The spectator., 1919-09-09
Little Rock.--A Little Rock delega.

Little Rock.--A Little Rock delega. ton, composed of T. J. farrell. repre- eenting the good roads bureau of the board of commerce.; w. B. Owens, representing the state highway cont mission; T. E. Wood, representing the Arkansas Corporation Commission; w, K. Fry, representing the engi- neers; George J. Visard, representing the traffic bureau of the board of commerce, and George Firmin. the Little Rock Board of Commerce, visited Washington to present 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 10 place them III tte coal trade exclusively an order which it is claimed will put stop io load building in Arkansas
 Greenwood. - Resolutions ca'lina upon the Bureau of Animal Husband l " to at once appoint an inspector at l Fort smith so that the interstate shipment of live stock through that l gateway will not be held up and resolution opposing the certified herd l plan of tubercuin inspection of stock unless the entire state is so inspected. were adopted at the annual meeting i Of the Sebastian County Live Stock Growers Association here.
 Little Roclt-The army worm. go. 'ious menace to cotton has invaded many cotton fields Of Eastern Soutt ern and Central Arkansas. In Phil lips and Lee counties. two of the lar @est cotton producing counties in the state. several large cotton plantations are said to be literally covered with the worm, while on several planta- tlon near Scott, Pulaski county and IF several counties in Southern Ark. ansas it is said the army worm ,s making considerable headway.
 The State Board of Education has tpportioned 10 the various counties in the state the common school fund amounting to fI724. .395.40. which in. cludes $7I90.29 received from tho Forest Re serve funds based on the area of the National Forest Reserve. The apportionmeHt is based upon per capita of g SO fer each person If scholastic age in the state. an in- crease of 2S cents over inc apporIion- ment of last year of 1S cents.
 Little Rock Residents of Arka- lAlnhi1 port filed with the Arkansas Corpora ion 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.-Receipts of s719S.72 from Al acres of land is tte record thus far of w E. Taylor. one of the pro- rresshe Polk county farmers living near Grarnis. Taylor grows chiefly truck and fruit crops and this year had 25 acres in cantaloupes, which troueht SEQ an acre. Strawherr,es retted S3Go an acre and blackberries s4oS
 Fayetteville. - The most important provision of the new constitution of the Alumni Association of the Uni i versify of Arkansas is for d raid full. ! time secretary, appointed by the Fx- ecutive C mmittee whose duties shall he to mantain records of the mem , herahip, 10 edit tho Alumni Magazine 1 %nd other association publications, l and to have charge of reunions.
 Nellvillo, -- A company expects to make a test well for oil and gas in 1 Marion county if sufficient aereag, can be leased, according to Mir. lick | man. Some good oil prospects have i been found at several places in the ! county, A small pocket of shallow l oil was found several months ago by | drillers. who were drilling for zine. ! between Req Valley and Rush.
 Little Rock J A. Horne of Ma ! rianna was elected president of the 1 Arkansas Land Title Association at -NS dIuudi IltttlHS itIt. F.. l.. Der l ard of Helena was elected vice presi. [ lent; c. T, Cunningham of Salem | treasurer, ard w. S Holt of Little i Rock, secretary.
 BlNtheville. - Mayor Ward has re oeived the plans for the new city res ervoir and will submit them to the council for approval. The reservoir i will be of 100000 gallons capacity 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 Bellcfonte.
 Fort Smith.-R l.. Payne. a local contractor is suffering from blooI !