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The Pulaskian., 1916-01-28
XX YAR-BOUND Switzerland has NN been confronted with prob- V V ably the most discouraging
 e C a n a m i c difficnltieS

V v ably the most discouraging
 econom mic difficulties brought about by the world war for any neutral country, for it depends upon other nations for most of it's raw materials, for much of it's supply of wares for home consumption, and for the handling of all it's over-sea busi- ness, says bulletin of the National Geographic society.
 Although not quite one-third as large as New York state, without any important coal and iron deposits, and unable to produce enough food to GOV CT the demands of it's people, Switz- erland, nevertheless, has, due to sew eral great advantages which balance the unfavorable conditions, progressed in wealth and comforts on even terms with it's powerful neighbors. It has become an industrial country of first rank and, at the outbreak of the war, it possessed an important and growing commerce with many countries.
 Like Holland, the remarkable prog ress of Switzerland must be credited to the character of the people and to the encouragement of their free insti- tutions. Nearly half of the country is largely unproductive. All of that part of Switzerland which lies toward Italy in the south is a bare, snow-and-ice crowned mountain land, including un- exploited forests and a few high pas lures. In the north, around Lake Con- stance, are found rich vineyards, while above the vineyards on the middle slopes of the Juras, are pas ture lands where the COWS are kept, from whose milk the famous Swiss cheeses are made.
 Industrial Belt Is Wide.
 Industrial Switzerland forms wide belt, which stretches from the Austro- Hungarian border around to central
The Pulaskian., 1916-01-28

A large irrigation ditch, for the pur- pose of irrigating rice fielda in tne Grand Prairie section of Arkansas, is. now an assured improvement. It will mean thousands of dollars to the rice farmers.
 The proposed ditch, which has been contemplated for some time, will be started within the next few months, and while it is not thought possible for it to be completed in time for the 1916 crop, portion of the prairie may be watered this season.
 l.. ]. Mountz of Mesa, Ark, who has been working on this plan for some time, stated that he has now succeed ed in securing the permission of the War Department for pumping the Wa ter out of White river.
 The capacity of the ditch will be sufficient to water 25,000 acres of rice land or a million and a half gallons per minute. and the ditches will be so arranged that the water will be turn ed on the various rice fields and will be sold to the farmers at much cheaper price than they can put Tn wells and machinery and furnish wa ter for themselves.
 This will enable the man of limited means to raise rice at minimum cost and will add many acres to the rice cultivation that would otherwise re- main uncutivated.
 Mir. Mountz stated that he had sew eral opportunities to finance the pro- l iect with outside capital, but thought 1 that local capital only would be used in the completion of the work, and that the arrangements would be such that the small farmer could arrange ro produce and market his crop and pay for the irrigation after the crop was marketed, either in cash, or portion of the crop as he might desire.
The Pulaskian., 1916-01-28
COUNTY JUDGE MAY EMPLOY AUDITORS TO AUDIT BOOKS
 AND ACCOUNTS.
MUCH INTEREST WAS SHOWN
Supreme Court Held That constitu. tion Grants Exclusive Jurisdiction to County Courts Over Matters
 Pertaining to Disbursements.
Little Rock

Little Rock
 That county judge has the right to appoint expert accountants to examine the books of county officers, was the decision of the Arkansas Supreme Court in the case of b. F. Leathem &. Co. against Jackson county, appealed from the Jackson Circuit Court. The Supreme Court held that the Jackson Circuit Court erred in setting aside the order of the County Court making the contract and in disallowing the claim of the accountants for payment for their work.
 The decision of the Supreme Court has been awaited with interest all over the state. The Pulaski County Grand Jury few weeks ago asked the Circuit Court to appoint or allow the employment of expert accountants to audit the books of the county officers. Judge R. J. Lea said he did not believe the Circuit Court had authority to do this, because the statutes provide that the accounts shall be examined by a Commission of County Accounts. No movement has been made to have County Judge Joe Asher appoint ae- countants thus far Under the decl- sion of the Supreme Court, the coun- ty judge and not the circuit judge, has this authority
 The Supreme court held that the constitution grants exclusivee jurisdic- tion to the county courts over all mat ters pertaining to the disbursements of county funds and that the statutes give the county courts jurisdiction ito audit, settle and disburse money for county purposes" and makes it incum- bent upon officers ito settle with and render their accounts to the county court"
 The Supreme Court also said that the statutes provide that where good cause is shown for setting aside the settlement of officers, the county court may "re-examine, settle and ad- just same"
The Pulaskian., 1916-01-28
He Knew.

She (quoting)-"Loye took up the harp of life"
 He (absently)-And tuned 1t to do- mestic strife.
The Pulaskian., 1916-01-28

That the hills of this section of the State abound with mineral is becom- ing more and more evident from day to day, and the indications are that only few more months will elapse' before the mining industry will be de- veloped to the fullest extent in Izard and adjoining countries, as prospec- tors are at work daily near CreswelI developing claims that have been re. gently flied upon
The Pulaskian., 1916-01-28
Wise Father.

Carrye Wise-What did papa say when you asked him for my hand?
 Charlie Nokoyne-He said the fam fly was overcrowded now.
The Pulaskian., 1916-01-28

The Morrilton Headlight reprints from It's issue of January 22, 1886, a statement that on that day the Arkan- sas river at Morrilton was frozen over, the ice being eight inches thick. It was necessary to cut a skiff-way from the landing at Lewisburg to the opposite bank.
The Pulaskian., 1916-01-28
STATE PARAGRAPHS.

Car inspectors found the dead body of z. A. Green of Hugo, Okla, in q fruit refrigerator car in the railroad yards at DeQueen. These cars are equipped with stoves, and it is be- lieved the man died either from the fumes from the stove or smothered to death from lack of air, the car when closed being practically air tight.
 During the year 1915 there have been four deaths in the Cook family of Benton county. Those who died were Mrs. Mary Sager of Rogers, John Cook of War Eagle, Mrs Katie Ray of Lowell and Newton Cook of Cass- vile, Mo. The four mentioned are brothers and sisters.
 Miss Mollie Davis, aged 15, left the Cedar Creek schoolhouse near Dan vile ostensibly to procure bucket of water. She met Willard Tapp, aged IF, who was waiting for her with a buggy. Together they drove to the home of a minister near by and were married.
 A drainage ditch four miles long. which will open up several thousand acres, will be dug on the Ozan creek near Ozan in Hampstead county The contract has been awarded to Edgar A. Kahn of Little Rock This is known as Drainage District No. l.
 The fouring mill which was estaD- lished last year at Walnut Springs has been running steadily since the open ing of the season grinding wheat pro- duced in Little River and Howard counties and in some of the eastern Oklahoma counties.
 While assisting his father in build. ing barbed wire fence on Pine Prairie John c. Carpenter Jr. was struck in his right eye by barb. The eye was so badly injured that the power of sight was destroyed
 The Rev. c. w. Fleming of Fort Worth, Tex, recently called by the Central Baptist Church at Magnolia, has moved his family to this place and has taken active charge of the work
 w B. Thomasson, aged S2, of Pike county, journeyed seven miles through the snow to vote in a recent election. He has not failed to vote since com ing to Arkansas in 1872
 New machinery has been purchased Tor the Ashdown light plant The plant will soon be equipped to give better service and to take care Of much more business.
 The Batesville Record has gathered statistics which show that it will re- quire 10 carloads of crates to handle the strawberry crop of Independence county this season.
 berry Company, organized four years ago, will be surrendered. The com pany was organized to cultivate tract of fifty acres in strawberries, but the project never proved profit able.
 Work has been started on the new railroad from Yellville to the Rush mining camp, in Marion county. The road will be known as the Yellyille, Rush and Mineral Belt Railway Com Vany.
The Pulaskian., 1916-01-28

Mayor Stephens of Magnolia has is- sued orders to owners of dogs to keep the dogs in confinement until after the first of March. Dogs found on the streets of Magnolia will be shot. The order was issued because dog, whicn showed traces of hydrophobia, was killed there recently.
The Pulaskian., 1916-01-28

George Barham of Zinc closed a deal for 40 acres of mining land just north of this place for the sum of $5,- 900. The sale was made to Eastern people. This land could have been bought few months ago for $500. Mines opened up on adjoining proper ty during the past few months in creased it's value.
The Pulaskian., 1916-01-28

The child of MT and Mrs. George s. Reeder, who are visiting in st.. Louis, swallowed an open safety pin, according to a message received at Rogers, and physicians had to oper-I ate to save her life. The pin was lo-. cated in the child's stomach with an X-ray. sa
The Pulaskian., 1916-01-28

Simultaneously with the issuing of a mandate by the Supreme Court for the release of Hen ry G. Stokes of Washington county, serving a jail sentence for wife aban. donment, Governor Hays pardoned Stokes. Stokes was sentenced last July to 16O days in jail and fined $75 He had been in jail five months. He is relieved of serving the rest of the sentence and of paying the fine. The mandate was issued on the ground that Stokes had been separated from his wife more than two years before the information against him for wife abandonment was filed with the prose cutting attorney.
The Pulaskian., 1916-01-28

The Senate of the University of Ar kansas, which is the main legislative body of the University faculty, has to a limited extent put the stamp of it's approval on simplified spelling. At a meeting it adopted the report of a University catalog the simpler and shorter form be adopted wherever there are two ways of spelling word. It also adopted the short form of spell ing such words as catalog, decalog, etc.
The Pulaskian., 1916-01-28

Henry Owens, negro, who was said to be 105 years old, died at Pine Bluff recently. He was a. gunner in the. United States navy during the Civil war, and had lived on a farm here. since the war. His pension record shows that he was born in 1911.
The Pulaskian., 1916-01-28

J. E. Purkins of Little Rock, who has been running the North Arkan- sas Herald at Harrison until recently, has arrived in Hope with his plant and proposes to publish daily paper there. It has been several years since Hope has had daily.
The Pulaskian., 1916-01-28

Statistical tables showing school revenues and expenditures for the year ending June 30, 1915, compiled by George B. Cook, state superintend- ent of public instruction, show the to- tai amount available for public schools during the year was $5,901, ,S11.S7. Ex- penditures were S4,454, 737.47, leaving a balance of $1,447,O ,O74.4O. The expen- ditures were s83,752 more than for the year previous and the balance $25.00O less.
The Pulaskian., 1916-01-28

After three years fight, difficult ties obstructing the beginning of work in Drainage District No. 2, in the Charlottesville district of Crittenden county, Arkansas, have been re- moved
The Pulaskian., 1916-01-28

Arkansas, Oklahoma, Texas and Louisiana are threatened with typhus fever spreading from Mexico, accord. ing to wora brought by Dr. Victor L. Heiser of the International Health Commission, who passed through Lit tie Rock on his return from Mexico and south Texas.
The Pulaskian., 1916-01-28

Work on the oil well near BrawIey, Scott county, is being pushed Two Oklahoma oil men are now engaged la securing leases in the vicinity ol Brawley.
The Pulaskian., 1916-01-28

Reports from county health officers for December show that the most se' were epidemic of la grippe in the his. tory of Arkansas occurred during the month From 200 to 400 cases are re, ported from each county. The disease is being gradually eradicated.
The Pulaskian., 1916-01-28

The flouring mill which was estaD lished last year at Walnut Springs has been running steadily since the open ing of the season grinding wheat pro duced in Little River and Howard counties and in some of the eastern Oklahoma counties.
The Pulaskian., 1916-01-28

Chas. M Clark, who was appointed chief deputy under Secretary of State Earl w. Hodges, has assumed the du ties of that office. Clark is editor ot the Southern Standard of Arkadel phia, one of the oldest weekly papers in Arkansas. He will remain at the head of the paper here.
The Pulaskian., 1916-01-28

The Supreme Court handed down an opinion construing that part of the law consolidating national and state elections as applied to the election of supreme judges, chancellors and cir cult judges, holding that judicial off cers, whose terms expire in 1918. need not become candidates this year in the event they desired to retain their positions.
The Pulaskian., 1916-01-28

Malaria is the most prevalent dis. ease in Arkansas, exclusive of minor diseases, according to reports for last year received by Dr. c. w Garrison state health officer. There were G., 071 cases of malaria among white per sons and 2,154 among negroes. Pella gra was second with 725 among whites and 647 among negroes.
The Pulaskian., 1916-01-28

G. w. Newman, who was one of the men massacred by Mexicans at Santa Ysabel was cousin of Mrs. B. J. Hammond of Dermott.
The Pulaskian., 1916-01-28

The tlaesenberry Rice Drug Com pany Of Benton filed notice of a change in it's name to the Bradford HEcGalI Drug Company.
The Pulaskian., 1916-01-28

The Scroggins Lumber Company o1 Mena, capitalized at $25,000, filed arti cles of incorporation The corporators are A. H. and c. P. Scroggins and w w. McGregor.
The Pulaskian., 1916-01-28

Suit to collect $3. 300 taxes on prop. erty within the Blum Bayou Leyee District was filed in the Pulaski Chan. cery Court by Attorneys Coleman & Can't of Pine Bluff, for the directors of the district, against owners of de, linquent lands. The complaint says the acreage within the district on which taxes have not been paid has increased since 1906 from 725 to 3,211. With the complaint also was filed a short list of lands delinquent in 1905.
 The district was organized and ap- proved by the legislature and gov, efnor on February 13, 1905. It's ob- ject was to build levees along the east bank of the Arkansas river in Jefferson, Lonoke and Pulaski coun- ties. Since that time, the complaint says, about 40 miles of Ievee have been constructed at cost of $4O0, 1000, for which bonds are outstanding. To pay for the work tax of 1 1-2 per cent of the assessed benefits was levied in 1905, 1-2 per cent was levied in 1906, 3-4 per cent was levied in 1907 and 1908, and from 1909 to 1914, inclusive, ? 1-2 per cent an nually.
 The suit asks that the tax debts be declared liens upon the land and that these liens be foreclosed to collect the taxes and a penalty of 25 per cent for each year the taxes were not paid. The complaint asks the court to ap- point a commissioner to conduct the sale of the land and to collect the taxes, penalties and interest due.
The Pulaskian., 1916-01-28

Work has been started on the new railroad from Yellville to the Rush mining camp, in Marion county. The road will be known as the Yellville, Rush and Mineral Belt Railway Com pany.
The Pulaskian., 1916-01-28

bought a few months ago for $500. Mines opened up on adjoining proper ty during the past few months in creased it's value.
 Mayor Stephens of Magnolia has is- sued orders to owners of dogs to keep the dogs in confinement until after the first of March. Dogs found on the streets of Magnolia will be shot. The order was issued because dog, which showed traces of hydrophobia, was killed there recently.
 The Morrilton Headlight reprints from It's issue of January 22, 1886, statement that on that day the Arkafl- sas river at Morrilton was frozen over, the ice being eight inches thick. It was necessary to cut skiff-way from the landing at Lewisburg to the opposite bank
 The child of MT. and Mrs. George s. Reeder, who are visiting in St. Louis, swallowed an open safety pin, according to message received at Rogers, and physicians had to oper- ate to save her life. The pin was lo- cated in the child's stomach with an X-ray. m <
 Henry Owens, negro, who was said to be 105 years old, died at Pine Bluff recently. He was a gunner in tho United States navy during the Civil war, and had lived on a farm here since the war. His pension record shows that he was born in 1911.
 J. E. Purkins of Little Rock, who has been running the North Arkan- ! sas Herald at Harrison until recently, has arrived in Hope with his plant and proposes to publish daily paper there. It has been several years since Hope has had daily.
 After a three years fight, difficult ties obstructing the beginning of work in Drainage District No. 2, in the Charlottesville district of Crittenden county, Arkansas, have been re- moved.
 Work on the oil well near BrawIey. Scott county, is being pushed. Two Oklahoma oil men are now engaged la securing leases in the vicinity Of Brawley.
 ~ yxy men massacred by Mexicans at Santa Ysabel, was a cousin of Mrs. B. J. Hammond of Dermott.
 While driving well on J. c. Nor. tons place at Rohwer, near McGehee, workmen struck s6-pound pressure of natural gas.
 w. L. and Guy A. Clay have sold the Franklin County News, published at Branch, to Taylor R. Bishop. the year just closed, canned 2,000 cans of tomatoes on one acre of ground. He is a strong advocate of the diversified crop.
 Penney Bros. of Bearden have had on exhibition here pair of 'mule- footed" hogs they recently bought m Little Rock at the stock show.
 Construction has been commenced on the Rogers Slave Company's plant. The machinery has just arrived.
The Pulaskian., 1916-01-28

Dr. c. w Garrison appointed Dr. H. H. Niehaus of Ell Dorado as Union county health officer to succeed Dr. Robert Rowland, recently appointed a member of the medical staff of the State Hospital for Nervous Diseases.
The Pulaskian., 1916-01-28

A drainage ditch four miles long, which will open up several thousand acres, will be dug on the Ozan creek near Ozan in Hampstead county The contract has been awarded to Edgar A. Kahn of Little Rock. This is known as Drainage District No. l.
The Pulaskian., 1916-01-28

Eight cases of smallpox have been 1 reported from Bigelow.
The Pulaskian., 1916-01-28

Three deaths resulted at Biscoe, Prairie county, from cerebral spinal meningitis, and six other persons have the disease, according to reports re- ceived by pr. c. w. Garrison, state health officer. County Judge Henry Lorentz has made an appropriation from county funds to provide serum for those who are unable to buy it and every effort is being made to stop the spread of the disease.
 The Paragould Wholesale Grocery Company filed notice of an increase of it's capital stock from $S0,0OO to S1O0,G00. J. E. Wilbourne is pres1- dent.
The Pulaskian., 1916-01-28

Penney Bros. of Bearden have hadl on exhibition here pair of mule- footed" hogs they recently bought m Little Rock at the stock show
The Pulaskian., 1916-01-28

The charter of the Conway Straw berry Company, organized four years ago, will be surrendered. The com pany was organized to cultivate g tract of fifty acres in strawberries but the project never proved profit able.
The Pulaskian., 1916-01-28

While driving well on J. G. Nor. tons place at Rohwer, near McGehee, workmen struck 96-pound pressure of natural gas.
The Pulaskian., 1916-01-28

Hollipeter-Shonyo & Go. of Blythe vile, capitalized at $50,000, filed ar. | ticles of incorporation.
The Pulaskian., 1916-01-28

Car inspectors found the dead body of E. A. Green of Hugo, Okla, in q fruit refrigerator car in the railroad yards at DeQueen These cars are equipped with stoves, and it is be- lieved the man died either from the fumes from the stove or smothered to death from lack of air, the car when closed being practically air tight
The Pulaskian., 1916-01-28

w. L. and Guy A. Clay have sold the Franklin County News, published at Branch, to Taylor R. Bishop.
The Pulaskian., 1916-01-28

While assisting his father in build ing barbed wire fence on Pine Prairie John c. Carpenter Jr. was struck in his right eye by barb. The eye was so badly injured that ths power of sight was destroyed
The Pulaskian., 1916-01-28

Governor Hays relieved Fayett Parks and Dick Harcrow, Bradley county youths, of paying fines of SIG each for petty larceny. They were convicted week ago.
The Pulaskian., 1916-01-28

The governor appointed J. M Fut rell and D. G. Beauchamp, both of Par agould, and Lee Miles of Little Rock special attorneys to assist the state in defending against the suit brought by Hal Norwood to tie up the game protection fund and other fn1ds. The suit was nled in the Pulaski Chancery Court in the name of H. F. Jackson of Lonoke. The men appointed are members of the State Game and Fish Commission.
The Pulaskian., 1916-01-28

Construction has been commenced on the Rogers Slave Company's plant The machinery has just arrived.
The Pulaskian., 1916-01-28

w. H. Lephiew of Dermott during the year just closed, canned 2,O00 cans of tomatoes on one acre of ground. Ha is a strong advocate of the diversified crop.
The Pulaskian., 1916-01-28

Hope Retail Lumber Yard, capital ized at $10,O0O, incorporated, with J L. Jamison, Matthew Colster and & D. Henry as incorporators.
The Pulaskian., 1916-01-28

The Rev. c. w. Fleming of For Worth, Tex, recently called by tn, Central Baptist Church at Magnolia has moved his family to this plac, and has taken active charge of thu work.
The Pulaskian., 1916-01-28

The faculty of the College of Arts and Sciences of the University of Ar kansas has announced the adoption of a new curriculum for the degree of bachelor of arts. The new course is the result of an extensive study of the entire question made by a committee of the faculty and lasting for a year and a half The course will go into effect at the beginning of the college year 1916-1917.
The Pulaskian., 1916-01-28

Miss Mollie Davis, aged 15, left the Cedar Creek schoolhouse near Dan vile ostensibly to procure bucket of water She met Willard Tapp, aged IF, who was waiting for her with a buggy. Together they drove to the home of minister near by and were married.
The Pulaskian., 1916-01-28

Governor Hays issued a proclama- tion fixing January 27 as Relief Day for Jewish war sufferers. Arkansans are asked on that day to contribute to the relief of the 9,00O,OO0 Jews In the countries at war. President Will son recently Set apart the same day for the purpose all over the United States.
The Pulaskian., 1916-01-28

w B. rhomasson, aged S2, of Pike county, journeyed seven miles through the snow to vote in a recent election He has not failed to vote since com ing to Arkansas in 1872.
The Pulaskian., 1916-01-28

During the year 1915 there have been four deaths in the Cook family of Benton county. Those who died were Mrs. Mary Sager of Rogers, John Cook of War Eagle, Mrs. Katie Ray of Lowell and Newton Cook of Cass- vile, Mo. The four mentioned are brothers and sisters.
The Pulaskian., 1916-01-28

The Batesville Record has gathered statistics which show that it will re quire 10 carloads of crates to handle the strawberry crop of Independence county this season.