The Spectator. (Ozark, Ark.) 1911-1916, 1915-09-24

Judge JACOB Tr1ober approved q
plan to provide insurance for men,
bers of the knights of Honor, an in
surance association, for which re-
ceiver was appointed in st. Louis 10
days ago, The plan was presented by
Chas. A. Houts of st. Louis, receiver
appointed by the federal court. MI.
Houts was accompanied by three in
surance men of Philadelphia. The
pan will mean the abandoning of the
lodge, Mr.. Houts said.
Under the plan, all who were men,
bers of the lodge June 7, when the
first petition for the appointment of
receiver was flied, will have their
memberships transferred to some
other insurance lodge at the same
rates. Mr.. Houts said he will mail
circular explaining the plan to all
members next week. He conferred
with j. H. Bilheimer, grand recorder
for Arkansas. The lodge has several
hundred members in Arkansas, Mr..
the plan.
The court, in appointing the re-
ceiver, announced that II a plan for
reorganization could be worked out
which the court could approve, the re-
ownership would be dissolved as soon
as the lodge becomes solvent Mr..
Houts said the lodges affairs will be
wound up as soon as provision for
the insuring of its members in other
lodges can be accomplished.
The lodge was organized In Little
Rock in 1877. and for many years
flourished as fraternal order with
several hundred members and many
social members, according to Mr.. Bill
heimer, a charter member. For 10
years after it's organization, he said,
practically all business men in the
city were members.
Among the new instructors who
| have just arrived In Fayetteville to
take up their work in the University
of Arkansas is Dr. j. Leonard Han
cock. DIR. Hancock took his bachelor
and doctors degrees from the Uniyer-
sity OF Chicago, where he was a mem
Der Of the honorary society Of Phi Beta
Kappa He has been an instructor in
Indiana University and Chicago Uni
versity. and for the past two years
was assistant professor of Latin in
Colgate University.
Perhaps the most important case in
the Supreme Court is that of John II.
Page, commissioner OF agriculture,
against NJ. F. Dickinson. state audi.
tor, in which Mr.. Page is contesting
the validity of the vetoing by Gov.
| George w. Hays of legislation appro-
priation items aggregating nearly
| 100000. The case was set for sub
mission October 4.
Major Elliott ]. Dent, Engineers
| Corps, u. S. A, has been ordered trans
| ferred from New York to Little Rock
to assume charge OF work on the Ar
| kansas river. Major Dent succeeds the
late Major A. b. Putnam. For five
years previous to his transfer to New
York. Major Dent was chief engineer
of the Department Of the Columbia
River.
Plans for circulating petitions to in
itiate the primary election bill defeat
ed in the last Legislature will be CON-
pleted early next month at a meeting
of the committee appointed by the last
Democratic state convention to draft
the bill. according to former Congress
man Stephen Brundidge of Searcy,
chairman Of the committee.
A carload of Northwest Arkansas
finest apples is being selected and as
sembled by the Arkansas Panama Elk
position Commission, through its Sec
rotary, for exhibition at the exposition.
The fruit is being assembled at Rog-
ers. Fayetteville and Bentonville for
shipment from Rogers not later than
October Is.
Maggie Townsend, the negress who
participated in the battle on Island 81.
in the Mississippi river between Ar
kansas and Tennessee. between former
Sheriff Sam d. Mauldin OF Mississippi
county. aided by state militiGmen. and
bootleggers on the island, died at the
state convict farm at Cummins.
Because J. V. Ferguson. a member
Of the Penitentiary Commission, was
unable to be present. no meeting was
held to take up the recommendations
of the committee appointed to investi-
gate conditions at the state penal In
situtions.
Governor Hays pardoned Simon
Heard of Woodruff county, sentenced
in August, 1914, to four years for bur
glary and grand larceny; and Rich