The Nevada County picayune., 1906-11-23
The Arkansas State Teachers As sociation will hold it's annual con-

sOclatIOn VIII hold US annual con- vention in the High School audito- rum in Little Rock, December 26, 1 G7 and 2s. A very interesting pro- gram, intersperscd with music, and addresses by men prominent in af- fairs of the state, will be features of the meeting. Among the many sub iects to be discussed at this meeting, and which will be of interest to the educators, are: 'Some Mistakes in Teaching Arithmetic" Language Study in Rural Schools "Help and Hindrances in Rural School Work" "School Exhibitions in Rural Schools" "The Bad Boy" ''The Vaughter Law, Its Merits and De- fects," "One Examiners Privilege Towards Another's License" "Co. Operation Between the Examiners and the School Directors" 'How the Examiners Help to Hinder the Work of the State Superintendent" Uniform Grading of Teachers Li- censes," "The County Examiner and the Reading Circle,' "Fallacies About Education" "Social Life in College; It's Needs. Dangers and Regulation" and "What Ought to Be Done by the Colleges for the Re- ligious Training of Students
 In the case of Mrs. Maude J. Me- Clintock against Mrs. Julia Taylor and the Union Trust Company, ex- ecutors of the will of Dr. C. M Fay Tor, father of Mrs. McClintock, the jury decided in favor of the plaintiff and Mrs. McClintock, who was cut off with the sum of 5000, will share equally with the other chil- dren. The Masonic bodies of Arkansas, including the Grand Lodge, Grand Chapter of Royal Arch Masons, Or der of High Priesthood, Grand Council of Royal and Select Mas ters and the Order of the Eastern Star are in annual session i'll Little Rock this week. s
 Bentonville sportsmen want a change in the game law and will petition the legislature asking that the open season for quail be from November 23 to January 15, instead of from November 1 to March 1.
 A white man, Dan Kemp, was found dead on the railroad track at Spadra. It is supposed that while under the influence of liquor he fell on the track and was killed by a passing freight.
 Jonesboro is to be made the dis tributing point for the oils and oil products in eastern Arkansas for the Kansas Co-Operative Refining Company, who will establish offices at that place.
 Mrs. Elizabeth F. Williams of Redfield, has instituted suit against the Iron Mountain for $3,OOO, for injuries alleged to have been received through the negligence of railroad employees.
 The old Presbyterian church at Batesville, erected in 1S49, when the gold fever was raging in California, ! will be torn down and replaced by a modern brick building.
 Superintendent J. C. C. Bakei will give barbecue at Marked Tree upon the completion of the big steel bridge across the St. Francis river, to celebrate the event.
 c. c. Johnson of Piggott raised enough pumpkins on a 15-acre tract of land to pay the rent on his prop erty. He sold the pumpkins at $1 wagon load.
 Thomas Harberson, miner, was shot and killed at Altus by man named Dobbs. The killing was the result of quarrel in the restaurant of Dobbs.
 A cotton gin belonging to S. l.. Joseph at Hornersville, has been de- sroyed by fire. The gin contained at the time about yty bales of cotton.
 In the preliminary trial of Mrs. Gay Shales for the killing of Alfred