The Huttig news., 1918-01-19

empowered to appoint a Vigilance Committee to report monthly to the secretary the condition of the road. Another resolution adopted fayors the use Of trustworthy federal and state convict labor to build highways.
 Seven Arkansas road projects have received a total of S173,00 from the government in the past year
 Students who graduate from high schools in this state at the middle of the year will be admitted without spe- cial preparation as freshmen to the University of Arkansas at the opening of the second semester, February 1, according to the decision of the uni yersity council.
 w. L. Dodd and Miss Jessie Marri- her, representing the Delineator have arrived in Pine Bluff to make health survey which will require about two months. They will conduct their work in cooperation with the state, county and city health departments.
 Hugh Williamson of Mountain View for prosecuting attorney of the Third judicial district, and John l.. Bledsoe of Calico Rock, who have recruiting commissions in the Fourth Arkansas Regiment, have their companies more than half completed.
 ba V,a4 eb six miles north of Sheridan, opened last spring is having some bad luck with it's foeks. More than 200 head of Angora goats have been devoured by wolves or died of disease in the last two months.
 The Helena Tin and Plumbing Company. Foster woodin, president, has been awarded the contract for all sheet metal work and heating plant at the Lonoke aviation plant.
 Franklin eounty's total taxes for 1917 are S126,79.274, against $10S,- S47.S1 for 1916, an excess of ST. 944, ,93. This increase is due to a great extent to the 12mill school tax
 Girl students of Thornton high school recently sent a shipment of garments to France through the Red Cross. Materials were donated by the Stout Lumber Company.
 The coal and wood famine that was on at Cotter during December is broll- en. Several cars of coal have arriv- ed and wood is being shippe! in there from Buford by the carload.
 Every business house in Womble closed for two hours recently so the merchants and sales people could at tend the patriotic rally held by the Council of Defense.
 A lyceum course will be held at the Lamar High School during the next three months The first number will be by J. R. Grant of the University of Arkansas.
 Efforts to enforce the compulsory tduIelllOlleA ltlN ltclN0 SulttQ III lIlt arrest of two men at Twin Creek who were subsequently tried and fined at Melbourne.
 In the Eastern district of Carroll county 130 couples secured licenses 10 be married during 1917, as against 333 couples during 1916.
 The Home Guards of Mammoth Springs have decided to drill twice each week
 The Collville correspondent of the Rogers Democrat says a young wo- man of that community, who has been insane for 15 years and who has been dumb for several years, recently re- gained her speech and recognized those she had known as schoolmates. She seems perfectly sane now, but does not realize her own identity
 There were 9,560 bales of cotton gfnned in Independence county before December 31, 1917, as compared with 12,576 bales in 1916.
 Mrs. Jane Curry, 97 years old. who lives with her son near Omaha, in Boone county, is as active as a wom- an much younger and is able to do all the housework around the place. She says she expects to live to be 100 years old.