The Springdale news., 1914-08-28
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70 use about September l.
 
 What will the great European war of which we of today are the witnesses be called in history? asks the Arkansas Gazette. We suggest The Potpourri. Or in order to save international reference to the dic- tionary Hash" might do.- Russell vile Democrat
 Why not call it Graft That's what the sellers of food stuffs are making out of it.
 Ben Hatler of Rogers is the only man who did not respond to the in- vitation of the state to visit Benton vile today. In fact, the invitation has never reached him. He is still out of the state He will have an opportunity. however, later to pay his call.-Bentonville Democrat. We presume Ben is one of the fortunate" officials of the Bank of Rogers. For Ben's benefit, we sug- gest that he make the vacation as long as possible, for the rumbling thunder in Benton County indicates some heavy storm about the time the Grand Jury meets in September. Some of those Benton County school directors are going to make the Flu ropean war look tame.
 Stuttgart parties have purchased a body of land near Fayetteville which they claim is underlaid with a fifty foot bed of guano. It is said Federal authorities can offer no ex- planation as to what species of bird laid the deposit. That the guano has ed by the fact that it is covered by two feet of soil.-Ex.
 We were guessing for short time about this new find, and were wonder ing just what had been discovered, but thanks to N Webster, and his we'll known publication, we find that
 
 abundance on some coasts or island frequented by sea fowls, and compos- ed chiefly of their excrement. It is rich in phosphates and ammonia, and is used as d poWreful fertilizer
 c. Lockhart, of Tomahawk, Ark, in an article i'll the Marshall Republican, trims Commissioner of Mines Full Ter, who has made the positive asser- eion that there has been no radium discovered in Arkansas.. MT. Loekhart asserts that Mr. Fuller knows "abso- Iutely nothing about radium. Mr Fuller recently went to the mine at Tomahawk, where MT. Loekhart claims to have discovered radium and got samples of ore which he tested for radium and found no traces. Lock hart says the commissioner did not know enough to select samples. Is there, or is there not, radium at Tomahawk?- ?-Eureka Springs Flash light.
 Send us half bushel of samples, and we'll endeavor to find out.
 
 We see by close, very close scru- tiny of the Fayetteville Daily, that an election is to be held in Wash ington County, Arkansas, Monday, September IA, 1910," to elect the following named State, County and Township officers, etc, and winds up given under my hand this Aug ust IS, 1914, S. W. Caudle, Sheriff of Washington County" We hate to even intimate that either the Daily or Sheriff Caudle are four years be hind, but somebody is awful slow . Mayhap Sheriff Sam is figuring on running for sheriff again; at any rate we are wondering if the election proclamation is legal, and as friendly offer we suggest that the proof" on that aforementioned proc lamation be read and the linotype operator be permitted to in sert in place Of the 0. Then we'll be up to time in Washington County. Say, don't we need thirty days notice before we can hold a legal election? Think it over.
 THEY ALL GO TOGETHER.
 Goodbye, Another Georgia town has voted in favor of saloons, and here is the reason
 If we are going to stand for wo- men folks wearing shadow skirts, and slit skirts, and transparent skirts, and our young folks learning to dance the boil veevil wiggle, the Texas Tommy tango, the bunny hug, the bear dance, the heifer canter, the buard hop, the bunny hurdle aznd the turkey in the straw and the grass hopper. and so on doyn the line, then the men folks might as we'll have