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THE OSCEOLA TIMES.
VOLUME XXX
THE RIGHT STEP
HAS BEEN TAKEN BY THE BUSINESS
' MEN OF OSCEOLA
Anda League Formed for the Purpose of Put
ting Osceola and Mississippi County Before
the World as they Should he Seen.
Last. Tuesday night quite a num
ber of the business men met at (1.
R. Briekey’s store for the purpose
of taking some united action in
advancing the general interests of
the town and county and the assem
bly was called to order by Mr. L.
A. Morris. Col. L. A. Palmer
stated the object of the meeting.
On motion. Colonel Palmer was
elected chairman and Mr. W. C.
flyers secretary.
The secretary was instructed to
enroll the mimes of those present,
and the following gentlemen were
found to be in attendance : L. A.
Palmer, L. A. Morris, G. R.
Briekey, F. B. Hale, Dr. J. H.
Hale, Hon. W. J. Driver, Chas. S.
Driver, J. W. Quinn. W. P. Mil
ler. John Verser, W. D. Howard.
E. M. Ford, Major Gordon, G. W.
Decker. T. A. Matthews. Arthur'
Fowler, Leon Sullivan and W. C. I
Myers.
The object of the meeting was !
then quite generally discussed, all,
pre sent showing great interest in j
the matter, and the ehair was in-1
structed to appoint a committee of
five to draft rules and regulations
and solicit, membership for the as
sociation. said committee to report
at the next meeeting. The com
mittei as appointed is a- follows:
W. J. Driver. G. R. Brickey, Fj
B. Hale and L. A. Morris.
On motion, the name of the!
chairman was added to th!> com
mittee.
The meeting then adjourned to i
meet at the same place next Tues-!
day evening, at 8 o'clock, when ai
permant organization wiii be I
formed and earnest work begun A
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BANK OF OSCEOLA.
At the annual meeting of the!
stockholders of the Bank of < > .. -
ola. held on the sth of September,
the following Directors were elected .
for the ensuing year, to-wit: GJ
R. Brickey. -I. D. Driver. C. 11. :
Gaylord. F. B. Hale. W. P. Hale. I
S. S. Semmes and H. D. Tom
linson.
And the new board of director--;
elected the following officers, to-!
wit: G. R. Brickey, president:;
S. S. Semmes, vice-president; C.
H. Gaylord, secretary, and James
L. Ward, cashier.
Below we give the statement
showing the condition of the lia
bilities and assets of said bank dt
the close of business on the 31st of
August:
RESOURCES.
Banking house, furniture iuul fixt
ures * 5,610 97
I Cash on hand 2,717 ox
Duo from Chase National Bank *,9>2 71
Expenses paid. 2,631 66
Loans and discounts 7".,m:> 01
Due from Memphis National Bank 15,460 18
Scrip account HO 75
Stamp account 71' 00
5104.915 36
LIABILITIES.
Capital stock S 25,000 00
Exchange account 1,116 85
Interest account 6,:)52 32
Individual deposits 58,157 60
Protit and loss • 28 53
Time deposits 2,292 64
Bills payable io,ooo oo
Undivided profits . LOOT 83
*104,915 30
Net earnings for the year, *4,837.51.
The great success of Chamberlain's
Colic, Cholera ami Dirarhoea Remedy in
the treatment of bowel complaints has
made it standard over the greater part
of the civilized world. For sale by C.
H, Gaylord.
PLEDGED TO NO PARTY'S ARBITRARY SWAY, WE FOLLOW TRUTH WHERE ER SHE LEADS THE WAY.”
Great Prosperity.
The reports from the trade cen
ters, this week, of increasing
activity and expansion in all lines
of industry is highly encouraging.
A Baltimore special in reviewing
the situation in the south, says:
The papers have announcements
in increasing frequency of the in
epption of new enterprises and the
enlargement of the operations of
the old ones of better opportuni
ties for employment of a larger
number of persons than ever be
fore. and in some instances of the
scarcity of labor for railroad work
or labor in factories and mines.
Regarded as a whole, the southern
press at this moment has a tone
more optimistic than has been
noted for several years. The
beauty and strength of the situa
tion are found in the fact that the
tone hqs a most substantial basis.
Give Young Men a Chance.
Rarely is the merchant or man
ufacturer in this country heard to
say: “I have made enough for
my wants; lam satisfied with what
I have; I will retirp from business” I
—so rarely, indeed, that when a!
mi’ll does say it. ipore especially a
man in the prime of life, the great
est surprise is expressed.
The business men of today re
mind one of Lincoln's remark
about officeholders, that “few die
and none resign.” Asa rule, they
keep on working up to the last
gasp, in very many cases falling
victims to their love of work, of
money or of habit, and dropping
out years earlier than would have
been the case had they devoted
their old age to the leisure they
had earned but did not care to
enjoy.
This tendency toward the pro
longation of a business career be
yond needed Ijmits is a disadvan
tage to the country and to the
community. It prevents the
younger element from having the
chance it deserves, lessening the
number of vacancies for new blood
and multiplying the list of subor
dinates and employes.
But this is by no means the
wlmle evil. What this country
needs is a leisure class—not a lot
of multi-millionaires, whose chief
business in life is playing polo,
yachting and dining out, but men
of moderate means who have the
lime and inclination to look after
the interests of their community.
If we had such men as these in
politics, men of business experi
ence. men who are not in pursuit
of the almighty dollar, what a
change would at once be wrought
in our city, state and federal gov
ernments! We should hear very
little of investigating committees,
of h’ramapo-Water Company steals,
of “bosses” and corruption.
The woi’d “polities” would cease
to be associated with under-hand
methods; our streets would be
clean, our buildings safe, our taxes
lessened; in a word, our affairs
would be administered on a higher,
more honorable and consequently
more economical and satisfactory
basis.
Money is only a means to an
end. If the acquirement of a
competence were regarded, as it
should be, as entrance to a broader,
nobler field of effort, what vast
benefits such moderate fortunes
would bring to the American peo
ple. They manage these things
better in Europe, where the re
tired merchant is a frequent and
honored figure in the majority of
cities and towns. —Exchange.
■ —i
Jeff Davis says: “If his ten
year-old boy proves to be a smart
man he will inake a preacher out
of him ; if he is not smart enough
for a preacher, he will make a law
yer out of him, and if he has no
sense at all. he will make an editor
of him.” If the boy takes after
his pa the old man had just as well
make arrangements to buy a print
ing office and put the boy to work
witli his pencil.—Clarksville Her
ald
OSCEOLA, ARKANSAS, SEPTEMBER 16, 1899.
Bouquets for Arkansas.
Hon. H. L. Remmel, of Little
Rock. Ark., who is at the Arling
ton, is an ardent republican, and
has twice been the candidate of his
party for governor. He is, how
ever, a man of such broad views
and has worked so zealously for
the interest of Arkansas that his
popularity is as great among dem
ocrats as with his own partisans.
“I think.” said he, to a Bost re
porter, “that our state ha# un
doubtedly a glorious future, and
that its present is one of great
prosperity cannot be denied. The
coming boom in Arkansas—and it
is ascertain as death and taxation—
is in the zine fields of the north
west, close to the Missouri line.
There are millions of dollars’
worth of zine stored in the hills of
that section, which is as yet with
out railroad connection with the
outside world. A road will soon
be built from Little Rock thither,
and plenty of capital will be forth
coming for the development of the
mineral resources that have lain so
long dormant.
“Nearly all the towns of our
state are making solid improve
ments. In Fort Smith, not long
since, five fine churches were in
course of construction at one time.
Jn Little Rock building is so ac
tive that it is hardly possible to
get enough men and materia] to
supply the demand.”
Education and Crime.
John Stuart Mills defines educa
tion as “whatever helps to shape
the human being, to make the in
dividual what he is, or to hinder
him from being what he is not.”
Accepting this very broad defini
tion, and observing the enlightened
condition of the civilized world
and the security in which we are
able to award to education in gen
eral. and to the public school sys
tem in particular, a large measure
of credit. If our jails and our
prisons are as full as ever, we
know that many are deterred from
evildoing by modern facilities for
detecting and punishing crime. If
intemperance is still defiantly as
saulting life and character in every
grade of society, and is the direct
agent of more crime than all other
causes considered, we still know
that a moral sentiment is being de
veloped that will eventually place
this monster evil in subjection and
protect society from its ravages.
The fact that we have been adding
annually to our population upward
of half a million of foreigners,
many of whom are not, in sympa
thy with our institutions, but are
bred in pauperism, discontent, and
possibly in crime, is often over
looked when criminal statistics are
cited by pessimistic, writers. But
there is no grander proof of the
efficacy .of free schools than is
seen in the capacity of our country
for receiving and assimilating this
mass of material without serious
detriment. The increase of crime
may be partially explained by other
causes, as for example, the rapid
growth of cities, the unsettled con
dition of our industrial system, the
rapid accumulation of wealth, all
tending to prove that the object of
crime and its causes are very com
plex, and presents many problems
for science and philanthropy to
solve.
Coffee’s Lowest Price.
New York, Sept. S.—The Trib
une says : “The lowest price on
record for “future” coffee was
reached yesterday, when coffee de
livered in October sold on the New
York coffee exchange at 4.40. The
previous low price was 4.55 cents
in June for coffee delivered in
July. The high pi-ice in seventeen
years was 22.2-5 cents in June,
1887, for coffee delivered in the
following December. The cash
price of Brazilian coffee was yes
terday the lowest on record, being
5g cents or £ cent below any previ
ous figure. The low prices now
current are due to the enormous
world’s supply and the expectation
[ that the new crop will reach 11,-
000,000 bags, the largest increase
I ever reported for a single month.
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And Feel the Best.
We keep the best, and when we sell you your family
groceries A SATISFIED FEELING _
goes along with the goods, because the goods pre right am!
the ppice is right. A full measure is our pleasure.
L. G. CLEERE.
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c U e always keep the nicest, tendered, juiciest and bed ;
> Meats the Market affords. All handled through the Cold
(Storage.
WE A choice line of Family Groceries ami Shelf Goods. J
( ALSO Hay. Chops, Bran, Oats, Cotton Seed .Meal, Cottou
KEEP Seed Hulls, Corn Meal, Flour and Limo.
Axle Grease, ■ Baking Bowder, Basket*, Beans, JUaeldng,
Candies, Buckwheat Flour, Catsoup, Sardines, Vegetuble.-'. J
< Cheese, Cigarettes, Cigars, Coffees, Condeu'd M'lk
4 Cracked Wheat, Crackers, Cakes, etc. Extracts, Dried Beef, j
> Gelatine, Fruit Butters, Jellies, Macaroni, Horse Radish, <
y, Mince Meat, Nuts, Olives, Pickles, Rice, I
(; Soaps, Sapolio, Snuff, Spices, Teas, S
Vinegar, Smoking and Chewing Tobaccos, etc. etc.
• $
> Soliciting your patronage, I am,
Very Respectfully, >
ABNER DRIVER.
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Toilet Articles, Cigars, Tobaccos,
and a Fine line of Blanke Bros. St. Louis candies.
from the country tilled with care and dispatch. The prescription
Ipartment, is under the special care of the well known and reliable Pharmacist ,
Will IL Stancill, who will till your Prescriptions with none but genuine che- j
; micals, and will be pleased to serve you at all hours of the day or night. )
Competition met, and your trade respectfully solicited. ’ (
i J. C. BRICKEY. !
City Drug Store Old bland. Telephone No. 88.
NUMBER 43