Cleveland County herald., 1920-09-16

Thompson and the road commission CTS have let the contract TOT :wo steel bridges in this county to the Reeves Construction Company. One of the bridges will span Kin's river at the Quinn Ford near Grandview, and the other will span Long CSeek at Den yer.
 Mountain Home. The Mountain Home College recently purchased a large brick residence which joins the campus It will be remodeled into boys dormitory and will be completed in a few days. A big force of work men is at work on the new girls dor mitory, which will be completed in about six weeks.
 Strong Several young women and ffen of Strong will attend college this year as follows: Mazue Clark, Roy Phillips, Ware Murphy, Henderson Murphy and Harry Shade, Ouachita college; Robertine Murphy and Thel- ma Wheelis, St. Mary's Academy, Lit tie Rock; w. T. Coleman, University of Arkansas.
 DeWitt.-The Rev. Daniel E. Kelley of Hattiesburg, Miss, one of the fore most eyangelists of the South, has been engaged to conduct tWo-weeks' revival in Dewitt Professor Milan, a song leader of note, will direct the music assisted by the ehoirs of the ,,;C ol,, oc bo
 Conway.-EdWard Brennan, son of Postmaster and Mrs. E. A. Brennan, left for San Francisco, where he will enter the navy as an apprenticed sea man. Brennan last year was sopho- more at Hendrix College, and took civ il training at the Great Lakes train ing camp this summer.
 Washington.-A charter has been is- sued to the Farmers & Minerals Ma tional Bank of Hartford, Ark. The comptrollers of the currency announc- ed recently The new institution, which Is capitalized at S25,000, has for it's president. l. H. Nakdimen, and cashier, David Moore.
 Scranton. - The first bale of new cotton has been received here. It was grown on the Ed Crayens place and sold to the E. N Thompson Company for 2S 1-2 cents a pound. A premium of $20 was given to MT. Cravens by local business men.
 Bentonville. = Ray X Sweeney, ap- pie buyers, have purchased the Holi- day orchards near Gravette, paying S26, ,500 for the land, stock, feed, all equipment, and the apple crop now being harvested. The place includes 172 acres, and the apple crop is estt- mated at about nine cars.
 is having the streets of the town re- paired. On the north side of the square they are being filled to a level with the curbing ditch of the new concrete walk. Repairs are also be- ing made in other sections of the town.
 Strong-The Southwestern Bell Telephone Company made extensive improvements at it's plant here. About 1,5OO feet of 100-pair cable has been strung, all grounded circuits changed to metallic circuits and a new switch board installed.
 Bearden.-The recent rains in this county have caused considerable dam age to late cotton. but early cotton is opening fast and picking is progress sing rapidly. The cotton ginned this season is being held by the growers, as there is no market for it here.
 Mountain Home.-New corn is be- ginning to come to the grist mills in this section of the state. Out of 2a grindings of corn that came to the Miller mill here, 22 were of new corn. The corn crop promises to be larger than for the last 10 years.
 Huntsville.-Dan Apple of Van Blu ren, Modern Woodmen of America dis trict organizer, has been engaged in this county recently. A lodge of 50 members was organized at St. Paul, and one of 40 members at Delaney.
 Conway y.-The Rev. J. E. Claunch and the Rev. E. R. Simmons are con- ducting a revival at Greenbrier. The meeting began August 20, and inter- est is so great that no plans have been made to bring it to a close.
 Huntsville. = r. T. Parker of Jap ton has turned rough mountain farm into a rog ranch, and he is now ship ping fancy breeds to various parts of the country He has many orders from distant states.
 Pine Bluff.-Loeal Elks have made preliminary arrangements for the Elks minstrels. Clint w. Draper, who directed the minstrels last year, will 1 be in charge of the show, which will l '. xl.N l. tr>