From the April 16, 1896 edition of the Fayetteville Observer: "I am glad to announce that we have a school to commence this morning. Prof. Pickett is our teacher and we hope he will be successful. He has fifteen scholars enrolled to commence with and will have a good school as soon as the measles leave our village.
We are enjoying very good health at this time. There have been no new cases of the measles for the last week and all that have been sick with the disease are doing well. We have a few that are affected with chronic diseases that are better one day and not so well next.
Mrs. D. M. Mims, who has been in bad health for some time, is not as well as usual.
Mrs. Sneed is having chills.
We have no visitors in our village at this time.
Our people are busy planting corn and preparing for cotton.
A fire that did considerable damage to fencing was put out last Saturday. J. A. McKinney says that he has not enough rail to fence two acres of land. J. D. Bray had one field turned by the fire. Miss Lizzie George is reported as not having rails left build a hog pen. A. N. Hudson lost seventy. The man that started the fire ought to have tied in the smoke.
Heynon Shephard, Ed. Mims and G. Bruce have gone to Bean's Creek on a fishing spree. We hope the boys took along some medicine for snake bites, so as to be prepared in case of accident.
Wheat and oats are looking well, but would be better could we have a good warm rain.
Politics is beginning to bud and we expect by November will be in full bloom.
The most of our people favor primaries instead of conventions for state offices.