The log cabin Democrat., 1910-08-31
ARKANSAS STATE
NEWS NOTES

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able to resume his work.
r. C. Hite, the veteran editor OF
Fort Smith, who is over IS years of
age and has been at the head of a
paper for over so years, is improving
after serious illness.
Paving has resumed in Fort Smith,
commission being appointed by the
citizens to settle the differences be-
tween contractors and the paving
commission.
L. NJ Maston, near Bald Knob, got
his lines crossed while driving team
to hay rake, which frightened the
mules. They ran away, Maston fell
beneath the rake and was dragged
over the field, one leg being broken in
several places.
The Searcy light plant, oil mill and
laundries are suffering for want of
coal.
Alma Gillian, aged II, white, died
of pellagra near Searcy last week.
Inc FARMERS Vi NlSSlSSIpPl dlC
figuring on a corn show at Osceola.
William Washington, an Osceola
negro, has just died at the age of
100 years.
A Cairo concern has secured the
contract for the drainage district
near Newark for $9,521, and now a
third district is being formed in indie
pendence county.
The citizens of Newark and Bates
Vile have Joined in raising fund to
fuild a good road between the two
| towns.
Arch Cathey of Evening Shade, ag-
ed 60 years, has not slept away from
the house in which he was born and
has lived since half dozen times.
J. R. Davis of Auvergne lost 10 cat
tie out of "a placed in a Newport
cattle pen where someone opened a
gate at night and allowed them to
get on the railroad track and get kill
ed.
The Johnson County Sunday School
| Convention will be held on Mulberry
mountain September 1925.
| Boys hunting near Ludwig, john
son county, found a bee tree and took
out 80 pounds of honey, leaving fully
as much. In Perry county the same
thing was done the day following by
other hunters.
Receiver E. S. Rodman Of the Peo-
| pies bank at Benton has paid his sec
ond divident of $15,212. He lbs col
lected $4,000 since the bank closed
it's doors.
At Pineville half starved dog at
tackled two-year-old child and was
eating it when the parents were at
tracted ythe child's cries and killed
the ravenous dog. The child will re-
cover.
Beecher Lewis, a Democratic nom
inee for the legislature in St. Francis
county, is stumping his county foi
prohibition.
E. P. J. Garrett of Batesville has
been called to the Baptist church al
Forrest City.
i M. L. Martin of the Ola Democrat
has leased his plant and donned the
brass buttons as auditor for the Rocl
Island. 9.
Dynamiters have been destroying
large quantities of fish in Dorcheat
near Magnolia.
Boosters for the Conway county
fair. which will be held at Morrilton
went through Pope, Yell, Faulkner
Perry and Van Buren, counties with
wagons and a band, advertising the
fair.
Forty sorghum pans have been sole
at Morrilton this year, insuring plen
ty of long-sweetening for the winter
months.
G. F. Vinson of Maryville, Unior
county, has eclipsed all squash rec.
ords yet heard from, bringing in one
weighing 80 pounds.
The young women of Midland have
organized a horseback riding club
Most of them ride astride and the
community is shocked.
Bonanza is complaining of de
crease in population, as most of the
miners have left that camp to ge
work in others where the operators
, have signed the scale and started thu
mines to work.
q The Clay county fair will be hel'
at Piggott October and 7.
Since the Lake Village hand-hos'
i, cart was stuck in the mud on the wa!
; to recent fire the citizens of thu
town are organizing regular de
g partment which will sport a hors
, and cart
Nellie Shaw, II years of age, tool