Paragould soliphone. (Paragould, Ark.) 1918-1950, 1922-09-27
ROUGH MINERS.


Miners sometimes called "a rough lot And
Ito tell the truth, they sometimes deserved the
designation Roughness somehow seems to go with the
hard conditions under which miners work and live.
There is different side of It, Consider the
heroic efforts of those gold Jackson Cal.
to their comrades trapped by fire nearly mile
below the earth's surface. There was no question
of hours or pay when that catastrophe oc-
Cured Every workman in the settlement was an
instant volunteer. The toughest" of them were
foremost in the work of rescue,
And such work! Few laborers can appreciate the
killing nature of it. and an office worker not at all
Those rescuers had to drill through $50 feet rock
nearly as hard iron. That meant drilling holes
close together five feet deep. to form circle and
then blowing the encircled rock with dynamite
over again, steadily, day and night for three
weeks The boring of every little hole weary
labor itself The blasts filled the tunnel with
noisome fumes and choking dust. The debris had
to be removed, with steadily increasing difficulty.
Every those Basping. torn
and bleeding When their endurance gave out, and
they staggered forth exhausted they slept few hours
and returned the work No soldiers in battle fight
Ing for their lives, could do more "a
And always, as they worked, in that dark hole
in their hearts they held the tragedy they faced
and The knowledge that at any moment similar fate
might be theirs.
1t takes roughess for such deed of mercy.
Rough strength and rugged virtue usually together
How many of soft bameless polite life could
show in emergency, their measureless loyalty and
sef-sacrifice?
Greene couny's final opportunity to land the Lone
Star highway with federal aid appears to be drawing
The Lone star convention OF the state Is TO be
held at Dermott Arkansas next Monday and Tuesday.
Greene county been asked send delegation In
fifty cars that city for the occasion, when the
subject of and federal aid in the construction
of the road will be passed upon, There's only small
strip fifty miles Of that roadway from Chca
40 10 the Gulf OF Mexico 600 mesnot provided
for and that fifty mile strip is through THIS SECTION
Can it be possible that shall not make provision
TO close that gap and permit the road TO go around
us? Surely not
Next Monday and Tuesday at Dermott. Arkansas
likely will offer this section its final opportunity
become assured of federal and state aid in the
matter of building the Lone Star highway It's up tc
this section to send a strong delegation that
sion be attended by individuals residing along the
route OF that cross-country roadway.
The former Kaisers proposed marriage is opposed
by the German aristocracy on the ground that the
lady is not royal" but merely noble" From what
observed of royalty, especially as exemplifed
by the Hohenzollerns, it's better to be noble
Mounting. pickering and other forms of minor
discussions are the ruin of any community. COM
munty that can't rise above such rot of thought
is in sad plight.
Ohio is going take prohibition Nov
T. it's only vote, and Ohio can't get much
booze through straw
Get grip your dollars" says bank adj
Yes, but don't carry them around in it. you
likely lose them.
A locomotive down Il deer in New Jersey the
other day You never hear of anything like that in
the Wild West.
The Nobel prize for the discovery of tho greatest
benefit should so the professor who has
nounced that there is deadly taun!n in coffee after
all.
Many bachelor gets his eye pretty girl
only find that she has her hooks him.
erican ar property contained In so large