The Harrison times. (Harrison, Boone Co., Ark) 1876-1938, 1900-03-03
LOCAL.
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electricity now.

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electricity now.
Teachers examination in Har-
rison on the 18th and 10th inst.
Harrison township republicans
assemble in mass meeting next Fri
day at 2 P. m.
-Boone's Democratic Committee
will meet next Saturday to arrange
for the coming local campaign.
The Crescent Mining & Invest
ment Co. will establish an office in
Harrison with W. M. Sims in charge.
Horace Poynor has purchased
the Hill-Fontaine residence just east
of the square on Stephenson Avenue.
Jos Sigmon bought thirty head
OF stalled cattle Monday which he
will reserve entirely for the home
market here.
Henry Wiener, of Denison, Tex,
will open up tin shop i'll the room
back of Johnson, Conley & O'Neals
Real Estate office.
"A camp of 100 men who will be
engaged on railroad construction
was established at the crossing of
Kings river yesterday.
W. G. Barnes, of Jasper, was in
Harrison most of the week arrang-
ing preliminaries for the new tele-
phone line to connect us with his
town.
J. F. Hampton, mining engineer
of the Crescent Iron Works, is still
at the Central Hotel and would be
pleased to talk ingmachiuery to
those interested.
Plat Barnes, of Omaha, drop
ped in yesterday to tell us of good
times in North Boone, and prospect
i've activity among the lumbermen
in the early spring.
Postmaster E. r. Andrews, of
Lowery, who was among our callers
Wednesday tells of several good zinc
strikes in North Boone lately as a
result of active prospecting.
The Central Hotel has been pur-
chased by a Mr.. Thurston, of Dewey,
|. T. who will take charge next
week. Mr.. Wood will move to re-
Gently purchased farm in Missouri.
Our former townsman, e, A.
Gamble, now of Fort Smith, visited
Harrison for the first time in three
years this week, and is charmed
with the early features of our boom
of 1900.
The Springfield Grocer Company
have secured the contract for fur
nishing supplies to ]. B. Colt, Son &
Company, to whom was awarded
the construction of the Eureka
Springs Railway extension.
-ProfS. Fellner, mineralogist of
Yellville, spent several days with us
this week and took a run over to
Newton county Tuesday. His en-
thusiasm is infectious, and we are
always delighted to meet him
Mr.. O. Bower spent several days
at Lead Hill this week securing data
for his forthcoming pamphlet on
Harrison and Boone county. He re-
ports much interest down that way
in the new railroad enterprise which
proposes to connect Yellvile with
Springfield if bonus Of 25 900 acres
of Marion county land can be Sc
cured,
Prof. Opperman, the distinguish
ed geologist and mining engineer, is
expected to visit the Arkansas field
next week. How much the visit will
be appreciated can be inferred from
the fact that he is an authority with
the men who have given to the
world the Arkansas zinc field. Heis
one of them, because of rare COM
mon sense, broad attachments as a
scientist, and a strong feeling of
sympathy for all men who eat bread
in the sweat of their face. Speaking
for our grub stakers and miners, as
for the TIMES: welcome Professor, to
Northern Arkansas!
Mr.. N. A. Freezing, better known
to our people as Alex, desires the
nomination of the Democratic party
of Boone county for Sheriff, and so
announces i'll this issue. He is a
native of Arkansas, and the past
seventeen years of his life has been
spent in Boone, during which time
he served as U. S, Guager and Con.
stable of Bellefonte, acquitting him
self honorably in both instances.
His business qualifications are good,
his character unimpeachable, and his
temper of the cool, determined cast
which would certainly make him
most efficient as well as agreeable
peace officer