The weekly soliphone. (Paragould, Greene County, Ark.) 1907-1918, 1915-09-03

city this morning.
Born, to Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Nc
Gee, 22S Poplar street, this morn
ing, body baby.
Mrs. Ed Baugh and children
have returned from visit to rel
atives and friends in ST. Louis.
Mr.. and Mrs. Emery Ellis, re-
siding on West Garland street, are
the parents of a new boy baby,
born Saturday.
Mrs Lizzie Porter returned yes
terday from st. Louis where she
spent the past week buying goods
for the Joseph store.
Frank Watwood has returned to
his home in Waco, Texas, after
having spent several days here Wis
iting relatives and friends.
Miss Dot Thompson who has
been attending school at Columbus,
Mo, taking a special course for
teachers, has returned home.
Miss Shirley Justis has returned
from Dyersburg and other points
in West Tennessee where she spent
two weeks visiting friends and rel
atives.
Mrs. Lee Milan and baby have
returned to Memphis. Mrs. Milan
was called here the first of last
week by the death of her mother,
Mrs. S. R. Simpson.
Rev. F. NJ. Tolleson, wife and
children returned Saturday night
from their trip to the west where
they took in the big expositions at
San Francisco and San Diego.
Jap Edwards and wife and Tom
Lloyd and wife are spending the
day with Mr.. and Mrs. j. c. Ed
wards at Bethel, participating in a
big birthday dinner served for Mrs.
]. C. Edwards.
Herschel Nicely, game warden,
left this morning for the overflow
ed districts in the White river bot
toms, to look after the protection
of the deer driven to the highlands
by the floods.
Saturday evening at eight O'Clock
S. c. Bentley, brother of Tom
| Bentley, county farm demonstration
and Miss Ruth Walker, were mar
ried at the home of Rev. A. c. Crit
! fin.
Tom Ellison, formerly chief of
police of Hot Springs, and c. G.
| Bryan, also of Hot Springs, are
here looking for suitable quarters
in which to open up pool and
billiard hall.
Three negroes named Willie
Lewis, w, w. Wilson and Willie
Wilson, engaged in a general fight
on South Pruet street yesterday aft
ernoon. This morning they were
given fines of $3.50 each in police
court.
C. w. Stedman who is collecting
funds for the relief of the flood suf-
ferers in the Newport district, this
morning reported additional contri-
buttons from the following: E. c.
Bowman, ]. E. Neberry and DR.
H. j. Green.
C. M. Wells, route agent for the
Wells Fargo & Co. Express, is
taking his annual vacation, and he
and his wife and son have gone to
Dunbar, Pa, to visit friends and
relatives. G. ]. Stumpff of Pine
Bluff is serving as route agent in
his place.
F. M. Sprague who represents
Swift & Co., in this territory, ar
rived in the city yesterday with
his bride and in the future he will
make Paragould his headquarters
Mr.. and Mrs. Sprague have engag-
ed rooms in the new Vandervoort
hotel.
Henry Coleman, who had charge
of the cotton gin of the East st
Louis Cotton Oil Company in this
city last year, has returned from
near Holly Springs, Miss, where
he made a crop this summer Mr.
Coleman will operate R. B. Mains
gin at Halliday this season.
Jack Crawford OF the local post
office force, left last night for Sar
Francisco as one of the Arkansas
delegates to the national associa
ton of postoffice clerks. He viii
visit many points of interest IN
the west, going from San francisco
to Seattle by boat. He expects tt
be gone thirty days.
Eli Meiser has returned from
FIT. Wayne, Ind, where he attend
ed the annual reunion of the sur
vivors of the Forty-fourth Indiana
regiment. Mr.. Meiser said the reg
iment originally consisted of fiji
teen hundred men, but that no