Arkansas Democrat from Little Rock, Arkansas • Page 2

THURSDAY EVENING. THE ARKANSAS DEMOCRAT JUNE 3, 191S. RE SCHOOL STATE OBITUARY NEEDED IN LITTLE ROCK Geo. R. Peekr.

Stuttgsrt, June 20. (Special.) Geo, R. Peeler died June 10, aged 01 years, Funeral services were eouducted by the Iter, Dillon. Mr. Peeler was bora and reared iu Henry couuty, sud School Superintendent Believes Picric Workers Children to Swell Attendance.

MANY L. R. WOMEN TO CONFERENCE Annual AffatrVu Be Held in Holliston, July 9 to 19. i Many Little Kock will at-toud til annual nuuiuier eoufereuee of th Y. W.

0, which will Iks held Ui UollUter, Mo Jul tt-lU. iuelusive. Four ouc( women members of the local Conference Club, lliae Urace yuiudley, Glen Moore, Qutwuie Bruwu and Mildred La, will head the delegate program. Other delegates are as follows: Of the 8. H.

Kress Company Mrs, P. Basra, board member, sud for man; years techer of the liuaiuetis Woman' Buble Cta niovea to Arkansas uine years ago, was a highly respected citiaen DIDN'T REGISTER, IS CHARGE, Clarksville. June 20. (Siecial.) Daye Henry, deputy Uuited States mar- uai at tort csuiitn, wots into custouy here last night rrauk Metauek, an Austria, who was arrested by Constable Parks of Clarksville, on a charge of failing to register under the selective draft act. Metacek was taken to jail Additional school buildings probably will have to be built iu Little Hock bcUre the fall of 1U10, is the belief oi It.

Hall, superintendent of Little Bock schools. This conclusion is base ou i'U "evolution theory," in view of the fact that the increased number of pupils in 1018 will be even larger nest year now that thousands of workers ar) coming to this section for work at tb) picric acid plant. The majority of these nun have families. 1 he enrollment fnr th session endinc a urelimiuary at rort Smith to await hearing. He allege that was aboard Dr.

Ida Joe Brooks, appointed by the National W. to be the confer-f? tST.J?tmXh Ame when the first incs physkian. May 81, BUS, was 8,001 white, CARRY ON CLUB MEETS FRIDAY "Know Your City, Your Association and Ksi-h Other," will be the subject of the Young Women's Christian AssocU-tion'a Carry On Club, which will meet Friday night at 8 o'clock, A program of fun aud entertainment has been arranged fur the occasiuu, members assert. While no announcement is made other thau that an interesting feature be presented to the club, members are looking forward to a talk that will be made by Misa Virginia assistant director of the Hostess House at Camp like, 1 REPORT ON CROPS! Stuttgsrt, June 20. (Special.) The condition of the eottou crop has not changed much in the last 25 days, with the exception of the very late planting.

It has not received the cultivation yet that the early crop did. The cultivating season is not near over; in fact, the farmers here are just in the midst of the cultivation. The labor shortage has affected the crop very little, and up to this date there la no damage done to the crop by insects. Arkansas County at that time is very mujeh iu need of rain. The early crop is putting on a heavy crop of squares.

The condition at this time is estimated at 80 per cent, as compared to normal. MANY BUY WAR STAMPS, Jonesboro, June 20. (Special.) Over $28,000 has been subscribed for War Savings Stamps in Jonesboro this week. The following have purchased 11,000 each Mesdames Will Link, J. B.

Gregg, G. W. Puryear, J. L. Donahoo, W.

T. Lane, L. A. Ritter, Brough Patterson, R. L.

8tringer, J. C. Hawthorne. Charles Barnett, Bank of Jonesboro, A. B.

Jone Company, T. J. Tatum, Hardy Little, H. J. Bosler, Speice G.

W. Culber-houae, J. C. Hawthorne, Minor Markle, Tom Lane. E.

C. Stuck, G. W. Puryear, R. II.

Barker, Jonesboro Building and Loan, Odd Fellows Lodee, M. P. Welsh and. L. A.

Ritter. registration papers arrived. Upon his return to Baltimore he says he registered there for Service Board No. US, New York. He declares his registration card waa stolen from him at Alma, Ark, Metacek ssys be has been in this country since 1908, TO AID FARMERS Stuttgart.

Juno 20. (Special.) At a meeting of business men and farmers it was decided that co-operation should be the slogan from this time on between the business men and farmers in this com The Kimball Is a Maqnificent" Instrument Snpreme In quality of tone, thoroughness of con traction and structural beauty, the Kimball Piano is an ornament to any home, and expresses eloquently the advanced musical tastes of the owner. We show all styles in Kimball Grand and Upright Pianos, and will take great pleasure In demonstrating them to you. Established 1853 Hollenberg Music Co. "The Oldest, the Lai-geei, the Best Piano and Organ House In Arkansas" 418 MAIN STREET Mrs.

11. Kinrworthy president and Miss May Conway general secretary, Missea Lillian Blalsdell, Alta McOan-Ms, Lucille Iseman and Mrs. i V. Aydelett. PREPARING FOR FAIR.

Jonesboro, June 20. (Special.) Luther Ellison, secretary of the Arkansas Fair Association, heretofore known as the Craighead County Fair Association, and Kays, superintendent of livestock, are now at work ou the catalogue getting up the classification and premium lists for the annual fair this fall. The lair association this year will offer many attractive premiums, trophies and ribbons for tie different breeds of fine Stock. I'KAIGHRAD COUNTY MEN OltUlSRKU TO CAMP PIKE. Joneaboro, June 20.

(Special.) One hundred aud twenty Craighead County men will be aent by the local exemption board to Camp Pike ou June 20. They will report to the board In this city June 20 at 4 o'clock, aud will leave June id at 9 a. m. The men who will go are members of Class 1. The maority of them are farmers, the men living in town having been exhausted in the last vail, when an effort was made to leave the farmers with their work.

The following is the list franklin Jaco, Albert Sharp, Mllas Heury Gartman, Edward Davis, Bert John Pitts, Robert pigler, Forgfis Taylor, Roy Goodman, Howard Case, Noah MeDaniel, Elmer Richards, Reid Carney, Paul Rains, Els Homer Wimpey, Hen Newton, Samuel Mullins, Paul Strickland, Jesse Speaks, William Nichols, John Parsons, Lee Irvln, Joe Davis, John Markln, No-len Mayes, John Powell, Edgar 8mith, William Conway, John Jarvia, Calvin Gillian, Exe Simms, Roy Forrester, Wil-lie Tarrants, Deroy Martin, Andy Caldwell, Charlie Brown, Claud Clifton, Carrol Price. Joe Ward, Ora Caldwell, Hurry Hooks, John McCarty, Ben Duncan, Charles Robinson, William Lee, SSack Stotts, Edward Osborn. William Morgan, Aiva Dennis, Edgar Shafer, Arthur Gatlin, Milton Harold, Roy Birley, Dale Upton. Jasper Hargrove, Herman Oz-ment, Virgil Smith, Claude Snow, Homer Howell, Fred Wilsofi, Thomas Wimpey, William Payne, Ben Sullivan, Jesse Townsend, Join Simms, Henry Cambron, Robert Brlgham, Lewis Cart, Charles Brown, Otis Johnson, Cornelius Green, George Gerg, Grover Osborn, John Irvin, Luther Page, Hile Davenport, Byron Shivers, Hayne Cole, James Heggert, Harris Parsons, Elvis Adams, Robert Benton, William Green. James Hunt, Walter Baker, Bud Perciful, James Anderson, Clarence Lawborn, Hardy Love, Hosea Rich, Ernest Higgins, Lee Glenn, Joe Husheth.

Matthew Davis. Gus Neeley, James Rogers, Lee, Brock. Thomas Wade. James Haddock, Alvin Hacfcworth. Arthur McCune, Armstead Coleman, Leonard Calloway, William Dunlap, Dorsey Conyers, Clarence Johnson.

Irvin Haynes, Tom Pate, James White, Zolphus Green, John Pyle, Joseph Brookens, Tim Hal facre, Emmett Love, Walter Conyers. William Duncan, Preston Barham, Homer Payne. HELPS RED CROSS. Stuttgart, June 20. (Special.) The Woman's Club Is very, grateful to Mr.

Cooperi of this city for a $50 check given by him to chem to buy a knitting machine to knit socks for the Red Cross. munity. May Hammana acted as chair man of the meeting and aui Daniels coiureus total increase, 1,181 over 1U1T. This increase, measured in rooms, is 3') rooms; measured in 10-room building is three 10-room buildings; measured revenue for construction of buildiugs, it is $300,000, and in salaries for 80 additional teachers, $24,300. Mr.

Hall said il would take $324,000 to restore the schools to the normal efficiency of 1017. West 8ide to Open. The opening of the West Side Junior High School this fall will greatly relievo the congestion. The grammar school will be temporarily restored to normal conditions, but- the high school and 'he junior high ichol will be crowded. The junior high school contemplates enring for the pupils of the seventh, bighth and ninth grades, and will offer a course complete In itself, so that those who stop school at the end of the ninth year will have at least a practical education.

XJr. Hall said that he was frequently asked why the ninth graders will not enter the junior high school next fall, aud that the main reason was because I. as secretary. A committee was appoint ed to draft by-laws for a permanent organisation, which will be perfected at a meeting next Monday night. Several firms have already expressed a willingness to allow their men time off to do the necessary work on the farms.

STUTTGART BOY JOINS NAVY. Stuttgart, June 20. (Special.) Clay Shrek of the Sheeks Transfer Company has enlisted in the United Str.tes navy and will leave within the next 30 days for New Orleans to take training for naval service. Pi .7.1:11 feirT7.iHi tf- could not be possible to give a class in ouo year the benefits of the new course. He states that putting the ninth graders In the junior high school this fall would Hiimly be a transfer of location.

There will be no ninth grades in the ARKANSAS BRICK TILE CO. Manufacturers of COMMON BUILDING AND PACE BK1CK, FIRE BRICK AND MILLED FIKE CLAY at Little Rock. Malvern. Pine Bluff and Perla, Ark. GENERAL OFFICE, LITTLE KtM'K, senior high school by the fall of 1910.

This leaves room for three or four hundred seventh, eighth and ninth' grades irora tne eastern part of trie ciry 10 oe organised as a lunior hieh school and housed at the present senior high school. Anotner division from tne tenrory nearest to the West Side Junior High School will be housed in that building. READ THE WANT TAKES BLAME FOR DEPORTATIONS Bisbee, Juue 20. Severely ar raigning the Industrial Workers of the World or their sympathizers, ana announcing his intention to "protect his friends," Harry Wheeler, former sheriff of Cochise County, Arizona, now a captain in the United States army, yes terday cabled from trance accepting run responsibility for the deportation of I. Y.

W. members from Bisbee, last year. Twenty-one prominent men of Bisbee, Speed 0J Speed Speed! including Wheeler, recently were indicted on charges growing put of tne The cablegram follows: "Wish my friends to know am anxious Annual Mid-Summer to protect them by again assuming all responsibility for deportation. Would do same thing over again under similar circumstances. No traitors or I.

W. W. sympathizers over here, only American sol diers. My country needs me nere, but when I can be snared, if still alive, you will find me ready to go home and stand OLE MMCE SALE! with my friends and fellow-Americans to undergo any tribulations the politicians, I. W.

W. svmDathizers and other trai tors can inflict. The Eagles in France feel only contempt for these vultures at home, but do not fear them. Uncle Sam pushed the clock ahead one hour to give more light, 60 minutes more of highest efficiency. Take advantage of it.

You owe it to yourself and your country to make every minute count. Use your car passenger or commercial to the limit. Samuel P. Colt, president of the United States Rubber Company, helped awaken the country to the economic value of the automobile last fall. He said isigneaj uapt.

iiarif wneeter. The deoortatioiis at Bisbee followed a strike the copper-mines called by I. W. W. 1 i nUAFT RKSISTER TO JAIL AND SURRKNUEK.

Mena. June 20. (Snecial.) Dee Har Featuring Beautiful Skirts for Summer ilk and Tub Skirts rison and Kay Manley surrendered at the county jail to Jailer J. W. Johnson yesterday.

They have been scouting in the mountains near Rocky in the west ern part of the county. Harrison and Mnnlev refused to report for physical examination September 19, 1017, when called for military service. They are relatives to Hobert, Dave and Earl Manley and Lee Harrison, who were arrested earlier' this week on charges of conspiracy against the government. It is alleged that the Manleys and Harrison encouraged resistance to the selective service law. Onet)of the very finest collection of Skirts ever shown less than The Silk Skirts are made of excellent Taffetas, Silk and highly desirable fabrics, It is said Dee Harrison and Kay Manley will be turned oyer to the government authorities and will be sent to Camp Pike to join the army.

In at "Everything on wheels must be used and mobilized. "The automobile is second to the railroads as an adjunct and supplementary to them in i collecting and distributing merchandise. "Owners should use their cars, both passenger and commercial, more and more to relieve the pressure, on the ha-' tion's jraiircds and merchant's delivery in a wide range of beautiful models and colors. The Wash Skirts are of fine quality Gabardines, Linens tempt to -capture tnese boys last ue- cember 20, E. R.

Jackson, an officer and-other tub fabrics. in the posse, was shot and severely wounded ur-the arm. The boysj.who were attending a neghborhood party and in- plain tailored and novelty models. Very dance, made tneir escape during tne shooting. Jis-eaiH'BZ wotlaws.

de sert era and ititU'YiXfaieifr in this county (Mjf J772Kl 'Chain' 1 has -had wonderful effect. In many communities where such conditions existed there are a large number of people who are loyal to the government, but they were afraid to act because of the desperate character of the men involved in the conspiracy. However, disloyalty Wash Skirts is believed to be a thing of tne past in this county from now on. White Wash Skirts Baby's Second tiommcr GROVE'S BABY BOWEL MEDICINE will correct the Stomach and Bowel Troubles and It is absolutely harmless. Can be given to infants with perfect safety.

See directions on the bottle. Adv. Fine quality White Linen and Gabardine Wash Skirts, offering an unusual amount of style at so moderate a price. Sizes for every woman. Special in this sale, I0 QQ choice To $25 Silk Skirts High grade Silk Skirts of Pussy Willow, Crepe de Chine, Taffeta, Washable Satin and A special lot of White Gabardine Skirts, showing quite a few pretty styles and novelty Your car is in the front rank of Make the most of it by using the tires that will extend their usefulness to the utmost.

Use good tires United States Tires. They last longest and carry you farthest at least cost. There is a United States Tire for every car or truck to guarantee uninterrupted service and greatest economy. Our nearest Sales and Service Depot dealer will tell you which ones will serve you best. The for- trimming effects 75c mer selling price of these skirts was from $1.50 to $2.50.

Choice in this sale. other wanted fabrics, in oeitea, pocicetea ana SUMMER SCHOOL OPENS AT STATE UNIVERSITY. Fayetteville, June, 20. (Speical.) With a registration of 298 yesterday afternoon and with late students still comt ing in, the total enrollment of the University of Arkansas summer school promises go well over the 300 mark by the end of the week. The enrollment last year at this time -was 161, and the total enrollment, for the term was only 202.

Special classes are being organized for the large number of retired -teachecs who have entered the summer schiol as a preparation for again resuming srtive work. "I am deeply impressed with the noble manner in which Arkansas teachers are responding" to the request of President Wilson to take the places made vacant by the men in the service." savs Dr. tailored models. Excellent colors. $9.75 Special, choice Sale of Soaps! Hats! Trimmed 15c Bath Soap Tablets Special, 2 for United States Tires James R.

Jewell, director of the summer i ---3 -j a 1 Special Glycerine, Oatmeal, Turkish Bath or Tar 19c arc Good Tires 'Ratal Cord' 'Uteo' 'Ttahf session, "instead of allowing tnemselves to live a life of leisure, away from the cares of the profession, many of thesfl admirable women are stepping forward to fit themselves for war service of a most necessary kind." Soap, 4 cakes 10c Toilet Soap 3 cakes, in box for. Cashmere Bouquet Special, cake i A most wonderful sale of beautiful Trimmed Hats, involving hundreds of our very best styles and qualities. Millinery- Department entire third floor. 15c Soap' 10c Several women are enrolled in the course in wireless telegraphy. A total of iP i JKIl 1 anout su is taking work in tno msmess courses.

POTATO MARKET. Fort Smith. June 20. (Special.) The bureau of markets of the United States department of atrriculture has 15c Honeymoon Talcum-Special, Qf, 2 cans for Xl 75c Perfume Atomirer Excellent 5 Palm Oliye Soap Given free with purchase of Palm Olive goods. opened headquarters in the Cotton Ex change building during the potato shipping season in the Arkansas valley.

Trimmed Hats, Worth to $8.50. Trimmed Hats, Worth to $12.50. $3 S5; J. Brady is in Ynaree. The office will issue -a daily bulletin service giving minute information about the market centers of the country.

This service is free to all who are interested. The bu reau's report on yesterday's Fort Smith market shows three carload rhipments, one to Dexter, one to St, Louis, and one to Omaha. The supply of spuds Over 2,000 New Blouses For Summer "Wear Now on Sale Here! is insutticient to meet the demand, equality and condition are rated as fair. MILK INSPECTOR APPOINTED. Jonesboro, June 20.

(Special.) The city council, at tne request of the coun We know United States Tires are good Tires. That's why we sell them. Newsum Auto Tire Vulco Company Center and Third Streets. 5. R.

Thomas Auto Co. A. H. Jennings. Cook Auto Co.

ty and city board of health, has appoint ed a milk inspector, reauirinr a narid In spection of the various dairies. All milk allowed sold in tne city will be inspect ed for bacteria, and if found not up to tne standard tne sale wm be forbidden,.