The Spectator., 1915-11-26

| After resisting many attempts, the great gas well of the Clear Creek Oil and Gas Company has been capped and brought under control. | The flow of this we'll has steadily increased until the lowest estimate by oil experts is 2O,0O0,O00 feet, and many of them say 25,OOO,OOO feet Oil men from all parts of the country are | Hooking here, as the we'll is only three and one-half miles south of here, with maccadamized road running directly to it. Some of these oil men are buying property, while others are looking for leases. | Considerable Alma property has | changed hands. Dr. L. c. Berneys of l Little Rock has bought Main street property and will erect handsome | business building at once. The state | geologist went over the property of l the Clear Creek Company with its officers, locating two more wells, which the company will begin drill ] ing.
 l north of the present well. and near | the Alma city limits. These wells are l being located for oil. Gas was ex- pected in the present well. The local postoffice is daily flooded with letters of inquiry from Maine to California from men desiring to buy or lease property It is expected Alma's popu. lation will double or treble before 1 Christmas.
 l J. F. McGehee. J. E. Wright and Frank Engles, local men, who are the | original oil men of Crawford county, are receiving the congratulations of their friends for their pluck in push | ing these developments to success. Undaunted by the reverse they suffered at the New Orleans conven- tion of the Jefferson Highway Asso- citation by reason of the so-called Par sons route being adopted in prefer ence to the Joplin route, Arkansas members of the association called q convention to meet at Winslow De cember 1 for the purpose of devising plans to build a loop to the highway through the scenic Ozarks of this state. Had the Joplin route been adopted the highway would have led through the Ozark Mountains through out the entire western part of Ar kansas. The Parsons route takes the highway through Muskogee, Okla. l -r
 The fire wardens of Mountain View, acting under city ordinance, have inspected the residences and business houses of Mountain View and have made report to the City Council con taining suggestions as to how greater security against fire can be obtained in Mountain View. Under the ordi- nance if the suggestions are not acted on promptly. the mayor has power to impose a fine.
 More than 50 years ago Wesley Bates brought from Georgia to the Big Fork community of Polk county an apples which now grows in many orchards there and is known as the Wes apple. The fruit is of fair size yellow in color and of splendid flavor, but is unfit for use until late in the winter.
 1 Ten suits have been brought by the Bank of Conway on notes given in rhny hn,, Rf raised at Conway to secure the State Normal School. The suits were filed on the last day before the notes would have been barred by the statute of limitation.
 Alex Flannery found 27-grain pearl near Calico Rock recently Plan. i nery shot fish, and after wading in. to the water to get it, decided to open a few mussel shells. He threw about dozen shells from the river to the bank and in one of these he found the pearl.
 search for lead was begun on the farm of I. 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 Ecounty are full of lead ore
 A. Lawless, formerly editor and publisher of the Mulberry Democrat, but for the past two months con. nected with the Lead Hill News, will locate in Van Buren to engage in the insurance business.
 According to the Calico Rock Prog. ress. the Misses Sloan, sisters. aged S3 and S5. took their first ride on a train last week when they went from Calico Rock to Oklahoma to visit rel.