The Green Forest tribune., 1915-08-20

Iinue It's work of dredging the Ar kansas River and to counteract the ef- fleets of recommendation by fed eral engineers that the dredgeboats Tabor and McGregor, new in the river, be removed to some other work.
 Secretary Carl Baer of the Little Rock Chamber of Commerce is ex- pected to issue a call for a meeting to be held at Little Rock at an early date
 The Bradley County Grand Jury in it's final report recently denounced as untrue reports of charges against various county officers said to be con tained in report of the commission CTS of county accounts The Grand Jury report says the jurors investi- gated the report of the commissioners Of accounts and settlements of the various county offices and found noth- ing wrong.
 While practically the entire adult population of the town was attending baseball game and while Judge w. j. Driver, who prevented a lynching more than week ago, was out fish ing, mob of 15 men entered the coun- ty jail here and shot to death Andy Cum, accused Of instigating the mur- der of Sheriff s. D. Mauldin on Island v iii the Mississippi River on July 3t.
 Sevier County will feed herself next ty demonstration agent. The cattle industry is looming up and there are now about 25 silOs under construction and a number of dipping vats being built. Farmers are being urged to plant from 10 to 30 acres of wheat So as to raise their own bread the money at home. good
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 Probably the largest pare mail ever handled by the Ho
 office was that mailed out b have master D. B. Thompson re fir Twenty-two sacks of parcel pof,.a,,, were handled, 20 of which wei vel 'iii Europe. ars
 County Judge J. L. Light of Para gould announces he wilI refund to tax payers who were returned Gclinuuent at any of the collections during the past three years, and who were charg- ed a penalty of B per cent, 10 per cent of the penalty. :;
 Following the harvesting of a great peach crop and the assurance of the greatest yields of corn, hay, potatoes and other farm crops in the history of Johnson county many public gath erings are being held
 Miss Mamie Burkett, daughter of G. w Burkett of Summers of Fayette- vile took her own life with an over dose of chloroform. III health was given as the cause.
 Work on the new England High School building is being pushed, and the building will be ready for occupan. cy by the opening of school in Sep tember
 A total of 10,635 persons of school age in Faulkner County, an increase of 19I over 1914, is shown by the an- nual report of County Examiner ]. NJ. c. Vaughter.
 L. M. Gary of Dumas has been ap. pointed county examiner by County Judge Parker, to succeed ]. w. Rev holds, who has moved from this county.
 Contracts were closed which means the opening of the Fort Smith Iron and Steel mills at an early day with a force of nearly fifty employees
 While digging well in a cemetery at Camden a bed of Ignite coal was struck 19 feet below the surface, then a bed of mica, then gas.
 William Abernathy of Kensett trad ed his 720 acres of Arkansas property with B. c. Finley of Tipton, Mo, for residence property in Tipton and 90 acres of Arkansas land. Each party placed value of $14,0OO on his hold iags.
 Lee Holt, four, son of MT Wiley Holt of Fayetteville, barely escaped death by electrocution when he grasp ed an electric light wire, which had burned in two and dropped to the ground, one finger was burned off.