The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1917-09-14

lOF service IN france and a second
regiment known as the Twentieth En-
gineers Forestry, will be recruited
at once. The adiutant general has
instructed all United States army re-
cruiting officers to accept men proper.
ly qualified and the supervisors of the
Arkansas National Forests, with head
quarters at Hot Springs and Harrison,
will also direct examination and list
ing of men desiring to enlist
AT a meeting of board represent
ing the Central Trades and Laboc
Council and the Fort Smith fremen
with Commissioners Hayley and
Smith. the later signed an agreement
granting the wage increases demand
ed by the firemen. The proposed
strike will be called off. The in
creases range from SIS to $40 month
per man. The minimum wage is m
creased from SOS to $50 per month.
s. c. Alexander. president of the
Merchants and Planters Bank and
cotton dealer, of Pine Bluff, has re-
turned from trip to Denver Chicago.
New York, Boston, Providence and
other cities, where he spent the past
two months He says cotton will
bring high prices this season and pre-
diets that hill farmers can get 20
cents for their cotton If they will hold
it and demand the price.
d. W. Morrison, chief engineer for
Drainage District No. z, the largest
drainage venture of Poinsett county,
who is now engaged in making the
surveys of the district and its several
canals. states that the survey is pro-
crossing satisfactorily and that the
camp has been moved dowp to Weona.
almost due east of Harrisburg, and
about the center of the county, north
and south.
The nomination of Brig. Gen. Lloyd
England of the Arkansas National
Guard at Little Rock, to be brigad err
general in the new national army, has
been withdrawn. Members of the
Senate military committe said they
had been Informed that Gen. Eng
lanl's local duties required his pres
ence in Arkansas.
Commissioners of County Accounts
d. F. Arnold Joe Parker and J. w.
Ponder finished the audit of the Pike
county books and burned county scrip
to the amount of $57.59276. Pike
county is in much better shape finan.
cally than it has been for several
years.
An automobile party of Piggott
boosters visited nearby towns to adj
vertise the Clay county fair, which
will open for four days October 10.
The Piggott troop of American Boy
Scouts, with their band, will accom-
panied the party
The Dyer Special School District
held an election on a bond issue Of
$4,000, which carried by large ma
iority. The bonds will be foated and
the proceeds used in the erection of
a siX-room brick school building.
Alex Vaughan of Prescott, assistant
city commissioner. realized $50 from
the sale of figs from Is trees in his
back yard this summer The yield
was 240 gallons, retailing at 25 cents
per gallon.
The Grant County Fair Association
held at meeting at Sheridan and heard
reports of committees. From reports.
indications are that the fair will be
the best ever held in the county.
Some of the rice farmers around
Harrisburg have finished pumping wa
ter on their rice and will let the
fields dry up ready for the harvest
which will commence in week or 10
days.
Jonathan apples are selling at from
So to 81 barrel in Benton county
Troy Keith. of Rogers. sold his crop
from a 30-acre orchard for $500.
The noted Scott ranch of S.036
acres. located in Haskell and Latimer
counties, Oklahoma, was sold at Fort
Smith at public sale for s35,250 to
Simon Jankowsky Of Tulsa
AID Grayson of Paragould has
bought several carloads of cattle in
the Texas drouth country and will
pasture them in Arkansas.
The Arkadelphia Milling Com.
pany's stave mill and planer at Spark
man was destroyed by fire. causing a
complete loss of $4,000
A number of families over the state
are moving to Batesville to give their
children the advantage OF attending
Arkansas College.