The Springdale news. [volume] (Springdale, Ark.) 1887-1990, 1918-06-28

JOHNSON.


kogee, Okla.
Chas. S. Mayes arrived Sunday from
Muskogee, Okla. Mrs. Mayes and
son, Vale, have been here for some
time
Mrs. Kate Horne is down from
springdale spending a Few days with
relatives here.
John Bailey, of Company A, is
here enjoying short furlough from
Camp Beauregard.
Jesse Luper and Dewey Maxey are
working in the harvest fields near
Great Bend, Kansas.
jim Fredricks has been having a
wholesale lot of measles in his family
all of 'em at the same time.
j. L. House and son, Virgil, James
Settle and several other Johnson
workers are harvesting in Kansas.
Misses Bessie Hanks, Leila Cox,
Lillian Cardwell and Vera Hanks, are
attending the University Summer
School at Fayetteville.
Dayne Mayes and wife, of Musko-
gee, Okla, arrived Sunday to visit
Dayne's grandfather, William Mayes,
who is seriously Ill.
Tah anI fovvoilx, Of
Okla, were visiting here recently.
They went from here to Shawnee, Ok
Ia, to look after their farming inter
ests near that place.
Oscar Hughes has suffered "a re-
lapse and is in very serious condi-
ton from an attack of complicated
troubles which do not yield readily to
medical treatment.
A good old fashioned rain is need
ed down here along the Clear Creek
valley as the extreme heat of the last
two weeks has made serious drive
on crops and gardens.
Mrs Will Crum returned Thursday
from a visit in Okmulgee, Okla Her
daughter, Mrs. Beth George, and baby
daughter accompanied Grandma Grum
home, and will visit Arkansas rela-
tives and friends.
Herman Brown passed through
johnson Sunday on his way to Fay
etteville where he reported to the draft
board so as to be ready for the jour
ney to Camp Pike with the Washing
ton County boys who left yesterday.
Those former Arkansas folks who
reside near Inez, New Mexico. have
been experiencing a drouth of nearly
two years. It is q frightful exper-
fence for them, and those who dwell
here in the beautiful Ozark region
cannot realize the parched condition
in the drouth stricken western coun-
try.
The wheat, cat and hay harvests
have been keeping local farmers very
busy for the past ten days. The
weather has been favorable for the
harvests which are about over-but
then comes threshing, "layin' by" corn
and many other farm Jobs which have
to be done, so the idler and loafer need
not look for easy snaps around John
son this busy year.
Capt. William Mayes has been in
very critical condition for several
days,and no hopes are entertained for
his recovery. He has been sick for
several months, and the complicated
attacks of various diseases have worn
him out. Capt. Mayes has been a
leader in all sorts of public enter
prises, and his passing away will leave
a great void in this community where
he has resided for more than a half
century.
The following item from the St
Louis Post Dispatch will be of great
interest to the many Arkansas friends
of Grandma Mari, who was formerly
citizen of this county, but who has
been living near Bingham, Neb., for
several years. Jane Mari is the
daughter of George Mari who lived
erhe in days gone by, and who is a
brother of Mrs. John Late, of this
place:
"Jane Mari, 5-year-old daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. James D. Mari, 3S51A
ST. Louis avenue, who is spending the
summer on a ranch in Western Ne
braska, earned S164.50 for the Red
Cross the other day, with the help of
hen that knew enough to lay an egg
at the psychological moment.
THE moment was at Red Cross
auction at Bingham, Neb. Everybody
was expected to bring something to
be auctioned and Jane took hen
which Grandma Mari gave her. The
hen was Just being knocked down to
the highest bidder for 81 so when she
felt called upon to contribute some