The Forrest City times., 1905-01-13
Hiram Gregg, aged ST, is dead near


 Arkansas in 1904.
 The store of Jackson, Bolton & Co at Earle was burned.
 Ii is said that the price of shoes will go up 20 per cent soon.
 The Bank of Casa has declared a dividend of II per cent
 Dolf Hudgins of Settlement shot off his head in fit of despondency
 Representative S o. Boone of Crit tenden county resigned January 1. Licenses have been granted for Sd. looms in Hoxie and Walnut Ridge. Wolves are committing many depre- dations near Bethel, Greene county. John M. Oracle was awarded the contract for Pulaski county convicts. Vim. J. Bryan spoke at Little Rock January on the Value of an Ideal" The State Horticultural Society meets at Rogers January 24, % and 26.
 well to the depth of 5000 feet will be bored in Benton county for oil
 H. F. Butler has been appointed postmaster at Warren by the presi- dent
 Henry B. Camp, one of the best known cotton men in Little Rock, is dead
 Noah Smith, a Little Maumelle farmer, was found dead near Little Rock.
 The grand jury of the northern dis. trict of Logan returned sixty indict. ments.
 Rev. Sam Eaton has accepted the pastorate of the Baptist church at Gentry
 w. NJ. Calling has been elected mayor of Bearden. vice J. NJ. Yeager. resigned.
 The name of Big Lake station on the Valley road has been changed to Rottaken.
 Fort Smith volunteer firemen have resigned and that city now has a paid department.
 Three white boys were arrested in Pine Bluff charged with robbing sev- eral stores.
 Russell Milford has been indicted at Ashdown on the charge of killing l T. c. Timbles
 State Digester W F. Kirby will ask the legislature for additional pay to the $2,000 he received.
 Much cotton is being held in Lo- noke county One farmer has held twenty bales since 1903.
 Nine new concerns filed articles of incorporation with the secretary of state in one day recently.
 Hon. Bryant Holmes, representative from Miller county, was married at Texarkana to Miss Etta Jones.
 The child of Chas. Sanders near | Huntsville. was burned to death by pulling Dot of hot tea on itself.
 The appearance of insect enemies Of hickory wood is said to threaten shortage in the supply in Arkansas.
 Two young white men were arrested at Little Rock charged with stealing overcoats from members of the legis- lature.
 The Little Rock city council adopted resolution memorializing the legis lature to call a constitutional con. vention.
 Rev J. U. H. Wharton, pastor of lmmanuel Baptist church at Little Rock, has received call from La. fayette. Ala
 A change of venue in the Lake case. charging embezzlement, was taken to Perry county when the case was called at Little Rock.
 Rabbi Louis Wolsey of Little Rock was elected treasurer of the south. ern rabbinical conference, in session at New Orleans.
 Ex-County Examiner c. L. Sampson of Little Rock may succeed J. R. Rightsell as superintendent of the pub lie schools there
 Rev. J. U. H. Wharton has resigned as pastor of the Immanuel Baptist church at Little Rock. He will go to Lafayette, Ala
 Mrs. R. A. Ware was seriously in- jured in runaway at Pine Bluff, and for time her condition was consid. cred very serious.
 Chancellor J. D. Shaver has en. joined the De Queen school board from charging tuition in the high school at that place.
 Work will begin soon on the ten. story office building to be erected on the southeast corner of Center and Second streets, at Little Rock.
 Tom Taylor, white man sent up from Howard county for seven years for murder, appeared at the peniten- tiary alone and began his term.
 The Pine Bluff city council adopted a resolution giving notice to the Iron Mountain that after ADriI % if will