March 2022

Hello everyone! We are starting to have some beautiful weather. March came in like a lamb, with the way the old saying goes, it will be going out like a lion. Now those flowers and trees can bud out. I need to be sure to spray my fruit trees soon before they start budding out.

In case of unusual interest. especially to the people of Clay County, has been pending for some time before Judge Royall at Piggott and was finally disposed of on last Saturday. The style of the case has J.M. Talkington and others. plaintiffs. vs. W.A. Vandover and others, defendants. The suit was the outcome of a hot temperance battle brought on by the prohibition folk of Corning to create a local option district. Corning is a ‘wet’ town the county of Clay having voted. For’ license’ at the last general election. Recently a religious revival was held at Corning and the normal reform element. believing that pupil’s sentiment was ripe for a crusade against the saloons, proceeded to circulate petitions asking the county judge to issue an order prohibiting the sale of intoxicants within three miles of Corning. On Saturday June 30th the case came up on its first hearing before Judge Royall. The defense admitted that the petitioners constituted a majority of the adults within the prohibited district, and they asked that the Court in making its order exempt from its provisions the saloons already in operation under the license that do not expire until the first of January, 1901. The plaintiffs contended for an hour with out any modifications. The court was inclined to grant the order sought by the plaintiffs and so that indicated his decision, but at the request of attorneys for the defense consented to a further hearing on last Saturday, when the Court after considering the case further on the argument of council and the presentations of authorities, granted the modified order asked for by the defense. From this decision the plaintiffs appealed to the Circuit Court and the case will be heard by Judge Taylor at the August term of the Clay County Circuit Two train loads of soldiers and two trains of horses of this U.S. Calvary passed through Corning Tuesday and Wednesday, enroute to China to fight the heathen. A great many of Corning’s citizens are making strong kicks on account of the stock ordinance lately reenacted into a law by the City Council. The law prohibits horses, mules, jacks, and jennies from running anywhere within the incorporate limits of Corning.