The Monticellonian., 1919-01-17

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 The number of bales of cotton ginned in Franklin County for 1918, 8,462 against 12,144 bales in 1917, decrease of 3,6S2 bales, and the acreage was nearly 15 per cent larger in 1918 than 1917.
 Pat Adams, a mining man of Cush man, has discovered big deposit of tripli near tohat place. It is used in refining sugar, for making polisnes and for numerous otEer purposes.
 An agitation is being created in Batesville fayoring the erection of T liberty hall to the memory of the h. dependence County boys who have served in the war against Germany.
 Camp Pike officials entered a strong denial to the charge that Iowa men had been diseriminated against in the matter of receiving discharges from the army.
 Alexander Schmidt, former German sailor, now an American prisoner, ar rived at Fort Roots in charge Of a United States marshal and was in- termed there.
 The largest bond ever filed by a county officer in Arkansas was the bond for s1.106,50O which was filed by Walter k. Taylor, as collector of Pulaski county.
 Lieut.. Col. Smith of Little Rock, commanding officer of the old First Arkansas Infantry during it's training period at Camp Beauregard, La, has returned from France.
 The Little Rock branch of the Fed eral Reserve Bank at St. Louis has opened for business There are 43 member banks signed up, with appli- cations of others filed.
 The number of bales of cotton gin ned in Union county prior to Decem. Der 13, 1918, was 15,669, as compar- ed with 16,249 up to the same date in 1917.
 A directory of Bentonville, which will include also Centerton, Cave Springs, Pea Ridge and all the rural routes of Bentonville, will appear i'll a few days.
 Lieutenant Colonel Lindsey and Mrs. Lindsey have arrived to occupy their home at Bentonville again, since Lieutenant Iindsey's discharge from the army.
 The infant child of MT and Mrs. Cal Clark. living near Batesyille. fell into a grate fire recently at the Clark home, and was so badly buried that it died from the effects.
 NJ. White, who owns an extensive
 
 Meachums Cave, on Polk Bayou, lost over 100 goats during the recent cold spell. They froze to death.
 The Pine Bluff City schools opened again for the third time this school year, this time after a holiday since Thanksgi necessitated by the in- fluenza epidemic, and the gas shortage.
 The Rogers Home Guards at a meet. ing Friday night voted unanimously to request the officers to take the neces- sary steps to demobilize.
 Ben D. Brickhouse. state labor com- missioner and former alderman, was nominated for mayor In Little Rock in the Democratic primary.
 T. O. Branch. general contractor for the Aircraft Production Division of the War Department, who has con- tracts with many of the 1000 raisers of castor beans in Arkansas, has re- ceived orders from Washington to close the thresher on January 90.
 Normal conditions at the Arkansas State Normal Schoo! gradually are be- ing restored, and before the end os the session President Torreyson ex- poets the enrolment to get back to pre-war figures.
 The shortage of gas did not af~ect the men at Camp Pike, which does not depend upon gas for fuel. With am- pie quantities of wood and coal for fuel, the big stoves in kitchens and barracks and in the Y. M. c. A. the soldiers were comfortable.
 Tom J. Terral, secretary of state, has completed his biennial report for 1917-1S, which shows that receipts of the department for the two years from all sources amounted to $9S.- 01672.