The log cabin Democrat., 1908-01-30
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a net profit of $167.S4 one one acre of cotton on his farm near Wynne this season. The acre was farmed under the supervision of R. c. Dav- idson, special agent of the United States Agricultural department, as a demonstration, and the figures quoted are from MT. Davidson's otfi- cial report to the department. The acre produced 870 pounds of lint cotton and 52 1-2 bushels of seed. The cotton was sold at the then mar ket price, 12 cents, bringing $104.4O, and the seed was sold for planting for $105. This made a total of $209.40 from the acre of cotton. From this Mir. Harrell deducted the estimated cost of production, includ- ng rental and marketing, at $41.57, leaving a balance net profit of $167.84.
 Through proceedings in the Snel- by county probate court at Memphis, Tenn, Mir. and Mrs. George Jones, of Wilson, Ark, adopted the for tieth waif which they have under taken to raise since their marriage twenty years ago. Mrs. Jones says that all of the other children whom she and her husband have adopted have made good children, and that they never tire of adding to their family of little ones as soon as the youngest gets old enough to neeed their close attention no longer. The latest addition to their assorted family is a bright looking boy of three months, and was given the name of Leon Jones by the decree entered in the court. -r
 The fire that started in the heart of the business section of Houston, Ark, at 2:3O o'clock Friday morn ing at the result of an effort of "yeggmen" to blow open the safe in the Bank of Houston, practically wiped out the entire business section of the place before the last of the fire was extinguished two hours after it had started. The damage is esti- mated at nearly $15,000, with but $1,S00 insurance. Only the post office and two stores, one drug store, and the other a barber shop, remain standing in the business sec- ton of the town.
 The Sevier County Teachers asso- citation will meet at De Queen Feb ruary 8. The programl will be as follows: 'How to Conduct Reading in the Intermediate Grades" Mrs. Dickerson; Language Work in the Primary Grades" Mrs. Lambright; ; "What We Hope For From the New Normal" Senator Wingo; "The Place for An Untrained Teacher" Mir. Hamilton; "How to Coduct a History Recitation," Miss Penny; 'Hamilton's Recitation, Chapter 4 ;" MT. Dickerson; "How to Make His tory Interesting" Miss Fall.
 William Brown and Charles An- derson were arrested recently at Lux ora on the charge of forgery, and in default of $500 bond were each committed to jail to await the action of the Mississippi county grand jury. The men are charged to forging names to two checks, one on Dean X Spann for $36.70, and one on Walter Driver for $17.50
 The stockmen in Carroll county are perfecting strong organization for the purpose of eradicating the cattle tick from that section of the State. The object is to protect the quarantine line until the next legis- lature makes the necessary appro- priation to take care of the border.
 w. A. Garner of Dardanelle has resigned as mail carrier on rural route No. ?, to accept the position of forester in the government forest reservation in Arkansas. He will be located at Mena and will have charge of 10000 acres of forest and.
 Dudd Bristow took from his trout line in White river near Batesville Thursday a salmon thirty inches in length, weighing eleven pounds. White river was stocked with salmon