The Carlisle independent., 1918-02-21

NA NstA1AA-s NNA tA1LlelAEo pGAhALS A4lG 4SoQ- anee of the next Liberty loan. This amount was larger than the banks quota.
 E. NJ. Weems of Paragould has field glass for which he paid $50, which he will send to the War Depart. ment, in response to requests for glasses to be used by the army and navy.
 Representative A. B. Shock1ey of Saline county has brought display of products grown on his farm to the Agricultural Department, and these samples are now on display in a glass case.
 More than 300 children were placed on the honor roll in the public schools of Batesyille last month. They were neither absent nor tardy and had an average grade of above 90 per cent.
 W. T. Taylor of Ludwig brought dead wild cat to Clarksville recently that measured seven feet from tip to tip. It was the biggest animal of the kind ever killed in Johnson county.
 Dewitt chapter Red Cross has made it's fourth shipment to St. Louis headquarters. The garments were made by the local chapter, assisted by the St. Charles auxiliary.
 J. Rich, secretary of the Independ- ence County Farm Loan Association, reports that Malcolm Moore of Moor field was the first man in the county to receive papers for loan.
 James H. Rice received recruit ing commission to enlist men for ser vice in the battalion of engineers and reports that he knows of about 30 men anxious to enlist.
 The pupils of the Stamps schools have already purchased s2,236.25 worth of thrift and war savings stamps. Up to the present time there are 116 subscribers.
 An increase of more than million in the assessed valuations of Jeffer- son county is shown by the abstract for 1917, just completed by County Clerk c. M. Nichol.
 County Food Administrator M. c. Hollis announced that he will investi- gate reports that Italians in the vicin- ity of Altheimer are hoarding flour and sugar.
 The semi-annual statement of the city of Camden shows a balance of S30,420 in the treasury, including money being accumulated to pay off city bonds.
 Plans were sent out by the State Highway Department for ST miles of road in Clark county, which will be constructed at an estimated cost or S345,925.76.
 The two banks of Fordyce have pur- chased $16000 worth of the treasury certificates which are being issued by the government prior to the third Lib erty loan.
 The Clear Creek Oil and Gas Con- pany brought in a 1000, ,000-foot gas ser on the Powell farm, a quarter mile from kibler in Crawford county.
 Governor Brough appointed J. Nj. Jarman of Jonesboro to make the an- nual examination of the accounts of the St Francis Levee District Board The appointment was made under Act 93, Section 2, of the laws of 1913.
 Governor Brough granted full par don to Walter Morgan, convicted of murder in the first degree in October, 1911, in the Poinsett Circuit Court and sentenced by Judge Frank Smith, now a member of the Supreme Court, to be hanged.
 A special service was held at the First Baptist church at Camden to commemorate the seven years of ser vice of the Rev. W. M. Wright as pas tor.
 Mrs. Henry Carnie of Eureka Springs is the champion knitter of the state. She knit a sock in three hours and r minutes recently.
 Many applications are coming in to the State Labor Department for ser