The Springdale news., 1915-08-27
JOHN NSOk

i1 eastern Nevada
 Ed Luper and daughter, Miss May. of Republic, Mo-, are visiting rela- tives here this week.
 Hal Crum returned Sunday from Glenwood Iowa, where he has been making apple barrels for couple of months
 i J. R Burkhead of Electra, Texas, spent a day or so of last week look ing up former acquaintances here. Mir. Burkhead lived in the Stony Point neighborhood several years ago
 Mir and Mrs. Arthur Smith left today for visit of ten days at their former homes near Wheeling and Parkviile, Mo. Witt Maxey, the substitute carrier, will attend to the rural route mail while Mr. Smith is away on his vacation.
 George Austin who has been work l ing at the local lime kilns for the last decade will move to Springdale
 
 cooperage concern there.
 Tom Austin and family are coming back to JoAnson in the near future after stay of several years near PortaIes. New Mexico
 The big rain last Thursday and Friday was a record breaker for this vicinity Local streams were very high, and a great deal Of damage has been reported by farmers whose crops fences and land suffered from the floods. The Clear Creek kilns were threatened by the high water and quite a loss amounting to several hun dred dollars was suffered there but the plant and buildings were saved. The creek was unfordabe all day Friday, and several narrow escapes from drowning is reported. Mail carrier Smith got into serious troub- 1 le that day while trying to cross the branch just north of the Snyder res idence on the old J. B Vernon farm. The swift current Of the swollen stream swept his horse and buggy down stream into the stypes farm and the rig was wrecked pretty thoroughly by the flood before Smith found a landing place. Mr Smith had quite a lot of mail which was lost, also all of his supplies, etc, but most everything was found when the branch subsided A Syrian wagon was wrecked away up Clear Creek east of Johnson the same day, and one big. case Of the peddler's goods was found at the ford south of John son Saturday Several other minor mishaps have been reported at var ffous crossings, and people should be very careful while such showery days continue and the waters are muddy.
 The absence of thunder and light ming was very noticeable during the big storm of rain last week, but an electric storm accompanied by wind and rain swept over from the north Sunday night, and there was sure q plenty of thunder and lightning, too. This gale has been followed by more rain today.
 Local folks have had no St. Louis papers since Thursday as the great rain swept on to the northeast and demoralized all railroad traffic out of St. Louis.
 Mr. and Mrs. Jim Gravens are en route here from sam Bernardino Cal, on a visit to friends and rela- tives They lived here some years ago, but have been located in south ern California for some time.
 Mr. and Mrs Carl Mayes are visit ing this week in Sacramento, Calf, while on their way to the Frisco Exposition.
 The Clear Creek pump station was in service a part Of last week while White river was on such big ram pace as a result of the big rain Andy George is the care-taker at the local plant, and has to keep pretty close around as he is liable to be called to get the pump to going most any time.
 Tom Grebe returned Sunday from short visit to sarcoXie, Mo. Geo. Grebe and Henry Lockhart, formerly of Johnson, are now living =up in that vicinity.
 Geo W. Johnson died Sunday af- terno)n at Fayetteville, at the home of bis parents, MT. and Mrs. B. F. Johnson. George had been seriously l ill for some time and had been brought from his home, near Harris, Ark, to Fayetteville, so as to be nearer medical attendance, but all that love and science could do was powerless to avert the end He was to be buried this evening 6Monday) in the King graveyard. near Harris, i Ark