The log cabin Democrat. [volume] (Conway, Ark.) 1901-1982, 1908-05-21
The Ozan sawmill at Prescott shut


tornado district, where 5,000,oOo,-
600 feet of timber was recently blown
down. When the road Is completed
the timber will be brought to the
mill and manufactured into lumber.
Charles Coffin of Batesville is col
Letting data for an article on the
Brooks-Baxter war for the Arkansas
Historical Society, of which he is
member. He is securing much OF the
information from the files of the old
Pocahontas Observer, which he edited
during the Brooks-Baxter troubles.
Bessie eagle, years old, of Nash
Vile, left Wednesday alone for
Bridgeport, Ala. The child's father
was killed last fall by being thrown
from a wagon and shortly afterward
her mother died. She went to Ala
bama to make her home with her
fathers relatives.
The petition of the stockholders Of
me Peoples Bank of Imboden to re-
sumo business has been granted by
Chancellor HUMPHREYS. The bank
will absorb the recently organized
bank at that place, and will be oper-
atcd as the Peoples Bank of limbo
den.
w. NJ. Dedman, a farmer living
near Dumas, found a stalk OF cookie
burrs on his place Friday, having a
dozen or more well developed cookie
brrrs on it. Mr.. Dedman has lived
or a farm all his life, and says he
never before saw cockleburrs IN May.
The Rogers city council at its re-
cent meeting passed ordinances pro-
hibiting splitting on the sidewalks,
t, regulate the construction of sew
ers, to prohibit the operation of pool
rooms and to provide for the con-
struction of concrete sidewalks.
Henry Chaplin, who lives near
Cove, while standing on the depot
platform at that place, was stricken
with heart trouble and fell, dying IN
stantly. Mr.. Chaplin was accompa-
MED bv his wife, the two having just
returned from visit to Mena.
All the windows in the home Of
Captain Hogan of Atkins were shat
tered and the members of the family
received severe shocks when lightning
struck a large oak tree in front OF
the building The tree was shatter-
ed into countless fragments.
The Sharp County Teachers In.
stitute will convene at Ash Flat the
second Monday in June and continue
in session five days. ASH Flat was
selected as the place of meeting for
the institute by the teachers asso-
citation at Sydney recently.
The Clark County Democratic
Central Committee has ben called to
meet at Arkadelphia to arrange for
holding the Democratic primary in
that county for the nomination of
county officers. The primary will be
held some time in July.
The delinquent tax list in Frank
In county, it is said, will be the
largest this year for many years. The
real estate list has been completed
and it is found that there yet remain
206 pieces of land upon which taxes
have not been paid.
Large focks of strange birds are
lowering over the storage pond neal
Iuttig. No one in Huttig has ever
seen birds like them before 1t is
believed they are coast birds, and
were blown over to Huttig during
the recent storm.
Ollie Laws of Van Buren, while
leading one of his horses by rope
Monday was painfully injured. His
hand became entangled in the rope
and the horse, becoming frightened.
plunged. and one of Laws fingers
was torn off.
The Iron Mountain company has
decided to double its watering faclli-
ties at Benton. A 100000 gallon
water tank is to be erected between
the passenger and freight depots.
The water will be supplied from deep
wells.
A new calaboose is to be built at
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