Daily Democrat, Mammoth Spring, Arkansas, February 25, 1921

Eugene Shreves and family were in town Wednesday. Gene tells us his father, who has been quite sick, is improving some.

John Christianson, wife and children of Louisville, Kentucky, owners of the Ben Thompson 40 acre farm adjoining Worth on the northwest, arrived Tuesday and are visiting with Geo. Wirth in town for a few days before proceeding to their home.

John Michaels has purchased the John Wooldridge blacksmith shop and takes possession March 1. Mr. Wooldridge is not yet ready to announce what he will engage in but declares he is not going to move away just to move back again in a few weeks or months.

Daily Democrat, Mammoth Spring, Arkansas, March 4, 1921

‘Aunt Nancy’, wife of ‘Uncle Henry’ Porter, who suffered a partial stroke of paralysis a short time ago, is yet in a precarious condition.

S. W. Perryman, formerly a strong politician and good citizen of this county, but now a resident of Bristow, Okla., has been called back to the scene of his boyhood in the west end of the county on account of the illness of his mother.

After returning from the burial of their baby Saturday Mr. and Mrs. Caleb B. Stephens came near losing their home by fire. Mrs. Stephens had prepared a meal and the family had just seated themselves about the dining table when the roof of the kitchen was discovered ablaze. Quick action extinguished the fire with but little damage to the house.

Alfred Porter of the Moten neighborhood, son of Robert Porter, has engaged in the barber business in Ash Flat.

Alpha, aged 22 months, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Caleb B. Stephens, who reside on the Smith farm on Spring river near Dam No. 2, died last Friday morning at 3:05 o’clock after a painful illness of 2 weeks duration of bronchial-pneumonia and measles. Burial was Saturday morning in the Burrow graveyard on Old Field creek. Alpha is the third child. Death has taken from these parents since March 26 last. On that date, Miss Verdie, their 16 year old daughter died. Then in the very next month Otto, 14, died.

Capt. A. L. Cooper, our dear friend, and one of the greatest boosters this Ozark country has, is sick again. We are hoping to see him out and boosting soon.

“Champ Clark of Missouri is no more. He died Wednesday in the nation’s capital, one of the greatest friends Democracy ever possessed.

Clarence E. England, who resides on the Will Burns farm at the mouth of Big Creek, 3 miles north of Fickinger, will have an auction sale on Thursday, March 17 to sell his cows, hogs and some household effects. R. D. Taylor is the auctioneer names in the bill we printed today.

Frank Bell, after a visit of three weeks with relatives in the vicinity of Oxford, Izard County, boarded a Frisco passenger train Monday, returning to his home near Dexter, N. Mex. He was accompanied by Rex Bell, his nephew, and Bud Cozort, an uncle, who will give that pinto bean country a trial.

Frank Erwin, of Oxford, Izard County, sold three bales of cotton to our buyers Tuesday and spent the night with his mother.

H. A. Northcutt and Fred Moore of Salem were registered at the Nettleton Hotel yesterday.

Hubert Lucas has now one of the neatest, cleanest, and most modern tailor shops to be seen anywhere. It is in the Culp building adjoining the post office.

J. A. Conner, real estate man at Wirth, was a visitor Saturday. He was here closing up some real estate transfers.

J. A. Glenn, the groceryman, has purchased of Dr. E. L. Garner the Boss Wood residence property lying west of the Methodist church.

J. M. Burrow, Lawyer, Notary in Office. Will practice in all the state and Federal courts. Office – Rooms 5 and 6, Crescent brick”

J. T. Phillips of French was here Tuesday. “T.”, as he is familiarly known, has recently undergone an operation for bladder trouble and is improving in general health since.

Jake Smith, a farmer from near Myatt creek, was here Tuesday on business. He was in a rush to get back home so as to sow oats on Wednesday.

John F. Hunt, our postmaster, will move his family to the Sam Estese property next week.

John Michaels will give an auction sale next Tuesday at this farm 6 miles south of town when he will sell a big lot of just such things a many of our readers will have to buy. See his bills, attend the sale and save money. Sant Frazier will be the auctioneer and Jim Martin clerk. Lunch on the grounds.

John Michaels has rented residence property from Mrs. Fryar and will move his family into town immediately following his auction sale.

Mack Caruthers, our county tax assessor, was over from Salem, the county seat, on business Tuesday returning Wednesday.

Miss Esther Porter, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Porter of the Moten neighborhood, south of town, and Mr. Frank Barger, of Monette, Craighead county, but formerly a citizen of this county, were married one day first of last week in the mercantile establishment of Wm. Lytle, Rev. Will H. Morris, pastor of the Presbyterian church, performing the ceremony. The young couple departed on the first southbound train for Monette where they will reside.

Mrs. Mary Weaver, wife of Lee Weaver, the Hardy stock buyer, and daughter of Uncle Geo. Hurst, deceased, died Sunday night in as Little Rock hospital following an operation for gall-stone. The body was returned to Hardy for burial.

Nettleton Hotel Mammoth Spring, Arkansas Under New Management, Lawrence & Bro, $3 and Up, Special rates to Families by Week or Month, Our Meals are the Best that can Be Given for the Price. We will Appreciate Your Patronage.

Dr. W. D. Webb, Dentist, Thayer, Mo., Full Sets of Teeth, $20.00 (Upper & Lower) Crowns $5.00 and up. I’ve been a life-time with you.

Felix Kent, Barber, opposite Post Office, Patronage of the Public Invited

Leonard Bookout, son of Mrs. And Mrs. J. D. Bookout, has purchased the daily news agency of J. B. Hunt and is conducting the same from the Bookout Restaurant adjoining the postoffice.

Daily Democrat, Mammoth Spring, Arkansas, April 8, 1921

Michael and Johnson, Blacksmith Shop, Horse Shoeing, Woodwork & General Blacksmithing

A. S. Chapman, Physician and Surgeon, Office Over Post office, Phones – Residence 64, Office 63

C. E. Elmore, Lawyer. Office on Fourth Street. Will practice in all courts. Notary in Office.

E. E. Holmes, aged 81 years, living west of town one mile, is one of the youngest old men in the Ozarks. During last winter he cut 50 ricks of stove wood, and right now he has the best garden of any one.

E. L. Garner, Physician and Surgeon, Ash Flat, Ark., Chronic Female Disorders a specialty

H. S. Morris, Physician and Surgeon, Office in Crescent Building

John H. Caldwell, Lawyer, Office in Crescent brick. Will practice in all courts of the state and nation.

The Kirby Brothers

Alfred B. Kirby, a former Fulton county boy, nephew to W. S. Kirby, whom old timers remember favorably and well, arrived here with his wife and two daughters Monday from Collinsville, Okla., to spend a week or more among his relatives. They came in their own auto and can go about at will. Alf, and his two brothers, Monroe and Sheridan, are in the manufacturing business at Collinsville and have accumulated comfortable fortunes in the past few years manufacturing an Art Needle invented by Monroe. Their factory, first established in a barn with a daily capacity of two hundred needles is now located in a concrete building 40 x 95 feet, two stories, and the capacity is 2,500 daily. These needles are delivered as rapidly as produced to jobbers in all the principal cities of the United States, in Old Mexico and Canada. This is the Art Needle introduced here last year during the Soldiers’ reunion by Sheridan Kirby, except that they have improved upon it.

Good luck to the Kirby Brothers, Fulton county boys.

Daily Democrat, Mammoth Spring, Arkansas, Jul 15, 1921

L. A. Brittain of Many Islands was among our visitors Monday.

Andy Ames has a new driveway in to his garage.

E. M. Parsons, farmer on Wirth route, was here Tuesday and joined the satisfied crowd who read The Democrat.

Ed Kern was down from Thayer Tuesday and purchased of the Campbell Motor Co., a new Ford touring car.

Clayton Estes of Agnos is in town today.”

George Young, brother to R. B., has moved back from Marmaduke. He says this country is good enough for him.

Henry Baertels was in from the farm Wednesday.

Lawrence Hynson spent Sunday with his family here.

Miss Lorene Whiteside is teaching the Mud Spring school.

Mrs. Dr. Griffin owns a new Ford touring car bought of the Campbell Motor Co.

Mrs. H. Martin of Camden is visiting at the home of her niece, Mrs. Wm. Lytle.

Mrs. Horace Paul’s mother, Mrs. West, of Mansfield, Mo., is visiting her.

Mrs. Jack Charlton has purchased a new Ford touring car of the Campbell Motor Co.

Mrs. Nick Jackson of Jonesboro is visiting her sister, Mrs. Hugh Erwin, at the home of Mrs. Rozelle Erwin.

P. P. B. Hynson has returned home from the Springfield Hospital. Trez came with him.

Tom Bishop is over from French today.

Willie Carrol sports a new Ford Roadster bought of the Campbell Motor Co.

Mammoth Spring Democrat, Mammoth Spring, Arkansas, Friday, September 2, 1921

“Ames R. Murrell and Miss Henrietta Dixon, young people of our town were married in Springfield, Mo., last Saturday, Aug. 27, in the Christian church parsonage, with Miss Dorothy Dixon and Willie Miller and wife witnesses. The happy pair are at home with the groom’s mother, Mrs. ? F. Murrell on West Main Street. The bride is second daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Dixon, than whom there are no finer people anywhere. The Democrat joins the friends in extending all the good wishes that would flow from a sincere heart.

Botto Elder went back to Jefferson City, Mo., to his family and his work, yesterday, after a stay of a few days at the bedside of his sister, Lula, who has been quite sick, but is now some better. Botto is a fine young man.

Miss Leona, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Cunningham, of Salem, has returned from Springfield, Mo., where she has been under care of Dr. J. A. Sigler.

Harry Berry, the merchant and postmaster at Fryatt, was character witness in the arson case before Justice Jones Saturday.

W. L. Foster and wife formerly of Viola, but now of Imboden, were here Tuesday looking over our town with a view to locating.

Spurlock & Weller are moving to Jonesboro. They loaded car of household goods Monday and the same went out Tuesday.

Miss Cora Lee Elmore is at home with her parents for a short visit. She is employed with the Bell Telephone Co., at Camden.

The Spurlock & Weller fire cost G. C. Buford $560.00 cash to replace the glass front of the building occupied by the Pace Mer. Co.

John Martin was in town Tuesday and a profitable visitor to this office. He celebrated his 46^th birthday Wednesday Aug. 31.

Willard Cooper, of the meat firm of Cooper & Moore, proprietors of the City Meat Market; now sports a new Ford touring car.

Tom Burkett and wife are here from Oklahoma visiting relatives. Mrs. Burket is sister to Clen and Rufe Cash.

FOR SALE - Team of good mare mules, 16 ½ hands high and about 12 years old. Recently owned by S. K. Buehler, of Thayer. Price reasonable. Can sell on easy terms. Write or see, Campbell Motor Co., Mammoth Spring, Arkansas

For sale cheap, a good buggy and harness. P. P. B. Hynson

Hot or Cold Baths at Nettleton Hotel, only 25 cents

Mammoth Spring Democrat, Mammoth Spring, Arkansas, October 28, 1921

Sarah A. Schiveley, wife of J. R. Schiveley, died Sept. 17, 1921, at the home of her son, Bart Schiveley, after an illness lasting since July 17, aged 64 years and 19 days. Aside from her husband and son, already named, she leaves two sisters, Nora McDonald and Alfreda Howard. She was born and married in Page county, Iowa, and with her husband moved to Arkansas 24 years ago. She was the mother of two boys and had eight grand children. The funeral sermon was delivered in the Rose Hill Baptist church house by Rev. Sheaves of Alton and the burial was in Rose Hill Cemetery at 2 o’clock p.m.

Earl Peters, son of Eld. And Mrs. Howard Peters, and Miss Beatrice Brunn, all of West Plains, were married one day last week in Salem, Esquire G. H. Briggs, officiating.

Uncle John” McCollum, brother to Mrs. J. H. Fryar of our town, died one day last week at this home in Violet Hill Township, Izard County, aged 95 years and 8 days.

B. F. Elder has purchased the Dungee farm near town and Mr. Dungee will leave in a few days for Los Angeles, Calif. He and his family will go in an automobile.

J. C. Frazier, also a former Mammoth Spring citizen, but for several years, and now, a business man of West Helena, attended Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows in Little Rock this week. It was he who nominated C. T. Hudson of his lodge, No. 294, for grand warden. Whether it was Cobb’s speech or the good looks of his candidate that did the work we are not prepared to say; but we do know, and we sure are proud to tell it, that C. T. Hudson receive more than a majority of the votes on first ballot over two splendid opponents, and if it wasn’t Hudson’s handsome face then it was Cobb’s speech that elected him. This was not Frazier’s first winning speech, however. Go with us to his West Helena home some time and we’ll show you there one of the sweetest and best women in Phillips county, won by Frazier’s talkability.

Ed Watson and wife are visiting in Salem and Viola. Prof. Ed was county examiner of this county until county superintendency superseded that order of things.

Mrs. Alvin Jones surprised her husband Monday with a special dinner and a few invited guests in honor of his birthday and their wedding anniversary.

Jesse Strings and Miss Pearl Arthur were married last Monday night at the home of the bride in the Moten school district, Justice Con. Jones, officiating.

We met T. B. Daniel, Owen Hunt and T. W. Sharp, in Little Rock this week. These were all former citizens of Fulton County but now live in the city. Tom Daniel is a merchant at 1700 State Street, Owen Hunt is city salesman for Goodwin & Jean and lives in North Little Rock, and Will Sharp is in the moving picture film distribution business with headquarters on West Markham Street, furnishing daily programs to more than 250 movie theatres within the state.

We found Henry Raney busy putting a new coat of paint on his residence in the northwest part of Salem last week while we were in the county seat. When completed he will have a large and handsome home there. It is located a short distance west of the school house.

Fulton County Democrat, Mammoth Spring, Arkansas, December 23, 1921

Born Dec. 22, 1921, to Mr. and Mrs. E. H. LaMore, Salem, a boy – a Democratic boy – and its father says as soon as he is old enough he shall teach him to read The Fulton County Democrat, “so that proper environment can do the rest.”

Arthur Swaim, wife and baby, of Ft. William, Ont., are visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Swain near Fryatt.

Edgar Porter, a popular young English creek farmer, was married Christmas eve to Miss Osie Reed, Justice J. J. Brown officiating.

Col. And Mrs. A. L. Cooper are the proud recipients of 66 Christmas cards and present coming from 16 states. They are exceptionally prowed of the remembrance.

Updated 16 Feb 2015