Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1910-09-20
ARKANSAS STATE NEWS

Mountain Home is agitating the observance of the first day of each month as clean up day and have all residents on that day clean up their premises and the city council clean up the streets.
 Two youngsters of Gravette, one ,SS and the other over S5, drove a considerable distance to vote for Amendment No. 10. last election day.
 A new Presbyterian church is to be erected at Des Arc, ground for which was broken last week.
 The Gulf & Magnolia Northern is not dead, but has simply been sleeping. A force of engineers for this road will soon begin the survey out of Junction City.
 J. E. Stencil of Little Rock, has been placed in the Nashville jail, it being alleged he used undue influ- ence to secure light sentence for his son who was recently convicted of box car robbing on the Kansas City Southern.
 While a young man of Des Arc was attending church services, culprit on the outside cut the tires of his automobile. The young man now de- clares it is never again church for him.
 The Iron Mountain is planning to put on a shuttle train daily between Nashville and Texarkana, leaving Nashville in the morning and return ing at night.
 Jim Rogers has been arrested at Hampton for killing hog of a neighbor to get the liver for fish bait.
 The boil weevil is doing much damage to Union county cotton.
 James Stricklin, the Pike county native who went to Washington and created such disturbance by look ing for President Taft, and exhibit ing weapons, has been returned to Murfreesboro and placed in jail there. He has been confined because of his mental condition on previous occasions.
 Several times recently the water and mud in the we'll which is being drilled for gas and oil at Lockes- burg has been blown out by force from below, indicating gas in com mercial quantities is about to be reached.
 Minerologists have been the past week in the vicinity of Murfreesboro looking at the gypsum deposits there to see if there is sufficient quan- tity to put in large plant.
 Congressman Joe T. Robinson has been selected as the orator for the ing at Arkansas City September 2S.
 Gas has been discovered in the we'll which was drilled by compa- ny at Star City, Lincoln county, but it is being sunk deeper to see if better flow cannot be obtained.
 The Frisco is running solid steel trains through the Western part of the state.
 An interesting photograph was made at Prescott last week in which a six OK team log wagon and six passenger touring car are shown side by side.
 Experts on rice culture evidently are much impressed with the crop of Arkansas, for several have within the past week visited all rice grow ing sections and have informed the papers of each section the rice grown there is the finest they ever saw.
 England is to have another rail- road by the extension of the England & Clear Lake railroad to Greer, in Jefferson county.
 The father of Attorney B. F. Ash craft, of Rison, last week broke his collar bone while out hunting sQuir- rels by both barrels going off at once while he was trying to shoot a squirrel in high tree. The recoil OA tu0 6uA oLoppSu lu0 UOuc dS though it was twig.
 A party of Rogers fruit growers have departed for an automobile trip to Cincinnati. Chicago and other cit ies.
 J. T. Mabray of Fulton county, went down the rows of his corn field and iumped when he heard a rat tling noise, just in time to escape being struck by two rattle snakes. He called for his son to bring corn knife and killed both the snakes. One had 16 rattles and the other g. ..
 A lodge of Rebekahs with 15 char ter members has been organized at Evening Shade.