The Carlisle independent., 1920-12-16

MT. J. R. Moery made a business trip to Lonoke Friday.
 J. c. Welch was DeValls Bluff visitor Wednesday.
 c. c. Hummel and son Clifford, were Little Rock visitors Tuesday.
 Mrs. c. A. Hutson spent Sunday and Monday in Little Rock the guest of friends.
 Mir. Edwards of the North Little Rock Fair Store was here Wednesday the guest of J. c. Welch.
 MT. and Mrs. Lee Pauschert and Mir. and Mrs. Albert Zimmerman were Little Rock visitors Friday.
 Mrs. J. R. Roman was in the city a few days since our last issue visiting her mother, Mrs. Howard, and other relatives.
 Miss Gladys Smith left Monday for Sandoval, Illinois, in response to a telegram stating the serious illness of her grandmother.
 MT. and Mrs. Curtis Jones of Little Rock, spent Saturday night and Sun day here, the guests of Mrs. Jones' sister, Mrs. c. s. Long.
 Mr and Mrs. Theodore Krouse Barefeld, Jr., of Meridian, Miss, will spend the holidays with their parents, Rev. and Mrs. A. B. Barry, of Carlisle, Ark.
 MT. Lars Johnson, one of the most extensive land owners in this section and who is also interested in rice growing came in from Chicago Sun day to spend few days the guest of his son-in-law, P. o. Peterson, and family.
 A surprise party was given at the home of MT. and Mrs. Earl Vail Tues day night for Miss Helen Hendricks. About 30 guests were present and an enjoyable evening spent. At late hour hot chocolate and cake were served
 
 MT. J. R. Roman, state manager for the Southern Rice Growers associa- tion was in town Monday conferring with the branch office force. MT. Ro- man is a hustler and is kept busy looking after the interests of the as sociation in the state.
 Will Zimmerman came in the first IL a.,tl, TI1ir1nic to look after interests. MT. Zimmer- man has been interested in rice grow ing here for several years and makes regular trips here to spend few days with friends and business associates.
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 Mrs. J. c. Welch received a mes sage Sunday that her half sister had died in a hospital in Little Rock. She and Mir. Welch, accompanied by Mr. Welch's sister, Mrs. J. c. Brooks left on the evening train, and accompa- nied her remains to Heber Springs Monday for burial.
 Messrs. Southern and Wright, who recently purchased the barber shop of w. w Lancaster, are remodeling the Kittler building and will move into same as soon as the work is completed They will have nice place with plen- ty of light and room. We wish them success in their place.
 A number of our citizens were in Little Rock Wednesday protesting against the raise in electric light rates to 20c a K w. H. from 16 cents. We have been informed that com promise was made and the light rate from this time on will be 18c per.K. W. We will get full report of the pro ceedings next week.
 We are this week issuing our Christmas edition of the Independent, and are getting it out early in order that our merchants may have time to reap the benefit of the large ad vertisements they are running. This is the season of the year when hearts are made glad and our business men have made US glad by their liberal patronage, as will be seen by reading this paper from front to back. Nearly every firm in town is represented and we certainly hope. they may enjoy a substantial trade as result of their judicious display of advertising. Again we wish to thank them for the patronage and wish them as well as our many subscribers, merry Christ mas and happy New Year.
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