Judsonia weekly advance., 1915-12-15

 has had training and experience that peculiarly fit him for the position, and has been endorsed for it by the Arkansas Medical Society,""
 'I shall give up my practice in Lit tie Rock and devote my entire time to the state hospital Dr. Bledsoe said Tt was with that understand. ing that the position was offered me by the board"
 Dr. Young resigned more than month ago. The board immediately 1fe-ed the position to Dr. J. L. Greene of Hot Springs, whom Dr. Young sue ceeded. More than a week ago Dr. Greene declined the offer Although the last legislature appropriated only S3,000 per year for the salary Of the superintendent, the board had ar ranged to increase this to $5,000 if Dr. Greene accepted. The board did not announce what Dr. Bledsoe's sal, ary would be.
 January 4 was designated as the date for the election to decide whether Pulaski Heights shall be annexed to Little Rock in an order issued by County Judge. The order followed the filing in the County Court of the pc titions signed by residents of Little Rock and Pulaski Heights, asking for annexation, and certified copy of the ordinance passed by the Little fo tion and a petition asking that the County Court call special election.
 Because the State Board of Health refused to approve plans for sewer age and water systems at Heber Springs new plans must be drawn, ac- cording to Dr. C. w. Garrison, secre- tary of the board Dr. Garrison says the plans submitted to the board were inadequate The last legislature passed bill making Heber Springs a city of the second class in order that improvement districts for the building of the plans could be formed.
 Est blishments employing three women workers and a fourth who oc- cupies the position of stenographer are liable under the provisions of the
 minimum wage law, according to an Apinion written by Attorney General s5sajsai- Daxis, request -af-4abar Commissioner J. c. Clary. The law provides that all establishments em- ploying three women or a less num- Der are exempt.
 The court issued statement rela- tive to the case of the State against J. B. Grove, appealed from Sebastian County, in which constitutionality of the minimum wage law is attacked, saying the decision would be handed down until similar suit on the Ore gon statutes, governing wages to wom- en, was ruled upon by the United States Supreme Court.
 The State Department of Public h. struction has received from the Inter- national Harvester Company two sets of educational lantern slides, which will be loaned to schools and clubs. One set illustrates the evils of the housefiy and suggests means to de- stroy it, and the other gives diagrams and illustrations of the results of bet ter farming methods
 Governor Hays issued proclama- tion relieving Will Collins, convicted in the Desha County Circuit Court on charge of carrying pistol and fined $500 and sentenced to serve 90 days on the county farm, from the renaind- CT of the sentence. Collins had serv- ed 90 days on the farm.
 Governor Hays appointed w. B. Sorrels of Pine Bluff to succeed the fate A. B. Grace as judge of the Thir- teenth judicial circuit. Judge Sor- rells was sworn in by Chief Justice E. A. McCulloch, Sidney J. Hunt ot Pine Bluff was the other applicant. The Arkansas Railroad Commission issued an order permitting the Gould | Southwestern Railroad to charge freight rates 30 per cent higher than | a class A road The road under the new order will be placed in class G. The order is effective December IS. A decrease of 165,139 bales ginned l in Arkansas in 1915 compared with the number ginned in the same period in I 1914, is shown in the government gin ming report issued November 22 Tue report is from cotton ginned prior 10 | November IA.
 | The Arkhoma Mining Company of Yellville, capitalized at $50,000, filed articles of incorporation.
 h Captain-Q n-Quartermaster H. F. Freed. man completed his checking of pror erty of the War Department bemg used by the Arkansas National Guard at the armory of Company E. First Regiment, at Little Rock. Capt A. 5