Washington telegraph., 1921-03-04

. tAd6F mas succeeded Is. Il. alien as
manager Of the Camden agency of the
/ National Life Insurance Company Mr..
/ Allen resigned to accept a position
with the Pierce Oil Corporation
I Ashdown.-The Ogden gin at ogden,
/ eight miles south of here, burned last
| week. 10 was owned by the United
/ Oil Mills o. his place, and was par
TALLY covered by insurance. The or
igin of the fire is undetermined
Jonesboro.-Dr. J. J. Rice. pastor of
the First Presbyterian Church Of this
city with NJ. H. Rhodes, A. j. Scott,
E. c. Stuck John Harrison and Relbue
Price, has left for Nashville to attend
a laymans missionary conference.
Ashdown The Young Mems Bible
class of the Baptist Church gave a ban
quet recently for members and pros
pective members. Addresses were
made by the Rev J. T. Cloar, A. d. Du-
Laney, Homer Cogg!ns and D. H.
| Tompkins.
Standardization Post, Amer
lean Legion, has elected the following
officers: d. w. Pee Jr., commander;
| Roy Dixon, adjutant and treasurer; DR..
Kenneth B. Huffman, post surgeon;
the Rev. H. c. Hoy, chaplain; Jeff r.
/ Rice. historian.
Ashdown.-A school improvement
/ association has been organized at Oak
| Hill, five miles west of here, by Coun-
| ty Superintendent Wheels, with the
following Officer j. E. Mccall, pres
! ident; j. r. Hinton, vice president;
and Miss Eula Hinton, secretarytreas-
urer.
Fayetteville.-W c. Rapp of the De-
| partment Of Horticulture of the Uni
versity of Arkansas, said that the cold
wave would be decidedly beneficial for
the fruit in this section of the coun-
/ try, as the unreasonable warm weather
had been causing the buds to swell
rapidly.
Bentonville.-Miss Ethel Bryant of
Rogers has the distinction of being
| the first woman notary in Benton
County Miss Sylvia Walker, deputy
/ clerk and chancery clerk, recently
sworn in by Circuit Clerk Ira D. Swear
ingen, is the first woman office holder
in the county.
Observation-Disclosures has been
| shown signal honor recently in the
election OF an Arkansas man, DR.. j. A.
/ Elliot, head of the Department Of
Plant Pathology of the University of
Arkansas, to the presidency of the
American section of the Phyto-Patho-
logical Society.
Springdale-Marion Goss of Avoca,
scout master for the Boy Scouts of
Benton County, is planning a moving
/ picture story that will include in its
cast all the Boy Scout organizations
of the county, Avoca, Rogers, Benton
vile, Decatur Sloan Springs, and per
| haps other towns
Prescott-Otis ]. Cantley OF Pres
cott for several years deputy sheriff
of Nevada County, and until recently
a member of the internal revenue force
/ in Arkansas, has left for Chicago,
where he has accepted a position as
| police sergeant for the Michigan Cen
/ tral and New York Central railroad
lines.
Batesvile.-H. II. Hindshaw, form
er mining engineer for the State of
Minnesota is looking over the man
ganese field in this district. Mr. Hind.
shaw states that he finds great possi-
| bilities in the resources of this section
of the State and expressed himself as
| being surprised at the large deposit
of manganese ore found here
Harrisburg has Just come to
light here that a suit has been filed
in the Federal Court at Jonesboro
against Poinsett County by Ohio cap
italists on $4,000 of county warrants.
If judgment is taken on them an addi-
tional 5-mill tax will doubtless be
ordered levied against all the taxable
property of the county until the judg.
ment is paid off
Conway. Sheriff w. NJ. Brady and
| Deputy r. F, Adams will complete
their itinerary in the outlying town
ships of the county and will return to
/ Conway to make final collection of
taxes beginning Wednesday and ex-
tending to April 10. Sheriff Brady
said that the taxes are being paid at
only nominal rate, and below the
average for the county.
Harrisburg acreage planted to
cotton will be cut in this county at
least half of what it was last year, and
/ our farmers will raise more hay,
grain, potatoes and vegetables. Coun.
ty Farm Agent w. A. Owens says more
than 40 farmers have agreed to take