The Green Forest tribune., 1909-10-01
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creamery in the very near future.
 A new two story brick school building at Success, Clay county, has been completed at a cost of $6,00O.
 A party of Memphis capitalists will likely establish a .arge cotton mill in Pine Buff within the near future
 It is proposed by leading business men of Paragould to establish free bridge across the St. Francis river nine miles east of that place.
 Work on big and little bay ditches in the drainage of St. Francis valley near Jonesboro has commenced in earnest, a force of men now cutting out the right of way.
 J. T. Powers entered a plea of gull ty in the Craighead county circuit court at Jonesboro to the charge of bigamy and was sentenced to three years in the penitentiary.
 Citizens of Gurdon are considering d pl oposition to cdeate an improve ...ent uistlict for the purpose of rais- Ing funds tor tne establishment of an eiectlic lighting ant at that place.
 Constable S. 5. Simpson has beeA appolnted humane oincer for Lonohe and Lonoke county. The apponll ment was the result of numerous complaints during the hot weathe4.
 State AgricuIturai Commissione fuehe, hes oppolnted Joe C. Moore u4s ueput{, eHeetiye October l, to succeed William StoddaId. who re- 54gneG to cnler the cont2s, for com missioner.
 Coun.y Judge J. R. Wi lis has let the contract tor the erection of bl idge across the Tyronza river be- tween Marked Tree and Tyronza, to rep.ace the one winch was destroyed some months ago.
 Burt Con ey, Jr., the young son of Thomas Con ey, and his sister huby dled at the home of their paren,s near Hot Springs of congestion. The Jtl , u6GLu all uOul dlISl that of her brother.
 A. D. DuLaney of Ashdown, one ot the prominent leaders of the lower house in the Arkansas legis ature tol the past several sessions of tha. body, was married to Miss E1izabe h Nix Corbett of Texas.
 Charles Hickey of Laurel, whi.e trying to board freight train al hussel vile, tel and the wheel of one of the cars passed ever his left hand and mangled ii so badly as to l.ecessilate amputation.
 Deputy Sheriff B lis, who killed w. P. Montgomery, manager of the Full ton County Telephone company, at Mammoth Spring, had an examining trial before Squire Frazier and was held to the circuit court without bail.
 Reports compiled by Prof. c. D. there are 8,444 children Of school age in Greene county. The total amount of the schoo. funds Greene county gets from the state this year is S15,- 36S08
 T. J. Self, wanted at Elkton, Ky, as an al eged forger, was arrested at Jonesboro by Chief of Police Airing ton, on warrant from Sheriff w. U. Shelton of Todd county, Kentucky. Self admitted his identity, but denied the allegation.
 The new county court house at Paris will be dedicated Tuesday, Oc- tober 5. The ceremony of laying the corner stone will be under the aus pices of the Masonic lodge at that pace and the principal address will be delivered by Governor George w. Donaghey. A free barbecue will be one of the features of the occasion.
 Frank T. Grayson, 19-year-old son of Postmaster Jack Grayson of Pres colt, was given a preliminary hear. ing before United States Commission CT Sommenwell and bound over in federal grand jury at Little Rock on charge of defrauding the govern ment by obtaining subsistence and transportation by enlistment in the army.
 Estes Nelms, an employe of the Farmers Union Mill and Gin com pany at Brookland, was serious y in- jured by the bursting of the saw, fragments of the saw striking him in the shoulder, cutting gashes in the arm from the shoulder to the wrist and in the leg from the hip to the knee.
 The Jonesboro city council at it's recent meeting made 33 1-3 per cent reduction in water rates. The new rate provides for the payment of $10 annually for a 25-foot business house and for each additional ten feet or less, $2. The fiat rate here Ofore has been $10 per year for each More, an additional charge being made for each clerk.
 Mrs. Oscar Hummer, while gath- ering muscadines on the bluff of a creek near Lonoke, heard the warn ing of ratt esnake, and in trying to get away from the reptile fell down the embankment and her right leg was broken near the ankle.
 At a meeting of the citizens at Litt-e Flock school house, near Rog- CTS, the Benton County Mutual In- surance company was organized by the election of the following officers: