Judsonia weekly advance., 1915-11-24

Unless Arkansas and Tennessee work for federal appropriation for the National Southern Highway, there is danger that the original route planned which passes through Little Rock, will be abandoned and the Gulf States route adopted, Dell l.. Pot ter of Clifton, Ariz., president of the Southern Highway Association, told an audience of good roads boosters.
 We will get an appropriation from Congress to help in building this road" he predicted, "but we will not get it without work. The gulf states have planned another route which fol lows the coast line from Savannah, Ga, across to Fl Paso, Tex, where it joins the original route planned. The states that are working for this route are pledged to support US whether or not they get the gulf route, but there is possibility that the route through Memphis and Little Rock will be given up. It is up to Arkansas and Tennessee to get busy and work for an appropriation"
 MT. Potter and party, accompanied by party of good roads boosters from Philadelphia, arrived in Little Rock in two automobiles. In MT. Pot ter's party were: Dr. W. B. Gross of San Diego, conducting the tour over the route of the highway; B. H. Bur- rell, engineer of the office of good roads, United States Department of Agriculture; Wilbur Hall, magazine writer; H. B. Taylor, driver and me chanic. In the Philadelphia party were Judge J. E. Galloway, H. c Couch, R. c. McDaniel, E. W. Nc Corkle and Joe Becker.
 J. P Dunlop, o; the United States Geological Survey of Washington, D. O., who has been gathering statistics on zinc ore production in the various camps in the field, states that the north Arkansas field will show gain in production over last year of 400 per cent, and would make the largest gain in production this year over last year of any zinc field in the Central states. MT. Dunlop was accompanied over the field by Reuben Willet of Yell vile, who buys the bulk of the ore produced in the field.
 After drilling 15 feet deeper, mak- ing a total depth of 2,30O feet, the gas well of the Clear Creek Oil and Gas Company, four miles south of Alma, developed capacity of 20,000,00O feet of gas per day and the flow became so terrific that drillers had to aband- on their work. The pressure is so great that gravel is thrown more than 100 feet into the air.
 Improvement work on the Arkansas River that would make that stream nayigable all the year were made be- fore the United States army board of engineers by United States Senator Joe T. Robinson of Arkansas and by H. F. Auten and Carl J. Baer of Lit tie Rock, president and secretary -re=7 spectively. of the-7Akf fKansas River De, ,velopment Association.
 The adoption of measure to found two universities to replace Vanderbilt University of Nashville, Tenn, is ex- pected to be the source of considera- ble discussion at the second annual meeting of the North Arkansas Con- ference of the Methodist Church, which will convene in Conway Thurs day, November "A.
 A bond issue of $2O,O0O has been sold to Little Rock buyers by the commissioners of Road Improvement District No. 1 of Searcy county. The net proceeds of the sale are S19,500. The money will be used to construct road from Marshall to a point north east of Marshall.
 The Ozark Cider and Vinegar Com pany has a million gallons of apple juice in it's tanks at Rogers ana Si- loam Springs. The Rogers plant used son.
 Subscriptions are being taken to aid in rebuilding the Baptist Church at Oak Bowery
 A. D. Avery, an Oklahoma newspa. per man, has purchased the Chicot Spectator and will publish it here after.
 An eagle having a wing-spread of six feet was shot and crippled by hunter near Calico Rock. After the great bird was crippled it was cap- tured.
 Springdale has shipped 313 cars of apples this year.
 The Rev. George Edwards of St. Louis, who spent last winter at Lit tie Rock working under Bishop Win