The Springdale news., 1907-02-22

lolhS HdSS tISll tdlhiHS tlillc OH Thursday nights. wenty-two men and boys belong down there.
 And ]. l.. Gregory is having q windmill erected up to his house where lie will have the stray zephyrS to do the pumping of water from that deep well.
 A surprise music party at G. P. Hanks Friday night, d very enjoyable Valentine party at Dr. Cowgill's Thursday night and so- cials, candy-breakin's and prayer meetings at other nearby homes and places have furnished a vari- ety of enjoyment for those who kept up with tfe whirl during the past week.
 Rural telephones are getting to be very numerous. and the fol- lowing set of rules should be adopted by the various party lines. These rules are also ap- plieable to the toll lines
 No subscriber. when the line IS III use, shall listen to the pass ing conversation with more than one ear at time.
 No subscriber found guilty of talking to married women over this line shall be allowed to vote at any regular or special meeting or to hold any position of honor or trust Ill this company.
 No person shall be permitted to talk over this line for the space of three days next after having eaten onions, garlic or cabbage.
 All rights to the line shall be surrendered to the woman who wants to tell her lady friends how to cut her new dress, how to make cucumber pickles, what to name the baby or when to trans plant her pansies.
 Business messages shall be restricted to three minutes dura- tion, but shall always give way to the discussion of gossip, and no woman patron shall talk more than one hour at a stretch unless she so desires.
 Ii the line is endangered by ice forming on the wire don't try to remove It bY clubbing the wire; get q couple of gossips to discussing neighborhood affairs over the line and the ice will at once melt and drop off; presently the galvanizing will glisten all instant and fall to the ground; later the wire will assume a white heat
 When you are about to coll verse with the Hello girl at cen tral dismiss all business matters from your mind, twist the south west corner of your mustache, close vol. eyes and inhale the fragrance of Zozodont, Wild Rose and pepsin chewing gum thatis waited to you over the line.
 Don't ring off when you are done talking.
 No ole K supposed to wish to use the line unless someone else IS determined to use 1t at the same instant.
 Ben Johnson. Jr., is eonvalesc- ing slowly now and will be up and around again before many days unless another relapse caus- eS him more trouble.
 A scarcity of seed oats and the high prices of same will curtail the acreage here unless the would-be sewers seek for seed in some more favored place where oats plenty can be purchased at reasonable prices.
 Sedge grass is about to capture some of the farm lands of this vicinity and vigorous effort should be made to check the growth.
 Road overseer w. (. Wright was in Johnson yesterday looking up some Elm Springs township road hands who are warned to work the roads out west of here the latter part of this week.
 The past week has been one of ideal weather and old folks are d saying that they meyer did see the like before." which makes HIS like Arkansas all the better spite of what those d1scontented folks who went to New Mexico say about the land from whence they iourneyed some months ago.