The Harrison times. (Harrison, Boone Co., Ark) 1876-1938, 1900-11-10
LOCAL.

The Goth inst will be Thanks
giving day.
Our public school has an enroll
mcnt of 443.
Lots of people would be meaner
it they were richer
Some men would have hardly,
any head at all, if they shaved off
their card.
"A mechanic who can use his tools
in both hands equally well usually is
not much account
Prof ]. Sam Jones commences
a series of lectures on Psychology to
a large class next week.
1.-The Bellefonte road has been re-
Eeiving some attention from our
Tstreet workers this week.
Whenever a man gets licked fol
talking about somebody else, we are
mighty glad we didn't say anythingl
K-Apples lay upon the ground of
A Boone county orchards in such pro-
fusion that the hogs refuse to eat
them.
F--Another meeting OF the directors
of the St. Louis & North Arkansas
X. k. will be held at Eureka Springs
Monday.
K-An evaporation in Harrison this
year could easily have made $4,000
for our neighboring farmers out of
fruit which has gone absolutely to
waste.
If Harrison is to grow equal to
her opportunities, the time has ar
rived when our property owners
should quit swapping lots and go to
building.
Attendance was so small at the
County Sunday School Convention
at Bellefonte last Saturday that
there is talk OF disseminating the
organization.
The Danforth, or N. B. Grump
residence in the north part of town
has been purchased recently by
! Messrs. Greene and Knight OF the
Citizens Bank.
-Four hundred and twenty vote.
were cast in Harrison last Tuesday.
LOT these Brvan's vote was 259 to
McKinlcy's 1873. The vote through
out Boone WAS about as usual.
The town council is figuring on
fine bridge to be constructed
across the Jordan branch ON Rush
avenue. $4,000 of the amount
necessary will be subscribed by indi-
viduals interested.
10. w. Ryun, the Boone county
Humberman, has the contract for a
large proportion of the bridge tim
bers on this end OF the new railroad,
as we'll as the lumber for the depots
at Green Forest and Long creek. =
Our literary inclined citizens
should keep in mind the lecture of
Prof A. ". Hawks, the laughing
philosopher" on the evening of the
18th at the Nj. E. Church, South.
Tickets are on sale at LeBlond's
Drug Store.
The trouble with the man who
would pay the EDITOR in wood, wheat
and what-not, is that he waits until
after all winter supplies should be
laid in. In battle, Napoleon used to
say, the best man is usually the one
who gets there FIRST"
The office building of DR.. ]. ].
Johnson formerly Just north of the
post office has been moved to a new
location next to Horns tin shop on
Vine Street. Plans are being made
for the erection of three large stone
buildings on the site thus cleared at
the northeast corner.
due to temporary embarrass-
ment by reason of too rapid exten<
sion of lines, the Ozark Telephone
Company, which owns nearly all of
the telephone lines in North Arkan-
sas, went into the hands of a receiver
Saturday. By mutual consent A.
Bunch, of this place, was selected as
the receiver This, however, does
not include the Harrison exchange
which is owned by Mr. E. Kimberly.
( The railroad graders are only
Rthree miles from Harrison and com
ing this way at good rate. A par
tial delay is still suffered at the tun-
mel, but 1876 men are kept at work
there in three shifts, day and night,
and the upper passage Of the open.
ing has nearly been connected from
both sides. Just now the engineers
figure that the road cannot reach
Harrison before the middle Of Febru-
airy. The grading and distribution
of ties will have been completed from
one end of the road to the other by
the time the tunnel is open, and it is
said that with these conditions the
track-laying will proceed at the rate
,ofa mile day.
Mrs. Ida Nj. Sullivan still takes
orders for the stylish Photo Jewelry
and Portraits. Call Mt her Millinery
Store at Belefonte. See her samples
and place your orders for Christmas