The Nevada County picayune., 1906-08-31

nounced at thls meeIlng tlldC hio'l0l demonstration farm wh be estab- lished near that city if 1t Is wanted. It was also stated that it is the inten- tion of the Department of AgucuI- ture to appoint number of addl- tional agents in Arkansas to carry on the demonstration work.
 There have been 129 ears of El- berta peaches shipped from Van Buren this season. All these peach es were grown in Crawford county. This represents only a fourth of crop. This reduction is due partial ly to late freezes, which caught the buds while in their incipiency. An other shortage in the crop was caused by the prevalence of the plum cur culio. an insect witch lays its eggs in the peach while young, and as the peach natures the egg develops into the common peach worm.
 s. ". Calhoun of Greenland has two aeres n Bl berta peaches that he has kept a recs spdof for the past six 3eary, He ssfhe trees out six years aro lAd haFreceiyed $650 for fruit ssId up to this date. This year the orchard netted him s20o. There are 186 trees in the orchard.
 The Farmers Union of Hot Spring, Saline, Clark, Pike, Mont gomery and Garland counties will meet at Hot Springs September 13 and 14. A great deal of business will he transacted at this meeting including the election of district of- fcers for the ensuing year.
 Farmers in the vicinity of Alber- ia, Randolph county, have lately been missing their stock and an in- vestigation led to the belief, owing to the appearance of the dead and crippled animals, that some wild beast had been getting in its work.
 The biennial report of State Au- dtor Moore will show that the state has collected about S16,000 more in taxes from insurance companies do- ing business here the past two years than was collected from the com panies for the two years previous.
 The postofice inspector of rural routes was in Hope recently, look ing after the routes there. He IS much pleased with the work being done bv the carriers. but thinks there might be an improvement in some of the roads over which the routes run.
 N. A. Wilson is taking the census of the town of Atkins and has com- pleted little over half of his work, and has already found fifteen persons over seventy years of age. He thinks there are as many as three more.
 The Bank of Rogers new building will be ready for occupancy October 15. It will be equipped fn the most modern manner. and fl is claimed will be the finest and most substan- tial of its size in the state.
 Many barbecuss have been hold throughout the state recently, all for the good of the people and incl dentally for the good of Democracy, and the usual ''bcastly majority is certain to roll up September 3.
 Bieut.-Col. Arthur Murray, the prospective chief of artillery of the United States navy, is cousin of Arthur Murray, editor of the Pine Bluff Press-Eagle.
 The 12-year-old son of Mrs. Bowie of Polk county was struck by light ming recently and seriously injured. The horse he was riding was in- stantly killed.
 A man who recently committed suicide in a Texas jail is believed to have been Jesse Roper, who killed Sheriff Byerly of Baxter county in 1892.
 Cotter has been designated e . 1aGular coupon offica
 On August "A Mrs. Nellie Pols- grove, near Piggott, killed with an axe her husband and four-year-old dau1htar and then sat fro to the