The Forrest City times., 1894-08-31
ARKANSAS CULlINGS.
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Sources for Readers of This Paper Brinkley wants a canning factory. Sebastian county has fine sorghum crop.
 Prospectors are visiting all parts of the state.
 Little Rock is becoming famous for burglaries.
 It is reported that there are no empty houses in Rogers.
 There are 515 poll-tax delinquents in Columbia county.
 A. P. Ewton was fined sa5 in Little Rock for abusing his wife.
 Richard Reinhardt, aged 69, died ln Little Rock the other day. Arkansas is becoming the apple orchard of the United States.
 The Hot Spring county grand jury returned forty-three indictments.
 The Jane Kellogg home for old ladies | in Little Rock is in need of funds. A colony of Kansas farmers is about to be located near Siloam Springs
 The holiness people have been hold 1 ing camp-meeting in Little Rock. The annual fruit exhibition at Spring dale will be held this year in October A farmer near Bryant IS said to have raised cucumber nearly seven feet long.
 Mir. Jacob Stahl, of Little Rock. will make trip to Europe, being absent about two months. Rabbi Traugott. of Fort Smith. has returned from St. Louis, with his eye | sight fully restored. The congregation of Immanuel Bap- tist church, Little Rock, will erect new place of worship. John A. Medlock. an old and highly esteemed citizen of Collegeville, Saline county, died recently.
 John A. Wedlock and Richard Reic hardt, two old and well-known citizens of Little Rock, died the other day.
 Little Rock is coming to the front as a candy center, and is wholesaling the product throughout the southwest.
 The expenditures of Howard county were nearly S3,OOO less this year than last, and the income was about S1, ,000 lesss.
 The business men of Fort Smith pre- sented Se5 to the growers of the first bale of this years cotton marketed | there.
 l Rev. J. H. Bradford, of Cabot, who very mysteriously disappeared about 1 two months ago, returned home re- gently.
 Pat Powers, of Little Rock, has se- cured the contract to erect new hotel building in Pine Bluff. Mir. Sol Miller is protector of the enterprise.
 Rev. Wallace Carnahan, who has been pastor of Christ church, Little Rock, has preached his farewell sermon and departed for his new field of labor, San Antonio, Tex.
 The De Valls Bluff schools will re- | open September r. Prof. T. F. Doan, 1 principal, has become benedict, Miss Lillie Terry, of Swifton, was the pro- fessor's choice.
 Knights of Pythias from Little Rock, Fort Smith, Pine Bluff, Helena, Hot Springs, Camden and other Arkansas cities attended the encampment at 1 Washington, D. C.
 Hon. w. l.. Terry has received as- surances from the quartermaster gen eral that those in charge of the mili- tary post at Little Rock have been au- | thorized to eXpend S194, ,000 on the post | immediately. James Morris, of Big Flat, Baxter county, was bound over by Commis- | sioner O'Hair, at Little Rock, recently, | in the sum of S250 on the charge of cut ting timber on government land. He denies the charge. Prof. w. F. Bates, of the Arkansas industrial university, has arranged to | hold farmers institutes in various counties at which the subjects of agri- | culture, horticulture and dairying will be discussed and new methods introduced.
 the state against A. w. Gills, charged with murder in the second degree for the killing of David Armstrong last Oc- tober, rendered verdict of not guilty Mir. Gills' case was defended by Brown and Lamb of Jonesboro. The internal revenue office at Little Rock the other day received 10000 rev. enue stamps, two cents each, to be placed on playing cards. Every pack sold must be stamped according to the new law. One Little Rock dealer bought over 5000 of them. The Arkansas agricultural experi- ment station has issued bulletin No. 2s, showing the results of experiments at the southern branch, located at Cam den. This bulletin may be secured free by addressing the agricultural expert ment station, Fayetteville, Ark.