The Voice of VBC July 12, 2016

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TUESDAY, July 12, 2016 / Vol. 2 Issue 26 / 75 cents

New police chief, water rates await council attention

Wreck on curve traps driver A 29-year-old truck driver escaped serious injury last Sunday, July 3, after being trapped in his truck for about 30 minutes. The accident occurred on Highway 92 West and French Road in Bee Branch when then Triple Transport truck was traveling west around a curve and left the road, ramping over a cul-

Severns won't face death penalty The state has formally waived the death penalty in the capital murder trial of Andrew Jack Severns.

In Van Buren County Circuit Court on Friday, July 8, Severns' defense team asked for his juvenile court records.

Also, the prosecuting attorney's office noted that it had completed discovery and said time toward a speedy trial should now be charged to the defense.

Severns, 47, appearing in court wearing a bullet-proof vest, was ordered back to court on Oct. 31 for a pretrial hearing.

He is accused of the shooting death in February of Joshua Donahue. The slaying occurred in Shirley.

vert and rolling over.

The driver, complaining of back, arm and knee pain, was flown to Conway Regional Hospital. Later reports said he had no broken bones and was released within hours. The trailer was damaged and leaked some production water.

(Photos by Joel French / for The Voice)

The Clinton City Council has some important issues to decide in the next weeks.

The council will be asked to choose a new police chief soon. Toney Parish is retiring in early August after 19 years as Clinton's top cop.

Clinton Mayor Richard McCormac said he has 12 applicants for the job.

He said he plans to whittle down the list and may be ready to present his choice to the council at its meeting this week.

Also on tap for the council is discussion about the financially ailing Water Department.

Todd Burgess, department manager, has provided the council with his proposals for increasing revenues. The department is coming up short by as much as $40,000 each

month.

Another issue from the Water Department is Highway 65 South construction. Some months ago, Burgess told the council the Arkansas Highway Department had told the city that it must move its water lines as the construction project continues.

The council did not take any action on the issue.

Also, McCormac said Friday, he is hoping the city, state and school district will work together to build a water fall or feature on recently cleared land on the junction of Highway 65 and 65B going up the hill by Clinton Feed store. The land is owned by the school district.

The City Council meeting is scheduled for 6:30 p.m.

Thursday, July 14. It is open to the public.

Report recounts ambulance theft The Clinton Police Department has filed its report on the theft July 1 of a Southern Paramedic Services ambulance from its office on Shake Rag Road.

According to the report, Investigator John Willoughby was called in around 3 a.m. to investigate the theft, and was told it had been recovered at the Walnut Grove Cemetery on Highway 95 East. Willoughby said the ambulance was in good shape and nothing appeared to be taken from it.

He said as police approached the house on Highway 95 they saw someone trying to leave from the back door.

Witnesses at the residence told police Taylor Coats had driven the ambulance to the residence and they would not let him in. Coats, a trustee at the Van Buren County Detention Center, was taken into custody at the residence and later admitted to taking the ambulance and escaping from jail, according to the police report.

Accident cuts power An accident near Craven's store in Fairfield Bay left some residents in the dark for a while as Petit Jean crews worked on replacing a three-phase pole. A

truck struck and broke the pole Friday afternoon, also blocking the road. Power was quickly restored.

(Photo from Facebook)

Road panel starts to work

Patches are a common sight throughout the county on some chip and seal roads, like this one in the Barrens Community.

Several members of a panel appointed to advise the Quorum Court on county roads met Thursday afternoon to begin talks.

One of the members, Glyen Jackson, said he would prefer good gravel roads to chip and seal roads in need of constant repair.

Justice of the Peace Dale James wanted to know if it would be more cost effective in the long run to invest the money to make all

the roads asphalt instead of continuing to patch chip and seal roads over and over.

Others wanted to know why the set up for chip and seal roads wasn't as good as for asphalt roads.

Craig Clute, foreman of the Road Department, said the set up is the same, it's just that the asphalt is thicker.

"We do the best we can with what we have," said Gary Wolf of the Road Department.

In May, the Van Buren County Quorum Court approved an ordinance that allowed the county judge to set weight limits on county roads. After a loud objection from truckers, farmers and others in the county who said that could affect their livelihoods, the ordinance was rescinded in June and county Judge Roger Hooper appointed a panel of citizens to help come up with solutions for protecting county roads.

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District Court June 2016 - David Wilson, failure to pay fines, guilty.

- Billy E. Maxwell, failure to pay fines, dismissed.

- Juan Vazquez, failure to pay fines, domestic assault-third degree, guilty.

- Michael D. Mills, failure to pay fines, dismissed.

- Alanna R. Drew, failure to pay fines, failure to appear, dismissed.

- Jerread C. Zipper, failure to pay fines, dismissed.

- Justin D. Taylor, driving on suspended or revoked license, failure to appear, guilty.

- Glenn Raymond Teske Jr., drinking in public, guilty; no drivers license, bond forfeited.

- Duane A. Waltz, careless and prohibited driving, failure to appear, bond forfeited.

Colton Joseph Grimes, expired vehicle license tags, owner failure to register vehicle-expired tags, guilty.

- Jordan Dowell, probation revocation, guilty.

- Devon N. Hensley, shoplifting, bond forfeited.

- Terena Dean Tackett, driving while intoxicated, guilty.

- Michael J. Whitlock, failure to produce insurance proof, bond forfeited.

- Santana Renea Robinson, failure to stop, bond forfeited.

- Aaron L. Witt, no seat belt, bond forfeited.

- Somer Marie Yatska, speeding, following too close, bond forfeited.

- Donald G. Scarberry, no seat belt, bond forfeited.

- Cori N. Loter, following too close, bond forfeited.

- Sarah E. West, ex-

pired vehicle license-tags, bond forfeited.

- Bobby L. Smith, driving on suspended or revoked license, guilty.

- James D. Baker, disorderly conduct, guilty.

- Edna M. Mesch, speeding, bond forfeited.

- Steven G. Buelow, speeding bond forfeited.

- Bin Liu, speeding, bond forfeited.

- William Erle Honeycutt, failure to produce insurance proof, guilty.

- Phillip Hall Watts, speeding, bond forfeited.

- Susan F. Taube, speeding, bond forfeited.

- Michelle Lenne Sterk, speeding, bond forfeited.

- William D. Moudy, speeding, bond forfeited.

Clayton Lloyd Jones, drinking in public, guilty.

- Ryan D. Morse, following too close, guilty.

- Garland R. Holt, driving on suspended or revoked license, guilty.

- Frankie L. Weaver, driving on suspended or revoked license, guilty.

- Roger B. Campbell, driving on suspended license, guilty.

- Marisa Peters, no proof of liability insurance, bond forfeited.

- Victoria R. Jolly, failure to stop, guilty.

- William Z. Calhoun, driving left of center, bond forfeited.

Freddie Amos, overload over 1,000 pounds, bond forfeited.

- Jacob Messer, licensing and control of animals, bond forfeited.

- Hurshel E. Brown, hot check violation, failure to pay fines,

guilty.

- Felipe A. Campos, following too close, failure to appear, bond forfeited.

- Jimmy J. Bonds, criminal trespass-land, guilty; failure to appear, dismissed.

- Robert J. Edenfield Jr., drinking in public, failure to appear, failure to pay fines, guilty.

- Steven B. Qualls, no proof of liability insurance, failure to appear, guilty.

- Latrisha N. Vance, failure to pay fines, bond forfeited.

- Joseph Francis Orrell, failure to produce insurance proof, bond forfeited; failure to appear, dismissed.

- Marc A. Jones, no drivers license, failure to appear, guilty.

- Mason Dylan Nixon, no seat belt, failure to appear, guilty.

- Paul Ray Branscum, driving on suspended or revoked license, failure to appear, guilty.

- William E. Seargent, hot check violation, guilty.

- Simon Charles Elser, driving on suspended or revoked license, dismissed.

- Lisa B. Nixon, probation revocation, dismissed.

- Michael P. Collins, failure to produce insurance proof, guilty.

- Christian G. Parker, fictitious license sticker, guilty.

- Rickey L. Middleton, defective equipment, bond forfeited.

- Tommy Lacotts, owner fail to register vehicle-expired tags, dismissed.

- Dedik Ariyanto, speeding, bond forfeited.

Cleofe Turner, speeding, bond forfeited.

- Brian C. Durham, speeding, bond forfeited.

- Donald T. Barkley, improper passing, bond forfeited.

- Miles Brinton Kay, speeding, bond forfeited.

Mary Wooten, speeding, bond for-

feited.

- Natalie A. Williams, speeding, bond forfeited.

- Robert G. Jeffery Jr., speeding, bond forfeited.

- Haley O. Mann, speeding, bond forfeited.

- Cali G. Kyle, s peeding, bond forfeited.

- Kelly A. Hester, no drivers license, bond forfeited.

- Cody A. Edwards, failure to produce insurance proof, guilty.

- Cynthia M. Collister, drinking in public, guilty.

Jesus Robles, speeding, bond forfeited.

Josue Rangel, speeding, bond forfeited.

- Stony M. Tester, no seat belt, bond forfeited.

- Thomas P. Tarver, drinking in public, guilty.

- Jason O. Dennison, drinking in public, guilty.

- Mitchell L. Harmon, failure to produce insurance proof, guilty.

- Jimmy Joe Moses, no seat belt, bond forfeited.

Josean Diaz Figueroa, speeding, bond forfeited.

- Cody Tyler Thomas, speeding, bond forfeited.

- Ashley N. Wilder, speeding, bond forfeited.

- William A. Nesbitt, speeding, bond forfeited.

- Jodie C. Honeycutt, speeding, guilty.

- Paula J. Gaskey, shoplifting, guilty.

- Dustin J. Harrell, speeding, bond forfeited.

- John A. Ogle, illegal left turn, bond forfeited.

- Jerrod A. Songer, speeding, bond forfeited.

- Susan C. Engel, speeding, bond forfeited.

- Michael L. Kyle, public intoxication, bond forfeited.

- Richard E. McKay, state boating violations, bond forfeited.

- Terry L. Hatcher, no PFD on PWC, guilty.

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July 12, 2016

Skeeter tells all Dear Readers: My food bowl isn't ever empty, the sun shines on my favorite napping places, and my chin doesn't go long without getting a nice scratching from someone. So I don't spend a lot of time worrying.

But the situation at the Van Buren County Animal Control shelter has me worried. The shelter folks put out the word recently that they are filled to capacity and can't take any more animals.

That means we need to get a bunch of them out of there as soon as possible.

They have this Facebook page with a long name called Adoptable Animals at the Van Buren County Animal Shelter in Clinton. It shows a lot of cats and dogs that need homes, preferably permanent homes, but even foster homes would help at this point. Take a look at the photos on this page: There is Rebel, a 5-month old blue heeler mix.

Very playful, they say. Probably not for me, but he would be good for a family with kids. Then there are lab-mix brothers Danny and Connor.

I don't know which one is in the picture, but they're both still at the shelter. They are 4 months old.

Then there is the elegant Gwen, a lovely black kitty who loves kids, other cats and even dogs. That should show you what a nice girl she is. Gwen is among a lot of cats currently having to live in small kennels at the shelter.

All these guys need someone to spring 'em. C'mon Van Buren County, go meet them and maybe you'll want to take one or two home with you.

I don't sleep well when I'm worried.

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Pippa and the cows - Pippa visited over the Fourth of July weekend with her mimi Danna Lawrence of Culpepper Mountain in Clinton.

Pippa loves the farm and chasing MiMi's cows. Send your pet photos to voiceeditor@artelco.com.

2 from Clinton get gator permits Sixty-eight lucky individuals, including two from Clinton, will be heading to the swamps this September in search of one of Arkansas’ largest big game species. Arkansas’ 2016 alligator season is Sept. 16-19 and Sept. 23-26, and hunting is only allowed at night.

All permit winners must attend a hunter orientation class before being issued their permits.

Alligator hunting isn’t for the faint of heart. Hunters scan

the surface of the water with spotlights from a boat, pinpointing alligators before easing up to them with a harpoon or handheld snare.

“Alligator’s eyes glow red in the light,” said Mark Barbee, the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission biologist in Monticello who coordinates the annual alligator hunt.

“Easing up to them with a pole-mounted snare or harpoon can be as challenging as finding one if you haven’t already

done some scouting.”

Permit winners are allowed up to three assistants during the hunt, but only the permit holder is allowed to snare, harpoon and dispatch the alligator.

2016 Alligator Permit winners from Clinton are Nathan Smith, Zone 3 Lower Arkansas River Wetland Complex (Public) and Jonathan Ross, Lower Arkansas River Wetland Complex (Public).

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A woman on Poplar Street in Clinton reported June 25 that mail was scattered all up and down the street and also on Main Street.

Clinton Police Officer Scott Solomon reported that the woman told him this was the second time mail had been scattered on the streets over a period of a few days. Solomon gathered up the mail and took it to the post office. He said a clerk there said the post office would redistribute it.

Woman charged in battery

A Clinton woman has been charged with third-degree battery after a squabble at Patton Square apartments July 2.

Clinton Police Officer Eric Koonce reported that Sharon Hightower, a resident at the apartment complex, told him she was punched in the face and pushed by a man who lives at the complex. Koonce said the woman had no visible marks or bruises. A man was found bleeding from his forehead and hand. He told Officer Jay Murdock that Hightower attacked him with fists and fingernails. The man was taken to Ozark Health Medical Center for treatment and Hightower, 62, was taken to the Van Buren County Detention

Drug charges filed

A Clinton man faces several drug-related charges after he was stopped early June 30 near the NAPA store on Highway 65.

Officer James Burroughs said he stopped a vehicle driven by Paul Lovell, 36, because it had no license plate.

Burroughs said he searched the vehicle after smelling the odor of marijuana.

According to his report, he and a deputy found a glass pipe with white residue and a green leafy substance thought to be marijuana.

Lovell has been charged with possession of a controlled substance (meth), a felony; possession of drug paraphernalia (meth pipe), a felony; possession of a controlled substance (marijuana), a misdemeanor; and possession of drug paraphernalia (a marijuana pipe), a misdemeanor.

Pipe found at jail

A man who had been arrested and was at the Van Buren County Detention Center found himself facing another charge after pulling a pipe out of his pocket, according to a report from the Clinton Police Department.

Samuel Smith was told to empty his pockets and pulled

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something out of his pocket that he tried quickly to put back in, according to a report by Clinton Police. Officer Scott Solomon told him to take it back out, and Smith said, "You got me," according to the report. Smith said he used the pipe to smoke meth, according to the report. He was charged with possession of drug paraphernalia and given a court date of Aug. 4.

Bicyclist arrested

A bicyclist listed on a Clinton Police report as an illegal immigrant was arrested June 25 after attempting to evade an officer, according to a report.

Officer Jennifer Miller reported that she noticed a bicycle swerving on Highway 65 near the Archey Creek bridge and turned on her blue lights. She said she called out, "Sir on the bike," but he continued to travel, turning on to Main Street.

She said as she pulled nearer, he told her, "It's OK, I'm OK," and began to pedal faster. Miller reported that she pulled her car in front of him and he hit the side of it and went down in the grass. Miller reported that the man struggled as she tried to handcuff him, saying, "No Habla English," to which she replied, "Habla going to jail."

Miller said she gave loud verbal commands for the man to stop resisting but he continued to struggle until she finally got the cuffs on him, the report states.

At the jail, the man, who identified himself as Ricardo Lopez, said he had consumed six beers, according to the report. Lopez was cited for public intoxication, resisting arrest, fleeing on foot and impeding the flow of traffic, according to the report.

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Obituaries

Tread Ivey

Mercer T. “Tread” Ivey Jr., 60, of Clinton passed away Saturday, July 2, 2016.

He was born May 11, 1956, to Mercer T. Sr. and Jean N. Ivey.

He is preceded in death by his father. Left to cherish his memory are his wife, Traci Storey Ivey; a son, Ben T. Ivey; a daughter, Paige Linder (Roy); a granddaughter, Genevieve Linder; his mother, Jean Ivey; a brother, Ben E. Ivey III (Nancy); sisters Gail Kincaid (Brad) and Dru Kincaid (T.C.); numerous nephews and nieces; step-children including Kyle Harding, Courtney Oleson and Lauren Oleson; and mother-in-law Lila Ward.

A memorial service will be held at a later date. Arrangements under the care of Roller-McNutt Funeral Home of Clinton, Arkansas. Online guest book www.rollerfuneralhomes.com/ clinton.

James Holland

James Junior Holland, 71, of Damascus, passed away Friday July 8, 2016 at his home. Born October 21, 1944, to the late James Everett and Ivy Mae Grissom Holland, Junior was a retired U.S. Army veteran and auto mechanic. Junior enjoyed hunting, fishing, and was an avid gun collector.

Left to cherish his memory are his children Billy Ray, Michael, Judy, Bobbie Jo, Steven, Jessie Holland, Shelly Holloway, and Stephanie Bermel; sisters Betty Henry, Wanda Holland, Wilma Holland; grandchild Jessa Holland; and longtime companion Annie Swiech.

Memorial services are to be announced at a later date. Clinton Funeral Service is handling arrangements.

Bruce Hooks Jr.

Bruce F. Hooks Jr., 71, of Mayflower passed away on July 4, 2016. Bruce was born Dec. 3, 1944, in North Little Rock, Arkansas.

He is preceded

in death by his parents, Bruce Sr. and Lillie Mae Hooks; and his wife, Melba Hooks.

He is survived by his son, Matthew Hooks of Round Rock, Texas; two grandsons; five brothers, Jerry of Clinton, Jimmy of Mayflower, Tommy of Mayflower, Bobby of Damascus, Robert of Mountain View; and two sisters; Jeanette and Renee both of Mayflower. Arrangements by Roller McNutt Funeral Home in Conway.

George Stobaugh

George Lynn Stobaugh, age 75, of Morrilton, Arkansas, passed away Wednesday, July 6, 2016. He was born September 15, 1940, in Center Ridge, Arkansas, a son of Orville Stobaugh and Etta Sheridan Stobaugh. He retired from the State of Arkansas on February 26, 2010, after 26 years. He was a member of Sacred Heart Catholic Church.

He is survived by his wife of 44 years, Jeanette Kordsmeier Stobaugh of Morrilton; sons, Terry (Michelle) Stobaugh of Mountain Home, Tracey (Tracie) Stobaugh of Center Ridge, and Jimmey (Erika) Stobaugh of Conway; brother, Varnold Stobaugh of Morrilton; sister, Bettie Lou Dunn of Conway; and six grandchildren. He was preceded in death by his brothers, Odie, Dean, Don, Ronald, Jimmy, and Danny; and sisters, Billie Jean Martin and Patsy Dunn.

Funeral Mass was Monday, July 11, at Sacred Heart Catholic Church. Burial was at Elmwood Cemetery by Harris Funeral Home of Morrilton.

Rosalie Winningham

Rosalie Bean Winningham, age 78, of Morrilton, passed away Sunday, July 3, 2016. She was born January 23, 1938 in Plumerville, a daughter of the late Collie and Mattie Yancey Bean.

She was a member of First Baptist Church in Plumerville. She retired in 2001 after 30 plus years with the South Conway County School District.

Survivors include her husband, Lowell Winningham; two daughters, Mona Winningham and husband Herbie Rooprai of Chicago, Illinois, and Tracy Bardsley and husband Jamie of Perry;

brother: Danny Bean and wife Deloyte of Morrilton; sisters and brothers-in-law, Colleen Fields of Plumerville; Shirley Bean of Plumerville, Doyce Winningham of Center Ridge, and Drs. Jimmy and Etta Lou Sellars of Mt. View, Missouri; and three grandchildren.

Funeral services were Thursday, July 7, 2016, at Harris Chapel. Burial was at Union Hill Cemetery near Formosa.

Arrangements are by Harris Funeral Home of Morrilton.

Richard Ison

Richard Eugene Ison, age 51, of Clinton, Arkansas, passed away on June 28, 2016. Born on August 23, 1964, in Lakewood, California, he was the son of John and Rebecca Parker Ison.

Rick was a loving son, brother and father. He loved being outdoors and spending time on the lake with his family and friends.

He is survived by his parents; his son Nicholas Crawford; his sisters Kimberly Ison, Megan Bradley and Jeannie Manzola; and many other family and friends.

A Celebration of Life held Thursday, July 7, 2016, at Dam Site Pavilion in Heber Springs. Arrangements by Olmtead Funeral Home, Heber Springs.

Mona Hipp

Mona Hipp, age 98, of Prim, Arkansas, passed away on July 2, 2016, in Fairfield Bay, Arkansas. Born on August 17, 1917, she was the daughter of the late Samuel Dollar and Naomi Turney Dollar.

Mrs. Hipp was of the Holiness faith and a devoted Christian.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Doyle Hipp, and her son, Victor Hipp. She is survived by her daughters, Linda Verser and her husband Ted, Debra Robbins and her husband Darrell, Dereta Wells and her husband Greg, and Sue Jones; 14 grandchildren; 34 great-grandchildren; and three great-great-grandchildren.

Funeral services were Wednesday, July 6, 2016, at the Hilltop Holiness Church.

Interment was in the Everett Cemetery. Arrangements are by Olmstead Funeral Home.

Nora Jean Housley Chimes

We are so thankful for the good rains we got Thursday night and Friday morning, and then got some more on the following Monday the Fourth of July. It sure made a difference in the garden. I just hope everyone who needed rain got some.

Not many attended the Liberty Cemetery Perpetual meeting Thursday night, but some important business was taken care of. It was announced at the Decoration in May, and there were also ads in two papers.

Daemon and Angie Weaver and boys spent the weekend at the cabin with Randall and Ann. They all spent some time on Archey Creek where Lane and Niki Housley and James and Lora Hinchey were camped.

We are so sorry that my sister, Nettie's grandson-inlaw Stephen Mitchell (Abby's husband) is so sick. He has been in Baptist Hospital in Little Rock for several days. We are hop-

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Dustin and Shiloh Housley and daughter Savannah went home to Searcy Saturday afternoon.

They had spent a week at their place here. We miss hem when they leave. Savannah ate supper with us one night.

Our daughter Nancy and some of her friends were in Branson last week from Tuesday until Thursday evening.

They had a good time and the weather was nice.

Larry Anthony and Susan Housley and family spent the weekend on Bear Creek at the Daniel's annual 4th of July reunion. We missed them all at church Sunday.

Ray and Norma McEntire of Greenbrier visited his mother, Jane, Sunday. They even brought lunch so no cooking had to be done. That was nice of them to do that.

Jane enjoyed their visit.

Jason and I sat at our kitchen window and watched the fireworks at Alread Saturday night.

It was a good display and lasted about 45 minutes. I'm sure it was really good up close.

It was a good evening Monday for Ronnie and Thereisa Housley's 4th of July cookout with a good crowd of 30

or more attending.

There were There were some new ones joining us this year, and it was good to have the. Everyone enjoyed all the food and good fellowship and look forward to next year.

Have a good week.

Jeff Burgess Crabtree

I and hundreds of others turned out for the potluck and fireworks display at the Alread 4th of July Celebration. The food tables had many wonderful choices and the desserts were incredible! Several candidates for public office showed up and gave people an opportunity to get to know them better.

The crowd pleasing aerial display went on almost continuously for nearly an hour. Our group had two persons hit by high velocity debris when a sky rocket prematurely detonated at low altitude. Later others See Neighbors on page 5

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Wanda Owens, Crysta Harness, Darrell Allen, Wendell Williams, Lyle Thompson, Rick Roberson, Eva Martin, Tommy Collins Family, Darrell Watts, Jimmy and Thelma Murray, Wanda Crumley, Monna Love, Nancy Hensley, Robert Krzeszinski, Robert and Vivian Sharer, Mary Collinsworth, Tena Koonce, Jerry and Melisha Rogers, Jim and Vick-

ie Whisenant, Billy Treece, Cecil Bane, Lonnie and Frankie Treece, Virginia Higgins, Lou Tester, Mickey and Shirley Newman, Betty Williams, Bonnie Tatum and Lodean Reeves.

To make a donation, make checks payable to Shady Grove Cemetery Fund and mail to Lodean Reeves, 11781 Hwy 110, Shirley, AR 72153.

The family of

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heartfelt thanks to all of you who supported us in our grief.

Your cards, food and presence were appreciated more than you know.

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July 12, 2016 Neighbors from page 4 mentioned similar experiences. Lucky Rooster was the musical entertainment afterward.

The recent rains have greened back up much of the pasture land that was suffering from the dry spell. If this pattern continues the second cutting of hay could be good.

If you have info about the greater Crabtree and 16 West community call or text Jeff Burgess, 745-1249.

at 7 p.m. All are welcome. This month it was voted on to start the new building for the fire department.

This will be started on in the next few weeks. We are all excited about the addition. If you are interested in participating in the fire department, come to one of the meetings and get involved.

Another bear sighting on 110 about a quarter mile up from Highway 65. Please keep a watchful eye.

If you have news, let me know! dprout@artelco.com or 745-7950

Scotland

James and Joyce Burns

Debby Prout Highway 110

Hi folks. What a hot humid week! But we did get some rain up here on the hill.

We got 1½ inches one night and a half inch on the 4th. That is a blessing for July.

Happy anniversary to Jerry and Linda Bagley as they celebrate their 51st on July 11!

Happy Birthday to Ike Huie as he turns 56 on July 19.

Prayers for a speedy recovery for Alvin Booher as he goes in for triple bypass heart surgery on July 12.

Also wishing Tom Elliot a fast recovery from his hip replacement surgery.

Wayne Lowrance is recovering nicely from his shoulder replacement surgery as well.

Prayers for Rick Sunderlin as he recovers from pneumonia while on vacation in New England.

The Highway 110 Volunteer Fire Department held is monthly meeting on July 7. Meetings are always held on the first Thursday of each month

June 27-29, the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission’s Wildlife Management division held their quarterly staff meeting in the cafeteria at the old Scotland School now operated by the Scotland Community Corp. Supervisors and biologists from all over the state converged on Monday and Tuesday, with the rest of the staff joining on Wednesday.

They discussed plans for the management of Chronic Wasting Disease, the continued development of the state’s Wildlife Management Areas, plans for Prescribed Burning, and the upcoming Wildlife Management budget. New Director Jeff Crow and Chief of Staff Caroline Cone were in attendance Wednesday morning. They, along with many other staff members, visited the Scott Henderson Gulf Mountain Wildlife Management Area while in Scotland.

Attendees also had the privilege of having some of their meals prepared by Mr. and Mrs. Burns.

On July 2 we had our first Saturday Breakfast with a great turnout, and we appreciate all of the support. We have enjoyed the politicians attending.

It gives us a chance to get to know them and what they stand for and it gives them a chance to meet people they may not know. When we use the buildings like this and also when we rent them out it helps us with the upkeep of the school grounds and buildings.

A large group from Scotland went to the Alread Community on Saturday night and enjoyed the potluck (good food) and stayed for the wonderful fireworks display. It was well over an hour of beautiful fireworks.

I think it is wonderful when small communities can work together and each one have something unique to keep their communities together.

I think summer heat is finally here and seems that it will stay a while but we will never turn down the chance of rain like we got this last week. That was wonderful.

If anyone has Scotland news and wants to share it they can call James Burns at 592-3935 and leave a message and he will see that it gets into the paper. If you do not let us know we cannot put your information or good news into the column. Have a great week.

Mary Jean Hall

ing on the Scotland-Clinton Road.

The ice wagon comes every week.

Hall brothers, local stock buyers, sold cattle to a Mr. Nixon of Ozark.

An ice cream supper was held at the parlor of Dunsworth & Suggs on Saturday night for the young people.

A.M. Griggs, senior member of Griggs & Evans, was driving through the county looking for chickens and eggs.

Army agents were buying mules from the farmers.

Rev. W. F. Blevins preached to a large audience at 11 a.m. Sunday morning. Rev. Eliott Jones of Plumerville preached a series of sermons. Rev. Jefferson Stoten of Edgemont preached on a Sunday night.

Rev. Jacob Sandage preached on Monday evening.

John Lindsey built a storm seller; Geo. Jones a new barn; Tollie Hall put a new roof on his house; N.A. Simpson is getting lumber ready for a new barn. Irvin Stubblefield purchased the interest of Herbert Dunsworth in the Suggs & Dunsworth barber shop and cold drink stand. It will now be known as Suggs & Stubblefield. They want to add a jewelry repair shop.

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Miss Lillie Simpson started teaching a term of summer school at Lost Corner, Conway County; Miss Winnie Hall at Gulf; Dykes Hatchett at Gravel Hill; Miss Elva Stover at Liberty; Geo. Emerson at Scotland; and Miss Goldie Jones at Crabtree. Henry Dauley held a fifteen day writing school.

The Scotland District Auxiliary Singing Convention met at the Suggs School House.

Grover Hall, road overseer of Craig township, was work-

Thelma Murray Shirley

Other places that Judith Wright and Doyle Edwards visited on their trip were Crystal Bridges Museum in Bentonville and the Eisenhower Museum in Abilene, Kansas, the Crazy Horse Monument in Black Hills, South

Page 5 Dakota, and when they visited Mount Rushmore early in the morning, the way the sun was hitting George Washington made it look like he was shedding a tear for our country.

Wanda Thompson and her son Dewayne of Bentonville came down to Clinton to attend the funeral of our Uncle Eugene Treece, and Friday night they attended the singing at Shady Grove Church. Lucas EMberton of Clinton and his family attended and his children sang two songs.

Charlotte Ahrens of Shafter, California, is here visiting Rebecca McElroy for a while.

Lisa Hackett closed the restaurant for a few days while summer business was slow and visited her sister Carolyn Lazenby of Enterprise, Alabama.

The trip took Lisa and Wayne to five states in five days, all the way to Panama City, Florida.

During the holiday Rex and Genevieve Kamoss of Lakewood, California, and daughter Mackenzie Jones rented a house on Greers Ferry Lake at Edgemont and those visiting them were a sister, Lissa Findley and Dennis Green of Springfield, Missouri, a sister, Janice and Rolf Odergard of Platte, Kansas, a sister Belinda and Steven Murray of Shirley, a nephew, Rane Murray, a niece, Danilyn Cintron and her children, Noah and Presley, Rex's mother, Margaret Findley of Shirley, and the nosy neighbor Thelma Murray.

Donald Delk turned 60 on July 5.

He is on his way to 80, that is the good one, then he will only feel like being good.

Thelma Murray will be at the Shirley Museum on July 13; come and visit.

Saturday, July 16, will be a benefit dinner for Timmie Passmore to help with his trip to Wash-

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Auto Zone, Bond's Septic Services, Stichin-N-Printin, Cheryl's Health and Beauty, Farm Bureau who also brought in the Monster Truck Gun Slinger, Don's Electric, Edward Jones, First Service Bank, Morris Homes Inc. TLC Bookkeeping and Tax Service, PEH Supply, Busy Bee Notary &Tax Services, Davis Cash Lumber, Payton Dodge Chrysler Jeep, Paul 's Body Shop, The Western Store, Bank of the Ozarks, Western Sizzlin, Shelter Insurance, Ingram Tire & Service, PPG English Color, Clinton Drug, First Security Bank, Regions Bank, and United Transmission.

We are extremely pleased with the continued support you give us to help us to invest in some of the charities in Van Buren County like Angel Tree, Shop with a Cop, Local Food Banks, and Other Community Programs in the County. We are all Proud to be part of a Club that raises money to support our local community and combined we can do far more than we can as individuals.

Again Thank You all for another successful show and Thank You to each and every business that donated items for door prizes and raffles.

It’s time for your

MUG SHOT.

Farm Credit is turning 100! Stop by our office July 18-22 to help us celebrate.

Pick up a FREE mug and watch for “mug shots” on our social media.

Visit Cecil Oursbourn and Desha Jackson 89C North Broadview St. Greenbrier, AR 72058 8 AM - 12:30 PM and 1 - 4:30 PM

ington, D.C. The dinner is free from 4-6 p.m. Donations will be accepted. Everyone is invited.

Patsy Ward Formosa

We made a trip to North Little Rock for JR’s follow-up appointment on Friday.

He got a good report and then he got to eat at GC, so he came home happy!

Our nephew drove us down there, so it was a good trip.

My cousin, Wanda Thompson, called Friday afternoon and wanted to go to the singing at Shady Grove Church. It was really good. I think we all received a blessing, I know I did. Everyone should go sometime, it happens every 1st Friday of the month, then Botkinburg has a singing on the 2nd Friday.

Meredith Presley visited Margie Pounds on Wednesday. I think he went home with some of her wonderful cucumbers. She grows good ones. In fact she grows everything really well! Last summer she kept JR and me in cucumbers and tomatoes until they froze out in the late fall! It was great, because we couldn’t get anything to grow last year.

Visiting Donna and Richard Sherrod over the week end was John and Rita Gholmus of Des Moines, Iowa. They all went to Sugar Loaf to watch the fireworks on Sunday night. Donna says the crowd gets bigger every year.

She has been picking tomatoes out of her garden See Neighbors on page 7

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Daddy

Everyday Heroes

By Susan Weston

W.C. West. Our hero! The handsomest of all our friends' fathers, we were always so proud of him.

At 82, we still think he can solve most problems, and he still gives it his best shot. He's still handsome, too.

Daddy grew up on a farm in Christine, Texas. He was born in 1923 - the second youngest of 11 children and the youngest son His parents, Samuel Sampson West and Ida Melinda Chatham West, had migrated from Louisiana to Texas in a covered wagon with five little boys in tow. They were poor but not the poorest in town. Life was hard, but that's the way things were then. Being the last son at home, Daddy worked the farm with his father. The main crops were lettuce and watermelons. He was a star high school athlete in baseball and especially in basketball.

Until he started school, Daddy thought his name was "Hick." That's what his family and everyone from Christine call him even now.

Apparently, his mother couldn't come up with a suitable name for several days after he was born. She'd already used the really interesting ones: Sebastian Ervin, Joseph Beatrice, Elsmer Samuel, Homer Hosie, Zorie Aster, Peter Cooper, George Woodrow. When she finally decided on Wilbur Clinton, one of his older brothers declared, "I'd sooner call him Hickadee." And so it would be, shortened to Hick.

Daddy's Texas roots are deep. He has lived elsewhere since he joined the Navy at 19, but he remains a proud Texan.

Mama's relatives from Chicago ,the Dublinskis, used to come visit us in Arkansas armed with good-natured Texan jokes.

This was before Pollack jokes were the rage. Daddy, the Texas, has always stood tall in everyone's estimation.

After the Na-

Grace and W.C. West on their wedding day.

The Bradford family, John and Eulene with sons John, Gary and Bruce. vy, Daddy and Mama with my older sister, Trudy, who was a baby, moved to Texas where he worked in the oilfields for a short time before they moved to Chicago. Daddy worked with Uncle Corky and Cousin Leo driving a furniture delivery truck for Chair City. He and Mama saved enough money for a down payment on a farm in the Ozark foothills. In late February of 1951, shortly after my first birthday and a few months before Patty's arrival, they moved to Red Hill -- halfway between Dennard and Botkinburg, Arkansas.

Farming was in Daddy's blood. Owning his own farm was his goal. Arkansas seemed a good compromise, distance-wise, between Chicago and Christine, but in reality was impractically far from both. The view from our spot on Red Hill was spectacular, the vegetation verdant (unlike south Texas) and the price was right.

Late winter in the south -- shouldn't be too cold -- unless you're in northern Arkansas. What a

surprise! We almost froze. There was no electricity. The only heat was a wood cookstove so we all slept in the kitchen.

Every time the wind wold blow, the linoleum would rise up from the floor.

Daddy got a job at the local sawmill and did odd jobs as well.

One employer was old Mrs. Brown who lived about a mile from us with her schoolteacher daughter Elaine in a log cabin. They were also from Chicago. I now live on that property. These jobs were to put food on the table until the farm began to pay off. He bought an old plow horse, Nellie. Before that he borrowed a team of mules, Bert and Red, from Douglas Keeling so he could put in a big garden and to plant the fields. The nineacre field south of the house was planted in cucumbers one year because there was said to be a market for them -- plowed, planted and picked by hand -- Mama's and Daddy's hands.

Though running a dairy farm wasn't the plan from the beginning, having a milk

cow was an immediate need. That first cow, named Jersey, had a heifer calf when they bought her; however, tragedy soon struck. A strong wind came up one night and an abandoned bag of crop poison that had been hidden under the rafters of the barn blew into the little heifer's stall. She chewed and sucked on the bag and died.

Within a very few years there were enough cows that the surplus milk could be sold to the cheese plant in Clinton. Daddy created and ran the milk route through Rocky Hill, Dennard and Shirley. That meant he and Mama got up before dawn to milk our cows. Then he would pick up other farmers' milk in five and 10 gallon cans from the end of their driveways and deliver it to the cheese plant before the heat of the day set in. He was paid 50 cents per hundred pounds of milk he delivered. He drove one or another of the rickety old pickups and trucks we had over the years -- sometimes buying them from the junkyard and rejuvenating them enough to make the daily, 50 to 60 mile round trip over rough dirt and gravel roads.

These trucks were our family's only transportation.

Daddy knew how to work on motors and could keep the truck, tractor and other equipment working most of the time. If he couldn't do it, he'd go see Herbie Prout.

There were mowers and later hay balers, chain saws, milk and water pumps.

It seems like Daddy was always working: plowing, milking, mowing, fencing, hauling hay or wood -- often behind the wheel of the tractor or truck. One summer day long ago, Patty and I got a surprise.

Our Uncle Joey was visiting from Chicago. Of course he had a car, a shiny black one. Patty and I were picking blackberries along the roadside when Uncle Joey's car pulled up alongside us. We gasped in amazement when we saw Daddy be-

hind the wheel with a big smile on his handsome face. "Daddy," we squealed. "We didn't know you could drive a CAR!" Our Grade A dairy started operation in 1959. Daddy, with the help of two friends, Buster Bramlett and Henry Huie, built the barn. There were electric milking machines then but I don't remember Daddy working any less. Until he turned the dairy over to Clint in 1989 there were still two milkings to be done every day: rain or shine, hot or freezing cold, sick or well. The haying, fencing, woodcutting, etc. still had to be done.

He also had to maintain the herd -- raising replacement heifers, herding to pasture, acting as his own vet -- sometimes with the help and advice from Kenneth Jenkins. I have to say that he taught us six kids how to work too and we pitched in.

Life wasn't all work. Many nights after the milking was done Mama and Daddy would play cards at the kitchen table with close friends: Tommy and Helen Holmes, Buster and Dolores Bramlett, Martin and Jo Bramlett, Pete and France

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Pronia, Dale and Shirley Davis among others. Daddy did manage to fit in some recreational baseball, playing in a countywide league which he was instrumental informing. As the boys became involved in baseball he also coached their teams from Buddy through Pony League.

After retiring from the dairy business, he realized a longtime dream of owning and running a pool hall in town, The Side Pocket. He opens up without fail five days a week and serves lunch as well.

He would probably say it's only work on Saturday, the sixth day he's there, when he and Mama go in to clean. On the other days he's enjoying himself. If he could still run, he would probably still be playing baseball, too.

(Susan Weston wrote this in 2005.

W.C. gave up the daily operation of The Side Pocket in 2011, but stayed as busy as his health allowed.

She says he still loved baseball and with satellite TV was able to watch Major League baseball regularly, especially the Chicago Cubs, with Mama at his side.)

Quilt of Valor goes to former POW On June 11, 2016, John A. Bradford, 97, of Damascus was presented a Quilt of Valor for his service in World War II. John served his country from 1941 until the end of the war in 1945.

During his service, John was wounded near Rome, Italy, where he was captured and sent to a Prisoner of War camp in northern Germany.

He was released from the POW camp as the war was ending.

John is also a Purple Heart recipient.

John is married to Eulene Bradford, his wife of 70 years.

They have three sons – John L. Bradford of Damascus, Gary Bradford also of Damascus, and Bruce Bradford of Plumerville.

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This slimy creature moves at a snail's pace, an easy shot for photographer Robert Snyder.

Nuts about nuts Take me out to the ball game, take me out to the crowd, buy me some peanuts and Cracker Jack … well forget the Cracker Jack, but take those peanuts… and don’t wait to go to a ball game to eat them. Make eating nuts a daily habit, they are good for you in a number of ways.

Peanuts are high in folate — a mineral essential for brain development that may protect against cognitive decline. OK, OK, I know that peanuts are technically a legume, you got me, but they are commonly referred to as a nut. Like most other nuts, peanuts are also full of brain-boosting healthy fats and vitamin E, as well.

Walnuts are good for your heart, they contain alpha linoleic acid (ALA). Research has suggested that ALA may help heart arrhythmias, and a 2006 Spanish study suggested that walnuts were as effective as olive oil at reducing inflammation and

oxidation in the arteries.

Brazil nuts are packed with selenium, a mineral that may protect against prostate cancer and other diseases. Speaking of your prostate, pecans are loaded with beta-sitosterol, a plant steroid that may help relieve symptoms of benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH), or enlarged prostate.

Almonds have more calcium than any other nut, making them a great food for overall health. Plus, they are rich in fiber and Vitamin E, an antioxidant that helps fight dangerous inflammation and possibly health conditions such as lung cancer and age-related cognitive decline.

So, all you nut cases out there, open up your case of nuts and start munching.

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along with some blackberries. She is way ahead of me on the tomatoes!

I talked to Roy Bryant, he is doing better. He had been to visit his brother Coy and reports he is doing better also.

Joyce Nicholson recently took a three-week vacation to Indiana. She spent her time there with her son, Doyne Allen in Indianapolis, and daughter, Evelyn Allen in Chesterton, Indiana. She enjoyed it very much, but I think she was glad to get back home.

Joyce and Justine James went on a mission trip with 13

others from the Clinton Church of Christ last week.

They went to New Mexico Christian Children’s home in Portales, New Mexico.

Chad and Destiny James are expecting a new baby in January. That will make them three and Joyce and Johnny four grandchildren.

I would like to say “Hi” to Loveda Cass of Peru, Indiana. She is my cousin and it was nice to hear from her. Also “hello” to my Aunt Adrian in Kokomo.

Condolences to the ones who have lost loved ones, and get well wishes to those who are sick.

God bless, stay cool and have a great week!

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Kay Weaver Senior Centers

The Clinton birthday celebration day will be Jully 13. Come join the fun. Clinton center has bingo on Mondays at 10:30; live music on Tuesday and Thursday; and Exercise classes on Monday and Thursday mornings come early, 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. to enjoy fun and

games and get fit!

There is a trip planned to the Mexican restaurant (Amigos Locos) in Damascus for Saturday, July 23, leaving the center at 11 a.m.

If you are interested, call Heather at 7452544.

Fairfield Bay Center is open Tuesday-Friday.

They have all kinds of daily activities. Check it out.

Fairfield Bay has 11 people signed up to go to the "Moses" show in Branson. Be sure and get your reservation paid before July 21.

Remember, during this hot weather all of the centers are a cool place to go.

Veteran-owned business council to meet July 19 Attention Veteran Owned Businesses in Van Buren County: There will be a kickoff meeting of the Veteran-Owned Business Council from 10 a.m.-noon July 19 at the Arkansas State Chamber of Com-

merce, 1200 West Capitol Avenue, Little Rock.

The purpose of this meeting and the VOB Council is to establish a network promoting VOBs statewide, to network and create broader VOB part-

June divorces - Jessica Adams vs. Thomas Addington - Michelle Sorg vs. Edward Sorg

Calendar A benefit to help raise money to send Timmy Passmore to Washington, D.C. is set for Saturday, July 16, at the Shirley Community Center.

A free dinner of hamburgers, hot dogs and all the fixings will be served from 4-6 p.m. and donations will be accepted.

Timmy was selected to represent Shirley school at the Junior National Young Leaders Conference.

For more information contact Jessica

Passmore, 723-8444, or Lisa Hackett, 7234848 Main Line Full Gospel Church, 114 Mariposa Loop, Bee Branch, will be having an End Times Conference with Pastor Lee Shipp from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Monday, July 18-Thursday, July 21, 7 p.m. nightly. For more information call Pastor Michael Roberson at (501) 2531005.

nerships, and to advocate on behalf of VOB with state, county and local governments.

All business owners or prospective business owners who are veterans are welcome to attend and lend their

voices and ideas to lead Arkansas veteran-owned businesses forward. Contact Steve Eggensperger, Steve Finnegan or Don Berry of the Arkansas Veterans Coalition at 501773-5189 for more information.

- Tania Vicknair vs. Steven Vicknair - Baylor Berry vs. Douglas Swain - Kellie Miller vs. James Miller - Melanie Bradford vs. Scott Bradford - John Cullum vs. Devin Cullum Farm Credit of Western Arkansas is celebrating 100 years of financing rural America by inviting the public to drop by their offices to pick up a complimentary anniversary coffee mug.

In Greenbrier, the office that serves Van Buren County, mugs are available at the office at 89C North Broadview Street between 8 a.m.–12:30 p.m. and 1-4:30 p.m. the week of July 18– 22.

Local artist Nelson Scott will give a free grey scale

painting demonstration on Monday, July 18, from 10 a.m. to noon at Bayside Studio, Greenwood Road and Highway 330, Fairfield Bay. For more information call the North Central Arkansas Artist League program chair at 7456615.

The Van Buren County Library is hosting Introduction to Basic Firearms and Safety from 6-8 p.m.

July 19, and a Concealed Carry course on July 23. For more information call 7452100.

THANK YOU to the following sponsors for making the 2016 Archey Fork Festival possible!

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Gold Sponsors

Clinton Advertising and Promotion Davis Cash Lumber First Service Bank Wal-Mart

Clinton Board of Realtors Ozark Health Simmons First National Bank

Silver Sponsors Bank of the Ozarks Ingram’s Tire Faye’s Diamond Mine Petit Jean Electric Regions Bank Archey Fork Car Club Bar of Ranch Miller Sanitation Woody’s Bait & Tackle City of Clinton and all employees from the city who made this possible.

This event would not be possible without the generous donations of time and sponsorship of so many in our community. Thank you again to all who took the time to care.

THANK YOU

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Van Buren County history...

Shirley

(“Early History of Shirley, Arkansas,” is a research paper submitted for a master’s degree to Arkansas State Teachers College in Conway, Arkansas, in 1957 by Glenn Hackett. It is reprinted with permission from his son, Wayne Hackett.)

Schools

The first school in the town of Shirley was located on a lot near J.J. Hensley’s home but was later moved to a lot now occupied by the Emery Williams home.

This building, built around 1910, was a one-room structure and included classes up to the eighth grade.

In 1913, the board of directors voted to borrow $10,000 for the construction of a brick building of two floors on a foundation which now supports the main high school building.

W.R. Halbrook was the first superintendent of the high school and organized a very good high school system.

The board tried to operate this school on a seven mill tax rate but soon found this to be impossible. As the years progressed, it became more difficult to operate and many years the term had to be completed with money donated by parents and business places in the town.

In the fall of 1931, the large brick structure burned as a re-

sult of a defective stove. The high school students were transferred to Clinton to complete the remainder of the term.

Grade school classes were held in the Community Church building and various other buildings in the town.

In 1932, $9,000 was borrowed from the State Revolving Loan Fund. Of this, $7,000 was used to pay off the indebtedness remaining on the destroyed structure and $3,000 was left for the construction of a one-floor building on the same location.

Patrons of the district donated labor to clean the bricks, and a new building was soon under construction. By paying 75 cents per day for labor and getting two bricklayers to contract the job at a low figure, the new building was soon completed at a cost of $3,600.

When a high school program was again included, the same financial situation again forced the school to operate a short term. Teachers would work part of the year and then have to quit because

a 12-mill tax on a low property valuation failed to provide the funds necessary to operate a school.

In 1947, misfortune struck again. A defective flue caused a fire that completely destroyed the building in a few minutes.

Again the people in the community arose to the occasion with donations of money and labor. With the help of surplus buildings secured from the Arkansas Ordnance Plant at Jacksonville, Arkansas, the building was rebuilt.

In the election of 1948, the people of Arkansas voted, by adopting Initiated Act I of 1948, to dissolve all school districts with less than 350 enumerates and consolidate these into larger units. Seven small districts located in the Shirley area voted to combine with the Shirley District when this act was put into effect. In the summer of 1949, several buildings at Camp Robinson were torn down and the materials used to build a home economics building, agriculture building, and a teach-

The train depot in Shirley, circa 1917. (Photo from shirleyarkansas.org website) erage on the Shirley School land. In 1950, a grade school was constructed.

Today, in 1957, the Shirley School has a combined enrollment of 316 students, a staff of 13 teachers, and is a “B” rated high school. The valuation of its six buildings is $87,254.27, according to the audit report of June 30, 1955. The people of the district are extremely cooperative in trying to improve the quality of instruction offered in the school. Efforts are being made to increase teacher qualifications, increase the size of the library, improve the science laboratory, and to bring about a general improvement in all phases of the school program.

Churches

The Shirley Mis-

sionary Baptist Church was established in 1876. It is not certain who the first minister was, but Dave and Will Fortner were the leaders in the movement for many years. Some years after Shirley became a town the old school building in Settlement was torn down and moved to the present location of the Community Church.

Church was held in the first schoolhouse and later in the large brick building built in 1913. The Methodist Church organized in 1910.

Sometime later the General Baptist and the Church of Christ were organized. For many years, all these denominations used the same building.

They worked together in all the great revivals that added ma-

ny to each church.

Here all came together where each learned to love his neighbor.

Here they worked to help the sick and distressed regardless of denomination.

This happy situation continued for over 20 years, then something happened to break them apart. Today, the Missionary Baptist and the Church of Christ have established churches of their own. The General Baptist and Methodist still worship together.

Agriculture

A check of tax records for the years 1869 and 1870 shows clearly what kind of agriculture was carried on. Elizabeth See History on page 9

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July 12, 2016 History from page 8 Sowell, who lived on the Jake Hensley farm, had three horses, seven sheep, 40 hogs, and 18 cattle. John Cottrell, her neighbor, had 31 sheep, 60 hogs, three

horses and 19 cattle.

Dan W. Wilson, who lived on what is now the Dr. Dunaway farm, had six horses, 18 cattle, 23 sheep, and 60 hogs. Examination of the Van Buren County tax record for the same year demonstrates that this situation prevailed all over

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the county. One big operator, H.N. Gatton, had over 175 hogs.

In this type of agricultural economy, the farmer lived off his farm income. He used as much of his produce and livestock as he needed for his own use. The remaining was marketed in Little Rock because that was his closest market from 1860 to 1875. He could drive the cattle and sheep to market, butcher the hogs, salt the meat in winter, and take it to Little Rock packed in barrels. He had some poultry, cow and sheep skins, and wool to sell. Later when the railroad came through Morrilton it became the leading trading center for the Shirley area. In Morrilton, he had a market for livestock, poultry and eggs, corn, cotton and furs. Long lines of freight wagons swarmed along the road to and from Morrilton, with produce for market, and merchandise for the farmer on the return trip.

One fact, long overlooked by present day citizens who long for the old time type of agriculture, is the fact that the early settler had an opportunity to select the best

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agricultural lands. A 160-acre farm was usually surrounded by thousands of acres of government land.

Here the farmer’s hogs, sheep and cattle could range freely with few limits to their movements. Massive white oak trees with enormous acorn-filled ranches grew everywhere. Dense cane brakes lined the river banks where cattle could find green foliage in the late winter. Wild grasses and legumes grew on the ridges beneath the great oaks. There was very little underbrush.

Maggie Howard, who came to Arkansas with her parents from Ohio in the year 1888, described the country in this way: Big oak trees were everywhere. The hills looked like parks because there were very few bushes growing between trees. On the river bank and in the hollows the trees were growing thick and stood tall and straight. We saw wild turkey and deer crossing the road as we traveled from Mountain View and crossed Little Red River at Meadow Creek. At night we occasionally heard wolves howling on the high ridges.

The bountiful gift of nature to the pioneer gives to many of the present age the mistaken idea that farmers of that day lived a wonderful life, but an examination of the facts shows us another side of the picture. There was always something to be done on the farm.

Crops had to be planted and harvested, hogs butchered, sheep sheared, cows milked, horses fed, land cleared, wool spun into yard, clothing made, wood cut, water carried, shelters built, fence rails split, and hundreds of other jobs completed. J.E. Eaton, a druggist who lived among this people 72 years, had this to say about some of them: Holliet Towery would be sitting on the rail fence waiting for daylight to come so he could start to plowing. At sundown he was still plowing away. Many of these early farmers could

Page 9 be heard guiding their teams through the corn and cotton fields when dusk settled on the valley and the whippoorwill came out to feed and call along the ridges.

Mr. Blackwood, who was a cattle buyer from Kentucky, was traveling through the hills buying cattle shortly after the railroad came through the town. He had gone to five farms and found widows in charge at each. At last he reached the home of a Widow Huggins on Weaver Creek. As he left this farm, he sadly concluded that the men had worked themselves to death, leaving a country of widows.

By the end of 1919, the exploitation of the oak timber had brought an end to hog and acorn enterprises on farms in the Shirley community. Livestock production of all kinds was declining. The good prices for cotton in most of the years from 1919 to 1929 encouraged the production of this crop. Farmers cleared the hillsides that coud be farmed and planted many small patches. They lined up at the Shirley gin, and the hum of its machinery could be heard far into the night during the harvesting season in September and October.

The Depression of 1930 came with the price of cotton falling to 5 cents per pound. This, and the new farm program started during these years, slowly brought an end to cotton production in this mountain country. Farmers began to grow more hay such as Lespedeza, and small grains.

They increased the number of cattle until in 1949 this became the chief enterprise on all farms in this area. Local sale barns were set up at county seat towns and on sale day trucks lined the roads taking cattle to market.

When the timber had gone in 1923, many mountain farms were abandoned and the owners left for other areas to the west of Arkansas. Of the 39 farms in operation in Bloodworth

Township when the trains started to move through in 1909, only eight are still in operation in 1957. These are all located in the valley of Little Red River above and below the town. In the course of this study, the investigator visited a farm on which Marion Linn lived in 1909. All that remain is a group of fields grown up in young pine trees, and an old pile of chimney rock to indicate that a family once lived here.

Deer tracks in the briar thicket indicate that these animals are now the only inhabitants of what was once corn and cotton fields.

An interesting situation came to light in a check of the eight farms still being operated in what was Bloodworth Township. Seven of these farms were the only ones occupied in 1865. This clearly demonstrates that the early settlers knew what it required to constitute a farm. In the entire township of union, the same situation prevailed. Farms that were settled by 1865 are, without exception, the only farms still being operated in 1956.

The livestock form of enterprise has also returned to the same position it occupied in 1865, with one exception that hogs have not returned to the picture. There is also closer attention being given to forestry as a source of farm income. The Arkansas Forestry Service established a forest lookout tower north of Shirley at Rushing about 1947. Here a forest ranger is on duty at all times to detect fires and bring them under control.

Forest fires no longer rage uncontrolled through the young pine forests. Here and there in the secluded areas young white oaks send their slender trunks into the mountain air.

Wild deer and other small game are increasing rapidly in the old fields and forested hillsides. Nature is busy restring what man has exploited.

(A look back at industry in Shirley next time in The Voice)

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Fishing Report White River (Bull Shoals Tailwater)

North Arkansas

Bull Shoals Lake

Deep cover keys summer crappie success Each spring, anglers comb the shallows, probing tiny jigs and minnows at any likely looking spot in search of crappie. Rarely do anglers leave empty-handed when the dogwoods are blooming and the fish are spawning. But once summer’s heat sets in and the fish move out of the shallows, most anglers hang up the jigging poles or use the same tactics as spring, leaving the lake with hungry stomachs and a bare live well. John Duncan says catching crappie once the spawn has ended can be just as good as when they’re on the beds. Anglers just have to switch to deep-thinking mode.

Once the water’s surface temperature begins to creep into the 80s, crappie seek the comfort of cooler water found a little deeper.

“If you just look across the surface, there doesn’t seem to be hardly anything to hold fish, but it’s a different world under the water,” Duncan said.

“The Corps, the Game

and Fish and some local anglers have sunk a bunch of brush piles throughout the lake, you just have to look for them.” The latest electronics can be extremely helpful in finding brush piles made of branches and woody cover, but can be tricky to read when searching for brush made of bamboo or river cane, materials extremely popular with crappie anglers. “If you’re using a side-imaging depth finder, wood will show up easily, but bamboo brush piles may only look like a shadow on the bottom,” Duncan said. “Sometimes you have to go right over it before you can really see what it looks like.”

Anglers who can’t afford high-dollar electronics still can find plenty of offshore options for crappie, it just takes a little more effort and elbow grease.

A five-gallon bucket, some hand-cut bamboo and some fast-setting concrete is all it takes to create your own brush piles and place them wherever you want.

As of Wednesday, the Army Corps of Engineers reports the lake’s elevation at 660.93 feet msl (normal conservation pool – 659.00 msl). (updated 7-62016) K Dock Marina (417-334-2880) reported the fishing has been really good the past week The milder weather really improved the bite.

The Corps also began dropping the lake level, which has improve the parking on the boat launch dramatically. Been seeing good-size walleye coming in every day.

The are really eating a nightcrawler. Also had some huge limits of bass on the Tuesday night tournament.

Surface temperatures were in the low 90s last week, so the crappie are deep and scattered. Some huge ones being caught on crankbaits while trolling for walleye. Also seeing some good flathead catfish being caught on trot lines on live bluegill in the 8-15 feet range in the nearby coves. Water level last week was 661.1 and falling; water temperature was 85-88 degrees. Water was stained to clear.

Black Bass are good on a variety of topwater plugs. (The hot bait that is working right now is the Whopper Plopper made by River to Sea.) Also good catches on a 10-inch plum or blue worm around structure.

(updated 7-62016) John Berry at Berry Brothers Guide Service (870453-2424) ) said Cotter saw a half-inch of rain, hot temperatures and moderate winds in the past week. The lake level at Bull Shoals fell 2 feet to rest at 0.9 feet above seasonal power pool of 661.67 feet.

This is 34.3 feet below the top of flood pool. Upstream, Table Rock fell 0.5 feet to rest at 1.5 feet below seasonal power pool and 15.5 feet below the top of flood pool.

Beaver Lake fell 0.5 feet to rest at 1.7 feet below seasonal power pool and 10.3 feet below the top of flood pool. On the White, we had more generation last week with no wade-able water.

Berry wanted to revisit his top six flies he’s using for this year: New flies come and go, and old standards are revisited.

Though Berry says he carries hundreds of patterns, these six flies account for about 90 percent of the fish that he or his clients land. The only fly that has made every list of his top six flies is the Woolly Bugger. Berry recalls the first time he fished it over 35 years ago. He was fishing the Little Red River with his brother, Dan. He gave John a couple of them, and John asked how to fish them. Dan told him that it didn’t matter as long as it was

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in the water. John said that turned out to be true and he has been fishing them since He says he’s caught more different species with a Woolly Bugger than any other fly. Don’t leave home without it.

On his most recent list of best flies, he had included the copper John, but he has changed over to the pheasant tail nymph. This fly has been around since 1930. There is a reason for any fly to be around that long. The pheasant tail is easy to tie and catches fish.

He has found it to be a great nymph imitation for the river’s sulphur mayflies that are coming off now. He always ties them in a copper bead head version. It sinks like a rock and the copper bead will show off well in stained water.

The ruby midge is new to Berry’s list and in fact has been his best producer for the last two years. It has replaced the zebra midge as his go-to midge pupa pattern.

Since the White and Norfork rivers are major midge waters; it is Berry’s most important fly. Most of the guides he knows fish them on a daily basis. It is the best-selling fly at Berry’s Blue Ribbon Fly Shop.

Berry generally fishes two fly rigs, and the San Juan Worm is his top fly, the one he fishes every day. He believes it acts as an attractor and gets the trout’s attention. Though he

usually catches more fish on the bottom fly, he will catch quite a few on the worm. After a rain, it is his goto fly because worms are washed into the river during a rain. It is also the easiest fly to tie.

The newest member of this year’s list is the hare and copper. It is a pattern that has been around for a while. It is a simple fly with a body of hare’s mask, a copper bead and copper rib tied on a scud hook. It is impressionistic and kind of looks like a scud, caddis or sowbug, but not exactly. It has been producing well, and Berry had a young man take two spectacular cutthroats last week on Dry Run Creek using it.

His sixth selection is the Green Butt. He says he didn’t choose it just because it is his signature pattern, but because it works.

This is the fly he ties at Sowbug and the Fly Fishing Fair every year. It is an easy tie and looks elegant.

It is a soft hackle and it is the first thing that he ties on whenever he sees some topwater action. He developed it about 15 years ago and has fished it ever since. It has become a popular local pattern that sells well in the shop.

Armed with these six flies he says he can catch fish just about anywhere and hopes anglers will give them a try.

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CHURCH PAGE

Photo by EuGene Smith

Thanks to all of you who called and correctly identified last week's featured church as Formosa Church of Christ. Look for it's history in next week's paper. If you can identify this Church call 745-8040. (Remember to send a history of your Church.)

Antioch General Baptist Church 1608 Highway 9, Fox (870)363-4509 Archey Valley Community Church Highway 254, Chimes Bee Branch Baptist 11509 Hwy 65 South, Bee Branch 654-2630 Bethel Community Church 17904 Highway 95 W, Cleveland Botkinburg Baptist Church 9297 Highway 65 N, Botkinburg 745-3530 Botkinburg Community Foursquare Church 7054 Highway 65 N, Botkinburg 745-2311 Burnt Ridge Community Church 5846 Burnt Ridge Road, Clinton 745-6737 Calvary Missionary Baptist Church ABA 144 Nickie Ave., Clinton 745-3245 Choctaw Baptist Church 208 Highway 330 E, Clinton 745-7370 Choctaw Christian Center 4157 Highway 65 S, Choctaw 745-8264 Choctaw Church of Christ 233 Highway 330 E, Choctaw 745-8264 Christian Fellowship Church 674 Highway 658, Clinton Church of Christ 20452 Highway 16 W, Alread 745-5498 Church of the Nazarene 1664 Highway 65 S, Clinton Clinton Church of Christ 184 Third Street, Clinton 745-4252 Clinton Seventh-day Adventist Church 125 Skyhill Drive, Clinton 745-4043 Clinton United Methodist Church 636 Joe Bowling Road, Clinton 745-5181 Colony Church of Christ Hwy 92 E, Bee Branch Corinth Baptist Church 5158 Holley Mountain Road, Clinton Cornerstone Evangelical Church 3351 Highway 330 S, Fairfield Bay 884-6657 Crabtree Foursquare Church 11301 Highway 16 W, Crabtree 745-2894 Culpepper Community Church 6055 Highway 336 W, Culpepper Culpepper Mountain Church of Christ 118 South Essie Road, Culpepper Damascus United Methodist Church 17194 Highway 65 S, Damascus Eagle Heights Baptist Church Independent Fundamental VBC Fairgrounds, Clinton 757-0013

Eglantine Church of Christ 3796 Highway 330 S, Shirley 884-6880 Fairbanks Community Church 4753 Arkansas 356 E, Bee Branch Fairfield Bay Baptist Church 481 Dave Creek Parkway, Fairfield Bay 884-3371 Fairfield Bay United Methodist Church 765 Dave Creek Parkway, Fairfield Bay 884-3373 Faith Baptist Church Highway 65 N & Harper Mountain Lane Dennard,AR Faith Christian 10839 Edgemont Road, Edgemont 723-8109 Faith Lutheran Church 310 Snead Drive, Fairfield Bay 884-3375 First Assembly of God Church 2466 Highway 65 N, Clinton 745-2285 First Baptist Church of Clinton 211 First Baptist Road, Clinton 745-6113 First Baptist Church of Damascus 43 Oak Tree Road, Damascus 335-7440 First Baptist Church of Sugarloaf 557 Arkansas 337, Higden 654-2354 First General Baptist Church 664 Highway 16 E, Clinton 745-4043 First Pentecostal Church of Clinton Highway 65 S at 1128 Lyn Road, Choctaw Formosa Baptist Church Highway 9 and County Line Road, Clinton 745-7709 Formosa Church of Christ 4940 Highway 9 W Clinton 745-4446 Friendship Baptist Church 1321 Third St., Clinton 745-7177 Full Gospel Tabernacle 128 Catland Lane, Shirley 723-4500 Grace Church 3793 Highway 65 S, Clinton 472-7462 Half Moon Baptist Church 1031 Half Moon Road, Clinton 745-2273 Harmony Mountain Church of Christ Quattlebaum and Harmony Mtn Roads 745-2059 Hope Community Church 905 Damascus Road, Quitman Immanuel Baptist Church 498 Highway 16 E, Clinton 745-8528 Kaley Hill Missionary Baptist 6505 Highway 356, Bee Branch

Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses 3624 Highway 65 S, Clinton 745-8781 Kirk of the Hills Presbyterian Church 250 Dave Creek Parkway, Fairfield Bay 884-3304 Landmark Missionary Baptist Church ABA 229 Third St., Clinton Lexington Baptist Church 9525 Highway 110, Shirley 723-4787 Liberty Missionary Baptist Church 2712 Highway 254 W, Chimes Community Low Gap Community Chapel 4320 Low Gap Road, Alread Lute Mountain Community Church Victory Lane near Highway 16, Shirley 723-8299 MainLine Full Gospel 114 Mariposa Loop, Bee Branch 253-1005 Maranatha Assembly of God 11929 Highway 16 E, Shirley 723-8181 Mount Zion Church of Christ 1202 Highway 16 W, Clinton 745-2572 Mount Zion General Baptist 2333 Mount Zion Road, Bee Branch 362-3807 New Beginning Church 12200 Highway 254 E, Dennard New Hope Baptist Church 4198 Highway 65 N, Clinton 757-2332 New Liberty Church of Christ 4815 Highway 95, Cleveland 669-2575 New Life Apostolic Church of Clinton 198 Richard Road, Clinton 745-6411 Peace Lutheran Church of Edgemont 10849 Edgemont Road, Edgemont 723-4726 Pee Dee Baptist Church 2744 Highway 16 E, Clinton 745-4115 Pine Grove General Baptist Church 102 Silvertree Road, Shirley Pine Mountain General Baptist Church Gravesville Cutoff Road, South of Bee Branch Plant Baptist Church 4897 Highway 110, Clinton 745-6887 Pleasant Grove Friendship Church 22210 Highway 16 W, Alread 745-8450 Pleasant Valley Baptist Church 5092 Banner Mtn Road, Shirley 723-4737

Pleasant Valley General Baptist No. 1 5153 Highway 92 W, Bee Branch Point Remove Baptist Church 10954 Highway 336 W, Formosa Rabbit Ridge Church of Christ 215 Rabbit Ridge Road, Bee Branch 745-4634 Red River of Life Church of God 10839 Edgemont Road, Edgemont 723-8109 Rupert Baptist Church 21434 Highway 16 W, Clinton 745-8593 Salem Primitive Baptist Church Gravesville Cutoff Road, Bee Branch Sand Springs Missionary Baptist Church Highway 124 E, Damascus 335-8003 Sardis Freewill Baptist 4141 Highway 124, Gravesville 335-8027 Scotland Baptist Church 278 Postal Lane, Scotland 592-3787 Scotland Church of Christ 297 Scotland-Formosa Road, Scotland Scotland Lighthouse Christian Fellowship Church 1476 Scotland-Formosa Road, Scotland 592-3311 Shady Grove Baptist Church 5448 Shady Grove Road, Shirley 723-4273 Shady Grove Chapel 4790 Highway 254 E, Dennard Shirley Church of Christ 10509 Highway 16 E, Shirley 745-4859 Shirley Community Church/First United Methodist 784 Matthew Clark Memorial Drive, Shirley 723-4387 Shirley First Baptist Church 10277 Highway 16 E, Shirley 723-8171 South Side Baptist Highway 65 N, Damascus 335-7423 St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church 250 Woodlawn Drive, Fairfield Bay 884-3349 St. Jude Catholic Church 3178 Hwy 65 S, Clinton 745-5716 Tabernacle of Praise 159 Boston Fern Road, Shirley 723-8280 The Gathering Ministry Outreach 80746 Highway 16 W, Rupert 745-3883 The New Tabernacle 12174 Highway 65 N, Dennard 514-8535 The Power House (non-denominational) 159 Mt. Zion Road, Bee Branch, AR 253-2385 Trace Ridge Bible Church Highway 254 W at Morris Road, Chimes Walnut Grove Church 6940 Highway 95 W, Clinton 745-3445 Zion Hill Missionary Baptist ABA 29129 Highway 16 W, Jerusalem 745-4467

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Owner says time to tee up at golf course

Faces

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The Red River Golf Course is ready for golfers.

The Red River Golf Course is open.

Located on Factory Road near the Warren Wellness Center, next to the new Van Buren County Library in Clinton, the ninehole course built in 1994 and destroyed in the 2008 tornado, is ready for golfers.

Dr. Donald Warren is the sole owner of the course now, originally built by Warren and two partners, the late Joe Lee and the late Jim Bayer.

Warren says it took this long for the golf course to reopen because his first focus was to get his dental practice reopened. The Warren Wellness Center

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Fourth's flares

now houses his practice as well as his two sons' dental practice and chiropractic office.

Since the tornado, the course has been open with free golf to those who wanted to play. Repairs and improvements have been completed to the fairways and greens. The Bermuda Grass greens make for great putting. However, there is no clubhouse, golf pro, or carts.

The course will operate using an honor system and there is a service shed where golfers will sign in.

The cost is $15 for 9 holes and $25 for 18 holes.

Clubs

This display was photographed by Joel French over the holiday weekend.

(From left) Karen Mulder, Marylou Horvath, Cynthia Lacken, Diane Percival and Marguerite Dory were among those attending the convention.

Master Gardeners visit Eureka Springs Bridge

By Cynthia Lacken

June was a busy month for the VBC Master Gardeners.

Eleven Master Gardeners attended the state convention, titled “Gardening on a Rock,”

in beautiful Eureka Springs, Arkansas.

Master Gardeners were treated to lectures, demonstrations and tours to provide continuing educational and

creative opportunities. Vendors were loaded with garden art, plants, pots and anything a gardener could imagine. We all came back energized.

The Idle Hour Bridge Club met Thursday at the home of Carolyn Lefler. Winners for the evening were: high, Jo Nell Warren; second high, Conie Reamey; traveling, Emma Hink; and bingo, Rita Bintliff.

The almost hour-long fireworks show and earlier potluck at Alread drew hundreds last Saturday, July 2.

(Photo by Jeff Burgess)

Gospel Fest to feature Cabot quartet

Hallelujah Harmony is part of the Clinton Gospel Fest lineup Saturday.

Hallelujah Harmony Quartet will perform at 12:15 p.m. at the Clinton Gospel Fest on Saturday, July 16, at the Clinton High School Cafeteria. Admission is free.

This outstanding group from Cabot, Arkansas, will inspire listeners with great Southern Gospel four-part harmonies.

Group members Darrell Tullos, Tom Hollman, Garret Southerland, and Jackie Moore have all been singing gospel for much of their lives. Singing together holds a special place in their hearts.

As one member says,

“There is nothing better than sharing the Word through song and seeing the smiles on the faces of the people.”

The quartet will be giving their time and talent to help raise funds for the Van Buren County Literacy Council whose mission is to help adults read or read better.

Other groups performing are King’s Highway, Remnants, Sulphur Road Pickers, Maygarden and Spirit Breez.

The Clinton Gospel Fest is a come and go event from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. The concession stand

will feature barbecue, hamburgers, hot dogs, nachos, drinks, and more. Many local businesses have donated raffle prizes to bid on, and lots of free door prizes will be given away.

11 a.m.

King's Highway 12:15 p.m.

Hallelujah Harmony 1:15 p.m.

Maygarden 2:15 p.m.

Remnants 3:15 p.m.

Sulphur Road Pickers 4:15 p.m.

Spirit Breeze