The Forrest City times., 1891-11-06
STATE NEW s.

Fayetteville has a water famine.
 The Coraing building boom contin- ues.
 The Oceola Times celebrates its 23d birthday.
 Bentonville is agitating the tile fac tory question.
 The East Coal Hill school wants sn assistant teacher. Boone county reports fifteen mar | riages in one month.
 Rev. John H. Dye has been elected president of Galloway college.
 Two new bridges are to be cotslruct- ed across the Ouachita at Camden. Bentonvile wants the new Baptist college and is working like a beaver for | it.
 R. E. Duty, the oldest settler of Lafayette county, is dead, at the age of 90.
 The movement to establish four ing mill in Newport, seems to be a failure.
 VanBuren having experienced a water famine, is agitating the water 1 works question. John Barnherd, the cook of the liar ris House, died suddenly, presumably of heart disease. J. K. Bryant. farming near Bingen, raised, this year, 500 bushels of corn on seventeen acres. Nathan Kizzia raised on his farm, near MurfreesbOro, from one vine, l95 pounds of pumpkins. 1,l..-o horo haan 100 anoa.osnna tN the M. E. Church. South, Aurfrees- boro circuit, this year. A seven-year old child fell from . Cotton Belt train near Fordyce, while its mother slept, and was killed. Miss Jennie Terpening was killed and two other ladies seriously injured br runaway team at Prairie Grove. l The Alma alliance has resoluted against the ordnance licensing butcher shops and threatens to inaugurate a boycott.
 Drummer Albert G. Roberts, while boarding passenger tram at Conway.
 was badly injured by being struck by . passing freight.
 Barber < Vests gin and mill, on the Ouachita, \ few miles north of Mount
 Ida, with twelve bales of cotton. was
 destroyed by fire.
 A cotton gin belonging to MT. Gabe
 Meyer, on the Shepard place, Jeffer.
 son county, together with thirty-ive
 bales of cotton, burned Monday night I II. Been, of Chslly beate Springs, re'
 ports au ear of corn which certainly
 takes the cake. It has twenty rows
 with sixty-fivs grains to the row. mak. ing l340 grains.-Pope County Mail. Il A Worlds Fair organization has
 been perfected at Conway with tn, following officers: A. K. Witt, presi
 dent; J. w. Underhill, secretary, anC
 committees of two for each township : and five for the county at large to rais, } money for the fair. r Burglars entered store at Neeley . vile on Thurday night of last weei and removed a small money safe som,
 two hundred yards srom the store ol
 q pair of trucks and blew it open They failed to find any cash, but SC [ cured fine gold watch.-Clay Count
 Courier.
 Mabee Extension Bed Company or . ganiZed here this week with a capita [. stock of sl0, 900 taken by Texarkan
 anu Ah pcople. |. D6ntnSiiiHAH
 Texarkana; president; F. A. Mabee |, Paris, yice-president; B. Nj. Foreman . Texarkana, secretary and treasurer
 W. N. Sanders, F. A. Mabee, Pari:
 A contract has been given to the Tex Q arkana Furniture Factory to manufae d tlre the beds.-Texarkana Cottag a Home.
 O The trouble is that our people ar
 planting for speculation instead 0
 farming to make living, and unles they change this suicidal policy, mak ;' more hog and hominy and less cottor IS they cannot hope tocsucceed in maxim g. the farm yield profit. or ameliorat D. existing conditions. Whenever tn 10 farmer has renouneed allegiance to tn " old dogma, ''cotton is king" and dive 'h silied his crop and given part of tn n- sweat of his brow" to stock raising ,y he 1sss become independent and sel ,s supporting. It is only a question - time when this system of farming wi h. bring forth the fruit of wealth.-Hel,
 na world.