Judsonia weekly advance., 1913-10-29
Arkansas Briefs

il. G. Haynes, aged IS, committed suicide by taking poison at his home. three miles from Van Buren. He had been Respondent because of i'll health and this is supposed to have been the cause of his act.
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 waterworks system, on which work has been in progress for three years, has been completed in Conway and turned over to the city. The plant has cost $60,000, water being ob- tained from Cadron creek, six miles from the city
 James Smith, the 17-months-old son of w. J. Smith of Pine Bluff, was burn ed to death when his clothing caught fire from a stove while members of the family were out of the house.
 Senator James P. Clarke has agreed to introduce a bill in congress ap- propriating $100000 for the work necessary to be done to prevent the Arkansas river from joining the Po teau river near Braden, Okla. The joining of the two streams would in jure Fort Smiths water supply and inflict heavy damage upon property.
 J. w. Gaunt, roadmaster of the Cot ton Belt railroad, was seriously in jured when he was struck by fast freight train at Sorrells.
 Dr. Chas. s. Holt of Fort Smith was elected president of the Arkansas As sociatiCn of St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway Company Sur geons, at the second annual convention held in Little Rock. Dr. John s. East lad of Judsonia was elected vice president and Dr. w. F. Smith of Lit tie Rock secretary.
 John Hoover 3-year-old son of T. l.. Hoover of Argenta, died from burns which he received when his clothing was ignited from burning trash pile.
 As result of the work done by the Northeast Arkansas Tick Eradication Commission, a part of the counties of Baxter, Jackson and Sharp will be re- leased from quarantine regulations on November l and modified regulations will be enforced in portions of Izard. Independence and Sharp counties.
 The Phillips county quorum court re- fused to vote an appropriation for the salary of county farm demonstrator. The appropriation had been made an nually for several years.
 A skeleton, believed to be that Of someone drowned during the floods of last spring, was found under railroad trestle near Heth.
 Judge Hon in the Sebastian county circuit court, refused to allow claim of S5,280 filed by J. T. w. Jennings, an architect, for drawing plans for a new Sebastian county court house. County Judge Jesse l.. Harp ordered the plans drawn but when Ezra Heser became county judge he revoked all former proceedings aud the court house was not built.
 The Bank of Everton has been or ganized at Everton with a capital of s10,000 It is independent, it is stated. of the old Bank of Everton, which is in the hands of receiver.
 The quorum court of Ouachita coun- ty appropriated $500 for agricultural extension work, six hundred dollars to aid the farm demonstration work and three hundred dollars for the Girls Canning Clubs.
 Mrs. Jasper Garrett, aged 80, of Ozark, was found dead in bed after re- tiring the previous evening apparently in good health.
 The Hot Spring county quorum court made an appropriation of $200 to assist the Rockefeller hookworm commission In it's investigation of conditions iii that county.
 The annual report of the county treasurer shows that the Fort Smith district of Sebas ian county spent $30 900 in the building of good roads during the past year.
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 Work has been begun on new de- pot to be built by the Iron Mountain railroad at Melville to replace the one burned several months ago.
 A heavy frost killed the pea crop in the vicinity of Delight, according to the reports from the surrounding country.
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 The Jonesboro Peanut Hulling Com psny, the only concern of the kind in Arkansas and one of the largest in the South has purchased it's first con- signment of peanuts of the 1913 crop. An unusually large crop is reported in Craighead and adjoining counties this season
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 The Ladies' Civic Club of Poca- hcntas, under whose auspices all the citizens of the town spent two days 1,e cnr.in in ol., fe,