The Van Buren press., 1899-04-15

Earl Allen has opened a nice stock OIL
general merchandise in the store-room
erected by Carl Shibley last year al
Shibley s switch
Everybody has the fishing fever, the
gardening fever. and the biggest of all
| fevers-the spring fever-has taken q
death grip on us.
Magic Stock and Poultry Food-2 !.
pound package for 25 cents at,
JOHN o KANE S DRUG STORE.
If the insurance clause of the anti
trust law is not repealed it will cause
local insurance companies to spring up
in nearly every town.
Those competent to judge say there
will be plenty of ripe berries within
twenty days. provided, of course, the
weather remains favorable.
Bostick & Son have full assortment
OF patent medicines and are ALWAYS
pleased to have their country friends
call
It's wonder strawberry lam is not
more plentiful when one considers the
condition of some of the roads over
which they have to be hauled.
DR.. Dibrell has been talking up the
gymnasium with those that way in
clined this week. They will soon begin
getting their rooms in shape.
CURE COLD IN ONE DAY
Fake Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All
druggists refund money if 1t fails to cure 25c
The genuine has l.. b @. on each tablet
1.-The Progress of the Strawberry -
is the poem now to be heard in every
shape and form in every corner of Van
Buren and adjoining townships.
G. K. lngeberg spent couple days
first of the week in Boone county look
ing over the holdings of the Northwest
Arkansas Mining and Investment Co.
w. C. Bostick & Son (cor. 7th and
Main) have as complete stock of Drugs
and Medicines as can be found in Van
bnren. Have your prescriptions com
pounded there.
A number of the culverts on the Alma
road are covered by bridges that are a
menace to travellers. Something should
and must be done to have them repaired
1t is not safe to depend altogether
upon vaccination. An occasional bath
tends to discourage smallpox and other
contagious diseases, says ithe Washing
ton Post.
Merchants Hose company had an
election for president and vice-president
Monday evening. Art Yerby and Jim
Davis were chosen for the respective
positions.
We have made arrangement by which
we can offer the Texas Farm and Ranch
and THE PRESS at 81 so per year for
CASH IN ADVANCE. Call and get sam
pie copy of each.
The usual number of Cheap john
concerns will be looking for locations in
Van Buren, the next few weeks They
are one of the attendant evils of the
strawberry industry.
The suit instituted here against the
Wells Fargo Express company under
the anti trust law by the attorney gen.
eral, brought Supt. R. G.. Teas of the
Missouri division here Tuesday.
The Red Men have fitted up their lodge
room in the Lynch building in very
tasty manner and have closed contracts
with quite number of other lodges who
will use the hall jointly with them.
Fort Smith has hustling set of rep
resentatives in the leaders of the COM
mercial league, and poking fun at them
does not alter the fact. They believe
In reaching out after what they want.
The Effects of the Grip are overcome by Hoods
Sarsaparila which purifies the blood tones the
stomach strengthens the nerves. and makes the
whole system vigorous and healthy.
A vegetable cathartic that can be relied upon
to do its work thoroughly-HOOds Pills. 529
We do not like to see man reach out
after deceased officers position, be-
fore his friends have even had time to
inter his remains, yet such, we are re-
liably informed, was the case this week
DR.. Roberts returned Tuesday from
an extended stay at Hot Springs and
thinks now that he has gotten rid OF the
last traces of the injuries he received in
the railroad accident at Muldrow some
months since.
Be yourself. Ape no greatness. Be
willing to pass for what you are. A
good farthing is better than bad SOW
ereign. Affect no oddness, but dare to
be right, though you have to be singu-
lar. r.-Coley.
Don't forget that now is a good time
to improve the looks of your lot in the
cemetery by judicious application OF
the hoe and rake. Our cemetery could
and should be made one of the attractive
spots in the city.
At meeting of the Women Literary
Society of Van Buren held last Monday
afternoon, Mesdames Max A. Mayer and
T E. Rafferty, were elected delegates
and Mrs. Buck Williams alternate to
attend the next meeting Of the State