The Forrest City times., 1904-07-22
BRIEF MENTION.

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 An ice war is on at Camden and prices are being cut in half.
 A free public library movement is well under way al Camden.
 Immanuel Baptist church in Little Rock will erect new s35.00O edifice
 There will be. on August l. eighty two rural free delivery carriers in Ar kansas.
 A railroad map of Arkansas will shortly be issued by the railroad com mission
 There will be reunion of the Blue and the Gray at Heber. August II and 12
 Benjamin Mattson. of Hamburg, was killed by train at Dorval. Quebec, on 1 the 18th
 Miss Lucy Howard, of Newport. sloped with Finnis Delashmitt, of Ev. ansyille. Ind
 The TeXarkana city council has granted a fifty-year franchise to a water company.
 A stock company which played at Pine Bluff two weeks has disbanded on account of poor business.
 Mrs. Albert Singleton. living near Waldron, was caught under 8 falling tree while out riding and killed.
 A negro named Will Wells was ar rested at Pine Bluff on charge of assault to kill in Brookhaven, Miss.
 Another rise of the Arkansas river was feared for few days but the water did not nea. reach the June figure.
 Specimens of Eloerta peaches eleven inches in circumference have been added to the Arkansas worlds fair exhibit.
 The state railway assessment board has resumed the hearing on the as- sessment of railway property in Ar kansas.
 The German-American Bank has been organized at Paris with a capi- tai stock of s50.000. H. A. McKelvy is president.
 F. B. Stewart has resigned as divi- sion superintendent of the Rock Island at Little. Rock and was succeeded by W. NJ. Whittenton.
 Haf an hour after they first met Miss Josephine White of Little Rock and Earl R Klein, of New York, were married in St. Louis.
 
 II is stated that an independent county ticket will be placed in the field in Garland county against the democratic nominees
 Mart A. Lawhorn, aged 7S, of Viola, Fulton county. was married at Nam moth Springs to Mrs. Mamie Deweese, {; l 50, of Loves, Ky.
 A stranger who dropped dead in New Orleans was believed to be James Mcdonald, of Bear, Ark, through papers in his pockets
 A call has been extended to Rev. Sherwood Bridgeley. of Holly Springs. Miss, to the pastorate of the First Presbyterian church at Jonesboro
 Caldwell & Drake, the state capi- tol contractors, have been awarded the contract for the new $30.000 court house of Ashley county at Hamburg.
 Four thousand persons attended the annual picnic at Annieville. United States Senator Latimer of South Car olina delivered an address on good roads.
 Robbers cracked the safe in the Iron Mountain freight office in Littlo Rock the night of the 14th They were frightened away before they secured its contents.
 Hot Springs citizens on Wilmington avenue will ask the federal govern ment to remedy the alleged unsani, tary condition of the government lakes on that street.
 w. w Shaw has retired as assist ant post master al Texarkana He had been in the office since 1876 ex. cept during the eight years Demo cratic administration.
 An Ex-Confederate veteran, Capt. Jerry R. Calyard, died recently in Sc. bastian county from a wound received in cavalry charge in the civil war in which he lost leg
 Rev. w A. Clark. who recently re- tired from the Landmark Baptist of Little Rock. has accepted a call to the pastorate of the Bethlehem Baptist church of Little Rock.
 Sunstroke is rare in Arkansas. but Henry Alexander. a negro prisoner from Pulaski county. died in that way on the l2th. on the county con. vict farm in Jefferson county.
 A sixteen-year-old Prescott boy, named Burnett. is exhibiting himself in Columbia county in order to raise money with which to secure an edu- cation. He weighs APO pounds.
 A Choctaw bridge laborer named Peter Broumley was drowned the night of the 18th. by falling from the bridge at Little Rock while at work