The Harrison times., 1916-03-18
Local and Personal

urday April lst 1916,
The recent cold spell has set the
grippe to gripping again.
Mrs. J. r. Newman suffered from
severe attact of pneumonia the first
OF the week, but is recovering.
u. l., Clute; of Pindall, was a
Harrison visitor Wednesday. He re-
ports business booming in the Ium-
Der line.
The Girls of the High School
Basket Ball team will give a Box
Supper on the evening of Saturday
March 25th.
Ross Crawford and Miss Olive
Travis were married the first of the
week and left at once for their future
home at Clairmore, Oklahoma,
-J.W. Millerleft Monday for an ex-
tended witt to relatives in North
Missouri and then out west. He will
probably be absent all summer.
"A. E. Knight, in the employ of
the Wells-Fargo Express Co., has been
transferred to Joplin, and T. A. Keel
in has accepted the position here.
/-Chas. W. Capps has been spend
ing some time in the Ponca City sec
ton of Newton county, and it is un-
derStood that he is about to get into
the zinc mining business.
Mr. J. S. Deasm, travelling Sales
man for the Thomas Fruit Co. Joplin,
with headquarters here, has been call
ed to his home at Gleason, Tenn, by
the death of his father 7. J. DeaSm.
old friends here of Prof. c. L.
Scott, at one time principal of our
school, were pleased to meet him again
Tuesday after several years during
which he has been farming in Okla
homa.
The TerpSichorean Club gave
special dance Thursday night at
their hall, and the Harmony Orches-
ira did likewise Friday night at the
Midway. Evidently Harrison's
dancers are enjoying themselves these
days.
Mrs. Geo. W. Frew, aged 80
years, died Sunday at the home of her
daughter at Springfield, Mo-. and was
buried here Tuesday by the side of
her husband in the Harrison cemetery,
Rev. c. H. Whitehead conducting the
services.
The Valley Springs Academy, J.
0. Curnutt, principal, will close
most successful term on the 23rd
with appropriate exercises. Lawrence
W. Gibson and Felix G.. Carroll con-
stitute the senior class. Rev. NJ. F.
Gathright will deliver the literary
address.
After quiet of over adozen years
the mining camp of Ponca City in
west Newton county is on a boom
again. Its large hotel and all avail
able buildings about the town are full
of miners and prospectors, and the
hills about the town are dotted with
mining parties.
M. B. Clary, cashier of the National
Bank at Calvin, Okla came in yester-
day enroute to his old home at Lead
Hill, having been called there by the
death of his father. He was a mem
Der of Harrison's company in the
Spanish American War and many old
friends here were pleased to greet him.
After several months spent at
their old home in Detroit and Wash
ington, d. c., Forest Supervisor
Francis kiefer and his mother Mrs.
F. W. Kiefer returned Thursday. 1t
is matter of supreme regret to their
many friends here to learn that, by
reason of Mr., Kiefer's promotion in
the work, they will soon transfer their
residence to Washington, ID. c. BY
their interest in Harrison and her
people and their effective cooperation
they have won the highest regard and
appreciation of all and, although we
cannot but congratulate Mr.. Kiefer
on his advancement, we feel that
Harrison ,ic loS,pp much hy his do