The Harrison times. (Harrison, Boone Co., Ark) 1876-1938, 1905-02-04
LOCAL.

Merchants are beginning to make
room for their spring goods.
The young folks have had quite
a spell of Shedding" this winter
The men who advertise are the
men who give you bargains tor your
money.
Theatrical companies Stem to
have given Harrison the gP-by this
season,
\ The government building is GO
ing up slowly in spite of the cold
weather,
I THE steam shovels bdgan their
work ON the big Oregon Flat cut
last week
Valentine day is nearly here With
all its hideous earicatures add hand
some love missiyes.
IA sign of prosperity: Cirehses
Ore beginning to get ready to swoop
down ON the South,
It's funny how our friends who
have promised to haul us wood for
get us these cold days.
-Yellville is pulling for a canning
factory. But that would necessitate
raising tomatoes. See?
The weather has been cold for
our people, but then think of what
they are suffering in Iowa.
THE Keener depot of the White
river road, is nearing completion; al
so the big water tank at Zinc,
The grounding who came out
Thursday to look for his shadow,
was too foolish to be relied upon for
prophecy.
Our livery men report the cold |
weather has had but very little effect
on travel, and prospectors are as
thick as ever
The brick building on the north
side, occupied by the Boone County
Hardware Co., has been purchased
hy W, J.. Myers
HVFor near four weeks the present
snow and slect has laid upon the
ground, This is the longest spell of
the kind in thirty years.
1.-The Missionary Society of the
M, f. Church, meets at Mrs. DR..
,Hutchison's next Tuesday. All
members are urged to attend.
Eight inches of light fluffy snow
covered North Arkansas yesterday
morning. One of the county graders
might have done good work on our
streets, had it been tried.
-Hortcuturists hereabouts re-
port that the cold weather so far has
not injured peaches Dry weather
throughout the fall and early part of
the winter kept the buds back, and
it will take very severe weather to
iniure them,
Collector {. y. Robinson, assist
ed by Lafayette Eoh, will begin a
tour of the county next Monday, to
collect the taxes OF 1904. They COM
mence at Batavia and visit the north
and west portions of the county
first.
HAIRY Smith, the young man
who was injured by falling from the
new railroad bridge at Reynolds
camp on Cheatham, died Tuesday.
His father and mother who came
here to attend him, returned with
the body to Greenville, Ohio.
Announcement is made that when
the White River line of the Missouri
Pacific-Iron Mountain system has
been completed the company will
begin work on several feeders to the
system, prominent among which will
undoubtedly be the short line con-
Meeting Keener and and Harrison
T-John S. Murphy, road overseer
of Lee township, says the new
Graders and Rooter Plows work adj
mrably and that the work saved in
road making thereby is surprising
He feels confident that the regular
workers of his district will be able to
make several miles of fine road this
year. His section of the country
abounds in good road material, the
only trouble being to move it prop
erly.
The many friends throughout |
Carroll county, OF Joe A. Young, of
Denver, will regret to learn that he
is suffering from alteration OF mind,
which seriously alarms his relatives.
At times he threatens his attendants
with bodily harm, and during such |
times seems to be laboring under the
hallucination that some one is trying
to kill him. We earnestly hope for
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