The Springdale news., 1909-06-04
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p@ti oho iAaS IT, oAt vASAtaiS relati at Avoca this week.
 B. B. Johnson and family went out to Harris and Elkins Sunday to visit with relatives few days.
 Bennett Maxey is dodgin' me.
 To keep from having to tell
 How he thought he was takin quinine
 When the doses were calomel!
 Ed David Hood, of ElkinS, held religious services at Shady Grove church Sunday morning.
 C. 5. Mayes is up in Missouri this week where he is soliciting berry shipments for northern commission firms.
 Mrs. Lizzie Corlew and daught- CTS, Susie and Nova, came down from Bentonyille Saturday to visit relatives here.
 Several of the neighboring Sunday schools are arranging for a big rally at Shady Grove on the fourth Sunday in June.
 James Rassett. wife and daugh- ter Carrie, of Elkins, Ark, came out Saturday evening to visit the family of Col. B. F. Johnson.
 Dick Ldehlyter found that stray COW last week away down on Wild Cat Creek where she had strayed q couple of weeks ago.
 The vocal club has been rest ing during, the berry season, but will meet again Saturday nig ht at the school building and go to work on some of the new songs.
 Prof. Mack Davis has been se- cured to teach the school at Stony Point and the term will be- gin i'll the early summer. Prof. Davis taught at Lowell last year.
 Dee Neale is having a large barn erected OH his farm west of Johnson. He wants 1t completed before hay harvest as he has nearly fonr-score acres of fine meadow to nov.
 Cut worms, ttater bugs" weeds and other pests are mak- ing work plenty for local gar deners. Map agents, Syrian peddlers and patent medicine vendors are nearly as pestiferous.
 Some of the local lads who journeyed 10 tie Missouri berry fields write very discouragingly of the berry harvest up there and the boys will be home as soon as the ways and means committee acts Tor them.
 The Shady Grove board of di- rectorS have secured Misses Ollie Cisco and Lee Davis to conduct the next term of school which will begin sometime in August. Miss Cisco resides north of John son and Miss Davis resides in Springdale.
 F. F. Freeman and T. P. Black, lime magnates of Rogers, were down 10 Johnson last Wednesday looking at the local lime plants Mir. Freeman is the able representative from Benton County III the State Senate and Is a very attable little gentleman who has many friends down here at Johnson.
 The newspaper reports tell of cyclone rompings in Oklahoma and Texas Saturday evening and night. Prospects were good for several of the critters in this sec tion of country Saturday night as several local folks can tell of a few anxious hours spent in watch ing the antles of the whirling storm clouds.
 Frank Mayes of Farming ton, hauled some wheat to Johnson last week. MT. Mayes says that his neighbofheod was congratu- latln9 itself as being the banner school district in the County Superintendent vote, but Johnson beats them. His district, No. s, voted twenty-eight solid against the scheme.
 The berry season is over at Johnson and the Frisco agent re- ports twenty-seven car loads of strawberries out from here this  year. The berries brought good prices, and Mully will have a more detailed report of the out put when (. $. Mayes gets back