The Forrest City times., 1906-04-27
ARKANSAS BRIEFS

A. ". C. T. U. has been organized at Newark by Miss R. Moshier. nation Il organizer.
 P. J. Benge of Texarkana was serl- ously injured in a runaway at that place recently.
 Hendrix College was the victor in the Ouachita-Hendrix debate at Little Rock last week.
 A GAO acre alfalfa farm near Wash ington was sold recently to E. Boyd, of Illinois for S10,000
 The great council of Improved Or der of Red Men, held it's sixth annual session at Little Rock last week.
 Burglars secured S400 worth of val uables by footing the jewelry store of ]. Fyefs at Magnolia few days ago.
 A rice mill company has been or ganized at Hazen. The company is said to have capital stock of $5O, 900.
 Chas Well of Pine Bluff has just retired from office after serving for twenty-one years as alderman of that city.
 Tn" spring reunion of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite bodies of the valley of Little Rock was held at that city last week.
 R. W. McWhirter, fireman on an Iron Mountain train. was seriously in- jured by his engine oyertufning near TeXarkana recently
 Mrs. Margaret Johnson, aged 80 years, was fatally burned at Paragould recently. This lady is the mother of Judge Johnson of Paragould
 Wm. Ritchie, lumberman, had both legs broken by a tree falling upon him, near Augusta recently. Ritehie died few hours after the accident occurred.
 Mary Collins, negro washerwoman, lost $l,500 in a fire at Hot Springs recently. The loss of the money is likely to seriously effect the woman's mind.
 W. R. Mize marketed 1.170 dozen eggs at Imboden recently This is said to have been the largest quantity of eggs ever delivered at one load at that place.
 H. o. McGill, Tho is in jail at Fort Smith, accused of several forgeries, made an unsuccessful attempt to com init suicide. McGill is said to be dipsomaniac.
 The congregation of the First Bap- tist church of Jonesboro proposes to erect new church building It is said that $35000 will be expended in erecting this structure.
 Dr. J. T. Flemming of Quitman has purchased the brick college building there and will endeavor to revive the old Quitman College. This college was at one time a widely known insti. tuition.
 At Judsonia, while playing with lawn mower, William Roth. a boy, got the ends of his fingers in the knives. One was cut off at the root of the nail and three others were less seriously cut
 NJ. W. Gamble and his son Earl, were drowned in the Cowskin river near Si- loam Springs recently. The drownage was caused by the buggy of the Gam bles' oyerturning while they were crossing the river.
 Capt D. NJ. Goodlett of Ozan receiy. ! cd g taW al of highest award conferred upon him for the best exhibit of alfalfa hay at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition held at St. Louis in 1904. The gold medal of award was struck at the govern ment mint in Philadelphia.
 At meeting of the Board of Rail way Incorporation recently, q charter was granted to the Blytheyille, Bur dette and Mississippi River Railroad Company, corporation with a capital stock of $240,000. of which $40.000 has been subscribed. The road proposed by the company will be twenty miles in length, and will parallel the Frisco from Blytheyille to a point on the Mis- sissippi river near Luxora A branch line q mile long will be built into the town of Burdette and branch lines will be constructed extending west from the line into the interior of Nils. sissippi county, The headquarters of the road will be at Burdette.
 Arrangements are being made to commence active operations at the Slatington slate quarries near Mena. soon, in order 10 fill orders for slate. Tie slate will be hauled by wagon to some railroad point yet to be decided upon.
 President Wm. Buchanan of the Louisiana and Arkansas Railway Com pany was seriously injured by falling down an embankment near Stamps recently Buchanan's shoulder was badly fractured. but he is expected to recover.