Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-10-16
ATTORNEY EARL ;. WOOD
 FOR NJNfCIPAL COURT JUDGE.


 pears the announcements of the can didacy of City Attorney Earl s. Wood for the office of municipal judge.
 MT. Wood is the son of Mir B. B. Wood. an engineer on the Cotton Belt railway and who has been running an engine on the road for the past seventeen years. Mr Wood is a very popular engineer among the railroad men.
 City Attorney Earl s. Wood came to this city 16 years ago and has been living here since that time In his youth he attended the Sixth avenue and High schools of this city. gradu- atilg from the High school with the distinction of orator of his class Dur ing his high school career he won renOwn in athletics, participated in nearly all of the debates, being pres idenr of the debating society for two years and he was a good stu dent which will be seen from exam ming the records Of the High school. MT. Wood attended Washington and Lee university after finishing high 1 school. where he completed his IL. B. ! degree. Returning to Pine Bluff City Attorney Earl $. Wood took the the supreme court or Arkansas bar examination and the United States district court bar examination and he passed them all successfully He is now entitled to practice in all of the above named courts and the supreme court of the United States, which is a rare distinction for any young lawyer
 Mir. Wood was elected city attorney 1 by the voters of this city in 1914 by nice majority and he was reelected in 1916 without any opposition. He has had to revise a great number of the public franchises during his ad- ministra tion, which he has done with honor to himself and credit to the city He has written several fine opinions on the powers of municipal corporations to the city council He has revised a great number of the city ordinances and wrote new ones that would protect the lives, liberty and property of the citizens. He has won praise from the councilmen for always being present at their meetings and rendering legal opin- ions and working for them during their deliberations. During his ten ure of office the city attorney la: had great legal problems to solve and he has always solved them for the benefit of the city.
 In 1916 City Attorney Wood called the councils attention to the fact that a number of the city ordinances were obsolete, repealed and were in such a condition that a revision oi them was necessary to instruct the citizens intelligently in the law. Th( council instructed him to compile revise, index and digest all the city ordinances in force, all the laws ol the state of Arkansas relating to cit ieS of the first class and to annOtate them with the decisions of the su preme court of Arkansas and to re port them to the council. After six months of hard work the city attor ney delivered to the council Woods Digest of the City Ordinances" which is the law of the city of Pine Bluff today The work has been received by the legal profession with numer GUS compliments to the author.
 Having written a book of the law of the city and being city attorne, for four years, which required deer study into municipal law, we'll qual flies MT. Wood for the office of mu nicipal judge. He is a great sudden of human nature and being good natured and affable fellow. he woult not have any troube in deciding the fate of the people that are brough before him as municipal judge. BeiuE we'll learned in the law City Attorne, Wood would be we'll qualified to de eide the civil matters that will conn before the municipal court.
 Mr. Wood was one of the first mer in Pine Bluff to strat the movemen for a municipal court in this city There were petitions circulated to dc feat the bill by persons who woult be affected by the bill and being in formed of this fact, MT. Wood made special trip to Little Rock to in form the members of the Legislature that the people of Pine Bluff wante' | h. i.