The spectator., 1921-12-09
GLEANINGS From Over-- THE STATE

Little Rock.-The High football team disbands for the season.
 
 Pine Biuff.-George Graves, indicted /or murder of Isaac Hartley, released on $5,000 bond.
 Paragould-Rotary club banqueted members of the high school football team.
 arrisburg.-Citizens petition off cials of M P railroad to build new and modern passenger station.
 Bentonville.-F A. Wood. county superintendent of schools, will hold the regular quarterly teachers exami- nations on Dec. 15 and 1s.
 Little Rock.-Four hundred and forty employees of the Missouri Pacific have been laid off at Boring Cross in the last few days.
 Because they papered their home on the Sabbath, MT. and Mrs. Frank Den ming, both in charge of hte Sunday school classes at Walnut Ridge. were arrested and are awaiting trial.
 Helena-The local Y. w C. A has opened cafeteria in their eozy head quarters over Miles Pharmacy. This will enable the working girls and wom- .ba to Uat square meal for reasonable price. Allen G. Blakenship, former post master at Monette. pleaded guilty to embeZZlement in federal court and was sentenced to one year and one day in the federal prison at Atlanta.
 
 Mountain Home.-Plans are under way to organize a. sweet potato grow CTS association in this part of Baxter county. If enough farmers can be in- terested, a curing house will be built here and a large acreage planted.
 
 Camden.-There were 4,149 bales of cotton ginned in Ouachita county from the crop of 1921 prior to Nov. If, 1921, as compared with 6.506 bales to Nov. IA, 1920, according to the re- port of J. F. Walker. government cot ton reporter.
 Conway.-County Judge F. l.. Smith, in a statement on county finances, gave notice that pensions heretofore given to indigent mothers would have to be withdrawn, as the fund appropri- ated by the quorum court for this pur- pose has been exhausted.
 Petitions asking removal of August Ganser chief of the North Little Rock police department, on grounds that he has knowingly permitted gambling. bootlegging and immortality to run rampant in the city, are being eircu' lated.
 A few of the representative business men and farmers of Marianna and vi- cinity held d meeting this week al which about one-third of Lee county quota of 5000 bales were pledged to the cooperative cotton marketing IS soeiation
 Marked Tree,=Two men are being held here in connection with the dyna- mating of the county bridge across the St Francis river at this point, and officers are searching for new clues in an effort to establish \ motive for the attempted destruction of the span
 
 Texarkana.-At a called meeting of the Arkansas side city council the board of public affairs was authorized to negotiate the purchase of an ad- ditional combination fire truck, the cost of which Is said to be Sl2,500, for the use of it's fire department, The proposition to build new ward fire station was also discussed, but action was deferred.
 BentOnville.-A special feature or Better English" week. as it was ob- served by the Bentonyille High school was a system of penny fines for ms' takes in English. the money derived from he fines to be applied toward the expense of a paper to be gotten ont on Dec IS as part of the schools ob- se-yanCe of Good Citizenship week. Little Rock.-The state highway de- partment paid s2.000 to the Cross Roads improvement district, Hemp stead county, as partial payment of federal aid to the district The orig, inal allotment to the district, of which approximately sl7000 has been paid. according to K. (. Limerick, state highway engineer.
 Efforts of Miss Pearl Pugsley to es- tablsh rights of school girls to use cosmetics has met with resistance by teachers of the western district of Clay county, who have adopted resolutions indorsing the stand of the school board in dismissing Miss Pugsley for l laaxrser cttff