The Pulaskian., 1915-09-24

Judge Jacob Trieber approved q plan to provide insurance for mem- 1 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. MT 1 Houts was accompanied by three in surance men of Philadelphia. The plan will mean the abandoning of the lodge. MT. Houts said.
 Under the plan, all who were mem- bers of the lodge June ', when the first petition for the appointment of receiver was filed, will have their memberships transferred to some other insurance lodge at the same rates. MT 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, MT. Bilheimer said. He said he approved the plan.
 The court, in appointing the re- ceiver, announced that if a plan for reorganization could be worked out which the court could approve, the re- eeivership would be dissolved as soon as the lodge becomes solvent. MT. Houts said the lodges affairs will be wound up as soon as provision for the insuring of it's members in other 1 lodges can be accomplished
 The lodge was organized in Little Rock in 1877, and for many years ffourished as a fraternal order with several hundred members and many social members, according to MT. Bill heimer, 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- i cock Dr. Hancock took his bachelors and doctors degrees from the Univer- 1 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 yersity, 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 H. Page, commissioner of agriculture, 1 against M F. Dickinson, state audi tor, in which MT. Page is contesting the validity of the vetoing by Gov George w. Hays of legislation appro- priation items aggregating nearly l S600,000. The case was set for sub mission October 4.
 Major Elliott J. Dent, Engineers 1 Corps, U. s. A., has been ordered trans 1 ferred from New York to Little Rock l to assume charge of work on the Ar kansas river. Major Dent succeeds the late Major A. B. Putnam. For five i 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 com pleted early next month at a meeting of the committee appointed by the last l Democratic state convention to draft the bill, according to former Congress- man Stephen Brundidge of Searcy, chairman of the committee
 i A carload of Northwest Arkansas finest apples is being selected and as sembled by the Arkansas Panama Ex- position Commission, through it's sec ] retary, for exhibition at the exposition The fruit is being assembled at Rog- CTS, Fayetteville and Bentonville for shipment from Rogers not later than October 15.
 Maggie Townsend, the negress who participated in the battle on Island 37, 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 Commisson, 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.