The Dermott news., 1916-12-07

many parts of the Osceola district of Mississippi county. The growers said hay was cheap and would remain so and <ey offered fine alfalfa free to those who would take it away. Last week T. w. Jackson. livery man of Blytheville. paid S24 per ton for the hay which was free a few weeks ago. Mir Jackson bought as much hay as he had storage for at from S6 to SS per ton. but the hay did not last.
 (. w. Winningham. aged S1. resi- dent of Damascus, which is located % miles north of Conway. was in Con way last week for the first time in 90 years His last visit before this one was in 1886. 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 piores 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 10 the fact that in one day 64 Bradley county farmers called on the farm demonstrator now em- ploved for help in the vaccination of hogs.
 Bank deposits at Mountain Home have reached Sl20.000 or one-fourth more than they have ever been before in the history of the Peoples bank. This condition is due largely 10 the big price for cotton and the fact that most of the farmers in this section raised feed enough to run them through the winter and will not have 10 buy.
 In attempting to board freight train at Gleason, near Conway. o. T. Carmichael 44 years old, of Big Bend. Kan. fell under the wheels and his right foot was severed above the ankle He was brought here on handcar for treatment He said he was on his way to Russellville 10 take a job
 Col II. C Lawhorn. aged 75 years. formerly editor of the Blythevilie tArkD Herald News, who is in Mem phis visiting his daughter, Mrs G K. Beck on AZalia street. was knocked down by an automobile at McLemore avenue and College street. suffering a broken bone in his left leg and sev- eral decorations about the body.
 Magnolia's biggest cotton deal was eonsummated recently when j. s. Pit man sold 10 Holland. Crutchfeld < Co of Hope. through their local rep resentative. Guinette Couch. HOO bales of cotton al 20 l-2 cents The sum paid for the cotton was sl43.- 55799
 Striking dog caused an automo- bile driven by Floyd Day of Malvern to upset and Day and several com panions were pinned under the car for several minutes. None of the automo hilists were seriously hurt, but the machine vas badly damaged
 The pipe lines of the Twin City Pipe Line Company and the Clear Creek Oil and Gas Company from tho Klbler gas field to Fort Smith. were assessed for taxes by Epps Brown of the State Tax Commission
 The eight-month-old child of Mir and Mrs Ben Perkins. who reside near Jonesboro is now 20 inches high weighs 5S pounds and measures 27 inches around the waist
 Drilling in the test oil we'll near Urbana has been resumed.
 The Carson Dry Goods Company. of | Camden, has purchased for cash the | s50. 900 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.
 w. F. Simmons. who resides near has raised some mammoth tur- nips this year. He brought to Fore man last week two turnips which Weiged together 14 pounds