The Forrest City times., 1908-09-25
PALESTINE TIMES.

Cotton is rolling in. i Our sunday schools are well at. tended.
 The gins are running night and day.
 The first picking will pretty near tell the tale.
 Fish are plentiful and cheap in this market al present.
 Tom Simmons and Lucius Wood were business visitors in Marianna Friday
 Mayor II \. Terrell spent several days in Memphis last week.
 D. Scott Appleby was visitor al Nidener between trains Friday night
 5. :. Cornwall. of the Boone Cash Store visited Forrest City last Friday
 Judge CaYanaugh was in town Sat urday injecting life and activity into every one who was fortunate enough to enjoy his society. Tie squire will continue 10 dispense justice in the Goodwin precinct for another two years.
 NIT. Henry Chisenhall happened to a very painful accident while fishing last week He slipped while going down an embankment and dislocated his shoulder. requiring medical at tention.
 Mrs. Geo. Wilson has returned from a visit 10 her parents in Tennessee.
 Bob Levitt left Monday for a trip to Little Rock
 The long drouth has left Us with no garden truck at all. and the outlook for turnips is not promising.
 Wood Union held a big meeting here Saturday 10 vote on the laws and changes recommended by the last state meeting.
 The young people of Palestine and surrounding country enjoyed a very pleasant dance at Wilkinson's hall last Tuesday night.
 NIT. Tom Harris was in town Satur- day with cotton to be ginned
 Miss Gray Taylor has returned from the North, where she has been for some months.
 Dr. T. C. Porter attended the County Medical Institute at Forrest City last week.
 Our public school is in a prosperous condition and is doing the best work in it's history. This is an institution our people always point to with pride.
 City Marshal Halbert says this peo- pie are so good they dc not need q p0- lice officer half of his time, so he has decided to devote his time to running beef market All hail 10 Mr. Hal bert, say we all.
 The short crop and low price does not seem to affect Postmaster Sulcer at all. He hands out mail in the same accommodating manner that always characterized his actions.
 The Times takes the right position when it says; Let's have no blind tigers or boot logging in this county" " Just come over and take few dots from our community and get on to how To run without such lawlessness. In all Of our years of prohibition We have bad but few with the nerve to violate the prohibition laws-and they are not of us or among us now
 Walter Sherman is justly proud of the vote he received in his native township, Johnson, in view of the fact that he was the representative of new and advanced ideas unknown to so many people He takes the also ran' joke in very genial manner, re- membering that blessed is he who expects little, for he shah not be dis appointed. v
 Sentiment figures very little in present day politics, as was demon strated in the recent election here. Squire Wood, democratic nominee, the patriarch of this community, who all thought would be, and many thought should be, elected justice. was showed under an avalanche of Senegambian votes. The squire. who is now s years old. has held this of. ice for so long, and being desirous of rounding up long, useful life in the office, il seemed almost like a crime for this people 10 cast him out. But as We said. sentiment and latter day politics wont mix-and the squire takes il good naturedly. uax .n ~; S.