The Pulaskian., 1917-01-12

While many unpleasant things have been whispered around today, the city and county are very quiet, and it is hoped there will be no trouble, not, withstanding threats from several sources
 It is expected that a conference soon will be held by business men of Pine Bluff and Cleveland county in an effort to reach an agreement for securing first-class highway from this city to Kingsland, where it will connect with a good road extending to Fordyce and Camden. Arrangements will have to be made to construct steel bridge over the Saline river, at a cost of about $11,OO0.
 ". U. Mcbride. who is mining man. ganese a few miles below Guion at Walls Ferry, has struck the largest deposit of manganese ever found Tn this field. He has found what appears to be a solid bluff of ore. Single hand ed he is putting out more than a ton a day, and as soon as the weather will permit he will put on big force. He will make shipment this month from Walls Ferry
 During violent electrical storm at Quitman lightning struck the front porch of the residence of Will Dawes. little son of MT. Dawes was under the house playing with a dog. After the bolt struck he rushed into the house exclaiming, "T know the dog is dead. saw the lightning hit him full in the face" The boy. was not injured, nor was the dog.
 A negro living on the J. M. Barrett place, near Sherill, bought on the day before Christmas a new wagon, $135 worth of furniture, two barrels of flour and barrel of meal. The ne- gro had 175 bushels of corn in his crib. On the day after Christmas the tornado which swept through a part of Arkansas blew away all of the ne gro's possessions except half bushel of meal
 K G. Morley, president of the Mor- ley & Son Ice Company, of McGehee. has just returned from a visit to St. Louis and Eastern cities, where he inspected cold storage plants with the view of adding a cold storage to his ice plant here. A refrigerating plant will be a boon to the farmers in this locality in that it will enable them to preserve their homegrown meat
 Criticism of the free use of the gov ernor's pardoning power, in behalf of violators of the liquor laws, featured the instruction of Judge R. H. Dudley of the criminal division of the Cir cult Court of the eastern district of Clay county, to the Grand Jury at Piggott. Judge Dudley laid stress on the crimes of liquor selling and gamb- ling.
 A pamphlet recently issued oy the Bureau of Plant Industry of the Unit ed States Department of Agriculture says that most of the good varieties of strawberries grown in the South are due to the skill of two plant breed CTS, Louis Hubach of Judsonia, Ark, and R. L. Cloud of Hammond, La.
 The first ear of hogs ever shipped from Emerson was loaded by Harlan Nolan, a local buyer. The hogs brought $8 per hundredweight, the car netting more than s2O0O Other cars will soon be shipped.
 John Bates and T. R. Nichols. stockmen living southeast of Gravette. have a herd of 60 head of thorough bred Ramboilett sheep, from which they sold $360 worth of wool and S25o worth of spring lambs.
 The Gulf Refining Company of Louisiana has taken 2,00O acres more of oil and gas leases in the Crawford county gas fields It now controls 4,000 acres in Crawford and Sebastian counties.
 Deposits in the Peoples Bank of Peach Orchard show an increase of 300 per cent over last year. The stockholders, in annual meeting, de- clared dividend of 10 per cent.
 John Peyton, Polk county farmer, IS selling sweet potatoes of the 1916 crop which he stored and cured. He has demonstrated that potatoes can be cured and stored so that there is prac- ticaIly no loss. He has been so sue cessful that he will raise at least 1000 bushels of sweet potatoes this year.
 County Clerk ". H. Bell of Searcy reports BIT marriage licenses issued