The Pulaskian., 1915-08-06

1 feet of inaeadam nine inches deep. Nine bids were submitted. The bid on which the contract was awarded did not include the cost of bridges and the contract for these will be awarded separately.
 l ARKANSAS IN BRIEF. | E. K. Belk 6S, one of the best known farmers in the vicinity of Tex 1 arkana, was so badly wounded in the course of difficulty with his son-in- law, Francis James, A, at the latter's home near Eylau, five miles southwest of here, that he died soon afterward. The trouble was caused by Bells claiming $2.5O for damaged corn.
 Farm extension and home economic schools were conducted in Hope by w. C. Lassetter, H. F. Kapp and others of the extension service of the l College of Agriculture of the Univer- sity of Arkansas at Fayetteville Many women attended the lectures of Miss l Mareella Arthur, on home economies. at the high school building
 James Stevens, aged 23, stationery engineer at the coal chute in the Iron Mountain yards at McGehee, while repairing a cable in the coalhoisting 1 machinery lost his balance and fell headlong about 50 feet to a coal pile. Death was almost instantaneous. There arc 23,374 children of school age in Jefferson County, according to the annual report of County Superin- tendent A. w. Lowe, this being an in crease of 1,091 over last year. when the total was 22,2S3.
 Lloyd England, receiver for the dc- funct State National Bank, said ne was making flair progress in collec- l tion of the assessments recently la- vied on stockholders of the institu- l tion.
 Farmers in Cleburne County are preparing to thresh wheat A great deal of this grain was planted this year, and the production will be far greater than any in the history of the | county
 Cantaloupe growers are making big | ,gx~,~ are receiving a fair price. Five car loads were shipped from Van Buren one day last week
 Ralph Young of 1909 West Ninth Avenue, Pine Bluff, sustained the loss of two fingers on his left hand while at work at Sanders mill His hand was caught in rip saw.
 Ex-Congressman Minor Wallace of Hot Springs was the principal speaker at social affair for the boys de- partment of the Y. M c. A at Pine Bluff. His subject was Character Building"
 Demurrers attacking the validity of l the minimum wage act governing the employment of female labor wsre sus- tained in the Circuit Court by Judge Paul Little in the case of J. B.. Grove, operator of a laundry
 The town of Corning paid off the last of its indebtedness last week. The present council does not contemplate making any improvements this year.
 J. B. Parker & Sons, who have been publishing the Fort Smith Weekly Herald for three years past. have iuanched the daily Afternoon Herald
 In fight at Fouke, 20 miles south | of Texarkana. George Grain, using hammer, fractured Joe Pierce's skull and broke his jaw.
 The commissioners of Street Im- provement No. 1, at a meeting at Stuttgart, disposed of the bonds being issued to cover this improvement. The bonds, bearing per cent interest. are payable in from one to F years, were sold to the Missouri State Life Insur- ance Co. of St. Louis at par. | Within the next 10 days or two weeks the Clear Creek Oil and Gas Company. Fort Smith corporation, will begin prospecting for oil and gas on "A iaases In Crawford County.