The Monticellonian., 1916-12-07

bIuCe dIlu }. IL I1dIllln oil Little ROCK.
{. II. Murphy and IL w Wheeler OF
Pine Bluff. Frank F. Fee of Dermott
and r l. Gregory Of Blissville.
1t was decided to hold the next
meeting IN Little Rock on December 9.
j. H Townsend, secretary manager
of the Southern Hardwood Traffic As
ISOLATION. who attended the meeting,
returned to Memphis.
D NJ Wilson OF Rlson has a copy
or the first issue of the Arkansas Ga,
zette. It IS Vol. /. No l, and is dated
Saturday. November 20, 1913 VII
liam e Woodruff's name appears as
publisher. The copy was found in
a crack in log house by Confed-
crate soldier, and he carried It
through the war, then gave it to DR..
o. L. Mahoney. Following DIR. Maho-
neys death, his widow gave the pa.
per to Mr.. Wilson
Serious complaint Is being made by
the commercial interests of Pine Bluff
and the territory south OF here along
the Arkansas River over the fact that
despite the appropriations made at
the recent session of Congress for i'm
provement on the river, virtually no
work is being done and the appropria-
ton is being eaten up by maintenance
costs of no benefit to the territory in
yolved
Five men took possession OF
Jonesbono. Lake City and Eastern
BlytheviIle recently and raced up and
down the track for some time. finally
running into an open switch and
wrecking the engine None of the
joy riders was hurt Those who have
been found have been arrested and
fined.
c. w Winningham, aged 81, a resi-
dent OF Damascus. which is located %
miles north of Conway, was in Con
way last week for the first time in
30 years His last visit before this
one was in 1856. when he brought
load of apples to Conway and mar
keted them. He expressed astonish-
ment at the growth of the town since
his last visit
The Warren Democrat-News de-
plores the fact that the Bradley Quo
rum Court failed to make an appro-
priation necessary to carry on farm
demonstration work in that county and
calls attention to the fact that in one
day GA Bradley county farmers called
on the farm demonstration now EN-.
ployed for help in the vaccination OF
hogs.
Col Fl. c. Lawhorn, aged IS years.
formerly editor OF the Blythevine
phis visiting his daughter. Mrs. G. R
Beck on Azalia street, was knocked
down by an automobile at MeLemore
avenue and College street, suffering a
broken bone in his left leg and sew
eral decorations about the body.
Babe Ply and Lee Estes, youths of
Pyatt killed the largest black timber
wolf ever seen In this section They
were hunting three miles south of
town when they saw him trotting
along a fence. The big beast measur-
ed six feet from the tip of his nose
TO the tip of his tail.
The Carson Dry Goods Company, OF
Camden, has purchased for cash the
$4,000 stock OF Myer Bros of Monroe,
La, which went out Of business. The
stock will be distributed among the
three stores OF the Carson company
at Camden. FL Dorado and Junction
City.
Through cooperative efforts instf.
tuted by the Phillips County Farmers
Exchange the county's principal high
ways are thoroughly dragged after
each rain Orders were let for new
drags.
Lon Pace OF Bentonville is erecting
a derrick for the Centerton Develop
ment Company, preparatory to drill
ing for oil and gas.
F. NJ Williams. formerly one OF the
proprietors OF the Stuttgart Free
Press. has bought the Carlisle hide
pendent.
S. G. Smith of Conway sold $500
bales of cotton for S623,000 to GooId
& Co of Liverpool, England, and the
cotton will be shipped direct to Liver
pool via New Orleans. About 100
freight cars will be required About
1000 bales were shipped.
S. f. Denton of Gassville, recently
reelected justice of the peace OF
Whitesville township, has been elect
ed TO that Office Is times. He has
held TIE Office continuously for 30
years.