The Pulaskian., 1917-08-31

these mountains thoroughly would take a week. I failed to explore the west end of the mountain. It was my intention to do so as I departed, but instead l came direct to Little Rock. I am told that on that side the rock broke loose and fe1i down the noun tain side in 1864 Since then more has fallen, completely covering up with hundreds of thousands of ton of rock a large cave which the old set tiers say was inhabited by large num- bers of bear It was from this cave that it derived it's name, Bear Den mountain It is said that $1S5, 900 in silver money was buried in the mouth of this cave at the outbreak of the Civil war. Spaniard came with a plat of .the ground showing where the money was buried about 1907 and searched for it five days then depart. ed secretary. No one knows whether or not he secured the wealth.
 S. H. Fulmore, who has farmed for years on his farm between Mabelvale and Alexander says that on his farm he has been making from 15O to 300 bushels of sweet potatoes per acre, but he does not know what they will make this year, because this has been the most favorable season for sweet potatoes he ever saw
 George Meyer, Route 1, Mabelvale. has threshed his wheat and oats. He threshed 92 bushels from four acres. The hail damaged it a great deal be- fore it was cut and a lot molded in the stack. He is sure but for the loss it would have made thirty bush els per acre. His winter oats he thinks yielded forty-five bushels per acre, but he fed his cows some and his four mules all the time out Of them. He threshed 330 bushels oft ten acres. They are not the turf oats but a fine winter variety. He thinks winter oats and wheat are the things for farmers to raise. He was blowing his strawberries. While not an ever bearing variety, his children were picking and expected to pick two crates that evening.
 Fred Reutz of Mabelvale has new thresher.
 | H. N. Thomas, Midland Farm, Route | 1, Alexander just across the lie in Saline county, had the 18th of April the prettiest and best red May wheat crop ever saw. The hail knocked out about one-half of it. Four acres of it threshed out seventy bushels. The grain is perfect. He will sell it cleaned for seed for S2.50 per bushel. He says to avoid the Hessian fly it should not be sown until after the first frost.
 A fine and extensive deposit of SUI perior bauXite has been opened up on the Hopkins estate one quarter of a mile of Mabelvale. Investors are on the ground closing deal for it's pur- chase.
 c. N. Lewis. Route 3, Little Rock, made 20 bushels of wheat to the acre. w. H. McGouirk adjoining made for ty bushels on four acres. Shortage was caused by poultry running on it, but he makes up for that with the best corn in the county, it being II feet and nine inches high, by actual measurement, with two ears to the stalk so high up that he cannot reach i them.
 J. NJ Hart on Route 1, Mabelvale, has just received a letter from his son, J, F., who is now a musician on the battleship Alabama. He was our Cypress correspondent, but now is the only musician on that ship from Lit tie Rock or Arkansas. He sent home for his violin and says he is the only man on the ship who can fiddle. He has not lost interest in Arkansas. as he wrote his father very careful in- 1 structions about saving his sweet 'ta- ters. His father was cutting his vel vet beans Saturday for hay. They were the finest ever saw. The pod is covered with velvet is the reason for it's name.
 l Mrs L. B. Barnes at Cypress has a son who is now just eighteen years old in the navy. He has just grad uated but is still in the training camp. A nephew of almost the same name as a son is also in the service train. ing.
 DUE TO NATURAL CAUSES.
 The coroner's jury found that Al bort Busch. aged GA, farmer living one mile southwest of Wrightsville, died from natural causes. Burial was iii Pine Grove Cemetery.