Washington telegraph., 1921-04-01

/ body in full dress uniform Sunday
morning at the Presbyterian church
Rogers Dean Bradford Knapp Of
( the University Of Arkansas will de-
/ liver the bacculaureate address to the
graduating class of the Rogers High
school T 81 .a.U .Ueiai- Iad 3..
Conway. G. Dickson, represent
ing the Arkansas state hygiene and
welfare campaign, spoke Sunday aft
ernoon at the First Baptist church
here. H H
| Helena.-Preparator to reconstruct
ing the City Canal, a large force OF
workmen was put to work recently
with shovels digging the canal to the
prescribed depth near the Citizens
Compress Company. ......
Harrisburg The School Improve
ment Association here gave book
shower at the public school building
| for the benefit of the high school Ii
brary. There were about 200 books
/ donated. A nice program was rem
dered, after which the association
served hot chocolate and doughnuts.
Hope-At a meeting of the Hope
! School Board, Supt. d. L. Paisley was
reelected to serve until his successor
is elected. This action is a deviation
| from the usual customs of electing
/ the superintendent for one year Mr..
Paisley will serve as city superintend-
ent for an indeterminate period.
Fayetteville. Seventeen young
men told what they really thought of
girls who powder an3 paint, recently
at the University Of Arkansas, in let
ters which were read at a meeting OF
the Y. w. c. A. Football captains, ca.
det officers, and all the others, were
opposed to rouge, etc.
Hope.-Thirty-fve barrels Of rad
ishes were shipped by local truck
growers from the Hope station re-
Gently, the shipments being to points
in Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska and other
Western states. The shipments make
a total of $50 barrels of Iadishes
shipped from Hope this season.
Bentonville.-The rains of Monday
and Monday night, which was one of
the largest of recent years, flooded the
power house, public garages, store
buildings and lake pavilions at Bella
VISTA the resort near Bentonville. and
one man, care-taker, was rescued by
boat, H.-.r n..-.#
Rogers.-Twelve furnaces to be
used in growing sweet potato slips
have Just been installed by the Tri-
State Potato Company here. Three
hundred bushels of potatoes will be
planted for slips alone The company
recently sold its entire supply to
w. .E. Kefauyer of Rogers.
Paragould-@+Fireo of unknown origin
destroyed the blacksmith shop and its
contents, belonging to William Moore,
located on North Pruett Street
Prompt response by the. fire depart
ment prevented the spread of the
flames to the Arkansas Store build
ing, one of the largest business houses
in the city.
Pyatt,-Contracts are being made
now for the production of tomatoes
with the farmers in this vicinity and
around Zinc, six miles west of here,
by the factories at the two places.
Last year the contract price was 75
cents per 100 pounds. This year,
owing to the market condition, 1t has
been lowered to 60 cents.
Jonesboro.-Albert Brock, the boy
who was injured when he was thrown
violently on the concrete pavement
near Nettleton when he undertook to
Jump on a moving automobile driven
by a Mr. DAVIS, is improving, the X
ray picture showing that the skull was
not fractured, as was first thought by
the physician.
Texarkana.-The Board of Director s
OF the Texarkana Chamber of Com
fic manager Of the Freight Bureau, to
! represent Temrksna interests at the
East Texas Chamber of Commerce
meeting at Tyier A resolution also
was adopted urging a joint hearing
by the railroad commissions Of Arkan
sas and Texas at Texarkana to con
slider the building of a new Union
passenger Pstation here -
J AAD 4 - ~9l,.S 3
. Paragould. Sheriff c. P. Stepp has
recovered a quantity of various kinds
of tobacco SO worth of pennies and
other articles which were stolen from
II. ~ Hendrix's store. AL shotgun re
Gently stolen from Flippin's barber
shop was also recovered. The looi
was found near the Hasty factory.
Fayetteville. lRepresentatiVe John
Tillman is president of the Washing
ton, d. c., chapter Of the alumni Of
the University of Arkansas, which re
l. 4 -. 4.