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Some of our pupils, Where they are at work and the Salary Paid
 Them.

Miss Pattie Gates, in school two months. now with the Mayer Gum Factory. salary. $o5 month. C. C. Williams, in school two and one half months. now with w. C.. Earby & Co.,, salary S75 month.
 Miss Spurgie Smith, in school one month and twenty-one days, now with T.. Buchannon, Tenn. Trust Bldgr salary S85 month.
 Miss Annie Storch, in school three months, now with the Cumberland Telephone Co.,, salary $o0 month.
 Miss Maie Locket, in school three months, now with Rock Island R. R salary $50 a month.
 w. P. Adams, in school three months, now cashier of Bank of An yuilla, Miss, salary Sl25 month.
 w. B. Miller, in school four months now with ]. w. Wilson & Co.,, Rule : vile, Miss, salary sl040 year.
 ]. P. Farrow, in school less than three months, now with the Broadway Coal Co., salary $75.O0 month.
 w. w. Wool in school two months now with Benedicdt Warren & Davis, salary $500 a month.
 Miss Linda Drane, in school two and one half months, now with Shank Phillips & Go. salary $o5 .O0 month.
 I. w. Gam, in school four months. now with Walker Bernard & Co.,, salary 5000. month.
 l. H. Kimbrel, in school three and one half months, now with Lester at Duncan, Miss, good salary.
 Memphis Business College. 80 N. Main.
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RE cAARIIAaLe

to your horses as well as to yourself You need not suffer from pains of any sort your horses need not suffer. Try bottle of Ballard Snow Lini- : ment. It cures all pains j. M. Ro- berts. Bakersfield, Mo- writes: Il have used yolr Eminent for ten years and find 1t to be the best have ever used for man nor beast. Sold by Brooks Pharmacy.
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BACK IN THE "FIFTIES'
An interesting Sketch of the First School Days in
 Holly Grove.

Holly Grove, Ark Nov. 3, 1866. Dear ARGUS:
 We are not now a-days so prone to retrospect the past as to figure into future. But an occasional lifting of the curtain and with a queroulous look into the escaping past We get en- couragement for the present, and can better remember our present-day comforts and advantages.
 We do not know that intellect is SC much stronger to-day than half cen tury ago in some respects. Students in the older days were more accurate than now. But our present days are crowded with more life, more 10 be lived in day than then. Yes to-day we live more in a day than our fore fathers lived in a week, because of ten-thousands Of thoughts and inven- tions then not dreamed of.
 In our public schools, have been made many changes and the growth of our public school system has been little less than marvellous. Our graded courses. fewer hours in the school room, modern facilities, new methods and text books have made for us a broader, and far reaching task.
 To day, We dare say, finds memory work below the level of fifty years ago, but the practical details and the principles of useful knowledge occupy the space once taken up by prolonged mental drills.
 In about 1856, CT little spot Of ground, now in the north part of CaLt. Tom Mull's yard, stood rude, leg schoolhouse which today can be seen near the house of MT. Davie Dial. In this house was taught the first school what later became the comn.u- nity. and later still the beautiful, modern town of Holly Grove.
 John Cooke taught the first session in this schoolhouse, and this was taught by private subscription.
 Rev. Jofn Shafer, young Metho- dist minister who was transferred from an Oklahoma conference. and cane in company with our townsman, w. D. Kerr, to Arkansas to begin the orduous duties of pioneer preacher and leader. taught the second session, or rather began the second session, Of school in 1860, in this same little icg schcolhouse. Rlt finding e could not both serve his pepp'e b ihe full extent of his duties as q preacher and teacher, Mir. Shafsr came to his friend, w D. Kerr. and prevailed on him to take the school and teach out the unsxpired term. This MT. Kerr did in a successful and fruitful man ner. Among some of the pupils of Prof. Kerr were Miss Susie Smith (now Mrs D. B. Renfro. Sr.,) MT. Jim Cooke, Col. T'ul Smith, Tom Pickins, and Bush Roberts.
 Tie first ~free school was possibly taught in Hoily Grove in 1858. There were ao free schools in oy country vn.iI after the Civil war. A MT. Wasant vas the man that after preserving efforts secured lhe organ ized work and i'd oi the free .chooIs in ihis $ ctien.
 Judge " D Kerr, the third toash- CT d the 'fl5ly Cove. became one Of lhe rsctara.
 QHt ci ,!a4e primitive conditions. an. Tom tlds worthy foundation, has g own our trgd-rn school facilities. win a special distrist, good equip nsf $ in every way seldom excel.ed throughout hsl.srsss ty a towa or
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HOLLY GROVE NEWS.

Another week of lovely weather has pissed and was well put in by the farmers
 We have nine gin stands running at H c, and they are all kept busy.
 Shaw's show is draining H. G. of her small change at this time.
 w. B. Folsom, Editor of the BRINKLEY ARGUS, attended business in H. c. last Tuesday.
 The election at H. c. passed off very quiet and very light vote was boiled.
 South H. c. is on boom. Four new houses have just been completed in that rart of town.
 w. T. Bowles and his daughter. Of Pine Ridge, were trading in H. c. last Thursday.
 U. B. Mccoy. of near Benton's store, was on the streets of H. c. last Saturday.
 l. B. Johnson's headquarters meat market has fine beef and often has fine fat possums and mutton.
 D. D. Bennett, of Helena, visited his sister, Mrs. R. B. Hall. last We'd nesday night Mir. B. is travelling for a Memphis house.
 ]. H. Kendall, our popular con ductor on the Midland Passenger Train, visited in H. c. last Sunday.
 J. H. Atkins who has been busi- ness visitor in H. c. scme days, left for his home in Hot Springs last We'd nesday morning. He was suffering with rhe umatism and a throat trouble.
 Mrs. Nellie Morris is suffering from very severe cold and sore throat, which almost disqualifies her for any household duties.
 H. B. Lusk, our Midland agent, has moved with his family into the nice residence just completed by Mir. 1. I. Matthews, our banker at H. c.
 We have had no rain for two weeks and H. c. is enjoying the first dust st.rms of this season.
 Mrs. pr. Garter, who was reported sick last week. has improved so much that she can sit up little. We very much hope her health will soon be completely restored.
 Mrs. O'Bannum. who has been con- fined to bed for quite while, is able to be up again, we are reioiced to state.
 l. 0. Sweatt, of Jackson. attended some business matters in H. C. last Saturday
 I. L. Pride, who has spent most of the Summer at home with his family in Searcy. is out looking after his farming interest. Sam Ables, one of the most hust- ling farmers of Jackson, was attending 10 business matters in F. c. last Fri day. Sam has plenty of hog and hominy at home.
 Messrs Ben Burke and J. H. Rob- inson. of the Shyloh neighborhood. were at H. C. last Monday attending business matters.
 Deputy Sheriff W. c. Swift, of Clarendon, attended to business per tainlng to the sheriffs office last Mon- day.
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Famous Strike Breakers.

The most famous strike breakers in the land are pr. Kings New Life Pills. When liver and bowels go on strike, they quickly settle the trouble,
 and the purifying work goes right on.
 Best cure for constipation. headache
 and dizziness. 25c at all druggists.
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already over the enrollInent of the beginning. But the records not only show an increase in enrolment, but also a rapid sdven5emeat md i'm proven1ent in every department of the school work
 COTTON. REPORT H. c. Ncv 2o. lSCo
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w. J. Mayo, of Duncan, was at H.. c. last Monday, making some pur- chases and attending to other business matters.
 The Monroe County Medical As sociation met at H. c. last Tuesday. pr. Tomas, of Clarendon, and Dr. Terry from Brinkley, were present to represent their respective places.
 The slump in the price of cotton last week has retarded the movemet to some extent. But the ginning is rushed all the same. as the farmer must have the seed money to live on.
 Mrs D. M. Dial, who has been on an extended visit to her childhood home i7 Tenn. returned to her home at H. C. last Saturday morning to the great delight of her husband and friends.
 Mrs. J. B. Moore and children, Of Clarendon, visited in H. C. few days the latter part of last week, the guests
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of Mrs. Moor's father, w. F. Branch and family.
 Prof. w. A. Owens and wife. who have charge of the school, are highly pleased with the progress of the work. and are delighted with their parts in the school.
 The graded course of High School work which Prof. Owens is instituting as basic foundation for all the school work will greatly aid the work in it's progress.
 J. H. Fincher has moved his fam fly back to his home in H. c. from the Madden Bridge Heading Factory and MT. George Bryant, who was oc- cupying the Fincher house. is nov oc- cupying the pr. Sylar residence which was vacated by MT. H. B. Lusk.
 Our School Grows: This week ends the second month of the present term of our school, and tae records show an increase of over20 per cent
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Ringing Dros. Es

Special excursion ra!eS V ' of travel have been aranss' management Of Ringing , Worlds Greatest Shovs . who wish to go to Little NJ X, this great circus exn'O''s can do so at very little e
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No. Bale S

Cotton 8 to l4c; seed .$l LOO; gin- ming $500; picking 75c.
 H. c.
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siIaRe without sIIo.

A Minnesota farmer stacks his clo-
yer just as soon as it is cut 1t makes
no difference whether 1t is pleasant or
rainy weather. He goes into the field,
cuts his clover and stacks 1t on the
land, making the stacks about 20 by 80
feet. In no case would he advocate n
smaller stack. He claims that when he
takes this clover from the stack in the
winter 1t Is in excellent green condi-
ton, all except wall about sixteen
inches thick around the outside, which
becomes moldy because of its contact
with the air. The weight of the Glove,
shuts out the air and keeps the hay
green and tender This plan may he
all right In a field, but it would be
rather dangerous to stack hay near
buildings. Instances have been known
where spontaneous combustion has
taken place in uncured hay.-Kimballs
Dairy Farmer.
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The crop reporting board OF the de-
partment OF agriculture finds the area
under winter wheat remaining in cult
walton on May l to have been about
29,G23 900 acres This is per cent, or
about 1,718,o00 acres, less than the
area reported as sown last fall and l
per cent, or about 214,000 acres, less
than the area of winter wheat reported
as harvested last year.
The average condition of the grow
Ing winter wheat crop on May l was
81 as compared with % on May l.
1905, and So. the mean of the May
averages for the last ten years.
The average condition Of winter rye
on May was % as compared with "a
on May /, 1905, and 80, the mean OF the
May averages of the last ten years
The average condition of meadow
moving lands on May 1 was % aga inst
90 on May |, 1905, and 90, the mean of
the May averages Of the last ten years.
The average condition of spring pas
lures on May / was 81 against % on
May /, 1905, and 80 the mean of the
May averages of the last ten years.
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An Opportunity.

There is an opportunity in many
towns to grow peaches to supply the
home trade that is now supplied from
the city dealers or from large orchards
at a distance. To make success of
this, high and well drained ground
must be taken and the same grade of
care given that our best large growers
give. Then If the fruit is first class
profitable prices will be received. 1t is
surprising TO find the number Of bas-
kets Of peaches that can be sold right
at home in some of the towns outside
of the large peach districts, says a
New England grower
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9IlEL! [9R!11&1l
Arrangements OF Trains In Effect
June q. 1905.

Trains leave Skowhegsn as follows: h.l6 A.
NJ, oakland, Lewiston, Waterville. Augusta
Brunswick. Portland, Boston, Montreal and
Quebec.-S. 5 A. NJ. for all points West; also
to Bangor, and Bar Hatbor.-l2.5O p. M. for
Waterville. Oakland. Bingham, Lewiston, An.
gusta, Gardiner and Brunswick. Portland and
Boston, Dexter Dover ard Foxcroft, G,een.
vile, Bangor, Old own, Vsnceboro, Maritime
Provinces, st John and Halifax, b. & A. r. 4
2.40 p. NJ. (mixed) for Waterville enabling
passengers to connt CT with express for Lewis.
ton. Danville June, Portland, Bostcn and
with through sleeper to New York, and to
take night Pullman for Portland and Boston
and all points east; also with the local train
aving Wstervlle for SO. Gardiner and way
stations at e.3s. Sundays only, go z. M. fol-
Watervile.
ARRIVALS:-725A A. M. mixed from Water.
ville.-it 81 A. M. passenger from Portland
brunswick. Augusta, Oakland. wsterville and ID
Bangor so P. NJ. from all poi nts.-S0 90 P
from Boston, Portland and Lewiston ant
points ea4t.-l040A A. M, Sund vs. only. Port
land Lewiston, winthrop. Oakland. Bruos
wick, Gardiner. Augusta and Watelville also
from Bangor and way stations.
GEO. F. EVANS, Vice Pres, and Gen. Mgr
F. f. ROOTHRX. General Pse'r. Agent.
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In this age of experiment the report
ed performance of a Michigan farmer
Is worth trying. He was working his
sheep in connection with an effort TO
kill Canada thistles. He put some salt
as near the crown of each thistle as
possible. In this way the sheep We're
induced to eat the thistles close to the
ground. 1t is seldom necessary to deal
with the case the second year.
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siInge and MIX.

Or. Z. II. Jenkins. director of the
Connecticut experiment station ut
New Haven. says: There Is absolutely
nothing on record that | can find To in
dictate that milk from cows fed on
sound sllage is in the least inferior to
that of cows fed on other approved
feeds. Our best dalrymen are using
silage largely. and the number is con
stantly increasing. Silage improperly
made and stored will impart flavor to
the milk but this is equally true of
hay or any other feed for cows and is
quite another story
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MO Use FOR DOCTORS.

uAbout FIVE years ago had very poor health"
writes Mrs. S. +. Whalen of Holden. johnson
Co, Missouri. AFTER doctoring four years with
our town doctors they gave my case up; said
they had done all they could. had been con-
fined to my bed half my time the other half
could hardly drag around. had such pains in
my back and abdomen could not stand on my
feet for more than a few minutes. My feet
cold or burn ng, and my periods came too
often. The doctors said it was change of life,
so, as I had heard of DR.. Pierces medicines, my
husband got me a bottle of Favorite Prescrip-
ton I took it and it helped me in some ways,
wrote to you and followed your advice.
I commenced 'Favoritc Prescription Golden
Medical Discovery and the Pleasant Pellets
as I was so constipated all the time and pills
would weaken me so that I would have to go to
bed. To the great surprise of everybody got
well, and when I met my friends they would
say, I never thought YOU would be here now
But can say it was your medicine. which no
doubt is the best i'll the world. Have had no
use for doctors since tried your medicine"
DR.. Pierces Pleasant Pellets are an
effective Medicine for the bowels and
liver. do not react upon the
sySter
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HAY DOOR IN BARN.

method shown by my diagram we think
the very best, says Rural New York
er correspondent.
Place your track on an incline with
the roof and put on rollers on the
doors at the same incline. They will
open very easily and shut bard, but
they can easily be managed from in
side
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THE USEFUL HOG.
Good scavenRer, but Lye, Glass
Nails, Etc, Are Not Fit Food.

Good scavenEer, but Lye. Glass,
Nails, Etc, Are Not Fit Food.
A benefit to he derived by the farmer
from raising hog comes from their
eating waste products that would 9th
erwise become a nuisance. Kitchen
slops, the screenings from tanning
mills and the waste from thrashing
machines can all be utilized in the pig
yard. while the use of hogs in connec-
ton with beef production is frequently
regarded by feeders as the principal
source of profit.
If hogs are raised in connection with
dairying pork of the highest quality
may be produced Dairy byproducts
skim milk, buttermilk and whey
agree with hogs especially well. skim
milk is especially valuable for pigs be-
fore weaving and during the earlier
stages of feeding after they are wean-
ed. Its value with breeding stock is
also very great Whey is also valuable,
though not so much so as skim milk.
1t should be fed carefully, for large
amounts given continuously Will cause
a sort of rheumatic lameness in pigs.
Care must be taken in using hogs as
scavengers. A good deal Of stuff that
finds its way to the hog lot should go
to the garbage bank. Dceterious sub
stances. such as lYe soap, glass, nails,
etc. are very frequently in city swill,
and such swill has beer known to
prove fatal when fed. NJ. Rommel.
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FARM BREVITIES

Every farm has room for at least
demand.
Nermin is the most frequent cause
of fowls becoming restless and acquir
ing undesirable habits, especially that
of feather pulling.
Lettuce is fine food for young
ducks 1t is easy to raise, and a large
amount may be fed with profit.
Don't be afraid of oyerworklng the
harrow.
Salt and ashes are fine preventive
of sickness in the hog yard. This
means hardwood ashes.
The cowpea is hot weather grow
ing plant 1t Is useless to plant the
seed before the ground gets thoroughly
warm, but if the seed bed is put in
good condition the plant grows quickly
enough TO make up for lost time.
Crop rotation keeps the fields busy.
Idle land is as expensive as idle men.
Successive paintings Of corn will
give lot of COW feed during the sea
son of short pasture, which so often
comes in late summer and early fall.
The man who Is farming 100 acres in
corn and will get forty to fifty bushels
per acre IS not in the class with the
farmer who is farming fifty acres and
who will get seventy to eighty bushels
an acre The latter has about twice
as much corn per acre with half the la
Dor kimbars Dairy Farmer.
If no blackbirds follow along the
furrow I know something's wrong. If
my boy cannot get enough fishing
worms in half day to go fishing I
know more humus Is needed in the
land.-.J. L. Wing.
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GOULD SCARCELY Walk.

rFor the sake Of poor, suffering women, feel
it my duty TO inform you of the great benefit
your medicine has given me" writes Mrs Callie
Bowles. of Watts, Iredell Co, n. c. was in
miserable condition when l wrote to you had
uterine disease so bad could scarcely walk
and suffered such dreadful misery hoped to be
relieved by death. You wrote to me to take
your Fayorite Prescription and have taken
eleven bottles Of it. and two Of your Pleasant
Pellets am entirely well and feel like a new
woman feel thankful to God and to Doctor
Pierce for the blessings I now enjoy. / have
fine, big boy two months old and never got
along we'll in my life. I cant praise your
edicines enough
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DEAIHFRoM LoCKJAw.

never follows an injury dressed with Buck
lens Arnica salye. Its antiseptic and heal
ing properties prevent blood poisoning.
Chas Oswald, merchant, Of Rensselaersville.
y. y, writes at cured Seth Burch, of this
place, Of the ugiiest sore on his neck l ever
saw Cures cuts. Wounds Burns and Sores.
age at Sampson y Azores drug store.
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Pepsoids cure the worst forms of Dys-
pepsia and all other Acute or Chronic
Stomach Disorders by repairing the worm
out lining of the stomach and destroys
all disease germs. Dyspepsia once cured
in this way never returns. Pepsoids is
not patent medicine, but the successful
prescription of DR.. Oldham who has
cured thousands of cases of Chronic
Stomach Troubles, among them Cancer
of the Stomach. 1t cost more money to
produce Pepsoids than any similar prepa-
ration on the market, owing to the large
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CRYlMGy

What for? If you ask her she will tell
you she doesn't know. She just feels
nervous, that's all. A man Is apt to
have very little sympathy with this con-
dition in his wife He can't see any
earthly reason why she should cry. She
has plenty to eat, plenty to wear, and he
does everything he can, he thinks, to
make her happy and in spite of that,
she sits down and cries softly to herself,
apparently without any cause or reason.
But there is a cause, and that cause is
some disorder or disease of the delicate
womanly organism. Unhealthy drains
have taken away the vital force. Inham-
nation is fretting the nerves OF the
whole body. If women did but under
stand the intimate relation OF the gen.
eral health to the local health OF the
delicate womanly organs, they would
realize that the quick way to establish
the general health is to cure the local
disorders DR.. Pierce's Favorite Pre-
scription dries the drains that enfeeble
women, heals Inflammation and ulcera-
ton and cures female weakness. 1t Is
medicine that can absolutely be relied
upon to make weak women strong and
sick women we'll. 1t contains no alco-
hol, and is entirely free from opium,
cocaine and all other narcotics.
Women suffering from disease in
chronic form are invited to consult DR..
Pierce, by letter, free of charge. DR..
Pierce, assisted by his staff of nearly
score OF physicians, has in little over
thirty years treated and cured more
than half million sick and ailing
women. All correspondence is strictly
private and sacredly confidential. Adj
dress DR.. r. V. Pierce, 663 Main Street,
Buffalo " Y
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If you knew the value Of Chamberlain 5
Salye you would never wish to he without
it Here are some of the diseases for which
it is especially valuable; sore nipples, chap
ped hands, burns, frost bites chilbains,
chronic sore eyes. itching piles letter, salt
rheum and eczema Price IS cents per box.
For sale by &, X. Fogg's Drug Store. Show
hogan; /. C Williams Athens sullivan
Newton, Iackman.
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western sheep Fo- New England.

1t appears from the statements of
New England Homestead that Merino
ewes from the far west are in demand
in the eastern region. One shipment of
400 ewes is instance1, and a stock
company had some time ago already
orders for over G,000 sheep. Most of
the farmers that took sheep last year
have ordered more. Most of the fiocks
or range ewes that were shipped last
wear passed the winter in good condi-
ton. a few farmers have been unfor-
tunate owing to various causes but
prospects for the general increase of
sheep raising in the New England hill
towns are very bright