The log cabin Democrat., 1907-05-09

1900 of only 220, has installed an electric light plant snd business houses and residences are lighted by electricity. Stephens, the population of which, according to the last cen- sus, was 40t, has granted a fran chise for electric lighting and water supply, the first to be in operation uy July 1. Both of these towns ar building rapidly, especially within the last year.
 Deputy Sheriff Ed Monroe shot and instantly killed Henry Hannon in a skiff at Laberthville, on Old River, Crittenden county. Monroe went to Lamberthville to serve warrant on Hannon for illicit retail ing of liquor, the latter having been indicted for this offense. Harmon was in the act of shooting Monroe with his Winchester rifle when killed.
 Science says now that kissing on the lips must be abolished in the ln- terests of health. Most potent, grave and reverend seigniors, scholars and philosophers, there are moments you know nothing of, when a man doesn't care a two-pence for science, and when he is ging to plant kisses where they belong if the laws o1 health are ripped from one end to the other.
 w. NJ. Dodson, a grading contrae- tor on the Memphis, Paris and Gulf railroad, recently shot one Of hls negro laborers. The negro had shot two other negroes and Dodson told him he was going to take him to jail. The negro showed Dodeon and ran. Dodson then shot him, the ball lodg- ing in the negro's bowels.
 Robert Walters, 13 years of age, of Piggott, was kicked in the head by a mule recently and his skull fractured. An operation was per formed and several pieces of the skull were removed. It is believed the boy will recover.
 Isaac Fisher, for five years, prln- cipal of the Branch Normal School, the State industrial school for col ored people, at Pine Bluff, has tend- cred his resignation. Fisher says continual fight on him is the cause for the action taken.
 Mammoth Spring is to have big shoe factory. The Goodbar Shoe Company of Memphis, Tenn, has leased the cotton mill building and the water power plant there, and the work of remodeling will be begun at once.
 Jarrett McHaffev, 75 years of age, living near Center and one ot the oldest active farmers in Sharp coun- tv. is making crop alone on hls little farm this year with the assist ance of mule that is 2S years old.
 Resolutions have been passed by the Camden board of trade calling upon the business men of Camden to supplement the road tax with a donation of $3,0O0, to be applied to building a gravel or macadam road.
 Mrs. Frances Harrison, while hoe- ing in her garden at her home near Fort Smith recently, dropped dead from heart trouble. Before her death Mrs. Harrison was apparently in the best of health.
 Fishing in the streams in the vl- cinity of Big Fork is most excellent The record catch has been made by c. $. Norton who hooked a bass which weighed nine pounds.
 Foundation work for the new i s1oo,o00 high school building at Hot Springs has been commenced. The building is expected to be com pleted by May, 1908.
 Ebert Norton, a negro wanted at Marked Tree, for shooting with ln- tent to kill was captured by local authorities while enroute from Mis- souri to Marked Tree.
 The Ouachita Pottery Company is installing a plant at Hot Springs fos the manufacture of high art