The Carlisle independent., 1917-02-01


 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 Marion 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 MacCrea; Wood Block Pave ments," Henry Levinson; Machine Built Levees," J. R. Rhyme; Hydro Electric Developments" G. A. Wat kins.
 Discovery of the Egyptian pink boil. 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- mologist 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 l.
 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 Searcy as soon as requisi- ton papers can be secured.
 Plans for new s100,000 bath house, to be erected on the site of the pres ent Horseshoe and Magnesia baths, at Hot Springs, have been approved
 
 ment at Washington, and it is antici pated work on the new structure will be under way in a few weeks.
 That old and well known resource of prosecuting attorneys for increas- 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 $17,000 in school bonds to Gutter & Co. 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 800 more than attended the meetings of 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 tfon 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 a home demonstrator, and have rais ed fund to guarantee her salary
 Owing to protracted rains, snow. sleet and unfavorable weather condi- tions, Contractor J. c. Jones, who is in charge of the construction of s30, GOO Methodist church building at Forrest City announced that work would be suspended on this building for a period of six weeks
 Governor Brough accepted the presidency of the Tau Kappa Alpha Fraternity national honorary society of colleges and universities for inter. collegiate debaters.