The Monticellonian., 1906-01-25
BRIEF ARKANSAS MENTION.

BRIEF ARKANSAS MENTION.
 Hartford is to have new ice plant
 Dcvalrs Bluff will make an effort to secure a creamery and ice plant
 The Panama Immigration company of Fort Smith has surrendered its | charter.
 Joe Snider. alias Joe Smith. under arrest al Hot Springs has confessed to numerous forseries. Thieves broke into dry goods slore al Felsenthal and got away with S200 worth of merchandise.
 The city officials of Mena are taking steps looking to the incorporation of Mena as city of the first class.
 The Catholics of Sl Joseph s parish Pine Bluff are arranging To ereel church edifiee at d cost of Sl0,ooo.
 The Washington County Fair Asso. citation has purchased fifty acres south west of Fayetteville for d fair site.
 The Barnet Bros. Mercantile com pany of Bateseille has increased its capital stock from $56.006 to $16o o0ao.
 Under an act of the last legislature. the first Saturday in March is Arbur Day throughout the state of Afkansas.
 The Fulton Board of Trade is taking active steps toward the feasibility of canal connecting Sulphur and Red rivers,
 Little Rock sportsmen are effeeting an organization for the purpose of se- curing enforcement of the game laws in that section.
 James l.. Cannon. one of the editors of the De Queen Bee has been elected director ef the First National bank of that place
 The Ozark and St Pad Telephone Company has been organized. They will operate in north Franklin and south Madison counties
 \ profit of $l,7il.56 during the year past is shown in the detailed state ment of the finances of the state farm in Lincoln county
 Atkins has granted a 2o-year cleo trie lieAl franchise The plant is fo he located al the roller mill in the eastern parI of the town.
 Two car loads of fice have been shipped from Lonoke This season The grain is said 10 be large. and superior To that grown in Louisiana
 Capt c. T. Lincoln of BentonviIIe was elected president of the Ozar6 Fruit Growers Association al its re cent session at Springfield. Me
 < club composed of men has been organized al Wxnne. for the purpose of furnishing high moral amusement and the upliftns of its members.
 Conrad Tummons. aged la, was killed al Jamestown a few days ago by the accidental discharge of a gun in the hands of Ralph Jackson, a boy companion.
 The ice plant al Rogers will be en- larged and improved by the installa tion of additional machinery. which will increase its daily capacity to thir ty-two tons,
 Civil service examinations will be held in Little Rock January 3f. Febfu- ary '. S. II and 21 for teachers, engi- neers. matrons, chemists, inspectors, printers. etc.
 W. II. Haynes major general of the Arkansas State Guards has notified the First and Second regiments that the usual annual inspection will take place early in April. John Morgan Dunsan, wel1=known citizen of Little Rock died of tubercu- losis at San Antonio, Tex. to which place he went about six months ago in search of health.
 The second annual country fddlers' contest will he held at the opera house at Batesyille on the night of Thursday. January 25 The number of contest ants is limited to %
 It is said that the tunnel nearest Omaha, on the new White River line of the Iron Mountain, is caving and that a large force of men has been put to work to remedy the trouble.
 Al Knob. Clay county. wolves arc becoming so numerous that a wolf hunt has been planned by farmers of the vicinity who have lost consider able stock by their depredatons.
 Senator Redfeld Proctor of Yer mont, secretary of war during Harr sons administration is in Hot Springs
 William Snow, of Springfield brake man on a freight train, while switch ing at Fayetteville junction. slipped and fell. and his foot was caught be heath the wheels of car and badly crushed.
 Miss Madge Porter aged about 20 tried to kill herself at Fayetteville a few days ago by swallowing q large quantity of laudanum A physician was summoned and succeeded in re yiving her. No cause is known for the aftpmDt