The Forrest City times., 1910-05-20
NEW CASTLE TIMES


 cality at present.
 NIT. Lee Horton visited Memphis the first Of the week 10 buy goods for his fathers store
 MT. Robt. Smith. NIT. W. O. Pirtle. MT. Jim Swan and MT Rawlison yis- ited the county capital Saturday.
 It rained nice slow drzzle here Sunday, and Monday evening heavy rain fell, all of which was appreciated by the farmers.
 Forest Chapel and Wesley Chapel are preparing and practieing for a Childrens' Day service to be held some time in the near future.
 Singing and general rehearsing at Forest Chapel every Sunday evening Come and lend us helping hand in a good cause. Sunday School l0:30 o'clock am
 MT. and Mrs. F.. h. Allen and MT. Walter Allen and Miss Dollie Gam mel of Forrest City. visited MT and Mrs. F.. L. Horton and family and dined with them last Sunday
 Miss Alma Pirtle has accepted and will teach school at or near Widener this summer
 We hear a great many farmers talk. ing of getting up a petition to our representative praying that he use his best efforts to have a law passed autho- rizing the county judge to pay p cents or 50 cents for every mole skin that is delivered to him, Jaw to be effective in the hilly parts of the state.l This will perhaps sound foolish at first thought, but they have and will destroy more land and crops than all the birds and insects that have ever bothered us in our county. They have caused more gullies and ruined more stands of cotton and corn and gardens than all other pests combined, and l will venture to say that they have been the cause of more than 90 per cent of all the gullies in our county. l have known one of these gullies to wash two or three feet deep in one season. am very small land owner, but 1 would be willing To have my taxes raised s2 year 10 help pay for exterminating these pests cer- tainly know what they have done for my place. Around every stump or tree for 50 or loo yards they will kill all the crops. l think a law Of this kind on our statute books would be of more benefit to we farmers than any thing that could be done at present. The work l have done every spring and will continue to do-to repair the damage in my fields amounts 10 more than all the taxes l pay. Let us hear from someone else in our hilly dis tricts.
 l noticed in your paper last week an account of the death of Neeley Harris, and as l had known him for about thirty years, I think can add little to il. Neeley Harris was born al Whiteville, Tennessee. and was sixty. three years old at the time of his death. He is survived by two sisters one married and one single, both ol whom live in Dallas, Texas. He en. listed at the beginning of the war and remained with that command until the surrender. have had old soldiers to tell me that he was as brave sol dier as ever sheuldered a musket for the lost cause. In regard 10 his death: he and some other parties had a fight coming from Forrest City after the reunion at Mobile and the old man was pretty badly bruised up. He lost his mind and could tell very little about the fracas. Everything that could be was done for him by the loy- ing hands of Mrs. Jennie Horton and others. The last roll has been called, and another soul has answered.
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