The Monticellonian., 1906-08-16
ARKANSAS BRIEFS

her home in Cushman on Sunday to D. R. Cook of Saado, and thereby hangs a very pretty story. On July 20 Mir. Cook secured license from the county clerk to marry Miss Rosa Gar rett of Salado. but Clarence Taylor. young man Of the same community. got license day later to marry the same girl, and beat him to her" On Sunday. July %, Taylor and Miss Garrett were married, and Cook &C., eepted an invitation to the wedding dinner and offered his congratulations. Soon after. Cook met Miss Gray, who was visiting relatives at Salado, and the old love was overwhelmed by the new. MT. Cook pressed his suit with such ardor that the young lady only surrendered her heart, but likewise gave consent to a speedy marriage There was some objection, but the young folks were wisely allowed to have their way, and they were married at the brides home on Sunday.
 Edward Smets committed suicide at Fine Springs. Crawford county, by hanging. The deed was committed on the farm of his brother, C. J. Smets. He went to the barn, and with a rope hanged himself from a joist. When he failed to appear at supper time search was instituted, resulting in the finding of his dead body hanging in the barn. He had not been dead long. Every effort was made to revive him in the hope that life was not yet ex- tinct. Deceased was about 50 years old and unmarried He was highly educated There is no apparent cause for the suicide, though it is said Smets had been heard to say that he feared the time would come when he would feel impelled to take his own life, as he felt that every day he spent on earth was that much lost of the joys of heaven.
 Hon. s. O. Sevier, sheriff of Ouachita county, is short in his accounts to the extent of $4.000. The deficit was made good by his bondsmen, he having turn ed over his property to them, and there will be no prosecution in the matter He does not know how the deficit occurred, and the books are be- Ing gone over again to find, If possi- ble, where the error lies. Mir. Sevier was candidate for governor before the late Democratie primaries on the Anti-Saloon Platform, and is presf- dent of the Arkansas Sunday School Association. He has also been an ac- tive worker for good roads. having been at one time president of the Ar kansas Good Roads Association.
 The Bell Telephone Company is building line from Eureka Springs to Monett, Mo, which is probably one of the most expensive telephone sys- tems in the country The work has progressed as far as Cassville and Exeter and is now being pushed through to Washburn Little difficulty has been experienced between Monett and Washburn, but after leaving the latter place and all the way through the Ozark mountains to Eureka Springs is where the greatest difficult ty will be encountered
 A fatal accident occurred in Hart ford recently. Bryant Kern, a 9-year- old boy, was playing with target rifila and told little girl, Annie Hall, daughter of William Hall, who was about 9 years of age, he was going to shoot her, and. drawing the rife on her, he pulled the trigger. The fire ha h,1 lot her neck, killing her almost instantly. No one was present but the two when it happened
 Many citnzens of Craighead county are behind movement for the organ ization of an Old Settlers Association. It is proposed that all persons in Craig head county who lived in that county prior to 1880 organize an association and have reunion every year,
 "Breeches.' pet dog belonging t0 Herman Nash. tried to commit suicide at Paragould by running under a nov. ing train. The dog made a dash to get under the wheels, but struck it's head against one of the wheels and before 1t could make another attempt Herman grabbed Pug" by his legs and yanked him to a place of safety.
 The Penitentiary Board has signed the contract for the erection of the new reform school five miles west of Little Rock. The contract was award. ed some time ago to Stanton & Colla- more.
 C. B. Dobbins, a farmer living near England, killed a large black chicken snake which had been guilty of an in- temperate use of the bottle; that is. it had swallowed one, cork. contents and all Having killed the snake, MT. Dobbins noticed that it evidently had gotten on the outside of something that had distended its girth, and an informal autopsy reevaled a round tur. pentine bottle, the size which sells for 10 cents.
 An opera house to cost $10.000 is to be built at Malvern. The architect is now preparing plans for the structure.
 In looking over the private papers of Mrs. Huston, recently deceased, her daughter Mrs. Burfield, found a twen- ;I1;rr.