Woodruff County news., 1906-08-02
ARKANSAS BRIEFS

uIuSS, mduuldCJuT6S duu dSTICulIuIS1 has announced that he proposes to re- new the collection of fruits, vegeta- bles and other crops, and wishes that all who have good specimens of any nature to forward them to the depart ment. He expects to refill all the glass jars with fruit, vegetables and the like of this years growing and hopes to turn the office over to his successor with every exhibit new He announces that all who may have anything of this nature may forward to the department by express and the express will be paid at that end by the department
 The following changes in postal ser vice have been made: Bigfork to Mena, supply Bigfork; Bifork to Black Springs, supply Bigfork; Redbird to Bigfork, supply Bigfork The fol- lowing star service schedules have been announced: Pecan Point to Joiner six times a week; Claunch to Lake City, six times a week; Var delle to Everton, six times a week;
 
 Una to Nogo, three times a week; Wallaceburg to Blevins, six times week; Jethro to Watalula, six times week; Tip to McCrory, six times week.
 Capt Hughes of the United States recruiting station at Jonesboro is anxious to ascertain the whereabouts of Charles H. Smith, a railroad man, who served in the Second Texas in- fantry during the Spanish-American war. Smith also served in Company Fl, Second Infantry, being discharged in November, 1902. His parents are residents of Memphis. Capt Hughes has the two discharges of Smith. which he wishes to deliver to him, and also the papers left by Smith at the Jonesboro, Ark, recruiting station in April, 1905.
 The Socialists of Benton county in convention at Boulder Springs, near Gravette, nominated the following ticket: State senator, A. F. Stevens of Gravette; representatives, G. w. Derryberry of Siloam Springs and F. B. Doud of Rogers; county judge, J. M. Burfeld, Bentonville; sheriff, Ern- est Ostrom, Siloam Springs; circuit clerk, E. A. Quick, Bentonville; as. sessor, John Mcclure, Rogers; treas urer, Wm. Anderson, Rogers.
 Bates is taking on new life and it ic hA Q will soon go to one thousand. The Bates Coal Company is opening one mine and the Seymour Coal Company an other. Together they will employ about two hundred miners. The Ing. ham Lumber Company and the Star Lumber Company keep at work an average of 125 teams daily hauling lumber to town. The opening of the coal mines has given a new impetus to the town.
 The work of oiling Arkansas street in Helena has proven so successful that it has been decided that some oil should be put on other streets, and Perry street was the one selected
 
 was oiled has about a per cent grade, and the fact that it did not wash during recent heavy rains is sufficient proof to the city council that oiling is a good thing, and other streets are likely to be oiled.
 J. E. Stewards, a successful farmer, living about four and a half miles northeast of TeXarkana, has made a speciality of growing cabbages. He has just produced a cabbage which he has raised this year that is a wonder. It weighs 14 IA pounds, is perfectly formed and solid through out.
 The new city directory of Helena has been printed and is being circu- lated The facts contained in the book are varied and of interest both to the resident and stranger. It shows that Helena has a population of about 10000.
 The Supreme Court has instructed Supreme Court Clerk P. D. English to refuse to file transcripts from the low CT courts henceforth unless the tran scripts are in proper form and in ac- cordance with the printed rules of the Supreme Court, which have been for warded to every court clerk in the state
 A Democratic primary election will be held in Ouachita county Tuesday, August IA, to select candidate for representative to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Prof. c. T. Gordon.
 The third bank in Argenta will be opened in day or two, when the R. l.. Freeland Realty and Loan Com pany open their doors for a general banking business. They have in stalled the fixtures.
 At Van Buren, in well No. 4, a stratum of gas sand 120 feet thick