The Van Buren press., 1904-12-17
Texarlana iy figuring on a new city

for $4,000, and will build a home,
Scarcity of water has caused the
oil mill at Magnolia to close down.
A city primary election has been
called for Little Rock for January g.
Frank Meek has resigned as fore
man of the Barring Cross roundhouse.
There are now about 400 horses at
Clinton park race track at Little
Rock.
The town of England will install
and operate a municipal electric light
plant.
The two-year.old daughter OF George
Smith of Lake City was burned to
death.
There were sixty-three cases of
smallpox in Pulaski county Decem'
Der s.
While putting up stove II. F. Kirk,
patrick of Pocahontas, fell and broke
four ribs.
A large boulder fell on j. A. Bur
gin, a coal miner at Greenwood, and
killed him
Oranges have been successfully
grown by Mrs. f. NJ. Rowley, living
near Lonoke.
Luke Buchanan was stabbed in the
abdomen by A. A. ARM at Sidney,
Sharp county.
The Missouri Pacific immigration
bureau will meet in Pine Bluff Jan
uary 23. 1905.
Federal court convened at Bates
vile December y. with Judge Jacob
Trieber presiding.
The next session of the Little Rock
conference Of the NJ +. Church will
be held at Camden.
Mrs Matilda Allen of Pennington,
Washington county, aged Sc years,
fell and broke her hip.
J. F. Wallace has been licensed
county examiner of Desha county vice
J, Bernhard resigned
A bin will be introduced in the next
legislature to compel owners Of hogs
to keep them penned up.
jim IIinson was seriously stabbed
near Dardanelo by ODE Field, whose
brother be was assaulung.
Second vice President John f. Stev
ems cf the Rock Island spent several
days in Arkansas recently,
The Rock Island will establish din
ing car service between Memphis and
Hot Springs on December 25
state Treasurer Upton has about
completed his bond of 100000, which
will have nearly 200 signatures
An electric light plant may be built
at Little Rock by the Retail Mer.
chants and Grocers' Association,
c, II, Winkler fined $50 and costs
| in Arkansas county for carrying a
pistol, was pardoned by the governor,
The campaign has begun for the
raising Of $l5O,000 for the Ouachta
Central college system, to liquidate
their Indebtedness.
A few miles below Little Rock the
| water in the channel Of the Arkansas
river was but fourteen inches on De.
| cember u.
The Furth.Gordy Carriage company
of Little Rock has been solI to the
Tilson Carriage company of TeXarkana
for $4,000
Rev. John Van Lear Of Tuscaloosa,
Ala. has been called to the pastorate
Of the Second Presbyterian church at
Little Rock
| Edward Hines, negro constable
Of McAlmont, was shot in the neck
while trying to arrest George Robin.
son at Little Rock
Rev, Harvey Beauchamp Of Little
Rock has been reelected for the
fourth term as secretary Of the Bap.
! list state Sunday.school board
A two-story frame building was col.
"a
$4,000 loss, It was being built to re.
| place a building burned a month ago.
Argenta officials are endeayoring to
| have the Rock Island back IT. passen.
ger trains down to the central part Of
the city TO receive and discharge pas
sengors
Bryan snyder Of the Frisco sys.
TEN, was thrown from an automobile
at Fort Smith and received severe
wound in the head A wheel came of
the machine while II was running at
a high speed
Christmas day the Rock Island viii
probably extend the service of the
Brinkley and Newport train to Little
Rock, leaving Little Rock at $50
a, m, and returning at SA5 p m.
This will give four daily passenger
trains between Little Rock and Brink
ley
The cotton gin Of Andy shug was
burned near puragould with loss OF
$4,000,
Conrad Appel Of Darmstadt Ger,
many and j, Hamilton DIepraem, Of
Cape Town, South Africa, have asked
the Arkansas agricultural bureau for
literature descriptive Of the resources
Of the state,
John Davis, convicted In Grant
county Of Illegally performing mar
rNgo ceremony and fined 800, was
pardoued by the governor Davis
went into an adjoining county aud
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