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    1. [ARDREW-L] [ARDREW] Dr. S. Harris - Wilmar
    2. John Haisty
    3. INDUSTRIAL AND SOUVENIR EDITION OF THE ADVANCE Monticello, Ark., Tuesday, December 17, 1907 Page 8, Col.6 Dr. S. Harris Dr. S. Harris at the present time owns the only drug store in Wilmar, having just a few weeks ago bought the stock of I. A. Bird & Son, consolidating it with his own stock and moving to the Bird stand. Dr. Harris was born in DeSoto County, Mississippi. His literary education was received at Lebanon, Louisiana, the leading institution of the Baptist denomination in that State, and his medical course was taken at Louisville, Kentucky, from which institution he graduated in the class of 1892. After leaving the medical college he came direct to Arkansas, locating first at Wesson in Union County. There he remained seven years when he removed to Wilmar where he has remained since. Dr. Harris entered the drug business last March by buying the store stated above, he has recently bought out his only competitor and now has the only drug business of the town. He carries not only a complete line of drugs of every variety, but also a large stock of jewelry, novelties and all the sundries usually found in an up-to-date drug store. (He also conducts a cold conducted by Dr. John Thomas, and as drink stand. ????????) Dr. Harris is a skilled physician and has built up a practice in Wilmar and contiguouis territory that taxes his time and endurance to the utmost, while as a man and a citizen he stands high in the regard of all classes. He is a member of the Baptist Church and of the Knights of Pythias and Masonic lodges, being a past chancellor in the former. He was married on January 3, 1894, to Miss Lou Risinger of El Dorado, Ark., and two children have come to bless their home, one boy and one girl.

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