The Pulaskian., 1915-06-04


 farm had been unsatisfactory.
 The board voted to set aside $500 for farm demonstration purposes ard voted thanks to the Farmers Union for the interest it had taken in the school
 Two telegrams from local residents who are in the oil fields near Shreye- port gladdened the hearts of about 30 Hot Springs investors in stock of one of the newly organized companies. The telegrams said two wells had been struck on property the new company is working. Three well-known local men have invested rather heavily in the new company, while about 30 others have purchased smaller quanti- ties of stock.
 Brinkley hopes to be the scene of the opening of the campaign for the Democratic nomination for governor June 15. On that day United States Senator Robert M. LaFollette of Wis consin will speak here as a part of the program of the Brinkley chautau- qua and musical festival and it is planned to have all the candidates for the Democratic nomination for gov ernor to speak.
 The proposition of taking over the state fair, which has been held at Hot Springs, was taken up by the Asso- citation, at their annual meeting in the office of County Judge Joe Asher, president of the association. Judge Asher appointed a committee to con fer with the officers of the Arkansas State Fair Association in Hot Springs to see if they will cooperate in hold ing the 1915 fair in Little Rock.
 Since the meeting of t!,e Arkansas Press Association at Harrison, Harri- son has gotten many thousands of dol lars of advertising in the press of Ar kansas and from all accounts Harrf- son deserves every dollars worth of it. The concensus among the editors is that never has Harrison's enter tainment been beaten.
 Road workers "domg duty" for three days are repairing tho roads in Caddo Gap. Roads near here arc considered the best in the county.
 Sixty teeth were torn from a saw in mill at Thornton when the saw struck pocket knife which was deeply embedded in a log.
 One of the largest punches of oats ever known in Bradley county is on display at the Bradley County Bank at Hermitage
 While transferring a swarm of bees Dr. G. W. Taylor of Zinc was so bad ly stung that for a time his condition was most critical
 The St. Francis Levee Board won title to large tracts of land in it's third suit against T. M. Stoffe.
 The people of Danville voted three to one in favor of the local stock law.
 The streets of Piggott will be oiled soon to keep down the dust during the summer.
 H. R. Downey, senior member of the 1 firm of Downey & Sparks, has sold his interest in the McGehee Printing Company to J. L. Sparks, who will continue the business under the same name. MT. Downey will still be as- sociated with the concern. Manganese ore has been found i'll paying quanties, and a third shaft is being sunk near Caddo Gap. Promo l ters say they will employ at least 100 men in case they make a good strike
 Figures compiled by k. J. Bodman, 1 chairman of the Arkansas profitable farming campaign, show that in more I than 40 counties the reduction in cot ton acreage will average 29 per cent
 With an ideal spring for the farm CTS, and approximately 100000 acres of the best rice that the Grand Prairie country has ever seen. prospects ap. pear bright for Stuttgart. The Ashdown School Board has let a ] contract for a school building to cost ]; e,s.500.
 The injunction asked in Chancery i Court here by those opposed to the new pike through this county, made possible by a bill passed by the last legislature, introduced by R. R. Posey, was denied by Chancellor Jethro P. Henderson of Hot Springs.