The Springdale news., 1914-03-20
SPRING VALLEY.

ReE- W. U. DAVIS preached at Spring Valley last Sunday.
 Arthur Gibson is building a new home inside the city limits.
 Ed Lawson has cleared nice piece of new land for corn.
 Mrs. Henry Sanders was taken to the hospital at Fayetteville last week
 J. w Ingram's infant daughter has been dangerously ill but is i'm proving
 Wint Parsley has been pulling the stumps out of the new road he is building
 This fine weather is being used by the farmers, and the oat crop will soon be in the ground
 c. M. Donaldson was circulating among friends and relatives in these parts last week
 Born, to MT and Mrs. J. A. Huff man, Thursday, Nov F, a daughter Mother and baby are doing we'll
 Mrs. Bert Wells has returned from the hospital at Fayetteville She has fully recovered her usual good health
 We will try six acres of sweet clover this spring. Hope We will find it as agricultural journals rec ommend it.
 Harry Puryear has his corn ground plowed and fenced Is he to represent us in the contest this Tor will there be others?
 If We can't get decent wagon roads maybe We will get the railroad As far off as the railroad seems, it looks whole lot nearer than good public roads.
 l.. A. Sanders took in the civil service examination for Fourth class p6stmasters last Saturday The civ il service ought to be extended so Is to embrace most state and eoun- ty officers. When man stops you and wants you to help elect him to some office how do you know he is qualified? Put them up against a good, stiff examination on the work they propose to do and candidates would not be so plentiful
 Politics? Well. did you ever? Call the corrupt practices Act, At least thousand speeches that were never spoke have gone over the route this month Charges and e3unter charges load the carrier and disgust the patrons One is lead to inquire. why don't they tell their s .ories to the grand jury =" A be- tuddled citizen sat on a log by his mail box one day last week with two opposing documents in his hands. By swat he remarked, If what they both tell is true they 3Hsht to b in the pen; if not they ar lying and doggcnned if vote for 7ither one I.st the people rule. Did you ever catch 'em at tt2
 It is a shame and little credit to DIT country that two or three miles of roads should be left in such condition that the auto truck quit What goes with the road -ax2 Last Sunday a man in Burk- shed district told Us he had not been ..-Irnpd Ouf for thrpa years Sever | others told us the same All the banners and boosters don't seem to io adcb good The system is at 3aIt Last legislature a bill was sah@itted embracing the following =eUres: Taxes ali to be paid in -asH, road work to be done by con tract according to published esti- mates; roads to be patroled twice # m8atb iR winter and once month tn summer; provision for dragging eas made; justices were to patrol, 4aka estimates, and let contracts for work, the county judge was all lowed 10 review contracts for work amounting to over twenty five doll ars; in eases where difficulty in mak- ing estimates arose, an engineer might be employed to make the esti- mates These features have all been tried out and proven success fHl ia other states
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