The Green Forest tribune., 1914-12-25

| The Little Rock Press Club is mak- ing arrangements for an elaborate ! Christmas dinner and tree for it's members and their families on the evening of Wednesday, December 30 | Cattlemen of Philadelphia recently imported a herd of Whitehead Here ford calves from southwest Texas and will quit raising cattle of the common breed. This is one of the many things to which farmers are turning to take the place of cotton. Several silos have been erected and forage crops will be planned. The open range near by and plenty of cane make the stock raising profitable if scientifically handled
 Mike P. Huddleston of Paragould, prosecuting attorney for the Second district, has entered the race for at torney general in 1916 He states positively that he will be candidate 1 at the March primary in 1916. A novel movement to assist in carrying out the ideas of the di. versified farming experts who re- gently conducted the Make Arkan- sas Feed Herself campaign has been adopted at Fort Smith by the Business Mems Club, the Fort Smith Ad Club, the Noon Civics Club and the government farm demonstra- tion force. Each interest has named | committee to work out plans to finance boys and girls in the raising of garden truck, pigs and poultry. The pig and poultry industry, especially the former, are to be confined to the "rural districts, while truck gardening is to predominate in Fort Smith. l.. Garrett, promoter of the Little Rock and Hot Springs interurban, is in the East negotiating for the sale of the bonds for the building of the road. Next January he will have been at work on this project for ten years, and against recurring disappoint- ments, has always presented an opti- mistio front. He has never given up. and is still confident that he will ] succeed.
 All attempts to save him having failed, Arthur Hodges, aged 21, was electrocuted in the state penitentiary 1 Friday, December IS, for the murder of Constable Morgan Garner near Amity, Clark county, in July, 1913, when the officer had arrested him for petty offense The date for his cleo trocution had been fixed four times.
 The Little Rock High School girls team and the boys team of the Cen tral High School of Memphis were winners in the second annual dual de- bate, held Friday night in the audi torium of the two schools. In both contests homo teams won. r " es- 1 tion was, Resolved, That tlfx lie Should Own and Operate II ele- phone and Telegraph Systems.p Both winning teams upheld the negative.
 Fort Smiths city jail, which is al most empty every day, is to be turned into municipal lodging house by the city commissioners Lodgers will be furnished with warm beds and break fast without charge. It is hoped that this plan will reduce the number of idle in the city, as those unworthy of | charity will be escorted out of the city as soon as they are found.
 James Bratton, Sr., living near Les lie, who raises Plymouth Rock chick ems, realized SIS from the sale of 22 fowls. He has Black Spanish hen that laid more than 100 eggs before missing day.
 Athletic Director Pickering of the University of Arkansas, who was call ed direct from the meeting of the Southwestern Athletic Association at Houston, Tex, to his home in Mime apolis, on account of serious illness in his family, writes from Minneapo- lis that the university football sched. ule for 1915, as far as completed, is as follows: October 2, Hendrix, at Fay etteville; October 9, Ouachita, at Fay etteville; October 23, Oklahoma A. & M., at Fort Smith; November 6, Lou isana State University, at Shreve- port; Thanksgiving, Mississippi Uni versity, at Memphis.
 That the cotton ginned in Arkansas prior to December l from the crops of 1914 amounts to 840,511 bales is the statement of William J. Harris, director of the Census, Department of Commerce, in his latest statement.
 The Daily Live Wire, which was es- tablished at Heber Springs month ago by Tomaszewsky & Gambien, has been purchased by the Jacksonian and will be published by this concern in the future.
 A petition containing 1.750 names has been filed at Helena for the grant ing of saloon licenses