The Pulaskian., 1919-03-28

/ HOilid anu IeAdS.
Mayor Kelley of Texarkana reeeiv-
ed a letter from Director Heating Of
the United States Labor Bureau at
Little Rock advising that owing 70
the failure of the appropriation bill
in Congress, the employment service
in Texarkana must be closed until
Congress again meets, unless the city
council can find some means TO
finance 1t.
Announcement was made that J. d.
Goldman of St Louis will be presi-
l'dent of the Merged American Nation
al and Bank of Commerce of Little
Rock Mr. Goldman has been presi-
dent of the American National for
several years. Ed Cornish and Leo
W. Rogers will be vice presidents nm
der the consolidation.
The monthly meeting of the ArHau-
sas Railroad Commission, scheduled
for April 2, was postponed one week
10 ad1iOW TIE ln0iHuCto W fIbbCA0 ~
hearing before the Interstate Com
meree Commission at Memphis,
Tenn, on April 1, when the Memphis
rate case, and cases affecting the en-
tire southwest will be taken up.
American soldiers in France were
compared with the crusaders Of old
by Mai Gen Peter E. Traub, COM
mander of Camp Pike, and recently
commander of the Kansas and Mis-
souri, division of national guardsmen
in the Argonne front, in an address
at the weekly Rotary Club luncheon
at Pine Bluff.
Receiver Lloyd England of the DE-
funct State National Bank of Little
Rock paid the seventh dividend to
depositors This dividend is in pay
/ annum on proved claims against the
bank since it closed it's doors on
June 10, 1917! and aggregates IA
per cent
The records of the 10 local exenlp-
ton boards in the state have been
/ completed and Grated and are ready
to be shipped to the War Depart
ment upon notice from the adiutan1
general, il was announced at the Of
fee of Adjutant General Lloyd Eng
land.
The Twin City Fish and Game
Protective Association has launched
campaign to organize similar asso-
Citations throughout the state for the
protection of the fish and game and
TO obtain protective laws.
Following the speech by H. NJ.
Cottren and the campaign by the
Chamber Of Commerce. many farm.
ers in the Carlisle vicinity have de-
eided to plant velvet bears.
Moorhead Wright. director of the
w. S. S. campaign for Arkansas. ar.
nouneed the appointment of r. o.
Sehaefer as director of publicity for
the state.
A Profitable Farming Bureau has
been ORGANIZED at Carlisle. M.
Young. w H. Nichols. C. g. Reed. u.
B. F<ishRoo and D. B. Perkins are tic
organizers.
4 The State Highway Department. 10
date has issued 4 total of 10000 au-
+ tomobile licenses. Many applications
I for licenses are received daily by the
department. and it is probable last
/ years total Will far be exceeded. The
number issued thus far is about To-
4 coo less than in 1918
W. f. Henderson and the Fourche
Lumber Company have disposed OF
i $4,000 acres of cutover land in Perry
j County to Memphis, Tenn, parties,
/ who will put in 4 cattle ranch.
Not satisfied with excellent records
already made in the shipment of hogs
/ on the cooperative marketing plan.
+ conway sIocklheH SlhdSnSu more rec
ords very recently. when the 1rth
car of 127 head, representing the
stock of 80 shippers We're shipped.
With the exception of one or Two
i store structures, Marianna's burnpa
I business district will be rebuilt this
spring and summer The two biz
lires in July and August Of last yea
destroyed 10 business buildings.