The Green Forest tribune., 1916-05-19

An appeal to the Supreme Court was filed in the clerks office at the State Capitol in the road improvement con- troversy that has developed in Pope County following the formation of big district there last year, in which more than a million dollars worth of property Is included. The Circuit Court held short time ago that the district, including Russellville, Dover, Scottsv1lle and Hector, was not form ed legally and ordered all money that had been collected to be returned to owners and the district dissolved. The county judge, collector and com missioners of the district have filed the appeal. The case will be another test of provisions in the Alexander road law passed by the 1915 legisla- ture.
 Those who fought the formation of the district, including Van Boswell, c. C. Luker, M. R. Craig, L. T. Rags. dale, R. l.. Smith, J. H. and J. R. Rankin, c. G. Williamson, R. c. Der ry and thirteen others, claimed thsE no preliminary surveys, plans or other preliminary work required by law had been done when the petition for the | formation of the district was granted | by County Judge Ira Griffin. They al- | so charge that it was represented that | the cost of road work would not be more than 12 per cent of the assessed value of lands, while it has developed that the cost will exceed 20 per cent.
 The court held that failure to make and file preliminary surveys, maps and the like made the district void The court ordered collections returned and the defendants to pay costs to prop erty owners. The appeal was taken by the defendants, who are County Judge Ira Griffin, Collector J. w. Dool- CT and three commissioners of the dis trict, w. G. Neal, o. H. Wilson and w. M Simpson.
 Ten Arkansas suffragists have agreed to join the delegation, of wo' men that will appear at the Democrat ic National convention in St. Louis In June and ask the party to include suffrage plank in it's platform, accord ing to Mrs. o. F. Ellington president of the Arkansas Woman Suffrage AS sociation Many others are expected to go The suffragists at St. Louis will stage a parade and other demon strations, according to plans announc ed by the national headquarters o1 suffrage organizations.
 Farmers living along the proposed road from Camden to the Nevada county line near Rosston are inter ested in the protest of building tht road under the Alexander road law according to J. w. Livingston, a plan ter of Red Hill township. This vii be the first experiment made unde the Alexander law in Ouachita county Charles Boyd of Norfolk, who mad one of the biggest strikes in the zin ! fed, has mined aHqR3IFox7Jissately a9q3Iso7Jsatel s1,oo Q, o, & s, Ark vlfc Club Mondaao3 -sszs ssze,.s es.s Up until last week vRd lhN al1f 1faaffHfn1e, afHf1 part of the time, or worked on tht section for SIPS a day, and did ode jobs He has refused big price fo; his claim.
 Thomas H. Shaw, state coal mine Tn spector, filed suit in Circuit Court tc compel the Bolen-Oarnell Coal Com pany of Hartford to close it's mine or make repairs for the safety of the miners. The petition alleges that the company is not obeying the state law which contemplates the safety of mines.
 The arrest Of man who was cash ing forged strawberry tickets has call ed attention to the possibility O. crooks working in the strawberry-rais- ing sections during the season. The tickets are issued to pickers and are often cashed by merchants.
 T. H. Wells of Pocahontas recently bought 22 head of pure bred Aberdeen Angus cattle from Illinois, and In driv- ing them 12 miles to his country home three animals became overloaded and died. MT. Wells sad that he could have driven Arkansas scrub 50 miles without injuring them.
 The fourth set of twins were born to MT. and Mrs. George Davis of An over. Mrs. Davis is only 32 years old and Is the mother of 12 children. The first set of twins and one child of the second set are dead. The other children are alive and healthy.
 The indications for bumper apple crop in Benton county were never bet ter Orchardists say they will be com pelled to pick at least one-third of the