The Pulaskian., 1917-03-23


 "The main pipe or peridotite bed consists Of about so acres. Two other smaller areas showing peridotite have been discovered two miles from this. One shows from 10 to E acres Of this diamong bearing ground and the other about five. One of these tracts is | owned by the American Diamond Com | pany, the other by the Grayson-Mc- Cloud Lumber Company of St. Louis"
 A resolution pledging financial sup i port toward the erection and mainte- nance of modern cottage for the l treatment of tuberculosis patients was adopted by the Quorum Court of tho 1 Fort Smith district. The cottage will cost approximately S6,000, and it will cost St0,000 to maintain the institut ton. The Fort Smith Anti-Tubercu- ment.
 l A strong resolution condemning Senator w. F. Kirby for his opposi- tion to the president in his effort to secure authority from Congress to arm merchant vessels, was adopted at an enthusiastic meeting of the Cross County Commercial Club at Wynne In the resolution Senator Kirby's position was declared to be traitorous
 A. D. McNair of the United States office of Farm Management, is making an economic survey of a group of 50 farms near Magnolia, Columbia coun- 1 ty. The principal object of the work is to encourage business methods among farmers and so to analyze the business of farming that weak points may be pointed out.
 Believing that veins of coal discov- cred in sinking wells indicate tho presence of coal in paying quantities, farmers of the Holy Grove neighbor- hood, four miles from Bald Knob, have perfected an organization for the purpose of prospecting the main vein of the supposed mine.
 The following dates have been set for the meeting of Arkansas Presby- terial meetings: Ouachita, at Cam den, April 2, 3, 4. Pine Bluff, at For dyce, April 4, g. G. Arkansas, at For rest City, April 10. II, 12 Washburn, at Fayetteville. April II, 12 and 13.
 2. H. Steelman is seriously i'll at his home at Everton, suffering from the results of a gunshot wound receiv- ed 45 years ago. He underwent an operation recently, in which two ribs were removed from his right side, but was afforded only temporary relief.
 new hard road, 32 miles long, to the Mississippi river connecting Rlytheville, Armorel. Garfield, Huff- about $250,000, has been asked by petition bearing more than the re- quired number of land owners.
 The poultry dealers of Ozark state that during 1916 Ozark handled $45,- 900 worth of poultry. In the same period the county handled poultry rthv$106, ,000 It is believed that dur ing the year of 1917 the poultry pro- duction will be doubled.
 One of the most enthusiastic mass meeting ever held at McNeil was held at the school auditorium, when the citizens and business men of the town and community met to Initiate the forming of road improvement dis trict. "A
 F. P. Copsey of Tulsa, Okla, has taken a 100-acre lease on the vancil- Roy lease, six miles east of Harrison. and has started drilling Drilling will start next week on the vancii-Roy lease extending south from here.
 Dr. J. D. Tankersly has circulated a petition to Adjutant General Lloyd England, asking that England be des- ignated as a place in which a new company of the Arkansas National Guard may be raised.
 The Pecan Grove correspondent of the Blytheyille Courier tells of