The Springdale news., 1909-08-20

from a trip to the vicinity of Wash burn, Mo, where he had moved (. Seroggins and family who have been residing here for several months.
 Rev. Thornsberry filled his reg ular appointment at Johnson Sun day Six members were received in- to the church, and the ordinance of baptism was administered to five candidates Sunday evening.
 Will Witcher, who has been suf- fering from severe attack of ty- phoid, is slowly winning in his struggle with this malignant fever and a few more weeks will find him back to his former rugged health.
 The public schools are having a warm old time during these awful declaring a vacation until cooler weather Prof. Davis has d crowd ed house at Stony Point and his assistant conducts her classes out of doors in the shade of the trees. A W. Stokes has traded his farm near Stony Point for a ranch near Carter. New Mexico. and will leave this week with ear of stock and household goods for his new hom< in the west His family will ae- company him. Abner traded With W R. Highfill former resident at Gentry, Ark.
 R M Liehlyter, George Thomp= son, J. W. and Roy Austin and Hugh Liehlyter of Johnson, accom- panied by Will Bennett. of Spring dale. spent several days Of last week down on Illinois. near Robin son. where they tried to catch all the fish in the river, but only par italy succeeded.
 While the Arkansas ' s Sena- tors were attending to other busl- ness Aldrieh and those other high tariff fellows revised the thefmome= ters upward and our state got a good dose-the eoo1est. place in Johnson was above Monday eY= ening and several thermometers reg istered 106 in the shade
 E Vernon has traded for some own lots over at HighfiIl Ark. and is now waiting for the boom to strike that little town f x9r =t+= ing 10 start on long overland drive through Oklahoma to New Mexico where he will lock al the country and investigate for prob l able investments out there
 No ,. the south bound cannon ball, caused quite a furry of ex- eitement yesterday morning by making a quick stop just south of the depot Folks thought that some of the school children had been run over. but the trouble was caused by broken rod on the en- zine which delayed the train here couple of hours until another en- l SiIt dI i'1d lo h1iB
 engine along with the train
 Uncle Billy Eidson was down to Johnson Tuesday morning and says that this is one of the worst drouths that this country has eHef exper= fenced He has passed through many dry spells of weather since the first tn. he remembers of ever experiencing here which was Lin 4S54 That was long time ago. but Uncle Billy is the youngest 1 boy except Uncle John Eichlyter1 near Johnson Mr. Eidson is nearly g. while Uncle John is little old CT. but both of them are pretty spry and nimble yet.
 The protracted meeting at New Hope church closed Sunday night This has been an interesting series of services and many converts were the result of the earnest work Of Pastor Rice and his co-Workers. l Twenty-one united with the church and were baptised by Rev Rice in i Clear creek on Sunday evening Gre good has resulted throughout the neighborhood and this progress sive upward spiritual feeling bids fair 10 continue The New Hope church has called Bro. Rice to the pastorate for the next year
 Mulkeenmo