Mountain Echo Newspaper

April 2, 1886 (Vol 1-No 5) Page 2

Abstracted / Transcribed & Copyrighted by Linda Haas Davenport

When the print is so faded that it cannot be read <.....> will be used . All transcription will be as found in the paper, misspellings and all

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"What's the price of eggs?"

County Court convenes Monday

Subscribe to the Sunday School organ fund.

Subscribe to your county paper. Don't borrow your neighbor.

The wet, cold weather has delayed farmers greatly with their work.

The recent cold snap has undoubtedly killed the peaches in this section.

The steamer Home was at McBee's last Sunday. She will be up again today or tomorrow.

Yesterday was All Fools' day. The day comes but once a year, but the fools we have with us always.

A polar wave struck this part of the moral vineyard Monday, and overcoats and fires have been in demand.

Mrs. O. H. Tucker will begin her instructions in instrumental music next Monday, April 5th, for a term of three months.

Assessor Cravens has been in town this week with "the boys." Cravens is as full of good jokes as an egg is of meat.

This town is in fine trim to receive a snide show or "kangaroo" an egg peddler. The merchants are overstocked with hen fruit.

Only two marriage license issued since our last report, as follows: R. B. Jefferson to Miss Ida Wood; J. C. Wood to Miss D. E. Palmer

 Mr. W. L. Massey, of Hampton Creek township, was a caller at this office on Monday. He has lately been engaged in teaching school in Searcy county.

We have some very "able and efficient hoss swappers" in our town - boys who understand their business. Strangers would do well to steer clear of them.

Another light touch of "the beautiful" on Tuesday. Gentle Spring should be ashamed of herself for lingering so long in the lap of Winter. It is time to quit such flirting.

We acknowledge a pleasant call yesterday from Mr. T. G. Stokes, one of Marion's solid farmers. He says the wheat crop looks finer than he ever saw it in this country at this season. The stand is good.

Rev. Sam Jones is credited with saying that the most beautiful sight in the world is to see a family around a cheerful fire with the head of the family reading his local newspaper, which he has paid for in advance.

The County Wheel held a meeting at the Masonic Hall at this place yesterday. A large number of Wheelers attended. We will publish the proceedings of this meeting next week if we are furnished them.

On last Saturday Mr. K. J. Hudson received a letter from his father, Mr. H. W. Hudson, Sr.; who is with the Carthage and Batesville railroad engineers. At the time he wrote they were at Round Bottom. They expected to get to St. James, Stone county, this week.

In this issue of The Echo the Chairman of the County Democratic Central Executive Committee publishes a call for a meeting of the committee at this place, on Saturday April 10th. Every member of the committee should be present. Read the call, on first page.

Mr. R. P. Carson, living six miles south of town, while hauling wood on Tuesday, met with a very painful accident. While going down a hill the load of wood slid down on the horses, causing them to run. Mr. Carson was thrown from the wagon and run over by the wheels, breaking his arm near the shoulder. Dr. Lindley is attending him, and says Mr. C. is getting along finely.

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At a recent meeting of the Bachelor's Club, a member, noted for his gallantry, and who never allows the town branch to interfere with his engagements, arose in his usual dignified manner and addressed the Club on a most important subject. The Echo man being present took down the speech in short hand. The following is the able address:

"Mr. Chairman: There seems to be a great stumbling block in the way of this club's matrimonial progress. I, for one, Mr. Chairman, am not hankering so everlastingly after this single cussedness. I am in favor of removing that infamous obstacle that obstructs my pathway to matrimonial bliss. I am after quitting bachelordom. I want to don the silken harness, so to speak. I want to meander down life's rugged pathway in double harness awhile. To come more to the point, Mr. Chairman, I want a wife. I am tired, yes, awfully tired of sewing on buttons, darning socks and half-soling pantaloons. I am tired of so-called single blessedness. I want someone to love me, someone to caress me, and some one to -- make fires next winter. Thems my sentiments, Mr. Chairman. [Applause] Now, Mr. Chairman, I have made a thorough canvass of this matter, and I find that a certain bylaw we adopted some time ago, in a moment of temporary insanity, is the cause of my several ignominious failures lately to get a wife. I refer, Mr. Chairman, to that famous, or infamous, if you please, "boarding house clause". I was pouring out the longings of my tender heart to a fair young maiden only the other evening and when I told her how madly and blindly I loved her, and how I longed to make her my better half by a large majority, she turned up her nose and recommended the cook to my consideration. She said, "Do you suppose I want to run a boarding house and cook for your horrid old Bachelors' Club?" Yes, Mr. Chairman, she turned up her nose! [Sighs] And she is not the only one, Mr. Chairman. None of them want to run a hashery! In conclusion, Mr. Chairman, let me say, that "Boarding house law" must go - must be repealed, or myself expelled! I want to marry and I'll be totally jumped up if I don't! Don't suppose the Senator from the sunny south is the only great man who is love sick. My name is not Jones, but I am going to have a wife if takes all summer and if I have to repeal every law this club has ever made."

This eloquent speech did its work. A motion was made to repeal the odious law, and was carried without a dissenting vote. The eloquent orator was then voted a leather medal and a wig for his valuable services to the club.

Health is just splendid.

Overcoats are in demand.

The ground is thoroughly soaked and "fenny."

The steamer Home rounded out from McBee's lading Sunday with a good down trip.

The wheat crop is looking remarkably well. The prospect was never better at this season of the year for a fine crop.

Candidates have not broke the ice yet, but as the weather moderates you will see that White River has a full school of the "howdy, dowdy do, and how's your wife and how are you," beseiging the "dear people" for their votes at the September election.

On Saturday last I saddled up my pony and hied away toward the sunset. After traversing some ten miles west of Yellville, I reined up at the residence of John Tabor, the oldest settler in the county, having emigrated here twelve years before Arkansas was a State. After taking care of the horses and partaking of a hasty supper, we then gathered chairs around the old fireplace and indulged ourselves in a pleasant colloquy. Mr. Tabor's reminiscence of the juvenile days of the county is still fresh on his mind, and is his favorite topic. He told us that he was the first man to set out an apple tree in the county, and was the first man to cut a stick between White River and Yellville. Forty or fifty of the apple trees that he set out fifty-eight years ago on the farm of Aunt Patsy Tucker are still living. He also stated that he had "tripped the light fantastic toe" with an Indian squaw, with galtigaskins on and a big silver ring in her nose, for a partner. March 30, 1886. W. B. F., Jr.

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Lee, the "egg man", had the merchants of this place and other points in the county buying up eggs for him several weeks, and when hen fruit "took a tumble", he "silently folded his tent" and skipped to parts unknown, and left the eggs behind.

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

NOTICE: Those who desire to learn a business at which they can make big money can now do so by addressing (with 20 cts. to pay postage) "C", Box 51, Batesville, Ark.

Far better than the harsh treatment of medicines which horribly grip 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.

<Ad for Dr McLean's Homeopathic Liver & Kidney Balm & his Candy Vermifuge for kids with worms - transcribed several times before>

A GOOD OFFER - We will send The Mountain Echo and the Arkansas Gazette, one of the best weeklies in the South, one year, to any address for $2.50. The subscriber will be entitled to the Gazette premium, a splendid two bladed pocket knife, which will be sent by mail prepaid. Now is your chance to get your State and county papers and a good, nice knife.

<2nd publication of notice to prove Homestead of William I Dial - see previous issues>

<Ad - for Prickly Bitters - transcribed in previous issues>

<AD - Friedman Bros - transcribed in previous issues>

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<Reprint of the Delinquent Tax Sale list>

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<Same ads as transcribed for Column 6 in previous issues>