The Pulaskian., 1921-09-29

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 Piggott. -Piggott residents have launched a movement for the munic- ipal ownership of a lighting system, to be run in connection with the water works system. which is now being planned
 Newport Jackson County grand jury returned 30 indictments, making total of 79 for the present term of Circuit Court here. About half of the indictments charge infrac- tons of the liquor laws, it is said.
 Little Rock Chancellor Martineau has appointed A. B. Cypert receiver for the Arkansas Crude Oil Corpora ton upon application of S. A. Poe, a stockholder, who alleged that the cor poration was operating at loss.
 Blytheville.-With the appointment Of Joe Scrnggs as chief of police an nouncement is made by the city's law enforcing department that violators of every description will be shown no mercy.
 Little Rock.-Arkansas farmers will continue to have the services of Loy k. Rast, agronomist of the Southern Soil Improvement Committee, for an other year, it was announced in a tele- gram received by Roy Thompson, pres ident of the Little Rock Board of Commerce.
 Van Buren.-William Bradshaw, a young white man living near Locke, in Crawford County, was attacked by two white men, and while one man held rifle barrel in his face the other performed an operation upon him with a knife. Bradshaw, it was reported, will recover.
 Marvell.-The good road from Mar we'll to Barton Junction is now com pleted. This is distance of IA miles. Work is being rapidly put on from West Helena, coming west, and the contractors and engineers state that with good weather the road will be completed into Helena by December 1, 1921.
 Fort Smith.-Street car men here have refused the proposed wage re- duction of six cents an hour, it was announced. The present contract, which is dated to expire March 1, 1922, will remain in effect, D. c. Green, general manager of the Fort Smith Light and Traction Company, said.
 lphia-Fred Bridges narrow ly escaped serious injury if not death near Gum Springs, when the big gov ernment truck he is using to haul gravel on Road District No broke. through wooden bridge and fell nine feet to the bed of DeCipher Creek. The truck was fully loaded and is said to have weighed 1S tons.
 publican national committeeman from Arkansas, has returned home after spending nearly two weeks in the na- tional capital on patronage business. Before leaving MT Remmel was ad- vised by the secretary of war that the buildings at Camp Pike had not yet been ordered sold, but that the order probably would be made soon.
 Benton.-The Rev. Giles c. Taylor, pastor of the First Baptist church of Benton, closed Today meeting at Kentucky Baptist church, seven miles northwest of Benton, with 100 access sions to the membership of that church, SS of whom were baptized. The Rev. Taylor baptized 70 in the Saline river Sunday afternoon in 2S minutes, which is said to break the record.
 Little Rock.-The Arkansas Cotton Growers Cooperative Association is waging an intensive membership cam paign in Jefferson county in an effort to secure signatures to contracts for 20, ,000 bales of the 1922 crop. This is Jefferson countys quota under the as- sociation's plan. The campaign is under the direction of Harry Trulock, Pine Bluff banker and planter. Four crews are making a farm-to-farm can vass, explaining the advantages of CO operative marketing. At meeting of the executive committee of the asso- ciations Organization Committee, 1t was decided to invite A. J. Burke of Helena, planter and former county clerk, to become member of the Optimist reports were made by all the members of the com mittee, who were present.
 Womble Herbert Barrentine was instantly killed when the boiler in the cotton gin where he was working ex- ploded. He was hurled about 40 yards, and his head was almost blown NTo nIc a1+ o1,