The Harrison times., 1915-06-26


pared with the final estimate Of g..
24O,O 900 bushels for 1914. On June l
Of this year oats we're selling for 80
cents a bushel in Arkansas, while tie
market price on the same date year
ago was but 52 cents indicating that
Arkansas oats raisers will this year
clear $1,45O,SOO more than last year
on this crop
Mississippi county Is to avail her
self Of the Alexander road law, At
special meeting of the County Court
Judge W. M. Taylor granted a petition
for the Osceola and Little River
Dad District No l. This road will
run from OsCeola to the Craighead
County line, and the district includes
strip three miles wide on each side
Of the road containing about 10000
acres.
Truck growers along the line or the
Prescott & Northwestern Railroad are
jubiant over the present prospects
for a bumper cantaloupe crop this
season The cantaloupes will be on
the market in about 20 days, and
growers predict that a general rain
within the next 10 days will insure a
mammoth yield
Harvey s. Cole, section director for
the United States Weather Bureau in
Arkansas, has completed all details
for the maintenance Of a permanent
weather bureau substatiOn in SearCy,
and John S, Yarnell has been named
local observer,
An injunction to stop the opening
OF work In Road Improvement Dis
trict No, /, created by the last Gen
eral Assembly was denied in Chan.
Gerry Court The petitioners viii aD'
peal to the Supreme Court,
Zinc ore was sold at Buffalo for
S135 ton, the record price, These
phenomenal prices have been the
cause Of great development In the
rich Buffalo and Rush mining districts
Of North Arkansas,
The largest irrigation plant IN Ar.
kansas, and what is believed to be the
largest In the rice fields, Is being
operated by Prange g. TIndall at
Crocketts Bluff, in the eastern part
OF Arkansas county,
Ten thousand acres Of delinquent
tax lands were sold by the sheriff.
Of Baxter County Not one piece re,
yerted to the state,
with comforting the degree Of NJ. \,
on II graduates Sublaco College
closed very successful year
Anthrax has broken out among the
stock near Gllkerson, CraiRhead
County
Business men Of Salon have onerci
100 acres near Salem 20 the commit
tee having charge Of the erection OF
the Bible College under the auspices
Of the Christian churches Of Arltan.
aNs, II the college is established here,
W. Y, Barr who is managing tho
operations at the Barr a DeeneF man.
gnnese mines Il few miles north Of
Ratesyile, has lately made the rich.
est strike Of highgrude manganese
ever mado In the Independence field
While eSCNyRting 10 place tho
foundation for q new bandstand near
the famous Basin spring at EuretA
Springs a big stream OF water was
tapped
The hrgt carload OF Irish potatoes
TO be shipped from Banks viii go for,
ward within II few days II win be
consigned 10 n Chicago nrm
johnson County win have bumper
peach crop this year N the report
being made by the peach growers ana
shippers,
A mlllOgo tax amendment 10 tho
consultation designating q definite
sum for university, normal and agreuls
tuFal school support would place them
upon a higher plane according to
H. II, Greath6use Of Washington
County senator from the Firth dis.
trict
seyentyhyo onehuHhel hampers Of
green beans were shipped from