White County record., 1922-07-20

yesterday, suffered burns when the liquor caught fire and exploded
 Conway.-With 95 delegates repre- senting every club of women in the county present, the County Federation of Women's Clubs was launched under suspicious conditions here at meet ing at the home of Mrs. Joseph Frauenthal The delegates represent nine clubs and five School Improve ment Associations. About 115 dele gates and visitors attended.
 Rogers.-At a meeting of the com missioners of Road Improvement Dis trict No. 8, held recently, Judge Joe Beasley was requested to build two mile stretch of the Cave Springs road. He has consented to do the work.
 Hot Springs.-City Engineer Grover Smith has completed plans for large paving program here, in sveral local districts, and it is thought that the work will be ready for getting under way at an early date.
 Ashdown-Awarding of contract for construction on Little River Road I'm provement District No. is to be held here on July 21.
 Pine Bluff.-The Cotton Belt bank has declared six per cent dividend at the semi-annual meeting of the di- rectors. c. w. Pettigrew, cashier, re- ported the affairs of the bank in flour ishing condition.
 Little Rock.-The sale, under gov ernment auspices, of three-fifths of the buildings at Camp Pike will be held at the camp August 1, according to information which has been receiv- ed here. It is estimated that the buildings to be salvaged, about 1,200 in number, contain 26,000,0O0 feet of lumber, in addition to considerable plumbing and wiring and several heat ing plants
 Camden.-Harry Johnson, Sr, aged 39; Harry Johnson, Jr., aged 6, and Glenn Bird, aged 9, were drowned in the swift current of the Ouachita river at Devils Elbow, about a mile and half north of Camden.
 Pine Bluff.-COntract for the con- struction work in the Cumins Drain age District will be let by the con- missioners of the district in Little Rock on August 15, it has been an nounced,
 Camden.-W. L. Shide. secretary of the Warren Chamber of Commerce, has made a canvass and finds that there are now 101 residences in the course of construction in Warren. He also found 20 residences being re- modelled. Mir. Shide reports eight new store buildings being erected and six new barns and outbuildings.
 Mena.--To accommodate the in- creasing number of auto tourists who are visiting this section of the Ozarks. the commercial club of Mena has ar. ranged a tourists camp on Stillwell Park Heights. Cooking facilities with free fuel, free shower baths, and a spacious bunk house have been pro- vided.
 Pine Bluff.-T. L. Moseley has or ganized private improvement dis. trict to extend Olive street south 10 blocks to Thirty-sixth street which is within two blocks of the Country Club.
 Stuttgart.-The body of Clarence Clements, 17-year-old son of Arch Clements of Preston's Ferry. was found floating in White river by the elder Clements. The boy fell from a motor boat and was drowned.
 Little Rock.-Appointment of A. J. Kunz to be assistant treasurer of the Arkansas Cotton Growers Co-Operat- i've Association was announced by President Charles G. Henry
 Arkadelphia.- & Baird of Shreveport will start the first oil well In this territory within 60 days. &C., cording to the contract signed with local promoters. They
 Russellville.-The City Council will appoint commissioners for the water and light improvement district. now being formed for the purpose of build. ing and operating a municina1 w.+or and light plant. Petitions represent. ing majority in value of the property ln the district which includes the an. tire city have been filed.
 Huntsville.-Kingston has completed the installation of alactrio l.zh.e ...,