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REMMEL.
Health is not gooU at this place.
Measles are spreading in Remmel
now.
Singing at W. A. Bowman’s Sunday
night was fine.
Arthur Lewis, Roman Alby, Elbert
Dean and Claude uuwnmn are all fine
tenor singers, mne otacy and Mat
tie Dean and Nellie Ritcnie are fine
alto singers. Mr. Newton Proctor and
Mr. Pete Goldman of Cow Lake were
at the singing at Remmel Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Bowman and
children visited W. A. Bowman and
family Sunday.
Mrs. Ruth Bickers was visiting Mrs.
Mattie Clark Sunday.
Roman Alby borrowed Dee Huey’s
ccat Sunday night in order to take
Elma Dean home.
Elma Dean and Maude Stacy are
our soprano singers.
Mr. George Marks has returned
home on a visit.
The corn club boys are getting a
long nicely with their corn.
Miss Nellie Ritchie was the guest
of Elma and Mattie Dean Sunday.
Pretty Girl.
TUPELO.
A good rain would be very benefi
cial just now. Late planted cotton
needs it, to bring it up.
Some have planted cotton the third
time, and as high as seed are that
is right costly.
Mrs. Bessie Webb and little son
will leave for their home in Okla
homa Thursday. Mr. Webb will meet
them on the way.
Mrs. Jim Hastings returned to her
home in Newport Tuesday after
spending a few pleasant days a
mong friends here.
R. M. Marlar and wife spent Sun
day at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
Sam Marlar.
Little Miss Opal Corley accompan
ied her grandfather home Sunday, re
turning to her home at Shoffner Mon
day.
Mrs. A. A. Crabtree visited har sis
ter. Mrs. Dr. Johnson, at Weldon
Tuesday between trains.
Alcorn Ferguson was a visitor to
our city Monday.
It is stated on good authority that
Fitzhugh, Snapp & Co. will move
their business to Tupelo this fall.
These are the kind of business men
the town needs.
Tommy Thornton is on the puny
list this week.
Tom Campbell is confined to his
bed with appendicitis this week.
A good many of our people are en
joying Irish potatoes.
We hear that the new staff of of
ficers are cleaning Newport up. That
is good. We hope when they get that
done they will come on down the line
and do a little of the same for our
town. m \
Mrs. R. M. Marlar spent Tuesday
afternoon with Mrs. A. A. Crabtree
and mother
Jurrette Mustin and family late of
Texas, are visiting on the river and
! enjoying fishing. Mr. Mustin had got
ten behind with his fishing while in
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Mrs. W. S. Morgan and children
and Miss May Marlar were the guests
of Mrs. T. W. Collier Sunday even
As news is scarce we will desist
Mutt’s Wife.
BEEDEVILLE.
A singing class has been organized
here with the following officers, R.
C. Roy, President; F. W. Beede, vice
President; Amos Hutchens, Secretary
Treasurer; T. C. Reid, Leader; Sid
Proctor, Assistant Leader. We ex
pect to be represented at the coun
I ty convention when it meets.
W. A. Lambert is again a resident
of this place after six month’s stay
in Missouri. No place like Arkansas.
At our annual school election Sat
A Bank Account
Helps you save many d ollars that constantly slip away.
The checks you give f urnish a receipt with each pay
ment and avoids dispu tes. You can r? *ays make
change by paying with a check. ^revents errors in
payments and loss of money carried. These are a few
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urday, 18 votes were pollen. J. A.
Hutchens was elected director to suc
ceed H. D. Brown and a 7-mil ltax
was voted.
Mr., T. C Reid is visiting relatives
at Remmel this week.
Hoi! Hill of Augusta is visiting his
sister, Mrs. J. R. McFadden at this
place.
Dr. W. T. McCain of McCrory was
called here Tuesday to see Frank
Thresher, who has congestion of the
brain and is very low at this writing.
News is very scarce this week.
Everyone is in their crops and have
no time for visiting.
REMMEL.
We are having some fine weather
now. The farmers are planting their
cotton over.
Mrs. R. H. Compton was the guest
of W. A. ’Bowman Sunday
Mr. Nute Proctor and Pete Gold
man were here from Beedeville Sun
day.
Mr. E. H. Bowman and wife were
here from Grubbs Sunday.
Mr. George Lewis made a flying trip
Sunday. _
Mr. S. Bowman came back Satur
day.
Mr. Cary Camp of Grubbs was
here Sunday.
We are going to try to have a nor
mal singing school here in August.
Mr. B. R. Bowman has decided not
to go into the dairy business this
year.
Miss Hamie Bridges went to Balch
Sunday.
The boys at other places are going
to have to hurry if they beat the
Remmel corn boys.
X. Y. Z.
BALCH.
I will try to give you the news of
j our little burg again, after a long ab
sence, on account of sickness.
The farmers are about done plant
ing,' but there is a general complaint
of poor stands of cotton.
M. and W. A. Balch went to New
port Saturday.
The little three year old son of
Mr. and Mrs. Battle died Sunday and
was buried Monday at the Baich
cemetery.
Mrs. A. A. Evans of Newark is
visiting relatives at this place.
Rev. Mr. Evans of Craighead coun
ty preached here Saturday night and
Sunday.
The W. 0. W. Camp of Algoa as
sisted by the Camp at this place, dec
orated the graves of their deceased
members Sunday. Hon. M. M. Stuck
ey of Newport was present and made
a nice talk in the interest of the or
der.
Mr. and Mrs. Fletcher Ireland of
Pennington passed through here Sat
urday returning from Eight Mile,
where they had been visiting.
Mr. Leemon Thomas was at the
cemetery Sunday making photo
graphs.
George Stacy and Harvey Neal of
Remmel attended the W. O. W. ex
ercises here Sunday.
I never spoke out in regard to the
correspondents’ meeting. I favor the
meeting and the date suits alright.
GRUBBS.
The weather in this section has
been good for the past week and the
farmers are complaining about the
ground being hard and they are need
ing rain.
John Grizzle, Sr., returned home
from Little Rock Thursday evening,
where he had been as a delegate to
the state convention of the Knights
and Ladies of Honor.
Prof. E. H. Bowman left Friday ev
ening for Remmel looking after the
interest of his summer school at that
place.
Our school election passed off very
quietly Saturday. Less votes were
polled than ever has been in the his
tory of the district. J. F. Webster
and J. S. Pennington were elected to
serve for three years and D. D.
Camp was elected one year^to serve
the unexpired term of J E. Williams,
resigned. ’
J. B. Ragsdale returned home Sat
urday from Neport where has been
on business for the past few days.
A. G. Steadman has been a guest
of Mr. J. M. Gibson for the past few
days.
Loyd Hinkle, a son-in-law of W. M.
Scarry, left his wife and has gone
away from here and no one knows
where—neither do they know the
cause.
Mrs. Richard Grizzle was a guesf
of Mrs. J. N. Nance Saturday night
and Sunday.
The beautiful home of J. L. McEl
rath on Barnwell avenue, is now neai
completion, and will be ready to be oc
cupied in a few days by Mr. McEl
rath and family.
The team of Walnut Camp No. 284
W. 0. W., Grubbs, Arkansas, initiat
ed a class of nine at Pitts, Arkansas
last Monday night.
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place, but now cashier of the First
National Bank of Tuckerman, was
here Sunday, shaking hands with his
many friends.
G. W. Grant was elected school di- i
rector in District No. 18, to succeed
George Ham, whose term has expir
ed.
Teachers for our next term of school
will be elected by the school board on ;
the last Saturday of this month.
The large auditorium of our school
building will be comfHeted as soon as
the material can be placed on the
ground.
Grizzle & Sons will start their stave
mill some time during the week. Here
tofore the weather has been so bad
that timber could not be gotten, but if
it does not set in to raining again,
they will be able to run the most of
! time.
W. J. Pennington of Richwoods
township was visiting his brother, J.
S. Pennington, Sunday.
J. F. Webster thinks he will be able
to start his axe handle factory some
time in the near future.
J. W. Stoke* of McCrory was visit
l ing his son, J. L. Stoker, of this place,
Saturday and Sunday, returning home
j Monday.
A. G. Steadman left here Monday
1 for Woodruff county, where he will
work in the tick eradication this sum
! mer.
Happy Jack.
HEFFINGTON.
W. H. Heffington attended the clo.s
j ing exercises of the Swifton school
; Friday. His son, Noah, who has been
attending school there the past term,
' accompanied him home in the even
ing.
Mr. Donahew lost one of hi? mules
the latter part of the week.
We are needing rain.
! On account of farmers being so
j busy the picnic was abandoned for
i the present, but will be given later in
! the season.
Children's Day will be observed by
I Crossroads Sunday School with appro
priate exercises.
The farmers are complaining about
1 the cold nights and want rain.
| Strawberry picking is about over
fr.r this vear
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REMMEL.
There will be a debate at the school
| house next Saturday night. All come.
Alvis Jackson was visiting his
! mother Monday. She is very sick.
Mr. Bowman returned home from
1 Heber Saturday, but left again Mon
: day.
I Mr. J. P. Stacy has gone to Heber
Springs for his health, taking his lit
tle daughter, Helen, with him.
Eugene Bowman was visiting at
Remmel Sunday.
Julius Stacy was visiting his friend
at Johnston Sunday.
Some of the folks of Remmel went
I to Balch Sunday.
1 Some Eight Mile boys were visit
ing here Sunday.
George Stacy and Lizzie Reid went
to Balch Sunday.
Ralph and Verne Sink of Johnstown
] were at church here Sunday,
j George Stacy is trying to purchase
j some goats for play felows.
DIAZ.
Mr. and Mrs. Monroe Witt spent
Sunday at Paroquet visiting rela
tives.
Miss Ella Goza who taught the pri
mary grade in the school here the
i past term, left Saturday for her home
at Faber.
Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Armstrong of
Newport visited relatives here Sun
day.
Will Moyer and Austin Monroe left
Monday for a week’s stay at Little
Rock.
The St. Louis Business Men’s Spe
cial passed through here Wednesday
en route to Batesville. A number of
the salesmen visited the Wilmans’
Mercantile Co. Among them were:
Harry H Hope, with Greenfield Bros.,
Messrs. Maury and Rosenthal, head
men for the Armour Packing Com
pany and Howard Kyle with the Sim
mons Hardware Company. There
were several more who called on the
Wilmans Bros., and we regret that we
could not learn their names. #
Bud Stanley of Cotter is visiting his
parents here. Mr. Stanley was swing
brakeman on the red ball freight No.
253, which went through the steel
bridge over Moccasin creek, near Ber
ry's Siding Friday evening. Mr. Stan
ley, in relating his experiences stated
that the crew had a veiy narrow es
cape. The engine and nine cars went
through the bridge, and it will re
quire several day3 to clear the wreck
age.
Miss Rosa Cruse of Hickory Grove
spent Sunday here, the guest of Mr.
and Mrs. C. W. Ford.
Ab Lawrence of Felsa, Oklahoma, is
visiting here this week.
Mrs. Dora Albright left Sunday for
a few days’ visit to Batesville. She
will teach in Little Rock this summer.
In the annual school election held
here Saturday, Walter Hurley was
re-elected director over J. T. Craft.
A seven mill tax was voted.
L. E. Phant.
^VBALLEW’S CHAPEL.
We have had some pretty weather
this week and the farmers have made
good use of it planting some of their
cotton over.
Mr. Will Ogden and family went to
the county seat one day last week.
Mr. George Poll of Jonesboro, has
moved down in our settlement.
| Miss Ollie Woodman spent Sunday
with Miss Fannie McCoy.
The W. O. W. and the Circle of
Grubbs are going to decorate aftd un
veil, at the Ballew’s Chapel cemetery
! the seventh of June. Everybody is
cordially invited. There was some of
the Grubbs people out Sunday night
at the Chapel.
Mrs. Faircloth has been right sick
but is better at this writing.
Miss Hattie Hosford took dinner
with Miss Pearl Woodruff Sunday.
Sunday School every Sunday. Ev
erybody is cordially invited to at
tend.
Miss \\ illie r aircloth visited Mrs. j
Echo Du’’ahew Sunday.
Mrs. Polly Guffey, Mrs. Francis
Barmer and Mrs. Hettie Prince were
visitors to Mr. and Mrs. Faircloth on
last Sunday].
Mrs. Alice Woodman and Mrs. Ju
lia Dill were pleasant callers at the
home of Mrs. John DiO Sunday.
Mrs. Tennie Ballew, Miss Annie
Tripp and Mrs. Lizzie Murphy and
sten daughter, Ruth, were pleasant
visitors at the home of Mr. Fair
cloth Monday afternoon.
Georgie Paul of Jonesboro is down
here visiting his parents.
Tom.
ISLAND.
Messrs. William and Jake Phillips
have returned from a trip to South
ern Texas. We understand that Wil
liam purchased some land while there
and will make that his home after
this year.
Rev. Joseph Gully of Southern
nois, is here visiting relatives and
preached to a large congregation here
Sunday.
Rufus Rutledge and family of the
Cow Lake community attended church
here Sunday; also singing in the af
ternoon.
Mrs. W. D. Runyan, who is back
from Booneville, has greatly improved
in health.
Mrs. Jno. Tucker spent Sunday at
her brother’s, W. D. Runyan.
Homer Nuckolls made a flying trip
to Newport Monday.
The strawberry super given by Mr.
and Mrs. James Drummond Friday
night was largely attended and ev
eryone was shown a good time.
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Lewis attended the I. 0. 0. F. lodge
at Newport Monday night.
Mesdames W. K. Tennison and
Steve Lewis spent Sunday with Mrs.
L. M. Mantooth.
Rememmber June 6th, ye scribes.
Slim Jim.
OAKLAND.
The farmers are giad to see the
beautiful sunshine again.
We have a few farmers who have
cotton large enough to chop.
Wje think it is rather cool for cot
ton chopping.
We sure are glad Jack Frost didn't
get all the peaches in this community.
Quite a lot of our girls and boys
have gone to Judsonia to—have a
good time, we hope.
here is quite a lot of sickness a
round here, but not any deaths.
Aunt Dolly Stuart is not quite so
well as she was a few days ago, but
is not as poorly as she has been, how
ever.
The men and boys are getting ready
to play ball next Saturday at Grand
Glaize.
Rev. R. L. Stuart filled his regular
appointment at Oakland last Sunday.
I suppose the people have been ring
ing and talking too much. The tele
phones^ re trying to be contrary for
the last two or three days.
Mrs. Bettie Bright and little daugh
ter, Hazel, spent the most of last
week with Mrs. Bright’s mother who
is sick.
Miss Anna Bright spent last Sun
day with her grandmother, Mrs.
Ann Taylor.
Miss Violet Carrigan is staying
with her sister, Mrs. Nelson. They
are picking berries near Bradford.
Hello, to you writers who live iii the
bottoms. How are the mosquitoes
these days? They are quite lively
here if we do live on the hills.
Hurrah for Scribbler! You give it , "
to the farmers every time yoUL.^0*
them idling away their time.
good for them. .
Mr. R. L. Sanford is yet suffering
with his eye. He has made several
trips to Newport to the doctor. We
hope he will soon be well.
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SWIFTON.
The ball game between the married
men and the single men last Friday
was very lovely. The single men win
ning by a score of 9 to 0.
The Tuckerman baseball club will
play here Thursday.
Mrs. J. H. Carlin is on the sick
list.
Miss Pearl Hawley and a Mr. Mon
ger of Jonesboro were united in the
holy bonds of matrimony Sunday,
leaving on No. 24 Monday for Jones
boro, their future home.
Mr. Ray Smothers, Mr. Lee See
and Zed O’Banion are getting to be p
some ladies’ men.
J. N. Moon, N. D. Moon, Jr., M. J.
Murphy, Henry Nicholson and W. H.
Crane were transacting business in
Newport Wednesday
There will be a moonlight picnic
Friday night in the grove at the
rear of the school house. All kinds
of lunch and ice cream. Let every
one come and have a good time.
Carlin certainly has some spiral on
groceries this week.
See Carlin and save money. wl
Mr. G. W. Dudley was elected school
director over Mr. S. E. Dukes by a !
large majority.
C. A. and S E. Dukes went fishing
Wednesday.
Will Ogden of Grubbs was trans
acting business in our town Satur
day.
You will find all kinds of baseball
material at J. H. Carlin’s. wl
Elmo Hawley, was sporting in New- \
port Tuesday.
Rufus Johnson and Tex Long are ’%
still loafing—writing life insurance.
Let everyone boost the Swifton
baseball team for it is a sure winner.
Oh, be there.
T. M. Rorex is on the sick list this
week.
Thomas Albert Parson and Elbert
Thad Cashion were out frog hunt
ing Wednesday night and captured 22
fine ones—at least that was the num
ber they reported.
BATTLE AXE.
Sam Hinson hts been quite an in
valid from his recent attack of ma
larial rheumatism, which later man
ifested symptoms of erysipelas. Glad
to say he is now rapidly improving
and hoping to be able to sit up by the
latter pant of the present week.
Miss Johnnie Gardner returned
from Talladega on the 16th to spend
the summer vacation at home. We
presume she will be back in time to
begin the next terpi, probably in Sep
tember.
J. W. Lindley attended the bank,
directors’ meeting at Tuckerman
Tuesday afternoon, x
Scribbler had a mess of new Irish
potatoes today, from his own patch.
Now don’t some other fellow tell
about having had them last wek.
Fish are now ripe, but ghats and
cotton hoeing keep us off the lakes.
Not even the children have time to
fish, if able to handle the goose neck.
C. A. Tyer and John Linville are
putting a new porch to T. E. Jones*
residence.
Rain would be appreciated now, es
pecially in the oat fields, gardens and
on the roads. The dust is much in
evidence in our sandy lanes.
Cultivation of crops moving along
nicely and young crops beginning to
grow more satisfactorily. Crab
grass, too, begins to show its appre
ciation of the warm days.
At our school meeting last Satur
day J. A. Lindley was re-elected di
rector. Simply can’t do without the
Major in that capacity.
No new smallpox cases. Several
yellow flags taken down, all patients
practically well, and we hope the end
of the trouble is near.
J. A. Thompson’s daughter, Mrs.
Gertie Manning, expressed to him
from California a box of oranges and
lemons. They were unusually fine,
and looking at them we decided that
as a rule we do not get the choice
this far from the orchards. Glad to
learn that Manning is doing well out
there, and that his wife's health is
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