The Springdale news., 1908-01-24

ginning of next school year. be sides having had seven months of school this year. Pretty good for i rural district.
 II Springdale k to have t Chautauqua 1t k high time some thing were being done in that di- rection. The old Chautauqua committee, consisting of (. C. Dodson and Jno. r. Stafford, feel that they have done their share of this kind of work and are not disposed 10 undertake It agaln this year. However, another committee might be chosen, CT arrangements made with Mr. Bartel. -of Siloam Springs. or with the Fort Smith Chautauqua people to furnish us q Chautauqua this year. Springdale will seem rather dull this summer without GbaHtauqua.
 Local dealers who have apples in old storage report that the >hrlnkaee k unusually heavy, be- ing from 25 to o50per cent. This. coupled with the present loW price oi apples and the high prices paid for the fruit last fall, k not calculated to make the holders of cold storage apples feel exceedingly good. Most of them will lose money, and all will doubtless consider that they are doing extremely we'll If they come ont even. The reason ap- ples are Hot keeping any better k thought to be due to the dis eaSed condition of the fruit when 1t was packed. Sprayed fruit K keeping much better than fruit that had Tot been sprayed.
 " Sarrar went up to E.X- eter. Mo-. Monday and attended the annual meeting of the stock holders oi the bank at that place. 0n Tuesday he went oyer to WeStxille. Oklahoma. on business connected with the bank al tIIat place in which he Is in- terested. The Oklahoma legis- lature recently enacted law prescribing certain regulations Tor tate banks, and when they comply with these conditions the state guarantees all depositors against loes bY failure of thc bank The state bank examiner Was in Wcstviile Tuesday, and Il was to meet him and arrange for complying with the provisions o1 the new law that Mr. Farrar went over. The capital stock of the WeStville bank was increased from S10. GOO to S25, ,000
 1t q meeting of the stockhold- CTS of the Springdale Develop ment Company held Tuesday af- ternoon new directors were elect ed as follows: President, ] NJ. Sparkman; secretary and treas urer, Ghas F. Renner; J. F. Har- fis. ]. H. Fletcher. Jas. Well ton and Dr \. (. Smith retired as directors. The new board settled with Cromwell Brothe1s. whe are operating the drill faf the 1,000 feet already drilled and contracted for an additional 500 feet. ]. r. Harris Is making | canvass of the town for funds to pay for the additional 500 feet and lis to be hoped that he will succeed in raising the money. Those who have knowledge of such matters are firm III the faith that something will be de veloped within the next 500 feet.
 Some of our subscribers to whom statements have been mdll- ed, or presented by our collector, object to paying for the paper for q year because they do not owe for that length of time. he terms of this paper are cash III advance. and Il Is stated in every issue of the paper, but We have often extended credit to subscribers who desired 1t IL k Iast as reasonable to aS< yoar ereser or your butcher to fur uish Hou with q years supplies before paying for sane as t is to expect your home paper to lar lHtsh you with reading matter and Wait twelve months for he pa Y9u pay cash in advance far your city paper, and youl monthly magaz ne, and is nol your home paper entitled to X god treatment as you show Ihem7
 We have noticed that the peo. pie who live comfortably in , small town do not wear the wor ried look of people who clam that city is the only place t live.