Cleveland County herald. (Rison, Ark.) 1888-current, 1919-01-23

vile when Sheriff Harris appeared I'M
der the shadow of the Confederate
monument and proceeded with the de
struction of more than 100 quarts OF
whiskey which he had recently taken
from two negroes.
Prior to January there had been
ginned in Clark county 1858 bales
of cotton, as compared with 1899
bales ginned to January l, 1918, &C
cording to the ginners' report. This
shows a decrease in cotton for Clark
county of 1,130 bales.
Three county examiners were com
missioned by J. L. Bond, state super
intendent of public instruction. They
are: A. L. Murrell of Nashville. for
Howard county; H. A. Rusting of At.
kins, for Pope county; 4. A. Parsons
Jr of Mt. Vernon, for Faulkner
county.
The farmers of ST. Francis county
fruits of same farming based upon the
growing gilmore grain and live stock,
as is evidenced by the fact that two
carload shipments of hogs have been
made from this city to st. Louis mar
kets.
At a conference of shippers and
railroad officials at Little Rock it was
agreed that the Sailing PLAN of
handling less than carload shipments
out of Little Rock, would be tempo
rarily suspended until complaints OF
discrimination against Little Rock
shippers could be remedied.
DR.. Frederick A Merrill regional
director, and his assistants, represent.
ing the United States Bureau of Ed.
ucation, visiting the Arkansas State
Normal School in the interest of the
school garden army" which the bu-
reau is seeking to organize through
out the nation.
The school of instruction for Red
! Cross workers was concluded at Con
way after session of two days. The
workers attended represented units at
Russellville, Morrilton and other near
by cities, as we'll as units and auxil-
iaries of the county.
The valuation of personal property
in Crawford county IN 1918 exceeded
that of the preceding year by $685.
265, and in Madison county it was
$30,6S0 greater, according to a report
received by the State Tax Commits
sion.
At a luncheon given in honor of II.
M. Cottrell agriculturist of the Arkan-
sas Probable Farming Bureau of the
Little Rock banker, by the CONNER
cial Club of Conway, plans for the
profitable farming campaign by Faulk-
ner county were formulated
M. l.. Altheimer, state chairman of
the Arkansas Armenian-Syrian Relief
Movement which will begin its cam
paign February 8, expressed himself
ceptances of county chairmanships he
| is receiving.
Governor Brough issued a procla-
nation setting aside Sunday Febru-
airy 9, as Il special memorial day in
| AF
Roosevelt.
Two hundred and f1fty-four hand
knitted sweaters were shipped to st.
Louis by the Women's Department of
the Washington County Red Cross.
The Red Cross will continue to sup
ply hand-knitted garments to soldiers
and sailors overseas
Roscoe Kimberley, convicted last
February in Desha Circuit Court on a
charge of second degree murder and
sentenced to 10 years in the peniten-
tiary, was pardoned by Governor
| Brough.
| The first conviction for some time
for violating the federal game law
took place when Judge Trieber fined
two men of Pine Bluff SIS and costs
for buying wild ducks. The men told
the court that they did not know it
was unlawful to buy wild game.
A former Searcy boy, Col Brehon
Burke Somerville, has been awarded
the distinguished service cross for
acts of extraordinary heroism at the
front, according to the Washington
Herald.