The Huttig news., 1917-05-26
PRESS ASSOCIATION TRIP.
The Editor and Wife Arrived Home Sunday
 From Enjoyable Outing.

W GO lIClO dt Oi ' OllliGiI mdy l-tLll and 5th and the editors and their ladies enjoyed a four days trip through the great fruit belt of northwest Arkansas. arriving in Little Rock at 12:3O Sunday morning tired but happy.
 Fort Smith, where the conven- tion was held, always has been a good manufacturing and jobbing town but since the discovery of the Kibler natural gas fields at it's door she has grown by leaps and bounds and large number of new facto- ries are being erected at present which will give employment to several thousand men and greatly increase it's population.
 WinsloW, on the Frisco railway, was the first stop. It is an ideal location for a summer resort and has several sumner hotels and here is located the Dunlop memo rial school for mountain boys and girls which is dong a great work.
 The night was spent at Fayette- vile, the county seat of Washing ton county and the home of the State University, which was visited in the afternoon and where a ban quet was served that night. Over 200 hundred of the students of the university have enlisted in some branch of the army or gone home to help produce food stuffs, so the closing days of this term are not as lively as usual.
 At Springdale the party were taken in automobiles and given twenty-five mile drive over good roads and through immense apple orchards. The large growers only expect about half yield this year on account of the severe hail storm in that locality recently.
 At Rogers, one of the best towns in that section, the editors were given reception at the Mutual Aid Union building and an auto ride over the city after which they were taken to Monte Ne, the ia nous summer resort owned by Coin Harvey, of free silver fame, where dinner was served and two hours spent in boating on the beau tiful lake.
 From Monte Ne we were carried to Bentonvlle by autos over the same kind of good roads we had been riding on. After trip over the town the Park Springs hoe and Bella Vista, two near by sum- mer resorts. were visited Bella Vista is the newest one and will be one of the best in the state when completed, as the To ation is beautiful and the natural surround ings ideal.
 Leaving Bontonville Friday morning the pleasure seekers went by train to Gravette ar d from there to Sulphur Springs, Decatur and Gentry by auto. At Gentry dinner was served and then an auto ride to Siloam Spring over what was the best roads if any were better than the other. Sloan Springs is another one of Arkansas famous summer resorts and is also most progressive town, as it is the small est town in the United States with chartered add club and also owns municipal building that would be credit to town many times it size. A banquet was served at the Masonic hall that night.
 Leaving Siloam Springs at SIS Saturday morning. the most stren- uous day of the trip, was enjoyed. Short stops were made at Fort Smith and Greenwood. and at Hartford the mines of the Central Goal and Coke Co.,. where the fa- nous Arkansas smokeless coal is mined, were visited by the men while the ladies were entertained with a musical recital. Here a