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^^PwELHOV gecond nine
fifSt Tuesday, tne
:;^Hjdon' ,„h eanie iue:,u -
ilsed eleven and of* Little Rock
iH^fthis weelV f i ittle Rock,
•eR R BUllock;hi! weetand lit
m*+£z °n the spotH a,\d
lid is »lw^®s in Bob's heart.
added Weldon as first
K *3gSi and f.n.«y «e
*B.»;,Eliere this week.
Hr reU^ shoffner was a dele
Methodist Sunday
•*s
Li* ffetting to be quite a
^ uunb is g " ££ leaving the
H boy- We f.lock in the after
four 22 caiibre rifle,
Kwi - vd“SV,orLS
ft i0Wh„brizon was tinged with a
Mnd the horizo . the cows
■ hueand thelo^ mead.
M heard ‘" „3 seen assisting
■ ^. country damsel, driving a
ftlS We really do not be
ftfsnakes will be molested in
fthtvs have organized a boxing
m Hubert Robertson and
Hence Harris are the champions
HfStaSnand wife, the agent at
Ho^ spent the evening with our
hast cotton crop we
liter and Robert Ball made a busi
i trip to Hickory Ridge Tuesday,
e had a picnic here July 11. Sev
were out.
imes Manning has put up a saw
here.
amson Howard was seen going;
t Sunday afternoon.
omer Howard has his bicycle torn
ib Garland made a business trip
lewport Tuesday.
obt. Willis found a soda pop dis
ry in his com patch Monday,
urley Jackson says Lee’s cotton is
has. Williams was over in our
pmunity Sunday.
I BANDY’S CHAPEL.
htening struck a telephone pole
g off a strip in Joe Whaley’s
s Fay Reeves has returned to
3s Mattie Parker is at Wm.
is Grace Payne visited Wm.
's a few days.
Tom Taylor’s son and three
id daughters and families spent
>urth and two nights with him.
i. Taylor’s sister of Illinois is
g him and their sister, Mrs.
3 Taylor is going to Utah in
*ar future to visit a sister she
>t seen for 18 years.
schools are being taught on
>etz farm.
>ol started here and at Pond
i on the 14th with good attend
directors have taken the school
i Huskey lost another horse.
iir all came off of another,
tr Huskey of Strawberry visit
(nights here.
'• Hartwiek, wife and two little
m visited at Lockhart on the
Davis, C. D. Johnson and
ire calculating on going to He
nngs soon.
e from here attended the Ma
odge at Tuckerman on the 12th.
lor Padgett has returned from
! Bertie Padgett is teaching a
lonths’ school on Denton Island.
. Talkington took Prof. Henry
tie Axe to school the 14th.
Jh Smith, Lindley Davis and
went to Old river the 14th.
Davis and family visited S. R.
7 the 13th.
Churchman was over looking
he interest of roads.
Dlgie and Alta Roberts board
• Halliburton’s.
: winkles is working at Lock
^adforj ^an ^"Bitlock is working at
Blackburn has some visitors
rom the hills.
•th so much rain the whole town
ship is asured of a bountiful crop,
j C. Biggers, wife and daughter, Nel
| lie, have gone to visit his brother and
I other relatives in Baxter county.
The county surveyor has been do
j ing some surveying up this way of
j late.
i Robert Kirby has an eleven pound
[girl at his house, and in order to keep
i down boasting, Jim Bailey has twins.
There is talk of prayer-meeting
here.
The Holiness preacher did not
preach.
GRUBBS.
Mr. and Mrs. Dave Browning and
their daughter, Alta, and Mrs. Bessie
Vance have moved to Stringer’s mill,
where they will reside for three
months. Mrs. Dave Browning and
Mrs. Bessie Vance will take charge of
the hotel and Mr. Dave wik be an ov
erseer at the mill. They have rented
their beautiful home on Main street
to Mr. andiMrs. Fred Ray and we
can only long for those three months
to fly by for their presence will be
joyfully received once more. To know
Mrs. Browning is to love her and she
has many lonely looking friends while
she is away.
We are now having a very success
ful meeting going on at the Cook
School House, which we Grubbs peo
ple give our very best attention and
we are all having some very hot
weather for church going.
Mrs. Tom Maione and Miss Willie
Darden left Thursday on the local for
Stringer’s mill, where they will visit
their friends, Mrs. Lena and Bessie
McMurray and Mrs. -J. D. Darden
made a call on Mrs. Browning. They
stayed all night, returning the next
morning.
Happy Jack.
STEGALL. ,
Everybody is done laying by and all
have a good prospect for a crop if
nothing happens to the crops before
gathering time.
Pearl and Callie Stegall and B. F.
; Carter went to the picnic at Balch
! last Friday. They report a nice time.
J. I. Huey of Johnston was up here
Monday on business.
The Wild Boys baseball team are
I practicing up getting ready to play
1 some ball this season. They will play
the Grubbs team Saturday a week.
School opened up here last Monday a
week, with Prof. D. €>. Harris of Tu
pelo, in charge.
W. A. Eiland and wife went to New
port Monday on business,
i Harrison Cochran, wife and sister
left for Strawberry Tuesday to spend
a few days with relatives.
Sunday School was organized at the
! school house with a good attendance
last Sunday, and the following officers
were elected: B. F. Carter, superin
tendent; D. S. Harris, assistant su
perintendent; Joe Roberts, secretary.
Teddie Sowell and Cora Roberts are
teachers.
! There will be preaching at the school
i house Saturday night and Sunday and
| we hope to have a good attendance,
j Bud Holbrook of Grubbs will have
I charge of the service.
1 There has ben a postoffice establish
ed at Stegall, Arkansas, which was
badly needed.
Jas. Rushing passed by en route
to Newport Friday morning.
Mgs. M. J. Bruton, who has been
sick for some time, is improving
slowly.
O. Richard has rented the Stegall
sawmill and will start it in a few
days.
Teddie Sowell was out in a New
port rig Sunday looking after his in
terests in this part of the country.
Tom J. Greenfield, who lives near
Newport, is talking of moving back
out here.
Mike Denton of Grubbs has bought
the timber on the Biggs farm and
is now having it worked up.
X. Y. Z.
ISLAND ITEMS.
Well, we are having some good old
summer weather. Crops are looking
fine and farmers are hopeful.
Mrs. Leota Turner of Little Rock
is on the Island visiting her brother,
S. E. Free.
King Puckett was a pleasant caller
at the Eads home Wednesday after
noon.
Mr. and Mrs. Will Thompson spent
Saturday with Mr. and Mrs. Steve
TiP.wis.
Miss Kate Rainwater, Mrs. Effie
Brown and Mrs. Austin Blanton spent
Friday with Mrs. W. G. Eads.
Mrs. G. P. McDougald left Friday
for Batesville, where she will visit
her aunt for a few days.
Church at the Stevens school house
was largely attended Sunday after
noon. ...
The entertainment at Mr. and Mrs.
Homer Nuckolls’ was a success. Ev
eryone present report a fine time.
Miss Nellie Ridley and friend of
Newport is visiting Mrs. Kate Nuck
olls. » • , ,.
Mr. Tom Goodman made his regu
lar trip to the Island Sunday.
Perry Ruby has returned to the
Island to log for George Brown
Mrs. Maude Blanton and Miss Nan
cy Eads were out driving Monday af
ternoon. , . ... .
Ed Judy says he has kissed his cot
ton patch good bye until gathering
time- Just A Kid.
AUVERGNE.
The singing school is progressing
nicelv. It will close Thursday night.
Miss Sybl Gillenwater is visiting
Mrs. Boyd this %veek.
Dr. Neal is enlarging his mill, add
ing new and larger machinery.^
Miss Lottie Gipson was in Newport
Tuesday shopping.
Dr. Neal was in Newport Tuesdaj
i on business.
Misses Rowena and Mildred Harris
were in Newport Wednesday,
j Mr. Willie Neal spent the day at
Remmel Sunday.
; Mr. Conner and family spent the
[day with Mr. and Mrs. Bleaklev Sun
j day.
Mr. S. J. Johnston carried his mare
j (Hazel) to his farm Sunday, where
j she will be overseer and boss.
M. . Said Orakers paid the singing
sch la visit Tuesday night.
Mr. John McMinn paid us a visit
We . esday morning.
Physic.
i STEGALL.
; Harrison Cochran and family re
; turned home Friday from Strawberry
and report a fine time.
Janice Eiland, the fourteen year
old son of Mr. and Mrs. W. A .Eiland,
was drowned Saturday evening in
Cache river while in bathing. Efforts
were made to save him, but all in
vain. His body was laid to rest Sun
day evening at 5 o’clock p. m. at the
Litchfield grave yard. Mr. Eiland
sent a phone message to their daught
ter who lives at Truman. She and her
husband met them at the graveyard
The deceased was the youngest child
and the only one left at home. He
was a bright, industrious boy and well
liked by all who knew him. The sym
pathy of all is extended the bereaved
family.
“We have lost our dear little friend,
He has bid us all adieu:
He has gone to live in Heaven,
And his form is lost to view.
Oh, that dear little friend,
How we miss him.
Oh, how sad to give him up;
But an Angel came down from Heaven
And removed him from our flock.
X. Y. Z.
DIAZ.
Mrs. H. M. Anderson left Wed
nesday for a several weeks’ %dsit to
relatives at Coifevville, Kansas.
W. Y. and J. G. Armstrong are
spending a few weeks at Heber
Springs.
Thurman West, our popular mail
carrier, attended the meeting of the
Rural Letter Carriers' Association at
Batesville Saturday.
Tom Monroe, who has been quite
sick the past two weeks, is improv
ing rapidly.
W. F. Hurley, our popular road
overseer, is doing some good work
on the roads in this neighborhood this
week.
Quite a number of our people will
attend the picnic at Pond Switch
Thursday.
Mrs. G. A. Morgan, who has been
visiting Mr. and Mrs. Monroe Witt,
the past week, returned Thursday to
her home at Swifton.
R. 0. Rawlings, our genial, efficient
and ever-smiling agent, had a very
adventurous experience Monday af
ternoon while assisting a train crew
to unload freight. “Rs” was storing
packages of freight in his freight
house and he accidentally stepped on
a roll of roofing paper which was
laying on the floor. The roll of paper
immediately got busy and cut more
capers with our honorable agent than
a Missouri mule. Mr. Rawlings stood
the test of bare back rider for 20 min
utes (in his estimation) when he was
thrown to the floor. Besides a heavy
shock and a bruised limb he was not
injured otherwise.
J. P. Boyd, signal maintainer for
the Iron Mountain, went to Tucker
man on business Wednesday.
Monroe Witt is visiting with rela
tives at Swifton this week.
A large portion of the crops have
been “laid by” and the prospects are
fine. A general raiii would do much
good.
Mrs. Emma Chisholm of Newport
spent Sunday here the guest of rela
tives.
A. C. Cummings of Village Town
ship, was a Sunday visitor to our
city.
Not many votes were cast from
this part of the township Wednes
day. Must be because there has
been too many elections this year, but
there is one consolidation, the poll
tax payers are sure getting their dol
lar’s worth.
Sunny Jim, Slim Jim and Bettye
Breeze we would like to hear from
you three again.
L. E. Phant.
SWIFTON.
C. C. Nicholson came in from He
ber Springs Monday for a few days.
Mrs. Wincher and little daughter
of Jonesboro have been visiting Mrs.
Sharp since last week.
Brother Cullom and son are con
ducting a revival service at the Bap
tist church this week. Everyone are
invited to attend and aid in the meet
ing.
Mrs. Ray Toler left for Tupelo
Monday evening, where she will visit
for a short time and then join the
doctor at Searcy.
Miss Glenna Sharp returned Sat
urday evening from Paris, Ark.
Quite a lot of moving in town this
week. J. F. Wiles now occupies the
house vacated by Dr. Ray Toler and
Prof. Lambert the one vacated by
Wiles.
The L O. O. F. picnic will be given
here Thursday. Big ball game be
tween Swifton and Cache.
Crops in this section are looking
Well. Some are anxious to see an
other good rain.
Prof. Sydney Pickens of Batesville
was here Saturday and did much to
| make the Sunday School Convention
I a success. . , _T ,
Election very quiet here Wednes
day. Quite a good many loyal Dem
ocrats were either too busy or went
fishing. , , T
Prof. Bowman visited Prof. Lam
bert Saturday and Sunday.
The County Sunday*School Conven
tion that held session here the 18, 19
and 20th was a success in every par
ticular. There were 52 delegates in
attendance from all parts of the
county. There was also a number
from adjoining counties. Much en
thusiasm was manifested and we
J feel that great good was accom
plished.
Dr. Erwin and mother of Newport
were here Sunday attending the Con
i vention.
We of Swifton feel we got more out
! of the convention than anyone. The
j coming of the delegates into our
midst brought enthusiasm and we
shall ever hold them in fond remem
brance.
A Trailing for Service Class was
organized here Tuesday evening.
| About twenty persons joined and
others have signified an intention of
joining later. J. F. Wiles was chos
en leader and H. L. Lambert, secre
tary.
Charlie and Willie Bollinger left
this week for their respective homes,
Charlie to Idabelle, Okla., and Willie
to Cerro Gordo, Ark.
In 1899 Mr. A. M. Keaton wrote the
department at Washington concern
ing “wire worms" found in this sec
tion. This week a young Mr. King
called on him and reminded him of
the correspondence of fourteen years
ago. They went out and upon inves
tigation. they found a specimen.
BATTLE AXE.
J. A. Thompson, G. A. Pilquist, C.
A. Tver, Jno. Barnes, Fred Barnes
and perhaps others, started to Cache
river this morning (Wednesday) to
fish till Friday. They explain that
they are only prospecting now, with
view of going fishing sure enough
when Jim A. Lindley gets through
assessing taxes and can go with them.
Almost everybody done cultivating;
blackberries about all gathered; and
now fishing, hunting, going to picnics
I and loafing will be in order.
For the remainder of season, till
new corn “comes in" the mills at Cen
terville and at Battle Axe will grind
on alternate Saturdays, next Satur
Jciay being grinding day here,
i j. W. Lindley’s family, -J. W. C.
uaraner s ramny, u. ■ . i^uweu, .mi -.
J VarGGier ar.d R. F. Tver and wife
are -hing today.
.Miss Johnnie Gardner brought lit
tle Roy S : veil.? out for the fishing to
day ar.d stay several days after
wards. Roy is one of her pupils while
she was teaching at the Arkansas
school for the blind.
Mrs. C. A. Tyer’s father, Mr. Spen
cer, from Judsonia, is visiting her
for a few days.
A large crowd was out last Sunday
for the morning preaching service
and the afternoon singing. Class
from Pleasant Valley (Possum Trot)
did some excellent singing, led alter
nately by Prof. Pierce and Mr. Saffle.
The meeting is still going on, having
service only at night. Beginning Fri
day, day services will be held also.
J. L. Brown, pastor of Baptist
church here, assisted by Elder Sher
rill of Bald Knob, is to begin protract
ed service here next Saturday night.
Glad to report Mrs. J. A. Morton
improving.
Public schools this summer unus
uaiiv full, and moving on with good
interest. Prof. Shaver, County Su
perintendent, visited among them last
week.
Several fine melon patches in our
vicinity, but very few ripe melons.
Melons taken from patches at night
before ripening. When will boys be
Bill Manning brought his wife over
last week to visit a while with her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Thomp
son. He returned home after spend
ing a day here.
Stan Bridges and family have gone
to visit his parents and other rela
tives in Fulton County, for a week or
so. ...
convinced that taking melons is as
real stealing as taking corn from the
crib, meat from the “smoke house”
or a horse from the stable. I know
of no meaner kind of stealing than
taking melons that some laboring
man has cultivated that he might
have them for his own family and
sell the surplus to purchase such
things as he may need through the
season. Boys, let the old man s mel
ons grow and next summer, try to
have a patch of your own.
Scribbler.
10.1. Hubert!
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