The Pulaskian., 1917-02-16

cash and leaving Cashier R. E, Kent locked in the vault, two robbers com pleted daring holdup of the Bank of Fl Paso, at Fl Paso. IS miles east of Conway, and escaped before an alarm was given. A team standing hitched in front of the building was used in the getaway to a car waiting just out side of town. Parties searching from several directions had not met with much success.
 The first of the robbers is described by Kent as tall. angular and mean looking, dressed in a long gray over. coat and wearing a gray hat. The second is dark. compactly built and small of stature Kent says he was dressed in black and wore black hat.
 Kent, left in the vault, extricated himself within a few minutes and gave the alarm. He then came here, from where warnings were sent out in all directions Tn Rents opinion the men travelled northward. with this direc- tion as the second probable one.
 A gun thrust into his face and command to give over your money" were the first intimations of danger given Kent, in the bank alone, before the robbery, At the point of the younger mans gun he took $2,000 in silver and currency from the cash drawers and vault He was then back ed into the vault and the door slammed.
 A posse was organized and in pur- suit within 30 minutes after the oe- eurrence. Other parties are on the watch at Heber Springs, Searcy and Beebe. Unless a car is being used the two are travelling in the buggy stolen from in front of the bank build ing.
 The Bank of El Paso is capitalized at S10,000 and has R. F. Harvey as chief officer. It's loss from robbery will be eEfully met by insurance.
 The first fatality of the bone dry law nearly occurred at Hermitage, when Al Couser. negro deliveryman. fainted at the Bradley County Mercan- tile store. Couser, who had been sit ting, lonely and disconsolate on a dry goods box at the rear of the store for some time, suddenly fell to the ground, where he lay moaning, bone dry, bone dry" The negro was re- yived by copious draught of vine gar
 The Pine Bluff City Council has adopted resolutions which will be given to members of the Jefferson county delegation in the legislature. asking the enactment of law to per init the city to receive half the road tax paid on property in the city. the money to be used for road, street and bridge purposes in the city.
 Representatives of oil companies in Wichita, Kan, and Perry, Okla, have been at Centerton the past week secur- ing leases for oil and gas wells. The Arkansas Oil Company of Perry has leased more than 5000 acres. A we'll of the Centerton Cooperative Devel- opment Company has been drilled 200 feet
 Drs. Norman and George of Ham, burg have been experimenting with a method of inoculation for the grip, which they believe has proved a help in preventing the disease. Their treatment consists of six to eight in- jections of a prohpylactic vaccine, and is comparatively new step.
 Oil prospectors at Urbana, Union county, have sunk a drill 5000 feet. and there is talk of pulling the curb ing back to 2,70O and running it as a salt mine, as there is fine supply of salt water Some of the stockholders. however, wish to go deeper, as they expect to strike oil.
 J. H. Crews, farmer living near Hope, recently butchered a Tamworth hog that dressed 815 pounds Al though the hog was only nine months old, it was nine feet long and seven feet in girth. MT. Crews is great booster of the Tamworth hog.
 A mass meeting at Batesville adopt ed a resolution asking that the bill in the legislature regarding the local light and water plant be amended so that the commissioners would have to confer with the City Council before borrowing money on the property.
 The movement to found hospital at Forrest City has received the en- dorcenen+ of many roeidor4. iia