The Harrison times., 1903-08-08
STATE NEWS.

big fair at Rogers this fall.
More than two-thirds of the church
es of the State are in debt.
The ladies band of Hardy furnishes
music on all public occasions
About 65 men are laying the con-
crete foundation of the new State
House.
Three cars of supplies for the Ark
ansas State Guard have been received
at Little Rock.
The Government is building a free
bath house for negroes at Hot Springs,
to cost $4,000.
James Loving of Camden, a cadet
at the West Point Military Academy,
ranks second in a class of 30.
The Iron Mountain railroad is raising
its track another six inches with gravel
between Little Rock and St.Louis.
Forty divorce suits are pending at
Fayetteville, and one man is asking a
second divorce from the same woman.
The roster of Arkansas Confederate
troops will be compiled, although the
bill appropriating $3.50 for the pur-
pose failed.
a tomato has been sent to the Agri-
cultural Bureau at Little Rock weigh
ing 81 ounces and measuring 20 inches
round.
a good deal of repair work is being
done at the State University this sum
mer. About 25 students are at work
there.
Mrs. Lyman T. Hay of Hot RI 'ol~s,
spent $40, 900 shopping in S, - =
other day. She was buying
and outfittings for the new -Sh
Hotel.
The whistle of the locomotive canbe
distinctly heard in Marshall every day
now, the front" being only abom
two miles distant from town.-Mar-
shall Wave.
4 A train of "a empty cars .,,roroh
big mogul- -enosi,aa- pas pass Mon,ta;r
i
the other day. 1t was over four-fifths
of a mile long.
Hill Brothers, owners of the Nash
Vile bottling works, deposited 1000
nickles at one time with the bank
the other day. A deposit of 1000
nickles is not unusual with them.
a company has been organized to
build railroad from Mountain Hometo
Cotter. The cost is estimated at S14O,-
900, and the citizens are asked to give
\ ---'-yO- a1nr ene rlgnp-or-wuJ.
A gang of swindlers is at work in
Northwest Arkansas. They offer the
farmers large amount of counterfeit
money for small sum, and send their
victims a block of wood.
A confederate reunion will be held
at Huntsville, on the 18th, 18th and
18th of August. Addresses will be de-
livered by Senator Berry, Congress-
man Dinsmore, Judge Wood and 9TH
ers.
The Maumee Mining Company has
decided to erect a concentrating mill
On their property and work on the
plant will begin at once. Owing TO
illness of Manager Hamilton work has
been delayed, but he is able to be up
again and will push operations.-Ma
shall Wave.
The band concerts last Saturday wer9
the means of bringing quite a crowd to
town, and the people spent the day en-
joying the excellent music, while they
did their trading with Bentonvil1e
merchants who always sell the most
and best goods for the least money
Bentonville Democrat.
The penitentiary management ex-
poets to make a crop worth 500, 200
this year on the Cummings place, with
200 working convicts. They have
1000 acres in cotton and 400 acres in
corn. The convicts are kept in three
camps, and there has been little sick
ness among them.
The U. S. Court of Appeals has af-
hrmed the Judgment OF the District
Court, giving Albert Hill, negro
roustabout on the steamer Orlando,
plying between Newport and Mem
phis, S40O damages for having his arm
broken by a blow from the mate.
The latter was sent to the penitenti-
ary.
The good qualities of the mineral re-
gions of Arkansas are being contiuu-
ally kept before the world, as shown
by the receipt of a letter by Agricultur-
al Commissioner H. T. Bradford, from
a leading cotton factor of Memphis,
who says: Il have good reasons for
wanting to get all of the information
can about the zinc and lead output and
prospect in Marion, Boone Newton
and Searcy counties. Strong people
offer to consolidate interests and make
a test of these properties. Little Rock
Democratic.