The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1903-08-28
IUx0RA. A ARKANSAS.
Cotton, Corn and Rail Roads are
Growing Fast.

Luxora. ARR. Aug. %. 1905.
Editor Herald -
/ have been absent 30 long from the
columns Of the Herald. | fear / will
hardly gain admittanee.
The prospect for q good crop lie
much more encouraging than one
mouth ago, when the farmers felt
awfuIIy blue. Then the cotton was
small and a fourth of crop was not
expected: now three-fourths of a bale
per acre Is confidently hoped for, and
with the anticipated high prices.
Arkansans will feel jubilabt.
Cotton Is being laid by and is open
ing. hut picKing will not be likely 10
begin for two weeks.
Labor has been scare and wages
have been high; one dollar a day
having been pald for pillow hands
lately. Plckers are expected 10 be
plentiful, however. as negroes are
moving Southwark FROM Northern
states, where they are net so much
beloved as tormely. and much of the
cotton has been ruined in Mississippi
because of so much water standing on
1t from the recent heavy rains there.
Corn is late, but with u few more
raius, there will be n tine yield.
There has been more sickness here
this summer than any time since our
residence here, but little of it fatal.
n. A. Nicholson is now having
cnills.
Five years ago we did not have K.
K. in the county; now 1t is traversed
by several. We are soon to have con-
nectlon with ST. LOnis, and before
many months a new road will be COM
pleted through here over which fast
mail will pass daily. 1t will be the
shortest route to New Orleans.
The Mississippi is quite treach-
erous stream. For many years 1t has
favored Arkansas by adding hundreds
of acres of the very richest OF land to
her borders between the two little
towns of Osceola and Luxora, and now
it is fast taking 1t away and adding TO
the Tennessee shore. Only a shor
while ago government feet under
took to sink willow mating at the
mouth of the chute near Osceola. and
when the mating was in readiness
to be dropped In the river some OF the
trees to which large cable ropes were
fastened gave way, other ropes snapped
as If they had been threads almost, and
the massive structure Heated out
into midstream and sank. Ten thou
sand dollars had been expended in
it. and several months OF
hard labor, but it's destruction was OF
but few minutes duration. About one
hundred acres have caved in along
there in the past four years and the river
will soon be flowing through it's old |
rOuta IF a unartpr century ago,
Mr.. w. L Hale, who is in Kansas City |
under treatment for abscess of the |
bowels, writes that his doctor thinks he |
will be able to return home by Septem-
Der first. He has many relatives and
friends in Maury county, who will be
glad to know of his recovery.
Mr. Allie Clthey another ex Maury
who has been resident of
his place a number of years, has recent
y had a great sorrow for his portion.
His wife having died in Ashwood, n. c.,
where they had gone for his health.
Yrs & lthey was formerly Miss Annie
Barnett, OF Horn eak, Tenn, and was
ovely woman. Her remains were taken
o her old home for interment.
Mr.. Ole Davis has left the Dean
hardware Co., of Portland, Ark. and
ccepted a position with st. Louis
lardare firm, which will send him out
IN the road.
Mr.. Ebert Miner is now visiting
eatlves here. ON his return from Maury
ounty to his home at Weatherford. o.
:.
Mr.. Ed Nlholson has returned to his
ome near Columbia. This is his
econd trip home this year, and we
ontidently expect him back here by
Christmas to see how ArKansans are
PROGRESSING. RlPPLING WAVES.