The Pulaskian., 1917-06-01

cltlzens training camp for officers and the detachments of state guards from Arkansas, Mississippi and Okla homa being mdbilized here. Leaving the bounds of the old fort. the new buildings to house the training camp are met, and still further back in what was once de4se woods is the hastily constructed home of the First Arkansas. Beyond the tents of the guards soldiers are aiding day labor CTS and county prisoners to blaze a second highway to the fort along the ridge of the. hill and leading off from the station of Dalhoff.
 Record time has been made In transforming the Arkansas woods in to training camp for the future olf- eers of the regulars. Carpenters loaned by the Missouri Pacific are chiefly responsible for the quickness in building operations, which was no ticeable enough to call comment from old army officers. Separate barracks and mess halls have been provided for each of the 15 companies of stu dent officers, with several other build- ings used for the entire corps. In tie provision made for the First Arkan- sas, company streets have been laid out and proper drainage secured for the entire tract Tents house the men, with frame buildings for mess halls Officers and instructors of the detail occupy the buildings compos. ing the original Fort Roots.
 Under the direction of Col R. L. Bullard, a member of Gen. Pershing's staff, the student officers have been divided into 15 companies, nine infan- try, two cavalry, three field artillery and one of engineers. For the in- struction Is army officers have been detailed to work under the general control of senior instuetor. "Quizzes" are given daily on the courses studied, and at the end of three months stay of the students it is hoped they will he qualified to as- sume places in the army as commis- stoned officers. Post Adjt. Rudd, how. ever. is insisting upon unusual thor oughness, in view of the shortness of the period of preparation.
 The Stars and Stripes was raised with appropriate exercises at the Southern Anthracite coal mines. south of Russe1lvi1le. Work was sus- pended, and special train on the Dardanelle & Russellville railroad was run.
 James Phillips of Philadelphia has a radish 12 inches long and 12 inches in circumference, which weighs three and a quarter pounds. The Rev. W. w. Gardner has big Irish potato, which measures il inches in circum- ference and weighs nine ounces.
 Dick Elder of Forrest City receiv- ed seven carloads of pure-bred Hol- stein cattle. He will use them to stock a new ranch he is opening up in the St Francis valley, south of Proctor. The cattle came from Okla homa.
 Wheat growers in the vicinity of Ozark plan to form an association to assist il food production. If sufi- cient acreage is secured, stock company will be formed to erect a fiouring mill here.
 B. F. Scott, a former resident of Knoble, will build flour mill here He will begin immediately, so that he may get advantage of the present wheat crop in Greene and Clay coun- ties.
 Vice President Thomas R. Marshall will lecture in Helena on Saturday, June g, under the auspices of a chau- tauqua which will open it's engage ment here on June for one week.
 A contract for $3,000 worth of in- gredients to be used in the dipping vats of Union county has been let to the Pye-Taylor Drug Company of Fl Dorado.
 The school board of Magnolia Spe- cial School District will begin plans for the erection of a modern high school building in Magonia within the next few weeks.
 Clarksville district voted 12-miIl tax for school purposes and elected Sam Laser and J. w Coffmaa direc- tors. Other towns in the county vot- l ed 12 mills tax.
 The strawberry crop for Washing ton county, exclusive of local con- sumption and express shipments, has brought in so far $160,0O0.
 A total of S7 cars of strawberries have been shipped from Horatio dur ing the present season. The crop was worth about $50,000.