The Harrison times., 1917-07-14

week-a decided convenience for our
people
Mrs. Burton Bunch and Mrs. J. c.
Mexican, of ST. Louis, came in Mon.
day for visit with relatives here and
at Lead Hill.
Mrs. Nora X. Evans, wife of DR..
f. L. Evans, came in from Springfield.
Mo-, Wednesday for a few days visit
with relatives and friends.
DIR. l.. Kirby, councillor for one of
the ten districts in Arkansas left
Thursday for a call meeting of the
medical council at Little Rock.
No dust about the square in Har-
rison now; the Oiling has settled it.
What a pity We cannot say as much
about all the streets OF the town.
Editor S. A. Diehl, OF the Eureka
Spring Echo, spent Tuesday with Har,
rison friends. He reports the season
opening with satisfactory number of
visitors at Eureka.
Assessor jefferson spent the past
week in Long Creek, Bear Creek and
Omaha Next week he goes to Car
rolton, Young and Jackson, and will
close his itinerary July 81.
The Shetland pony contest Cf the
Swain show closed Saturday night
last, and little Miss Fay Brewer was
declared winner. Half a dozen little
girls of the town worked hard for the
prize.
"A. C. Christeson enlisted at Little
Rock this week for service in the new
Forest Regiment. He passed the ply
sical examination and was sent to
Jefferson Barracks, Mo, for prelimi-
nary training.
Ted Hines and family left this
week for their future home at Colum-
bus, Kansas. Mr.. Hines has estab-
lished a large lumber business at
Pitcher, Oklahoma, in the new zinc
mining district.
Little Charles Troy, Luella and
Helen, children of Mr.. and Mrs. Troy
Watkins, came up from Stuttgart this
week for an extended visit with their
grandparents, Postmaster Watkins
and C. L. Glines.
I. G. Bentley, clerk in the NJ. & N.
A. offices for five years, resigned his
position this week and left this morn.
ing by auto for Oklahoma. He still
owns his home in the south part of
town, and may return later.
Both town and county officials
deserve credit for the quick cleanup
of the court park Thursday. The
night of the Fourth our square looked
pretty "mussy." But it was all right
by noon the next day.
j. w. Casey, formerly of the Har-
rison Feed Company, is after one of
the Feed spectorships of Arkansas,
with a good chance of success. He
would come to the place well equipped
for all its duties, and Harrison would
be proud to have him get it.
In a street fight at Western Grove
last Monday Mrs. Charles Reynolds
was cut nine times with pocket knife
welded by Mrs. Grace Lankford. Al
though painfully injured she viii! re-
cover. Some very vicious town gos-
sip was at the bottom of it all.
w H. Morgan, living four miles
south of Harrison on the Tom Evans
place, reports the arrival at his home
last Sunday of triplets-two girls and
one boy. The mother and children
are all doing nicely. Mr.. Morgan's
family includes four older children.
The meeting of the North Arkan-
sas Railway Surgeons at Berryville
on July 10, was a pleasant and profit
able gathering. Harrison was repre-
sented by Drs. J. L. Sims, J. II. Fow
Ter, c. NJ. Routh and l.. Kirby. The
next meeting will be held in Cotton
Plant in December,
Naval Recruiting Officer Mason
sent off Wednesday five recruits to be
examined at Little Rock, T. e. Price,
II. S. Grimm, Lewis Harris and A. d.
Clark, of Berryville, and j, L. Holt, of
Harrison. The naval aviation corps
wants about 500 recruits to be enlisted
within the next thirty days.
/ "A considerable drop in the high
cost of living has taken place through.
out this section in the last ten days.
Potatoes have dropped from S4 to 81
per bushel, and many other things al
most in proportion, while tomatoes,
cabbage beans, etc, have pushed the