July 5, 1888 Huntington Hummer Newspaper Frisco Time Table: No. 53 going South leaves 8:45am No. 50 going North Leaves 10:00am No. 57 going South leaves 4:15pm No. 58 going North leaves 5:10 pm W.S. Rountree, Agent Huntington Post Office Hours Open Daily from 7 o'clock am to 8 o'clock pm Sundays from 7 until 9 am Geo. S. Mahaney, Post Master Milk and Lemonade shakes at the Palace Drug Store. Call and see it work. John Degen keeps the best bologna at the Broadway Meat Market. The juiciest steaks whittled out of the finest beef can be found at John Degen's. The freshest beef, sausage, veal can be found at John Degen's. Go into R.A. Bonham's Livery Stable for all kinds of good stuff. The El Dorado, the best 10 cent cigar in the southwest at McConnell's & Bonham's. The Fellow's Hotel is the leading house in Huntington. Rates $2 per day. Special rates today, boarders. Smoke the Palace Cigar found at the Palace Drug Store, the finest cigar in the area. Cool drinks, ice cream and cigars at Renfroes, give him a call. Born to Mr. & Mrs W.W. Parks Monday morning July 24, 1888, at 6 o' clock, a daughter. The little one will bear the name of the republican nominee for president, for whom she was named. May she live to someday become the ruler of a great republic if Harrison fails. Father Michael Smythe was among the distinguished visitors to the matchless young city last week. He came with an eye single sizing up the Catholic population of Huntington and if sufficiently encouraged will build a church for the people of the Catholic faith. He left his home at Fort Smith Monday and will again visit us in about thirty days to look into the matter further. The Drummer's Home by Capt. J.N. Puckett will soon open its doors for the reception of guests. The Hummer bespeaks liberal patronage for the new hotel. Monday Col. Tillay commenced the erection of two cottages on the corner of Oak and Clark streets. This is another of the evidences that Huntington is moving right along. The Huntington Brick Company is prepared to make contracts for brick next to the wall of the kiln. Enquire at the Huntington Brick Company for first-class brick. Royal Gem Cigars to be found only at J.W. Young's. This is decidedly the best five cent smoker on the market. Try it, buy it and use no other. The new coaches recently put on the Mansfield branch of the Frisco extension are the talk of the patrons of this popular system who cannot commend the good taste and sense of the management too highly. The train-men from the conductor down are proud of their new quarters, while Engineer Norwood declares that his engine pails twice as easy as it used to. The inanimate creature seems also to partake of the spirit of the hour and motely enjoys the double pull as it never did before. Always awake to the interests of the multitude as well as their own Frisco railway can never be said to retrograde, but leads the enterprising van of great railway systems. There is scarcely a doubt that the double passenger service will pay. An exchange illustrates the whole thing in a nut shell, as follows: "Here is a secret in building good towns. Do you know what it is? If you don't you can work the problem out in the following manner: Take two town sites; let one be a beautiful location, with all the natural advantages possible, and the other one none of these. Take five hundred old fogies and misers, men who do not believe in advertising; men who do not believe in giving capitalists anything for risking their money in the town, and put all of them on the good site. The 200 good live, energetic, "get-up and get" sort of fellows who never let an opportunity pass to advertise their selves and their town, and put then at the poor town site, then watch these towns for five years and you will very readily catch on to the secret of town building. Huntington's First Independence Day Celebration The Day We Celebrate. Huntington gets there in great shape, does the honors well. The glorious fourth has come and gone and the light of another day has favored. It brought a singing, seething crowd, and they came from everywhere. Fort Smith sent down four coaches thronged with merry makers. Hackett City contributed a baker's dozen, while adjoining and surrounding towns for twenty-five miles around swelled the aggregation of living rarposities* to 300 souls. Fort Smith's delegation were met at the depot and given a rousing welcome from which place, headed by the GAR in Huntington, they were escorted to the picnic grounds with the Border City field master in vanguard of the procession, while the state wagon with the varying states and territories represented by so many charming little misses, followed close upon the trail. The grounds were reached in due time and the exercises of the day and the pleasures incident thereto began. The address of welcome by Mayor Young and the response by Mr. Joe Johnson were received with hearty good cheer. These gentlemen were followed by the distinguished Colonel Ben T. Duval of Fort Smith, Colonel J.H. Huckleberry of Van Buren and others, each of whom, after an introduction of the assemblage by Captain Sam Fellows, master of ceremonies, uttered the sentiments of loyal Americans, in measured words of eloquence and matchless logic. In the course of his words, Mayor Young said: "Ladies and Gentlemen, It is my pleasant duty and privilege to extend to you this formal welcome. So to, on our behalf to all our youngsters. In behalf of all the people of our young city, I bid you welcome. I rejoice with you and all American citizens today, both north and south, that we as a united people, are permitted to see another national independence day. Our country is more than ever the land of Liberty and freedom. You and I have equal rights in all parts of our vast domain. The sunny south throws wide it's doors and extends it's welcome to our friends and brothers from other sections of our great country. Here we have a good climate and mineral wealth. We invite the intelligence, the capital, the labor of other sections to aid us in developing our great resources, in educating our children and to enjoy with us the best climate and finest scenery this side of the Rocky mountains. We have read of a mystic beyond, where all distinctions are forgotten. We are catching the inspiration of that delightful country. I see today evidence of fraternal and brotherly kindness. We welcome all moral benevolent and religious orders and societies. Let there be kindness and good feeling one for the other. Let us bury the dead past and live in the active present. Tell it to all, that the south is open to immigration. Tell all industries, liberty loving people, to come south, come to Arkansas, come to Sebastian County, come to Huntington. We are glad that some have come and others are coming. We are glad that you are here today. May you look back for years to come with pleasure to this day. Again, I bid you welcome. Welcome, officially* welcome to the hospitalities of Huntington." The address was well received. So was the response by Mr. Johnson. Dancing, swinging and other amusements filled the soul with ecstatic joy. Upon the whole it was a grand affair and received great credit upon the community, having the matter in charge. The pyrotechnic display at night was one of the grandest features of the occasion and was witnessed by hundreds of interested spectators. It was a gala day, and one to be remembered by every participant at the happy occasion. How Trammel Was Killed The Fort Smith Journal of last Saturday contains the following statement relative to the assassination of Deputy Marshall John Trammell, which was furnished to that paper by Officer John McDaniels who was near the scene of the tragedy at the time and who was one of the number detailed to break up the nest of moonshiners: "We left here Monday of last week, and went direct to southern Montgomery County to a point known as the three corners, where we destroyed three stills and arrested five men. Three of these men were subsequently turned loose, owing to lack of evidence against them. On Tuesday, Fry, Wheeler and Trammell went out on an exploring trip. When they reached the neighborhood where the moonshiners were known to live, Trammell was riding slowly ahead of the rest of the party. He soon reached a little clearing but hardly had left the brush when he was fired on by a party in ambush, and fell from his horse, shot through the breast. It is thought he died instantly. The moonshiners were distinctly heard retreating in the distance, and Fry and Wheeler instantly prepared to defend themselves against further attack. Mr. Fry went to Black Springs, five miles away and secured a justice of the peace who summoned a jury and held an inquest on the spot where the shooting occurred. Trammell's body was then taken to Black Springs and buried in the churchyard. A large crowd of people were present at the funeral, manifesting great indignation over the cause which led to his death. The parties who did the shooting are well known to the sheriff of Montgomery County, and an organized posse at once started in pursuit assisted by the United States Officers, Wheeler, Porter, Spencer and Cain. The people all through that county have always been very reticent about giving testimony concerning these outrages, but this time they express their determination to do all in their power to aid in bringing the offenders to justice. Trammell leaves a family of six orphan children living at Huntington. He was the only son of a widowed mother, and much sympathy is expressed both for her and the little ones. Huntington has at last achieved a victory on the diamond field. The conquest was the first of the season of '88, and this, their first achievement, strengthens the opinion that our tumblers are becoming hard hitting three baggers, and the glory of another day awaits them. Salem furnished the victims, who succumbed to the inevitable with a resignation that was admirable to behold. The game was called promptly at 3:30 o'clock p.m. last Saturday. It was a beautiful day - very unlike the one of the game before. Instead of mud ankle deep they had had a glorious sun and a fair sky. Something was said about it being d----d hot, but the game went on without interruption, with the same deep and abiding interest and manifestations of enthusiasm as one sees and hears when he finds himself in attendance upon a great game between rival clubs of metropolitan cities. The Hummer's special reporter was on hand as usual with his red bandana, Mother Hubbard sun shade and patent refrigerating sweat-box. His made application to heaven, to protect his huge proboscis with a eloudlet, however small, availed him nothing. His facial adornment soon began to take on the hue of roses that bloom in May, and was several times mistaken by the famishing tossers of the sphere for the neck of a claret bottle, who wished in vain to break it to quench the consuming fire which parched their tongues and burned the linings of their throats. Still the game went on while the opposing clubs worked harder than ever before. The umpire who sought to perform his mission well and impartially, was time and again appealed to, but he was inexorable as the hand that stays the life blood of mortal man. The gathered assemblages which numbered about 150 souls all told, drank down the delights of the occasion to the very dregs, and manifested no little enthusiasm when a good play was made and a home run was scored. When both sides were fatigued and almost upon the verge of prostration the game closed showing the following score: Huntington 8 7 2 2 4 0 7 15 0 Total: 45 Salem 2 1 2 0 2 3 3 10 3 Total: 26 Home Runs: Les Miller, Umpire: Brewster Mrs. Naomi Morris of Bloomer is visiting the family of her cousin, J.W. Young of this place. Misses Ludie Haag and Betty Degen, after quite a pleasant visit with friends at Fort Smith have returned home. Neal and John w. Reed, John Bentzel and Charlie Jones were the "musicians' at our Fourth of July celebration, and a better sort of "boys" can't be found in the State of Arkansas. They gave the best of satisfaction. W.K. Baker, D.D.S. of Ozark, came out to Huntington last week looking after the bad teeth of the community. The widow McGrew, alias Uncle Billy McGrew, left for St. Louis Sunday to be absent a couple of weeks. He expressed a warm desire to celebrate with us on the 4th, but thought the weather too chilly for such a pastime. Mr. M. J. Redmond, of the coal company's store left Tuesday for London, Ontario to spend a short vacation. Mr. Redmond is one of the most indefatigable workers in the employ of the company and the rest and recreation he seeks is much needed. The Hummer wishes him a pleasant and profitable trip and much pleasure upon the occasion of his visit. Dr. Brewster has discovered something he claims to be 40 times sweeter than sugar. He describes it as being eighteen years old with a bustle attachment. We haven't heard whether as the doctor claims the bustle to be the only article of apparel. A foot and wagon bridge across Cherokee creek to the depot is what Huntington needs and should have. If neither the railroad or coal company will give it to us, let us build it by subscription. It will be a good way to display a little of our public spirit. A hefty loader replaces equipment for the new coal shaft, was received at this place last week and placed in position. Everything at the mine is being pushed as fast as circumstances will warrant and it is believed that the first of August 24 will be in working order with a capacity of 25 cars of coal per day. Last Thursday a bucking mule handed Roebe Pugh a young man from the country onto a barbed wire fence, from which the rider sustained injuries that will make him feel sore for some time to come. His back and one arm were badly lacerated, so much so that the young man appeared like a portable slaughter house as freely did the blood flow from the torn corpuscles. The accident was the result of the young man's attempt to shed his coat while his mule-ship took fright with the *****.