Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1904-07-25

| BefrNVllic Is feCClt iiiS al luilA VI
| homeseekers, who intend to buy fruit
| farms in the neighborhood
Fourteen deaths have taken place in
| Green Forest in the past two weeks.
The body Of A. l.. Ricksey, who was
killed by tightening near Jonesboro
day or two since, was shipped to his
old home at Brooksport, Ill. His wife
| and his mOther-in- law who were also
struck by the same bolt. were so ser
| iously hurt it was thought that they
could not recover, but they are recov-
ering and Mrs. Ricksey was able to
accompany the body of her husband to
their home, but her mother, Mrs. Som
ers, is still at st. Barnards hospital,
| in Jonesboro.
Sam Apperson is pretty good farm
err. He made $1,000.17 clear profit on
twelve acres of Irish potatoes, besides
his seeds for second crop, which he
is now preparing to plant. He has so
far this year made over 81 400 clear
money on his farm. That is an ex-
ample of thrift and business success
not often experienced on the farm.
He tells that he keeps an accurate ac
count of every item or receipts and ex-
| penditures and is thus enabled to see
at glance just where he makes mon
| ey Or loses money, and then he profits
by the experience. 1t is just as i'm
portant to keep books on the farm as
anywhere else. We congratulate Sam
upon his success, and we hope he may
continue to receive the fayors of for
tune-Forest City Times.
| Ped MagneSs, farmer near New
ark, has ninety acres OF alfalfa. From
his first cutting he realized from two
| to two and half tons per acre, and
has already sold out at ten dollars
per ton. He expects to realize from
this crop $32 per acre, after paying
all expenses for cutting and rents
Evening Shade Record
The government sent lot of small
trout with which to stock ponds and
rivers down the Kansas City Southern
left in Ashdown, which were immed-
lately put in the Frisco pond.-Li:tle
River News
On last Friday morning Sam kester-
son of near LaBelle came to Benton
and sought the aid of Marshal Joe
Harvey to assist him in catching his
daughter. who had endeayored to
elope with a Mr. Lee, who, he said.
had gone to Perrysnith to take the
train and we're intending to come to
ried, as his daughter was only four
teen years of age. They went to the
Choctaw depot for the south-bound
train and when the train came in the
couple alighted. together with anoth
er man, whose name We did not learn
They had no more than discovered MI
Harvey coming their way than the
two men became most terribly frign
tened and fled to parts unknown, the
would-be knightly eloper Forgetting al
together the charge. who, under such
o;r ho1 vi orb t<
claim protection from him, and thus
stretching his sails be and his brave
partner fairly flew. The girl made al
effort to keep up with the flying
braves, but with slow progress, an(
soon overtaken by Marshal Harvey
who told her kindly that her fathe
wanted her. She then made anothe
attempt to escape and oyertake thu
supposed friend who had deserted he
and Marshal Harvey had another rae,
and captured her again and this TIM
he held her until Joined by her father
who took her home,-Renton Times
Courier,
Three cars of peaches We're, shippe
last week from Clarksyille and 81.
will be shipped from there this week
Epps James and Frank Watson, tw
negroes. became involved in a quarre
at Walnut Lake. Desha county. an
engaged in a shooting scrape lame
was shot in the arm and a mule tina
ambled out in the battlefield Will
the battle was on was killed.
Sheriff W. d. Preston of Desha cou
Nv went tO MemDhiS a few DAYS ag