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DIAZ.
Misses Willis Guin and Ida Roberts
spent the week end at Sulphur Rock,
the guests of Dr. and Mrs. Z. L. Ford.
W. D. Copp of Pine Bluff spent Sun
day h *re, the guest of Mr. and Mrs.
W. F. Hurley.
Austin Monroe and W. T. Moyer
returned Thursday from Little Rock
where they had been visiting friends.
Mrs. Dora Albright left Thursday
for a visit to home folks at Conway.
She will teach a summer term at
Campbell.
Mrs. Fred Monroe was shopping in I
Newport Saturday.
L. H. Davenport made a business
trip to Little Rock Thursday, return- !
ing that evening on No. 28.
Homer Sconyers, who has been
quite ill at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
J. M. Witt for the past two or three
weeks is improved in health. i
J. H. Onr spent Monday at Jud
sonia with home folks. i
Our city has been well represented
at the carnival at Newport the past
week. One wagon with Cromwell
West as chaperon left here Thurs
day night with .35 persons aboard.
When it comes to being generous,
Cromwell heads the list.
Dick Faulkner of the Harper set
tlement was here on business Satur
day.
Floyd, the four-year-old son of
Mr. and Mrs. M. T. Campbell, drank
the contents of a pint of alcohol early
Sunday morning and came near dy
ing from the effects. Only the prompt
services of a physician saved the
little fellow’s life.
Mrs. Littie Me New of Little Rock
is spending the week here, the guest
of her sister, Mrs. Emma Chisholm.
M. H. Baldwin, who has been suf
fering an attack of malaria is able to
resume his duties as agent.
Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Wilmans and
children left Friday for a visit to
Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Wilmans at Trans
ylvania, La.
H. M. Anderson of Little Rock spent
i Monday here visiting friends.
| Well, it is only a short time until
! our meeting, June 6th, and we would
i be pleased to hear from other writ
ers on the matter. We would like
to see a good attendance that day.
! Can you come ?
L. E. Pnant,
BANDY’S CHAPEL.
‘ Misses Annie Sutton, Exie Miller
and Mabel Deaton go to Tuckerman j
regularly to take music lessons.
The mules that ran away with cast
rollers through Graham’s big field
made a rattling noise and dust. No
harm was done. They belong to Gra
ham Bros.
Louis Whaley sold his wooded land
for $600.
Uncle Renzie Conditt lost his fine
mare. She left a colt a week old. |
I was glad to see B Siding come
! anve again.
Mrs. C. Biggers was elected Sunday,
.school teacher for the school quarter.
The appointment for the unveiling
j at Battle Axe, the 17th, was post
poned on account of smallpox.
The annual school election here the
16. A 7-mill tax was voted. G. T.
Huskey was elected director.
Mack Townsley has the summer
school here and Mr. Childers at Pond
Switch. It has been announced that
there will be no assistant at either
place.
Mrs. C. Gore, Misses Nellie and
Bertie Gore, Jennie Milligan, Aman
da Halliburton, Ruth Hartwick and
Ethel Arnett got on the train at B.
Siding and went to Newport the 16th,
shopping and on business.
Ed Mitchell and wife went back to
.Tudsonia the 16th.
Ye editor and another auto from
Newport were coming across a bridge
by Pond Switch the 17th and former
broke through. No damage to any
one but the overseer, for repaiVs.
l' Uncle Renzie Conditt sold his week
oM colt.
C. Biggers and wife ate new pota
toes at Ed Maxey’s the 17th.
Mrs. Inez Badger is visiting rela
tives here. She lives at Jonesboro.
Berchie Roberts visited relatives
; here lately.
Mrs. King of the hills visited her
brother, Clint Townsley, recently.
Tom Bailey got a piece of iron in
| his eye last week and went to Dr.
at Newport to have it taken out. It
ts thought he is liable to lose the
| sight.
Madam John Barnes and Forest Me
Elrov visited relatives here the ev
] evening of the 21st.
! Walter Smith and wife had an in
j vitation to go to see her niece, Miss
Minnie Chatwood, married to Been
; Po=key.
| Taylor Tinsley was . sighted going
i in the direction of B. Siding the other
i da'r and had r>ne by the side of him.
I • The stork left a big boy at Van
Stack’s.
Sinking and organ performance on
the night of the 17th and a birthdav
. party at S. R. Tinsley’s the 23rd.
Lola was 18. Claude Tinsley was up.
Jim Brann we are uory to learn, is
in very bad health.
Ruth Hartwick went to the doctor
the 25th.
Brother Talkington failed to fill
his appointment at Pond Switch on
the 24th, in the afternoon.
It was voted to have Sunday School
of mornings instead of in the after
noon. Will have singing on the fifth
Sunday in the afternoon.
EIGHT MILE.
We are having some dry weather
at this writing, but crops are look
ing very well yet.
Singing every Sunday evening at
3:30 p. m. Please come and join our
class. All are welcome. School at
this place is progressing nicely, with
G. C. Nance as principal.
Mrs. M. B. Owens is visiting home
folks in Independence county this
week.
N. J. Leach of Augusta has moved
to our burg and will move his saw
mill in a few days.
W. N. Nance, A. .J. Mead and Jack
Langley made a busines trip to New
port Tuesday.
J. J. Madden, who has had appen
dicitis for some time, seems to be bet
ter at this writing. He was able to be
at the school election on Upper Cow
Lake last Saturday and played an im
portant part in educational affairs.
X. Y. Z.
REMMEL.
We are needing rain very badly.
The debate here Saturday night
could not be beat. Those who never
come out missed a fine debate. The
debate was attended by a large crowd.
Jim and Mike Ball were here from
Rich- oods Sunday.
7. D. Barber preached here Sunday
and had a large crowd.
Mr. Gus Bowman and Mrs. Will
Mills were on the sick list last week.
Charlie Davis was here from New
port last Wednesday.
The measles are not spreading very
fast now.
George Lewis went to the county
seat on important business Satur
day.
Mr. 0. D. Cook is trying to purchase
a piece‘of land fi’om J. T. Lewis. He
looks at it once a week, generally on
Sunday.
Claude Bowman and E. L. Dean who
are in the corn club, have a better
crop than the other boys.
X. Y. Z.
PICKET LAKE.
Chas. Harris of Weldon spent the
day. Tuesday fishing on Pickett Lake.
M;fs. Nellie Keene of Hutchinson
has returned to Newport after spend
ing a.week with her sister, Mrs. CL.
Hatcher.
Diqk Peebles and children have re
turned from a visit to relatives at
Bald Knob.
'■ Mr.iana Mrs, Dave Lumley oi bnapp
haye moved into the house vacated
by Mi's. Furnatter;
’ The friends of Mrs. Lula Hatcher
will be sorry to know that her health
is no better. > t !
The Tupelo Missionary Society will
hold a bazaar Friday, June 19, 1914,
at the home of J. N. Gardner. The
patronage of the public is solicited.
w3.
Mr. and Mrs. Will Roberts are the
proud parents of a bouncing boy who
arrived on the 21st. Mother and
babe are doing nicely.
Mr. and Mrs. Kimbrough of Weldon
visited Mrs. Roy Sunday afternoon.
A rain would be appreciated very
much.
The School Improvement Associa
tion of Tupelo will give a strawberry
and ice cream supper Friday night at
the residence of J. N. Gardner, pro
ceeds to vo toward paying for the
piano. Friends of the cause are in
vited to come and be with us.
The farmers are almost up with
their work and cannot hoe any more
until it rains.
Well, I am certainly in favor of our
meeting on June Gth. I think it will
he just as convenient then as at any
time. I hope all will be there, who
can.
HEFFINGTON.
Misses Ruth and Martha O’Brien
r>nd M'ss Etta Heffington came home
from the berry patch Friday.
Miss Blanche Adams and Miss Eva
Dav came home Friday from Jud
sonia, where they had been picking
strawberries.
William Taylor, Jr., spent the lat
ter part of the week near Tuckerman,
where he. went to look for a school.
We have ben having some hot
weather and the farmers are look
ing up now. and saying, “This is good
cotton weather.”
We are neediner rain.
Rev. S. C. Vick filled his reyular
anpointment at Crossroads School
House for the Missionarv Baptist
people Saturday night and Sunday.
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The farmers are nearly all through j
planting and replanting now, and are '
fixing to go to plowing corn.
, BATTLE AXE.
The weather bureau promised us a
rain yesterday, but did not make good.
The drouth is somewhat severe, but
injury, so far, is confined chiefly to
o<tts, potatoes and gardens. Corn and
cotton where properly cultivated, do
ing nicely.
Before me lies a postal card with
this optimistic jingle which seems to
be good enough to pin on our hat3.
'“Let howlers howl and growlers
* growl,
Let prowlers prowl and gegaws go
at it.
Behind the night there’s plenty of
light,
And things are all right, and I
know it.”
I forgot to mention last week that
Mrs. Alien Tyer with her children,
was off visiting relatives at Diaz and
out east of Newport. Back at home
now, however, and Allen no longer
a widower.
J. W. Lindley has received his
silo and intends to have it erected.
He too, like J. A. Lindley and R. F.
Tyer, i.s posing as a farmer—plow
j ing and hoeing. Suspect he almost
| has corns on his hands.
Rather guess Abe Hester is at
work—has not been over since yes
| terday.
Some new cases of smallpox are re
ported east of us, but none near. Our
yellow flags have been taken down.
Autos plowing through our deep
sand quite frequently now (two out
today) and seemingly not having so
mich trouble with s^nd as hereto
| fore.
Local happenings are decidedly lack
ing. Only chance to fill up would be
good line of papers, good pair of
scissors and the perceptive faculties
i of the “All Over Arkansas” man. Not
, having these will not try to fill.
Scribbler.
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Have a large amount of tim
ber cut in the woods and must
move. Will pay good price for
moving same. It will pay you
to come and investigate. For
particulars call Newport phone
1608-5 or write Muirhead Lum
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ST. PAUL’S CHURCH.
(Services Next Sunday)
Hoty Communion, 7:30 a- m.
Sunday School, 9:30 a. m.
Morning Prayer, 11 a. m.
Evening Prayer, 8 p. m.
The rector will make an ad
dres sat the morning service on
tht work of the Forty Second