Cleveland County herald., 1921-08-18
STATE NEWS ,BRIEFLYTOLD
For Readers Who Arc lnter gtsd In Arkansas and Its
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Arkadelphia--A thief stole one horse wagon from Ouachita College here recently.
 Coal Hill.-A Shetland pony owned by Dawson Bryant was killed by lightning here.
 Altus.-Work has been started on a new four-room school building at Den ming, a mile south of here.
 Coal Hill.-The residence of Spencer Lewis, near here, was struck by light ming and slightly damaged.
 Walnut Ridge.-John Bell has been appointed marshal of Hoxie, succeed ing Dell Trask, resigned.
 Evening Shade.-A fine Jersey COW belonging to w. c. Shaver of this place died from an oyer-feed of green sorghum.
 Bentonvlle - Bentonville Boy Scouts, with their scoutmaster, the Rev. H. C. Hoy, are camping at Blue Springs, on White river.
 Bentonyille.-Red Williams of Au- rora, Mo-, has rented the w E. Polk building at Avoca and will open produce business.
 Harrisburg Rev T. A. O'Bryant, pastor of the Baptist church, and family, have returned from two weeks vacation.
 Walnut Ridge.-The Moore Candy and Ice Cream Company has been sold by S. T. Hardin and D. B. Moore to k. D. Woodburn of West Plains.
 Walnut Ridge.-S. E. Spiker has been selected superintendent of the Hoxie public schools for the fifth con secutive term.
 Mammoth Spring Judge M. c. Carter has bought a grader and tractor and expects to make numerous improvements on the roads in Fulton county.
 Mammoth Spring-Mayor William Hicox of Mammoth Spring has re- signed. Recorder J. c. Jeffrey was named acting mayor by the City Coun- cil.
 Gravette.- .-Lanier Rodgers, horticul- turist and pure-bred livestock farmer, living beyond Spayinaw creek, just shipped an excellent uniform carload of Herefords to market.
 Batesyille.-C. N. Ferrill of this city lost seven head of cattle during heavy electrical and rainstorm, which visited this community. The cattle were found closely huddled together. Three of the cows were blooded stock,
 Newport-The Rev. H. Lynn Wade of Batesville, presiding elder tSr thls district of Southern Methodist church. was in Newport en route to Tucker man. where he held quarterly confer ence.
 Camden.-A large force of men and teams have begun work building the road from Stephens to the Columola county line. This road will connect with the Columbia county highway which is practically completed.
 Harrisburg.-A. A. Luck, contractor on the Truman Highway, has started the work of graveling that thorough fare and will push the work to com pletion as rapidly as possible. The expectation is that it will be finished before the end of the year
 Horatio.-Charles Billingsley of Horatio has opened new meat mar ket here in the building formerly oc- cupied by Stanford's market, and will make a speciality of selling home raised meats. MT Billingsley has been engaged in the stock business here for several years. The name of the new firm is Billingsley & Son.
 Piggott- Heavy rains have fallen over this county recently, and farmers report a marked improvement in the crop outlook A bumper crop of corn is expected in the county. Cotton is in good condition, but notwithstanding this county leads the state in yield per acre of cotton, the acreage this year is rather small.
 searcy.-A. H. Royston of this place, one of five men in Arkansas to win the trip offered by the Mutual Life Insurance Company for selling s125 ,000 worth of insurance last year. has gone for 10 days visit to White Sulphur Springs, Va, and New York City.
 Russellville.-The City Council has voted to install white way in the business section of Russellville, to in- clude all the district from the rail- road south to David street and from Oak street west to St. Marys street.
 Paragould-An event of unusual importance was the annual reunion of the Rogers family at the home of M. A. Rogers Seventy relatives were