The Springdale news., 1918-05-03


 ton of working there this summer. returned home Saturday, work not be- ing as plentiful as they had expected.
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 New electric lights have been plac- ed in the First Baptist Church, being ot the indirect lighting kind, and add to the attractiveness of the interior of this building.
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 The children's day exercises men toned in the Zion items in this issue of The News, which were to have talk en place next Sunday, have been postponed indefinitely.
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 Miss Georgia Sullivan. who is em ployed in a telephone office in Jop- lin, Mo, has returned to her work af ter a visit of two weeks with her parents, MT. and Mrs. G. H. Sullivan.
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 Mrs. Wilson Southerand, who has been visiting her husbands parents, MT. and Mrs. J. M Southerland, left Thursday for Prairie Grove to spend the weekend with her mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Webb.
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 The brass band at Green Forest has changed its name to Green For est Liberty Band" The Johnson brothers, who were formerly residents of Springdale, and who are musicians of more than ordinary ability, are con- nected with the band.
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 Walter Moore, formerly manager of the Springdale Produce Company, succeeds Paul Glass as book keeper for the Washington County Hardware Company, and Paul is going to make another effort to enlist in some branch of the army
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 \ company of Madison County boys has been recruited for a fifth reGi- p,ap+ to ha orrani1ad ;, +h;e e+a+o T. is thought the company will have 125 or l50 men by the time 1t is muster ed into service. Earl Griggs, for mer resident of Springdale, is a mem Der of the company.
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 M. H. Elsey, postmaster at IIu lts- vile, has resigned, his reason 5sng that the work and responsibility vas too heavy for the salary he is receiv- ing. He has held the position for four years. An examination will be held by the Civil Service Commission at some future date and from those taking the examination his successor will be chosen.
 Buy Liberty Bonds Leland Gray and family of Sallisaw. Oklahoma, came in Friday night for a visit with his parents, Mr and Mrs. w. R. Gray. Leland is now employed as station agent at Sallisaw. Other children of Mr and Mrs. Gray who are visiting their parents are Mrs. Dexter Jones of Fort Smith and Mrs. Colonel Langford of Oklahoma.
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 Claud Gaskin of Beaver, Carroll County, was killed in action in France recently. He was member of the regular army, having enlisted sixteen years ago as private, being successive ly promoted to first lieutenant. He was nephew of M. w. Swope, the we'll known merchant of Beaver, and so far as known is the first Carroll County boy killed in France.
 Hit the Hun During an electric storm Tuesday of last week lightning ran in on the wire to the switchboard of the telephone office at Harrison, almost entirely de- stroying same. It was only with diff ficulty that the building was saved from burning. The loss will amount to s5 ,000 or $6,000 with only S1600 in- surance. It will require about thirty days to replace the switchboard, and in the meantime the town is without telephone service.
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 The old Farmers X Merchants Bank building, which is now owned and occupied by the Home Protective As sociation, is being remodeled so as to make more room for this growing in- stitution. The partitions are being torn out and new and larger vault Is being constructed in the rear. The stairway is also being changed so as to go up from the inside of the build ing. and the upper portion will be used by the company as occasion demands.