The Green Forest tribune., 1909-09-17
AR kAN AS BREVITIES

Pine Bluff poultry fanciers are planning to have a big show. A retail merchants association has | been organized at Cherry Valley. Citizens of Monette have started a movement to secure the removal of the county seat for the eastern dis trict of Craighead county from Lake City to that place.
 E. S. Rodman, for the past eight years teller of the Bank of Com merce in Little Rock, has gone to Benton to become cashier of the First National bank at that place. The Marianna Courier. edited by Jim Wood, a Confederate veteran of the old school, indorses the Confed- crate home trustees in the weeding out process recently made public.
 In a general fight in Barring Cross J. A. Logan, George Mcdonald and F. G. Bolton were seriously injured. The trouble occurred over the ques- tion of reannexing Argenta to Little Rock. ...--!
 F. J. Gunzel of Weiner is raising bees as a business enterprise. He has 700 stands on his farm and one day last week shipped whole car
 load of honey, consigned to northern cities.
 The 2-year-old daughter of Assessor Dan Jones of Jonesboro drank half glass of coal oil and narrowly escaped death The coal oil had been used during the night to keep off mosqui- toes and was left in the room. Leon Fullenwider, who served six years in the regular army and two years in the United States volunteer army, is at the head of a movement to reorganize the company of the Arkansas National Guard at Rector.
 Louis Reinman would like informa- tion as to the whereabouts of the larger part of 50 head of mules con- signed to him, but which escaped while awaiting loading at the stock yards on East Washington avenue in Argenta The mules scattered in ev- cry direction.
 The vein of coal on R. Il Turner's place near Conway, which was dis covered a few days ago while dig ging a well, is found to be seven feet deep. The coal burns well and many prospectors are on the spot looking into the matter, and the price of land n a a6u n enalIy.
 Cotton appears to be the most val uable thing which can be raised on the State farm with profit It has been demonstrated that il is business policy to raise cotton instead of corn, and it now appears as though it would also be better to raise cotton on the land which was this year de- voted to sorghum cane.
 An Iron Mountain freight ran into Dr. H. A. links team at a crossing at Brookland, killing Less Woods, brakeman, and Dr. Jinks' two horses. The buggy was demolished and Dr. links was slightly injured Less Woods, the brakeman, was riding on the pilot of the engine and was thrown under the train and killed instantly.
 The Masonic grand lodge of Arkan- sas will hold an emergency session at Batesville on September 30 for the purpose of dedicating the Orphans home, which is about completed and ready for occupancy. Grand Master B. A. McCulloch will preside at the meeting. Prominent Masons from all sections of the state will witness the ceremonies.
 Fire which broke out in the busi- ness district of Fort Smith Saturday morning at 1 o'clock entailed a prop erty loss of $60,000, burned five val uable horses and for a time threat ened the destruction of the entire business section of the city.
 On vacant lot at Des Arc, on which there was an old cistern con- taining 15 feet of water, two bulls became engaged in a fight and one of the bovines knocked the other in- to the cistern. Many citizens re- sponded to the call for assistance and with ropes and an imprcvised der rick succeeded after several hours work, in drawing the animal to the surface.
 Dr.. c. P. Meriwether, secretary of the State Tuberculosis sanitarium, has called a meeting of the board of trustees for September 20 at Little Rock. The board will very likely To- cate the sanitarium at this meeting. Eight propositions for the location of the institution have been filed by diff ferent cities and towns of the state. Former Chief Justice Joseph M. Hill of Fort Smith is president of the board of trustees.
 The Gale City Building and Loan association at Texarkana paid of it's seventh series after the seventy sixth payment The series amounted to over $100,000, and about half of this amount was loaned 10 the stock holders for the construction of homes.
 The founding of the Concatenated Order of Hoo Hoo at Gurdon Janu- ary 21, 1892, was celebrated by the dedication of a memorial tablet by Zolnay, on the site of the old Hall house, where six marooned travellers on a cold winter night worked out the details of the organization.