January 2022

Captain Joe McCracken left last night for New Orleans to attend to his large shipments of square timber which went down the rivers a few days ago to the city, from which point they will be located on ships for Liverpool. The Captain will not take the passage on ship at New Orleans, but will return to Corning and go to New York City or Montreal, Canada and embark for Liverpool. A very good crowd was here Monday from neighboring towns, this being the time for letting the contract for the erection of the new brick courthouses. The passenger train due at Corning at 9:46 Sunday night was wrecked just South of Tip Top, Mo. by a calf getting in front of the engine, which was ditched, and several cars were badly wrecked. The firemen was instantly killed and the engineer seriously scalded. This paper has been conducted under different names and in various towns of Clay County, continuously for about 25 years, having been located in Corning, Rector and Greenway at different times. With this issue The Courier completes its 15th year under the present name and has been under the same management for six years. Long Brothers say they will make a big barbecue and celebration take place at the school grounds, on July 4th, in spite of all opposition. O.C. Harb received an order Monday for 400 loaves of bread and 20 cases of soda for the big barbecue at Pitman the 4th. The Board of Directors has employed as teachers in the Corning public schools for the ensuring year, besides J.K. Browning of Piggott as Principal, Mrs. Anne Cooledge, Mrs. Ada Prichard and Miss Sue Hill of this place and Ora Edwards of Brookings. It is pretty generally understood that Judge Felix G. Taylor will be in the race for Congress, of course no one knows yet what opposition he will have, but the Judge is a popular man and he knows to conduct a campaign. The glorious 4th of July was celebrated at the school house grounds in Corning in spite of the fact that a great many of our citizens spent the day at Pittman, Jonesboro and other places where big celebrations were to be held. The celebration was one of the most orderly in the history of Corning, there was no infractions of the law, or casualties. At noon, a barbecue was spread on the grounds by Long Brothers, the butchers, who dispensed barbecued meats, bread and pickles to the hungry crowd at 20 cents a meal. Governor Jones returned from Pitman in time to deliver a short but patriotic speech in the evening before he left on the 9:46 train for Little Rock. The Corning band being employed at Jonesboro, the management of the barbecue secured the services of the negro brass band of Poplar Bluff which furnished music for the day.