Washington telegraph., 1919-08-01


Ridge Black Rock. Pocabontas Har.
cy' Evening Shade, Newark. Tucker
man. Whitman, Calico Rock. Noun.
tam lVew Hazon, Des Arc. DeVan's
Bluff Clarendon and Brinkley.
40 an encouragement TO the mem
oers OF the agricultural clubs of This
county the Bank Of Fordyce will givo
80 meuals and a loving cup TO the
cup members this year. The loving
cup VIII be awarded to the clpb do.
ing the best work during the yea-.
the medals, which will be awarded
individuals viii be given for the best
corn COTTON peanuts. Irish and sweet
pota,oes' canning. pig, calf poultry
and bees.
The Arkansas Bankers Assocla-
ton mas offered two Scholarships If
$3.50 each this year to the mempers
OF canning and poultry clubs MAKING
the best records, according to an an.
nouncement made by Miss Connie ,.
BonsiaRel state home demonstration
agent Tor Arkansas, authorized nv y
I. Powell, chairman of the ApricuI-
tural committee Of the Arkansas
Bankers Association.
f. ]. Mckinley. deputy state com
missioner OF labor, visited points IN
northern Arkansas, where no inves.
tigated working conditions of women
employees in hotels, restaurants ana
roominS houses. He said that ne
found the Droprietors complying with
the order OF the Minimum Wage and
Maximum Hour Commission in prac.
ucally every instance.
Private George w. Garner. son of
j. w. Garner who lives in Lonoke
county near England. has been
awarded Distinguished Service
Cross by General Pershing, on DO
half of the president, for extraord..
nary heroism in action at Exermont.
France, on October 4. 1918. it has
been announced by the War Depart
ment.
Efforts O the wSSssial Alliance
Oh Lttle MOCK TO stop the playing
Of Southern Leageu baseball at Camp
Pike on Sundays have been success
iul. Il was announced at the camp
that pursuant to an order from tho
War Department at Washington no
more professional games will be
played in the camp on Sundays.
Col. j. P. Fancher OF Berryville.
commander Of the John G. Fletcher
Camp, United Estates Confederate
Veterans. has called the twenty-nin.h
annual reunion of the members OF
the camp. The refinion is TO occur
IT. Green Forest August Z, 8 and ..
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Grams, butt also for ell Federal vet
Grams.
"The county teachers Institutes
in all the counties of the state have
been unusually well attended thi.
year, and the interest and entnus.
iasm in the work has been good
John L. Bond, state superintendent,
Of public instruction. said. Mr.. Bond
has just returned from Newton coun.
ty, where he attended tne institute
Authority to reorganize the Ar
Kansas National Guard. which was
mustered into federal service snort
ly after the United States declared
var on Germany, was received by
Adjutant General Lloyd England,
from Maj. J. Mel. Carter. chief Of
the Militia Bureau Of the War De.
rar,ment.
7. P. Clark, superintendent Of the
Arkansas Deaf Mute Institute since
1917, has rendered his resignation ia
the state Board of Control, effective
at once. DR.. John Robert Dobyns. ror
20 years head of the Mississippi
School for the Deaf, has been choS
en- to succeed Mr. Clark.
There are seven different oil and
gas companies hclding leases on I'M
greater part of the land in north
Franklin county, besides several hun
dred acres south of the river
The wild blackberry crop in Ben
ton county is one of the largest eve
known and the berries brought inta
the city nd a ready sale at so cents
q gallon.
The cGntaloupe movement has
started at Lockesburg and several
carloads are being shipped every
day. A great deal of difficulty ia
being experienced in getting cara
but the railroad promises Eelief from
this.
Polk county's youngest bride oil
a aI4v 4ft