The Pulaskian., 1919-01-24
STATE MAY ESCAPE
FLU QUARANTINE
IN SOME, LOCALITIES EPIDEMIC
IS WORSE THAN FORMER OUT
BREAK OF DISEASE.
PRECAUTIONS RECOMMENDED
Masks AS a Means of Prevention OF
Spread Of Disease Is Urged BY
the Health Department CT
the State.

Liz t1|etttH 1Slseis AttSiit ~
the State.
Little Rock
1t will not be necessary to place
another quarantine on the state on
account OF the Influenza, is the opin-
ion of DR.. c. W. Garrison, state health
officer, although the situation in many
sections of the state is very serious.
An appeal for nurses to aid in the
care Of the victims and to assist ia
the campaign of the health office
against the rapidly increasing danger
of the disease has been made by DR..
Garrison There is urgent need for
trained and practical nurses all over
the state. Flu" masks as a means of
prevention of the spread of the dis
ease is urged by the health depart
ment, particularly in rne cases of
those who come in contact with vic
tins.
The condition in many parts of the
state is serious as 1t was last October,
and precautions are being taken to
prevent another statewide epidemic
THE new geological survey of Ar
kansas provided Cor in a bill to be
presented to the present General AS.
sembly may be the means of deter
mining the location of gas and oil
and relieving the fuel sitution for the
cities and Industries of Arkansas,
said Jim G. Ferguson, commissioner
of mines, manufactures and agricul-
ture.
A total OF 245 cases, involving vio-
lation of rules and regulations, prof
iteering and controversies concern
ing shipments of perishables and 9th
or products, were handled by the
State Food Administration last year
and up to January, 1919. according to
a report being prepared by r. O.
Schaefer, chief OF the Enforcement
Division of the State Food Admins
tration
For the fourth year the state cham.
pionship of corn growers of Arkansas,
in the Boys Corn Club, has been
awarded to an independence county
hoy, Earl Best of Dota. He produced
los IL bushels on an acre. In 1915
Earl was the champion grower of
corn in the state contest. In 1916
billiard Wyatt Of Rosa carried off the
ihonors. and in 1917 Adler Carpenter
of Magness won the prize.
The State Plant Board met to dis
cuss measures to be taken in an eff
fort to combat the pink boil weevil,
q pest that is threatening to invade
portions of Arkansas from Texas.
Certain suspected areas in the state
are being watched and il the weevil
is found, quarantine probably will
be necessary, members of the board
said.
Joe Bond who has been at Camp
Mcpherson, Ga, in base hospital for
several weeks, has arrived in Greene
county on a furlough He was shot
in the left leg in France when he,
With four United States boys, at
tempted To capture machine gun.
Young Bond was on the field Y hours
after being wounded before he was
picked up.
How Sergeant Earl Billingsley, Co.
b. 61st Infantry, formerly of Bauxite,
Ark. advanced alone against an enc
my machine gun nest which was
holding up the line, and how he
wounded and captured one German
and put the others to fight is told
briefly in army citations by the War
Department, just released.
In attempting to avoid hitting
some small boys who ran out in front
of his plane, which was ascending
from crowded field at Pine Bluff,
Lieut.. ;. +. Boyd of Eberts Field, Lo-
noke, swerved the machine sharply
and struck a telegraph pole, demol-
ishing the plant.
lie transport ONdheudtist los SstAACo
from France for New York with more
than 1000 troops. and the transport
Canada for Boston with about 1900.
Amng the troops aboard the Manchu-
ria are the headquarters S7th Divi-
sion.
Several aged negroes who had been
brought here as slaves from Alabama
in 1859 were among those attending
the funeral at Pine Bluff Of their for
mer master. T. H. Collier, pioneer
Jefferson county pfalster.
Although the War Department has
reported him twice as war victim.
a,-r{ &c wounded in action and thor,