The Monticellonian., 1906-10-04
ARKANSAS BRIEFS

Friday bringing the entire University and many hundred others to the Fair. Invitations are especially extended to all former university students to meet their old friends at the Great Fair An elaborate program is being arraug ed to be held during fhe morning in the immense Fair Ground Auditorium The most noted educators and sons or the l.. of A. will be heard. The University Band and cadets will add their quota to the occasion. In the evening an elaborate banquet will be served. The people of Arkansas will have an opportunity through this splendid spectacle and gigantic gath. ering to realize as never before the importance and magnitude of the edu. cational work of our State University. All other colleges and schools of the state have been cordially invited to cooperate ia this splendid program on this same date the Arkansas Tray elers will arrive on two special trains accompanied by their friends and many merchants from all over the
 
 thousand in full parade uniform Special popular priced excursions will obtain on the railroads and a record breaking crowd will be assembled within the magnificent Oaklawn Park. Saturday October 6.
 The suit of the Brook-Rauch Mill and Elevator Company against Alex J Rauch and 0. (. Ludwig, secretary Of state, which is one of the first cases of the kind, involving the owncrshio of trademark, ever tried in the courts at Little Rock, occupied the at tention of Chancellor Hart recently. The defendant, Alex !. Raueh, was for merly a member of the Brook Rauch Mill and Elevator Company selling out his interest only a short time ago After his retirement the company con tinued to use trademark formerly used by the concern. Mir Rauch later hled a copy of the trademark in the office of the secretary of state and then claimed that 1t was his exclusive pos session. In the present suit the plain tiff company seeks to have canceled the certificate issued to MT. Rauch on the trademark and to enjoin him from using the same.
 A youth 12 years of age. while asleep, got off Frisco train at Nettle- ton recently and strolled about the town for an hour before he aroused from his slumbers. A MT. Litttileld and his family. which included the 12-year-old boy, were on the train en route from Tennessee 10 Oklahoma, where they were going 10 locate. lis boy fell asleep on the train, and no one paid particular attention when he left the train at Nettleton. The father of the lad didn't miss him, and was surprised when he reached Jonesboro and telegram was handed him telling him to come to Nettleton and get the boy Looking through the train he soon found s5azt a;5 son was not aboard. MT Eittlefield got of at Jonesboro, the others of the family going on to their destination He went to Nettleton and found the boy safe and uninjured
 Judge J. E. Hampton of Fordyce will be the next chairman of the Railroad Commission of Arkansas. While no official announcement has been made, it is understood that Judge Hampton Was selected at a caucus recently held at Little Rock between the three mem. bers of the commission who will go into office in January, Messrs. J. E. Hampton, John ". Crockett and R. P. Allen. At tie same time ". F. Floyd of this city was selected as secretary, G. w. Swain as rate clerk and L. w. Denton of Cotter as stenographer The new commission will net go into office until January, when the officers as mentioned iii the foregoing will be elected.
 In order to facilitate the handling of the business in the general deliv cry department of the postofdce in the federal building at Little Rock, the supervising architect has agreed to plans formulated by Postmaster Win field s, Holt and within forty to sixty days the proposed improvement will have been made Bids for the wor!, lave been received and sent into the department, and the contract will be let within short time
 William Utah, contractor, while at work on build ing at Eureka Springs, was attacked by a large tarantula, which bit him on the arm three times before he could remove it. In the last at tack the tarantula set it's maldibles so firmly into the flesh as to require a surgeons knife to cut them out. Utah was sent to his home at Aurora, Mo
 Philander Smith College, Little Rock, negro institution, held it's thir- tieth annual opening exercises recent ly A large number of students, as well as many prominent negroes of the city and state, were present Address present. The enrolment at the school is large, and a successful term is ex- pected.
 Work on the buildings at Fort Logan H. Roots, opposite Little Rock, is progressing speedily. and it is expected