J. N. Roberts and son went to Hopkins county last week on business. Wheat threshing is about finished in our community. Misses Lotta Davis and Ellen Crider, of Tribune, are dangerously ill with consumption. Mrs. Tilda Thompson was buried at Shady Grove Thursday. She died of consumption. Joe Vinson, of Shady Grove, left last Saturday for Lyon county. Mrs. Ida M. Roberts is on the sick list. George Phelps, of Hopkinsville, was in Marion Sunday. Mrs. Docia Brooks, of Illinois, has been visiting relatives in this county. Mrs. E. T. Eranks, of Owensboro, was the guest of friends in Marion last week. Chas. Wadlington, of Memphis, is visiting in Marion. Senator Deboe went to Canton, Ohio, last week to see President McKinley on political business. Professor Evans will conduct the Hardin County, Ky., teachers institute at Elizabethtown next week. Uriah W. Robertson, of Pope county, Ill., and Mrs. Mollie E. Flanary, of Marion, were married at the Gill house Tuesday. D. H. Franks has gone into the hotel business at Cripple, Col. He has charge of one of the largest hostelries in that city. Ex-Sheriff John Franks is in Deming, New Mexico, and his health is improving. He expects to go to Colorado soon, where he will spend some time before returning home. The Crittenden county teachers institute will convene in Marion Monday morning. No instructor has been employed. The teachers will conduct the institute themselves this year. Several small boys were arrested Thursday and brought before Judge Gilbert, charged with shooting craps. There was no evidence sufficient to convict the youngsters and they were acquitted. Thos. J. Yandell died at the home of his father, Mr. Jeff Yandell, of the Chapel Hill neighborhood, Friday, after a short illness. The funeral was conducted at Chapel Hill Sunday. Mr. Yandell was 25 years old and was a young man of splendid character. J. H. McMican, of Oklahoma, is visiting his friends in this county. He was formerly a grocery merchant here, going west a few years ago to “grow up with the country.” Judging from the shadow he cast now we are of the opinion that the country has had a struggle to grow up with him. Miss Kora Mae Klapp and R. C. Ballard, both of Jonesboro, Ark., were married at the residence of Mr. R. A. Moore, of Marion Thursday and left for Jonesboro that evening. The drouth is simply fearful. Corn, tobacco, gardens, and in fact everything growing out of the ground is ruined. So many failed to sow wheat last fall, and should the dry spell continue a few days more they will be without bread for their families. Their only show then is to try it again. We have so many good farmers who depend entirely on a tobacco crop for their money, who will be left in a fix, and our stock men who have small herds of cattle, with nothing to take them through the winter. It is a serious matter to the farmer, while our town brothers are also affected, for with the failing of the farmer, so goes it with the town man.