The Forrest City times., 1906-08-31
New Castle Times.


 anything in your valuable paper iron our community lately. I will try {, give you few items from the garder spot of this great commonwealth anc one Of the most prosperous of ole Crowley Ridge.
 Our people are getting a hustle or themselves of late. We are building sl500 Schoolhouse at New Castle on lot purchased from W. 0. Pirtle. IT Is something We had hard fight over but some of our people have the gift of continuancy and bulldog grip. and In two or three weeks it will be ready for use. It is something our people are highly pleased with and proud of. MT. Catly of Wynne is our boss car penter.
 The old land mark, old Forrest Chapel church, has been moved from its shaky foundation and laid out in piles to make room for new one to cost $500 or more. The brick and lime has been put on the ground pre- paratory to building a church 3Gx60 feet. The old church just torn down has bee9 in use sixty tor seventy years the timbers having been sawed out with q whip saw.
 W. O. Pirtle has added a biz i'm. provement to his dwelling. having torn down the old time portico and built 32-foot gallery, and is himself repainting the whole building. When finished he will have one of the best buildings in Johnson township.
 You can hear the carpenters ham, merS on all sides. Dr. ]. F. McDougaI Is having some nice improvements made on his house by E. F. Sanders and Jack Adair. The doctor is con templating the erection of q nice barn on his farm, lately purchased from R. E. Swan.
 Lots of chills and fever in this neighborhood now, but Dr. McDougal says it is getting so healthy up here on Nubbin Ridge that he is about to starye.
 Miss Alma Pirtie is having a tussle with the chills this week.
 MT. Walter Allen has put on his best duds and gone again on his sum- mer vacation, first to Lake City. to visit his mother and father. and thence to Mississippi to spend few weeks
 Jas. Wilson and Miss Alma Pirtle are getting along nicely with their school. They hope to be occupying their nice new bui;Gding in a short while.
 Say, MT. Editor. this continued wet weather is getting the best of our cot ton crop. The middles are full of half grown bolls, and is still shedding. 1 think our fine prospects that we had are very badly blighted but corn is as fine as ever grew in this county.
 Mrs. Pearl Swan and family are vis- iting her sister. Mrs. Emma Pirtle at New Castle.
 Mrs. Emma Pirtle has been very sick, but we are glad to note that she is now improving.
 MT. Shawyer and brother are adding big improvement to their barn. From all prospects our barns are going to be too small.
 It is with sorrow and heavy heart that we chronicle the death of our be- loved friend, neighbor and brother. Capt. R. w. Peevey. We had known him from our boyhood until his death, and he has taught us many good sun day school lessons, and told us in our boyhood days how to live. and that good impression of love still haunts us, though it was made on our minds and hearts twenty-five or thirty years ago. He was one of the main pillars of our old church as long as he was able to be with us, and we have sorely missed his vacant seat for these many years. By the goodness of God he lived to be very old, about 80 years.
 But God said. it is enough. come up higher and dwell with all the saints and loved ones that have done Gods will on earth" So farewell neighbor, friend and brother. We will try to meet you in the blessed beyond
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