The spectator., 1920-09-21

1 Thompson and the road commission CTS have let the contract Tor two 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 Geek at Den- | yer.
 Mountain Home. The Mountain Home College recently purchased a ! large brick residence which joins the campus It will be remodeled into a 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 H.ttiesburg, Miss, one of the fore most evangelists of the South has been engaged to conduct a two-weeks' revival in Dewitt. Professor Milan. a song leader of note, will direct the music assisted by the choirs of the i ,-tn ok, ~f
 Conway.-Edward Brennan, son of i Postmaster and Mrs. E. A. Brennan, 1 left for San Francisco, where he will 1 enter the navy as an apprenticed sea man. Brennan last year was a 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- l sued to the Farmers & Minerals Ma 1 tional Bank of Hartford. Ark. The comptrollers of the currency announc- ed recently. The new institution. which Is capitalized at s25.000 has for l its 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 Cravens place and sold to the E. N. Thompson Company for 2S 12 cents a pound. A premium of S20 was given to MT. Cravens by local business men.
 Bentonville. - Ray & 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 esti- mated at about nine cars.
 Mountain Home Mayor DeLapp is having the streets of the town re- paired. On the north side of the square they are being filled to level with the curbing ditch of the new ing made in other sections of the town.
 SlTOHS.- ie NeSltIH btli Telephone Company made extensive Improvements asits plant here. About 1,500 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 24 grindings of corn that came 10 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 Bu. 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.-The Rev. ]. F. Claunch and the Rev F. R. Simmons arc con ducting a revival at Greenbrier, The meeting began August 29, and inter est is so great that no plans have been made to bring it to close.
 Huntsville. - F. 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-Local Elks have made preliminary arrangements for the Elks minstrels. Clint w. Draper, who directed the minstrels last year, will