The Pulaskian., 1916-12-08

other man, 1t is alleged, was aI tho time inside the chicken house.
 County Judge Jones of Mountain Home says that within the next few days work will start on the Cotter- Mountain Home road. It is his inten- tion to regrade the road and spread a rock ballast over as much of it as IS possible There is also move under way to make this road rock road raising the money by the Alexander law.
 The plant of the Rogers Advocate has been purchased by P. M. Koka- nour, proprietor of the Rogers Daily Post The Advocate has been sus- pended and the plant sold and ship ped away. The Daily Post job depart ment has been moved into the room formerly occupied by the Advocate, which adjoins the office of the Daily Post
 Bank deposits at Mountain Home nave TGdCU6u plZU,VVO, Ol OhCz1OuA LII more than they have ever been before in the history of the Peoples bank. This condition is due largely to 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 to buy.
 MT. and Mrs. Peter McWilliams, who live near Mena, had ripe toma- toes from their garden for Thanks giving dinner. On the 18th of No- vember they pulled their tomato vines, which were loaded with green toma- toes, and after stacking them covered them with earth The tomatoes have been ripening since.
 Willie Menard of Dewitt is attend Ing school at Batesville and puts in his spare time soliciting orders from merchants. A few days ago he went with the football team, of which he is l member, to a nearby town, and dur ing the day took orders for S1,600 worth of brooms.
 Before December 1, this year, Nor rilton had received 16,974 bales of cotton by wagon and had received 16,- 900 by rail- It is probable that 1000 bales more will be marketed at Nor rilton this year.
 The largest official bond ever made Tn Faulkner county was filed in coun- ty court at Conway by Waverly w Bishop as sheriff and collector While the amount required is about s90,O00, Sheriff Bishops sureties qualified for | $150,000.
 The contract has been awarded by the Postoffice Department at Wash ington to A. 0. Clarke and D. L. Wheat of Rogers for a soil survey and topo- graphic map of the site of the postof- fee building to be erected at Rogers.
 The six-year-old daughter of MT and Mrs. c. A. billiard was burned to death at her home near Rosston, Is miles south of Prescott, when her clothes caught on fire from toy stove with which she was playing. | Live citizens of Rison have obtain ed permission from the Cotton Belt Railway to enclose land along the rail- road in Rison with an ornamental fence. The little park will be beauti- fled with flowers and shrubs
 G. Markham, planter of Madding. Phillips county, expects to harvest 5000 bushels of Irish potatoes this year and to receive $2 a bushel. If he does the crop will bring him about $10,000.
 Leases on more than 10000 acres of land in the vicinity of Pleasant Ridge and Monte Ne have been secured and the lessee is under contract to begin drilling at once for oil and gas. | De Roos Bailey, an attorney former. ly residing at Harrison, who has been residing at Muskogee. Okla, for sey. eral years. died recently at santa, rum in Michigan.
 Ore which assays S14 to SPA in sil- yer per ton, and s20 to s2S in gold per ton, is said to have been found at I Loy, Madison county.
 w T. Snowden, federal agent is at Mountain Home inspecting home steads on which issuance of patents have been deferred He is checking up improvements, character of land. etc, to see if the homestead laws have been compiled with, before title is given to the claimant.
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