The Van Buren press., 1898-10-08
Theatre tonight.

Children 8 matinee at the opera house
this afternoon.
Take the children to the matinee this
afternoon
Alvis Smith returned Wednesday
from visit to South McAlester.
Sheriff elect Branson expects to move
his family to Van Buren, shortly.
Ed NJ. Miller is occupying the Nc
Kibben house in Baldwin Addition.
Mrs. Jesse Turner and son arrived
yesterday from their summer s stay in
the East.
| Mr.. and Mrs. T. E. Rafferty, re-
turned Thursday from weeks visit at
Kansas City.
An increased number of cotton
wagons are to be seen now on our streets
from day to day,
i1NiUoi AddAoi VI tue Ilue bIuu
Graphic, passed through the city
Thursday, en- route home.
| Attend the last performance of the
Hettie Bernard Chase Stock Company
at the opera house tonight.
1t is to be hoped that the showers
Thursday and Friday will put a stop to
the hot weather of the past three
weeks.
| The baby show that was planed for
this afternoon has been, owing to un-
forseen circumstances postponed to
Oct. 22d.
w B. Allen will help to look after
Allen Bros business at Wan. l. T.
Mrs. Allen and children will make
their home here
The Boston Bloomer' girls played
a good game of ball-for females here
Thursday, beating our home team by
a score of to /.
Cotton was selling yesterday at 81. so
to 81 CO., per hundred in the local mar
ket. Thursday 105 bales wer marketed
here of which Southmayd Miller bought
80.
Jess Martin Thursday received his
commission of constable for Van Buren
township and has entered on his duties
Jess, we believe, will make the town
ship good officer.
Mr. J. 7. Higgins returned Tuesday
from six weeks business visit in
Mississippi and Tennessee in the in
terest of the Wheeler e. Wilson sewing
machine company.
B. Cullom came up from Texas Sun
day on a few days visit to relatives.
On his return he will be accompanied
by Mrs. c., who has been spending the
past six months here.
County Clerk elect Cochrane has
rented house from Jno. O Kane and
become permanent resident Of Van
Buren,. He will receive his commits
sion the last of the month.
Chas. Arkebauer left Tuesday for st.
Louis to take final course of lecturs at
the Missouri Medical College, and he
will return at the expiration of this
session full fedged NJ. D.
The Pan Telephone company are
again in possession of their plants here
and in Fort Smith, which was sold to
Jas. Brizzolara about year ago under
judgement of the U. S. court.
Frank Mccullough got severe fall
from the top of step ladder while
working in C. G. Montague resi-
dence. He was partially unconscious
for several hours from its effect.
In our notice two weeks ago, in re-
gard to the death of Mr.. Gish near
Lille, we made mistake in giving the
initials as Geo. w. it should have been
Elisha, an uncle of the first named.
MARRIED-At the home of the bride 8
parents, at 10 o'clock Wednesday
morning, Mr. Mn. Mattox to Miss
Fannie Wright. They will make
Sebastian county their future home.
G.. L. Pope was considerably bruised
Thursday by a scantling falling on him
while at work. The injury is quite
painful and will prevent him from fol-
lowing his profession for some days.
The night blooming cactus in the
show window of Kerr Drug store was
not, as our morning contemporary
stated a Night Blooming Cereus, but
Phyllocaetus Latifons or Queen Cactus.
T. w. Pollard, Esq. an old citizen
of Fayetteville, well known to many
of our people, died quite suddenly Wed
nesday morning He had been elected
justice of the peace at the late election.
Millinery openings have been the
order of the day here this week and the
feminine heart has not had chance to
stop fluttering, while the ''old man
has been thinking of anything but Sun
day school words.
DR.. Kerr has begun to terrace the
yard in front of his residence now in
.....-.n nf nnnstr,, ton Ihis will