Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-03-07
CITY BREVlTlES

Because the performance 0f tn. company traveling under the naa.e of the Land of Now" was >0 bad last Tuesday night at the l.Iks the- ater and the theater gocrs Were sd thorou2hly disSusted with it. Gnlv about dozen people gathered at the local play house t0 ses la,f nights musical comedy" The au- diencc was so small that is was an- nounced that there would be na show.
 o. NJ, Parks of this city was t'e- gently appointed a sergeant maio' in the Second regiment of the State Guard. Harold E. Bluthenthal. an- other member of the Pine Bluff ,ail- itarN company, was named color sergeant.
 Jack Elliott, chief dispenser at Rosenborg's, this morning received l telegram from Albert Cookson the worlds champion skater, from Memphis, in which he told of his de- feating Davidson, another alleged champion, in that city last night. Cookson is to race at a local rink aSaln next week. He is to arrive here Sunday.
 B. l.. Kaufman and King Rchey yesterday purchased an old auto
 mobile at the enormous sum qf S1o.a3 1-2. The machine is known as the Noisy Blackboard" lt vii! he remodeled and put in third-class condition within the next few days Kaufman and Richey cordially in vite all other automobilists to '.chew the dust,a when they get their ma chine 9oing-when?
 Local druggists and physicians are much interested in the Patter- son bill, which is aimed to destroy the sala of proprietary medicines in this state and which is to come up ill the State Senate this after noon at o'clock.
 The case of James Gould against the St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern Railway cmopany, in which the plaintiff charges the rail- road With failure to furnish sutfi- clent cars, was to have been heard by the State Railroad Commission yesterday in Little Rock, but the hearing was postponed by agree ment.
 Representative Rowelfs measure. House Bill No. 260, to amend sec tions 5676 and 5677 of Kirby's Di- gest so as to give improvement dis tricts the right to assess railroad tracks and right of way the same as other property in the district, was passed in the House at Little Rock yesterday.
 Colonel Gus Waterman, Of Dumas, is a business visitor in the city to- day. Colonel Waterman says the con- test between Jack Bernhardt, of Du- City, who are candidates for sen- ator from Desha county, is warming up considerably. They are aspirants for the position left vacant by the recent death of Howard Robb, of Ar kansas City.
 Joe Evans, former bookkeeper at the local office of the Southern Beef and Provision Company, has been pro- noted to cashier at the local plant and is succeeded by Frank Ezel1, former stenogarpher. Miss Louise Belcher today accepted a position as stenog- rapher. The appointments were an- nounced this morning by Manager c. A. Keintz.
 Judge James F. Read of Fort Smith is in South McAlester representing the Bank of Pine Bluff in a suit against the Le Bosquet Coal Company, to recover SLIGO advanced on notes by the bank to the coal company.
 
 The commissioners in charge, of. the ne&.,4mpfo2emeat' district thibugh A&Mch # is: proposed to build or purchase waterworks and a light plant for the city, state that the. petitions urging the district for that purpose are being numerously u;-~oS ~-l o-1u,ykI&;ur. ic lx;~h% Co.,,