Woodruff County news. [volume] (McCrory, Ark.) 1901-1910, 1906-05-03
ARKANSAS BRIEFS
A spoke factory has been establish.
ed at Brinkley.

has been established at Fort Smith.
May 18th. will be commencement
day at the Prescott public school,
Two free delivery routes have re.
Gently been established out of Harris
on.
A post of the Travellers Protective
Association has been organized at
Hot Springs.
The sixteenth annual singing con-
vention in Greene county will be held
at Paragould May II.
The Northeast Arkansas Teachers
Association will meet in Paragould
May 81 and June l and 2.
Mrs. Mollie Wear was burned to
death at her home several miles out
OF Little Rock few days ago.
Service on four new rural free de-
livery routes out of paragould will
commence on the first of June.
The 3-year-old child of Albert
Evans, near Aurora, was fatally burn
ed few days ago. Her clothing
caught fire from a fireplace.
Mrs. Nancy Aldridge, an aged wom-
an, was fatally burned a few days ago
at her home near Quitman. Her
clothes caught fire while she was sit
ting near a fireplace.
A negro made an attempt on the
life of Lafayette Deloney near Ash
down last week. The negro was too
slow, however and was killed by De-
loney.
Hugh Mccain was given Judge
ment recently for $500, against the
| Western Union Telegraph Company
in the United States Circuit Court
at Little Rock. The judgement was
given on account of a delayed tele-
gram to Mccain, announcing the crit
zeal ILLNESS of his father.
The Pan Long Distance Telephone
Company of Fort Smith has filed art
icles of incorporation with the secre-
tary of state. The company has
capital stock of $1,000,000 and intends
to establish a long distance telephone
plant in connection with one of the
systems now doing business at Fl
Smith.
Articles of incorporation have been
filed with the secretary of state by
the DR.. Thomas Company. The COM
pany will establish and operate medi-
cal offices, hospitals, sanitariums or
retreats for the sick.
A new high school building will be
erected at Pine Bluff in short time
The money to erect this building was
t secured by the sale of school bonds
to that amount, to the Simmons Ma
tional Bank few days ago.
The meeting of the International |
Training School for Sunday-school |
workers will open at Searcy on July |
l. The meeting will last for a week |
and the Searcy Chatauqua will meet |
on the same date.
The Weiner Development Company
has been formed at Weiner and will |
do a general land business. The COM
pany will in short time lay off 1913 |
acres of land as an addition to that
town.
A recent ruling by the Railroad |
Commission prohibits railway compa-
MES from combining live stock in cars
for over % consecutive hours, with
out unloading and caring for the |
animals.
F. P. Stout of Rogers recently Sc
CyIvpd dirt from 10 oi.70
at that place. and washing it out |
found several small specks that are
pronounced to be pure native gold by
old gold miners. Stout says that |
there was considerable more, but as
the pan for washing was i'll contrived |
much of it was lost. He made his |
test from four ounces of dirt and the |
result satisfies him that there is-native |
gold in the mine.
tbs Wesern Union Telegraph Co. |
was fined $4,000 in the Pulaski |
County Circuit Court at Little Rock /
Rock recently. The fine was impos-
ed for failure to file with the secre-
tary of state copy of its articles of |
incorporation. The case has been APP |
pedI6u 10 the Sldte supreme COulL.
An attempt is being made at Little
Rock by the Business Mems League
of that city, to organize permanent |
State Fair Association. 1t is hoped |
that the organization will have a
capital of $4,000 when it commences
business.
At the residence of w. c. Rice, at
Oconee, recently, VIM. Martin, II
years of age, and Mrs. Louisa Blair. |
aged 81 years, were married The |
groom was a Federal soldier in the |
Civil War and has been a resident of |
Randolph county for about 40 years. |
The bride was born in Randolph |
county and has lived there all of her |
life.
Fire at Wilton recently destroyed |
several houses in the business part of |