The Pulaskian., 1918-06-28

| nc membership OF the Supreme
court to seven members and proyid-
ing that the court may sit in divisions
Oh three members, who shall handle
work assigned by the chief Justice
Arkansas will be bone dry: county
judges will be required to have had
tours years experience in the practice
OF law before they can qualify for of
fee.
E. c. Parsons, chairman of the COM
mlssfoners for the North Arkansas
highway No. 2, from Batesville 10
Mammoth Spring, is in receipt of a
telegram from w. B. Owens. state
highway commissioner, stating that
the allotment of $62,50O has been
made and is available for the commits
sioners for the construction of the
highway.
Fire caused loss of $4,000 at Per
ryville when six buildings were qe-
stroyed by one of the most disastrous
CONGREGATIONS ever known in that
county. The blaze is said to have
originated in the Rankin grocery. 1t
is believed the fire was the work of
an incendiary, as two previous at
tempts have been made to burn the
town.
Governor Brough received an invf-
tation from Clarence J. Owens of Bal
timore, Md, managing director of the
Southern Commercial Congress, to at
tend the meeting of the organization
which will be held in that city Decem-
Der SIP. The theme of the congress
will be 'fWorld Commerce After the
War"
The Searcy, Pangburn and McRae
Home Guard Companies were given
authority by the adjutant generals de-
partment to hold an encampment at
Judsonia on July 4 None of the ex-
pense of the ecampment is to be
borne by the state.
Judge Marcellus l. Davis Of OAR
danelle was appointed member of the
Board Of Examiners from the Fifth
Judicial Circuit to succeed Judge
John F. Sellers of Morrilton, who
died recently.
The students of Arkansas College
at Batesville during commencement
presented the college with a Liberty
bond. They also presented the insri-
tuition with a service flag with So
stars.
The State Highway Department
sent plans to Crittenden county for
a 57-mile roadway to be constructed
of gravel in the vicinity of Earle. The
estimated cost of the road is $40, 000
A service flag containing IL stars.
was unfurled at the dedication pro-
gram of the Dallas County Teachers
Institute, in honor of the teachers
who have gone from that county.
The Missouri Pacific Railway Com
pany has offered prize of $25 to the
members of a girls canning club al
Camden making the best record in
fruit conservation.
Berry growers of the McRae dis
trict netted $4,000 from strawberries
this year exclusive of about two cars
shipped by express, which brought
fancy prices.
The children of Fordyce, under the
direction of Miss Ellen Knight, pre-
sented the patriotic play, ''Liberty's
Torch" The proceeds were given to
the Red Cross.
Lieut.. J. C. Jolly of the aviation
branch of service is at Warren from
Columbus, O., for few days stay
with relatives before he reports pack
for duty.
The Rev. D. A. Gregory, for the past
year pastor of the First Baptist
DIT OIullBdlly uclo lColShCQ.
Miss Josephine Miller of Little
Rock, representing the National Wo-
mems Suffrage Association, who is or
ganizing equal suffrage central COM
mittees in north Arkansas counties,
has completed an organization at this
place.
The local board of independence
county has received call for four
white men to go to Tulane University
at New Orleans for special training in
radio operation. The men will be sent
from here July Is.
The Dierks Lumber and Coal Com
pany began the construction of IL
mile highway from Dierks to New
hope in Howard county. The highway
will he used by the mill to haul tim