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Arkansas Briefs H. G. aged 78, committed suicide poison at by Haynes, taking his home, three miles from Van Buren. He had been because of despondent ill been health the and this is supposed to have cause of his act. . O A waterworks system, on which work has been in progress for three years, has been completed in Conway and turned over to the city. The plant has cost $60,000, water being obtained from Cadron creek, six miles from the city. D B . James Smith, the 17-months-old son of W. J. Smith of Pine Bluff, was burned to death when his clothing caught fire from a stove while members of the family were out of the house. . . . Senator James P. Clarke has agreed to introduce a bill in congress appropriating $100,000 for the work necessary to be done to prevent the river from near Braden, teau Arkansas river joining Okla. the The Po. of the two streams would inSmith's water jure joining Fort supply and inflict heavy damage upon property. . . . J. W. Gaunt, roadmaster of the Cot. ton Belt railroad, was seriously injured when he was struck by a fast freight train at Sorrells. . . . Dr. Chas. S. Holt of Fort Smith was elected president of the Arkansas Association of St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway Company convention Surgeons, at the second annual held in Little Rock. Dr. John S. East;ad of Judsonia was elected vice president and Dr. W. F. smith of Lit tle Rock secretary. . (>) John Hoover, 3-year-old son of T.L. Hoover of Argenta, died from burns which he received when his clothing was ignited from a burning trash pile. . . . As a result of the work done by the Northeast Arkansas Tick Eradication Commission, a part of the counties of Baxter, Jackson and Sharp will be released from quarantine regulations on November 1 and modified regulations will be enforced in portions of Izard. Independence and Sharp counties. / . . c The Phillips county quorum court refused to vote an appropriation for the salary of a county farm demonstrator. The appropriation had been made annually for several years. . . D A skeleton, believed to be that of someone drowned during the floods of last spring, was found under a railroad trestle near Heth. . . is Judge Hon in the Sebastian county circuit court, refused to allow a claim of $5,280 filed by J. T. W. Jennings, an architect, for drawing plans for a new Sebastian county court house. County Judge Jesse L. Harp ordered the plans drawn but when Ezra Heser became county judge he revoked all former proceedings and the court house was not built. (4) . . The Bank of Everton has been orat Everton with a capital of It is independent, it ganized $10,000. which is stated. is in of the old Bank of Everton, the hands of a receiver. . . The quorum court of Quachita counappropriated $900 for agricultural ty extension work, six hundred dollars to aid the farm demonstration work and three hundred dollars for the Girls' Canning Clubs. a . Mrs. Jasper Garrett, aged 80, of Ozark, was found dead in bed after retiring the previous evening apparently in good health. S . . The Hot Spring county querum court made appropriation of $200 the Rockefeller an commission to assist hookworm in In its investigation of conditions that county. . . . The annual report of the county treasurer shows that the Fort Smith district of Sebastian county spent $30 000 in the building of good roads during the past year. . . . Work has been begun on a new deto be built by the Iron Mountain the pot railroad at Yellville to replace one burned several months ago. 6 . O A heavy frost killed the pea crop to the vicinity of Delight, according In the reports from the surrounding country. . . Jonesboro Peanut Hulling Comthe only concern of the in and one of the in Arkansas pany, The largest kind the South, has purchased its first consignment of peanuts of the 1913 crop. An unusually large crop is reported in Craighead and adjoining counties this season. . a . The Ladies' Civic Club of Pocahentas, under whose auspices all the citizens of the town spent two days last spring in a clean-up campaign, is
