Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1905-08-08
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ARKANSAS IN BRtet'
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There are 915 persons OF schooi age
in Fordyce.
A plat is being made of the town
Of briggs, I.onoke county.
# The DeOueen Democrat is asitatia@
1.-The building of a waterworks plant
at DeQueen.
4 Page Ragan. an eight-year-old BOY
fell out of a barn loft at Morrlltoh
and broke both his arms.
3H Heavy rains last week damaged
the Monte Ne railroad considerably,
Sbut it has since been repaired.
VS. Representative George F. Chapline
s os Monroe county will speak at Tole-
do. Cleveland county, August g.
sSI There are 795 persons OF school age
IL the Lonoke special school district
of which 63G are whites and 159 ne,
groes.
ma The United States government will
send a road expert to Texarkana 10
Assist in the road construction in that
district.
fs County Examiner Meadors of Lo-
iloke county has made report which
shows the total valuation Of school
*broperty in the county to be $5S,oOo.
The cid" is on at Rogers and vlo-
lators of the Sunday law are being
Vigorously prosecuted. A man was
recently fined $40 for selling tobacco
and cigars on Sunday.
&.8 l.. B. Fritts of Springdale will leave
this month for Jetfna, CeylOn. where
he will teach in the Jeffna college,
an INSTITUTION lOullueu Ill lou W IhS
American board of missions.
The Gentry Fruit association during
the past year netted the growers s1.65
barrel on summer apples and on fell
apples from 80 cents barrel for the
r. en- Davis to $1.72 for the Jonathan.
i At Van Buren a census is to be TAX
en- shortly for the purpose of ascer-
tanning if it is possible to extend tho
limits and take in enough additions
to give the city population of 5000
thereby securing for it a charter OF
the first class.
The Paris Express says: "Col. F.
M. Gwaltney, president and manager
of the Gwantley Mercantile company
Of Prairie View, says they are now
paying out hundreds of dollars to
their customers on cotton that was
shipped last winter and held for the
rise Instead of buying cotton when
it reached the low-water mark, Col.
Gwaltney advanced the money to the
amount of the maret price at that
time and shipped it,"
p t.
Will Wright, prosperous farmer
who lives near Van Buren,, has decid-
ed that hereafter he will not sell his
potatoes at the low price prevailing
rat the digging season. and is building
a concrete block potato house, in
which to store them until prices war
rant his selling. His experiment will
be watched with interest. for if the
early crop of potatoes can be kept dur
ing the season. it is believed they will
become as profitable as fruit
At meeting of Van Buren's $4,000
club held in the circuit court room
the first step toward organizing a
stock company to build and operate
100000 cotton mill was taken, and
while the attendance only represented
a small per cent of the city's enter
prising men. 10 per cent of the stock
was taken without any solicitation. A
committee was appointed to solicit
subscriptions, and they will begin a
canvass of the city Tuesday morning.
The plan is to make it Crawford
county enterprise, and with that end
in view the promoters expect to place
much of the stock among the wealthy
fruit and cotton growers of the coun-
ty. Col Sam R. Chew is credited with
being the originator and organizer
of the movement, and he presented
the matter to the club members at the
meeting in manner that makes the
scheme appear entirely feasible.
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