The Green Forest tribune., 1917-04-06

will he made to get the introduction of a similar bill, providing for dis rct from Little Rock to Texarkana.
 The Batesville-Little Rock road, Hot Springs-Lfttle Rock highway, and the Arkansas-Louisiana highway projects arc all important, MT Thompson said, but he believes tho Little Rock-Tex- arkana road is the most important not now provided for. It would be of great value to the counties touched, he said, and the completion of the highway would each year attract a greatly increased volume of tourist traffic.
 County Judge Starbird of Van Blu ren has called a special session O. the Crawford County Leyyng Court on April 10 for the purpose of voting an appropriation to provide two men to work with the men sent by the fed eral and state bureaus to carry on the work of tick eradication.
 The Bradford Fruit Growers Asso- ciation, in the southern part of Inde, pendence county is preparing for one of the largest crops of berries in the history of the association, and wants hundreds of pickers to move the crop as fast as the berries mature
 Recent advice is that active work will start in the next 60 days on Ma rianna's new S25,000 passenger sta ton, to be erected by the Iron Moun- tain Railroad. The building will be Of brick and stone tile roof and thor oughly modern in every way.
 The big oil tractor and grader. be- longing to Boone county has arrived at Lead Hill after completing a good road between this place and Bergman. The machine has started grading the road between here and Zinc, a dis tance of 12 miles.
 Fred J. Lazarus Sr., millionaire merchant of Columbus, who died re- gently, leaves $1.000 in his will to the Leo N Levi Memorial Hospital, Hot Springs. He gave $30,G00 in all to charity.
 George Weir, 8 prominent citizen of Tyronza. had some alfalfa prepared as greens" are prepared and found it most palatable. MT. Weir says he pre- fers it to mustard or turnip greens.
 All bids for the construction of the new automobile highway from Eureka Springs to Seligman were le- iected by the commissioners. They were considered too high.
 The Cedar Grove farm, mile from Harrisburg, has been sold to Ii. J. | Spencer and w c. Proctor of Jones' boro. MT. Proctor is the Craighead county agent.
 l According to financial statements just issued there is over $2,900, 900 OF deposit in the IS banks in Benton county, the largest amount ever l known
 r. E. Nillmer of Mountain Home has purchased the Gentry waterworks sys- tenn from Charles Hollopeter, who will install new engines and operate three wells.
 William R. Cox of Waldron was tcInd dead in a chair at his home by his son, John R. Cox, mail carrier.
 More than 1000 bushels of seed po- tatoes have been sold in Atkins dur ing the past few days.
 The successor to the Pea Ridge Pod has been named the Siloam Springs Advertiser Howard Ogg is editor
 Union county has appointed a com mittee to compile the history of that county The committee has issued a request for information as to the coun. tvs pioneers.
 What is believed to be the first carload of blue stone ever shipped into Arkansas was received at Rogers recently by L. w. Gipple, manager Of the Orchard Supply Company. The blue stone will be used by fruit grow CTS in making bordeaux mixture, a spraying material.
 The approach of war. ss well as the return of the guardsmen from the border. has caused a great re- vival of interest in military matters in Arkansas and many new compa- nies are to be formed or are in pro cess of formation.
 The Paul & Wages Spoke Company of Alpena Pass shipped five carloads of spokes to the Red Star Spoke Com pany at Fayetteville This is the lar gest shipment of wagon spokes that ever went from this point.