The Dermott news., 1914-12-31

L. Bartmess came in last Thursday from Oregon and Washington, where he has been for several months. He expects to return to the Pacific coast after a stay of several weeks here.
 .Ye editor" is indebted to S. L. Shemwell. formerly of this place but now of Fort Myers. Florida, for some Florida oranges and grape fruit which were as fine as any We have ever eaten.
 Misses Mildred and Mary Wayne Mercer. Miss Jennie Ford Crawford and Miss Mary Jane Anderson, all of Centerviile, Miss. are spending the holidays here at the ] A. Bennett home
 Mrs. w A. Skipper and little daugh- ter, Lucille. and Mrs Blair Lease of Monroe, La, have been guests the past week of Mr and Mrs I. A. Vii kinson They will return to Monroe Sunday.
 ". C. Bowaen and family went to Collins the first of the week to visit Mir. Bowden's sister. Mrs W C. Bul- lock. He returned yesterday. Mrs. Bowden and the children remaining for q longer visit.
 Mrs. P. E. Johnson and little daugh- ter of Holly Grove came in the fast of the week to spend several days at the home of her parents, Mir. and Mrs W. J. Raborn. Dr. Johnson is expected to join them here today
 Mrs. $ X. Bordeaux of Little Rock came down last week to spend the hol- days here at the home of her sor. Hen " Bordeaux She and her grandson. Henry Lloyd Bordeaux, are visiting in Monticello d couple of days this week.
 The Dermott Fruit Co., which has apparently been doing a thriving bus mess at their store OF Front St. "yu= moosed' over night the early part of the week. Instead O: come in cards on the front door customers the next morning found attachment notices ef various and numerous kinds.
 Mrs. J. C. Hoffman entertained d small party of friends Tuesday alter noon with "golng away party" in honor of Mrs. W. II Diamond who leaves the latter part of the week fer Pine RluF Mir Diamond will join her there as soon as he closes up the affairs of the Quality Store, which goes out of business today
 On pages four and five of this paper may be found two page ad for Der mott, the City of Opportunity. and an invitation to the world in general to investigate and move in Incidentally, We note the fact that The Dermott News office Is the only one in the county which has the press aud facil- ties for getting out a two-pa -1 ad.
 Mrs. H. P. Ford came over from Arkansas City N educsIay of last week to spend the holidays here, but was called home Thursday by the news that their house and everything in it had been destroyed by fire shortly after midnight Wednesday night, She and Mr. Ford came over later and spent Christmas teye at the B. Ford home.
 w. T. Alexander, manager of the Alex Theatle has received letter from the Thanhouser Syndicate Corpo- ration stating that they can give no definite information as to the date for the release of the 23d episode of the Million Dollar Mystery This episode is to be the solution of the 22 episodes already shown and the delay is caused by the enormous number of solutions that have been submitted in the contest for the Sl0, GOO prize. Several weeks will be required for the committee to go over all these solutions, and after the decision is made as to the best one, the story must be put into action and the films made Proper publicity will be given when the date k known