The Springdale news., 1909-04-16
ELM SPRINGS

east oi opi iuS daiC NiSit'H II ith1' here today.
 Mir. and Mrs. Jerry Wright spent last Sunday visiting their married daughter at Springdale.
 Amos Delozier, who has been attending a commercial school at Springfield, Mo-, is at home for a few days vacation.
 G. l.. Mundy went down to Siloam Springs the first of the month where he has job as a night man at the electric light plant.
 Mrs. Emory Chiles and Mrs. Geo. Burnett are visiting their parents on Pea Ridge this week. They are expected back home Sunday.
 Carmen, the 2-year-old child of Mir. and Mrs. Edgar Mount, had its leg broken just above the knee a few days ago by falling from a barn loft where 1t had followed their older child. She IS said to be recovering from the injury nicely.
 Uncle Billy Cooper of Spring Creek was in Elm Springs last week greeting old friends, and as he has been coming to Elm for 57 years, some of them are indeed old friends. Uncle Billy is one of the few surviving veter- ans of the Mexican war, and al- though nearly s years old, can remember and tell of his march with Winfield Scott from Vera Cruz to Mexico City with as much vividness as if 1t had oc- cured yesterday. Tecumseh spent an enjoyable half-hour the other day hearing him tell of Cerro Gordo, Pinion Hill, Con- treras, Chapultepec, and other battles.
 An internrban mass meeting was held at the school house Wednesday night at which the matter was explained to our peo- pie. Messrs. Morris, Crossland, Blocher, Gipple and Leukens were down from Bentonville and a number of citizens from Cave Springs and Tontitown. Mr. Crossland explained the plan of building the road and answered satisfactorily number of ques- tions propounded him. It is pro- posed to build d standard gauge road from Bentonville via Cave Springs, Elm Springs, and Tom titown to Fayetteville. This to be part of the system connect ing with Joplin. Elm Springs IS asked to take S10,0o0 stock in the road, of which S4000 IS to be cash. The balance may be paid in work, right of way, etc. The proposition met with consider able favor and the following were named to secure the neces- sary subscription for stock at that place: ]. (. Steele, J. (. Wasson, K. N. Delozier, k. D. Hellstern, J. A. Steele, J. l.. Reed, and J. V. Fergus. This committee has organized and has called another meeting for Monday night.
 Her sun is gone down while it is yet day These appropriate words from Holy Writ formed the basis for the remarks deliver ed at the funeral of Miss John
 
 Mount Wednesday evening. After brave fight for two years with tuberculosis, she entered in- to rest Tuesday morning in her 18th year. She was the young- est daughter of Mrs. Kate Mount, being named for her father who was assassinated at Fayetteville in 1881. Her mothers family moved from Stony Point to Elm Springs about ten years ago and she immediately gained and held the friendship of tue entire com munity. Being highly endowed Tn every way, her friends looked forward to life of much useful- ness for her. But it was decreed otherwise.
 She gave directions concerning her burial which were carried out as far as possible. The follow ing young men, her friends for