The Spectator., 1915-07-02

Dr. Joseph Goldberger of the Unit ed States Public Health Service, ar rived in Little Rock to begin com plete investigation of pellagra condi- tions throughout the State. Dr. Gold
 berger, whose headquarters are ill Washington, and Dr. G. w. Garrison, State health officer, will go to Plain
 view, near where an epidemic of pei lagra recently broke out in a lumber camp. Within few days they Will
 go to Monticello, where pellagra has attacked many children in the Arkan- sas Baptist Orphans Home. Dr. Garrison returned from Monti- cello, where he was called by the board of trustees of the home. Chil- dren having the disease have been isolated in an effort to prevent a fur | ther spread of the malady among the
 other 150 children in the institution. The physician went to the home after
 an appeal for help had been made to | Gov. George w. Hays. Two of the children had died from the disease and more than thirty others were suf- fering from it.
 Pellagra has become prevalent in ! many sections of the State, according to physicians, and so prevalent that the situation has become serious. In addition to the visits to Plainyiew and Monticello Dr. Goldberger and Dr. Garrison will go to Crossett. where | another epidemic is said to have | broken out.
 Dr. Goldberger was sent to Arkan- | sas on the request of Dr. Garrison and I he will remain here until a. complete investigation is made. Dr. Goldberger
 is recognized authority on pellagra. | At depth of 1.200 feet, drillers of | a test we'll at Sulphur Rock, nine | miles from Batesville, have found oil | in small quantities and oil sand, ! which, according to Driller c. A. Har- ! mon, is the best indication that oil | will be found in large quantities at depth of about 100 feet more. The | drillers have been digging for the past three years and it is thought that on- l ly few months remain before oil will l be found
 Complaint is made in Crawford
 County of the custom of bringing dan,- | age suits of railroads from other coun- ties to Crawford. The Van Buren | Press-Argus, commenting on the re-
 cent filing at Van Buren of a suit for l S50,0o0 damages against the Iron | Mountain. calls to the attention of the ! taxpayers the fact that the trial of
 this suit will cost them at least S14o | per day.
 The North Arkansas zinc and lead 1 field, which is now producing it's share
 of the zinc and lead that is being
 used in the manufacture of cartridges
 and bullets for the warning nations of
 Europe, will soon he furnishing salt
 petre in commercial quantities for the
 manufacture of powder with which to
 hurl them. Saltpetre has jumped from six cents pound year ago to Ia cents a pound at this time At the expiration of P. H. Princes term as deputy prosecuting attorney for Faulkner County, July 19. this | county will be minus the services of
 deputy prosecutor, according to
 Prosecuting Attorney James E. Read
 of Lonoke
 Ed Weaver, local stockman and farmer, who lives near Omaha, receiv- l cd a nervous shock when he pulled a live copperhead snake from box null
 of cowpeas which he was smelling ,by.
 tramping.
 The J. B. McCrary Company of At
 lanta and Little Rock has closed @
 contract with the commissioners of
 the Benton Improvement District to
 install here water and sewerage sys-
 ems, the contract price being sgo0OC.
 The citizens of Auvergne six miles
 south of Newport are agitating the | question of building a roller mill to
 take care of the large grain crop of
 that section. which raised more wheat
 than any other section of the county. Several local men and others from
 Muskogee, Okla, started from Leslie
 by wagon for Zinc. few miles north
 east. Many people from various sec.
 tions are prospecting for zinc in that district
 A special election has just been
 heid at Omaha for the purpose of
 forming special school district to
 enable the people to vote bonds and
 construct new school building. At a recent maatipy oS tho n.u.,.