The Monticellonian., 1919-08-01

| corn, cotton peanuts, Irish and sweet
potatoes, canning, pig, calf poultry
and bees.
The Arkansas Bankers Associa4
ton has offered two scholarships u
$3.50 each this year to the mempers
of canning and poultry clubs max,ng
the best records, according to an an
nouncement made by Miss Connie ,.
Bonslagelt state home demonstration
agent for Arkansas. authorized by y.
/ G. Powell chairman of the Agricul.
tural Committee of the Arkansas
Bankers Association.
f. |. Mckinley, deputy state com
missioner of labor, visited points IN
northern Arkansas, where he inves-
tigated working conditions of women
employees in hotels, restaurants and
rooming houses. He said that he
found the proprietors complying with
the order of the Minimum Wage and
Maximum Hour Commission in prac-
tieally every instance.
Private George w. Garner, son OF
J. w Garner who lives in Lonoke
county. near England. has been
awarded a Distinguished Service
Cross by General Pershing on BE-
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 of the Ministerial Alliance
of Little Rock to stop the playing
Of Southern Leageu baseball at Camp
Pike ON Sundays have been success
I'LL. II was announced at the camp
that pursuant to an order from the
War Department at Washington no
more professional games will be
played in the camp on Sundays.
Col. ]. P. Fancher of Berryville.
commander of the John G. Fletcher
Camp, United States Confederate
Veterans, has called the twenty-ninah
annual reunion of the members of
the camp. The reunion is to occur
II Green Forest. August :. s and ..
and is not only for Confederate vet
Grams, but also for all Federal vet
erans
THE county teachers Institutes
IN all the counties of the state have
been unusually well attended this
year and the interest and entilus-
iasm in the work has been good"
John L. Bond state superintendent,
Of public instruction. said. Mir. Bond
has just returned from Newton eeua-
ty, where he attended the institute.
Authority to reorganize the Ar
kansas National Guard, which was
mustered into federal service saoit.
" after the United States declared
var on Germany, was received by
Adjutant General Lloyd England.
from Mai J Mel Carter. chief of
the Militia Bureau of the War De-
Partment
T. p Clark. superintendent of tho
Arkansas Deaf Mute Institute since
1917. has rendered his resignation -
The State Board of Control. effective
Al once. DR.. John Robert Dobyns. tor
30 years head OF the Mississippi
School for the Deaf. has been ehos-
en- to succeed Mr. Clark.
There are seven different oil AMI
gas companies holding leases on the I
greater part of the land in north
Franklin county besides several hur-
dred acres south of the river.
The wild blackberry crop in BEN,
teu county is one Of the largest eye,
known and TIE berries brought into
the city nd ready sale at 50 cents
a gallon
The eantaloupe movement has
started al Lockesburg and several
carloads are being shipped every
day A great deal of difficulty Is
i heiug experienced in getting cars.
hut the railroad promises relief from
this
Polk eounty's Youngest bride OF
The year was found when County
clerk win Alexander issued a mar
riage license To L. NJ Cogburn. agei
T. OF Amt. and Miss Belle Dillbeck,
aged II, Of Big Fork
Sixtytwo Sebastian county boys
ana girls, members of the boys and
girls farming clubs, took the short
course In modern agriculture At the
Russeliyde Agricultural College.
The Fort Smith Building Trades
Council was formally organized, with
every organized building trade in thu
city as a member of the council.
The canning factory al Berryville
Is being put in readiness 10 open
in few days
The Imboden Commercial Club,
realizing the value of dairying as Il
money-making proposition have in
angurated a campaign of education
TO encourage farmers along this line.