Mountain Echo Newspaper

March 12, 1886 (Vol 1-No 2) Page 2

Abstracted / Transcribed & Copyrighted by Linda Haas Davenport

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<Top Section I'll list it here and won't list it again unless it changes>

Entered at the Post Office at Yellville, Ark, as second-class mail matter.

H.R. DALLAM .... Editor

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March winds and weather

We yearn for spring and garden "sass"

Two Memphis drummers in town this week.

The last grand jury found thirty-eight indictments.

Pure drugs and patent medicines at Hudson's Drug Store

The brass band should reorganize and begin to learn to "toot."

Winter holds so well. Wonder if the ground-hog did see his shadow?

Another light touch of "the beautiful snow" Sunday morning and also Tuesday.

We have added quite a number of subscribers to our list this week. Room for more.

When you want a lunch call on Hudson. He keeps all kids of can goods, dried beef, sausage, etc.

If Whitfield Harris Esq., will call at this office he will find something he has been looking for.

On Tuesday there was a three inch snow five miles south of town. It melted as fast as it fell here.

Weast & Co's distillery commenced operation one day last week. It is located six miles south of town.

White river has been quite low for the past three week, and boats have been unable to get above Buffalo City.

K. J. Hudson keeps fresh family groceries always on hand. Call on him when needing anything in the grocery line.

Advertising promotes trade, for even in the dullest times advertisers secure by far the largest share of what is being done.

The Carthage and Batesville railroad engineers are on Big creek, Searcy county, about 25 miles southwest of this place.

An old Kentucky friend writing to us says: "It seems to be a 'very proper caper' that an Echo could be heard from Yell-ville."

Send us the news from your respective neighborhoods. Don't expect us to know intuitively all that is going on in the county.

J. H. Berry & Son are still at the old stand, opposite the south door of the court house, dealing out their merchandise at hard time prices.

We will take gold, silver, greenbacks or a few loads of wood, at par, on subscription to The Echo. Don't all bring wood; silver will do.

If Yellville is an incorporated town, why not elect town officers next April? It is time to put on city airs and prepare for the railroad.

The public school at this place, under the management of Prof. A. W. Wickersham, is in a prosperous condition, and the attendance is quite large.

Newspaper advertising compels inquiry, and when the article offered is of good quality and at a fair price the natural result is increased sales.

Mr. Henry Hudson, Sr., is with the railroad engineers. They have engaged his and Thos. Railsback's wagons and teams for the next three months.

Our readers in the county are invited to call on us when in town. We wish to make their acquaintance. Office opposite the postoffice, next door to Hudson's drug store.

Perhaps a butcher shop in this town would not be a very paying institution, but oh! What a blessing it would be. We could relish a steak cut from the horns of Texas steer.

If there is any truth in the old saying that a good crop year follows a hard winter, then our farmers need have no fears for the coming season. The winter has been severe, if that has anything to do with it.

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Mr. K.J. Hudson, dealer in drugs, groceries, etc., has a card in this issue of The Echo. Read his card and give him a call when you need anything in his line.

As many copies of this issue of The Echo will be sent out to parties in other States, the article on "Marion County" is republished. The object is to advertise our county and its resources.

Mrs. James Johnson died at her home, on Lee's mountain three miles north of this place, on Wednesday, the 10th inst. The bereaved family have the sympathy of the entire community.

Government work on White river, we learn, will not begin before the first of June. The snag boat Henry Sheldon is choking a tree, down about Batesville, while her officers are drawing full pay and living on the fat of the land.

Mr. E. H. Trimble, of the Boone County Tobacco Works, called on us this week. Mr. Trimbel is one of the best tobacco men in the State. He contemplates opening a factory at Lead Hill about May 1st. Our merchants will do well to patronize him.

Rev. D. E. Dortch, the evangelist, will be here about the first week in April, and will hold a series of meetings at the M. E. Church South. He is a successful worker and we hope he will do much good here. More definite notice of the time will be given next week.

A farewell party was given Mr. G. W. Layton, at the palatial residence of his brother, Mr. A. S. Layton, on last Friday night. Those who attended pronounced it a most enjoyable occasion. Owing to a previous engagement with an Arkansas chill, The Echo reporter failed to attend.

The firm of J H Berry & Son come to the front this week with an advertisement. This firm does a general mercantile business, and carry a large stock of everything the farmer needs. They are at the old stand, south of the courthouse. When you want bargains give them a call.

We return thanks to Rev O H Tucker for a copy of the "Minutes" of the Forty-ninth Session of the Arkansas Annual Conference of the M.E. Church South," held at Morrillton, Nov 25-30. It is printed in neat pamphlet form and contains some valuable statistics, which are of interest to every Methodist in the conference.

It is not our intention to beg. We are not asking the support of the people for charity's sake. We prepose to stand on our merits. If you think this paper is worthy your patronage you should patronize it; if not we do not ask you to patronize me one cent. And you, of course, can be your own judge. This applies to advertisers as well as subscribers.

Readers, if you have a good live advertisement running through your local paper, you have hundreds of servants out at work for you, whether you wake or sleep, whether you are sick or well. No monarch's slaves ever scattered at his bidding so fleetly or faithfully, or in such bewildering numbers, as the literary messengers that bear your individual word to the people.

In this issue of The Echo we published the law card of <....>, Wilson & Bailey. These gentlemen are associated in the civil practice, and all business put in their hands will receive prompt and careful attention. They are lawyers of ability and gentlemen of strict integrity. Mr. De Roos Bailey of this place, will practice in the criminal courts. Read their card.

Mrs. Maggie McDowell, wife of Mr. G. W. McDowell, died at her home at this place, on Tuesday morning, the 9th inst., after a lingering illness of several months. The remains were consigned to their last resting place on Wednesday afternoon, Rev. O. H. Tucker, of the M. E. Church, South, officiating at the grave. An appropriate obituary will be published next week.

Take your county paper. One year, one dollar, in advance.

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When your old shoes or boots need a patch or half-sole do not throw them away, but take them to Luke Matlock's shop and have them mended. He will do it neat and cheap.

Your attention is called to the law card of Floyd & Floyd, Yellville and Bentonville. Mr. J C Floyd, this place, will practice in the circuit courts of Marion, Baxter, Searcy and Boone counties. Mr. W S Floyd is located in Bentonville and will attend to business in that end of the circuit. These gentlemen are well known to you all and need to introduction from us.

The necessity for a railroad through this section of country is apparent to all. The resources of this county can never be fully developed until we get better shipping facilities. We are now absolutely cut off from the outside world. A railroad will materially enhance the value of property, open up our mines, afford easy transportation for our products and be the means of bring a healthy immigration here to settle upon the vacant lands. Let us encourage the building of railroads through this county. Out of three prospective roads we certainly ought to get at least one.

PURELY PERSONAL

County Clerk Dodd returned from Harrison Sunday afternoon.

Mr. A. S. Layton and Dr. J. B. Sims left on last Saturday for Washington, D. C.

Capt. John T. Warner, of the steamer John F. Allen, was in town last week in the interest of his boat.

De Roos Bailey, Esq., returned home Tuesday. After the adjournment of court at Harrison, he visited his father's family a few days.

Baxter Citizen, 3rd inst.: E. T. Record, of Noe's, Marion county, passed through town yesterday with some fine mules which he was taking to the southern market.

Mr. John B. Milum, of Blythe township, was in town on Tuesday. His brother, F. D. Milum, is suffering with catarrh in the head, and has been totally blind for the past few days from the effect of the disease. He will try Dr. Child's remedy.

Mr. G. W. Layton, who has been visiting his mother and other relatives and old friends at this place for the past few weeks, departed on last Saturday for his home in the far west - New Mexico. This was Mr. Layton's first visit to his old home in seven years, but he thinks he will not remain away so long this time.

BIRTHS:

Young - to the wife of Mr. J. A. Young, on the 8th inst., a son.

Tucker - to the wife of Rev. O. H. Tucker, on the 9th inst., a son.

A Nashville girl eloped with an editor. The commissioners of the insanity reported her case incurable.

In Holland the church doors are locked during the sermon that nobody can interrupt by going in or out.

When nature falters and requires help recruit her enfeebled energies with Dr. J H McLean's Strengthening cordial and Blood Purifier. $1.00 per bottle.

A gentleman who claims to know, and who, by the way, is a scholar and Christian, says the only difference between Kansas and Paradise, is that Kansas is receiving much heavier imingration and has the best roads - Ex.

Far better than the harsh treatment of medicines which horribly gripe the patient and destroy the coating of the stomach Dr. J H McLean's chills and Fever Cure, by mild yet effective action will cure. Sold at 50 cents a bottle.

Miss Fanny Mills, of Ohio, who is to be married soon, is a lady of fair understanding. She wears a No. 30 slipper, and has had a pair built in New York to wear at her wedding. Their dimensions are as follows: Across the bull, 22 inches; across instep, 22; across heel, 25; around the ankle, 20 inches.

Thousands of people suffer with back ache, not knowing hat in most cases it is a symptom of diseased kidneys and liver, which plasters and lotions cannot heal, the best and safest remedy is Dr. J H McLean's Homopathic Liver and Kidney Balm. $1.00 per bottle.

Children who are troubled with worms are pale in the face, blue rings around their eyes, pick the nose, have variable appetites, are fretful by spells, have bad dreams, are restless in sleep. Dr. J H McLean's Liquid or Candy Vermifuge will kill and expell these troublesome parasites. 25 cents a bottle.

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<Reprint of last issue's report on Marion County">

TRUSTEE'S SALE: Notice is hereby given that the undersigned, by the virtue of the power given by a certain deed of trust, dated on the 2nd day of February, 1884, executed <...> by John Langston and Josephine Langston, conveying to me in trust the following real estate hereinafter described to secure to J H Berry the sum of one hundred and forty dollars and forty-two cents upon a promissory note executed to the said J H Berry by the said John Langston and dated on the 2nd day of February 1884, for the sum of one hundred and forty dollars and forty-two cents, one day after date, and with interest at the rate of ten percent per annum from date until paid, which said deed of trust is duly acknowledged and recorded in record book of deeds Book E, at page 139, of the records of Marion county and State of Arkansas to which reference is hereby made, between the hours of 11 o'clock in the forenoon and 2 o'clock in the afternoon on The 10th day of April, 1886, at the court house door, in the town of Yellville, in the county of Marion, and State of Arkansas, at public auction to the highest bidder, or cash in hand, the following described real estate, situated in the county of Marion and State of Arkansas to wit:

The south half of the northwest quarter of Section 17, Township 17, north of Range 16 west containing 80 acres, more or less; of as much there of as may be necessary to amass the sum of the amount due on said deed of trust. Dated this 3rd day of March 1884.

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J H Berry - J C Berry ... J H Berry & Son ... Dealers in Dry Goods ... Groceries ... Boots And Shoes, Hats .... Clothing and Gent's Furnishings Goods a Specialty .. Also keep a large stock of ...Queensware, Hardware, Plows ... And all kinds of ... Farming Implements .. Remember we keep a general stock comprising everything the farming community may want ... Give us a call and we guarantee satisfaction ... J H Berry & Son

B H Trimble .. Manufacture of all grades of ... Lug, Twist and Smoking ... Tobacco ... Will open at Lead Hill, Ark, May 1st 1886

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H J Hudson ... Dealer in ... Pure Drugs ... Patent Medicines ... Family Groceries ... Tobacco and Cigars ... Candies and Confections ... South side of Court Square, Yellville, Ark.

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