Cleveland County herald., 1919-05-08

Oe1ihP DdelDy SdIIy III lue WGI III 1918 in it's complement the Forty second Division headquarter troops dfsembarked at New York from the giantess Leviathan and entrained for Camp Merritt. Louisiana's Jennings troop of calvary, the states chief contribution to the famous Rainbow Division had, because of casualties of the war, but one officer and fifty three enlisted men, out of the four officers and 108 enlisted men who ar- rived
 At a meeting of commercial te1eg raphers and men belonging to several other labor unions of Little Rock Q resolution was unanimously adopted asking for the removal or resigna- ton of Postmastr General Burleson. Inef1iciency and incompetency in the handling of the telegraph and tele- phone service were the causes assign ed for his removal from office.
 Miss Lottie Shaw the new rural route carrier from Huntsville, was the owner and manager Of a $20,000 fruit and stock farm near Huntsville before she became @ postal employe. She has accumulated a modest for tune since coming to Madison coun- ty a few years ago, but grew tired of farm life.
 A Vfcksburg, Shreveport and Pa ofio train was held up about five miles from Monroe, La, and George Holden, negro, accused of writing an insulting note to white woman at Monroe, was taken from the train by an armed mob and shct to death. Holden was taken from a stretcher in the baggage car.
 At a meeting held at Heber Springs SS0.000 was pledged to insure the construction with Arkansas money of the big hydro-electric dam in the Little Red River, by the Arkansas Hydro-Electric Development Com pany. This makes total of S100,000 raised by the people of Cleburne county.
 Despite the effort of obstruction 70 hinder tick eradication work in Polk county through destruction of dip- ping vats by dynamite, the work pro- gresses. All five of the vats destroy ed have been repaired or replaced by new ones, and in addition four other vats have been constructed in the county.
 To commence determined cru sade against moonshiners who are said to abound in the mountains of Arkansas and Oklahoma by the hun dreds, the Internal Revenue Depart ment of the government will estab- fish headquarters for field forces in Fort Smith and Oklahoma City at an early date.
 Acting upon the resolution of the Arkansas Graduate Nurses Associa- tion, Governor Brough has appointed Dr. St. Cloud Cooper of Fort Smith. Miss Ruth Riley of Fayetteville and Sister Mary Edwards of Hot Springs to succeed themselves as members of the examining board of the associa- ton.
 While pleading a case before jury in Circuit Court at Mena, Wright Prickett was stricken with paralysis and is in critical condition at his home.
 At the Methodist Episcopal Church at Russellville recently the evening preaching hour was given over en- tirelv to addresses by returned sol dier boys
 Phillips county has In process of organization county live stock or eanization which will have approXi- mately 150 members and a paid sec retary.
 More than 50 carloads of radishes have been shipped from Blevins, Ark, and surrounding territory this spring. {.
 The Y. M. c. A. boys of Memphis have secured a location near Nam moth Spring for their summer camp.
 Many farmers in the Carlisle vicin- ity are planting velvet beans, which were purchased by Carlisle business men and are being sold to the farm CTS at cost.
 The Amity High School in North Clark county has organized an agli cultural club with a membership of 2A.
 Rev. H. H. Burton of Aitus, Okla. has accepted the call from the First Baptist Church at Fayetteville.