The Carlisle independent., 1917-06-14

i tile great IIbH JdNS IedCu out lOli the boat, seize a great mourhful of mud and slime and deposit it to one side of the ditch. The trees have been cut from the boats path, but the path is thickly studded with great stumps. For the most part the dredge pulls these out and losses them to one side as though they were matches stuck in the mud. Occasionally, however. a venerable old cypress stump offers stubborn resistance and it becomes necessary to blast it out.
 The contract for the road which is to be constructed of gravel, with steel bridges across St. Francis River and St. Francis Bay. will be let July 6. It leads from Wynne to the eastern boundary of Cross county, where 1t is expected that Crittenden county will continue it on into Memphis. This is the principal route for cross-country travel west from Memphis.
 The Ouachita County Truck Grow
  l canteloupes in car lots about July 1G and watermelons a few days later. G. ". Tucker of Little Rock, travelling agent of the Wells Fargo Express Company, stated at Camden that he would be here during the rush melon season to help care for the shipments.
 \ negro porter on the White River Railroad is in the Boone county jail in default of S100 fine levied against him for violating the bone dry law He was arrested by a special agent of the company and found with twelve pints of liquor in his possession. He is the only negro at present in the county.
 Company, which has been doing de. velopment work for some months on Flowed Out Mountain, seven miles south of Mena, is loading a car of manganese here to be shipped to the Carnegie Steel Company, with whom
 
 nish large amount of the ore.
 Suit for S1S,000, brought by Frank Pace, Little Rock attorney, against Y. G. Richardson and Willie A Ricb- srdson of Batesville for fees he sad were due him.. was dismissed in Chan cery Court by Chancellor Geo. P. Humphries, and the plaintiff was or. dered to pay the costs of the suit.
 Registration day at Pottsville re vealed that Clarence Morphis and Miss Ollie Bowden of near here had been married for month and were keeping the fact secret. When registrars asked Morphis Are you married or single" he was compelled to answer in the affirmative.
 A. R. Bogard of Earl, Ark, dug a l potato from his patch before May 26 which weighed 10 ounces. Mir Bogard is in the employ of the Farmers Mer- i camille and Gin Company This is another example of what can be done with early potatoes in the St Francis basin.
 Snyder buying lumber and arranging for the erection of a derrick at the oil well here, owned by the Louisiana Arkansas Oil and Development Com pany. He says drilling will begin July 1.
 L. D. Nixon of near Ozark sold 2t 1 bushels of English peas on the Kan sas City market at s1.75 bushel
 Measles continues in Ozark as ar epidemic, but in a milder form than recently.
 W. c. Hopkins, railway agent at Beebe, received from St. Louis 36 pig cons, with the request that they be liberated here promptly at II o'clock. He released the birds, and all of them started at once in the direction of St. Louis.
 L.. T Murphy is engaged in i'm porting Holstein yearlings from Hi nois for the benefit of stock raisers and farmers in Ashley county and families of Hamburg. The owners are enthusiastic over the calves.
 As an evidence of progress and pa triotism the business institutions and