The Monticellonian., 1917-02-01

At meeting of the Bentonvflle Community Club arrangements for a profitable farming campaign, to cover the entire county, were ratified. and February 15 and 16 were set as dates for the campaign. The speakers will be assembled and make as many tours as possible from three points, proba- ply Bentonville, Rogers and Sloan Springs Meetings will be held warrants them.
 The Farming Committee of the club includes the following heads of departments: l. l.. Sweeny, chair man; Ben B. Johnson, truck and gar dens; J. w. Huddleston, horses and mules: Will Hood, farm crops; H. W. Gipple, tree fruits;'J w Wells, swine; w. F. Scott, cattle. These men will have the campaign in charge. They have secured the following speakers for the campaign: From the agricul- tural and horticultural department of the Frisco. A. j. McDowell, who will talk on dairying; D. E. Fieher who will speak on tree fruits; A. P Boles, on small fruits; w H. Olin, on mar keting, and c. w. Michaelson, pack ing and marketing; from the Kansas City Southern, ! Hollister Full of Mena, and other experts. who will dis cuss poultry subjects; w. M. Wicks of the extension department of the uni yersity, who will discuss garden sub jects, with special attention to toma- toes as commercial crop. Other speakers have been promised by the extension department of the Univer- sity of Arkansas. and by C. w Wat son of Little Rock of the United States Department of Agriculture. Many of the leading farmers and fruit men of the county belong to the Ben tonville Community Club, and they will cooperate with organizations in all parts of the county to make the campaign successful.
 The Arkansas Engineering Society will hold it's annual meeting in Lit tie Rock at the Hotel MPrion Mon day and Tuesday, February 12 and 13. Papers on the following subjects will be read at the sessions, followed by discussions: Highway Bridges" J. J. Knoch; County Highway Systems" D. A. MaeGrea; Wood Block Pave ments," Henry Levinson; Machine. D,,t1 lrn Electric Developments" c. A. Wat kins.
 Discovery of the Egyptian pink boll- worm in Mexico by the United States department of agriculture in Novem- Der gives cotton interests In Arkan- sas one of the biggest problems it yet has had to face, and passage of the proposed plant act. which Speaker Ca zort will introduce, provides the only solution, says George G. Decker, ento- moIogist at the University of Ar kansas.
 Mrs. Helen s. Henry, for nine years a teacher in the Fl Dorado school, has been appointed home demonstration agent of the University of Arkansas extension division, taking the place made vacant by the marriage of Miss Carmichael, now Mrs. Murphy, Mrs Henry took up her duties February 1.
 John Overmiller, charged with the robbery of the Missouri and North Ar kansas depot at Searcy December A, and who escaped from the state peni- tentiary has been captured by officers at Poplar Bluff, Mo. He will be re- turned to Searey as soon as requisi- ton papers can be secured.
 Plans for new s100000 bath house, to be erected on the site of the pres ent Horseshoe and Magnesia baths, at Hot Springs. have been approved by the officials of the Interior Depart ment at Washington, and it is antici- pated work on the new structure will be under way in few weeks.
 That old and well known resource of prosecuting attorneys for increas- ing the fees of their office has appear ed at the present term of Circuit Court at Summet in 50 cases against the Iron Mountain for the alleged fail ure of trains to whistle at the road crossing just below town.
 The Plainview school district of Yell county sold s17,000 in school bonds to Gutter & Go. of Little Rock. The amount will be used to erect d school building, on which work will begin at once, with James H. Bliss as architect Seer & Eaw of Little Rock also bid on the bonds.
 By actual count, 1.502 persons at tended the profitable farming meetings in Johnson county. This is exactly 500 more than attended the meetings of a silimar campaign in this county one year ago. Also the interest mani fested was indescribably greater.
 Bill Stanford of Garfield, aged 55, committed suicide at the railway sta. tion when he threw himself under the wheels of Frisco passenger train No. 4. His body was badly mutilated and death was instantaneous.
 Women of the Chickasawha district of Mississippi county have employed