The Pulaskian., 1920-11-25

oence of the need for expansio. of the local schools.
 DeWitt.-DeWitt is short of wood ana coal, and prices are fully half higher than year ago. The public 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 nlaee lell rom the roof of house he was tearing down several days ago and broke his leg just above the right ankle. -'l''
 Conway.-Payments are being made promptly on pledges given during the ,. U. $. campaign for the financial relief of the Conway public schools according to " A. Gibbon, chairman or the directors, who is making Che collections.
 Russellville. = MT. and Mrs. I K Fraser. their son, J. A. Fraser and Wife and Way Sample and family, all o1 Forrest City, have Ioctaed in Rms seliYllle. The men are eonstra ora and builders and will work at their trade here.
 Batesyille.-J. H. Hand of Yellville who is associated with the undertak- ing of building a power dam at Cot l ter, While in Batesville Thursday stated that the work on the dam would l begin within three months. and that already all surveying and preliminary work incident to the building had been about concluded.
 Fayetteville.-Prof. J. R. Cooper head of the Department of HertieuI- 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 Springdale Thursday. Total ship ments for the season was something over 1,500 cars, 781 of which were shipped from Springdale, these not in- cluding shipments by express. About 60 ears remain in the county in cold storage to be shipped later.
 Bentonyille.-The James H. Berry Chapter, Daughters of the Confeder- aey, observed the birthday of David o. Dodd, the Arkansas youth who was shot as Confederate spy at Little Rock during the war with a program at the home of Mrs. P. P. Curtis. Miss Alice Harris made talk on the life and character of David o. Dood and the plans of Confederate organiza- tions to perpetuate his memory.
 Eureka Springs.-Grading 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 a little more than an hour. The road opens up one of the most productive agricultural areas near Eureka Springs.
 FayetteVille.-Rap progress is being made on the WinsloW-Fayette- vile Springdale Rogers highway, which traverses Washington county. All the bridges and culverts have been completed, according to Andrew Hamilton, engineer, and the grading has been finished from Winslow to Fayetteville. The entire road is about 30 per cent completed. It will cost about $3,O00 per mile
 Fayetteville.-Dr. D. Y. Thomas left to attend a meeting of the University Race Commission at Atlanta, Ga, next week. The meeting was called by the Atlanta Commission to draw up standard course of study for univer- sites and college son racial prob lems Dr. Thomas will stop in Little Rock to attend the meeting of the Arkansas Teachers Association, and will make an 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 that court in 1918, in the suit filed by the state in the Pulaski Chancery Court 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- lished at the University of Arkansas, to consider any engineering problem sent in by the people of the state.