The Harrison times. (Harrison, Boone Co., Ark) 1876-1938, 1908-07-18
LOCAL.
Circuit court next week

The rains have been light this
week, though, as Uncle Bige would
say ut kept talking about it =
The store-room next door south
to ones' Livery Stable has been
rented for an office for our County
and Circuit Clerks
The Boone County F. E. and C
L. is in session today at the San.
sing School House, several miles
northeast of Harrison.
Judge Cave, now manager of the
Cocker Hollow mines, is putting in
steam drills and getting in shape to
make the ground produce in good
earnest.
"A full carload OF peaches from
Frank Reeves peach orchard near
Marshall passed up the road We'd
nesday They We're consigned to
Cleveland, OHIO,
! Fl, Bartles, of Bartlesville, Ok
lahoma, is at the Batavia Fruit
Farm, looking after the peach crop.
He has over half a hundred men
picking and loading the cars,
Parties coming from the east end
of our railroad, say that most of
the grading is done to Heber, and
that steel will be laid into Heber
from the north within about thirty
days
Everybody agrees that hogs
running at large are an unmitigated
nuisance, producing filth every
where; and yet in spite of our hog
ordinance they are on our streets
every day. Why is this
-Harrison's State Guards com
pany, splendidly armed and equip
ped, left on Tuesday for Leon
Springs, Texas, where they go into
camp for ten days with the provis.
ional Arkansas regiment.
The Republican County Central
Committee OF Boone county met in
Harrison yesterday. The resigna-
ton ofG. l.. Christian as a candi-
date for county clerk was accepted
and {. E Middleton of Omaha, was
selected to fill the vacancy.
ALL the school reports of the
county were DESTROYED in the court
house fire, and the county examiner
is having hard work to get the
enumeration figures in time to Sc
cure appointments School boards
should come to his assistance
promptly.
Hon. Sam ones, candidate
for Governor on the Socialist ticket,
came in Thursday for a short rest
with homefolks. He is making
very extended canvass under the d.
rection of the State Socialist COM
mittee, and thinks he is winning
friends to the cause every day.
The NJ. & N. A. Ry Co. are pre-
pairing for additional business that
will result in opening the road to
Searcy in September Two baggage
cars and two combination cars are
being put up by the St. Charles car
works. and new passenger locomo-
tive will soon arrive from Patterson,
New Jersey.
A man has a right to direct the
investment of his own money; but
when he has been especially prosper
Gus in town and still lives there,
and when that town needs to be
pushed by home capital, it seems
like wanton disloyalty for him to
go seeking elsewhere for an oppor-
tunity to build houses and promote
enterprises.
Jos X. Holt this week became
the owner of one of the best homes
in Harrison, when for $500 he
bought the Redwood residence in
the extreme south part of town.
Only last year a splendid house was
built by r. Redwood on the ten
acres formerly owned by R b. Fran
els, and as the building alone cost
over $4, 900 it may be said that Mr.
Holt got an exceptional bargain.
A young man named Henley, of
St. Toe, went to Eureka Springs the
day before the recent excursion from
Leslie, laid in a big supply of ''con-
traband," and when the excursion
arrived Sunday, went to selling
it openly on the streets He was
promptly pulled, and after paying
fine and Jail sentence in Carroll
county, Uncle Sam brought him here
this week, on the charge of selling
without government license. The
way of the bootlegger is devious and
considerably shaggy.