than shale to make a substantial
roadbed.