The Van Buren press., 1899-07-29
landreth's Turnip Seed
Just received, and for sale in
quantities to suit purchasers.
Can be found only at
EdmOndSOn & Britt'S.


Joe Barnes has a contract for buying
cedar posts for the Frisco railroad.
DeWitt's Little Early Risers benefit
permanently. They lead gentle as
sistance to nature, causing no pains or
weakness, permanently curing consti.
patton and liver ailments.
a. c.. JOHNSON.
Mrs. DR.. Roberts came down from
Fayetteville Wednesday ON a short visit
to relatives.
Robt. L. Rogers came up from Mul
berry Thursday to attend the special
term of circuit court.
Our growers are we'll satisfied with
the prices they have received for their
cantaloupes 50 far.
What might have been if that
little cough hadn't been neglected-is
the sad reflection of thousands of con-
sumptives. One Minute Cough Cure
cures coughs and colds.
H. G. JOHNSON.
1t is rumored that the old reliable
Fort Smith Elevator will enter the daily
field about Sept. 1st.
Mrs. Will Wallace has been visiting
her sister, Mrs. M. V. Wallace at
Greenwood this week.
The temperature has ranged quite
high the past week, but the nights have
not been uncomfortably hot.
Mrs. Levi Smith and children arrived
Thursday on a visit to Mr.. and Mrs.
Alvis Smith and other relatives.
Romulus Woods, Cold Springs. Ark.
writes: Have used DR.. M. A. Sim
mons Liver Medicine 25 years and can
say with perfect truth that it is the
best Liver Medicine l ever saw. Think
it much better than Zeilin s and Black
Draught, having used both.
W. H. Ross.
Rev. and Mrs. H. A. Tucker are up
from Tallihina visiting their daughters,
Mesdames Visart and Oscar Brunn.
Rev. Tucker is reported being quite i'll.
The street commissioner has had the
street department doing some good work
in Fairview cemetery. The necessity,
however, of a regularly employed sexton
still remains.
Gun shot wounds and powder. burns,
cuts, bruises, sprains, wounds from
rusty nails, insect stings and ivy poison
ing, quickly healed by Dewitt S
Witch Hazel Salve. Positively prevents
blood poisoning Beware of counterfeits.
Dewitt s. is SAFE and SURE.
H. G. JOHNSON.
A negro tramp. who was using the
railroad track for a bed, was killed by
Wednesday morning S east bound pass
enger train a short distance beyond
Alma. The remains were taken to
Alma for burial.
A man named Jas. Redman was
drowned on upper Lees Creek, near the
mouth of Webber Creek last Saturday.
Redman became tangled in a trot line
he had set out in deep water and his
companions were unable to assist him.
The Colored Baptist Association
closed its session here last Sunday night,
after one of the most successful meetings
on record. The Sunday services were
held at Murta opera house, and the
building is reported to have been filed
to overAowing
DeWitt's Little Early Risers expel
from the system all poisonous accumula-
tions. regulate the stomach, bowels and
liver. and purify the blood. They
drive away disease, dissipate melancholy
and give health and vigor for the daily
routine. Do not gripe or sicken.
H. G. JOHNSON.
Uncle Sam has been advertising the
fact throughout Van Buren, this week
that he needs few more able bodied
volunteers to go to the Philippines. but
the rush is not excessive. 1t is different
from the enthusiasm displayed at the
beginning of the Spanish American
war.
The sad accident. which resulted in
the death of j. l.. Lieber at Fort Smith
Tuesday has caused the city authorities
of that place to notify all that the
ordinance against fast driving as we'll as
fast riding of wheel, or riding at night
without lamp, will be strictly en-
forced.
The assessor is now listing the real
and personal property of the county.
The Fort Smith Times claims, and no
doubt with good reason, that there are
many tax dodgers in that city and dis
trict, especially among those most able
to stand the drain upon their resources.
How is it i'll the county, We cannot
believe that we are free to cast stones
at others, and that there are not among
us those who fail to list their personal
belongings at anything like he one
half of their value. The honest man is at
disadvantage when the time comes for
assessing.
The improvised hospital on the sand
bar below town was abandoned last