There are several items in the older newspapers of the region which may be of interest to family history researchers, mostly because of the names included. Here's one: >From the ARKANSAS CITY JOURNAL, Wed., March 4, 1885 WATSON WAVELETS. Warrant Against Jamison for Getting Money Under False Pretenses. Appropriating and Repairing Public Buildings--Other Interests. Correspondence of THE JOURNAL. WATSON, ARK., February 27, 1885. Editor JOURNAL: After a storm and bustle in legal matters, a serene calm has settled on the surface of our surroundings. While all is "quiet on the Potomac," the agents and pillars of the Penal Code are not idle in the discharge of their duties, but zealously protect the goddess of the law against all intrusion and insult. A warrant was sworn out before J. B. Hester, Esq., Justice of the Peace for Red Fork township, against Dr. Jamison, of Ecclesiastical farm in this section for "getting money under false pretenses," a charge rather hard to sustain. Having taken a change of venue to L. W. Watson, Esq., his case will be ventilated in the morning at 10 o'clock. Not knowing the true status of the cause now pending, we refrain from any unkind comment. If he be guilty, our statute prescribes the redress; if he be innocent, let him be restored to his social and personal liberty, and let him go hence where all stand alike under the "vine and fig tree" of equal rights. Hon. X. J. Pindall and G. W. Joslyn, Esq., are billed for the defendant and Col. Moore for the State and possibly these gentlemen can and will furnish an interesting entertainment. Some commotion is also being waged, and carried on among our farming public, some are finding homes for l885, others are surrounding their stock to the behests of recorded liens and others still have in a measure recovered from the shock of foreclosure. "By the sweat of thy brow shalt thou ask bread" is a divine mandate of the old world and possibly the mortgage system was not a part of the record. Yet modern consumers are willing to bargain and convey their very souls to conform to a custom which if long adhered to in any country will at last demand the "pound of flesh." Will not experience teach us the errors of such a cause? Will not judgment and sense advise a different policy? And will not the bitter memories of the past force us to discard a system which will bring in its train inevitable ruin? Labor and capital are mutual agencies in the order of supply and demand and neither factor can accomplish much alone, but combine the two and you have the elements of material progress. This country must make bread and meat for local consumption. Keep out of debt, live cheaply for a few years till plenty shall fill our coffers and the wail of the pauper of the past. Our friends of Chester township are trying hard to leave us and return to Arkansas county. While we have our regrets in losing so many good and useful citizens from the realm of Desha county, yet we do not blame them and only hope they will contribute to the advancement of the county of their adoption. Hon. X. J. Pindall, Col. Moore and J. B. Brown, Esq., were appointed as commissioners of the Honorable Circuit Court of this district to confer with Hon. W. B. Peterson, County Judge and secure an order and appropriation from said County Court looking towards the permanent repairs of the public buildings in said Watson District. The gentlemen appointed by the court are the right men in the right place, and in due season we shall hear from them. Our court-house is a mockery and reflects but little credit upon the management or liberality of those in power. We shall expect this paper to aid one cause, by a few well charged "fabers," and urge the speedy fulfilment of an end so unanimously desired. But THE JOURNAL is ever progressive, always in the lead, and any reminder from us would be useless and absurd. Then let us all endorse THE JOURNAL as a herald of truth and progress, encourage its gallant chief by kindly words and deeds and grand results will crown our efforts in the near future. Very Respectfully, GROVER