Reprinted from old Courier files........1914. A.D. DOWNS who had been at his home in Corning for the past few days, working in the BROWN machine shop, left Monday afternoon to resume work on one of the BROWN dredge boats near Datto. That boat had been out of commission for several days but is now repaired and in first class running order. Mr. BROWN, the dredging contractor, has four good drege boats and they are working full time. Rev. G.A. HOFFMAN who, with his family, has resided in Corning for the past several years and during that time served as pastor of the Christian Church and part of this time as mayor and two years as chairman of the county Democratic central committee, will move to Newport where he will devote his entire time to pastorate of the Cristian Church of that city. Rev. HOFFMAN has preached half-time at Newport for the past five years. They have many friends in Corning who regret their departure but wish them well in their new location. Attorney Jerry MULLORY, Reyno's legal light, transacted business in Corning, Wednesday. Jess HILL 21 and Miss Nora SPURLOCK, 16, were united in marriage at Deputy county Clerk JORDAN's office last Monday, Esquire SULLINS officiating. ROBINSON and ARNOLD, local livestock men, made a mixed carload shipment, horses, cattle and hogs, to the East St. Louis stock yards first of this week. Several good horses in the car will be shipped to one ot the foreign countries now at war. The Holiness people held another of their regular weekly baptizings in Corning Lake last Sunday afternoon, baptizing six converts that day. The Holiness people are building a church house on a vacant lot in Northwest Corning which they recently bought from O.A. RIDER. H.B. FRENCH residing one mile West of Corning, had this office print posters recently advertising a public sale at his home on next Thursday, October 29. Mr. FRENCH and his family will, about November 1, move to the St. Francis "sunken land" near Lepanto where he will homestead 160 acres of government land. Mr. FRENCH had made several trips to the sunken lands and is very much impressed with same. Charles SNOWDEN of Success who had been working at Blytheville for the past three months, arrived in Corning yesterday enroute to his home at Success. Mr. SNOWDEN will teach the Winter term of school at Mager school house beginning next Monday. SNOWDEN says business is very dull at Blytheville, cotton there selling as low as $1.75 per hundred. Charles T. CHOISSER living near Success, moved htere about nine years ago; he is one of those thrifty Illinois livestock farmers. He brought with him a mare which he still owns; and during the time Mr. CHOISSER has been in Arkansas he has sold $1300 worth of colts from that one mare, got good work out of the mare during that time and still has the mare. Not so bad, is it? Suppose you had ten such mares, figure for yourself. This is only one example, there are others. Jake TEETERS, living just West of Corning, planted one acre of watermelons this Spring and he has already sold over $60.00 worh and has nearly 500 melons yet to dispose of, which at the lowest price, 10 cents, would bring him over $100.00 ready money. There are many ways of heading off hard time, if the farmers would only do some studing for themselves. Joseph SELLMEYER, R. WHITAKER and James SMITH of Knobel, drainage commissioners for Big Gum drainage district East of Knobel, met with engineer RYYNE in Corning first of this week and made the preliminary preparations for publishing notices and lists of assesments for said ditch. Big Gum drainage ditch will run through a large area of fine territory East and South of Knobel and when completed will be of great value to landholders in that section of Clay county. C.L. SCHINDLER, an experienced five to twenty-five cent store merchant and his family lately of Moberly, Missouri have moved to Corning and will open a store of the above mentioned kind in the South room of the PHIPPS and ARNOLD new brick on Second Street, where workmen are rushing the installation of the new fixtures. W.H. MIZELL who had been teaching a successful school at Blue School house, three miles Northeast of Corning, closed that school last Friday for two months on account of cotton picking which is in full swing. PHIPPS and ARNOLD have just received and put in commission a new delivery car. to be continued................... ____________________________________________________________________________________ Need Mail bonding? Go to the Yahoo! Mail Q&A for great tips from Yahoo! Answers users. http://answers.yahoo.com/dir/?link=list&sid=396546091