The weekly soliphone., 1915-07-16
LOCAL NEWS
(From Thursdays Daily Press


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 Mrs. Emily Meiser and her moth CT, Mrs Kennard, have moved into Mrs. Meiser's elegant new home on Highland street.
 Mrs. T. M, Elkins of Kennett was brought to the Paragould sanita- rum yesterday afternoon for an emergency operation.
 Mrs. H. c. Hawk of Vanndale, who has been undergoing treat ment at the sanitarium, returned to her home this morning.
 We carry mower repairs. New som's. It
 Dr. Henry Dickson returned last night from a trip to the west where he attended the expositions at San Francisco and San Diego.
 Joe Waxman joined a party of motorists from Walnut Ridge yes terday and left on an overland trip to St. Louis and other points.
 George Kirby, a well known farmer residing north of the city, returned this morning from Abl- line, Texas, where he went to see his brother who has been ill.
 Tin fruit cans, sealing wax, jar rubbers, jar caps, and Mason fruit ,o.n Nau,cnn,c f A card from Col. H. B. Morgan who is with Eli Meiser and Telfair Stedman on an auto trip through the west, states the party has got ten as far as Cripple Creek, Colo, and that they are thoroughly en- toying the trip.
 Bob Hays, the watermelon king residing three miles east of Para gould, was here today and stated his crop of melons is exceptionally good this year. They are now ripening and within few days MT. Hays will begin to market his crop in Paragould.
 Dr. R. J. Haley has returned from Memphis where he spent the past two weeks taking treatment from specialist for a skin trouble that has been annoying him for some time. He stated this morning he intended getting tent and going to the St. Francis river to spend two weeks on an outing.
 The Poplar Bluff Citizens Dem ocrat of yesterday contained an ac- , count of the marriage of Miss Kathleen Kiigore, well known in Paragould, to Cedrick H. Williams of Little Rock. Mir. and Mrs. Clarence Dickinson, cousins of the bride Mrs John Reeves, aunt of the bride, and Miss Lucille Loeb, close friend of the bride, were Par agould members of the wedding party.
 Jim Agee, who left here Monday morning with w. N. Kimbrough on an auto trip to Tennessee, returned last night from Memphis MT. Agee intended going to Dyersburg and other points in West Tennes- see but was called home by the illness of his little girl. He said he and MT. Kimbrough made the drive from Paragould to Helena Monday, and that on Tuesday they went from Helena to Memphis in half a day.
 P. E. House of the House & Meiser Company, stated this morn ing that during the past two days he had purchased from Greene county farmers more than four thousand bales of timothy hay, the l prices ranging from twelve to four teen dollars per ton. The hay crop here this year is record breaker both in quality and quantity and many farmers have produced not only enough for home consumption but a surplus for market purposes.
 George Light, treasurer of the Greene county marketing associa- tion, stated this morning he had received a check from the Ozark fruit growers association for the car load of Irish potatoes shipped out of Paragould to Minneapolis two weeks ago. The potatoes net ted the farmers here forty cents z bushcl. A meeting of the local as sociation will be held next Saturday and the proceeds from the sale o1 the potatoes will be apportionet among those who contributed to thu i, consignment.
 Congressman w. L. Hensley O Pennington, Mo, and J. c. Sever a capitalist of Bonne Terre, Mo.
 were iii Paragould yesterday witt Congressman Caraway of Jones boro looking over this city an(