The Nevada County picayune. (Prescott, Ark.) 190?-current, 1911-03-03
STATE NEWS IN BRIEF.

Twelve thousand cedar posts have
just been shipped from Cotter.
st. Louis capitalists will probably
erect a cold storage plant at Ora.
vette.
The city council of DeQueen Is fig
uring on a $4,000 sewerage system
for that town.
Mayor w. l.. Proffer OF Cotton
Plant has published an order to citi-
zens to clean up their premises ut
once.
The first load of coal ever brought
up from shaft-sunk mine in Yell
county was hauled into Dardanells
last week.
Sarah Hosken and Charles Me-
Keever. wanted at Pineville, Ky, on
grand larceny charges. were arrested
at Hartford, Ark.
During the funeral of John w.
Dunbar at Mammoth Spring last
week every business house in the
town was closed for an hour.
The first issue of the McCrory En- &
which Walter w Raney will be ed
itor, will appear the first week IN
March.
A steel bridge. which will be $50
feet in length and which will rest
on large concrete piers, is being
erected over Big Yarn bayou, near
Lake Village.
N1rC I'll ae
has filed suit for $500 against Fort
Smith drug concern for the alleged
unauthorized use of testimonial in
which she was made to say she had
been cured of rheumatism by the use
of certain medicine. Mrs. Searles
denies that she was cured
Because the Cabot Chronicle pub.
lished news item which offended
citizen OF Cabot. a petition asking
that the Chronicle be boycotted was
circulated at Cabot. The Chronicle f
met the situation by appealing to the
farmers to support the paper because
it gives the news without fear or
favor.
1t is probable that the long-talked
Of free bridge over Black river east
of Corning will not be built, since
the federal government demanded
that the bridge be "a feet above the
low water mark This would neces'
state the building OF something like
500 feet of trestle and the cost would
be too great
An oil mill which will cost sS5,OVV
is to be erected at Arkadelphia. The
building will be Of brick and re-
inforced concrete.
At Cabot a fly flew into the eye
OF baby and. after local doctos
had attempted to remove the fly ana
had failed, the child was taken TO an
oculist in Little Rock. The case ~
most unusual one.
Captain George of the Salvation
Army at Texarkana found bao'
boy about a month old lying in h''
buggy a few nights ago. There was
nothing to indicate who left tho
child. 1t will be we'll cared for.
Coin" Harvey of Monte Ne is now
interesting himself in the buildlhs
of turnpike from Monte Ne to
point in Oklahoma. If his plans mS
terialize, an army of about 1000 men
with teams, plows. graders and az
implements and materials neeueu
will begin work on a stated day, ahs
within 10 hours the entire road WI"
be completed.
Mrs. M. e. Brannon and her soD'
Bert, were arrested at Mena on
charge OF selling whiskey in violau".
of the Internal revenue laws. INV
woman admits selling liquor ana Sd,
she was employed by man TO 40
Beginning March /, all Montice's
merchants will close their places
business at Z o'clock in the evehin.
An organization of poultry rai''"
has been perfected at Gravette.
Within 10 miles of Danville 'he.
are 100000 Elberta peach NV
which average 100000 bushels ~
$50 cars, of fine peaches each Yet e.,
The motto of the Cotton n
Arkansas is: Blind as a bar
but right" ~.
New kilns are being erected W
Ozark White Lime Company
Gravette. Last year this coAs
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