The Nevada County picayune. (Prescott, Ark.) 190?-current, 1906-10-26
Uniformity Of text,boess for Ben

ton county carried at the recent
election, and has been so declared
1t was at first supposed that as a
result of the crusade begun at Pine
Bluff recently, when the gambling
paraphernalia was burned, only dice
games and roulette would be stop
ped, but the chief of police says the
poker games must also be stopped.
The First Baptist church Of
Batesville has called to its pastorate
Rev. E. P. j. CARROT, of Newport,
to succeed Rev. S. B. Galloway, who
recently resigned on account of i'll
health, Mr.. Carrot is a gradus e of
the Baptist Theological Sem nary
at Louisville, KY, and has been at
Newport about a year.
J. T. Gwathmey, of Gwathmey &
Co., New York brokers, was in Lit
tie Rock recently on his way to Ok
lahoma and Texas. Mr.. Gwathmey
is known to cotton men and race
horse men as 'Mr. Cotton" He is
famous just now by reason OF his
making $4,000 by selling cotton
futures while at Memphis lately.
J. p. Hanback,, farmer who liv-
ed near Texarkana, was recently
suffocatea to death under a load of
cotton seed. He was taking a load
OF seed to a gin, when one of the
wheels Of the wagon struck stump
and turned the wagon over, piling
the seed upon him.
The following postoffices have
been discontinued: Cannon, Ben
ton county, mail to Rogers; Logan,
Benton county, mail to Gentry; Tri-
dent, Benton county, mail to 81
liam Springs; Vaughan, Benton
county, mail to Bentonville.
At the annual meeting of the Ar
kansas division United Confederate
Veterans at Fort Smith recently,
Senator Berry was elected to the
position of Major General COM
manding the state division.
The new stave mill at Marshall,
owned by the Cincinnati Cooperage
Company, made its first run recent
ly and all the machinery worked
smoothly. About fifty men are en-
ployed at the plant.
Charles B. Aiken, travelling man
for a Memphis house, recently tried
to commit suicide at Gasville by
stabbing himself with a knife. FL
nancial trouble is said to have been
the cause.
Luther Lindsey, white, charged
with killing Alex Champion, ne
gro, in Argenta recently has been ac-
quilted by a justice of the peace,
there being no proof aga;"st him.
J. f. Bankhcad, a cotton buyer.
slipped upon banana peel careless
ly thrown upon the sidewalk in For
Smith recently, and fell fracturing
the two bones in his right leg.
An animal trainer of the Fore
paugh-Sells show was recently found
dead at Fayetteville in the came
| car. 1t is thought he was killed by
some of the animals.
John E. Madden, the noted Ken
lucky horseman, will winter thirty
ycarlings, which will be two years
old in January, at Clinton Park,
Little Rock.
The following postoffice sites have
been changed: Martha, Howard
| county, one-half mile southwest;
Reedville, Desha county, one-half
mile north.
The cotton fields are now getting
all the pickers needed, and the rail-
roads are complaining of the scar
city of labor. Good for the cotton
fields.
The school building Of the Mount
Vernon school at Trenton, Phillips
county was recently destroyed by
fire. 1t was partially insured.
The owners of the Batesville
Guard have installed Mergenthaler
typesetting machine and new press
in their Office.
The Farmers Union of Greene
county will begin the construction OF
q loroe Warehouse Mt ParagOuld