The Green Forest tribune., 1913-10-31
Arkansas Briefs


 c. R. Grader an engineer, was caught under falling wall at the Fort Smith municipal power plant and killed
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 Judge Hon in the Sebastian county circuit court, refused to allow claim of $5,2S0 filed by J. T. w. Jennings, an architect, for drawing plans for new Sebastian county court house. County Judge Jesse L. Harp ordered the plans drawn but when Ezra Heser became county judge he revoked all former proceedings and the court house was not built
 President Woodrow Wilson has been invited to make an address at the convention of the Arkansas Teachers Association in April and has stated that he will attend if it is possible for him to do so.
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 The Bank of Everton has been or ganized at Everton with a capital of $10,000. It is independent, it is stated, of the old Bank of Everton, which is in the hands of 8 receiver.
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 The quorum court of Ouachita coun- ty appropriated $500 for agricultural extension work, six hundred dollars to aid the farm demonstration work and three hundred dollars for the Girls Canning Clubs.
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 The Faulkner County Quroum court provided for a hookworm survey of the county and it will be commenced November 3 by Dr. w. P. Jacobs and a corps of assistants.
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 Dr. Chas. s. Holt of Fort Smith was elected president of the Arkansas As sociation of St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway Company Sur geons, at the second annual convention held in Little Rock. Dr, John s. East lad of Judsonia was elected vice president and Dr. w. F. Smith of Lit tie Rock secretary.
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 J. S. Oswalt, planter In Desha county was shot and killed by Ed and Rice Frye, negroes and tenants on OsWalt's farm The shooting was the result of a quarrel over business mat ters.
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 A skeleton, believed to be that Of someone drowned during the floods of last spring, was found under a railroad trestle near Heth.
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 New York capitalists are negotia tfng, it is said, for tract or 30,000 acres of mineral lands in Marion, Searcy and Newton counties.
 J. W. Gaunt, roadmaster of the Cot. ton Belt railroad, was seriously in jured when he was struck by fast freight train at Sorrells.
 Mrs. Jasper Garrett, aged so, of Ozark, was found dead in bed after re- tiring the previous evening apparently in good health.
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 John Hoover, 3-yeaT-old son of T, l.. Hoover of Argenta, died from burns which he received when his clothing was ignited from burning trash pile, As a result of the work done by the Northeast Arkansas Tick Eradication Commission, 9 part of the counties of Baxter, Jackson and Sharp will be re- leased from quarantine regulations on November and modified regulations will be enforced in portions of Izard, Independence and Sharp counties.
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 James Smith, the 17-monhs-old son of W. j. Smith of Pine Bluff, was burn ed to death when his clothing caughj fire from a stove while members of the family were out of the house. The Hot Spring county quorum court made an appropriation of $200 to assist the Rockefeller hookworm commission in it's investigation of conditions iii that county,
 H. c. Haynes, aged 7S, committed suicide by taking poison at his home, three miles from Van Buren. He had bee.l Respondent because of ill health and this is supposed to have been the cause of his act.
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 The annual report of the county treasurer shows that the Fort Smith district of Sebastian county spent $30,000 in the building of good roads during the past year.
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 A waterWorks system, on which work has been in progress for three years, has been completed in Conway and +,,rnoJ oyar +o Tho ni+v Tn,