The weekly soliphone., 1915-07-23

probate court or GTeene county was convened this morning by Judge J. L. Light. However, no business was transacted, Judge Light ad- journing the court for the day out of respect to Attorney w. F. Kirsch whose mother died here Saturday night.
 J. P. Cathey and family who have been living on MT. Cathey's farm in Cache bottoms are spending sever al days here at their home on West Emerson street. Mir. Cathey says he has fine crops on his place and is expecting a bumper yield. He and his family will probably re- main on the farm until after the harvest this fall.
 In police court this morning Cole Dodson was fined $15 for drunkenness and fighting, and AL lison Kelley was given a ten dollar package for fighting. J. w. Eaton was fined S1O for drunkenness, and an additional fine of $25 was placed on him for assaulting his wife. The latter fine was suspend ed pending good behavior.
 Dr. c. A. Hardesty and George Lackey are moving their stock of drugs and fixtures to the Tobe Spain building one door south of Joseph's store. A handsome new fountain and many new fixtures have been installed. The old foun- tain and some of the fixtures in the store room in the Baird building have been bought by Buck Wood who will operate a confectionery and fountain stand in the guar ters.
 Judge J. F. Gautney left this morning for Nashville in answer tc a message telling him of the death of his sister, Mrs. White, who for merly resided in this city, the deatE occurring quite suddenly. The son of Mrs. White arrived here last night for a visit with the family of Judge Gautney, and soon after his arrival message came telling of the death of his mother.-Jones- boro Tribune.
 Prof. J. w. Kuykendall of Fort Smith spent Saturday in Paragould greeting his numerous friends Prof. Kuykendall is native ot Greene county, and a brother-in- law of Judge w. s. Luna of this city. For a number of years he has been superintendent of the pub lie school system of Fort Smith. He recently resigned that position and is now a candidate for superintend. ent of public instruction to succeed George B. Cook, the incumbent.
 Saturday afternoon a sneak thie1 entered the office at the Hickson. Rogers handle mill while E. H Borneman, the secretary, was look ing after business in the yards, and grabbed several pay envelopes con- taining in all about sixty-five dol lars. The door to the office was locked, but the thief cut the screen in one of the windows. MT. Borne man had been making out the pay roll and had the various amounts in pay envelopes ready for delivery to the employees when he was called out of the office for few minutes
 J. T. Neal, a progressive young farmer residing three miles south of Paragould, was in the city this morning and said during the past thirty days sneak thieves had en- tered his hen house and stolen one hundred and twenty-five thorough bred White Wyandotte chickens weighing from a pound and a half to two and a half. The chickens were from this years hatchings and many of them were exception ally fine specimens that MT. Neal expected to save for breeding pur- poses next year. He says his loss is at least fifty dollars.
 President Couch of the Arkansas Light & Power Company, the new owners of the planted formerly op- erated by the Crystal Ice Company, has announced that E. T. Reynolds, who has been in charge of the elec- tric light and ice plant at Camden, will be the manager for the Para gould plant. MT. Reynolds has l leased the rebuilt Jeff fields home on Highland street, now owned by P E. House, and by August 1 he will move his family to Paragould. The rew company will open a