Ripley County democrat., 1911-11-03
Ferguson pays cash for eggs.


from business trip to St. Louis.
Mrs NJ. ]. Harmon left for seooba,
Mississippi, last Saturday on a visit to
relatives.
Justice Billie Brown, lumber dealer
and manufacturer Of Pine, was in town
Saturday on business.
Chester Wright came home from Chi
csgo. where he has been working during
the simmer, lastMonday,
Prof. A. w. Groves OF Washington,
Mo-, was here during the pas. week,
over Sunday, visiting relatives.
For SALE.-One set OF double chain
harness; in tirst-class condition. Will
go at a bargain. Call at this ONCE.
Mrs. J. r. Wright, VINO has been vis-
iting her daughter, Mrs Sam Lawrence,
at Columbus, Mississippi, for several
weeks, returned home the past week.
DR.. w. M. Byrd. formerly located at
OILY but now at Burnham, in the Ozarks,
was in town this week shaking hands
with friends, having made business
trip back to his old home.
Eugene Johnston passed successful
examination and is now registered
pharmacist, taking the examination
while in St, Louis q week or two age
while the late board was in session
there.
Ed Nunnelee and wife and little
daughter OF Bloomfield, and Fred Nun
melee and wife Of Oran were here this
week visiting their father and mother,
Mr.. and Mrs. John II, Nunnelee, for
few days.
Uncle Polk Weatherspoon came home
the past week from trip to Tennessee,
lie went there expecting to spend the
winter but concluded that the old home
in Ripley was the better place for him
and he came back.
Cards are out inviting friends to the
wedding OF Mr. Roderick Proctor and
Miss Edna Virginia Gilbert, the cere-
mony to be performed at 10 o'clock at
the Presbyterian church in this city,
Friday, November i7th.
Sore doses 1896" will cure any case
Of Chills and Fever. Price, 25c. 3S-b2.
A telephone message from the party
of hunters who left here last Tuesday
for ten days hunt on Running Water,
in the extreme northwest part OF the
county, says they reached their camp
all right Tuesday night and that every
thing is all right; that they have had a
drive every day but up to last night had
not started nor seen any deer.
Switch -ties as we'll az Gloss. ties have
been reduced in price within the past
two weeks, and white oak ties are now
worth only 81 cents instead OF 40 as
formerly, We understand that seconds,
or culls, are not taken at all, This re-
duction 10 the price OF ties will nearly
put au end TO the making OF new con-
tracts and make the tie business very
quiet.
The meetings at the Christian church
are nightly increasing in interest, Elder
James Sharratt OF Kansas City is an
able man and interests his audiences
from the start. His daughter, Miss
Edith Sharratt, an accomplished musi.
clan, conducts the song service, and thai
is also an excellent feature of the meet
ings. The house is filled at every ser
vice and much interest is shown.
A call was issued by County Clerr
Stone for a session OF the county cour
yesterday afternoon for the purpose o
holding an inquest on the sanity o
JEFF Mckinney, young man living il
the north part Of the county IN thu
Macedonia neighborhood. Sickness ant
physical iniirmltv is said TO be the caus,
Of his arrangement. While not con
sidered in a dangerous state he, in a a
of moroseness last evening, tried to kil
his brother, George Mckinney. Tn,
inquest will be held today.
Decidedly winterish weather the pas
day or two. Ice the last few nights OF
every open pool or vessel OF water, an,
old Jack Frost has put his seal mos
effectually upon the foliage Of the iores
trees that week or ten days ago wer
as green and fresh as In mid summer
Now the forests are brown and yello,
and red and many trees are naked an
bare. The luxuriant, rich range gras
is turning white and falling, and tn
autumnal and golden-rod are dead an
/ whitening by the highways.
Clarence Dudley. the young ma
aged about IS years, who won the Frisc
! scholarship at the Frisco Corn Sho
!. about ten days ago, left last Sunday Fl
Columbia TO enter the College Of AgrI
: culture at the State University. Tn
scholarship Is quite prize. being wort