The Ozark spectator., 1917-07-07

the seven congressional districts. The candidates in the congressional dis tricts, all Democrats, had no opposi- ton.
 The Mount Tabor neighborhood con- tribused $650 to the Hendrix College endowment fund. bringing the amoun, raised to date to $300,000. including the $1Oo.000 donated by the General Board of Education at New York city. Only s20o.ooo remains to be raised.
 The Poteau Glass Coompany of Po- teau. Okla, has purchased two tracts of land south of Sulphur Springs containing deposits of glass sand and will ship it to the factory at Poteau, to be used in making glass.
 The small fruit season is now at its height at Decatur and heavy express shipments of blackberries, raspber- ries, huckleberries. dewberries, goose berries, peaches and early apples are going out nightly.
 It is expected to begin soon on the nak of the Bankhead highway from Cotton Plant to Des Arc, along the route used by the Indians years ago in crossing the White and Cache riv- CT bottoms.
 The Paragould Red Cross member snip now numbers 725. This doe' not include more than 900 members at Rector, Piggott and Marmaduke, The Red Cross has asked that every woman in Greene county. put up two jars of fruit for the soldiers.
 w. n. Bomar. berry grower. be- longing to the McRae Fruit and Truck Growers Association. had two acres in strawberries this year from which he picked 564 crates. which he sold through the local association for $l,237.23.
 War conditions have not hurt Cam den business conditions, according 10 statements of banks. merchants. ho, tells and railroad and express offices. During the past 60 10 90 days busi- ness has been above the average for this season.
 Wheat harvest has begun at Jones' poro, and reports from all parts of the county say that the yield is the best in Craighead county in many years. There is an increased acre age.
 All teachers in the Pine Bluff pub lie schools will be vaccinated before the fall term begins in October. J. G. Eberly has planted 50 acres 10 cantaloupes. There are about 75 crates planted near Sulphur Springs.
 Although Capt. James P. ClarKe Jr., who spent three weeks at Pine Bluff in efforts to raise a company for the Third Arkansas Infantry, has closed his office and abandoned bis efforts, movement Is on foot to complete the organization of the com. pany.
 Constable Bob Rice of Hoxie se.z- ed in a first-class passenger coach on the Iron Mountain 39 quarts. 15I pints and six half-pints of liQuor, under the bone dry law.
 c. c. Ermen has a 22-acre field ot alfalfa near Osceola. which has had two cuttings this year and has yield ed III tons of hay. The field will produce more than 100 tons of hay ad-, ditional during this year. At pres ent prices the field will produce somc- thing more than s3.600 this year. The town of Knobel claims the honor of flying the largest American l flag that floats between Jefferson Bar racks and Texarkana on the line of the Missouri Pacific. A green bean caused the death O a small negro child at Arkadelphis when the boy attempted to swallow it The bean caught in his throat and al efforts to remove 1t were futile. The Lafayette County Council O Defense was organized in every towr ship in the county. Each will send delegate to the state meeting at Li tic Rock. t~F s.- The second car of oil is being a piled to the Rogers streets.