The Green Forest tribune., 1916-05-05

lected the following officers for the ensuing year.
 President, Moorhead Wright, Little Rock; vice president, Albert Rowell, Fl Dorado; treasurer, c. c. Sprag- gins, Hope; member executive council group No. 6, Stuart Wilson, TeXar kama; group No. 2, John B. Simms, Lake Village.
 Delegates to Kansas City conven. tton: Perry N. Clark, cashier Farm ers' State Bank, Rogers; c. s. Nc Cain, vice president Bankers Trust Company, Little Rock; c. T. Thomp- son, cashier First National Bank, Huttig; V. C.. Petite, cashier Bank of Jonesboro, Jonesboro; T. c. McRae, president Bank of Prescott, Prescott.
 Alternates to Kansas City conven- tion: Allan Winham, Texarkana; J. o. Nichol, Pine Bluff; Art Lewis, Fayetteville; c. G. Henry, Newport; B. c. Powell Camden.
 The convention of the Arkansas State Bankers Association complet- ed it's work and adjourned Several interesting papers were read during the forenoon session, anu the closing hours were devoted principally to the election of officers and receiving re- ports of the various committees A. A. Condray, representing the Little Rock Chapter of the American Insti- ute of Banking, read a paper on "The Institute and the Bank Clerk" !" which was followed by an exceeding ly interesting address on "Warehous- ing of Cotton," by Nathan Adams, vice president of the American Elk change National Bank of Dallas, Tex as. P. w. Goebel, president of the Commercial National Bank of Kansas City, Kan, followed MT. Adams with a talk on "The Homely Virtues of h. dividual and Business Thrift" J. Howard Ardney, vice president of the National Bank of Commerce of New York City, then addressed the dele gates on the Reciprocal Bank Rela- tions Under the Reserve Act" The closing address of the session was de livered by President J. C. Futrall of the University of Arkansas. ''The University as a Factor in the Develop ment of the State" was his subject.
 Mayor Randolph Hampy of Pres colt has been served with summons to answer a complaint filed in the Unit ed States District Court at TeXar kama by Mrs. Panzy Toland against the city of Prescott, in which Mrs. To land asks judgment for $20000 fol the death of her husband, J. G. To | land, here last March Poland was 2 lineman employed by the municipa water and light plant, and while work ing on the lines March 26, 1915, was electrocuted. The complaint alleges the rule of the city to sound warn ing whistle before turning electricit! into the lines was not compiled with
 Judge Paul Little in the Sebastian
 Circuit Court denied th& saaisas =, {, 2
 former Fort Smith liquor men vii
 sought to recover on liquor license
 issued them in 1914 and 1915 an,
 which were later declared illegal o1
 the ground that they had not com piled with the liquor license laws
 The claims amounted to approximate ! ly $70,000, which represented tha
 part of the license pald for and no
 used. The claims were disallowed il the county court and will now be ap pealed to the Supreme Court.
 Petitions were filed in the fedora | court by J. M. Logan of St. Louis, as 1 receiver for the defunct American Ma tional Bank of Fort Smith, asking the court to grant an order allowing l the search of four lock boxes in the bank vaults. The petition alleges l two or the boxes contain property of P A. Ball, former cashier of the property of Andrew s. Dowd, former assistant cashier.
 Eugene V. Rice, postmaster a, Whitelow, was arraigned before United States Commissioner A. L. Burnett of Pine Bluff on a charge or misappro- priation of postoftice funds. Postoffice Inspector William 0. Kelley of Cam den recently visited the office at WhiteloW and says the records showed the postmaster to be $S50.10 short in his accounts.
 The contractors for Drainage Dis trict No. 16, near Manila, have their work well under way, and with large dredge boats are making rapid prog ress toward retaining thousands of acres of low land, which, when pro- perly drained, will be the best suited for agricultural purposes than any of the now higher lands
 The following advertisement ap. peared in the Piggott Banner: LOST About one hundred and fifty Metho- dists in and about Piggott A liberal reward is offered by the Sunday school for their delivery at the Metho. dist Church next Sunday morning at Q. 30 O'clOck The DaStOr and CuDerin.