Judsonia weekly advance., 1915-10-06

ing counties filed their bonds with the secretary of state: Garland, Lonoke, Pulaski and Saline.
 Another joker in the Acts of 1915 Is worrying officeholders who are candi- dates for office. It follows:
 "It shall be unlawful for any public officer, deputy or assistant, to devote any time or labor during usual office other candidate for office or for the nomination to any office.
 Any person who shall be guilty of violating the provisions of this act shall be fined in a sum not less than $50 nor more than $500, and each day the same shall be violated shall consti- ute separate offense." (Sections and 3 of Act 219 of the Acts of 1@5)
 The law makes it unlawful for any off iceholder who is a candidate for any Cffice to use any room furnished at public expense to be used for political headquarters or to send out letters or campaign literature from the office"
 A reduction of 25 per cent in the in. surance policies carried by members of the Knights of Honor will result from the appointment recently of receiver for the lodge, according to J. H. Bilheimer, grand recorder for Ar kansas. Under the arrangement pro- posed by Receiver c. A. Houts and sanctioned by Federal Judge Jacob Trieber and David P. Dyer, the 5000 policies are to be transferred to the Centennial Association, and each will be reduced without the premium rate rangement person carrying $2.000 policy in the Knights of Honor at rate Of $1.50 per month, will now have S1,500 policy at the same premium 1ate No medical examination will be required of members agreeing to the reinsurance plan
 A report prepared by Representa- tives Lee Cazort and Joe Joiner may be tie majority report of the findings of the legislative committee which in. yestigated the State Hospital for Ner- vous Diseases and the affairs of the old Charities Board, according to MT. Cazort. He said the report prepared by himself and MT. Joiner was mailed to Representative w. o. Young of Ben- tonvi:le the member of the committee who declined to sign the report of Senators J. o. A. Bush and John L. Carter, until he had seen the report of the other representatives on the con.- mittee.
 w. T. Maxwell, deputy bank com missioner in charge of the enforce ment of the blue sky law, granted the Arkansas Light and Power Company of Philadelphia permission to sell s1OO,00O capital stock in Arkansas. The company recently made heavy increase in it's capital. It owns light plants at Philadelphia, Magnolia, Cam den, Malvern. Newport and several other Arkansas cities.
 When the Greene Circuit Court held that it was not violation of law to commit fraud or an irregularity in municipal election the court erred, ac- cording to a decision handed down by the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court held that the general laws pro- tecting the ballot apply to municipal elections the same as to any other election.
 w. T. Maxwell, deputy state bank commissioner in charge of the enforce ment of the "blue sky" law, authorized | the Southern Pharmaceutical Con- pany, a Delaware corporation, to sell s20,OOO stock in Arkansas. The stock I will be sold to druggists handling the supplies of the company. The com pany is capitalized at sl,O00.OOO. The Southern States Coal Company 1 of Little Rock, capitalized at $20,000, filed articles of incorporation in the office of the secretary of state. l J. l.. Bond, state supervisor of rural l instruction, returned from an inspec | tion trip of the country schools in Cleburne county.
 Governor Hays pardoned William Hughes of Lafayette county, sentenced l in January, 1910, to 10 years for mur- der in the second degree, and Lucius | Stewart of Nevada county, sentenced
 last July to one year for serious ] offense.
 About $30,000 in pension warrants
 has been paid out of the state treas
 ury. Up to this time there had been
 about s460,00O pension warrants paid.
 leaving balance of nes7s> $t74,00c
 to the credit of the fund