Johnson Jottings 1907
Johnson Jottings 1907
Johnson Jottings of 1907
June 14, 1907
- June 11 - C.S. Mayes returned Thursday from a business trip to Neosho and other nearby Missouri berry shipping points where he worked for the interst of a northern commission house.
-John Cox and family returned to Vale, Ark., Sunday afternoon after visiting a few days with relatives here.
-Mrs. J.E. McClendon is spending the week with friends at Porter, Ark.
-Uncle Bob Clayton and wife came over to the reservation Sunday and spent the day with Mr. and Mrs. G.P. Hanks.
-The long sufferings of Abram Roberts came to an end last Wednesday evening and on Thursday evening he was laid to rest in the Stuckey cemetery. He resided at the fish-pond place with his nephew. W.E. Gillenwater.
-Wm. Pearce returned today to his home at Purdy, Mo., after spending the berry season her attending to the berry crop on his father's property north of the mill. Will intends to come back to Johnson this fall and see after the apples and other fruits on the farm here.
-J.B. Vernon has been busily engaged for some time making the apportionment and final settlement with the growers who shipped the nine lot of berries in care of the local Fruitmen's Union. The blackberry crop is beginning to ripen and several crates have been expressed.
-Saturday, June 8th, was the three-score and tenth anniversary of the birth of our postmaster, G.P. Hanks, and quite a number of the neighbors surprised him that evening by coming in with a big lot of makings for one of the nicest suppers ever held in Johnson. Capt. Hanks enjoyed the evening immensely especially the eating of his "punkin pie," and the lot of visitors departed at a late hour wishing it could be their pleasure to gather together again on that date and for the same purpose for many years to come.
-Dick Crum and Barney Spurgeon came in Sunday from a sojourn in Missouri where they had been picking berries.
-N.V. Hanks returned to Elkins Monday after a short visit with home folks. He is making apple barrels at Elkins.
-Mulkeepmo journeyed along with some local folks and Springdale friends to Garfield Sunday morning and from thence out to the historic old Elkhorn Tavern on the Pea Ridge battleground
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and only a few relicts are there along with two monuments that serve to remind passing visitors of those March days of the long ago when such terrible carnage raged around the Elkhorn Tavern. Long years had passed since I had visited this battlefield with other friends and Time had dealt harshly with the scene and few of the landmarks remaind but,
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-The morning was pleasant but a heavy rainstorm came up in the evening and we sought refuge within the tavern which is a duplicate building of the historic structure that stood there when the battle was fought. Several good snap shot views were secured by the kodak artist and the return trip was made to Garfield late in the evening in time to catch the train back to the reservation. It was quite a little excursion, but
"A hundred years from now, dear friends
We shall not mind the pain,
The throbbing crimson tide of life,
Will not have left a stain.
This summer day that we have known,
Shall all forgotten be and ____,
The garden will be overgrown,
Where now the troops fell."
-R.M. Lichlyter and wife, Ben Johnson, Jr. and family and B.H Johnson and family returned Sunday evening from a short fishing excursion over to White River, where they made a fruitless effort to catch some of the finny inhabitants of the river, but water was too clear and the weather unfavorable for fishing and so they will have to try their luck again in a more favorable location.
-The excessive heat of last week culminated in an electric and wind storm Sunday night of more than usual severity, but no serious damage has been reported, thought for a time it appeared a cyclone had billed Johnson for a stopped place and more than one timid person sighed for the security of a well built storm cellar.
-Mrs. Teresa Waldrip is but very little better and but little hope is entertained that she can long survive unless a more deti-change [sic] soon comes in her condition. Grandma Jordan is also lingering on the brink of the unknown and the end is nearing as the hours glide by.
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-The Stony Point district school meetings was held a Saturday or so ago, having been postponed on account of berry business in May and A. W. Stokes was elected director. A tax of seven mills was voted, but no definite steps were taken toward the erection of a new school building which is needed very much.
-W.L. Stuckey is having some more of his low, swampy land tiled so that he can property cultivate the soil.
-The farmers are very busy during the present period of weather which is very favorable for all kinds of farm work and the crops are humping themselves.
--Mulkeepmo
June 21, 1907
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-T.J. Mullins is getting ready to return to his New Mexico property, neat Portables, where he believes there will be a fine properous country in the future. All of the pilgrims to that promised land do not see alike for one who is home-sick sings the following doleful refrain -
"And if again ___ her soil,
My wandering feet shall stand,
I'll be content to live and die,
In Arkansaw's rough land.
-Mrs. Chas. Sisk, of Oxford, Miss., is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. B.F. Johnson.
-W.P. Langford and son, Teddy, of Drake's Creek, Ark., spent Saturday night and Sunday with relatives in Johnson.
-Uncle Billy Woods and wife visited at Arm Late's Sunday. Uncle Billy lives down hear Wheeler now, but used to reside where Tontitown is now located. Back in those days, he was "Squire Woods" and dealt out justice to the evil-doers of Elm township.
-No, the late bloom for a township at Johnson was chloroformed - but some of the opposition have been wondering "who hit Billy Patterson" - for they're out of office now which is where the balance of 'em are going to - and then Johnson will get the penitenitentiary, the insane asylum and a road overseer!
-The black berry growers are shipping a lot of find berries daily, but are complaining about rather low prices.
-A large party of Fayetteville people came out on the morning train last Thursday and spent the day at the springs and ponds here returning on the 8:18 train that evening. The Frisco train service is so arranged that Johnson can be visited very easily from either direction and Monte Ne had better "look a little out".
-Miss Dora Peck, of Fayetteville, is teaching a teaching [sic] a class of music pupils at Johnson. She is sojourning with her sister, Mrs. Dr. Cowgill, during the term of lessons.
"Old trouble likes to associate,
With folks who whine and shirk,
But he hasn't got me now at all,
For hopeful ___ and work."
-'cept when one of those automobiles from Fayetteville comes searing down the road and then some otherwise staid old plug___ trouble for their drivers.
-Jesse Horne takes a well earned vacation this week and will journey back to his old home in Kansas to re-visit places and scenes of long ago.
-Uncle Dave Revis and Grandpa Stuckey, two of the oldest inhabitants in the county, made the acquaintance of each other yesterday. They were born way back when Quiney Adams was president and traveled around for quite a while before locating in Arkansas.
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-A few folks from Johnson journeyed over to the old time singing at Spring Creek last Sunday.
-The reservation failed to be troubled by the locust pest to any great extent and the wise folks attribute the failure of the expected myriads to the severity and lateness of the spring weather.
-Grandma Jordan and Mrs. Waltrip are still lingering along but little change can be noted in their condition.
-George G____ who suffered the amputation of his right arm on account of blood poisoning some weeks ago, is arranging to give an ice cream supper at the berry warehouse Saturday night.
-Agents of all kinds and peddlers with packs, and in hacks, drays and wagons, have been keeping the roads dusty around Johnson for the past ten days until the majority of local folks have decided that -
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-Folks are bragging to us about what fine fields of growing corn that they happen to have, but nary a watermelon grower has boasted about he size of his vines! Are you a going to have any melons?
-And the real old fashioned blue bird is getting to be pretty numerous again, and the English sparrows resent the coming of the blue birds, but the grand bird, the fine bird, fix our mocking bird who trills such sweet melody through moonlight nights as tired folks rest from their toil and quietude prevails over Clear Creek valley.
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--Mulkeepmo
June 28, 1907
-June 25. Miss Ollie Greathouse has secured a five months term of school at Double Springs and will begin teaching about the first of August.
-Mrs. Ina Sisk is visiting relatives at Harris and Elkins this week.
-Rev. Johnson Crawford conducted the regular monthly meeting of the Shady Grove Baptist church Saturday and Sunday.
-Rev. G. P. Hanks acted as superintendent of the Johnson Sunday school Sunday vice Jesse Horne who went away last Tuesday to spend a ten days vacation with relatives in Kansas.
-The Grand View M.E. Sunday school held a Children's Day exercise last Sunday and members of the school rendered a very interesting program. Old Grand View is out west of Johnson a short distance from Stony Point and is located near the site of the old log school house where so many of the older generation attended school a long time ago.
"Gimme back the good old days,
-- the pathways through the dells;
To the school house is the blossoms,
the sound of far off bells.
Tinkin' cross the meadows,
the sound of bird an' brook;
The old time dictionary,
and the blue back spellin' book."
-The ice cream supper at the Johnson berry shed Saturday night was well attended and the sum of $16 was realized, above expenses -- but poor George Glenn for whose benefit the supper was given did not get to appreciate the attention of his friends who were thus trying to aid him. His wounded arm troubled him last Thursday and the lost ground that had been regained since the amputation some weeks ago was quickly lost again and medical aid could not avert the end which came at two o'clock yesterday evening. He is to be buried at Goshen today.
-Lewis Reed will begin his first day as school teacher at the Mountain Home district on July 15th. Now Lewis--
"Never you mind the crowd, lad,
Or fancy your work won't tell;
There's always work for a' that,
To him who doeth well."
And several Johnson lads are achieving greatness away out in the busy whirl of the great world, so --
" Fancy the world a hill, lad,
Look where the ____ stop;
You'll ___ the crowd a the base, lad,
There's always room at the top."
-Mulkeepmo visited Springdale Saturday and met a number of friends, and among the lot were two correspondents, Don't Worry and Osceola. The program for the Second Annual meeting of the News' Correspondents was arranged and the scribes can begin to get ready to attend. Are you all a coming?
-Thanks to our friend, Col. M. D. Vance, who helped us to spend a pleasant hour Saturday evening while listening to his telling about his recent trip to the great gathering of the U.C. Veterans at Richmond, Va. --
"Who will it be, and where will it be,
And when will it be, none knows;
On height or plain, on the blue sea lane,
When the last Confederate goes."
For the old fellows are passing away rapidly and there will be only a few more grand earthly re-unions.
-Willie Baggett is assisting the Ozark force this week during the invoicing period. Will returned recently from a tour of the East, including the Jamestown Exposition and the Capital of our Nation.
-G.P. Hanks and William Mayes journeyed to Springdale Saturday to meet other ex-soldiers and arrange for the big Re-Union of Federal soldiers and sailors who are to meet in Springdale the latter part of August and take the old days over.
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-C.S. Mayes made a business trip to Van Buren Saturday where he went to look over the peach shipping situation.
-Dick Crum returned Sunday evening from a trip away up to his Grand-pa Anderson's, in Benton county which explanation shows the reason for his non-appearance at the ice cream supper the previous evening.
-Crops are up and a conting[sic] though the daily showers are a little bit aggravating for farmers who are trying to get their oats harvested.
-Aunt Martha Saville is having a big visit away back in North Carolina where she will probably spend several more weeks with relatives and old friends.
-Now, folks, newsy items are scarce around Johnson this week and Mully serves a change that will suit some folks -- while others may not approve of so many jingles -- but it suits me.
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--Mulkeepmo
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