The Van Buren press., 1899-04-08

flSat h8ud man, WAS quite lndisposed
the greater part of the week
Uncle Tom Comstock made one of his
inffeqaent but always appreciated visits
to Van Buren, last Saturday.
Adds Bryan left Thursday for Little
Rock On business connected with the
ilJerlai revenue department.
Bostick & Son have full assortment
of patent medicines and are always
pleased to have their country friends
call.
! Another wholesale hardware company
has been incorporated under the state
laws to do business in Fort Smith.
| free lecture on the subject of mag
netic healing is scheduled to be delivered
at the opera house Monday evening.
Walter Barnes was up from Russell
vile Sunday on short visit to his fam
lily, who were here visiting relatives
There are good prospects that an up
town telegraph Office is being contem.
plated by the Western Union people.
Capt. Elsey of Muskogee. l. T.. ar
rived here Wednesday on short visit
to his daughter, Mrs Buck Williams.
| Educate Your Bowels with Casoarets.
! Candy Catharte, cure constipation forever.
| loc 25c. II C c. c fail, druggists refund money.
Garden truck has been able to make
but little progress during the cold
weather that has prevailed the past
week.
Mrs. j. D. Lake returned Saturday
to Alma, after having spent week here
very pleasantly as guest of Mrs Ed D.
Cochrane.
The directors of the commercial league
are to meet at the mayors Office next
Monday night to discuss matters of vital
Importance.
The removal of the forty foot poles
from Main and Sixth streets makes quite
an improvement in the appearance of
these streets.
Our growers are reporting their pota
toes sprouting nicely in the fields but
that some warmer weather is beginning
to be very necessary.
To Cure Constipation Forever.
Take Cascarets Candy Cathartic. i0c or &c.
II G. C. c. fail to cure, druggists refund money
Ed Donahoo, who is now engaged in
running lunch stand at Coffeyville,
spent few days here this week with
relatives and friends.
That iron ore abounds here has been
known for years, but it is not in a com
mercially available shape. How easy
it is to get up an excitement.
The man with the pile of coal was
the friend of everyone this week and the
coal mine on the express farm has been
taxed to supply the demand.
Judge W. 7. Morgan, formerly a
resident and at one time county judge
of Crawford county, has been appointed
postmaster at Wagner, l. T.
1t Never Dlsappoints This is one of the pc,
cuiarties of Hoods Sarsaparilla, 1t cures
scrofula, salt rheum, humors stomach and kid
ney troubles, nervousness.
Hoods Pills cure all liver ills Easy to take
easy to operate; reliable. sure. Is cents. 52S
Parties competent to judge state that
plum and pear blossoms, of certain
varieties, have been considerably in
jured by the frosts of last week.
No sooner does one think of putting
away his winter garments then wind
springs up and the thermometer begins
to daily with the freezing point.
Alma had city election last Tuesday
and J. R. Ford was elected mayor;
Arthur Rankin, recorder; J. D. Byars,
treasurer, and Jim Pitcock. marshal.
We have made arrangement by which
we can offer the Texas Farm and Ranch
and The PRESS at 81. 80 per year for
CASH IN ADVANCE. Call and get sam
pie copy of each.
W. H. Lark. secretary of the Lam
caster shipper union spent Monday in
Van Buren and reports the berry pros
poets in his sections as exceptionally
bright.
From all accounts our friend, COL o.
L. Miles was thoroughly lionized by the
good people of Paris on the completion
Saturday to that point of the Arkansas
Central.
]. Neal held down the collectors posi-
ton at the court house during Sheriff
Branson's absence at Newport, and
handled the business with neatness and
dispatch.
Nv. C. Bostick & Son (cor. 18th and
Main) have as complete astock of Drugs
and Medicines as can be found In Van
Buren. Have your prescriptions COM
pounded there.
Saturday was the livliest day In Van
Buren for quite number of weeks.
Both sides of Main street were lined
with farmers wagons the greater part
of the day.
Secretary Barnes of the Crawford
County Horticultural Society proposes
70 have handsome display Of flowers