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Benton County "Hews (Rogers Democrat.) "An echo of the Rogers bank failure." We wish the news writers would get some new way of introducing their stories: We are getting tired of the one just quoted. Some echoes never know when to quit echo ing, and a bank failure seems about the worst of the variety. Thursday, February 18, one week from today the voters of Rogers will be called on to vote upon the matter of issuing $10,000 of 6 per cent municipal bonds for the purpose of purchasing fire equipment. While no definite agreement has been reached, it is quite certain that the greater portion of the money thus raised would be used in the purchase of an auto truck, equipped with all modern fire fighting apparatus. Rev. R. M. Thompson tells us of an old fashioned wedding at which he performed the ceremony, held Sunday at the home of J. N. Blankenship, five miles east of Garfield, The contracting parties were Edward Pratt, son of Wm. Pratt of near Brightwater, and Miss Mary Blankenship. Both families are among the oldest and best known in that part of the county, and the bride was for six years a clerk in McKinlay's store at Garfield, having an unusually large circle of friends and acquaintances. The only action of any consequence taken by the depositors meeting at the city hall Saturday afternoon was to pass a resolution asking L. H. McGill, receiver of the Bank of Rogers and the Citizens Bank, to appear before the next meeting, Saturday, February 20th, at 2 o'clock, and make a report or tell what is being done toward collecting in on the notes and paper held by the defunct banks. It was felt that such a report was in all justice due the depositors who have now waited eight months without knowing definitely whether or not a single thing has been done in their behalf. As a result of the numerous cases of typhoid fever that have developed in Rogers during the past week or ten days, a meeting of the local Board of Health is called for tonight by the mayor and it is expected that to immediate steps will be taken have a thorough examination made by a competent authority to discover if possible the source of the trouble. It has been suggested that Dr. Shipley, who made the examination at Harrison last fall when that city was suffering from a scourge of typhoid, be secured. Rogers has had a few cases of typhoid all fall and