The Harrison times., 1914-04-25
Local and Personal

this week attending the spring con.
vocation of Scottish Rite bodies.
Large delegations from up and
down the railroad arrived on Thurs
day evening to attend the School
contests.
Walter Lovett is preparing to
erect a residence on the lots he re-
Gently purchased, near the passen-
ger depot,
Mrs, L. D, Harlan and daughter,
Miss Lois, have been up from Scar.
cy for the past week, on a visit to
Mrs, Fra nix Mitchell.
Miss Elizabeth Harris will take
a number of pupils, both public
school and kindergarten, after the
close of school. Call Phone 226.
Special trains on the M. & n. A.
road are being run from Eureka and
Leslie to-day on the occasion of the
North Arkansas Athletic Field meet
here.
Prof. ". T. Wilson, of Hendrix
College, is here directing the Basket
Ball games and other athletics of
the North Arkansas School contest
association.
Proprietor Mentzle, Of the Lily
Bakery, says that he has the Tip
Top Bread which so many people
like, and that he challenges Joplin or
any other city to equal it.
1t is said that a Missouri city is
going to try the expipiment of send
ing female inmate of an insane
asylum out shopping for a change
One thing is certain, they will act
natural for the time.
The Harrison base ball team won
by score of 3 to 2, in the game
played last Saturday against com.
bination team including the best
players Of Everton, Olvey and Belle
fonte.
Tuesdays lunch Of our CONNER.
cial Club at the Minicus & Inman
Restaurant was attended by forty
business men, and gave them an OPP
portunity to talk over many mat
ters ofimportance to Harrison.
The NJ, L, South revival closed
Tuesday morning after two
weeks series, during which some
thirty were added to the church and
much good done generally, Reviy'
alst Tatum left for home Wednes.
day,
What came very near being a
yery destrctive fire got out in the
Shinn Woods, north of the Eagle
Heights, one windy day last week
and was with difficulty gotten under
control 1t started from a patch OF
dry grass, which Mrs Dan Thoma.
son, who lives on the place, had
set fire TO because a snake had taken
refuge in il,
April was called by the ancients
the loveliest of the months, This
was because it typihed both the
beauty of Venus, for whom it was
named, and her philosophy for the
uses of beauty. Venus was the most
beautiful creature who ever lived.
She was the Lillian Russe of mytho,
Ilogy, Everybody wanted TO marry
her, and speculation as to her choice
was as great as that with respect to
Alice Roosevelt's. She knocked the
wind out Of everybody by marrying
Vulcan, who did n general yulcaniz'
ing and blaeksmithing business, and
was about the age Of Secretary Me.
Adoo, He was so ugly that the peo-
pie throng,d TO his shop to trade,
Just as we go TO see Eddy Foy It
had been supposed that Venus would
marry Appollo or some other rayish'
ng male beauty, but she took Vul.
can and held the soldering iron in
the shop for him when the outomo.
bile season was on, She explained
that she considered It the duty OF
every beautiful woman TO marry an
ugly man, and asked how else the
average Of beauty was to be raised.
l Nobody could say and from that
day 20 this beautiful women have
married ugly men Thus we have in
April the loveliness of Venus and the
thundefbolts of Vulcan, a eombina.
ton which meant more to the anei'
ents than either the flowers Of May