The Newark journal., 1905-02-24
BRIEF ARkAN :AS MENTION.

uaIeS at oprlnSdale tnlS year.
 The new Christian church building at Garfield was dedicated Sunday
 Evangelist c. N. Crittenton opened a meeting in Pine Bluff Sunday
 The Woodmen Of the World will hold a spring carnival in Texarkana in April.
 The city of Augusta is out of debt and has a surplus of $6,035.31 in the treasury.
 Dr. U. l.. Higgins, a prominent phy- sician at Alicia, died at that place with smallpox.
 The Bank of Jonesboro has filed a certificate of increase of capital stock from $S0,G00 to $100,000
 Four telephone companies are fgur- ing on making application for fran. chise at Van Buren.
 J. A. Robinson of Shreveport will open a wholesale fish and produce house in Texarkana.
 New plans have been drawn by Architect R. c. Stephens for the Cross county court house at Wynne
 The Hope city council has passed an ordinance annexing a large amount of territory to the municipality.
 Miss E. G. Mosher, state lecturer and organizer for the w. c. T. U. spent last week in north Arkansas.
 The town of Wilmar has escaped smallpox by maintaining a strict quarantine against all infected points.
 For the first time in several years, Little Red river, in White county, is frozen and the ice is thick enough to permit skating.
 The Hoxie town council has ordered four 1,200-candle power arc lights put in along Texas street facing the Iron Mountain railroad.
 Grip has become almost an epidem- ie in Batesyille, many of her citizens having suffered severe attacks dur ing the past month.
 4 new enterprise at Benton is a wood-turning factory, which produces grill work, office and store fixtures. etc. Albert Weaver is the manager
 The omnibus public building bill of Congress authorizes the following ap- propriations for Arkansas: Little Rock, $125, 5,000; Fayetteville, $5G, ,o0e; Pine Bluff, $75,0OO.
 The city authorities of Argenta state that there are now only eight cases of smallpox in the city limits, all being strictly quarantined and iso- lated, and that the disease is being gradually stamped out in the town and it's vicinity.
 The Policy Slave company at Cam den is soon to put in a slave mill at Miller's junction, one mile west of De. light. That company has bought all of the stave timber on about 10000 acres of land from the Gurdon Lum- Der company.
 A jail delivery occurred at Star City few nights ago They are: Richard Newell, murder; Porter Vii. Hams, horse stealing; Wm Stewart, burglary. Newell returned next day and gave himself up, but the others are still at large.
 The Pine Bluff and Western rail. road has not yet been opened to Ben- ton, the work having been delayed by the bad weather Only short stretch of track remains to be completed after which through servie will be in- augurated between Pine Bluff and Hot Springs
 Mrs. R. S. Bloom was seriously burned at her home in Little Rock by the igniting of her dress from an open stove, ana her daughter and son-in. law were severely burned while ex. tinguishing the flames, which envel. oped Mrs. Bloom The injuries of Mrs. Bloom are the most serious. but they are not expected to prove fatal
 It has been announced that the Rock Island will build a line from Traskwood, Saline county, to Crcs. sett, Ashley county. The line will be 10S miles in length and will extend through a part of the thickest all best forest land in the state The a railroad, and the new line projected by the Rock Island is looked upon with favor for this reason.
 The superintendent of the school for the blind at Little Rock reports that there has not been a serious case of sickness at the institution for three years. There has been much sick ness with the grip recently, but they have now nearly all recovered.
 The Christian church building at Fort Smith is to be dedicated on the first Sunday in May The dedication