The spectator., 1920-11-26

scrip is at par.
 DeWitt.-DeWitt is short of wood and coal, and prices are fully half | higher than year ago. The public l fails to understand why all this in- crease when other commodities are dropping daily.
 Mountain Home.-D c. Watts, who lives few miles east of this place, fell from the roof of house he was tearing down several days ago and broke his leg just above the right ankle.
 Conway.-Payments are being made promptly on pledges given during the $. o. s. campaign for the financial relief of the Conway public schools, according to W. A. Gibbon, chairman of the directors, who is making the collections
 Newport.-The Newport Creamery Company, which opened for business last spring, and was the largest man. ufacturer of ice cream for this sec tion of the state. made it's first churn- ing for butter making. when the plant turned out 450 pounds of the finest butter.
 Batesyille.-J. H. Hand of Yellville, who is associated with the undertak- ing of building power dam at Cot ter, while in Batesville Thursday stated that the work on the dam would begin within three months, and that already all surveying and preliminary work incident to tho building had been about concluded.
 Fayetteville.-Prof. J. R. Cooper, head of the Department of Horticul- ture of the University of Arkansas. has gone to Council Bluffs to attend the Midwest horticultural exhibit. He will have charge of the fruit exhibits from Northwest Arkansas, and will enter several displays of fruit from Washington
 Fayetteville.-The apple season closed this week. the last car shipped from the county going out from Springdnle Thursday Total ship ments for the season was something over 1,500 cars, 7S1 of which were shipped from Springdale. these not in cluding shipments by express. About 50 cars remain in the county in cold storage to be shipped later.
 Bentonville-The James H. Berry Chapter, Daughters of the Confedcr- acy, observed the birthday of David o. Dodd, the Arkansas youth who was shot as Confederate spy at Little Rock during the war with program at the home of Mrs. P P Curtis. Miss Alice Harris made talk on tho life l and character of David o. Dood and 1 the plans of Confederate organiza- tions to perpetuate his memory.
 Eureka Springs on the highway to Huntsville, Madison coun- ty, from Eureka Springs has been completed, and the road is being gray eled. Most of the road is built on gravel soil. Automobiles now are making the journey to Huntsville. 30 miles, in little r3re than an hour The road opens up one of the most productive agricultural areas near Eureka Springs
 Fayetteville.-Rapid progress is being made on the Winslow-Fayette- vile Springdale Rogers highway, which trayerses Washington county All the bridges and culvcrts have been completed, according to Andrew .laEilton. engineer, and the grading i als been finished from Winslow to l Fayetteville Thv entire road is about 30 per cent completed It wtI cost about $3,600 per mile. i Fayetteyille-Dr D. Y. Thomas left i to attend a meeting of the University i Race Commission at Atlanta, Ga. next week. The meeting was called by the | Atlanta Commission to draw up a standard course of study for univer sities and college son racial prob lems. Dr, Thomas will stop in Little ] Rock to attend the meeting of the 1 Arkansas Teachers Association, and 1 will make al address Friday.
 Little Rock-John D. Arbuckle, at. torney general said that he would file in the United States District court soon a motion to dissolve the temporary injunction granted by ,hat court in 1918, in the suit filed by tho state in the Pulaski Chancery Court 1 for the collection of certain back taxes from the Little Rock and Fort smith and the Missouri Pacific rail road companies.
 Fayetteville.-An engineering ex- pertinent station has just been estab. 1 lished at the University of Arkansas, i to consider any engineering problem sent in by the people of the state. The experts on the faculty have un- ! T .tnlr !, ,fz ra,lz