The Harrison times., 1915-10-23

4 Poinsett county, is alleged to be $780,
' 500 short in his accounts with the va.
A rious drainage districts of that county,
e according to the report OF the commits
r sioners of accounts filed in the crimi-
b nal division o. the Poinsett Circuit
D Court a, Harrisburg. This informa-
e ton was given out in Paragould by
=. Prosecuting Attorney NJ. p. Huddle-
stcn, who returned from Harrisburg.
y where he has been attending court.
/ While driving a wagon loaded with
logs near Dalark, Nathan Woods was
painfully injured and narrowly es-
> capped death. Woods was walking be-
. side the wagon when an obstruction
, in the road caused It to tilt and his
. head was caught between the wagon
. bed and tree
The Arkansas Lime Company OF
. RuGdels has accepted contracts for
$500 tons Of glass sand to be deliver
ed this autumn and winter This is
IS the largest contract for glass sand
aCever placed in this part of the coun.
hairy. There are immense deposits Of
ltfthis sand in lizard county.
re
'OI Petition for Road District No. l in
MS sCrittenden county has been granted
\ Iby Judge J. B. Thompson and the work
,rof building a new network of roads
n leading up to the Harahan bridge pre-
=, liminary to its opening next June will
r /, start at once. The expense is borne
, by the land owners
" That the production OF zinc in the
Estate during 1915 practically will dou-
Voble the production in the last eight
eioyears and that the value this year
latwill almost equal that of all produced
since 1907 is the prediction of John
H. Page, commissioner of mines, mau-
ufactures and agriculture.
The county seat contest in Perry
/, county, which figuratively has been
hanging in the balance since the coun-
r ty election commissioners adjourned,
was settled when the commission met
at Casa and decided in favor of Bige-
low.
Fortytwo pints Of whiskey, seized
by Marshal J. E. King in the express
office of the Arkansas, Louisiana and
= Gulf railroad, were broken in the city
hall yard at Monticello. The liquor
was shipped in from Monroe, La.
About $50 cars of apples have been
. shipped from Sprlhgdale thus far this
season. The largest single days ship
ment was on October 5, when nine
cars went forward
8 Jackson county will this year follow
the lead of the Memphis Business
Mems Club Let Arkansas feed her
SELF" will again be the slogan.
The Beck Telephone Company has
been organized to construct a long
distance line from Memphis to Hughes,
in st. Francis county.
Members Of the Leslie Fruit and
. Berry Growers Association received
16 cents per bushel net for their
peaches this year.
Faulkner county's boodhounds,
: which were purchased by the Quorum
Court, have died.
L. w. Warneke was gored by
p bull at the cattle pens Of the Mount
Ida fair last week.
Work preliminary to developing test
oil wells near Belfast, Grant county,
is under way.
Va. G. Harris has installed a grist
mill in connection with his gin at
| Hensey.
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Three thousand acres Of wheat will
- planted in the Harrisburg territory
this year,
During the Columbia county fair,
the Magnolia News is published daily.
A large pocket OF gas was struck
in the test oil well at Alma last week.
All that remains for the city OF Pine
Pluff to secure $4,000 from Eastern
capitalists on an issue OF that much
scrip with per cent interest deduct
ed, is for the ClLy Council to ratify
the agreements and contract which |
have been signed by the mayor and |
city clerk.
Clyde Mack, business man of Para. |
gould, and VIII Grooms OF Beach |