-John Banguess and Mrs. W.O. Matthews of Logust Grove, I.T. spent a few days of last week in this vacinity.
-Ed Ritter and Misses Ella and Georgia Ritter and Miss Jessie Pearce attended the entertainment at Elm Springs Thursday night.
-Houston McCoy and sister, Miss Josie, boarded the morning train, Friday for their home near West Fork.
-Paul Schmidt has disposed of his property at the fish ponds and has purchased a farm south of Fayetteville. Mr. Schmidt is moving to his new location this week.
-George Deaht(?) has bought property in the vicinity of Mt. Comfort and in moving to same.
-George Johnson and wife of Harris have been spending the past few days with B.F. Johnson and family.
-Jeff Alvis returned to the I.T. with John Banguess.
-The “beautiful snow” has at last disappeared from our hill sides.
-Grandpa Graves is very sick and it is very doubtful if he will recover.
-The young folks had an enjoyable time at the singing at Wm. Mayes Sunday night.
-Milie Wellsford, of Hartshorne, I.T., spent Saturday night with B.F. Johnson.
-There was a small “social” at Mr. Johnson’s Saturday night.
--MULKEEPMO
March 8, 1895
-Ben Johnson Jr. made a flying trip to Bentonville one day last week.
-Mrs. W.L. Stuckey and children are out from Fayetteville visiting Mrs. G.W. Stuckey.
-Lewis Holland and wife, of Benton county, spent Sunday night with J.B. Vernon.
-W.G. Farish came out from Fayetteville Saturday evening on a visit to home folks. He returned Sunday morning.
-G.D. Lichlyter and Elmer Rice were over at Springtown last week.
-Rev. G.P. Hanks went down to Fayetteville, via the Frisco, Thursday.
-B.F. Johnson is away from home on a cattle buying trip.
-J.B. Vernon has traded a part of his farm near this place for property near Elm Springs.
-There was no school at Shady Grove last week on account of the illness of Prof. Davis.
-R.M. Lichlyter and family entertained quite an unusual number of visitors Sunday evening.
-A Mr. Wallace, recently from Illinois, has rented the fish pond property.
-Grandpa Graves died last Tuesday and was buried in the Shady Grove cemetery on the following day. Deceased was almost four score years of age and for years had been a member of the Missionary Baptist church.
-Mr. R.L. Ritter now has charge of the post office at this place.
-Reed Bros. have moved their saw mill from its former location on Clear Creek to another site in the vicinity of Elkins.
-R.M. Lichlyter is having a neat front yard fence erected.
-Applicants for the school at Stony Point are beginning to put in their appearance.
-A number of neighbors and friends besieged the residence of Rev. J.R. Loving, near Shady Grove, Monday night and spent a few very pleasant hours in singing.
-Chas Mayes is assisting Postmaster Ritter at present.
-Our farmers are hustling around while we are having this nice weather.
-Rev. J.H. Amacker preached at Shady Grove Sunday morning.
-They say that there may be a scarcity of boys here in a few weeks.
-W.S. Luper has disposed of his farm lying near Elm Springs.
-The Frisco has 47 empty cars set off on the switch here.
-MULKEEPMO
March 15, 1895
-Chas. Mayes and wife were visiting relatives at Springdale the last of the week.
-B.F. Johnson and wife left Sunday morning for a few days sojourn with relatives at Spencer, Mo.
-Henry Stokenberry and family came out from Elkins Sunday evening on a visit to B.F. Johnson.
-Esq. Twiggs, of Logan, Spent Monday night with J.R. Strickland.
-J.B. Vernon made a business trip to Webb City, Mo., last week.
-Jas. Stuckey, of Prairie Grove, was visiting his parents Wednesday.
-R.L. Ritter and wife spent Sunday night at Elm Springs.
-Hugh Johnson purchased an elegant safety bicycle Saturday.
-Messers Bushnell and Gaut, of Springdale, were “bicycling” here Sunday evening.
-A crank laboring under the impression that he is Gabriel, “King of Kings and Lord of Lords,” has been “splurging” around here for the past few days.
-“Gabe” has failed to organize the “chosen band.”
-There is talk of a Sunday school being organized at New Hope.
-A number of small pox alarms has caused our people to grow very cautious.
-Perhaps the scripture will come to pass that “the last shall be first and the first shall be last”, for Bennett Maxey was at church Sunday night.
“Gabe” has held several meetings in this vicinity since his appearance Sunday.
-Tan Wright is highly elated over the reception given his new protégé Sunday evening.
-Wait till the clouds, that now threaten the juvenile portion of Johnson, roll away and perhaps we can make our letters more interesting.
--MULKEEPMO
March 22, 1895
-Mrs. J.B. Slauter, of Springdale, spent several days of last week with her daughter, Mrs. C.S. Mayes.
-Wm Brooks, of Spring Creek, was in Johnson today. Mr. Brooks has traded for part of J.B. Vernon’s farm and will move up here next fall.
-James Vernon and family have moved back to this vicinity. They have been living near Springtown for the past few years.
-The crank, Gabriel, is still in this vicinity.
-Misses Nannie Reed and Nellie Key, of Elm Springs, were over here a short time Saturday.
-R.M. Lichlyter made a business trip to Springdale Monday evening.
-B.F. Johnson and wife returned from Spencer, Mo., Thursday night.
-Ritter and Vernon have been busy for the past few days taking an invoice of their stock of goods.
-The people in the vicinity of New Hope organized a Sunday School at that place Sunday evening.
-Rev. P.B. Hopkins, of Elm Springs, held religious services at Grand View Sunday morning and evening.
-J.B. Vernon has entered the general merchandise business at this place. He has purchased a half interest with R.L. Ritter.
-The Johnson Roller Mills have been rushing things through lately.
-The public school at Shady Grove closes next Friday. Prof. Davis will have an exhibition Friday night.
-The Crescent Lime Works received a car load of cooperage material a few days ago.
-Nothing much of interest this week.
--MULKEEPMO
April 12, 1895
-James Stuckey and mother, Mrs. G.W. Stuckey, were visiting at Viney Grove a few days ago.
-Miss Abbie Neale went up to Bentonville Sunday evening.
-Miss Annie Hughes returned to Faytteville Saturday morning after spending a day or so with relatives here.
-Wm Morgan, of Illinois, returned to his home last week. Mr. Morgan was well pleased with Arkansas and, while here, purchased E.N. Fitch's farm.
-The hardest looking lot of young people that ever met in Johnson were assembled at the “Hard Times Tacky Party” held at R.M. Lichlyter’s last Wednesday night. Ben Johnson and Miss Minta Lichlyter were awarded the cake, as they were judged to be the tackiest couple present.
-B.K. Adams and wife have moved from their farm near this place to Springdale.
-The Shady Grove literary society gave an entertainment last Saturday night.
-Wm. Mullins received a car load of lumber from the I.T. Saturday.
-J.B. Vernon and Wm. Mayes went down to Fayetteville on today’s train.
-The Crescent Lime Works are doing a rushing business now-a-days. There are two car loads of lime on the track here to-day to be shipped out.
-Rev. Amacker preached at Shady Grove Sunday morning.
-Corn planting is the order of the day now.
-There has been considerable disagreeable weather for the past few days, but to-day is a beauty.
--MULKEEPMO
April 19, 1895
-B.F. Johnson and wife were visiting at Fayetteville Saturday evening and Sunday.
-W.O. Matthews and wife, of Locust Grove, I.T. are visiting friends in this locality.
-Uncle John Rainwaters and granddaughter, Miss Bede Rainwaters, returned Sunday night from an extended visit with relatives in Mo. And Kansas.
-R.L. Ritter and wife made a trip to Elm Springs Sunday.
-Shep Luper is out in the I.T. this week prospecting for a new home.
-C.S. Mayes and wife and Mrs. Wm. Mayes were at Springdale Sunday.
-Uncle Aaron Lichlyter returned Saturday from his trapping and hunting expedition among the swamps of eastern Arkansas.
-Rev. G.P. Hanks returned from Elkins Monday evening, where he had been to fill his appointment as pastor of the Baptist church at that place.
-Miss Iva Mae Fox gave a very interesting elocutionary recital at Shady Grove Friday night.
-Services were held at New Hope church Saturday and Sunday by the pastor, M.H. Price.
-Blake Lichlyter arrived here on the Saturday morning train. He resides in Kansas and is down on a visit to relatives.
-J.H. Johnson, of Oxford Bend, was at the mill Saturday.
-H.L. Johnson made a bicycle trip to Springdale Sunday evening.
-We would like to know:
-What John and Ben are going to do with their glassware.
-Why W.E. Claypoole would not serve as road overseer.
-If Charley Mayes intends to guard his strawberry patch.
-Where we would all be if some of our local “would-be-financiers” had charge of the government for a few years.
-If W.L. Stuckey’s net has scared all the fish out of the creek.
-If that Wager flour caused the decease of our friend Mike.
--MULKEEPMO
May 3, 1895
-George Johnson and wife, of Harris were visiting here the first of the week.
-Mrs. Chas Mayes spent the latter part of last week with relatives in Springdale.
-Mrs. Wm. Crum is sojourning with relatives in Benton County at present.
-W. _. Jones, of Fayetteville, was in Johnson, Monday.
-Geo. Poole was up from Farmington last Wednesday.
-Mrs. B.F. Johnson is visiting her father, Uncle George Lewis, who resides near Durham.
-A number of our citizens were off on a fishing trips to Osage and White River last week.
-Archy Luper and wife were visiting relatives near Robinson, Friday and Saturday.
-Rev. J.H. Pigman held religious services at New Hope Sunday morning and evening.
-Mrs. Will Lichlyter gave a quilting Friday night. Quite a number were present and all enjoyed themselves ______.
-J.W. Johnson of on the sick list at present.
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-MULKEEPMO
May 10, 1895
-C. Petross and wife, of Springdale, visited Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Mayes Sunday.
-Mrs. Lizzie Corley and children, of Bentonville, spent part of last week with relatives here.
-Henry Stokenberry and family, of Elkins, were visiting at B.F. Johnson’s last week.
-T. Lomax and wife are absent this week on a visit to relatives in the I.T.
-W.L. Stuckey and family came out from Fayetteville Saturday evening.
-James Masoner and wife, of Springdale, were the guests of Chas. Mayes and wife Saturday evening and Sunday.
-The Appleby Sunday School had a picnic at the fish pond Saturday.
-There was prayer meeting at New Hope Sunday night.
-Sunday, May 5, being J.B. Vernon’s thirty-fourth birthday, Mrs. Vernon decided to surprise him by inviting the neighbors in and having a nice singing Sunday night. Invitations were made and not until the neighbors began to arrive did Mr. Vernon suspect anything. Quite a crowd was present and all enjoyed themselves splendidly, especially Mr. Vernon.
-There will be an immense fruit crop in this vicinity unless some calamity intervenes.
-Sperbeck Bros., the show men, gave a very good entertainment at Johnson last Tuesday evening and night.
-Rev. G.P. Hanks has been invited to deliver a Memorial sermon at West Fork on the Sunday preceding Memorial Day, May 30th.
-We need rain in this vicinity.
-The new fish law does not set very well with some of our citizens who own nets.
-Wm. Pearce and Jacob Cox are out in the I.T. at present.
-No other happenings or items of note, so adieu.
--MULKEEPMO
May 17, 1895
-T. Lomax and wife returned Saturday from their trip to the Indian Territory.
-Rev. G.P. Hanks went out to Elkins Friday to fill his appointment at the Baptist church at that place.
-Mr. O.L. Devin, of Delaney, was in Johnson Saturday.
-Wm. Pearce returned from Marcum, I.T., last Wednesday.
-Johnson was fully represented at the May meeting at Springdale Sunday.
-Rev. M.H. Price held religious services at New Hope Saturday and Sunday.
-Messers R.C. Mayes, Burtice Johnson and M.D. Mason and Misses Lettie Johnson, Josie Lichlyter, Dora Mayes, Maud Marion, and Shirley Johnson visited the Stults fish ponds, via Springdale, Sunday.
-The protracted dry weather was broken by a splendid rain Friday evening.
-Uncle Newt Baggett was down at the mill last week after some of our good flour, which he thinks is unexcelled. Long life to you Uncle Newt.
-Doc Taylor informs us that he is at home and does not intend to “roam” again soon.
-“Spicy” items scarce this week.
-The following party of merry young folks were entertained by Miss Maud Mason on last Tuesday night, May 7, that being her eighteenth birthday. Messers H.L. Johnson, R.C. Mayes, Guy Pearce, Ed Ritter, Burtice Johnson, John Cox, Tan Wright, B. F. Johnson and Arthur Langford and Misses Jessie Pearce, Ella Ritter, Josie Lichlyter, Georgia Ritter, Bertha and Mollie Loving, Dora Mayes, May Langford, Nettie Cox, Dora Johnson, Addie and Lucinda Cox and Mr. and Mrs. Sam Cox. A number of very nice gifts were presented to Miss Maud and at a late hour the gay company dispersed hoping that many more such happy birthday evenings awaited their fair young hostess.
-The recent dry weather did considerable damage to wheat, oats and fruit in this vicinity.
-Fred Schaler and Frank Askew, recently from South Dakota, start back home the first of this week.
--MULKEEPMO
May 31, 1895
-P.T. Rose and wife were visiting at Siloam Springs the latter part of last week.
-Mrs. Ida Lichlyter and children came up from Tuskahoma, I.T. on Sunday evening’s train.
-J.B. Vernon was up in Mo. last week on a business trip.
-B.F. Johnson and wife returned from Durham Sunday evening.
-Mrs. R.L. Ritter and little daughter Vaud, were visiting relatives at Springtown last week.
-Rev. G.P. Hanks and wife returned from West Fork, Sunday evening, where they had been attending the Memorial exercises.
-W.P. Luper is out in the I.T. at present.
-C.H. Crockett and Will Sherlock, of Ft. Smith, came up last Tuesday and spent the remainder of the week fishing on the Illinois River near Robinson. The boys returned home Saturday amply satisfied with their week’s outing.
-W.P. Langford attended the memorial services at West Fork Sunday.
-Mrs. T.W. White came out from Fayetteville Saturday evening to see her father, David Bridenthal, who is seriously ill.
-W.L. Stuckey spent Saturday night with his parents here and returned to his Fayetteville home Sunday evening.
-Miss Eva Broadrick spent several days of last week with friends at Fayetteville.
-Cinn Cline and wife, of Greenland, were visiting here recently.
-Mrs. Ellen Vermillion and son, George left for Kansas last week. They may remain there for an indefinite period.
-District 72 re-elected W.P. Reed as trustee and voted a 2 1-2 mill tax at the recent school meeting.
-We understand that Prof. J.S. Patterson, of Fayetteville, and Prof. R.C. Mayes, of Johnson, have been engaged to teach the fall term of public school at Stoney Point. These gentlemen are able teachers and taught an excellent school at Stony Point last year.
-T.J. Mullins and wife and R.M. Lichlyter and wife are spending a few days fishing in the Illinois River.
-J.W. Parker a merchant of Winslow, was in Johnson a short time Monday evening.
-N.J. Collier, of Ft. Smith, was among the many strangers at the mill Saturday.
-An unusually heavy rain fell here Saturday evening.
-Well, adieu till next week.
--MULKEEPMO
June 7, 1895
-Rev. G.P. Hanks was at Siloam Springs last week and delivered an address at that place on Memorial day.
-Miss Sarah Divilbliss, of Elkins, was visiting friends here recently.
-Misses Lila and Sallie Pearson came out from Fayetteville Saturday evening and spent Sunday night with relatives here.
-Tan Wright spent Sunday at Harris.
-W.N. Jones and daughters were out from Fayetteville a short time Sunday evening.
-J.A. Morrison, of Sulphur City, spent Wednesday night with B.F. Johnson.
-Lee Phillips, formerly of this place, but now of the I.T., was visiting here last week.
-Rev. G.P. Hanks returned from West Fork Monday evening.
-The Crescent lime works were damaged by fire to the extent of several hundred dollars last Thursday night.
-The Shady Grove literary society gave another very interesting entertainment last Saturday night.
-Our postmaster receives daily local weather forecasts from the U.S. Signal station at Ft. Smith.
-The public school at Stony Point will begin Monday, Aug. 5.
-Our “old scally,” Eld. Wright, of Harris, was in Johnson to-day.
-Quite a number of our citizens attended the Memorial Day exercises at Fayettevilel last Thursday.
-No other important items.
--MULKEEPMO
June 14, 1895
-B.F. Johnson and wife are spending a few days with relatives near Durham.
-W.P. Langford made a business trip to Springdale last Thursday evening.
-C.S. Mayes and wife were at Springdale Sunday.
-Rev. G.P. Hanks went out to Elkins Friday.
-Louis Phillips, of Fayetteville, was in Johnson Sunday.
-Wm. Page went out to Delaney Sunday. Dame Rumor says that Mr. Page intends to take unto himself a wife while there.
-Miss Ethel Lichlyter returned from Springdale Saturday.
-Eld. J.R. Loving preached to a very attentive congregation at Shady Grove Sunday night.
-The population of Johnson has been greatly increased by the advent of a number of railroad men who are engaged in grading the track and rebuilding the Clear Creek bridge.
-Milt Staymate, of Mo., is sojourning with A. Murphy at present.
-Misses Nora and Minnie Jones were out from Fayetteville the last of the week.
-J.W. Parker, of Winslow, was in Johnson Friday morning.
-Several fishing crowds have been on the creek recently.
-J.H. Pigman preached at New Hope Sunday morning.
-Burtice Johnson and Ed Ritter were down at Fayetteville Sunday.
-Mr. Hall, of Delaney, was a visitor in Johnson last week.
-The cannon ball is a nuisance.
-Miss Frances Williamson, of Farmington, is spending a few days with Mrs. Maud Langford.
-The Johnson mill is running night and day to keep up with orders for mill stuffs.
-Considerable wheat has been harvested in this vicinity.
-Dogs have been playing havoc among Brack Greathouse’s flock of sheep.
-There was a “quilting party” at W.P. Langford’s Monday night.
-A swarm of bees at Archy Luper’s created a panic among a crowd of young folks who were returning from church Sunday evening.
-Rev. G.P. Hanks and wife and Mrs... (rest of column unreadable)
-Ta, ta ____.
--MULKEEPMO
June 21, 1895
-Geo. Poole of Farmington, was over at the mill last week.
-J.H. Johnson, of Oxford’s Bend, was a visitor here Saturday.
-Prof. R.C. Mayes is attending the Teacher’s Normal school at Fayetteville.
-W.F. Dowell, of Fayetteville, and a brother of Mr. Dowell’s, from Kansas, were looking at the country in this vicinity Monday.
-Rev. Harris, of Fayetteville, has made an appointment to preach at Shady Grove next Sunday evening.
-Our old friend, Tom Luper, who left here a few years ago for his former home in Oregon, has returned to Ark. and is working with the bridge gang on the Clear Creek bridge.
-A number of strangers in the “village” this past week.
-The mill is still “bumping” along. Another car load of corn arrived Sunday.
-The Literary Society at Shady Grove failed to fill the program Saturday night on account of inclement weather.
-Work on the railroad here is progressing rather slow.
-Wm. Maxey was up from Robinson one day last week.
-Prof. E.S. Weir is also attending the Normal School at Fayetteville.
-Wm. Mayes has purchased Will Edmonds’ farm. We understand that Mr. Edmonds intends to remove to the Nation in the near future.
-Summer apples are beginning to put in an appearance.
-It keeps the boys hustling to meet th trains since the mail has been changed to the cannon ball.
-The personal property belonging to the estate of the late Jesse Bradley will be sold at the residence of Andrew Stapp on the 6th of July.
-G.W. Stuckey and wife made a trip to Fayetteville to-day.
-The huckleberry season is about over. Some of our citizens found many, some few and some were so unlucky as to not find any.
--MULKEEPMO
July 12, 1895
-Here is Mulkeepmo’s batch of “Johnson Jottings” though ‘tis quite a lengthy letter, we hope that it will not prove uninteresting.
-Rev. G.P. Hanks and wife and Mrs. Gant returned Friday evening from Cedarville, Ark., where they have been visiting relatives.
-W.P. Langford, our jolly chief miller, spent the Fourth at Eureka Springs.
-Miss Abbie Neale, accompanied by two lady friends, came down from Bentonville Sunday on a visit to home folks near this place.
-R.L. Ritter, Tan Wright and Uncle John Rainwaters and Miss Agnes Rainwaters composed the Johnson delation at Rogers the Fourth.
-We learn that an infant child of Mr. Jas Weir’s died last night.
-Miss Nannie Vaughn has been attending the Normal School.
-Prof. L.A. Coblentz, of Boonsboro, was in Johnson to-day renewing old acquaintances. The Professor taught a term of school at Stony Point a few years ago and gave such universal satisfaction that it will take many years for the memory of the “little Dutch teacher” to be effaced from the recollections of the patrons and children of Stony Point district.
-B.F. Johnson and wife are near Durham this week visiting Mrs. Johnson’s father, Geo. Lewis.
-W.R. McCumber and Geo. Phillips, of Forestberg, S.D., were in Johnson the last of last week visiting L. McCumber.
-John Cox made a flying trip to Seligman, Mo, last week.
-A.J. Vanbrunt, an enterprising merchant of Delaney, spent Saturday night with H.L. Johnson.
-The work on the railroad has been suspended for a time on account of the unusual rain that has been deluging the early so frequently.
-E.R. Adamson and his bridge men went down to Chester last Wednesday to replace a washed out bridge and have not yet returned. There is quite a lot of work to be done at the Clear Creek bridge, yet.
-W.L. Stuckey, of Fayetteville, is preparing to erect an elegant residence on his farm at this place.
-Miss Ella Ritter was visiting at Elm Springs the last of last week.
-Thirty-nine passengers boarded the Frisco train Thursday, evening going to the Springdale Fourth of July celebrations.
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-…dale boys were down to the “old swimmin’ hole” Sunday evening.
-D.N. Pearce had his store handsomely decorated with the Stars and Stripes the Fourth.
-Miss Ella Ritter’s banjo is “out of sight” when her father tries to play it.
--MULKEEPMO
Aug. 2, 1895
-Rev. G.P. Hanks went down to West Fork. Saturday morning to fill his regular appointment at that place.
-A.C. Rude and wife and daughter, Mrs. Marcus McCall, of Carroll County, are visiting relatives and friends in this vicinity.
-Miss Gertie Hunt, of Fayetteville, is spending the present week with her friends, Misses Shirley and Lettie Johnson.
-Ed Luper, of Brooklyn, Mo., came down on the Saturday morning train and will spend some time with relatives here.
-Mrs. B.F. Johnson returned from her visit to Elkins the last of last week.
-The protracted meeting at the New Hope Baptist Church closed Sunday night. Twenty nine converts were baptized in Clear Creek Sunday evening. The meeting had been in progress two weeks and as a result the church has been greatly strengthened by the addition of some thirty odd new members.
-Miss Myrtle Baggett, of Springdale, attended services at New Hope Sunday.
-B.F. Johnson is able to be around again after being confinded to his room for the past week.
-John Vernon has begun work on his residence at the switch.
-Wm Brooks was up from Benton County Monday. Mr. Brooks will be an inhabitant of Johnson again in a few weeks.
-A number of people from a distance were disappointed Saturday on account of there being no picnic at this place.
-W.L. Stuckey, of Fayetteville, has an elegant residence in course of erection on his farm here.
-Two of our prominent citizens, John Blaise and Bennett Maxey, made a business trip to Fayetteville today.
-Prof. W.E. Rosser, of Fayetteville, did some surveying at the switch last week.
-Miss Patterson, of Fayetteville, and Miss Cora Nail, of Johnson, have been engaged to teach the public school at Shady Grove.
-School begins at Stony Point next Monday. Prof. J.S. Patt___ and Miss Nannie Vaughn are the teachers for this term.
-Considerable rain and wind Saturday night. Several of our citizens sought refuge in their ____ ____.
-Rev. J.H. Pigman, formerly a Presbyterian, is now a full-fledged Baptist. He was baptized Sunday along with Mulkeepmo and several others.
-Interesting items scarce this week.
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--MULKEEPMO
Aug. 9, 1895
-George Johnson and wife, of Harris, spent Friday night with B.F. Johnson and family.
-Wm Mayes and wife were visiting near Elm Springs Sunday.
-Ed Luper returned to his home near Brookline, Mo., on the Saturday evening train.
-Rev. J.H. Pigman held religious services at New Hope Sunday morning.
-We understand that Rev. J. R. Loving is holding a protracted meeting at Oak Grove a short distance north of here.
-A.C. Rude and wife and Mrs. McCall started on the return trip Sunday morning for their home in Carroll County.
-The Frisco bridge over Clear Creek has been painted a bright red color. It shows up now.
-R.L. Ritter made a flying trip to Bentonville and return Monday.
-The public school at Stony Point opened yesterday with an enrollment of some sixty pupils.
-Ed Wright came out from Harris Sunday evening and returned Monday morning.
-W.L. Stuckey and wife were out from Fayetteville this morning inspecting the work on their new residence.
-B.F. Trimble and wife, of Springdale, were in Johnson this evening.
-W.H. Wallace has notices out for a picnic at the fish ponds next Saturday.
-Dame Rumor says there will be two or three weddings in this vicinity before many more days are recorded.
-The mill has been kept busy for the last few weeks keeping up with local demand.
-______ pretty good.
-Watermelon crops are almost a failure in this vicinity.
--MULKEEPMO
Sept. 6, 1895
-(First four lines unreadable)…an extended visit to relatives in Texas.
-J.Q. Johnson and wife and daughter Miss Dora, went up to Bentonville Sunday for a few days sojourn among relatives.
-Tan Wright and Ben F. Johnson took a recreation trip Saturday out to Harris. They returned Sunday evening.
-Will Borden and Johnson Bradley, from off Spring Creek were customers at the mill Monday.
-W.L. Stuckey now occupies his new residence at this place.
-Some of the boys have been exercising their thieving propensities on V.W. Pearson’s melon patch.
-Neal Alvis was accidentally hurt while at work at the lime kiln last Wednesday. A hammer flew off the handle and struck him on the head inflicking what may yet prove to be a fatal fracture of the skull.
-Tom Moreland and Gene Lomax and their respective families left for the Nation the latter part of last week.
-The protracted meeting at Shady Grove, conducted by Revs. C.H. Johns and G.P. Hanks is still in progress.
-Geo. And Oliver Johnson and Ed. Wright, of Harris, were in Johnson last week.
-We had quite a heavy rain here Sunday.
-Wm Broadrick and wife had a mishap while on their way to church Sunday. The buggy turned over but no damage was done other than a few bruises.
-Charley Mayes is improving wonderfully since that new boy arrived at his home last week.
-Gid Lichlyter will please accept our thanks for the use of his umbrella Sunday.
-F.B. Johnson received a car load of corn this evening.
-Misses Lula and Sallie Pearson came up from the I.T. Monday morning on a visit to relatives and friends here.
-Mrs. J.R. Loving has been on the sick list for some time.
--MULKEEPMO
Sept. 13, 1895
-Sam Cox, Jr., left yesterday for Siloam Springs and vicinity where he thinks of locating in the near future.
-Mrs. Louisa Arnett, of Arnett, Ark., is spending some time here visiting her father, B.F. Johnson. She was very sick when she arrived here last Thursday morning but is convalescent at present writing.
-Miss Gert Ellis came out from Fayettteville Sunday on a visit to her friend, Miss Eva Broadrick.
-H.L. Jonnson and W.G. Farish, two of our prominent young men, made a trip to Fayetteville Saturday evening.
-James Reed, of Elm Springs, was in Johnson one day last week.
-Rev. G.P. Hanks, of this place, is aiding Rev. T.L. Fulbright, of Bentonville, in a protracted meeting at Elkins.
-Prof G.W. Hays is teaching the school in the Appleby district. Prof. Hays is an experienced teacher and the patrons of that district are sure to be pleased with him.
-Bennett Maxey hauled some stove wood to Fayetteville last week. Bennett is an old veteran at the wood trade.
-Agent Ritter informs us that six car loads of lime and mill stuffs were shipped from this place last week. A quantity of freight was also shipped in small lots. There's no flies on Johnson.
-We have had no time to interview our merchants, Ritter and Vernon and D.M. Pearce, but from appearances they are having a good trade and doing lots of business. Both of the firms carry a full line of merchandise.
-We are seldom in the “business portion” of our little village and therefore we miss the musical warblings of our “whistling blacksmith” R.M. Lichlyter, who is always found at home ready to shoe horses, repair wagons or do any kind of work in his line of business.
-Newt Phillips, of Robinson, was up to-day with a load of wheat.
-Uncle Newt Baggett was down at the mill Saturday.
-Col Cravens, of Fayetteville, was in Johnson this morning.
-Several from this place contemplate attending the camp meeting at Thornsberry.
-The boys at the mill have purchased a target rifle and are putting in their spare time practicing so as to be in trim for the ‘sand rock fellers.”
-Henry Ramey, of Carter’s Store, passed through here the first of the week bound for the vicinity of Siloam Springs.
--MULKEEPMO
Oct. 4, 1895
-Mrs. Chas. Mayes has been spending the past week with relatives at Springdale.
-Mrs. Luvisa Arnett came down on to-day’s train from Rogers where she has been staying for some time.
-Three wagon loads of folks from the vicinity of New Hope attended the singing at Oak Grove Sunday. They report a very pleasant time.
-We had several heavy fronts here since our last letter.
-J.B. Vernon is improving the looks of his new residence by having a porch built on the east side.
-Jacob Boswell, son of J.H. Boswell, of Shady Grove died at the residence of his parents yesterday evening. We understand that the remains are to be interred in the Shady Grove cemetery this evening.
-Rev. G.P. Hanks will preach at New Hope the third Sunday in this month.
-B.F. Johnson and wife returned from the Rogers Fair Saturday morning. Mr. Johnson was in a very happy frame of mind on account of his fine mare and colt, “Daisy” and “The Arkansas Traveler” having carried off the first honors at Rogers.
-R.L. Ritter has sold his hack to G.P. Hanks.
-Several of our boys took in the fair at Rogers Thursday.
-Geo. Bryant, of Wheeler has been digging a well for W.L. Stuckey.
-J.C. Arnett, of Arnett, came out yesterday with wheat for the roller mill at this place.
-Tan Wright, Burtice Johnson and Mrs. Josie Lichlyter and Shirley and Lettie Johnson attended a picnic near Harris last Saturday. They report a splendid time and lots of fun going and coming.
-Deputy Sheriff Rollins made this neighborhood a visit last Thursday.
-There was an unusual number of new customers at the mill the past week.
-B.F. Johnson took his fine colt "The Arkansas Traveler", down to the colt show at Fayetteville yesterday. “The Traveler” carried off the premium. Beyond a doubt this is the finest colt in this section of the country.
-Considerable sickness in the neighborhood.
-John Luper Jr. went down to Markum, I.T., the first of the week.
-Mrs. And Dr. Lininger, of Springdale, ___ was down this evening on (rest of column unreadable).
--MULKEEPMO
October 18, 1895
-W.O. Matthews has returned to Markham, I.T. He was accompanied by his wife and children who have been staying here for the past few weeks.
-B.F. Johnson and wife returned yesterday evening from a trip out on White River.
-Rev. G.D. Moore, of Milo, Ark., has been spending the past few days in this vicinity. Rev. Moore contemplates locating here.
-Dr. W.D. Mayfield, of Fort Woth, Texas, is here at present looking after his apple crop. Dr. Mayfield has one of the best orchards in the county.
-Mrs. Emma Baugness, of Markham, I.T. is visiting relatives at this place.
-Will Hanks was up from Farmington the first of the week.
-A.C. Wages has moved to Fayetteville.
-John Blaise intends to move from his present location to the handsome cottage recently erected near Mr. Austins.
-Mrs. Laura Kenney, of Monett, Mo., was the guest of her brother, W.P. Langford, Saturday night.
-Arch Yell, of Robinson, was up to mill the first of the week.
-W.F. Jones came up from Greenland Saturday evening and returned Sunday morning.
-Quite a number of young folks from this place attended the Springdale Fair last Thursday and took in the “Old District School” at the Opera house at night.
-Messers Tan Wright and Burtice Johnson and Misses Shirley Johnson, Josie Lichlyter and (rest of column unreadable).
--MULKEEPMO
October 25, 1895
-James Steele was over from Elm Springs last Wednesday.
-James Stuckey arrived home yesterday from a business trip to Prairie Grove and adjacent country.
-Misses Addie and Ona Shaull were down from Springdale Tuesday.
-James Ritter and family, of Elm Springs, were visiting here the first of this week.
-We understand that the Shady Grove school will give an entertainment at the school house Friday night, Nov. 1.
-W.E. Claypool and John Mason went out to Durham Sunday with B.F. Johnson. Messers Mason and Claypool were going to work on the residence of Mrs. George Lewis who resides near that place.
-Ben Johnson Jr. has quit engineering at the mill and is now one of the firemen at the Lime Works.
-A protracted meeting is in progress at Grand View. Revs. Hopkins and Matthews, of Elm Springs are conducting it.
-Sam Cox Jr. is working with Adamson’s bridge crew at present.
-G.P. Eidson and Co. sold about six hundred bushels of wheat to B.F. Johnson last week.
-Newt Cawthon and George Claypoole are digging a well for J.B. Vernon.
-Johnson Bradley was over from Spring Creek Tuesday.
-We know of but one vacant house in the vicinity of this place and the owner will move into that in a few weeks.
-Services were conducted at the New Hope Baptist church last Sunday morning by Rev. G.P. Hanks.
-Gid Lichlyter spent a short time last week over in Benton County.
-V.W. Pearson and Misses Sallie and Carmel Pearson, W. P. Langford and children and Miss Addie Cox were visiting at Greenland Sunday.
-Burtice Johnson has resumed his old position as engineer at the mill.
-Those who visited the apple fair at Fayetteville are very enthusiastic in its praise.
-Uncle Sam Cox is having pretty good luck with his traps this season.
-We hope that Adamson will put in a new platform at the switch while he is here.
-Rather cooler to-day than usual and there is some prospect of a much needed rain.
-Our wood hauler, Bennett Maxey, is sporting a new whip.
-As court sets next week, some of our boys will be apt to take their semi-annual trip to the Territory.
--MULKEEPMO