The log cabin Democrat., 1907-07-11
John C. Medley Elected Secretary.

| At a meeting of the Board of Trus- tees of the Arkansas University this
 week, John c. Medley of Fayetteville was elected secretary, defeating Hugh
 Reagan the only other candidate. w. | E. Simpson who was elected at the last meeting of the board was disqual- | flied because of his being a member of the legislature. Among other mat l ters receiving the attention of the board at this meeting was the cleo tion of teachers for the branch normal at Pine Bluff and resulted as follows: Isaac Fisher, principal; A. w. John son, Latin, mathematics and physics;
 Frederic T. Vinegar, Latin, mathema-
 tics and physics; Ella c. Mays, alge-
 bra, arithmetic, history and music;
 Thomas c. Ogburn, chemistry, geogra-
 phy and United States history; Sadie
 M Peebles, drawing, arithmetic and | English; Mamie B. June, dressmak-
 ing; Burton N. Wilson, superinten- dent of mechanic arts; James l.. Ross, superintendent of machine shop forge;
 George w. Brown, engineer. Before the final adjournment, Dr. J. L. Buch- anan, was eletced adjunct pro- lessor of ancient languages il
 the university. Dr. Buchanal
 was eletced to this position to enable him to draw pension from the Carnegie Foundation fund. This fund
 was created by Andrew Carnegie for college professors who had taught 25 years consecutively in a college or uni versity, and who at the time of their retirement had reached the age of 65 years. It will not be long before Dr. Buchanan will be eligible to this pen sion, which pays $1,200 a year. Dr. Buchanan was president of the Ar kansas University from 1893 to l9OO, inclusive, is still resident of Fayette- vile but has not been connected with the institution the past four years,
 The Printing Board.
 The State Printing Board composed of Governor x. o. Pindall, State Audi tor Avery E. Moore and Secretary of State o. C. Ludwig, was in session this week and awarded the contracts for the state printing. There were tWen- ty-four contracts to be let and con- sisted of all the state government printing and for the reprintlng Of about forty volumes of the Supreme Court reports, now out of print. The printing for the state departments ln- clude the biennial reports of the varl- ous officials, stationery for all depart ments. assessment and tax books. The appropriation for this work IS $90,ooo, of which $40 ,00O is to pay for the gen. eral printing and $50,000 for the Su- preme Court reports. There were ten
 bids opened, six from Little ROCK printing houses and one each from printing establishments in Fort Smith,
 Hot Springs, Conway and Columbia Mo- The contract for printing the
 Supreme Court Reports was awarded to the E. w. Stephens Publishing Company of Columbia, Mo, while the
 regular contracts for printing ana binding were not awarded owing 10 the fact that the Wilson Printing Con- pany of Little Rock, whose bids were
 lowest on several contracts, had not filed a complete bond, the law requlr-
 ing that the bond for printing and binding must be in the sum of $l5,0Oo
 and the Wilson bond was for only $l0,- 900. The company asked for time in which it might file bond of sufti- cient amount and the board granted the request The board adjourned un-
 til July 13, at which time it will formally award the various contracts to the lowest and best bidders.
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