The Nevada County picayune., 1919-09-11


 Little Rock Board of Commerce, visited Washington to present a pro test against the recent order of the regional director in taking out of the service all the freight cars of 40 tons or greater capacity to place them Tn tte coal trade exclusively. an order which il is claimed will put stop 70 load building in Arkansas
 Greenwood - Resolutions calling upon tte Bureau of Animal Husband " 10 at once appoint an inspector tt Fort Smith SO that the interstate shipment of live stock through that gateway will not be held up and d resolution opposing the certified herd plan of tuberculin inspection of stock unless the entire tate is so inspected. were adopted at the annual meeting Of the Sebastian County Live Stock Growers Association here.
 Little Rock.-The army worm, sa. !ious menace 10 cotton. has invaded many cotton fields of Eastern Soutb= ern and Central Arkansas. Tn Phil. iipS and Lee counties. two of the lar gest cotton producing counties in the state, several large cotton plantations are said to be literally covered witb the worm, while on several planta- tion near Scott. Pulaski county and iE several counties in Southern Ark. ansas il is said the army worm IS making considerable headway.
 The State Board of Education has spportioned 10 the various counties Tn the state the common school fund amounting 10 s1.724.295.4 40. which in cludes $719029 received from tha Forest Reserve funds. based on the area of the National Forest Reserve. The appGrtionment is based upon I per capita of $2.60 for each person # scholastic age in the state. an in- crease of 2S cents oyer the apportlon- ment of last year of 2S cents.
 Little Rock. ~ Residents of Arka. delphia. PaIagould. Camden and New port filed with the Arkansas Corpora ten Commission petitions asking that the commission investigate wa ter and electric plants operated in those towns of the Arkansas Light and Power Company of Pine Bluff. with view to establishing just rates on the commodities furnished
 Mena.-Reeeipts of $7,19S72 from Al acres of land is tie record nus far If W E. Taylor. one of the pro- Prsssiye Polk county farmers living near Grarnis Taylor grows chiefly truck and fruit crops and this year lad 25 acres in cantaloupes. which brought S130 an acre Strawberries retted S36o an acre and blackberries s42S.
 Fayetteville. - The most importanr provision of the new constitution of the Alumni Association of the Uni yersity of Arkansas is for paid full time secretary. appointed by the Ex- ecutive Committee. whose duties shall he 10 maintain records of the mem hership. to edit the Alumni Magazine and other association publications. and to have charge of reunions.
 Melville. -- A company expects to make test well for oil ard gas in Marion county if sufficient aereag can be leased. according to MT Hick- nan Some good oil prospects have been found at several places in the county A small pocket of shallow oil was found several months ago by drillers. who were drilling for zina, tetwcen Req Valley and Rush.
 Little Rock-J. A. Horne of Ma ranna was elected president of the Arkansas Land Title Association II it's annnal meeting here F. L. Der ard of Helena was elected vice prest- lent; C. T. Cunningham of Salem. treasurer. ard w. s. Holt of Little Rock, secretary.
 Elytheyille - Mayor Ward has re ceiyed the plans for inc new city res. ervoir and will submit them to the council for approval. The reservoir
 
 and for emergency use only.
 Harrison Work on the Jefferson highway has reached the Newton county line on the south Another crew is working on the east of town, toward Bellefonte.
 Fort Smith,-R. l.. Payne, local contractor is suffering from blood poisoning as result of shaking hards with friend During the hanosAake the thumb nail of his friends hand made a slight abrasion on Payne's hand.
 Bleyins.-Cantaloupe growers 5f Blevins and vicinity marketed 1t2 ears of the melons this season. They received an average of $116 net per standard crate which is the lowest av-