At Mt. Bethel Church, 8 miles west of this city, Sunday,
Feb. 27, 1898, by Rev. J. H. Collins, Mr. Will Bozeman
to Mrs. Lena Ross, all of Clark county. 

Bradshaw, Ark., Nov. 23, 97.
Editor Populist,

Dear Sir:
   I will try to send you a few more dots from here.
   The Texas fever is raging here at present.
   Mr. J. B. Beadle left last week for Texas, on a short trip.
   Mr. W. P. Orsburn and family left Tuesday for Collins county, Texas,
where they will make their future home.
   Messrs. W. B. Arnold and Lovin Ross left the first of the week for
Fisher county, Texas, with a carload of cattle.   Mr. Ross expects to make
that his home.
   Rev. L. H. Hitt preached an able sermon at Shiloh churce last Sunday.
   The young people spent a very pleasant evening at Mr. J. P. Marberry's
Sunday.
   Miss Mary Ross was out from Arkadelphia Sunday visiting the home folks.
   We are sorry to chronicle the death of the Bradshaw Literary Society, which
occurred last Saturday night.  The bereaved have our sympathy.
   Hon. W. E. Welch and wife spent Saturday and Sunday in Arkadelphia.
   Mr. James Grier is now rustling behind the counter for J. B. Beadle at this
place.
   Mr. William Bozeman is quite a frequent visitor to this part of the
neighborhood.  I suppose he thinks the Summer (has gotten on the south side
of the) hill.
                                                        PLOW BOY. 

   At the home of the bride's parents, Mr. R. W. Fordyce to Miss Coy E. Dale,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. D. T. Dale, last evening at 8:30 o'clock.
   Over one hundred people, relatives and friends of the couple, gathered at Mr.
Dale's home last evening to witness the marriage, and a merrier, happier crowd, we
were never in.  The large hall was decorated, and those present were lined up on
each side, and the wedding party marched into the hall until reaching midway, where
it was halted in front of Dr. E. B. Miller, who, in a few well chosen words, performed
a most impressive ceremony.
   The attendants were Neil Sloan and Miss Minnie Purifay, J. B. Thomas and Miss
Laura Whitlow, J. L. Pylant and Miss Hattie Phillips, C. L. Brown, best man, and
Miss Lena Heard, maid of honor.
   As the party marched into the hall, Miss Lottie Neeley sang softly, a very pretty
and appropriate song, and then Miss Euda Hall played the wedding march after the
ceremony.
   About 10 o'clock the guests were invited into the dining room, where a most
elegant supper was served.
   The married couple were recipients of many handsome and valuable presents, as
marks of esteem in which their friends hold them.
   May the future lives of this couple be ever as bright and happy as the present, and
their mutual love and trust grow stronger with each succeeding year, is the wish of
THE SIFTINGS HERALD.

BRADSHAW, Ark., Oct. 27, 1897
To the Public:
   Arrangements have been made between the Bradshaw Literary
Society and the Carr School House Debating Society for a joint
debate, Saturday night before the first Sunday in November, at
Oakland school house.  Subject, "Re___ed that poverty produces
more ____ than wealth."
   Everybody invited.
                                            B. S. WELCH,
                                              Pres. Bradshaw Lit. Society

   We regret to lose the family of H. F. Bishop from our neighborhood.
They are moving to Arkadelphia this week, where Mr. Bishop has
accepted a position with Messrs. Bennett & Brown.

   At her residence in this city, Wednesday Jan. 26, 1898, Mrs. N. E. Hulsey,
after a long and painful illness.
   Mrs. Hulsey was the widow of the late Sheriff J. P. Hulsey, and was one of our
oldest and most highly respected citizens.  She leaves five children and many
friends to mourn her loss.  Funeral services were held at 10 o'clock yesterday
morning, conducted by her pastor, Rev. E. B. Miller, of the Baptist Church.  Her
remains were laid to rest in Rose Hill cemetery, beside her husband.

   Mrs. Dr. A. J. Widener died in Little Rock, Sunday eveing, August 1,
at 8:30 o'clock, of nervous prostration, after an illness of two days.  Mrs.
Widener formerly resided in Gurdon, where she had many friends, who bow
in sadness at the news of her death.  She was the daughter of Mr. J. M. May,
of Hollywood, and a sister to Dr. W. S. May, of this city.  In her death the
church has been deprived of an estimable Christian character, her husband
and four little children an affectionale wife and kind, loving mother.
   The funeral services were conducted in Winfield Memorial Church, Little
Rock, Monday afternoon at 5 o'clock, by the Rev. Mr. Thomas, after which
her remains were laid to rest in Oakland Cemetery in that city.
   The sorrowing ones have the sympathy of numerous friends in their
bereavement.

   Allow me to express to you my sincere appreciation for your thoughtful
remembrance in sending the basket of beautiful flowers presented to you
on Graduates Day by the Class of the A. M. C. to be placed on the last
resting place of my darling Euda.
   God did not see fit to spare her to receive her diploma with the rest of
you, but just before the time called her to Himself, and with His own
hands placed upon her head a crown of righeousness, where she has
taken up the unfinished task, and her music is far more beautiful and
sweet.  For death is not the extinction of attainments, but its transfer to
longer fulfillment.
                                                   Truly Your Friend,
                                                            Mrs. Lizzie Hall.

   It is sad indeed to have to note the death of Mr. J. P. Nunn which occured
at Pike City Sunday night April 25th 1897 after an illness of but a few days,
death is sad under all circumstances and at all times but in case like this where
the victim is a young man just starting on the highway of life, the stroke falls
on every christian heart with double force oh how sad to see our friends die we
do not know how to appreciate our friends until we are called to give them up,
the writer was personaly acquainted with the subject of this sketch having
spent our school days together and being thus familiar with his many traits of
character would say with full knowlege of truth his father has lost a dutiful son
his brothers and sisters a loving and kind brother his friends a truthful friend,
but we must try to meet him in a land where there will be no more sad farewells
with overflowing heart and from a heart that knows sorrow would say to the
heart broken: Weep not for Pross as we used to call him in our school days, he
has only gone up higher to stand on the battlements of Heaven to sing with the
with the angels as a beacon light to guide your footsteps in the pathway of
rightness in this life and to greet you with a welcome at the last day to an
eternal home with and for the blessed.

Dearest friend thou has left us for the robe and Crown,
In thy usefulness and beauty thou hast laid earth's treasurs down;
Could we call thee from thy glory and thy sweet rest.
Oh such thoughts are only cruel, God is just, he knows the best.

                                  A FRIEND,
                                         Bradshaw, Ark.,

   Once again the death angel has made his appearance in our city.  On
Wednesday night the soul of Honorable R. D. Hearn was wafted by a
calvacate of archangles to its eternal resting place among the redeemed.
   He was an honorable Christian gentleman, and an able jurist.  He was
a consistent member of the Methodist church and when the angels
summoned him he passed through the valley of the shadow of death
through the pearly gates into the eternal city without a murmur.  In the
last few moments when he was standing on the brink of the river ready
to pass over and when darkness had come over him, the "Son of
Righteousness" threw a gleam of light in the dark pathway and lit it up
with the glories of heaven and he was enabled to say, when asked, "yes,
all is well."
   Arkadelphia has had few men like Judge Hearn.  He was noted for his
honesty and uprightness and was the personification of justice itself.
Rest on, dear friend, you deserve the reward which we know you will
receive up yonder.
               Peace to thy ashes. 

   Our Contemporay, S. P. Meador, editor of the Okolona Messenger,
has yielded to the solicitations of his many friends and again entered the
race for the Democratic nomination for Representative from Clark
county....Southern Standard.

   The Times takes pleasure in announcing Stephen P. Meador, editor of the
Okolona Messenger, is a candidate to represent Clark county in the Lower
House of the next Arkansas General Assembly....Gurdon Times.

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