The Pulaskian., 1920-04-01

nets and pearls and eyey person who sees them wants them All of North east Pulaski is working to win one of these prizes, so in order not to be behind them the rest of the county must go to work at once. All speei- mems which have been given me in the past will count in this contest, and the awards will be made as soon as possible after the close of the com manity fairs this fall.
 A Rare Gift.
 I stepped out of a cafeteria Friday evening to be greeted by L. c. Gully with a Hello, there" He invited me up to the Statehouse, where he pre- sented me with two beautiful abolone shells, one of which was the finest ever saw. When finish polishing it, it will be a beauty They are from California. Other gifts of rare min erals were: Fossil shell, from Pike County; ealcite crystals, from Morn ing Star zinc mine; dry bone, zinc ore, Marion County; resin jack Morn ing Star zinc mine; Smithsonite, zinc ore, Marion County; carbonate, zinc ore, Baxter County; resin and black Jack, with pink calcite on dolamite rock, zinc ore, a very beautiful and rare specimen; silver lead ore, Mena; lead ore, Baxter County; antimony, Seyier County; pyrolusite, manganese ore. Montgomery County; sulphur, Louisiana; phosphate, Izard County; St. Clair marble, accompanying phos- phate, Izard County; chaIcedony and quartz, Ouachita river; onyx, from near Guion, Izard County; dog tooth spar, Marion County; fossiliferous marble, with crinoids, Searcy County; pirite, Montgomery County; opalized wood, from near Pine Bluff; satin spar, Levy; fossil shell, in the chalk, out of which the famous Desores china is made, from a protection eel lar in France, dug for protection against German air raids.
 J. E. Pridmore, R. F. D. No. 2, Jacksonville. gave me large collec- tion of Indian arrows and other relics. Vernon Belyeu, R. F. D. No. ?, Cabot, gave me a very fine collection of In- dian arrow heads, including eleven bird arrows, a beautiful rey crystal and a fossil shell from Fort Worth, Texas. Mrs. Ada Wells also gave me arrows. Luther Gwin gave me an Indian tomahawk and other relics.
 Arriving at Bigeiow I was surprised to find that the Fourche river was up and that Rankin creek had been on a rampage and washed out three bridges between there and Wye. so had to walk home. l was disap- pointed, for I had all I could carry and could not, for that reason, take home anything to eat, but on the road found rare but heavy rock; though could not carry anything to eat could carry it.
 Before leaving home the last time I worked on my spring some. Below it there is a tramway across the branch with big fill and culvert. This had fallen in and the water was backing up to my spring, so cleaned it out some, hoping that the water would open way through it. When went down to 'look at it it was washed out clear There was dam across the head of the branch making a large pond of water which had broken It overflowed my spring, the water getting about ten feet there. Then it ran into Reece creek and washed away the bridge. It did good job for me at the culvert, and the bridge needed to be raised about three feet, which is now being done. Thus, you see that in these times of labor shortage 1 just call on the Wander ing Fairy when I want work done and she has the elements to do it for me-
 Monday the Fourche river was still rising and a telephone message an nounced that the Wye mail would leave by boat. A. later message an- nounced that the attempt to get across in a boat had been abandoned.
 Herman Schoenfeld and John Swan son came up Monday to start work on the Reece creek bridge. Johns dog came along and the Wandering Fairy had them to fetch rabbit to me to cook to make up for the grub I could not bring home with me. As we all had dinner together we had more than we could eat without it, so the dogs had feast.
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