The Pulaskian. (Pulaski Heights [Little Rock], Ark.) 1915-1929, 1918-08-16

With a view to making Cave
Springs one of the leading summer re-
sorts of the state, John B. Collins of
Monroe, La, head of the Ozark Oil
and Gas Company, has purchased the
real estate holdings of w. M. Bartlett
there for $4,000 The property in-
cludes the spring, the lake, Mr. Bart
let's home and grounds, and 80 acres
surrounding the lake.
DR.. @. w. Garrison, state health Of
! ficer has received letter from G. &.
Smell of Lake Village, asking that
the malaria control work be contin-
ued for another year under the super
! vision of Dr. HI. A, Taylor of Lake
Village. The latter says that the
people of Lake Village are pleased
with the results OF this last years
work.
Although Madison county has no
county farm demonstrator, A. f.
Houston, who was emergency agent
last year, enrolled about 100 club
members. A number of these men,
bers will attend the boys and girls
short course to be held at the Rus
sellville Agricultural School this
month.
G. r. French, N. T. Whitaker and
G. M. Thompson of Harrisburg have
returned from Cleveland, O.. where
they went to close the sale of half
million dollars in bonds of Drainage
District No. z, for the drainage of a
territory in the eastern part of Poiu-
| sett county.
About s21,395,S05 was paid by Pine
Bluff cotton dealears to the farmers
of this section during the past season,
which closed August 1. The total re-
ceipts were 150,146 bales, and the av-
erage price was $3.50 cents.
Captain J. G. Hogg, a Confederate
veteran of Big Springs, Tex, who last
visited Huntsville AZ years ago, is
spending the week with relatives at
Huntsville and st. Paul.
The Continental Mining Company
is preparing to build a new concen-
trating mill on the site of the one
recently burned at the mine, three
miles east of Harrison.
The Jackson County Red Cross
Chapter has sent its tenth shipment
of finished knitted goods and it's sixth
shipment of hospital AID surgical
dressing materials.
The annual two-days old settlers
picnic was held at Mountain Home
recently. The crowd was estimated
at 1000. H. B. Wolf acted as master
of ceremonies.
The P. f. Connolly Paving Company
has completed work of paving Main
and Oak streets at Russellville and
loaded its machinery for work in 9TH
er parts.
Mena and Polk county are suffering
from the worst drouth on record and,
except in favored localities, the corn
crops are ruined and cotton badly
damaged.
The residence of Charles Hawkins,
near Whiterock, was destroyed by fire
recently, together with the contents.
Currency to the amount of $275 was
burned.
The leaves on the trees at Fordyce
are falling off, owing to the extreme
dry weather All shrubbery and grass
is dying and gardens are burning up.
One hundred and eighty cars OF
cantaloupes have been shipped from
Horatio, so of them by express. The
total value is about $4,000.
The report that alligators had been
seen in Woodward lake, near Camden,
caused more or less excitement Until
it was found that the witness saw
fish known as alligator gars, and his
report had been garbled into alliYa-
tors.
The Jefferson County Council of De-
Tense has requested the Pine Bluff
City Council not to issue license for
pool rooms In Pine Bluff after the ex-
piration of the licenses now held by
several pool rooms in the city.
Uniforms and equipment for the
Judsonia Home Guards have been re-
| ceived and the members are drilling
three nights each week. A portion of
a supply Of guns also has been re-
ceived.
Tie Harrison Fruit and Grain Com
pany has established warehouse