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JOLLY LEE DROPS DEAD.
Heavy Weight Exhibited By Cosmo
politan Carnival Company Died
Thursday Morning—Body to
Be Embalmed.
Lee Trickey, better known under
his widely advertised show name of
"Jolly Lee,” died Thursday morning
about 3 o’clock, after several hours of
severe suffering from inflammatory
rheumatism, which is supposed to
have affected his heart.
Trickey was advertised as weighing
619 pounds and the doctor who waited
upon him says he must have exceeded
600. He was the biggest man in the
world, surpassing Joe Grimes, \£ho
died in Cincinnati three weeks ago.
Trickey was not over five feet ten
inches in height and his limbs below
the knees were very small, so that he
could harnly stand alone. When get
ting out of the car Monday he suffered
a sprained ankle.
The deceased was 32 years old and
had been with the Cosmopolitan Car
nival Company six weeks. He was
very heavy from youth, was married
but leaves no family. The body will
probably be embalmed, awaiting in
structions from his home, Hammond,
Wisconsin, to which point the remains
will be shipped.
MARRIAGE LICENSES.
W. H. Arnold, 13, and Emma Rob
erts, 19, both of Olyphant.
Will Bowen, 21, and Lora Craig, 18,
both of Tuckerman.
J. W. Coleman, 33, and Nannie
Bundy, 23, both of Shelby ville.
T. T. Tracy, 48, and Mrs. Lou Emory,
28, both of Newport.
Thomas Allen, 28, and Mollie Lar
gent, 17, both of Newport.
Mo86 Cooks, 35, and Marie Huff, 40,
both of Tuckerman.
Mitchell Hopkins, 21, and Nettie
Worthington, 18, both of Grubbs.
POCAHONTAS NEWS.
Pocahontas, Nov. lT.'^A chair back
factory is one of the new enterprises
at this place. The company will put
in a $3,000 plant near the stave fac
tory.
While trying to ford Spring river
last Sunday near Black Rock a buggy
driven by Dillis Reed was torn to
pieces and both of the horses attached
to it were drowned. Mr. Reed escaped
by swimming to the land. The river
was not high, but Reed missed the
ford. The team was owned by a
Black Rock liveryman.
OLDEX-CONFED CALLED HOME.
The former comrades and old friends
of J. J. Hamilton, once of Jackson
county and a brother of Mrs. Hattie
N. Johnson, will learn with sorrow of
his death at Tyler, Texas, November
9th, from a stroke of paralysis re
ceived the morning before his death.
The funeral services were conducted
by Rev. J. H. Gambrell at the resi
dence, the remains being then taken
in charge by the Albert Sydney John
son camp, of which deceased was a
member.
The Tyler Courier pays the follow
ing tribute to the deceased:
“In 1865 he married Miss Cynthia S.
Davis, the charming daughter of John
L. and Mrs. Nancy Davis, who had
settled in Smith county and Tyler
along early in the 60s.
‘“Uncle Joe’ Hamilton has been a
familiar figure in Tyler for many
years and waited with meekness and
noblest of manhood for the final sum
mons, ready for the final roll call.
“The old landmarks of the old South
are disappearing and the winding
sheet is nearly ready for the last of
the old heroes who fought for our
rights under the constitution of our
country and handed down to us by the
fathers who made it.”
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THE ONLY ONE IN AMERICA.
Considerable curiosity was excited
on the Water street pier, says the
New York Herald of yesterday, upon
the arrival of an educated goose. This
fowl is on its way to the World’s Fair
at St. Louis, but will first go to New
port where it has been engaged for
exhibition at the Episcopal Church
Bazaar to be held in that city, Nov. 26.
Three attendants are required to look
after it. This goose is valued more
than the fabled goose that laid the
golden eggs. d6t.
$390 FOR LETTERS TO
ENCOURAGE EMIGRATION.
The Rock Island system offers
twenty prizes of the aggregate value
of $390 for.letters relative to the ter
ritory along its lines in Arkansas, In
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dian Territory, Kansas, Oklahoma,
Texas and New Mexico. Letters
should deal with the writers’ expe
riences since he settled in the South
west. They should tell how much
money he had when he arrived, what
he did when he first came, what
measure of success has since reward
ed his efforts and what he thinks of
that portion of the country in which
he is located. Letters should not be
less than 300 nor more than 1600
words in length, and will be used for
the purpose of advertising the'South
west.
Letters are desired not only from
farmers and farmers’ wives, but also
from merchants, school teachers, cler
gymen, from everyone, in brief, who
has a story to tell and who knows how
to tell it.
For circular giving details write to
John Sebastian, Passenger Traffic
Manager, Rock Island System, Chi
cago, 111.
SPECIAL LAND
BUYERS’ EXCURSIONS
Will run to the new lands of Greer
county, Oklahoma, and other sections
of the great Southwest in November
and December via the Frisco system.
Are you looking for rich and fertile
farming lands in the Southwest which
you can buy for from one-fourth to
one-tenth the cost of lands of the
East and North? They produce as
much acre for acre. Here is a chance
to better your condition and add a
liberal amount to your pocketbook.
For full particulars and special rail
road rates apply at once to R. S.
Lemon, secretary Frisco System Im
migration Bureau, St. Louis, Mo.
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7=JOYFUL lAiVSeJ
| Free
Street Fair .
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Commencing Monday, Nov. 91
EVERYTH INQ IS FREE! j
| PHARMACYjU ( i
Pharmacy is a very different art from what it ^
was a few years ago. It is a growing science,
and the druggist today who fills prescriptions
must be UP-TO-DATE and his stock must be
likewise. New remedies and new meth
multiply. Many prescriptions present pr>
which only A SKILLFUL PHARMAC
rightly solve. We are prepared to fill-any pre
scription, no matter where or by whom written.^
...PURE DRUGS^.
Scientific service and reasonable prces are(
; combined when your prescription is /'filled
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\ NEWPORT, ARKANS
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