The Forrest City times., 1914-02-06
Arkansas Briefs

...:. Mrs. Dan Mcdonald of Helena pur- chased bonds of Helena paving dis trict for $37.500, the price being 9S cents on the dollar and work will be started at once on the paving of Por- ter street, one of the principal resi- dence streets of the city.
 A fox terrier belonging to Mrs. Lizzie Tate of Helena attacked burg lar as he was entering the house through a window and drove him off. The man fled with the dog in pursuit. The little child of A c. Gooden of Shirley died after swallowing several pills contained in a box with which it was playing.
 Miss Minnie Golf, a school teacher at Cove, was suddenly stricken blind while in the school room.
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 Bonds to the amount of $10,000 have been sold by the Carlisle Improvement district to secure funds for the build ing of sidewalks throughout the town. Contracts will be let at once.
 Better service from Paragould to Blytheville on the Cotton Belt rail road is promised by the announcement that the company will place a new gas electric car in service on this line making at least two round trips each day.
 Mrs. Fred Bennett of Van Buren was terribly burned when her cloth. ing was ignited from a grass fire and Frank Bennett, her brother-in-law, was badly burned while trying to smother the flames which threatened her.
 An electric lighting system, provid ing light for the streets and resi- dences, has been completed at Wash ington.
 Fred Wolverman, while attempting to alight from train on bridge at Mulberry, slipped and fell 40 feet into the icy waters of a creek. He suffer.
 
 ries and was drowning when rescued by members of the train crew.
 The Telegraph Printing Company of Washington, whose plant was destroy. ed by fire recently, with no insurance, has practically completed a new brick building and is installing a complete new plant.
 The Walnut Ridge aerie of Eagles is preparing to erect a three-story club. house at a cost of $15,000.
 The Beall plantation, located three miles northeast of Washington, has been sold to L. w. and J. c. Aiken of Omaha, Neb, the consideration being $90,000.
 Burglars entered the stores of ]. l.. King, jeweler, and the Clarksville Book Company at Clarksville and es- caped with watches, rings and other jewelry valued at between $1 300 and $2,00O
 
 Following the granting of licenses to sell liquor at Hot Springs, the saloon men paid $35, 800 into the city treasury in license fees for the year.
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 T. M Hudson and J. B. Dunlap were nominated for representatives from Phillips county in the Democratic pri. mary without opposition
 About 50 farmers and truck grow CTS of Miller county, Arkansas, and Bowie, county, Texas, formed the Tex arkana Truck and Fruit Growers As sociation for the purpose of securing better marketing conditions and other advantages.
 A bill appropriating $G0,000 for the erection of a postofce building al Stuttgart has been introduced in the House by Congressman Taylor. The 1 government has already purchased a site for the building. l Convicted on a charge of striking his father with a chair, Lewis Henderson of Brocktown was fined $20. The father and son became involved in q l quarrel and went out into the yard tc Bettle the difficulty, it was stated {.
 Noble T. Nixon has been appointed postmaster at Mulberry to succeed s 1 r Jackson
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 An unsuccessful attempt was made i to rob the safe in the postofice al i Cabot.
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 The executive committee of the Northeast Arkansas Tick Eradication Commission at a meeting in Walnut Ridge, decided to cover more territory during the next season, extending the south line to include Woodruff and