The Springdale news., 1908-03-06

ming on d short business trip to Kansas City, Mo.
 Miss Alice McClendon return ed to her home at Winslow Fri day after all extended visit here with her brother, J. E. McClen- don
 J. C. Boatright and wife re- turned yesterday from d visit with Madison county relatives.
 Mrs. Lizzie Corlew and daugh- ters departed Sunday evening for their home at Bentonvllle after short sojourn with relatives here.
 Tom Grebe and family have moved back to Johnson after an absence of several months.
 \ big black wolf has been seen by several parties over in the Clear Creek hills. Come and catch him Ii you want him.
 Bonnet Maxey k having nervous prostrations" on ac- count of the delay oeeasioned by the non-arrival of the crate material for making berry crates. Bennett 4aS the contract for making crates this season, and wanted to get them made during this month, but not bit of the raw material has arrived yet.
 The public school at this place closed last Tuesday and OH Wednesday night the entertain nent was given. The program was quite lengthy, but every part was we'll carried out and the best behaved audience that We have ever noted gave carful at tention to the rendering. of the program. Nc un-toward incident marred the occasion and folks do say that tis the best 'un we've ever had The teachers, Misses Mary Craig and Add1e Lynch, have taught q most successful school and have Won the love and confidence of every pupil III the district Johnson folks want these two teachers again, so no other applicants need to apply for the reservation school.
 Don't Worry. We have d lot O folks down here who whistle and sing too=while Tt their work. You'd just ought to hear our 'whistling blacksmith
 Prof. C. X. Cole writes from Dunn, La, that lie Is the super intendent of big plantation down there, and that he IS get ting ground ready for planting 400 acres to corn and cotton and 60 acres to oats.
 Dock Taylor is living in John son again after trying living in Springdale and Fayetteville. Dock has moved to the old Cor man place which now belongs to Kansas City land company.
 Teeumseh, about the first thing girl does when she has learned to count IS to count nine stars nine nights, and one hun- dred white horses. If you don | know what they do 1t for, any girl can tell you.
 Johnson folks are threatened with an epidemic of humps and measles, as both diseases are pre- valent in outlying localities, but only a couple of cases are report ed on the reservation.
 Mir. and Mrs. Hugh Mcclure arrived from Nevada last Wednes- day i'll time to attend the funeral and burial of J. .. Johnson, Mrs. McGuire's father. The services were held by Rev. Hanks, at the home of deceased, and interment was in Shady Grove cemetery late W ednesday evening.
 Rev. Crawford held religious services at Shady Grove Sunday. Two candidates tor baptism were immersed in Clear creek Sunday evening. Bro. Crawford is d veteran gospel dispenser and en- joys a wide acquaintance among the Ozark hills.
 Mulkeepmo strolled down to Stony Point Sunday evening to see how the old place looked Folks were gathering for one of the big singlngs for which the place is justly famous, for they are singers down there. tar ried only a few minutes around the old familiar place, but a host of recollections overwhelmed me as I thought of the absent ones who were not there to well