The Pulaskian., 1921-11-03
STATE NEWS BRIEFLYTOLD
For Reaaors Who Are Interested in Arkansas and its
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i lhuted to life Imprisonment the sen- tenee Of Osde Noteworthy, Cross coun- ] ty negro.
 i Rassellyille. = The Commercial ho- tel, west of the Missouri Pacific pas senger station and patronized mostly by railroad men, burned last week.
 Little Rock.-Tn the opinion of At. torney General j. S. Utley all but S3.- 800 of the S13,554.S1 due the state in back automobile taxes January will be collected without suit.
 Joneaboro,-The third annual meet ing of the Tribe of Ben Har Con gress of Missouri and ArAkansas clos ed here. Cape Girardeau, Mo, was chosen as the 1922 meeting place by 8 unanimous vote.
 conway.--The Faulkner County Quorum Court appropriated S3,800 for farm demonstration work Nnext year. but voted down appropriations fer a county probation officer and tick eraa- lcation work.
 Little RocR-E Establishment Of United States Public Health hospit 1 at Russellyille for the treatment of trachOma, has been assured, accord ing to Dr C. v. Garrison. state neai. | officer, who was advised that the Pope County Quorum Court has appro- priated $2,000 to put in order build ing which had been selected by fed eral health officers.
 Little RocE.-Traffic in illicit whis- key is not confined to any one group. but is found among the most inAuen- tial groups in the city and persons high in church circles and social life, as well as the retail bootleggcrs are purchasing and selling moonshine whiskey, Judge Trieber said in his in- structions to the jury in United States District Court in connection with the case against Harry Carter. white man of Satuma. Perry county, ehargod with possessing whiskey.
 Jonesboro.-The Rev. William Me- Kinley Needham, Nazarene preacher of Truman, was brought to the com ' jail here by Deputy Sheriff Oliver, on q charge of stealing watch from Dr. Lyman of Bay. The officer had chase of more than three-Quarters of mile through a eorn1eld before maK= ing the arrest When apprehended, the preacher is said to have had tse watch, also pistol, three pocket knives and 9 dirk
 Fort Smith. In the closing mo- ments of the annual convention of tee Arkansas Division. United Daught7rs Of the Confederacy here, the dele gates tired from the three-day session, were awakened to new life and ever gy with the reading of Pres dent Harding's speech on the race queet on at Birmingham. A resolution deeply deploring the address was adopted and a copy tolegraphed to the presi, dent
 Little Rock.-Ffve noted men will tour Arkansas about the middle of No vemher, making addresses in behalf of the Arkansas Cotton Growers Co operative Association The five are: Aaron Sapiro. noted California mar keting legal expert; Clarence Ows'ey of Texas, former assistant United States secretary of agriculture; J. F. Howard president of the American Farm Bureau Federation; John Orr If Dollas, Tex, president of the Texas Farm Pureau, and Dr. Bradford Knapp, dean of the University of ArK- ansas College of Agriculture.
 Washington For the first time in the brief and spectaular history of production showed a deere" SC fir Arkansas as an oil producing state September over the previous month, according to the monthly petroleu report of the United States Geological Survey. While the figures are chec'- ed as "estinatd in part'' it is worthy of notice that similar notation wo carried on the August report and the the figures still stand as the produc tion for that month. The decrease amounted to 500, ,000 barrels.
 Camden The Ouachita County Quorum Court levied three-mill road tax, a one-mill steel bridge tax and a four-mill tax for county expenses. Twenty.seven justices attended tha court. Appropriations recommended by County Judge S. K. Hawkins were accepted by the court.
 Jonesboro. Charles Hinkle of Wine burg, small town in the west ern part of the county, is in ~ospital suffering from a etab inflicted by his bro.her-in-law, William Hutton. It is said that both had been drinking.
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