The Forrest City times., 1908-10-09
PALESTINE TIMES.

me nlgnt riders nave not appeared yet.
 ]. II. Stephens spent Monday in Memphis.
 Frank Young took in the Memphis Fair Saturday.
 Rev. May, of Wheatley, was here Friday shopping.
 A whole lot of corn will be made, and that will help.
 Paul Martin has recovered from a spell of hematuria.
 Dr. Scott Appleby took in the Mem phis Fair Tuesday.
 Sunday was an ideal day for buggy riding and spooning
 Mrs. Halbert who has been quite sick is able to be up.
 Mr. and Mrs. E. $. Cornwall visited the Memphis fair last week.
 Deputy Sheriff Tom Simmons visit ed the county capital Monday.
 Bob Gordon was over from Missis- sippi several days the past week
 Marshal Halbert has opened his beef market and everybody is happy.
 MT. Frank Cox, of Lee county, was here Monday to hear Rhodes speech
 Grandpa Sloniker was circulating among his host of friends here Satur- day.
 George Hudspeth, champion base ballist of Moon Lake, spent Sunday here.
 Mayor Terrell is buying cotton for a Memphis firm and is at home but little.
 MT. Henry Jordan was business visitor to Forrest City since our last letter.
 Mrs. C. NJ. Wilkinson spent last week with relatives and friends in Memphis.
 Ryan Bennett, of Forrest City, at tended Sunday school here last Sun day morning.
 The base ball season is over, and Uncle" George Taylor is the happiest l inan III uoNn.
 Miss Jamie Sanford has closed her school at Jericho and returned to her home in Memphis.
 MT. Geo. Morris has been hauling brick for improvements on his place near Slonikers Mill.
 The cold weather has nipped sick ness in the bud. We have a healthy community at present.
 Judge Cowan, of Forrest City, was here Friday, representing w. C. Early & Company, of Memphis.
 Mir. and Mrs. JIG Bell are rejoicing over the arrival of fine girl baby at their home Sunday night.
 From a local estimate of the crou most of our prominent" farmers are becoming enthusiastic bulls
 Beecher Lewis, of Brinkley, ad- dressed large crowd of Union men at Green Grove Saturday night
 The decision of the attorney general that we have no road tax will knock out all our candidates for road over seer.
 Marianna has been getting the bulk of the cotton from this section, but we learn that the buyers there have "cut it out.n Henry Williams was circulating petition Saturday asking the county judge to give him the appointment as road overseer.
 Mrs. Pointer and Miss Cornelia Cornwell, of Allgood, Tennessee, have been the guests of their brother, MT. B. s. Cornwell.
 Owing to conditions over which we have no control there will be no side walk building in Palestine, for the present, any way, we regret to say.
 L'Anguille river has been on a ram page and fishing is done for for this season, as the water will hardly get clear before the winter rains begin.
 our people reJoice Tn the prosperity of The Times from an advertising standpoint, but were disappointed at the omission of the Palestine column last week.
 Our people can bear with patience much trouble and tribulations and disappointments, but the limit with them is reached when the turnip crop is failure as now.
 Uncle Abe Jones, of Pine Tree, was here Monday. Everybody knows Abe and everybody who knows Abe knows Abe is going to Socialist speaking when it is in reaching distance.
 There is positively no need of any night riders in this section. By the time most of our people get rid of