Cleveland County herald., 1918-12-05

| B. 0cnOeffel were guests of the Stat
 Council of Defense at luncheon. Tn
 an address, General Anderson said
 he considers Camp Pike one of the
 most admirably located and best
 built camps he has seen.
 Arkansas is one of the five states
 iii which the eye disease, trachoma,
 is the most prevalent, says John Fl.
 Hinemon, superintendent of the
 Blind School in an open letter to the ministers of the state in which he
 urges that they preach sermon on Saving Eyesight."
 Details of Sheriff Frank Milwees seizure of Is cases of whiskey at 1 Blackton, show it to have been one of the most pretentious efforts at H. quor smuggling in Arkansas since the bone dry law went into effect. The liqnor represents a small fortune at 1 bootlegging prices.
 { Schools will not reopen at Camden { until Monday, December 30. This de- ! cision was reached at joint meet | ing of the school board and the board 1 of health. There are several cases of influenza, but local physicians state | that the cases are nothing like so severe as during the first epidemic.
 w. H. Rector, assistant United States district attorney, received a i telegram from the attorney general, | directing that the five alien enemies, who violated the terms of their pa role in leaving Sunnyside plantation | in Chicot county, be interned imme- diately at Fort Oglethorpe. A packed house at Little Rock theater witnessed the Great Britain day celebrations. Bishop Samuel Eel lows, a native of Great Britain. veteran of the Civil war, and a well known orator and educator, delivered a stirring address.
 The plans of the United States Public Health Service originating in Little Rock probably will be adopted nationally, according to letter re- ceived by Major J. c. Geiger, senior surgeon in charge of the service here, and now assistant surgeon general.
 The Arkansas Tax Commission has received the abstracts of the tax books of Cleveland county from the county clerk of that county. The ab- stract shows a total assessment of personal property in the county of $1,090,725 an increase of $163,125.
 T. F. Wood and Herbert Wilson of the Arkansas Railroad Commission were in St. Louis to appear before the St. Louis Western District Freight Traffic Commission to protest against the proposed increase in rates on brick, ground limestone and marble.
 On account of the increasing mum. ber of influenza cases at Baresville the Board of Health placed a strict quarantine on all public gatherings, including schools, church services and private entertainment.
 Henderson Brown College has been selected for unit of the Reserve Officers Training Camp, the work to begin upon the arrival of an officer to assume charge, it was announced.
 The faculty of the Benton public school entertained the mothers at the high schol auditorium with Mothers Program" Questions were asked and answered by teachers and mothers in a general round table dis cussion.
 Mrs. J. w Butler of Philadelphia. historian of the United Daughters of the Confectionery, has received the first prize for furnishing the state historian of the order with the best history of a local order.
 The Little Rock conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, closed after selecting Hope, Ark, as the next meeting place.
 Atkins has purchased a tractor to bo used in grading the streets. Sev- eral tractors have also been sold to farmers in the vicinity.
 Many of the Arkansas boys are back from the national army 4nd are becoming located again in the busi ness walks of life.