The Green Forest tribune., 1915-11-26


 ously and painfully injured when a horse kicked him squarely in the face. The lad was riding a horse and driv- ing others from a pasture when 8 young horse kicked at the animal the boy was riding, missed it and struck fractured and several of his teeth were knocked out.
 Unless Arkansas and Tennessee work for a federal appropriation for the National Southern Highway, there is danger that the original route planned, which passes through Little Rock, will be abandoned and the Gulf States route adopted Dell L. Pot ter of Clifton, Ariz., president of the Southern Highway Association, told an audience of good roads boosters.
 Improvement work on the Arkansas River that would make that stream navigable all the year were made be- fore the United States army board of engineers by United States Senator Joe T. Robinson of Arkansas and by H. F. Auten and Carl J. Baer of Lit tie Rock, president and secretary, re- spectively, of the Arkansas River De- velopment Association. A new upland cotton named Mich son." introduced by Nichols & Hud- son, merchants of Carlisle, for the first | time in Arkansas, it is said, has pro- l duced excellent results and it is be- | lieved will open new era in the cul- | tivation of hill cotton. It has been believed that staple cotton could not l be grown on upland soil. A bond issue of $Z0,O00 has been | sold to Little Rock buyers by the commissioners of Road Improvement District No. 1 of Searcy county The net proceeds of the sale are S19,500 The money will be used to construct a road from Marshall to point north east of Marshall.
 The Rev. George Edwards of St. Louis, who spent last winter at Lit i tie Rock, working under Bishop Win chester of the Episcopal Church, has been assigned to St. Pauls parish at Newport for the winter, to succeed | the Rev. MT. Heaton, who recently re- signed.
 A search for lead was begun on the farm of l. M. Covington near Lancas- ter. The work is under the supervi- sion of Ed Steward cf Alma, who says that the hills in that section of the county are full of lead ore. In Truman, a small town, 12 miles working plants that have been run ming on partial time are now running full time, giving employment to many men who have been idle.
 A. Lawless, formerly editor and but for the past two months con- nected with the Lead Hill News, will locate in Van Buren to engage in the insurance business.
 The Blytheville Courier is making a fight to save the pecan trees in Mis- sissippi county. These valuable trees abound there and quite often are sac rificed with other timber when land is cleared for cultivation. According to the report of the Inde- merator up to November l there had been a total of 2,970 bales ginned in this county, compared with 3,S14 to date last year.
 According to the Calico Rock Prog | 83 and 85, took their first ride on train last week when they went from Calico Rock to Oklahoma to visit rel atives.
 After 46 years of labor as black  of Batesville will retire from business, l owing to bad eyesight. MT. White is 80 years old and is hale and strong. A. D. Avery, an Oklahoma newspa- per man, has purchased the Chicot Spectator and will publish it here | after.
 After drilling 15 feet deeper, mak- ing total depth of 2,300 feet, the gas we'll of the Clear Creek Oil and Gas | Company, four miles south of Alma. developed capacity of 20,O00,00O feet of gas per day and the flow became so terrific that drillers had to aband- on their work. The pressure is so great that gravel is thrown more than 100 feet into the air.
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 Subscriptions are being aaeh sst, 'o aid in rebuilding the Baptist Ch1rHsrs | at Oak BoWery.