The Monticellonian., 1918-03-15

 them at Lake Village in the morning and they will be entertained at noon by the citizens of Dermott.
 Mayor J. L. Green of Clarendon is sued an order closing all negro churches and lodges till further or ders. on account of a case of small. pox which has existed there for more than q week.
 w T. Briggs of Russellville has been appointed to serve on the Hotel and Restaurant Committee for Food Conservation. The appointment came from Food Administrator Hamp Will liams
 The Harrison Canning Company is appealing to the farmers of this sec ton to plant as large an acreage as possible this year in tomatoes, both from a patriotic and financial stand point.
 Chief of Police ]. Frank Stewart CT Pine Bluff has announced that his Ge partment will make war on loafers and that all able-bodied men will be forced to go to work or go to war.
 According to the Chicot Spectator Gordon F. Greenfield of Little Rock has purchased from H. w. Graves the Sterling plantation in the southern part of Chicot county for $181,560
 As part of the Salvation Army drive for $1200 from Ouachita county for war relief work, Capt A Kranz of St. Louis has organized committee at Camden to canvass the county
 derrick and engine has teen erected at Cambs. Madison county. to sink deep shaft in prospecting for gold, of which encouraging quantities have already been found
 Capt w. c. Allsopp of the Jones' boro company of the Fourth Regi- ment advised the adjutant general that there are now more than 100 members in that company.
 Fire partly destroyed the plant of the Grant Manufacturing Company, which recently was moved to Pine Bluff from Newport The plant man. ufact11rps oal handles
 The Junior Missionary Society of the Methodist Church of Fordyce of which Mrs Robert Finley is director, has set aside a fund for the support of French war orphan.
 Dr. Brokaw of the International Board of Health of New York City at Cotton Plant preparatory GO making sanitary survey of the Southern district of this county.
 The Benton company of the Fourth Regiment now has 101 man qualified for service, according to the report of the inspection officers, who have in- spected that company.
 Sheriff R. E. Elmore and the police of Paragould are making war on vagrants The sheriff is compiling a list of Parasould idiers, which he will send to the governor.
 Following an address by Chaplain M. C. Reeves of Camp Pike at the First Methodist church at Pine Bluff S30325 was raised to buy testaments for the soldiers.
 City officials of Tuckerman have passed a resolution asking Governor Brough to call a. special session of the legislature to amend the bono dry law
 The road building from Branson to connect with highway running from Springfield. Mo-, to Harrison, Ark. will be completed by the first of May.
 N. ". M dSSoIiSl ol bcJllOHNllip Has received an order for 100000 frost proof cabbage plants to be delivered the lase of April to Plainview, Mnn.
 Mir Hollinsworth of Memphis, the contractor, has large force of men at work putting in the foundation of the new courthouse at Harrisburg.
 The closing exercises of Cloverdale rural school included a pie and cake supper, which netted S23 for the School Improvement Association.
 The Cross county Red Cross is plac- ing small boxes in all business houses that will be a constant reminder of the needs of the organization.
 The Rector Hardware Company of Rector and the Naill-Izard- Dodson Company of DeVall's Bluff gave no- tice of surrender of charter.
 Bigelow chapter of the Red Croes has just made the first shipment of supplies from Perry county to divi- sion headquarters at St. Louis.