The Dermott news., 1914-07-09
All Over Arkansas


. All over ARKANSAS .
Camden's first Chautauqua closed
Wednesday night after a fiFe-day SEES
sion. The Chautauqua was more than
a success from a standpoint OF inter
est and education.
Postal Inspector G.. G.. Haynes, who
has been stationed in the Little Rock
postal district for the past year, left
last week for Mason City, Iowa. where
the government has assigned aim. In
spector Haynes will be succeeded at
the Little Rock office by Inspector Ira
Ross of Hot Springs.
Many blackberry pickers IN the vi.
cinity of Biytheville make $500 or
$500 a day, finding a demand in the
local market at from 80 cents to so
cents a gallon. II is no oc-
currence for some families to make
from $1,000 to $500 a day picking
and selling b~lackberries.
Charlton is raging in the vicinity
OF Gillette among the live stock and
at least 40 head of horses. mules and
cattle have already died fro n 1t. This
stock has a valuation Of | var $4,000.
There are many cases and II seems
that all of them prove fatal. Naccin-
nation is the only known prevent
tive and many of the farmers are
using it.
According to information gathered
by the development department Of the
Frisco railroad the apple orchards of
the Arkansas M Missouri Ozark
mountain sections will yield 700 cars
less than was estimated earlier this
year. The late frost is blamed for the
shortage.
Following a plan adopted by County
Judge f. B. Mccall. Road Commission
er 4. l.. Morgan and W. W Brown
have begun the work of building a
road from Camden to the Calhoun
county line.
The end of the record drouth of ~
days in Sebastian county came July .
with terrific rains that resulted in in
juries for more than a score OF per
sons. Dense sheets of rain falling
near Nancy Junction. west OF Hart
ford on the observation-disclosures line.
caused a Midland Valley passenger
train to crash head on into a Midland
Valley coal train. causing II persons
to be hurt.
OF the 2254 patients treated at the
Iron Mountain hospital in Little Rock
during the year ending June 30. less
tdan one out of every hundred died.
according To the annual statement of
the institution. There were only 2l
deaths.
John H. Parker of Camden. sheriff
Of Ouachita county. will TAKE oath Of
office as marshal of the western dis.
trict of Arkansas. July Is.
According 70 Washington dispatches.
President Wilson is considering the
appointment OF George b. Rose. we'll
known Little Rock attorney, as minis
ter to Uruguay Members Of the Ar
kansas delegation eNfNct Mr.. Roses
nomination to 90 to the Senate within
a few days.
Tho somi-annual meeting OF the AT
kansas Sherifs' Association will be
held in the Pulaski county courtroom
Wednesday, July %. at 10 a. IN. The
purpose Of the meeting will be To make
the service more efficient.
The receipts at the office OF the col
lector OF internal revenue in Little
Rock. for the month OF June, 1914.
we're $3.50 600. as compared TO Sl64,000
for June. 1913. The increase is due
10 the income tax and the fact that
corporations are no longer exempt.
Russell Rice. 2S ears old. deputy
prosecuting attorney OF Berton Coun-
". on July > stabbed Lloyd karnes. %
years old. karnes walked about 40
feet and dropped dead with a wound
through his chest. Rice was arrested
and is held charged with first degree
murder.
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Wallace u. Reynolds of Corpus
Christi. Tex. has been secured to take
tho place Of Prof. Parker in the Aca-
DENY OF Hendrix college. while Prof.
Parker is spending a wear in Column
bia University. Prof Reynolds las a
degree OF - Phi. speaks Spanish flu
entity, and is an athlete who has taken
a prominent place in college foot
bali, baseball and basket ball. and on
the track.