The Pulaskian., 1915-11-05

counties, northwest of this place.
 former Fort Smith school girl. Trilby Siegel, b, and her parents are
 among the unfortunate Hebrews who
 were driven from their homes in Po-
 land by the Hussian troops rereating before the advancing Germans, ac-
 cording to letter received by l..
 Feenberg, a local business man. The
 letter was written by his mother&in. 1 law, 75, who was among the victims. Robert Brawner, who purchased the plant of the Heber Springs Headlight from T. E. Reeves, has moved his family here from Conway, his former home, and has taken charge MT. Brawner was the founder of the Ga
 zette of Magazine, and for some time past has been identified with the Log
 Cabin-Democrat of Conway, where he was manager of the city circulation
 The Northern Construction Company
 was the successful bidder for the ditches contemplated in the Big Gum Drainage District of Clay and Greene counties. The work comprises 52 | miles of dtches and four miles of
 levee and will drain 30,000 acres of the finest farming lands in this terri- tory. Work will start at once. County Judge Light of Greene coun- 1 ty told the Quorum Court that the l prosecuting attorney of Greene coun- l ty was receiving approximately $12,- l 900 year in fees, which is four times as much pay as the presiding judge
 receives and three times as much 1 pay as the governor of the state re-
 ceived
 The St. Francis Basin is the hum
 dred million dollar country" this year, l for that much new wealth, or created wealth, is the value of the soil prod
 ucts of the II counties. And this is
 a conservative estimate. some as-
 tute men place the figures much 1 higher.
 l Dr. c. s. Mccain, brother of Mrs. w. w. Nelson, whose husband, the 1 Rev. w. w. Nelson, was formerly
 pastor of Hawley Memorial Methodist
 Church at Pine Bluff, was killed by l Mexican bandits near Brownsville, l Tex, recently.
 E. c. Downer, a local fruit grower. has on display at Rogers a box of ap- ples which he will send to President Wilson for wedding gift The ap- l pies are of the Arkansas Black va riety, and are the finest ever seen in
 this section.
 l A proposed railroad spur to within
 a few miles of the Searcy county zinc l fields and a proposed new highway
 over IA miles of ridges, it is believed,
 will boom the county's mining belt,
 which opened up recently with tha
 aavance in ore prices. The Yell County Fair was organ- l ized three years ago and has grown
 steadily every year. From an attend.
 ance of approximately 1000 the first
 year, there was an attendance of fully 5000 daily at the last fair. | The first improvement district for Searcy county. under the Alexander
 road law, was formed at Marshall The
 following commissioners were ap- pointed: V. Bratton, J. H. Robinson
 and Granville Moore. 1 The Jacksonian was sold to John
 E. Dunn, former manager of the He- l Der Springs Headlight, by Elmer Ba-
 ker, who has been the editor and pub
 fisher several years.
 The most successful exhibit of farm ] products ever held In Independence county closed after a three days ses-
 sion. There were more than 300 dis
 plays of agricultural products.
 One apple tree in an orchard near
 Green Forest produced 29 1-2 bushels of fine fruit this season. Two separate juries acquitted T. D. Brown on a charge of embezzlement
 and of ambezzlement and of charge i Of making false entries in his books while manager of the Farmers and
 Merchants Bank and Trust Company
 of Dequeen.
 | The Business Mems Association of
 Dewitt and Stuttgart presented a
 joint petition to the Quorum Court in
 Dewitt, asking that the county appro- priate $4.260 for farm demonstration work. x <