August 9, 1888 Huntington Hummer Newspaper Goodbye, My Honey I'm Gone Well, Luke didn't shoot as he was required to shoot, and had to give up the gun. It is a sad case and the call of justice is loud in condemnation of the overt acts of those who must be held responsible for the pitiable plight into which we were plunged. The flattering promises that have been made us have failed to materialize, and the HUMMER must go down, a victim to misplaced confidence. For three long weary hot summer months we have struggled, in sickness and in health, for a mere existence, and --- got it in the neck. This affliction we could have endured with the heroism of a martyr and survived until "cooler" weather, but to be told, in response to a call for aid in the shape of moneys justly due, that the dunned "didn't give a damn whether the paper went or not," overwhelmed us and threw us into a paroxysm of inextricable mulishness, so that now we don't care a cuss whether men of this ilk "care a damn or not". In addition to the misfortune of having men of this character to deal with the patronage of this paper has never been sufficient to build and equip a hundred miles of railway, and unless this can be guaranteed no newspaper man of Huntington, the great coal center of the incomparable southwest, can ever hope to become a millionaire and a bloated bond holder in and during the remainder of the present century. We have feasted on the hindquarters of grasshoppers and reveled in the broth of tarantulas and gulped down the gall of bitter disappointment uncomplainingly until forbearance was obliterated from our vocabulary. We left a home of comfort, a delicate wife and innocent little ones whose tiny voices went up, as if asking heaven to intercede for them, and cried "Papa, don't go!" to link our fate with those who had gone before. We lent a willing ear to the siren's song and got beautifully done up in regular John Sullivan style, all because of the fancy picture of frostwork of eminent artists in their particular line. Yes, they worked us to the tune of about $1000, but this is a small item when we begin to compare the value of the experience. Don't mistake our remarks for a grand kick. They are only intended as a scrap of history that is apt to enter into most any man's composition before he reaches the age of thirty years. It has entered into ours and we hope we are better off for the lesson, however costly. To bring the matter down to the facts and figures, a few comparisons may be interesting as well as odious. The light turned on reveals the fact that to secure and establish the plant necessitated an outlay approximating $1000. After a good deal of correspondence and fine sifting the K&T Coal Co. dropped $350 in the hole sixty days later than their letter of promise specified, but have never come to the surface with the support demanded and guaranteed the nestor of Huntington journalism. Unaided, the other business men of the place could not do it without doing themselves injustice and it would be a shear folly to expect it. The expenses of the office have been $100 a month with the editorial work thrown in. Huntington's contribution to this contingent is $40 per month. Forty dollars a month are paid for help, $20 for house rent, $15 for paper, $16 for board, and $10 for incidentals, such as creek water, antidotes for snake bite, disinfectants, etc. etc. It has been a losing venture from the start, although we were assured it should not be. We have lost until the fire of our ambition died out, and we now refuse to longer dump $50 a month simply for the sake of being permitted to remain an honored and distinguished citizen of this growing burg. But we have a word of consolation and shall offer it. There are many, many goslings throughout this vast domain redolent with the flush of vigorous young manhood, and ambitious, to whom $25 a month would be a big enticement. How well the paper would be managed we cannot undertake to say. However, buy the plant, try the operation, and if the experience is a failure, a snare and a delusion, full of woe and seething gall, be comforted, drink it down and murmur not, for a crown awaits you and the gates of heaven yawn, in joyous expectancy of your flight from this terrestrial shere where sin is rife and clarity as cold as kraut exposed to the weather in the dead of winter. Under existing conditions our capacity is sated, and if none come to the rescue the HUMMER has hummed it's last. Promises unfulfilled tell the tale of demolition. A guarantee of $100 a month by the business men of Huntington is all that will resuscitate the paper. Until then we shall be compelled to bid you a regretful farewell. Good-bye and God bless you. Feed your teams at R.A. Bonhams. Go to R.A. Bonhams livery stable for all kinds of feed stuffs. Feed stuffs in quantities to suit the purchasers at Bonhams Livery Stable. L.P. Barrett's mules are 16 ½ hands high and he has a span of young & fine mules for sale. A bargain to the buyer. What key unlocks the door to misery? Whis---Key. John Degen for fresh meats, he keeps the best bologna, beef, mutton, veal & sausage etc. Iced meats at John Degens, corner of Broadway and Commercial. The beef bought at the Broadway Meat Market is always kept on ice. Juciest steaks whittled out out of the fattest beeves can be found at John Degens Broadway Meat Market. The freshest meats are to be found at the Broadway Meat Market, John Degen proprietor. Miss Henryetta Marks is visiting friends at Hackett City. Mrs. Jasper Donaldson is visiting from Mt. Vernon, Illinois. Iced drinks, ice cream and cigars at Renfroe's. Give him a call. Enquire of the Huntington Brick Company for first class building brick. The Huntington Brick Company is prepared to make contracts for brick laid in the wall or at the kiln. A turn of new corn was ground at the grist mill of R.L. West & Co. Saturday. Mr. J.S. McKaney has just returned form the interior, talking and working for Huntington. Milk and lemonade shakes at the Palace Drug Store. Call and see it work. Smoke the Palace cigar, found at the Palace Drug Store, the best cigar in town. The sanitary condition of the town is some better, but there is room for improvement. Little Oliver, son of Mr. Vinton Goff is slowly recovering from his long spell of sickness. The El Dorado, the best ten cent smoker in the southwest, at McConnell & Brewsters. Mrs. Wilhaf of Van Buren is visiting the family of her son, Mr. C.H. Wilhaf, of this place. For your drugs, chemicals, paints, dyes, proprietary medicines, etc. go to McConnell & Bonham. Check your baggage at the Fellows Hotel and enjoy the delights of a good bed and a square meal. The Fellows Hotel is the leading house in Huntington. Rates $2 per day. Special rates to day boarders. If you want a set of the best hand made chairs you ever saw, call on J.W. Young and you can get them. Mr. & Mrs. James day returned to Fort Smith Sunday after a brief visit to relatives and friends in this place. Frank Phelps - handsome Frankie - left us last week to make a short visit to Kansas. He took his wedding garb with him. At the meeting of the council Tuesday, John Davis received the appointment of Town Marshall, vice Vinton G. resigned. The agreement for the cotton yards has been sealed, signed and delivered by both the coal company and the Farmer's Alliance. R.L. West & Co. have received the contract to build the M.E. Church South. They expect to have it completed by October 1st. And would you have it said that your local paper, the brightest and best in the county, died of insufficient nourishment? Messrs, J.F. Graves and W.E. Pearson and Misses Ella Graves and Ray Davis of Witcherville, paid Huntington a visit Sunday afternoon. Mrs. W.H. Cole and Mrs. J.H. Clendening of Fort Smith were down from that town on a brief visit last week, guests of Mrs. W.H. Owens. Miss Lula Christopher, one of the reigning belles of the lovely town of Hackett arrived Saturday and during her stay will remain the guest of Miss Viola Reeves. William Walker and Al Belt accompanied the candidates from Hackett City Monday and saw that they kept straight while they remained in the queen of black diamonds. Sweet cider was the only draught they would permit the boys to use. Mr. J.W. Riley, mention of whom was made some weeks ago, has arrived with his stock of drugs and will occupy the new store house of Mr. Weaver as soon as it is completed. It was too mean that the bad boys of Huntington got into the saddle riders of the candidates Monday and extracted all their lemon juice, which was brought along as a throat clearer. Genial Joe Johnson, radiant as ever with the smiles of contentment and prosperity, paid the old folks at home a visit last week, passing through town on his return to Fort Smith last Friday. If the HUMMER ever has a successor, arrangements will be made by which subscribers who have paid in advance will receive the paper during the remainder of the time for which they have subscribed. Mr. J.R. Jackson, a mere shadow of his former self, ventured out Monday and visited the HUMMER sanctum. Jack's friends are glad to see him out even in a dilapidated condition, for they had begun to believe they were going to lose him entirely. A very successful religious meeting is going on at Brewster's Chapel near this city, conducted by Rev. I.F. Harris of the M.E. Church, South who is assisted by Rev. J.M. C. Hamilton. The meeting will continue throughout the week and possibly longer. The Big Democratic Barbecue About the Barbecue: Colonel Fishback, who as one of the presidential electors must pay the eastern part of the state a visit, cannot be with us on the 17th of August to deliver an address at our barbecue. In his letter to the committee of invitation the colonel explains that he has "been assigned to duty in the eastern part of the state by the central committee from August 11 to 31st, so that on the day of your barbecue I will be in Little Rock en route to Texarkana. I regret exceedingly that I cannot avail myself of your flattering invitation". That being the case we can certainly excuse the colonel, however much we regret to do so. The Democratic Barbecue takes place here on the 17th of this month. Bear in mind that you are invited and wanted to participate. It is to be no snide affair, and while it is democratic you are not excluded because you are a republican and love the China-man's favorite. The 17th of August falls on Friday of next week. You will remember that on that day Huntington is to have her big democratic barbecue and ---- beer. Don't be uneasy as to the supply. The one thing democrats are capable of doing is doing things right, and if you hunger and thirst upon that occasion you will have nobody to blame but yourself. Therefore save yourself and your capacity for that day. At the meeting of the business committee of the Eagle Democratic Club of this City last Monday evening, the following resolutions were introduced and adopted in relation to the big barbecue: Resolved, That all lemonade stands be charged $10, and that they shall use lemons Resolved, That all shooting galleries be charged $2.50 Resolved, That dance stands be charged $5 per stand Resolved, That swinging jennies be charged $5 per swing Resolved, That farmers' own productions be not included in the above Resolved, That all stands be placed by the Marshall The committee is composed of Drs. McConnell and Brewster, S.T. Mc Master, John T. Davis, Joe Martin. Twenty beeves, twenty head of sheep, smaller game and money have been donated toward making the barbecue a success. On that day expect to: Breeze the American flag on a 150 foot pole, have 10,000 people present, obtain the best speakers, have two bands of music, fireworks, grand parade, and torch light procession. The editorial sanctum was invaded Monday by Miss Viola Reeves and her pretty guest, Miss Lula Christopher of Hackett City, whose cherry presence dispelled the gloom peculiar to a country print-shop during their stay. Of course we would always have them call again. Miss Viola Reeves gave a pleasant euchre party to a number of her friends Monday Evening. It is unnecessary to add that the occasion was one of merriment and much genuine enjoyment. Miss Viola understands the art of entertaining and does so to the complete satisfaction of her many admiring friends. Mr. M.J. Redmond, formerly assistant book keeper of the K&T Coal Company at this place, has returned from his vacation to his Canada home, and now holds down a position with the same company at Hackett City. Mr. Redmond has many warm friends in Huntington who regret his transfer. Pending the suspension of the HUMMER the job office of the plant will continue to operate and those who need printed stationery will find that it can be done as cheap and as well as anywhere. Remember that while the paper for the time being is non est, the job department still goes on. The town council should see that the ordinances are enforced in every particular. There are money's due for licenses, taxes, etc. and if there is not sufficient back-bone in the aldermanic bodies to push these matters when they are backed by the law, room should be made for men who will perform the duties incumbent upon them. Capt. Sam Fellows, as treasurer of the school board has received notice that Huntington's apportionment of the public school fund amounts to $4.88 cents. Had it been raised 12 cents better we might have been able to run a school the remainder of the summer and during the approaching winter. This extra allowance will likely be asked for. We are sorry of the bad luck that befell our young friend Herman Schuster late Sunday afternoon. The case was a sad one, but is not without parallel. The wife and mother is bearing up well under the affliction and will in time be restored to her wonted health. The babe lived but two hours and will shortly be taken to Fort Smith for re-interment. Some drunken minors held an orgy in the rear of the HUMMER office Sunday evening and made the merry woods ring with their Bacchanalian revelry. Some got to drunk to move out of their tracks while others fell by the wayside after a few ineffectual efforts to move on. Some were made victims to severe blows and next morning displayed countenances puzzling to the beholder. It was hard to tell whether they were white men or painted Indians, the transformation was so great. The HUMMER is not advised whether they had a settlement with the mayor or not, but if they didn't they should have had. The August Meteors The August nights from the 8th to the 12th will be enlivened by the display of meteors which are sure to descend through the atmosphere in greater or less numbers. The meteors as is well known come from the great meteor zone whose perihelion zone is on the earth's orbit, and whose aphellon extends beyond the bounds of Neptune, the most distant planet in the solar system. The earth about the 10th plunges through the zone, the meteors are set on fire by the concussion of the earth's atmosphere and descends in form of shooting stars. The radiant point of the August meteors is in the constellation Perseus, and they are therefore called Persids. Perseus rises on the 10th in the northeast about nine o'clock, and observers who watch the night sky in that direction will be rewarded by the sight of several hundred meteors as the hours of night pass on. Many of them will be brilliant and as large as of the first magnitude, and many of them will leave trails of luminous vapor lasting several seconds. Radical Dogmas* Mr. R.P. Claiborne, one of the republican nominees for representative said on the stump at Mansfield that he wanted it distinctly understood that he was a prohibitionist first, last and all the time, with the accent on the "hl". This is the same man who said several years ago that the children of the of the old rebel soldiers ought to be disfranchised, also, because their fathers had eaten sour grapes and that set their teeth on edge. J.A. Williams and J. Frank Weaver, democratic candidates for legislative honors, were the only ones among the horde who had the courage to pull the latch string of the HUMMER Monday. They found us as blue as the d-----l and in prime condition to collapse and offered their warmest sympathies, which were cold comfort at best. They made a good impression with our people and will undoubtedly go to the legislature in the same boat. Col. Wise A. Cooper, the silver-tongued expounder of democracy as taught by Jefferson and practiced by lesser lights, paid the city of Black Diamonds a visit last week on legal business. The colonel has signified his willingness and intention to be with us upon the occasion of our big barbecue on the 17th inst. And has in the course of preparation a thunderbolt in the shape of irrefutable arguments which he proposes to submit for the benefit of his republican friends on that day. The candidates for county and legislative honors, representing the two leading political factions, addressed our people Monday and were respectfully listened to by a good audience. Some of the boys got warm in the collar, the intense heat in all probability being responsible for the state of affairs. Off the rostrum they behaved themselves real nicely, and after partaking of a refreshing drink of ------water and a good dinner their blood simmered down to it's normal condition, and late in the afternoon they departed for Witcherville, where they spoke on the following day. The trial of George Mahaney, charged with embezzlement, came off before Mayor Young Thursday and resulted in his acquittal. It seems that the suit was brought by C.G. & H.S. Townsley of Fort Smith who had sold Mahaney goods. Mahaney in time sold his stock of wares when plaintiffs made affidavit that the goods were entrusted to the defendant to be sold on commission. Defendant produced bills and letters to the contrary and the result was an easy victory for him. The Townsleys were represented by N.L. Marmon Esq. of Fort Smith and Mr. Mahaney by W.D. McInturf Esq. of Booneville. Our colored friends have had their barbecue and quite a success it was. Amusements peculiar to such occasions were to be seen on every hand, and they made the most of the opportunity to turn the day into one of unadulterated enjoyment. Many whites collected about the grounds to witness and to participate at the feast. The meats were nicely barbecued and found the gathered assemblage in prime condition to munch. They set to with a zest that smacked of hunger and appeared to enjoy the feast spread before them. The success of the day was due to the untiring efforts of Marshall Penny and Ben Smith, who never wearied in making it pleasant for all. Our eloquent, distinguished and cultured friends, Clendening and Miller, the one a lawyer and the other a millionaire newspaper man from the booming Border City, paid our town a visit last Saturday upon the occasion of the colored barbecue here and while Clendening did the talking Miller did the button-holing with the murky population for barbecue meat and votes. It is said that while he filled up on the former he went hungry for the latter. We feel sorry for our journalistic friend, and would wish him all possible success, but so long as he affiliates with the colonel he can never hope to do anything with even the negroes in Arkansas. The colonel made a good impression whenever his No. 11's struck terra firma, but beyond that deponent knoweth not, neither does he say. Valuable Stock Farm for Sale or Trade Three hundred and ten acres of fine farming land in the edge of Scott County, ten miles east of Huntington. One hundred acres of this valuable tract are in cultivation. The place contains a good two story house, barns and cribs, besides an orchard, and a good well and good spring. This land will be sold for cash or stock or cattle. For more information call at this office. Scavenger Work I want everybody to know that I am now prepared to clean vaults. Charges reasonable. Jack Talamene For sale: Thirty head of blooded cattle Jersey and Durham breed. Will sell in quantity to suit purchasers. They are graded half, six and seven-eighth and full blood registered. Write or call on John Degen, Huntington, Ark. Ordinance Be it ordained by the town council of the incorporated Town of Huntington: Section 1: It shall be unlawful for any person or persons to keep any billiard table, pool table, jenny lind table, or any other table, for the purpose of playing games on in the incorporated town of Huntington without first obtaining a license. Section 2: Every person or persons keeping a billiard table, pool table or jenny lind table, or any other type other tables for the purpose of playing games on, shall pay a license of twelve ($12) dollars per year, payable quarterly in advance. Section 3: Any person or persons failing to comply with the prebaling* sections shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof before the mayor, shall be fined in any sum not less than $5.00 nor more than $25.00 for each offense and costs of prosecution. Section 4: That this ordinance be in full force and effect from and after it's passage and publication. Passed this August 7th, 1888. J.W. Young, Mayor, R.A. Bonham, Clerk. Commissioners Sale Notice is herby given that by virtue of a decree made and entered of record in the Sebastian circuit court for the Greenwood district at the June term of the said court, that we will on the 15th of August, 1888, in front of the post office in Huntington, Arkansas, between the hours of 10 o'clock a.m. and 3 o' clock p.m., sell at auction the coal underlying that tract or parcel of land devised by John R. Smoot to his daughter, Sarah L. Brown, described in his will as "all of his land lying south of Cherokee Creek in Sebastian County, and west S. Randel's, the coal bank excepted; the land so devised being the N.E. ¼ of the S.W. ¼ of section 26 township 5, north range 31 west, and about 5 acres in same direction in S.E. ¼ of the N.W. ¼. Terms of Sale--- Credit of three months, the purchaser to give bond with approved surety for the purchase money, bearing interest at the rate of ten per cent, per annum, a lien being retained on the property sold for the purchase money. W.D. Hunter, G.T. Terrell, Jesse Martin, Commissioners.