The log cabin Democrat. [volume] (Conway, Ark.) 1901-1982, 1908-05-14
Bv the Iron Mountains declining

Hot Springs Business Mems League
advertising fund, the league suffers
an annual loss in revenue of 81 per
cent. 1t was only recently that the
Iron Mountain officials notified the
league that the company would be
unable to continue its contributions
to the leagues annual advertising
campaigns. In announcing to Sec
rotary Cooley that the subscription OF
the road had been withdrawn, the
officials state that in doing so they
were carrying out a policy of re-
trenchment pursued on all depart
ments of the road.
William F. Hill, deputy supervisor
o. the Bureau of Forestry, arrived at
Fort Smith Tuesday and assumed
his position as assistant to Mr.. Rec
ord, who has charge of the Arkansas
bureau. Mr.. Record reports that
his department is swamped with
tress cases and that if all the collec-
lions are made the federal govern
ment will be several hundred thou
sand dollars better off. The cases con-
sist of cutting and removing timber
from government land.
Trainmaster Foster of Cotter an
nounces that within the next thirty
days the train service on the White
River branch of the Iron Mountain
will be improved to the extent that
the local will leave Batesville at 6 80
a. m. to make connection with pas
senger at Newport at 8 80 a. m. for
Little Rock; also that hereafter the
local will be held at Newport until
80 p. m. to make connection with
the trains due at Newport about
noon.
The closing exercises Of the Para
gould High School were held We'd
nesday night. The following were
the graduates Lilburn Meriwether,
Irwin Wolf, Ernest Dennis, Russell
Schulz, Joe Spani, Lucille Kitchens,
Martha White, Ollie Mitchell, Edna
Turner, Lillian Howell and Claude
Stotts. The class poem was read by
Lilburn Meriwether and the vale
dictorv was delivered by Miss Edna
Turner.
The members of the Methodist
Sunday school of Ozark rendered an
appropriate program Sunday in COM
memoration of the thirty-ffth ami
versary of the organization of the
school. In the afternoon the teach
ers and pupils marched to the cemc-
terry and decorated the grave of W.
w. Jennings, who was one of tne or
ganizers of the school, and its super
intendent for more than thirty
years.
A souvenir of the recent bank
robbery at Sulphur Springs is on ex-
hibition at Fort Smith. 1t is a
homemade dark lantern which the
cracksmen left behind. 1t is three
pound tomato can with short piece
of candle stuck on the inside in such
position that the open end of the
can could be held forward and thus
throw all the rays of the candle
ahead of the improvised lantern.
The following delegates will rep
resent Hot Spring county in the
twentieth annual convention of the
Arkansas Sunday school convention,
which will meet in Little Rock June
3-5: r. E. Snow, Mrs. J. F. Will
liams, Mrs. Percy Chamberlain,
Miss Mamie Brassler, Miss Lewis
Smith, Mrs. T. J. Noteworthy, R. H.
Sebren, L. E. Wilcox, c. F. Perry
and John IrayWlck.
Lyman Holman, who was arrest
ed at Dierks Saturday on the charge
of shooting at his sister, Maude Hol-
man, after a preliminary trial Tues
day was discharged. None Of the
members Of the family would testify
against him.
Two car loads of machinery fol
the new ice plant at Nashville
arrived at that place Tuesday. II
is expected the machinery will be In
stalled and the plant in operation
two weeks from now.
The Nevada County Sunday
School convention will meet al
Soro,,+a .Julv 1919 w. Y. TOmD.