The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1900-02-23
ZERO WEATAER IN ARKANSAS.
The Potatoe, Cotton and Lumber
Market on a Boom.
LUXoRA, ARK Feb. Is 1900

LUXORA, ARK Feb. Is 1900
Yesterday was The coolest day we
have had here this winter. the mer.
curry registering AT zero; hut This af
teTnoOn the weather is moderating
considerably, and the beautiful" is
melting away.
January was truly lovely winter
month, and the farmers took advan.
tag e Of II by preparing rs much land
as they could, and when the present
cold snap came they all were about
ready to begin planting POTATOES,
and a few had planted several acres.
Mr. w. A. Johnson, "the pota' o
king" is ahead. Last year when
everyone else here almost failed en-
tire ly, he made IA fine crop, averag.
| ing 30 barrels per acre. | wrote up
his crop in letter 10 tire HERALD
just after 1t was gathered, but by
rome means the letter was never re
ceived.
The farmers are very much en-.
cOur: gt d by the rise in cotton, and
IA much larger acreage will be plant
Cd this year than for several wears
past. Mr.. A. j. Barber has already
profi.ed by the rise. by having 81
bales stored in Memphis, which he
sold last week for cents per pound.
Lumt er has gone up too, aud it
seems that the saw mills have hard
ly made a beginning in our vast for
ests. The best lumoer is now sell
irg at $40 a thousand feet delivered
on the bank of the river fairly good,
att SIG.
An uncommonly large barge left
Crenshaw's Landing few days ago
for Cairo, LII. 1t contained seven
M lion feet of lumber.
The roads have been so dry this
winter that the farmers have made
nice profits on their teams, by haul
ing lumber.
We now have close connection
with Memphis by rail, as we have
two trains going there and back
each day. Our sister, Miss Hay
Davis, left Columbia, Tenn, at 5
o'clock a. m. and arrived here at 8
the following night, making the trip
in Is hours. We enjoyed her visit
more than tongue or pen can tell.
We now enjoy the privilege of a
daily mail, which is quite an i'm
provement over the old system of
thrice weekly by boat. Instead of
getting our HERALD on Tuesday as
formerly, we now receive it Satur-
day. This is the first railroad ever
run through this county, and it Will
not be great while until it will be
extended to st. Louis, we are told.
A new and comfortable brick Jail
is now in course of construction at
Osceola, also a large hotel. The
latest improvements at Luxora are a
81 room hotel and depot house.
Last week Mr.. Will A. Smith,
better known as Cow Boy Smith, y
Of Denver, Col, came here to have
a foot race. He proposed to run a
ten mile race with ten men, each of
them running a mile. The boys
beat him Fix rounds in the opera
house. He then walked five.
mile race with them the next night.
they walkingOue half mile each, and
he came out few feet ahead. It is
remarkable how well he can run.
He says hs has run 1862 races, OF
which he has won one hundred and
fifty; three of the IL he has been
beaten being in LuXora. He ran his
ten miles in 90 minutes. One of the
bows made his mile in four minutes
He offered n pretty silver cup to
to the little boy under fourteen who
could make the fastest half mile
: Van Nicholson won the cup, run
ming iJ in two minutes and thirty
J seconds. Il was saio to be very eX.
citing by those who witnessed it.
Pneumonia has been very prevail
n hiA w n 70 hnt nnlu fa IN
deaths occurred from it.
There has been good deal of eX
citement here about smallpox severa
: times, but each zine the Doctors
= pronounced it something else
There have heen several who were
broken out with something that re
sembled smallpox but bad none o
the attending symptoms of that dis
ease, and the eruption disappeared
in day or two, which we are told
is not characteristic of that dreaded
disc ase. Physicians tell Us that i
il a Cuban disease, the name o
; which they have not learned
y Several have suffered terribly Will
sore arms, fIom vaccination, SOM
: of which came near having to b.
amputatt
With the beginning of the New
$ Year, We solemuy resolved to SEM
! in a letter to the II HERALD often. ant
haven't we kept that promise true
Throughout the month of Januar.
we were nursing the sick of on
household, and the scenes were yer,
much the same as three years ago
days and nights spent in agony
! anXiously watching at the bedsid
l of precious child, which seemed t
r be batting between life and death
This little one was permitted to re
T main with us. TO God be all tn
{ praise. Kind friends came to on
+ assistance and relieved us as niue
as was In human power, for whic
we shall ever feel very grateful.
If not too late, we now offer greet
ings to all the HERALD reader:
I May they all have a prosperous an
: healthful year.
Y RIPPING WAVES.