The Ozark spectator., 1917-03-31

through Montgomery county to Hot Springs and Little Rock Assurance
 has been given by esponsible people
 in each county that these links will be built
 The sentiment of the hundred me n Was unanimous that the old road sys-
 tenn had failed: tha; the county
 should form stronger and larger dis
 trict and work under expert direction if good roads are built Mrs. Tracy Garrett of Eureka Springs awoke early one morning re- gently and found splinters and larger pieces of wood scattered over the bed on which she was sleeping She awakened her husband and told him something was wrong. He made an investigation and found that lightning had struck one end of the room in which they were sleeping and scat tered bits Of wood over the room and tern up a parasol. MT and Mrs. Gar rett were not awakened by the bolt R. x. Burks, secretary of the Jef 1 ferson Oil Company. returned to Plre | Bluff from Shreveport. La. where he 1 completed arrangements with the
 Richardson Oil Company to finish drilling the prospect well if the lief
 ferson Company on the Rutherford place. southeast Of the city 
 There is a movement on foot for a | good road from Marshall in Searcy l county, to Sylamore, in IZard county. via Big Flat. and through the Ozark I National Forest. Searcy county IS now building good roads under .he 1 Alexander road law and will construct | the road 10 the Searcy county line. Cash prizes amounting to $500 are to be given away by the city beauti full commission of Helena The com i mission is made up of practically every civic and commercial organiza | ton in the city. Helenans are deter
 mined that Helena shall be a river | city kept clean
 It is reported al Fl Dorado that T new gas well has been brought in T
 few miles below White station. just
 across the Louisiana line. about 4G
 r.iles south of here Those who have | been at ,he we'll say that the gas is ! thrown 150 feet above the derrick
 and that efforts to cap the well have ! failed
 What is believed to be the firs, carload of blue stone ever shipped | into Arkansas was received al Rogers
 recently by l.. w. Gipple, manager oi
 the Orchard Supply Company. Tae | blue stone will he used by fruit grow
 CTS in making bordeaux mixture. P i spraying material
 Machinery is being installed at tho
 newly discovered lead deposits neal
 Blue Eye, Mo. just across the stat. line from Carroll county Eight holes l have been drilled and seven of then show thick veins of lead analvzirq g
 92 per cent Oklahoma capital is back
 of the enterprise
 Mrs. T F. Toler, postmistress al sheridan. has resigned C. W. Walk
 CT, R. w Glover and Luther Slausht CT are mentioned as candidates foi the place.
 Loamm Beller has sold his 160-acre Crooked Creek farm for Sl0.000 to J T. Eoif The farm is six miles south of Harrison. It was entered in lS3:
 by Peter Beller grandfather of Loani mi
 ]. A. Jones Of Russpllville has beer awarded the contract for the new school building at Perryville. also al Perry A large number of men vii be put to work at each place at onc,. The two contracts will amount to about S30.000
 Many of the farmers around Harris | burg who have been holding theh
 rice since last fall have sold durins
 the past week for prices rangma
 around a dollar Q bushel. Many ear
 loads have been shipped out of Pom
 sett county during the past few days
 p. R. Turk of Earle has shipped il
 for the farmers of Crittenden county