The Forrest City times., 1911-09-15
NEW CASTLE TIMES

We'll as 1t has been some time since wrote anything from this part of our beloved county, will try to send you lew happenings
 W e had another heavy rain Friday evening that did nc one any good so Tar as we can see, but it caught a lot oi me hay on the ground. on top Of our other misfortunes this season 1 suppose 1t will proong the life of the worm that is devouring one of the ilnest prospects Of a b0untiful yield of cotton that Johnson township ever had. But il is all gone except d small July bottom crop. 1 have some grown bolls with worms ill them. but we cannot tell anything about it, the stalk k so large and the foliage so heaVy that We cannot see. And the bud worm has literally ruined all the young corn in our county | have seen lots of corn with stalks fully i grown without a blade or anything Ike shack on it. And now the worms have taken to our young peas that have just about matured, and Just before they get hard. The leaf worm or army worm has not bothered us here yet but we've got all the other kinds, and sizes, and shapes. This surely has been the worst year Tor the farmers that we have ever ex- perienced. Pea hay is finer than ever i before Ill the history of our country, but there IS very little of it that has ever D!0omed or made pea yet. Some of the oldest of the hay has l few peas scattered about through it. | but 1t is so rank that you cannot find the peas. Seed will be at a premium next season.
 No cotton opening in our neighbor- hood yet to amount to anything. All too rank, l suppose.
 Our cotton crop will be shorter than last year; old corn is fine, but the late 1 planting is almost complete failure.
 We have one of the finest Sunday schools and prayer meetings on the circuit. We have seventy or eighty enrolled in our Sunday school and about fifty or sixty regular attendants. We have prayer meeting at the church every Sunday night and at some neighbOr's home every Thursday night.
 We have had no preaching lately on account of our pastor getting crippled some time ago.
 Dr and Mrs Frank England, of Madison, visited homefolks at New ! Castle Sunday.
 Miss Alma Pirtle and MT. Lee Horton and Miss Helen Shawver and MT. Robt. Smith were out horseback riding Sunday afternoon.
 saw piece in the Chronicle some time ago, supposedly speaking for Johnson township in regard to putting our odtime friend, Clerk Merwin out of the office, and putting young MT. Gatling in his stead. The writer of that article surely is mistaken about l Johnson townships vote, for l have not heard anything like that from i single man in this part of the woods, and your correspondent thinks the good people would make great mis take in changing our oldtime friend l for MT, Gatling or any other man in the county, as he has head on his shoulders equal to any lawyer, and he is always willing to divide that infor- nation with any of his friends or foes 1 at any time he is asked for Il and at no cost MT. Merwin need not lose any sleep over this end of the county l for We will roll him up the same ma jorities that we have in the past.
 And we have noticed another piece in one of our county papers about the sheriff's race, and speaking of MT. 1 Williams running again. MT. Will Hams had this office long enough, and 1 furthermore we want him in our next l legislature. We think he can do more good there than anywhere else, though it will not help him so much financially, but he has had lots of the county's finances heretofore.
 And now you have one of the best and biggest hearted men iii your town that any county can produce, that we i want to see sheriff, and that is our old 1 friend. Dr. McDougal, who is now deputy under Mir. Mallory. We know whereof we speak for he has been our neighbor and friend and physician fer years, and so far as honesty and man <, illness is concerned, there Is no use mentioning it, and l can certainly say that the people of St. Francis county will never regret the day they elect Dr. McDougal sheriff, and as Johnson township has only twice had the honor of having her citizens for sheriff, we think it time for her to be represented again. So we people are going to make the road mighty hot for the man that beats him in 1912.
 The good people of New Castle made up s60 to send our old friend, Rev. $ J. B. Milton, to St. Josephs Hospital in Memphis. He has been sick for a long time. MT F. l.. Horton went with him.
 Misses Alma Pirtle and Helen Shawver are visiting Miss Annie Jett in Caldwell this week.