The Pulaskian., 1915-06-18

with the purpose of enlargfng rue student body to a point never before attained Five hundred students is the minimum set for the 1915-16 term. which will be the thirtieth year of the schools operation.
 President s. Y. Jameson, Dean H. l.. McAllister and Business Manager Peter Cellars have planned the solicit ing system which will cover the en- tire State of Arkansas and North Louisiana. Dean McAl1ister has al- ready made one route of his work, and, returning, says that conditions for his school were never more fa- vorable and than he finds it much easier to interest prospective students and their parents than he did four years ago over the same route. Sev- eral things are responsible for this favorable outlook One is the large classes that Ouachita is consistently turning out from year to year. An other is the successes gained by the college during the year just past, the debating teams making clean sweep of the Tigers through their football schedule last autumn and the almost as brilliant record of the baseball team this spring. It has been the on- ject of the college authorities to keep the several of the schools in- tercollegiate activities well balanced, not let undue effort and emphasis be placed in athletics, to the neglect of the weightier and more important functions of the literary department
 The college begins the next year less impeded by financial burdens than it has any previous term. Sixty thousand dollars was raised through systematic campaign during the past year and used to cancel obligations to that amount which the college had contracted in past year. The financial end of the school has been given due attention, so that 1t is now on a more self-supporting basis and offers stronger attraction to men who con template giving large sums toward an endowment A large part of the work of lifting the defct was accomplished by Dr. Jameson. Several additions will be made to the faculty and some changes in the courses will likely be arranged for the ensuing year.
 AS a result of the order that stock holders of the defunct State National bank of Little Rock must pay assess Of l. their stock Hendrix College will be a heavy loser The college owns $10,- 900 stock, which was given the insti- tuition.
 Jefferson County Road District No T sold an issue of S105,0G0 2O-year bonds to Judge James Gould of Pine Bluff for 971s cents, the largest price for which road bonds ever sold in Ar kansas.
 News was received at Texarkana that the town of Fouke, 22 miles south of here on the Texarkana, Shreveport and Natchez railroad, was visited by fire causing about S7,500 loss.
 AS an experiment several farmers in Calhoun and adjoining counties planted wheat this past season, and the crop yield has exceeded all ox- pectations.
 Tn movement to cut down ex- penses and place Stuttgart on a cash basis again, the City Council has or. dered the street lights cut out tempo Tarily.
 Almost an entire block Of the busi- ness section of Kenset was destroyed by fire. The loss is estimated at be- tween s25,OO0 and $3O,OOO.
 The Sport Observer, a new paper. has made it's appearane at Arkadal- rhia as the outgrowth of the recently organized Philadelphia Sunday School League.
 Advices received by Col. Gus Wa terman, chairman of the board ap- pointed by the recent drainage meet ing at McGehee, is in receipt of ad- vices from other members of the board saying that the sum of $50, 900 had been contributed toward defray- ing the expenses of closing the gap in the lower Red Fork levee on the Arkansas River.
 So much wheat was grown in the vi- cinity of Barfeld, Mississippi county, that the Barfield Mercantile Com pany bought a wheat binder. When the binder was put to work it at- tracted large crowd, as such a crop and such machinery are novelties in that cotton comfy