Perhaps this will spread a little "Christmas Spirit"! Van Buren Press Van Buren, Arkansas -Crawford County January 8, 1878 The "poor man's friend" -that's Capt. E. G. Whitesides. The Captain killed, Tuesday, fifty fat hogs, that averaged 250 pounds apiece, and on Wednesday he sends a man to Van Buren with a wagon-load of backbones and ribs, and distributed them among poor friends. "Sides" is one of the best, as well as most liberal hearted men in the county, and stands ready at any and all times to divide with the poor unfortunate, that never had, nor never will have anything. This is not the first time the Captain has hit us in the breadbasket and we hope it is not the last. Fran Alverson Warren