Volume 31—No. 3
Springdale, Washington County, Arkansas, Friday, May 18. 1917
Eight Pages.
STRAWBERRY
rop >\ ill Be Very '■hort on V cut
of Drouth and Freeze—Thirty
< ars Probable Maximum
t ar Lot Shipment*
h
Saturday *_ - — ----2
'*■ .Monday
Tuesday _ ------ -
Wednesday - -
Thursday (prohat le >
Fhe strawberry rap in th< r sir
dale district s d's.-ouri*.:.-•• e to say
the least. The crop is very short,
much shorten than was a- tied at •!
I ' ■ .1 a.' s' 1
avo. It :• .■ v thought by those in
'lose touch with the ;h > that
cars vi]i be maxiir»i m r.h-pnir‘i! : m
Sprircdalo, - *h eh: - ■ f • a : • ••••
number.
]v are beuitr ? • • . r I. i’hrw rca
crop The <trouih last ? r p c
•. > te 1 the first year beds from i.ud
• the • r: the coir . ■ • . ’ • • •: a in
vented the other beds from lauturinr,
and thirdly a hat did mat - were bad
ly damatred by the hail
!' iris are above normal. $.i 0;) per
crate were n■■■•rived for ail slacsents
up to and including th< -e of fuesdav.
and n Wednesday droppt to It .
Fd M SPRINGS
Born to Mr. and Mr- R. F S’ a ly
May 2nd. a daughter.
The relatives of Kaymon hile
gathered n Saturday a:.- j .. * him
a surprise dinner.
Mr. and Mrs .)<>•• Kin s : -
• dr* . f Osceola, sir,. A dir
her mother, Mrs. J. W. Fergus
Mr. and Mrs. un Ander d
children visited Sunday with Mr and
V r < M> • Thurman, of Oak On »
I'he iicrry < p *n ta - ■ ,.:y
do*-s not -■ m *t be good as al
Owing to th< eo<*l weather they
not ripen ver; fast.
Several of tru Elm Springs beys
have enlisted with Company A of
Springdale. v* hat* to ee Mi*, b
go bet glad t s**e th* m - ady 4 -erve
their country
Rev. G. ( Donald- *n. o4 Rent. n
, v.lie, d« !iver«*d an abb and. inter* st
ing sermon at the Methodist < hur-.-h
Sunday morning H** was on ‘nr ’ ay
!(■ Farrn.n. * • ; rd -topped here.
VLandy.
t ROSS ROADS
Berry picking is the rder of '.re
day.
Mrs. Harris and ch*le!r« r r**t .ir • d
1 m Texas last wet k
* * urge Plumb e and wift spent Sjn
day at Price Plumlee's.
Tom Sti v art and family -pent
S .nday at his brothers’ m the S lent
Grove neighborhood
Calvin Gully had the mist *rtune
t lose one if his twin calves last
week from arseni poison ag.
Mr and Mrs R. .1 Kosheski w* re
called to Kansas last week to the
bedside of her brother-m-law, " ho
died later.
Mr. an.i Mrs Ollie Piumlee went
t< Z *,n Sunday and Miss \ vian
Gates returned with them to stay
through the berry season
Louis Stevenson and family spent
Sunday at G. W. Halsey's
I’rie Baggett, Edgar Pier * and
( ».i-il Harris vent to Johnson last
Sunday afternon.
Biliikm.
HINDSVII LE
Mrs. John i ’ombs, of Hunts', lit.
Visited her s ster, Mrs s !. Pars'ev,
Sunday.
L. V. Parker, S G Parsley and C.
F. F’itoh have each purchased a new
Ford touring car.
Hr. Harrison, of Lowell, ;s visit
ing his parents, Mr and Mr- Jas.
Harrison this week.
Miss Annis Wilkes is home rom
Braggs, Okla., visiting her parents,
Mr and Mrs. W. N. Wilkes
Mothers’ Day was celebrated with
a very appropriate and well prepared
program rendered by the Sunday
School.
Mr' and Mrs. Homer Anderson,
r ioyd Garret and Albert Guthrie, of
F’ort Gibson, Okla , motored over to
Himlsville to visit a few days with
relatives and friends
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“Prepare to feed yourself.”
M AY FI ELI)
Miss Eiffel Reeve is iil at this writ
in jr.
Miss Slide Ailson was on the sick
list latter part of last week.
Mrs. Joe Frost spent the evening
with Mrs. Green Mayfield Sunday.
.1. H. Buckley made a busines trip
to Fayetteville latter part of last
week.
.Miss Opal Frost is visiting with her
s ‘ter, Mrs. John Clark, of Fayette
• ille, at present.
Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Buckley were
Sunday guests at Mr. and Mrs Joe
Head's, also music in the evening.
Hosea Trammel’s grandmother
has been v.siting with him for the
past few weeks andd has returne 1
to her home near Richland View.
Misses Martha and Zella Jones, of
Mayfield, are vi-iting their < ster,
Mrs Eula Neill at Lowed, and also
ms ire th< ;r for:unes nicking berries.
M.ss Iri K .•• kley received a Letter
trim her brother n Californio stat
ing that his wife and three children
had bad eases of the wh- .ping
cough.
V> ' L ‘!MK!{ HIA’l YF \K
Snow. aril lev Prevailed in June. July
and August, lhlb
The ; r 1K16 as ' • ■ tJ r<>ugh
r?i the United States and Europe as
the oldest ever experienced by any
per?i.ns then living There are per
sons in Northern New York who have
the habit of keep ng diaries for years,
and it is from the pap.es of an old
Uary begun r lhlO and kept unbroken
until iv . t.he following; information
ret.ir vnr this year without a summer
has teen taken:
January was so mild that most per
--’.s ai •■‘•e tht.r fires to go out and
Uh.1 i. >: b..m wood except for cooking,
j Th " ere a few coid days, but they
vert • few Most of the time the
air «• .’arm «nd spring-like Feb
ruary was m t old. S me days were
nr January, hut the
; weair r is ... c the same. March
from the first 1 sixth, was inclined
:■> !>• iv. Jt .me ! a smal!
lion aim v.• nt out like a very innocent
sh en
Apr.! arm- in -aarm. but as the days
grew i i.pt-r the air became colder and
by the tst i.f May there was a tem
perature that . c inter, with
plenty of s >v> and ice. In May the
1 young I’Ui.s c. • -** frozen dead, ice for
med half an inch thick on ponds arid
rivers, corn was killed and the corn
: lit-ii - .•.ere f iante 1 c. . n and again,
I until it t-ecame too late to raise a
crop the last f May in this
<. :mate the trees art usually in leaf
and the Fire- and flowers are plenti
ful. V. he . the last >f May arrived in
lh’C everything had been killed by
tht cold.
June was the coldest month roses
I ever '-xpert need in ‘his latitude.
Fr sc Were as common as
butt* n-ups a? tally ar>. Almost ev
ery green thing v as Killed, fruit was
destroyed. Snow fell in Vermont.
There wins a seven-meh fall in the
interior of New York -date and the
rum tu Mass achusetts I'l er • were
only fi ■ n.oderatujy . :. days.
Everybody looked, i >ng< 1 and waited
for warm weather, but warm weatn
i r did not come.
It was also dry; very little rain fell.
All “ long the wind blew stead
lv from the north in blasts laden with
snow and ice Met hers knit socks of
dooMi thickness for thor children,
j and made them thick mittens Plant
ing and sh vering were done together,
and the farmers who worked out their
taxes Oil the country roads wore over
coats and mittens.
The farmers near Tewksbury. Vt..
j .i\vne : . large field ot corn. He built
■fires. Nearly every night he and his
men o k turns in keeping up the fire
Fund watch.ng that the orn did not
! freeze. The farmers were rewarded
! for his tire’e- s labors by having the
i only crop of corn in the region.
July tame in witn snow and ice.
| On the Fourth of July ce as thick as
I window glass formed throughout New
! Englan l. New York and in some parts
| of Pennsylvania. Indian corn, which
I m some parts of the East had strug
| gled through May and June, gave up,
| froze and died
( To the surprise of everybody, Aug
i ust proven the worst month of all.
j Almost every green thing in this coun
j fry and Europe was blasted with frost,
i Snow fell at Barnett. 30 miles from
j London, England, on Augrnst 30. The
! newspapers received from England
stati c! that 1810 would be reniember
i od by the existing generations as the
, year in which there was no summer,
j There "were great privation, and thou
; sands of persons would have perished
I in this country had it not beer^for the
j abundance of fish and wild game.
KECRUTING OFl’IiELs HEKE
.Major W. (J. Ovvnbey. I -ut. Har:*y
Hough and Sar. Chas. Ode of the S- •
olid Regiment of Ai-.ansas Nation;,
(luurds have been in : • . i!e *■ •• *.
’ early yesterday forere» for the ;•
pose of securing recruits Co A, the
I Springdale company, ; • the folk ,v
iug have been enrolled at to the t me
! of the Democrat going to ; ;<
Albert Markley.
Lem Lewis.
C larence Hodge.
Tom Hutchinson,
i Sam Clements.
Clarence Mayes,
i Frank Mayes.
The last named three olunteered
to join Company A at tV* tiro* the
guards were sent to the Mexican bor
der, but were reject*. - •.•a a< count < •'
minor deficier.c:es. It - i ■ * <ed tney
will be accepted at ‘.Vr time.
Presuming that tht.e v. y be son1-.
,vho are postponng the ration of vol
unteering unt:l the . re-Merit's , on
scription proclamation- is made and
a ho then intend • . *.; t • r before
draft can • order*, n . i - ■ . O- re
authorises the Derm rat to say that
he is oftk-ialiy mf.-rr that no o*.
'will be allowed t* < : < ‘ er for ser
vice as a national g a.; r in the reg
ular army even after t rt evdratio:
l is begun. So if any prefer to go as
a volunteer rather ". .. a >>e ■. onscrip
ted. now is the ini* t > volunteer.
11 antsville 1 -era •« rat.
LOBBY AGAINST Hm*I> BILL
Washington, May li Sensation
al charts that a lobby •! “food yam
biers, S' me of thorn of mmu'- sc
' wealth," already at work .>■ Washing
Iton. seeking to defeat the uhnini -
tration food control bills, .re made
tonight in a formai statement by As
sistant Secretary Carl H Vrooman of
the department of agr ulture.
“Allies of the kaiser -unpatrioti-.
and disloyal—who should bt made to
feel the loathing and contempt of ce
lery patriotic American, ’ are some of
the character zations applied by Mr
Vrooman to food “spe. ulators, food
1 cornerers and food gamblers.” who he
, promises will in time U too hed by
appropriate legislation.
Mr. Yrooman's statement said:
“Never in the h story of the
world have business men showed
.so much patriotism and unseliish
ness as has been manifested since
the war began by the busine
men of America.
“However, this attitude has
not been universal. Thera are
j food speculators, food cornerers
and food gamblers, some of them
men of immense wealth, and oth
ers very small means who art to
day taking advantage of war con
ditions to exploit their felhv. cite
I zens to the full extent of thir
ability.
"These men art allies of the
kaiser, are doing their utmost to
defeat the patriotic purposes of
the nation. Wherever they are to
be seen, in high places or low,
they should be condemned and
made to feel the loathing and con
tempt of every patriotic Ameri
can. These men will be taken
care of in due time by national,
state and municipal legislation,
but until such legislation can be
enacted the only effective pov or
j that can be brought against them
* is the power of an outraged pub
lic sentiment, and that should be
used vigorously and mercilessly.
“I am told that some off these
i men are actually in Washington
today conducting a lobby against
the request of President Wilson
i that congress empowers him and
his cabinet to take the necessary
means to mobilize the agricultu
j ral resources of this nation for
victory.
f’lEIU'E-BR \ 1)Y
Roland Pierce and Miss Kitty Bra
dy were very quietly married Sunday
afternoon. May Cth, at the residence
of the officiating minister*. Rev W.
A. Piper, pastor of the M E. Church
The News must apoligize to these
| well known young people for non
mention of the marriage last week,
but we will not take ail the blame,
part of it lies with the officiating;
minister, who f'orgot or neglected to
mention the marriage,
i Both poung people an well known
I in Springdale. Roland just recently
I returned home from a four year ser
. vice in the U. S. Navy, and the bride
is a daughter of T. W. Brady, who
has made his home here for nme time
For the present they are at home on
| Holcomb Street.
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THE FIRE FIEND SAYS
! 1 love to think of the boys and girls
j Who play with matches slyly.
If they don’t mind,
i Some day they’ll find
Experience bought highly.
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It’s a wise proverb that never has
its wisdom questioned.
N » EXTRA SESSION
OK LEGISLATIKE
fit'-. llrough Does Not Think Extra
Advisable at this Time
tile Roc k, May 11.-Replying to
to letter of Joseph M. Hill of Fort
Sr.dth, date ! May 5 and published in
a r* • nt issue of a local paper, in
vhr n Judge Hill suggested that the
g ■ ' * ■ ■ ■ r all an extra session of the
Jet • .re to deal with problems a
ris nt '! m the war; also suggesting
that t' • constitutioal convention be
a a • -ff. Governor Brough yester
lay - he could not comply with
( ;h-r suggestion, and gave his rea
so
. Hill wrote that the legislu
t..J-. . ;iii m "t to make a large ap
pr • at'on as a war measure, naming
. i. >, to render such aid to the
| go" ne-.t as niight he required and
! cit* • - liar action by some of the
■fudge Hill said that in view
; of ’: " nditions the expense . f the
j cenvent’on should be saved and that
! In h - i pinion the present situation
; re.1 holding the convention this
1 ■ e nportune.
iy < lovernor r>rougn <to
..1 together the legislature
* ssion to appropriate $1,000
,y j art thereof, for the rea
1 .<• - taxes for war purposes are
I es- ..illy on a federal basis and that
j no re .• -t for sueh appropriation has
been n. ,<le by the government! Ad
mit*;: „ that some states have made
app" : r at ns as a war measure, the
j gt r points out that in most of
i such states there are shipping inter
Jest- ... last lines to protect, and
[that t'v.r legislatures doubtless had
' thos- • facts in view.
A- t< the constitutional convention,
l the i rnor wrote in part:
| “W :h reference to your second sug
| ggestkn that this is an inopportune
tine ■ or holding a constitutional
/
! co* v» rtion, you may be right in your
j cor. -.s ns. but 1 am fully convinced
j th .*. the .: terr.al improvement of our
. states ar.d the strengthening of our
'( •*■-. ■ . laws, would be wise steps in
<• ;r .->e and national preparedness.
' i re advised that the .onvention,
when t assembles next November,
a.-, tak< cognizance of the war condi
tion, and recess for such a period as
it: members deem lit. The law pro
. ides that a special election must be
vabed by the governor not less than
i (1 r more than 90 days after iinal
aajournment of the constitutional
convention when is has completed its
draft It does not specify how long
the convention may sit. however, and
decs • it : rohib t the convention, af
ter organization, from recessing from
i time to t:me.
Arkansas sadly needs a new con
stitution. .n my humble opinion, and
perhaps new powers could be confer
red under this constitution, which
would enable the state more effect
ively t<> aid the federal government.
I It appears to me that the patriotism
. i : the members of the convention is
| a soffit lent guarantee for a reason
in.be- length of time, if it should then
j be deemed advisable. The primaries
' 1.... ■■ already been held, and all that
• 'Ms'- - t>> definitely settle tlie per
s. nnel if the convention is the for
t■ — 11y uf the election on June
KI NDS } OK UK.II S< HOOL
Little Rock, Ark., May 10- The
Arkansas sate board of education
touaj fixed the followin.tr as abas s
j i\ ; tiie 1018 apportionment off the
! $25.i>ou vocational educational fund
| appropriated by the last legislature
I for aiding hitrh schools in towns under
1.000 in population:
One hundred dollars for schools
j teaching domestic science, manual
training or agriculture; $150 for
J schools teaching two of the subjects;
$20<> for schools teaching all three,
| and $250 for thos< teaching domestic
sccience. manual training and agri
; culture to both boys and girls.
The original bill carried an appro
priation of $50,000 but (iov. Brough
Iwitheld $25,000, defering the opera
I ten of the law until 1018.
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II. S. MOBLEY APPOINTED
Little Rock, May 11.—H. S. Mobley,
of Prairie Grove, formerly president
of th Arkansas Farmers Union, has
been ejected deputy Warehouse Com
missioner under the provisions of the
law creating that branch of the De
partment of Agriculture. For the
past year he has been with the Inter
national Harvester Co., extension
work in Chicago. He is well known
to the farmers of the state. The act
specifies $5,500 as the salary of the
! office, but the legislature appropriated
only $1,800.
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A woman complains the men do not
know' how to make love. It is not nec
essary with some girls.
I.MTIA I E HiCi ( !. \SS
State .Manager R. K. Miller, of the
Woodmen of the World Lodge was in
Springdale Tuesday night last week,
and assisted in the mitiation of a
class of fifteen into the I>ccal camp.
Deputy Home has i»e*n here for
the past several days ■ di. iting mem
bers, and he also ass sled in the ini
tiation. The dr.11 team from Fayette
ville lodge was also ; resent, as were
a number of the members from that
place. Interest in the ioceal order
has taken on new iife - nee the initi
ation. and the time of the special dis
pensation has been extended to Mon
day night, May 20th. A number of
members of the "rd. r from Elm
Springs. Dos hen and Sonora were
pn sent Thursday evening.
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SRKIND ( KEEK
Blomiv had straw! .. short cake
for dinner Sunday. "Null' -ed."
Bro. Johnson fille i •• - regular ap
' pointment at this ph e Saturday and
( Sunday.
Albert Reed and no . Ruth Reed,
1 of Springdale, were ~ ' • y at Jake
Reed’s Sunday.
Burl Atk -or a- '• ’ ’ y. of are
Springs, visited a: An t Watkins’
| Sunday of last week.
| Ed Conley ami famny were out
from Springdale S w-ay attending
| church and vD iting v. ivi relatives.
I Will Wiley and family and Mrs
| * 'arl Atkisor: and baby snent Sunday
with relatives at Pra-rie Drove Sun
day.
Those who have strawberries have
begun harvesting ths ,r crop. The
weather stays so coo tie- berries do
not ripen fast.
Smiths moved their saw mill back
to the Grmsley pla.< «•:.<* day last
week. There is quite a number of
logs tht T“ for them to saw.
Ed Kelly and family <ume up from
Watts. Ok la., one iay astv.eek -'or
a visit with relative- Hi- daughter
llah, will stay her* •* -• . eh the ber
ry season.
Mrs. Van Cowan ha*; h r self play
er jnam brought <1 • • from Pea
i Ridgt on* day last week and was
j enterta n ng several fro •; with mu
sic Sunday evening.
Eliza Cowan ami gentleman
friend, of Pea Ridge, • down Sun
day visiting the former's mother,
Mrs. Nannie Cowan, S..mlay of last
week.
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j LITTLE WILLIES L>' \Y
ON “EIRE PREVENTION ’
! 1-’ re is a hot substar e made of fu*‘i
and usually started by a match. A
fire bug < an also start a hot tire by
friction by rubbing a fiCono policy on
a $‘>,000 risk. A tire started by a
near-sighted woman ■ oking for a
light dress in a dark closet is just as
hot as tire started by fire bug, only
the woman is sorry aft* rward.
One funny thing about : fire is that
it won’t start when you want it to
and you can’t stop it unless it wants
to If you try to make a fire in the
grate with kindling and newspapers
it will take ten matches to start it
and then t won’t burr u:d< ss it wants
to, but if you drop a lighted match
accidentally on a wet and it is
liable to set th«- house .-.tire. You
can’t start a tire with th* la*t match
in the box or lig'ht a *gar with the
last match in your p* vket unles- you
i have some more mat* hes handy.
1 Fires art .'ike darkies. They work
better in hot weather an i after keep
ing all day will raise the mischief at
night.
When i prow up ! v. -it ;<> oe
! fireman so 1 can turn the hose <>n
folk* 1 don't like and chop holes in
: their roof .vithout petting arrested
A fireman pets to sit a round all day
i and play checkers and ’ hen there is
! a fire he is the first one to know about
it and gets to ride thtre n an auto
mobile and 1 have to run there on my
! own leps. The best way to keep a
■lire from visiting you is to treat it
| like maw treats paw’s second cousins.
In the first place she don't invite ’em
[ and if they visit her anyway they
! soon see it ain’t no pia; > for them to
on jov themselves at.
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AKKANS \S LEADS
Arkansas leads the nation in the
i production and shipment of straw
j berries. The weekly summary of car
load shipment of produce issued by
the Department of Aprieulture and
which includes the total shipments
for last year, shows that 1,698 car
loads of berries were shipped ' from
Arkansas last year West Tennessee
shipped 1,667 car loads
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Hcv. W. J Elledge, pastor of the
First Baptist Church left fore part of
the week for New Orleans to attend
the Southern Baptist Convention. He
will be away a week.
THE EDITORS HERE
1 he members of the Arkansas Press
Association arrived in Springdale
1 hursday morning on the "dinky” pas
senger at am! were entertained
with an auto tour over the country
adjacent to Springdale. The party
was divided part going over the north
east part, while the others were taken
to Tontitown and west.
A large crowd met the train when
it arrived, and the local band played
while the crowd was placed in wait
ing automobiles. After a short ad
dress of welcome from Mayor Smith,
the sight-seeing trip started.
After the trip strawberries were
served by the ladies of Springdale at
the Auditorium Park. Some one hun
dred and twenty live were in the par
ty. A more extended write-up of the
meeting and trip will be given next
wek.
SI LPHI R C ITY and BEACKOAK
Mrs. Foote has been on the sick
list the past week.
Mrs. Carter and Mrs. Ear! Shook
were shopping in Fayetteville Friday.
Matt Jones, of Durham, visited his
son Will and family here Saturday
night.
.Tim Kin ion and family and John
Harrelson and family went to the ber
ry fields Sunday.
The county demonstrator and Miss
K-ng, of Fayetteville, were at Black
oak Friday night.
Jim Fincher and sister, Mamie, of
Fayetteville are visiting relatives in
the Blackoak neighborhood.
D. C. Thurman, of Sonora, filled
his regular appointment at Blacoak
, Saturday night and Sunday.
We understand that Pearl Cook has
sold his place and will move on the
Margaret Reef place soon.
Mrs. Newell, of Trace Valley, at
tended church at Bkukoak Sunday
and took dinner with Mrs .1. G. T 3r
! ry. *
L. H. Criss and family and Mr.
Sole and family of Fayetteville, were
here Sunday afternoon drinking sul
' | hur water
Clifford Jones and sisters. Esther
and Emma ami Miss \ eta Ramsey
and ye ~< ribi attended prayer meet
ing at Rlackoak Sunday night.
1 must not fail to make mention of
the new foot bridge across the branch
at Blackoak. The old men have
been careless about fixing a way for
people afoot to cross the branch,
so three of our bright young men
said, "we are going to fix that bridge”
They hauled lumber and made the
bridgt It >s made of cable wire and
s substatia! in every way So let’s
tip ymr hats to these three young men
j and give them praise for the new
| foot bridge.
Lone Star.
HICKORY FLAT
Yes, we had some frost, but it nev
er hurt our garden any.
“Celsus and family came over in
the car and spent Sunday afternoon
with us.
Isom Means who has been ill for
two or three weeks past, is some bet
ter at this writing.
Shade Gibson and .-on. Marion,
made a trip to Monte Ne Sunday,
returning Tuesday.
Marion Fitch and Herman Gibson
i visited the latter’s sister. Miss Ber
tha Gibson, at Alva Harp’s berry
, patch, near Sonora, Sunday.
Miss Gracie McCullum, who is stay
ing at Uncle Tommy Johnson’s near
Pilgrims Rest, spent Sunday with
home folks. Sherman Garnett ac
companied her.
Mrs. Ellen MeCulIum ami daugh
ters, Opal and Elsie, Misses Bertha
and Bertie Gibson and Cora and !'»o
ra George are picking berries for
Alva Harp at Sonora
“Celsus says the snakes in our vi
cinity have all died of spina! nienti
gitis trying to travel our roads.
It is true our roads arn’t in the best
of condition. None of the roads ov
er here are county roads, and the peo
ple know if they do work them they
will get no credit for it, and will have
to go three or four miles to work the
roads near the Valley, so they just
! let these go. But L A. Coger and
the Fitch boys did work the Coger
| hill and Celsus says he is going to
try his car on the route again. There
1 are three more hills that need woik,
i but it isn’t known when they will get
I v
\ enus.
It is reported that sea gulls are dis
1 closing the presence of German sub
marines. Could the allies train the
i English sparrows to do something
useful, too.
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Some of the ladies with their new
clothes seem to have ignored the safe
ty first injunction.