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I LUMBER ■ ■'’lL iP H ' z I Shingles, Roofing, Doors, I Windows, Window Glass, I Builders’ Hardware, Brick, I Lime, Cement, Plastet and I Smithing Coal. I Wasson Lumber Co. I Price Makers. I e? " ■■ ll 1 I — = Local and 'Personal ■ .0000000000000000 ■ 0 ■ 0 The Weather. o | • ■ o Unsettled tonight and tomor- o ■ o row; probably thunder storm?, o I Cooler tonight. o -He a ■ *OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO ♦ I Fresh turnip seed at the Casey || Drug Co. ts Dr H ‘ k Darby U ’P endinK “ few Xl days in Little Rock. 11 Buy Oxfords today at Edwards. Re- ll duced prices. Chas. Mosby Sr. visited relatives' xl at Sulphur Rock yesterday. 11 Phone 393 for high class cleaning IH and pressing. Mack Hardy. 92-tfd I THE GEN THEATRE K, “ | II Auditorium Building 9 W. la. Landcra. Mgr. 9 i 9 MONDAY. AUGUST 10TH. 9 The MMage of Tear I Drama. Biograph. 9 A Mixup on the Plains I Western. Selig. ■ Chanter Rao. Criminal Expert ■ Drama. Vitagraph. I TUESDAY. AUGUST 11TH. 3 Wrong All Around J Comedy. Essanay. I The Chicken Inspector 11 I Comedy. Vitagraph. I The Chinese Pan ■ Dollie of the Dailies. Edison. ] ■ I WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 12TH. I A Modem Vendetta, Part I ] I Drama. Selig. I A Modem Vendetta* Part 2 I Drama. Special. I A Modem Vendetta, Part 3 I Drama. Special. I THURSDAY, AUGUST 13TH. I The Game Politics, Part I | Drama. Lubin. I The Game Politics, Part I | Drama. Special. I Bunny’s cheme I Comedy. ViUgraph. ■ FRIDAY. AUGUST UTH. I First 3 Recis of “The Perils of ■ A Special. 9 SATURDAY, AUGUST ISTH. A Helpful Sisterhood Part I ■ Drama. Vitagraph. ■ A Helpful Sisterhood, Part 2 ■ Dram. Special. The treachery of Broncho I Bly’s M | Western. Kaeaaay. ■ I two snows bach mon. B ——• I PRICES S AND IS CENTS. ■ I ORCHESTRION MUSIC Turnip seed at Casey Drug Co. ts John B. McCaleb went to Evening Shade yesterday to be present at the term of circuit court this week. Typewriter ribbons for sale at the Guard office. J. W. Williamson went to Guion this morning to look after business interests this week. LIV-VER-LAX relieves all ills of liver and stomach. Get it from Casey Drug Co. Ed Arnold, tjje coffee salesman of Calico Rock, spent last night and part of today in Batesville. Barnett Bros. Mercantile Co. will have a car of new Seed Rye in about August 22. fitdltw This is the year you are going to need pasturage. Buy new Seed Rye from Barnett Bros. Merc. Co. tltdltw Get coupons from last Friday and Saturday’s Daily, good for 25 votes ' each in ring contest at Princess. S. M. Casey left this morning for : Evening Shade, where he has some business in circuit court this week. The diamond ring to be given away by the Princess is on exhibition at Alexander & Davidson’s. ts 1 Mont Hardister of Newport came up yesterday to visit relatives and friends a day or two. W. A. Rutherford left this morn- ( ing for Magness to attend to business । matters. George Bevens is spending the day 1 at Magness looking after business interests. Tom Gray of Rutherford was trans- 1 acting business and meeting friends 1 in Batesville Saturday. L L. Johnston, the shoe salesman, left this morning for points up White ' river. Cecil Wade of Cord spent .yester day in Batesville with relatives and friends. R. P. Thornhill, the depot agent at Moorefield, was here yesterday after noon with friends. Mrs. Bolan Hardy and Miss Amy Ferrill returned home yesterday morning from I^enver, Col., where they spent some time. Leland Morrow returned yesterday from Muskogee, Okla., where he spent a few weeks with friends and relatives. Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Matheny came in yesterday from Little Rock and will spend several days here with relatives and their many friends. Attorney Dene H. Coleman went to Evening Shade this morning to at tend the term of circuit court this week. W. H. Thomas, a splendid citizen living near Starnes Spring, was a visitor to Batesville today and made the Guard office a pleasant eail. The show at the Princess Saturday night drew a large audience at two performances. The show was an ex cellent one. E. O. Craig, Homer Edwards, Claude L. Coger and bis son, Claude Jr., spent yesterday and today at Evening Shade. Miss Jewell Magness of Newark returned to her homo yesterday, af ter spending a few days here, the guest of Mrs. W. D. Murphy. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Wright of Sulphur Rock were here yesterday, the guests of Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Wright. OXYOLINC CAS. THE TREATMENT FOR BLOOD DISEASES, TUBERCU- LOSIS, INSOMNIA, MELANCHOLIA, CATARRH. Etc. DR. JNO. D. COLS, Osteopathic Physician. Phone 33. Over Winslow Evans. S. P. McCook spent Saturday at Guion looking after business matters pertaining to the sheriff’s office. H. L. Woodworth of Little Rock spent yesterday and today in Bates ville with friends. Rector Hill, a splendid young far mer of Desha, was in Batesville Sat urday doing some trading. An excellent down-pour of rain visited the Cave City section today, according to reports from that place. This is the first rain to fall there in many weeks. E. W. Smith, the meat salesman, left this morning for towns up the White River road to interview his trade this week. R. A. Lee of Sulphur Rock was here Saturday visiting friends and doing some trading with our merch ants. G. M. Lewis, representing Sim mons Hardware Co., left last night for points in the southern part of Arkansas to interview his customers. Raymond Holmes left Saturday for Little Rock and will spend a few days there this week with his broth er, Charlie Holmes. Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Collier, after spending a few days here with the latter’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Williamson, returned this morning to their home at Guion. An adjourned term of county court is being held by Judge J. W. Scott today. Judge Scott has recovered from his illness which kept him at home a few days last week. Prof, and Mrs. A. G. Albright will return to their home at Salem to morrow, after spending a few days at this place and Cushman, visiting relatives and many friends. Ja.mes Hudson and Miss Essie Has kins, who reside west of Batesville, i were married Satuiday afternoon at the county court house. Justice R. R. Case performed the ceremony. Miss Esther Case, who recently un derwent a surgical operation at a hospital in St. Louis, will return to her home here from that city tomor- ( row. Noel McGee was here a short time | today, returning to Newport from his home at Cave City. He is em ployed with the Ford Automobile Company at Newport. Mrs. E. P. J. Garrott and children 1 returned to their home at Little Rock ’ Saturday, after spending several days in Batesville, guests of the former’s j sister, Mrs. S. A. Moore. J. B. Fitzhugh left this morning for Woodruff county, where he will 1 spend a day or two looking after his farming interests and visiting friends I and relatives. The Princess Theatre is now using the Universal service, showing some of the best pictures, which are among the finest ever shown in Batesville and the first of Universal service ever produced in the city. Don Matthews, one of the proprie tors of the Echo of Yellville, came down Saturday night to spend a couple of days wi.th Batesville friends. He will return to his home tomor row. James G. Ferrill, who was so badly injured when he was thrown from a loaded hay wagon several days ago, has been removed to the Lawrence- Craig hospital for treatment. Mr. FerriU's many friends in Batesville and throughout this section hope for his early recovery. Hugh Kennard, who is employed at the Union Bank and Trust Co., is taking a two weeks’ vacation and left yesterday for Poplar Bluff, Mo„ where he will attend a house party a few days with friends. From Pop lar Bluff he will go to Chicago to visit friends a short time. Sheriff Bristow came in Saturday night from Little Rock. Ho had in his custody Andrew Johnson who will be tried in circuit court at Evening Shade this term on the charge of murdering a man named Barnett at Shelbyville seme time ago. Johnson had been confined in the state peni tentiary at Little Rock awaiting the term of circuit court. AN OLD SAYING “Don’t Put off Until Tomor* morrow What You Gan Do Today.” Attend the B/g Sale Today We are still offering a great many bar gains and you will find things at this sale that you need that can be bought very cheap. r Call 391 and ask the Grocer to send you a sack of “ATLAS” Flour. It is Absolutely the Very Best on the Mar ket. It is Guaranteed Flour. |B ARNETTS] Sam Conner visited with relatives at Newark yesterday. Reduced prices on Oxfords for' men. women and children at Edwards. See Barnett Bros. Merc. Co. for new Seed Rye. 6tdltw , Big reduction in men's, ladies’ and children’s Oxfords at Edwards. Dye Moore was here from Sulphur Rock yesterday meeting his friends. When in need of foodstuffs of any kind remember Cullens. Phone 293. i Dr. V. L. Pascoe of Newark is in the city looking after business mat ters today. Miss Belle Adams of Muncie, Ind., is in the city, the guest of Mrs. W. D. Adams. W. E. Lee, one of the good farmers J living in the Sharp neighborhood, was .n Batesville Saturday. Walter McGuire, a good citizen liv ing near Jamestown, was in Bates-1 ville several hours today. T. I. Young returned this morning from a business trip to luckerman. Mr. Young states a heavy ruin fell at Tuckerman early this morning. S. J. McMahan, the popular drug-1 gist at the Casey Drug Co., who has ‘ been ill for two weeks, is reported better today and hit. many friends hope to see him out in town again soon. Dr. and Mrs. Ed Ponder of Walnut Ridge arrived in Batesville last night and will spend a few days this week visiting Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Fitzhugh. Mrs. Ponder is a sister of Mrs. Fitz- • hugh. The Unenforced Laws. A speaker at a convention in At lantic City declared that “to enforce the hundreds of miles of statutes now on the books would require a hun dred attorney generals, a thousand district attorneys, a million police men and at least a billion dollar*.”. And he might have made the listi complete by adding a million years.— Kansas City Star. When the baby is suffering the double affliction of hot weather and bowel disorders, the remedy needed is McGee’s Baby Elixir. It reduces the feverish condition, corrects the stomach and checks looseness of the bowels. Price 25c and 50c oer bottle. Sold by E. R. Goodwin, druggist. Im SAY FORTS NOT TAKEN. Belgians at Liege Being Reinforced By French and English While German* Occupy City. । News from Europe "today con firms the report that German troops, । after a battle of two days, entered j i the city of Liege, Belgium, by mak ing a detour. The German loss was between thirty and forty thousand dead and many wounded. A dispatch from Brussels says the forts at Liege I however are still held by the Bel gians, and that a large force of Brit- , ish and French troops have arrived i to opopse the German forces. There are two other fortified points the Germans must cross before they could proceed toward Paris, and it is ' believed many mines have been laid and preparation made for defense at these points. There has been no reports so far of any important naval engagements Big Reduction | I 'On : ’ * Men’s j Ladies , And Children’s Oxfordsat EDWARDS I : r G » 4 *' ‘kJ iVU 1 ■ i See These Bargains Toda^yh I between the British and German . dreadnaughts, though a number of i small clashes are reported. France has sent a large force into ' lower Alsace, and the German forces met by this army are said to have been defeated. Austrian cruisers bombarded Anti ' vari, a Moneregrin port, destroying the wireless station and doing other damage. An army of Austrians are also en route across Germany to the French ' frontier. From London comes a report of the sinking of a German submarine destroyer by a British gunboat, but the point of attack is not given. New Road Booms. Mountain Home, Aug. 9.—The bonus of $12,500 which has been asked from Mountain Home by the Ozarks Railw-ay Company, which is promising a short line through this section, has all l>een realized but a . few hundred dollars.