The Pulaskian., 1918-10-18

In accordance with the order from the State Board of Health, all public gatherings except military and exec utiye have been prohibited by proc lamation by the city of Pine Bluff and county boards of health, until the epidemic of influenza is checked.
 An aeroplane from Eberts Field visited Cabot recently and dropped leaflets boosting the Fourth Liberty Loan during a meeting of the county organization. State Senator Charles A. Walls, county chairman, made an address.
 The directors of the North Frank lin county fair have had an attrac- tive booklet published, giving the list of premiums on all kinds of prod uts, canned foods. poultry, hogs, sheep and cattle.
 D. F. Friedell, in charge of the gov ernment Labor Bureau at Texarkana, is making trip through several , southwestern Arkansas counties in search of laborers for the government plants at Little Rock w. A. Hamer, manganese land owner and operator of Pfeiffer, has contracted to mine and deliver 1000 tons of manganese ore to the ship ping point at Pfeiffer by the first of December.
 Ray Yarnell of Searcy, son of MT. and Mrs. John H. Yarnell, has just l finished his 18th year as an attend ant at the Methodist Sunday school in Searcy without having missed sin- gle Sunday.
 1 Mrs. w. w. Jernigan, chairman of l the Belgian relief fund of Newark, has collected 270 pounds of clothing to be turned over to the county cons- mittee. There were 203 garments in the shipment.
 Zane Ashby, S-year-old grandson of | George Brewer, who lives five miles north of Batesville, lost his left arm 1 in a sorghum mill recently when he l became entangled in the machinery. An immense white pelican which. it is believed, was driven inland by recent gulf storm, was killed near Greenbrier Faulkner county, few days ago.
 Over 20 cars Of evaporated apples l have been shipped out Of Rogers this fall. Evaporated apples are now selling between Il and 12 cents 1 pound.
 | Madison county farmers will SOW much larger acreage of wheat than l that of last year. A large shipment of cast-off cloth ing collected at Nashville for the re- 1 lief of the Belgians has been shipped. Every emp1oye of the Camden ] Foundry Company has subscribed for | bonds of the Fourth Liberty Loan.
 The Rogers city and rural route l directory has been released by the publishers.
 The farmers around Columbus are 1 preparing to SOW wheat enough this year to supply home needs. l The aviation landing station at | Blytheville has been completed. The new Frisco passenger station at Blytheyille has been opened. The Arkmo Canning Company of Decatur shipped three cars of canned apples to Nebraska last week and also shipped a tank car of apple juice to Paris, Tex
 The five gins at Earle have ginned 3,700 bales of cotton to date, while on ly TOO bales had been ginned at the same time last year.
 
 Edwin Buck of Grayette is picking his apples. He will have about s. 900 bushels.
 The spread of Spanish influenza has been so rapid in Independence coun- ty that the county health physician has issued an order requiring a daily report on all new patients.
 The Gentry electric light plant was destroyed by fire recently with loss of approximately $5,000. There was no insurance.
 Twenty-Five marriage licenses were issued at Batesville during Septemr hor ANi