The Spectator., 1914-12-25


 alternates. The subject for the de bate is: Resolved, That the Several States Should Adopt Minimum Wage Schedules for Unskilled Laborers, Con- additionally Granted"
 A proposed bill, drafted by com- mittee of the Little Rock Bar Associ- ation, which, if passed, will recon struct the system or justice courts in cities of the first class in Arkansas, has been approved by the Little Rock Bar Association. The bill was pre- pared to eliminate reported pernicious practices in the justice courts. J. S. Barkman of Little Rock has been appointed to the position of in- ternal revenue agent in charge of the recently created Arkansas, Oklahoma and Kansas division. He will succeed David A. Gates, who, after one weeks service in that position. was appoint ed deputy internal revenue agent at Washington, D. c.
 The report of City Collector James Lawson of Little Rock shows that the total collections made by the city dur ing November amounted to $4,074,29, of which $1,1O9.50 was on account of Police Court fines.
 Campaign committees of ten in each county to push the membership for the annual convention of the Arkan- sas State Teachers Association, April S-10. in Little Rock are being organ ized. By January 1t is expected that these committees will all be appoint ed. and the campaign will be pushed with great vigor.
 The citizens of Sparkman, in the western part of Sebastian county. porate their town at the next session of the county court.
 Philadelphia and Malvern last Thursday celebrated the switching on of the power in the lines of the new hduSdS OWSl SOuAPd IL WdS d gala day at Malvern ,and after large delegation from Philadelphia assisted in the opening of the plant they re- turned home and staged a carnival of their own at Philadelphia.
 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 g. Ouachita, at Fay. etteville: October 23, Oklahoma A. & M, at Fort Smith; November 6, Lou. isiana State University, at Shreve- port Thanksgiving. Mississippi Uni versity, at Memphis.
 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.
 Fort Smiths city jail. which is al- most empty every day. is to be turned into a municipal lodging house by the city commissioners. Lodgers will be furnished with warm beds and break fast without charge It is hoped that l this plan will reduce the number of idle in the city, as those unworthy of charity will be escorted out of the I city as soon as they are found. Claude Stephenson of Barren Hol. low. Searcy county, realized s55 from crop of peanuts grown on quar- ter acre. Stephens grew 20 bushels of the No l Jumbo and 10 bushels of the No. Jumbo varieties. He sold the No. peanuts at $2 and the No 2 at 50 cents per bushel. He also sold 20 bales of peanut hay at 50 cents per bale. making his total sales $55. The December croo report for Ar | kansas and the United States, issued by the Department of Agriculture, shows Arkansas farmers have sown 1S4.000 acres in wheat this fall, com. i pared with l2S.000 acres year ago.
 fhe condition of the wheat, the report states, is SS.3 per cent, compared with 90.S per cent, the l0-year average.
 All attempts to save him having failed, Arthur Hodges. aged 21,. was electrocuted in the state penitentiary 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.