The Dermott news., 1919-04-10

 Crenshaw and Rev. N Smyle left Tuesday for Holly Grove to attend the meeting of the Pine Bluff Presbytery Mir. Rolle Is stated clerk and treasurer of the Presbytery.
 Rev. s. C. Dean, pastor of the Methodist church. has secured 43 new subscribers for the Arkansas Metho- dist at soc for six months He wishes to put copy in the home of every member of the church
 Miss Margaret Callahan. county agent. and Miss Connant of the Little l Rock and W ashington offices. have been holding demonstration meetings in all parts of the county this week They were in Dermott yesterday.
 A. J. Floyd of Jones. La. has suc- ceeded w. L. Cloud as operator at the Dermott telegraph office the latter having been transferred to Grady D, H. Henry has also succeeded Mir Parker who has gone to Waterproof. La.
 kessler- Matthews will move next week to the new brick building now in course of construction by the Baxter Lumber Co, which they will occupy until their large new garage can be built on the lot which they are now located.
 There will be meeting of the <. | A. tomorrow afternoon at 3:30 at the residence of Mrs J. C. Hoffman. for the purpose of discussing arrange ments for the Meet next week All interested are urged to be present
 President.
 MR LAND 0wNER:- If you contem- plate buying more land. improving that you have or need to borrow money for any purpose. 1t will pay you to see or write me for full particulars of long term loans R. W. Wilson Lawyer. St Monticello Arkansas
 The Christian Endeavor Society on iaSl ouhidS HlGul eleCIeu lHe lOIlo"- ing officers: Henry Duerson. president Wheeler Woofolk. vice president Mabel Porter. secretary; Lindley Bur kilt, treasurer and Miss Jaynie Smy- lie, pianist.
 w B. Morgan of New Orleans was the guest of J T. Crenshaw and Mrs. C. L. Edwards Sunday Mir Morgan is a nephiew of Mir. Crenshaw and lived here when a boy. This was his first trip here since 32 years ago and he was well pleased with our up-to date little city.
 l. E. Gillham and F H Duerson. contractors and builders. are building a S3. 900 bungalow for Mrs. J. B. Daniels on Knox St, just opposite the w. J. Splawn home She recently sold her present residence to (. T. Howard of Clarksville. who is to take possession May lst
 Largely through the efforts of II r. Wood county agent arrangements have been made for tractor demon stration for Southeast Arkansas te be held at Dermott on Thursday and Fri day. Apri 2ith and 9th The Board of Trade and the tractor dealers are cooperating to make the occasion q big success
 Lawson IaH, prominent young man of Monticello, was drowned in Bayou Bartholomew. near BoydeIl. last Sunday morning He was alone when the accident occurred and no one knows how It happened. After more than 24 hours of searching the body was re covered and sent to hls home at Mont. cello for burial
 Several communications were crowd, ed out of this paper this week because of lack of space Among them Is an article written in answer to the Hot Shot from a Citizen" which appeared last week. It has always been our policy to show equal consideration on both sides of question. and We expect to publish this article next week
 A meeting of the commissioners of the Bennett Jerome Robinson k d Improvement Districts was held here yesterday for the purpose of confer ing with the engineers. Ford X Mac Cray, of Little Rock, relative to the survey and signing of the contracts Every effort will be made to push the roads to completion as rapidly as pos sible
 Mrs J. H Webb, chairman of the Red Cross Committee in charge of the work, reports gro pounds of clothing collected in the recent Red Cross drive. This ia considerably short of the quota assigned due to the fact that the sup ply of usabIe old clothing had been