Pocahontas star herald., 1926-03-11

1t is said that the state highway
leading from Ash Flat to Mountain
Home will be completed during the
coming summer
At the home of j. Il. Mayhan near
Newark is a goose which is laying at
the age of 30 years. A mate to the
goose died last year.
Dan Woods, aged 40, was found
dead by the roadside near luka Thurs
day night. 1t is thought he died from
drinking moonshine whiskey.
]. Il. Critz, county agent of Jackson
county. says that soy beans are destin-
ed TO become one of the leading crops
of Arkansas and the entire South,
r. S. Garrison, Ripley county farm
er, recently sold TO Doniphan produce
buyers AZ pure bred Barred Plymouth
hens for which he received $69.OS
Methodists of Blytheville are pre-
paring to begin construction of a new
S15O.OO0 church, to replace their build
ing which was recently destroyed by
fire.
Renewed activities are reported from
the Cushman manganese fields and a
new railroad spur six miles long is
being built from the town to the new
mines.
Fred Brandon, justice of the peace
Fat Black Rock, was fined $40 by the
other Justice there, +. Franks, one day
lately on charge of assault and bat
terry.
Farmers in the vicinity of Floral,
Independence county, have held a mass
meeting and pledged themselves to a
reduction of the cotton acreage this
season.
Wiley Ford, ~, was instantly killed
and two companions were severely
injured recently in an auto accident
between Oxford and Calico Rock. The
car turned over and Ford's neck was
broken.
Oscar Pulliam, son of Mrs. A. ].
Pulliam, a widow at Mammoth Spring,
was caught and buried in huge snow
slide at Bingham, Utah, lately. His
body was recovered ten days after the
accident.
A Hungry Bend item in the Hardy
Herald says: "All indications now are
that more cotton will be planted in
this community this year than was
planted last year, which is undoubted-
ly big mistake"
w. p. Outlaw Of Newport has two
silver dollars minted at New Orleans
in 1860. He has been offered $3.50 each
for the coins but is holding them for
81 900 each. There were but few made
there in the year 1860 and none after
wards until the Civil war closed.
The~Greene County Spinach Growers
Association is most active nowadays
preparing to increase the acreage next
season. The farmers of this fertile
northeastern county are rapidly de-
parting from the 'one-crop system"
Recent news reports indicate that there
/ nave Dcen tHOuSdlluS VI ItdCH iItcS
set within the last few months.
The mercantile establishment of
George Huskey at Shelbyville, in Scott
township, was destroyed by fire few
nights ago, entailing a heavy loss upon
the owner. None of the stock was
saved, according to reports The post
Office was kept in this store, and all the
postoffice records and considerable
amount of mail matter were consumed
in the flames.
Representing himself to be a post
office inspector, Frank Smith, aged 10,
of Joplin, Mo-, obtained access to the
money in the postoffice at SandtoNn a
few days ago. When the alleged in
spector had gone the postmaster miss
ed $105 in money that belonged to the
government. Smith was arrested at
Newport next day, and the money was
found on his person.
Every radio in this section Of the
state should be tuned in on KTHS, the
broadcasting station at the Arlington
Hotel in Hot Springs, on the night
of March 10 at 8 o'clock, when fiddlers
from lizard, Baxter and Fulton cOun-
a Ill