The log cabin Democrat. [volume] (Conway, Ark.) 1908-current, 1910-09-06
ARKANSAS STATE
NEWS NOTES

| and purchase the plant. Fort Smith
is undertaking to do the same, but is
having litigation over the price to be
paid. Helena has appointed S. S.
Faulkner as one of the arbitrators.
The trial of Mrs. Isom Whisenhunt
charged with the murder of her hus-
band, will take place at Nashville
March 3.
The Helena officials have ordered
all metal awnings removed from in
front of stores.
Drilling will be resumed at the
Lockesburg well of the Nichol Oil &
Gas Co., R. A. Ferguson, the former
driller, being restrained from inter-
fering. Ferguson kept the well idle
year, stopping the drill just at the
time evidence of oil were appearing.
Last Wednesday was the Both ami
versary of the birth of the Nashville
News, one of the best papers of
| southwest Arkansas.
Northern capitalists have purchas-
! ed 5000 acres in the neighborhood of
Highland, which will be planted in
| fruit.
Walter Hudson of Hillsboro, Union
| county, has a Poland China bar
weighing 600 pounds which he will
exhibit at the state fair. He also has
a 11-months-old pig which weighs 400
pounds.
The prohibition forces of Union
county have organized and are now
making hard fight for their cause
in every township of the county.
Civic pride is getting the upper
hand in Brinkley, garbage cans be-
ing placed on all the streets and rub
bish thrown into the streets, instead
of the cans, is severely punished by
the officials.
In Union county much sorghum
cane was raised this year, netting an
| average of 100 gallons to the acre,
which sold for so cents gallon.
The soft drink man in Pocahontas
and Reyno is now wondering how
much of white ribboner he is. Rev
enue officers last week visited that
county and forced most of the soft
drink dispensers to pay Uncle Sam
for the privilege of selling stuff which
contains more alcohol than the law
permits.
The farmers of the Mt. Ida neigh
borhood have in their vicinity belled
buzzard This is the first appearance
of the buzzard there for about ten
years. On former visits it was ru-
mored about that a big reward would
be paid for the capture of the buzzard
alive, and one farmer neglected his
crop all summer trying to get that
pot at the end of the rainbow.
Ten thousand black bass were
planted in Black river by government
representatives at Posahontas last
week.
The first plate glass window in Mt.
Ida will this week be placed in the
new Montgomery County bank build
ing.
A Rector editor opines that no one
can longer wonder why meat is so
high in that vicinity, for there are
900 dogs to the so hogs in Rector,
showing what the people raise.
Counterfeit dollars are being cir
culated in Searcy. The counterfeiter
knew where to get rid of his spurious
coin without detection and passed
part of it on an unsuspecting editor.
A plant to work up rough elm lum-
Der has been arranged for by the cit
liens of Texarkana.
Persons from California are getting
4 oil and gas leases in Pike county. IL
would probably pay better to buy land
and plant peaches.
John Boatright and four sons OF
Usage. Carroll county, drank impure
water from the farm well and were
stricken with typhoid fever Two OF
the boys died.
Bentonville is advertising horse
and mule day, September 10. There
will be races, as well as prizes fol-
the best horses and mules exhibited.
Ten residents of Arkansas were last
week in the st. Louis Pasteur insti'
tute, taking treatment for prevention
of hydrophobia.