Cleveland County herald., 1920-10-21

| larged. New fixtures have been or dered and will be installed when the building is completed Partitions are being torn away and the entire l length of the building on Jefferson street, part of which had been used for other purposes, will be used by the bank.
 Springdale.-The Bank of West Fork at West Fork has awarded the contract for the construction of new bank building at that place. The build ing will cons %lin three rooms, one to De used by the bank, one by the post office and the other as grocery store
 Cotton Plant.-D. J. Williams, man. ager of the Dixie plantation, five miles west of Cotton Plant, recently ha don display here pumpkin that weighed ' 5pounds. It measured six | feet in circumference, and was over three feet long. It was of the Peter Henderson Mammoth variety.
 Batesville. - Charles w. Potts of Deerwood, Mfnn, president and gen eral manager of the Northern Mime. sota Ore Company, has purchased 500 acres of manganese ore land near Cushman. The property is known as the Aydlotte lana. and has been un- der development for several years
 Dewitt. Growers of Arkansas county expect the largest yield of rice on record. However, the market con ditions are disappointing Practically every granary in the county is filled to capacity and thousands of bushels of the grain are being placed in barns and other outbuildings.
 AshdoWn.-Very little cotton is be- ing sold on the local market. There is no disposition on the part of the far mers to sell at the prevailing price, which is P to 25 cents for short cot ton. Most of the cotton is being stor ed in the compress.
 gdale.-The Rev. B. L. Ayers of Lonoke has accepted the call of the First Baptist church at Fayetteville, succeeding the Rev. H. H. Burton, who resigned to accept the pastorate of the First Baptist Church at Spring dale.
 Ashdown.-H. P. Haislip has been appointed secretary of the Little RiV- CT County Farm Bureau. Permanent quarters for the bureau will be nam tained at Ashdown. MT. Haislip will clissify cotton for members of the organization.
 Batesville,-The power house here caught fire, when the soot rom the brooches of the boilers became ignit- ed and set the roef on fire. The blaze was extinguisheo after about $4O0 damage had been caused.
 Knobel. - The Western Veneer Products Company or this place has granted all the women working in it's yards a raise of 10 per cent in wages. The company is behind with orders, and cotton picking was taking the la | borers.
 Lewisville.-The Rev. w. c. Scott, fortwo years pastor of the Methodist church here, has rendered his resig nation, effective at once. He will go to Dallas, Texas, to enter Southwest ern Methodist University. His suc- cessor has not been appointed.
 Conway.-Lieut Walter C. Lybarg- CT of Greenbrier received his dis charge at Norfork, Va after three years service in the United States Navy, and returned home recently. He was accompanied by his wife.
 Ashdown.-The new plant of the United Cotton Oil Mill Company has begun operations. The plant is equiI ped with modern machinery and has eight presses. Fire destroyed the old plant on December 25, 1918.
 Spring gdale.-Work began recently on surfacing the new road under con- struction between Fayetteville and Winslow. A. C. Denton of Little Rock arrived here to direct the work of handling the gravel for the road.
 Cotter.-Milton Loughridge, son of L. L. Loughrdge of this place and veteran of the World war, arrived here a few days ago and will make his home with his parents.
 Mulberry-Farmers of Crawford county expect an unusually large yield this year The cotton is bNng har- vested rapidly, pickers receiving from $150 to $2.00 per hundred pounds.
 Batesville. = Miss Minna Amis, ormerl yof Batesville and a student of Arkansas College will sail from Van couver in November for China, where she will begin missionary work under the auspices of the Presbyterian church.