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The Prescott daily news., 1908-06-19
NEWS ITEMS OF HOPE
AS Cleaned From the Star of Hope by
 the Exchange Editor.

Mayor Jas. D.. Montgomery has been at Coldwater, Miss, on legal business this week.
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 Work has begun in the rebuild ing the property Of Miss Janette McRae on Second Street, recently destroyed by fire. X modern store building one story, is to occupy the ground.
 Steve Carrigan, ST, and fami- ly, with the exception of Miss Lillian returned last Saturday fl om Washington, D. C., whe e they had been to attend the funeral of Mrs Carrigan's father the lamented Jas. K Jones. Miss Lillian remained for a visit tc relatives in Washington
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 There is a deal being consum- mated by joint committee re- presenting the local lodges oi MasOns, Odd Fellows and Knights of Pythias, by which these lodges will acquire a lot 3OX142 feet in size, opposite the postoffice on Elm Street, on which to erect a nome for the orders named. The property in question is owned by Messrs. P. 4. Tharp and ". Y. Foster.
 Invitations have been issued to the marriage of Miss Ruth MOn- cIief to Mr. Arthur M. WestmOre- land, which will occur at the Methodist Church in Prescott Ark, on Tuesday evening, June 3Oth, at o'clock. Thecontract- ing parties are among the most popular of Prescott's young peo- pie, the bride being the daughter of Mrs. Gertrude Moncrief and the groom a promising young business man, and their friends in Hope will join us in best wish es for their future happiness,
The Prescott daily news., 1908-06-19
Sherman for Second Place
The New York Congressman Nominated for Vice-Pres-
 ident by Republicans.

Chicago, June 19.---James s. Sherman of New York;
 Twas nominated this morning by the Republican Nation
 Convention for VicePresident the first ballot The Note stood Sherman, 816; Guild 75; Murphy,77. Woodruff of New York; and seconded by Cannon of I- |nois.
 The running mate of MT. Taft is leading Republican Congressman from the Utica district in New York, and | been serving number of terms. He is at present |aiman'of the Committee Indian Affairs, and is dis |dhgushed as capable legislator. After making the nomination of MT. Sherman un- |mimous the convention adjourned sine die
The Prescott daily news., 1908-06-19

Miss Winnie Haynie and Miss Berter Britt will open a sub scription school in the public school building in Prescott, on June 22nd. All students who failed to complete their grade in the public school, will have an opportunity to attend to finish their grade and be prepared t0 enter the next higher grade at the opening of the public school i'll September.
 A general patronage Of all students is solicited, regardless of whether they completed theic grades or not.
The Prescott daily news., 1908-06-19

FOR SALE-SO acre farm. inn proved, sandy soil, most all in cultivation; 3 miles from Blevins. $500. See Ellsworth.
New-York tribune., 1908-08-30

compared with the ingredient IN somebody
else there is still enough of II for all the purposes
0f examination In my contacts with the species,
l md who possesses a quality which 1 do
not possess The shades of difference between other
people and me serve TO make variety and prevent
monotony; but that is ali.
Broadly speaking. all alike; and SO by
studying myself carefully and comparing myself
with other people and noting the dvergences. have
been enabled to acquire knowledge of the human
race which / perceive IS more accurate and more
comprehensive than that which has been acquired
and revealed by any other members of our species
As q result, my private and concealed opinion OF
myself IS not of a complimentary sort. 1T follows
that my estimate of the human Is the duplicate
OF my estimate OF myself
i am not proposing discuss all of the peculIarl
ties Of the human at this time only wish TO
touch lightly upon two of them. To begin
with, i wonder why should prefer good
ollliard table to poor and why he should pre-
Ter straight to crooked ones and why he should
prefer round balls to Clipped ones; and why he
should prefer level table 10 that slants; and
why ne should prefer responsive cushions to the
dull and unresponsive kind? i wonder at these
hld that the essentials involved in billiards are
ggo,rnIetently and exhaustvely furnished by bad
"illard OUTFIT as they by the best
q, oie OF the essentials Is amusement Very well,
a !, Ohere Is any more amusement be gotten of
e one outfIt than out of the other, the facts
- iaVor OF the bad outfit. The bad outfit will
"dyS FURNISH thirty per cent. more fun for the
'Yhgh' 1896 by Harper s. Rights Reserye
New-York tribune., 1908-08-30

surface undulating, and the cues were headeSS
and had the curve of parenthesls but the torlorn
remnant of narooned miners played games there, and
those games were more entertaining to look at than
a circus and grand opera combined. Nothing but
quite extraordinary skill could score carom on
that table-a skill that required the incest estimate
of force distance, and how much TO allow Tor the
various slans of the table and the other formidable
peCuliarities and idioSyncraSieS furnished by the
contradictions of the outfit.
Last winter here in New York / saw Hoppe and
Schaefer and Sutton and the three or four other
billiard champions of worldwide fame contend
against each other and certainly the art and science
displaved were a wonder to see; yet L saw nothing
there in the way of science and art that was more
wonderful than shots which had Texas Tom
make on the wavy surface of that poor old wreck III
the perishing saloon at Jackass Gdlch forty years
before Once | SAW Texas Tom make string OF
seven points on a single nnlng,-aI calculated
shots and not a fiuke a scratch among them!
often saw him make OF four but when he
made his great string of seven, the boys went wild
with enthusiasm and admiration The JOY and the
noise exceeded that which the great gathering at
Madison Square produced when Sutton scored five
hundred points at the eightecn-lnch game, on a
world famous night last winter. With practice
that champion could score nineteen or twenty on
the Jackass Guch table; but to start with, Texas
Tom would show him miracles that would aston
ish him. Also 1t might have another handsome re-
suit: it might persuade the great experts to dis
card their trifing game and bring the JackaSs
Gulch outfit here and exhibit their skill IN game
worth hundred of the discarded one. tor profound
and breathess interest and for displays Of almost
superhuTnan skill
TN my experience, games played with tiendIsh
outfit furnish ecStaSies OF delight which games
PLAYED with the other kind cannot match. Twenty
seven years ago my budding little family spent the
summer at Batemans Point, near Newport Rhode
Island 1t was a comfortable boarding place, well
stocked with sweet mothers and little children;
New-York tribune., 1908-08-30

II last quarter OF a century of my
life has been pretty constantly and
faithfully devoted to the study of
the human race. that is to say,
the study of myself. for in my
individual person / am the entire
human race compacted together.
/ have found that there is no in
gredient Of the race which j do not
possess III either a small way or a
large way When it is small as
New-York tribune., 1908-08-30
THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF
MARK TW AIN
A Dissertation on Billiards

PLAYERS and for The spectators than Will
the good outfit. Another essential OF
the game is that the outfit shall give
the players full opportunity TO exercise
their best skill and display ii in a way
20 compel the admiration of the spec
tators Very well, the bad outfit Is
nothing behind the good one II this
regard 1t is difficult matter to esti-
mate correctly the eCCentucitIes OF
Clipped balls and a slanting table, and
make the right allowance for them. and
secure a count,-the finest kind of skill
is required to accomplish the satisfac
tory result Another essential of the
game is that it shall add TO the interest
Of the game by furnishing opportunl-
ties to bet Very well in this regard no
good outfit can claim any advantage
over a bad one / know by experience
that bad outfit Is as valuable as the
best one; that an outfit that couldn't
be sold at auction for seven dollars IS
lust as valuable for all the essentials OF
the game as an outfit that IS worth
thousand
ACQUIRED some of this learning IN
Tackass GulCh, California, more than
forty years ago Jacllass Gulch had
once been a rich and thriving surface
mining camp. By and by its gold
deposits were exhausted; then the people
began to go away, and the town began
to decay, and rapidly,-in my time it
had disappeared. Where the bank, and
the city hall, and the church, and the
gambling dens, and the newspaper office,
and the streets of brick blocks had been.
was nothing now but a wide and beauti
full expanse of green grass, peaceful
and charming solitude Half a dozen
scattered dwellings were still inhabited;
and there was still one saloon of a ruined
and ricllety character struggling for life.
but doomed
In its bar was a billiard outfit that was
the counterpart of the one in my father in
law garret The balls were Clipped, the
cloth was darned and patched. the table 5
Sharp County record., 1908-11-13
Trustees Sale OF Land.

BY virtue Of a certain deed Of trust with power
Of sale, executed by A. C. Miller and Mollie Mill
err his wife, to the undersigned as trustee on the
14th day of October 1905, and recorded in the Of
flee Of the Recorder of Sharp county, in the
Southern District, ON the Goth day Of October,
1905, in record book &C" at pages d1d, Ais and
416, conveying the west half Of the northeast
quarter 20 acres, of section 25, township 16,
north Of range 6 west to secure the payment of
Seven Hundred and Twenty-seven Dollars and
Thirty-six Cents, evidenced bya certain proms-
sorry note TO A. A. Arm due October l. 1906, and
bearing interest at ten per cent per annum from
date until paid, at the request OF said A. A. Arm.
default being made, will offer for sale to the
highest bidder at public auction within Che hours
prescribed by law for execution sales on
Saturday, Novcmber2S, 1903,
on Main street in the town Of Sidney In Sullivan
township Sharp county, Arkansas, the said lands
for cash in hand TO pay said debt interest and
costs Of said deed and sale.
This October 81 1908.
A. b, Arm, Trustee
Sharp County record., 1908-11-13
Ne Waa an Enollahman.

Mr. Rudyad Kipllng has long since
declared against The Little lGlglluh.
mem" there Is nothing insular about
him. Nevertheless there remains a
good deal that is lGnglsh-in more
senses than one, Not long ago this
was made evident when, NJ London
club, he encountered one Of those IN.
fortunate beings who give their leisure
moments to u study Of the Baconlan
cipher,
This person engaged Mr. klpllng In
talk, at any rate he engaged the novel,
lat In listening For fully 10 minutes
he poured forth his arguments, and, in
the end, wound up withi
Nov slr, think even YOU cannot
doubt that II was Bacon who wrote tho
plays Of Shakespeare"
"lndeed7' replied Kipling, with an
yawn, "fhat may be, but
really, what difference does II make
Sharp County record., 1908-11-13
GUardial's NotGa.

Ey virtue of an order of the Sham
Court for the Southern District. the un,.
as guardian and curator of Fay and c.,,
ley viii, on Saturday, November 1ooo'
the hours Of ten o'clock in the forenoon !,
o'clot k in the afternoon, at the south f,.
the court house in Evening Shade in tbo g
District of Sharp county, Arkansas 0s.
to the highest bidder, separately. ON
three months, requiring notes with arn. w
carity and retaining lien on the lots - ,'u
the purchase money, the following lat. :,
situated in the town Of Evening Sboa.
Southern District of Sharp county AL.
sit:
Beginning at an iron stake on The r,.a
of Main street, l6 feet east from !,
house built by Dr. S. A. Brown, owned h, !
Shaver & Son; thence north GO rest II
east to the west line Of Cochran and I0,.'|
2S feet more or less; thence east III
with said line of Cochran and l..
W. D. Cochran to the -north side n n
Street; thence west TO the beginning cc,..
land being the east part of lot 20 Eyerir, y
according TO the plat of said town. Ana N
being on the south side cf Main Street n
northwest corner Of the john B. McCaeb,,.,
lot, No 80, thence westwardly with tbo 4
said street to the east line of the Wassor /,
n, thence south with said line tie ,,ua|
corner thereof, thence west with the sOua \
said lot to the northeast corner Of the Al.
lot No "a, thence south to the northwest n
of the j. d. May lot No. g. thence cast n
lols TO the west line of the w. T. Stokes \
80 and thence north on the said Stokes M
Caleb's west lines to the place of.fbepirui,
ing the north part of lot No 81 in r..
Shade, according to the plat of said,tovn NJ
ing to said minors for the naintorance. AM
cation Of said minors and for reinvCstment
This September the 18th, 1903.
Lille BlMa,
Guardian and q,
Sharp County record., 1908-11-13
Probate Court Notices.

Notice Is hereby given that the following
named administrators and guardians filed accounts
current at tho Sept. term, 1903, of tho Probate
Court for tho Southern District Of Sharp county
for settlement with their respective ostateg, to-
wit;
G. j. Andrews, administrator estate Of NJ A.
puckett. deceased final settlement.
w. G. Shaver, guardian Dean Tompkins annual
settlement
j. r, Spurlock administrator estate Of Frank
Hill docoased final settlement
And all parties Interested In the 0ettloment
of said estates must come forward and file ex-
ceptIons to said accounts II any they have, on or
before the third day OF the next term Of said court
or they will be forever barred from excepting said
accounts or any item thereof,
Arthur Sullivan, Clerk.
Sharp County record., 1908-11-13
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION
nnnnrlmenl OF rhn lnlnrInr.

u, q, Land Office at Little Rock, Ark
Oct n, 1908
Notice Ia hereby given that william B, Gay Of
pouphkeepse, Ark who, on Nov ~ 1909, made
Homestead Entry No, 263sd, Serial No Oi7i, for
northeast quarter southeast quarter, aection T.,
township 10, north range west and north half
aouthwcnt duartcr section q. lowrahin lG. north
range 4 west 9th Principal Meridian has filed
notice Of intention To make Final Five Year Proof
to establish claim to the land above described,
befure the CLERK OF Sharp County, Ark, ut Eve.
ming Shade, Ark on the 5Oth day Of November.
1908.
Claimant nnmes ra witnesses james Freeman,
Frank Green Chas Br ghtScl, W. A. Gay, MI
Of poughkccpaie, Ark
II, H. Myera Register.
Sharp County record., 1908-11-13
NOTICE TOR PUBLICATION.
Department or The Interior.

u. s., Land Office at Little Rock, Ark.
Oct TO- 1908,
Notice Ia hereby given that Joseph N, Howard
Of Bengay, Ark, who, on Jan %, 1909, made
Homestead Entry No 1904, Serial No Oi8O for
southeast quarter southeast quarter focton 49,
township 10, north range west, 9TH Principal
Meridian, has filed notice of intention 70 make
Final Five Yonr Proof TO establish claim TO the
land above described, before the County Judge of
Sharp County, Ark at Evening Shade, Ark on
the 2lat day Of Nov, 1903,
Claimant names as witnesseai Oliver lIoggard
Of Bengay Ark, =, A. GoH of Calamne, Ark,
Homer Doas Of Grange, Ark, w. u, Matthews Of
Cave CITY, Ark,
H. II. Myers Reglpter.
Sharp County record., 1908-11-13

Sa.es agent for DR., Cbas. f, Simmons Farm
the line of the already located San Antonio X
Grande Railroad. The opportunity of lifein|
One of the finest ranches that the world has eOi
seen, embracing 95 900 acres in the Garden Spot
the World" Atascosa County, Texas Opportr1
ties like this seldom occur and will probably nei
occur again.
Opportunity Seldom Comes But Once
Two hundred and ten dollars, payable SO per mont
buys two lots for home or business in town and|
farm of from 10 acre truck farm to $40 acre faf1
Mineral lands, farms improved and unimprovcdI
Arkansas for sale,
Sharp County record., 1908-11-13

The season of the year is
at hand when our subscribers
should begin to look after
their accounts to this paper.
Many of ou subscribers
have very recently paid us
what they owed, to all of
whom we extend our thanks,
but there are a great many
vet who are in arrears to
the paper who have not
made settlement.
The Record has never be.
longed to that class of news
papers that continually dun
and harangue their readers
through their columns about
subscription money. We
do not believe in that kind of
business. We have always
had faith in our subscribers,
who are among the best cltl-
zenship Of Sharp county and
surrounding counties, that
when the proper time for
settling accounts roll J e d
around they would remember
the Record, and very few of
them indeed have ever dis
appointed us.
There is not a week nor a
day passes that this paper
does not pay debts; debts
for material, labor, etc,
and at this time of the year,
the season when people are
in the midst of a bountlful
crop and money is more
plentiful than at other sea.
sons, we must collect what
is due the paper if we con-
tlnue to meet our own debts
promptly and have three
meals a day at home. We
have to pay our debts or get
out of business, for we could
not long buy paper, material
and hire help on credit.
Our books will show there
is quite a considerable sum
due this paper on subscrip.
ton, and no one citizen owes
any large part of it, Of
course, Every mans sub.
scription account to this Of,
fee IS a small one, yet when
these amounts are added to.
gether they aggregate a sum
that means something to us,
Remember that the business
OF a country newspaper Of
Fee is made up of small ac
counts principally, and tha'
it has no other accounts up
on which to depend.
We have at all time
striveu to make the Recorc
t h e best paper possibl
under the circumstances an,
make it worth the pric
to every subscriber, !
you owe US for the paper
we would appreciate yer
much your help now,
About November 18th W
auaaat a ... . 49,.
Sharp County record., 1908-11-13
THECOURTS

= Circuit Court, Northern Dis
trict-First Monday in January
and July. Southern District
Second Monday in February and
August.
County Court-Third Monday
in January, April, July and Oc-
tober. No County Court in the
Northern District.
Probate Court-Northern Dis
trict-Third Monday in March,
June, September and December.
Southern District-Second Mon
day in March, June, September
and December.
Chancery Court Southern Dis
trict-First Monday in May and
November. Northern District
Second Monday in March and
September.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-03-29
TO HAVE CLUB ROOM FOR.
YOUNG WORKING GIRLS
Department for Young Woman's
Christian Association - Remark
able Tests Made on Concrete
Work of New Building

An interesting feature of the new
building for the Young Woman's Chris
tian association, now being erected at
Hill and Third streets, will be club
room for young working girls. The
finishings for this department will be
the gift of the women of the Ebell club.
A general color scheme of old blue
has been chosen and in the various ar
rangements every attention will be Civ
en- to bringing out artistic effects as
well as to the providing of articles of
comfort and utility. The room, which
it Is expected will be ready for occu-
pancy early in May, is 19x35 feet, with
two large windows overlooking Hill
street.
It's use is intended particularly for
cash girls of the different dry goods
stores of the city, who, besides enjoying
its privileges at the noon hour, will be
permitted to read there or to entertain
their friends as late as o'clock in the
evening.
Several tests have been made of the
reinforced concrete work in the Y. w.
c. A. building. An area 1SX16 feet, or
2SS square feet, was subjected to load
of 300 pounds to the square foot, Sc, 400
pounds in all, the detection in the CEN
ter of the panel being one-siXth of an
inch.
Another test was made on the sixth
floor, 4O,5O0 pounds being placed on an
area lexis feet. With this load the
panel showed a DETECTION of one-eighth
of an inch in the center. The tests
were made under the direction of In
spector ]. F. Blee of the building de-
partment.
This structure is being constructed by
the Richards-N Neustadt Construction
company from plans by Architect Ar
th-r B. Benton.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-03-29
Los ANGELES HERALD: SUNDAY MORNING. MARCH 20,
MODERN BUNGALOWS WITH
LOTS BRING GOOD PRICE

The following sales have been MADE
by Althouse Bros:
r. T. Cooper to George Neyl1tt, a
modern Groom bungalow, Prospect av-
enue and Sixteenth street, Clarkdale,
Cal The house containm all modern
improvements, such as hardwood floors,
furnace, etc, with large improved
grounds, 100x15O feet; bought for a
home, at $500.
w. d. Reyburn to J. II. Byerley, a
new and modern 7-room bungalow at
2913 Dalton avenue; lot 50x150 feet;
bought for home, at $4,000.
L. ]. Cordes to w. A. McCombs, a
modern Groom bungalow at 1928 Hobart
boulevard. The house has just been
completed and contains all modern inn
provements, such as hardwood floors,
ETC.; bought for a home, at $4,000
AlthOuse Bros. and Arnold & Dodge
have sold to Miss M. +. Housh an un-
improved lot at the southeast corner OF
Third avenue and Glendon way, Ramo-
no Park. Miss Housh will improve this
lot with a Groom bungalow in the near
future, to cost about $4,000. The lot is
50x152 and cost 1915.
w. o. McCubbin has sold to F. w
Schultz Groom modern bungalow al
1905 West Twenty-ninth place; bought
for an investment; lot 43x131 feet, cost
$3.50.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-03-29
ORDERS SURVEY FOR
NEW IMPERIAL ROAD
County Board Instructs Engineer to
Ascertain Best Route for High
way Between Valley and
San Diego

Adviees from San Diego are that the
board of supervisors of Imperial county
have taken preliminary steps toward
building the proposed highway between
the valley and San Diego by ordering
the survey of a proposed route by way
of the old military stage road as far
as the mountains.
County Surveyor Gains was in
structed to ascertain the best route
possible by crossing the New river
near Silsbee, running thence to Coyote
Wells and Mountain Springs, six miles
above the international boundary line.
From there 1t is proposed to run in q
southwesterly direction to Jacumba ana
Campo, and from there to San Diego.
The survey will probably take several
weeks or longer, and when the surveyor
is ready to make his report, 1t is prob
able that the supervisors will make a
personal tour of the route before pro-
ceeding further with whatever action
is to be taken.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-03-29
TRADES CHICAGO FLATS
FOR ANAHEIM RANCH
Los Angeles Man Parts with City
Property Valued at $4,000 for
Highly Improved Sheffield
Walnut Grove

One of the largest exchanges in
Southern California during the past
week was that made by the Jones &
Rider Land company, Incorporated, OF
this city. in which a fine stone front
building at Chicago was traded for a
highly improved walnut grove at Ana
helm. The considerations named were
$35, 900 on the Chicago property and
$25, 900 on the ranch.
The Chicago building is situated at
445S-4460 Okenwald avenue, being 4
modern apartment house containing
eight flats of seven and eight rooms
each. The apartments are known as
the Shoreham.
The walnut grove is highly improved
with trees years old. with modern
house and outbuildings, together with
thirty-two shares of Anaheim Union
Water company.
The former owner of the Chicago
property is ]. S. Bergman, Los An
geles man. c. S. Sheffield is the former
owner of the ranch. The difference III
costs was adjusted by the latter.