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Vl ®*EB ?i VSHDOYVN, LITTLE RIVER COUNTY, ARKANSAS. SATURDAY, AUGUS1 :5«, 1919.

VOLUME XXL __ ------II II BUI—1W—!W—

SEVIER COUNTY HIGHWAY JONES COMMUNITY FMR ?”L$0*1’$ TOUR TO BE- IS AWARDED DISTRICT NO. 7 ROSB PAVEMENT PICKUP NOTES LOCAL MAS —— | !$ ELM COMPLETION WILL OPEN NEXT WEEK GIN ByniNS SEPTEMBER I A LARGE ROAD CONTRACT BOMBS ARE APPROVED Attending Court. J. S. Steel, Attor- ; Will VKit .'ill ( ilies and Explain the Judge Prosecuting Hill) of Attractions "ill lie at tile Little Rock HeQiiecn, Network of Hood Many of Tills Ots Commissioners Went to I). Prosecut- Pence to the jfni Sanderson City- ney A. DuGaney. Deputy j in the Jones ( <1111 in ii it Fair Uegitming Trealy People Bonds— Hoads, Midst of Hand- it> (traveling t ontract Wednesday to Sign tlie ine Geo. R. Steel, and Court of aH .Sections. trading and Attorney s « ing Boom. September the 4th. y. v-s Eight. All Now Ready for Work. Allen Watkins are at On Highway in No. Stenographer i ''T M Nashville this week where the Howard Washington, Aug 28- The i$%» -re rv DeQueen. Aug. 28.—Completion of The Jones Communi'y Fair will lie O. one of the commis- cf this city v.as _W. Waldrop, Circuit Court is in session. held of President Wilson swing -Pound Jim C Sanderson highways in Sevier county witch will i next week, beginning September for Road District No. 7, which of bidder on grading and sioners o 5 and the circle, with addresses in b-*h uf the successful form a network of road covering the eontinuing through the 5th. he will build 6!) miles of improved gravel ! 5i> a. m. Among for for Little J. 1! Graves the of the is ex- No. 8. His bid ; highway, left Wednesday lu.s just gathered ihe amusements will lie prin-spai cities coun’ry. built in District near future. Work on the east and merry go with the other commis- corn from three-fourths to be announced tomorrow f mile.' of grading and graveling Rock to meet approximately around, picture show and other pected the 18 west highway which will run through many bonds. He stated on ltis farm the gravel to be pur- sioners and sign the oi in acre of ground just a inusements. Announcement was made roright was $126,000. the county from tiie Howard county has notice that Rose, town which mad Go bushels district. The gravel that he had received east of that lie would leave m T1s chased by the line to tiie Oklahoma boundary is be- Program for Septem1'-: V will b pr.-sid'-nt district attorneys for The corn been The Hemingway and Rose, |measured corn. averaged Pacific coast trip as soon as arrange- not yet purchased. ing rushed to completion at an ear'.; addresses by W ('. L:t.-sc-:-r. H, F, on the 8th had approved I ears to the stalk. This made wiGi- more in court the bonding companies two wag ments could be made, probably has one day date, and engineer's estimates are to Kapp and P. I!. William> J im .Jones contract for rite and no to bring up a complete tlie bond issue. The i on land that had been postured in 10 or two weeks, of September the effect that this road will be read v school will liave their program on that days the work will was let several days ago for fertilizer was used. He leaves in the aft# which time rond j It is Wilson will spend 25 an vs -ecord for use by January 1. This stretch of ; day. also expected that Dr. and president Sanderson The contractor is awaiting notice i field a of Velvet beans, to Mr. noO. crop peas'and Mrs. M the of the country ready proceed. road will be a part of the scenic di- ok;. of Ashdown will furnish laying before people who constructed from the Parke Engineering Company pumpkins i .mediate re till- v. ,s the contractor of the Bankhead About. instrumental music for the his reasons for the when vision highway. day. roads in this county, announcing that all is ready ft first gravel of the treaty without t 70 per cent of the grading in Improve On September 5th the program will cation peace the Pino will begin to make preparations Hicks School to as the Ogden and they Open. known No. 2. east from a change time for luent District running he nail driving contest and candy announces that he to begin construction. Tip: The Hicks school, three miles east Prairie roads. He and the Gen- DeQueen. is finished, graveling eating contest for girts under 2tt years Although he desired to greet when the word is the cqiufact is twenty of will soon open for its regu- i to get busy completing j here, New ready is well under way. On the road being and on his arrival at to Parke En- one old; ball throwing for eral Pershing 200 working days months. Meptl)ora*of the lar winter course. This school is bovs He has of -, said to i-D-a constructed by District. No. 4. west under next month he is the work under company are in Ashdown, of the tnest country school in this sec- j?i) years old. Speakers on that York early bis part of gineering even further progrc The complete make head- the county seat, ,lie tonr tn where it is stated they will tion of the: state, and usually they have day Will be Seth C. Reynolds and ot- con?1,ler PXP!!,in peace... the contract. is TIu* Prof. C J reported. It was oi nuarters and establish offices. • 6 to 9 months school. ; hers. as of more importance. will he two stnel bridges from {treaty There said, the was firm will have charge of several big Tennessee has arrived and With th“ of the Sevier conn The Jones Hftcretat y Tumulty contracts for which Castell of opening community invite all to f possible, the road, the | Persh- road in the county of the school division of the Bankhead cotiifc' And see jneet General Midland Bridge Company improvements I will be principal this year tty highway the live stock and other president might' let to the 6. in St. No. 3 add No. of the of will serve as tiie Wes', con- which are No. 7. No. 8, Miss Mary Freeman this city l city DeQueen exhibits pnd be sine to visit your ing enrout to the profebp for approximately $6,000. The jppd of hub for roadwork running friends and also he constructed Number 7 will make two important, will be the assistant. The citizens improved noighbot-. LouisA c -ore culverts will I directions as a north and south The as will the with interstate and nat- are very pro- in all j Jones community for several changes were necessary in the jnder separate contracts connections the Hicks community Some was two years ago.! which were con- ional It will be the con- and believe in the very best highway completed years have held a fair and it lias al- ! as originally made when , -.rifled clay culverts, highways. | gresslva itinerary the Jefferson highway children. In addition to the roads now under ways been a great success and with- Wilson was in Paris, but it tracted with the Post Pipe Company, necting link in opportunities for their President on of the north with Sevier county and construction, plans are being rapidly out. a doubt this lair will also a I was said that his purpose wa3 not of Texarkana. The purciir.se line J Texar- be- south with Miller county. At Work on Bank. formulated for work on two additional success. The fair is usually attended j to stop at Chicago had not been ehang- gravel will have to he completed with the Bank- On one of these, the road' hundreds of and all have in the Middle total kana it will connect up Work lias begun on reconstructing highways. by people | ed. but he mav speak fore it is known definitely if the have northern from to it. and a still Cincinnati and St. head highway, and will the First National Bank builing. False running southeast DeQueen thoroughly enjoyed larg- West, at Columbus. the cost will he within money. wall 14 miles distant, the en- er crowd .is ’his than connections with the scenic route of walls are being built so that the Lockesburg, expected year Louis. follows: The roads will run about f-s vault and the east wall gineer’s contract has already been let, ever before. -o- the Bankhead highway at DeQueen iiack of the j Main new vault and is reported on tiie. A STAY OF EX KM NON The northern branch will leave may be torn down. The rapid progress when ttie line is built. Probably the now the directors' of the district to con- BITCH IN THK l LEAK Frisco crossing and take will be in what is organization street at the connection will be the most important will .; -i which goes south-1 Governor Gives < onvietod Man I ati! room. The operation of tlie bank the highway, road to R.ed Bluff. the did Pevtonvilie State at the Okla- the seat, to the Ok- 15 to Oklahoma Highway not be interrupted while the rebuilding west from county j Error Was Vppurcntly Made in Gazette September Report. Front The southern branch will leave Arkinda. line in homa state line just west of is in progress. lahoma , Office Addressing Papers. office and follow W. E. Clevenger, convicted a' the street at. the express This road is already completed in Ok- The effect of the road improvement | term of LitCe River Cir- out of town over the First Bale of Cotton. work in Sevier county is already Parties who saw the Frisco news July (1918) Rankin street, lahoma to Moon. being] of of false The first bale of this season’s cot- felt in now in the midst of butch open the package of Gazettes cuit court a charge causing lower Pevtonvilie road, intersecting DeQueen, --o- the of entries to be made in bank books, and ton was brought to Ashdown Sriday one of its greatest building booms Sunday bearing addresses local at or near the Jeff .Nes- the upper road sentenced to one in the peniten- DRILLS ARRIVE afternoon by one of our colored farm- since its establishment 17 years ago. subscribers claim that the butch was year bitt has been a stay of execu- place. ers, Tom Bell. The bale had not been A bank building costing approximately in the clear as the package was ad- tiay. granted of No. 8 are: dressed. not to the but to the tion until September 15 The commissioners Art mil Work will Soon Begin at the sold at our press time, but a premium $50,000, a sanitarium, moving picture postoffice, the said to Eon T be made to with the train on which he was running, indi- “To compel Clevenger H.H. Orton, A. J. Russell. Jones, Allene Prospect Well. will likely up go ; theater, three store buildings and num- Foreman cating that it was his bundle. It ap- report at once to the penitentiary Geo. D. Chewning. sale. The first bale sold at A. L. Fomby, and erous residences are now in progress. loss that the error must have been would entail considerable financial this week for 30 cents and $40 prem- pears tlie Parke Engineer- Ailene, Aug. 28.—(Special)—Drilling The engineers are made in the Gazette room, to himself and others interested with ium. mailing here. The drillers ar- ing Company, and the attorney is A.D. will soon begin which is entirely plausible. He could hm„" says the proclamation. -o- NEARING COMPLETION rived here Thursday morning. hardly be blamed for receiving mail DuLaney. House Burns. _ to on the outside COTi ON Ml N ro MEET on addressed himself A. R. Hill went to Hope Friday Work on New Oil Mill Building Near- wrapper. learning that his mother's house, Mrs. Final Stage of Completion. ing -o- Mill Meet in New Ur lean- and I'i-cuss Green, had burned. Mrs. Green was MASONIC TEMPLE Bl'KNS High ( i»'t at Eh ing. IT IS BAD BUSINESS— away from home at the time. The work on the new oil mill build- __-o- the final stages of com- ing is nearing Little Rock. —• stocks Seven Story Masonic Temple at Little Aug 2s.—iSpecial) to borrow to buy diamonds, automobiles, speculative Carl Garner Home. There now remains hut little money pletion. a from W. A. in- Hock Burns. In response to telegram other non-essentials that neither pay dividends nor Carl Garner, who lived at Ashdown roof is and many brick work. The being placed Wanamaker. President of the Ameri- in Little 'Rock. Aug. 28.—The Masonic That will put vour name and bookkeeper for the Major and in a crease your earning capacity policy was on portions of the building Association which meets Temple. Main street and Capitol ave- can Cotton in the Sheriffs foreclosure column—of Stave at the time of his en- mach- the "society column"—also Company few days the work of installing hi New Orleans 9 and nue, Little Rock's pioneer sky scrap- September 10, listment in ihe army, was in the city A of the the newspapers. inery will begin. large part for the ct ii-cussion the high er, was destroyed by fire which started purpose having recently returned or in Wednesday, machinery is now on the ground condi- It (s Good Business shortly before 3 o’clock yesterday cost of living, general business from overseas. He has been in the hos- to be other incumbrance transit. The company expects tions. and to recommend a reasonable to borrow to off a lien or morning. Stock in two adjoining build- money pay pital since his return and lately has later than vendor's im- able to begin crushing not f r cotton as ordered to clear land, stock the farm. J. P> Strauss iV- and minimum price bearing*a high rate of interest; at Hot taking the baths. ings by Company, of been Springs November. With double capacity of and desitabilitj the Lit- bv s veil southern governors. Gov. prove tb' home and increase the productiveness with the the fores- the Electric Shop, operated by He was engineers, tite old mill Ashdown will be a much investments that are sound and profitable. ; Rock was lias 25 delegates at your holdings, or to make branch, in France. He may re- tle Railway, destroyed by Rrougk appointed try than ever. The new such i- neither dangerous nor dishonorable larger seed center debris. It "as one of the most disas- large from Arkans. and also one or A mortgage for purposes sume his old duties here later. on credit, if the where The biggest part of the world s business is done th$ mill is being constructed along trous tires in the history o: Little more to represent each county to work for >ou. Rock. is you want to put some money Cotton Platform. most modern lines. cotton grown. a new cotton The Frisco is erecting --—o-- in H. L. TOL AND platform at their loading station SAYS PRICES BEGIN TO DECLINE Ark. this city. Bank Bldg. Ashdown. first National --— u- Palmer Warns Against Heeding Pleas RISING TIDE ON NATIONAL Monday Legal Holiday. to Buy Now Before liaise. Governor Brough has issued a pro- declaring Monday, Septem- BANK GROWTH clamation be- holi- Washington. Aug. 28.— Prices are ber 1st. Labor Day. to be a legal ginning to decline in various parts of day. The growth of National Bank popu- the country, but the slump has not yet uninterrupted With Perfect Safety -—o-- moment uni to aftec' and continue*. Small Child Hies. gathered .sufficient larity power of being made for immediate The little five months old baby purchases the De- use. according to reports to increased *13.- Mr. and Mrs. 0. H Puckett of near During duly National Bank Capital died in this city Sunday partment of .Justice. — Ben Lomond 440.">t existing National Banks increased, cemetery. A HOME BANK FOR HOME PEOPLE. to rest in the Wrights Chapel cost of living, said all the government their capital. wanted was a fair chance to show LIST transact, business with this BIG PREMIUM what can be done to take the artificial When you your Banks in that He said On July 1st there were 7,*20 National bank you have the satisfaction of knowing inflation out of the market. at in Will Be Given as Premium with the new National Bank char- you are helping to build up this community officials were well pleased operation, and there were 224 ; cumu- as as receiving a service the Centennial. so far attained, and that which you live wwell success ^ the with a pro- when ters awaiting Comptroller’s approval, which is profitable to you personally. lative results were expected 29.— — the of and there were 21* ap- i Little Rock, Aug. (Special) Congress enacts amendments to posed capital #1.'>,027,000.00: list for the agricultural law which criminal The Officers and Directors of this bank are The premium food control by on rile for increases of capital amounting to ! has been ap- plications exhibits at the Centennial vitally interested in everything that helps the penalties can be imposed on profiteers j the Committee, and is to bv #21,013,000.00. of this for this is their home proved by and hoarders. \ people community of the at once in the hands and they are mutually proud of its achievements placed which is na-, Propaganda, apparently has not been a single National Bank failure county agents who are co-operating There on the part of the shop- tion-wide, ■ with tlie commission in the collection j in the entire United States this year, which record has Bank at this bank—a home bank for home of exhibits. The list consists of about keepers seeking to induce purchasing j been people. addition to the will never before equaled. ; $6,500, which is an now on the pretext that prices j is to be offered for the I amount that be materially higher next season, was Banks are best exhibits of stock. It is no wonder that National steadily condemned by Mr. Palmer as one cer-1 -o- growing in favor. which would make prices I public AIRPLANE AT FOREMAN tain thing continues rising if heeded. Will Land in Foreman Saturday: Will Amendement to the food control act- ! FIRST NATIONAL BANK ARKANSAS STATE BANK Braw Large Crowd. providing penalties for profiteering ne- ARKANSAS ASHDOWN, ARKANSAS Foreman, Aug. 29.—(Special)—Ar- and bringing clothing and other ASHDOWN, made for the cessities within the scope of the law, rangements are being ONLY NATIONAL BANK IN LITTLE RIVER COUNTY. were to Senate today landing of an airplane Saturday and reported »,tlie Committee. ,i big crowd is expected. j by the Agriculture