The Brinkley argus., 1919-02-21

pe4<S hlo 0ekO0 e00 60UTVeSuto1VS Rely of Mt. Ida conferred with busi asss men at Hot Springs rslativs to . bill to be presented to the lsssslar lure which calls fer the formation of . new road district to include Gar land, Montgomery, Hot Spring, How ard and Pike counties.
 E. B. Balentine, White county Yarm demonstrator, Is planning to organize club, to be known as "The Farm ers' Cooperative Shipping Assooia' ton" The county farm agents will Iserve as marketing agents without l6ompshsatlon, thus insuring to the producer the full market price for his products.
 The building of bonded ware houses and a general improvement of the marketing conditions in ArkAn' sas will be fostersd by practically all of the agricultural agencies Of tho state. 1t was agreed at meeting m the office of Jim 0. Ferguson. com missioner of mines, manufactures and agriculture.
 There were 215,S23 bales of cotton on hand at the compress points Of Arkansas February ', according to weekly cotton statement of the Ar kansas Cotton Trade Association. The report did not include the com presses at Cotton Plant and Jones' boro.
 The School improvement Associa- ton of Bearden has rtnted the local Knights of Pythias hall for five years snd have purchased more than 200 opera chairs which are being install ed. This will give Bearden an up-to- date opera house.
 A total of 100000 strawberry plants are being put out by W. H. Pope, who lives one mile south of Searcy. Last year MT. Pope marketed over 600 crates of berries, besides making 21 bales of cotton, on his 30 acres.
 Food plus cotton equals prosper ity" This is the keynote of bull letin just issued by Bradford Knapp, chief of the States Relations Service of the United States Department of Agriculture.
 D. F. Richer, orchardist of Spring dale. has been engaged to assist the Agricultural Extension Division Of the University of Arkansas in horti- cultural work in northwest Arkan- Sas.
 The Rev J. David Arnold, who re- gently resigned the p6storate of the First Christian Church of Fort Smith, has accepted the pastorate of the First Christian church at Fayette- vile.
 Dr. J. l. Norris, pastor of the First Preslyteirian church of Pine Bluff will go overseas as religious work di. rector of the Y. M. c. A. War Work Council.
 The Madison county soldiers who are coming home are returning to their old positions, as all places were merely filled by substitutes during their absence.
 A meeting of ministers of the North Arkansas Conference of the Methodist Church was held at Con. way 10 consider plans in connection with the centenary mission drive to be pushed by the denomination dur ing the month of April.
 A mass meeting was held at Bates vile to appeal to the Missouri Pa. cific Railway Company. for an addl. tional train on the White River branch, between Newport and Bates ville
 Miss Cantrell, head nurse at the Russellville infirmary. was seriously burned and patient was injured when fire destroyed the inflrmary building. Miss Cantrell was burned while rescuing patients from the building.
 The local boards of Arkansas hs been urged by Adjt. Gen. Lseyd E. land to complete their reysssag soon as possible. SO that their f