Judsonia weekly advance., 1915-12-01

| decided that the amount of unfinished 1 business did not warrant their stay | ing over, and the few remaining busi, | to committees.
 The Roseland plantation on the J., L. c. & k. railroad near Big Lake | Mississippi county, has been sold for | $100,000 by R. c. Rose to c. c. Ader- holdt, The plantation consists of l. 300 acres, 800 of which are cleared and in cultivation, and the improve ments consist of a cotton gin, saw, mill, store, tenant houses and a residence for the plantation manager A locomotive standing on the track at Alix was left vacant for few min. utes by it's crew. A small boy climb. ed aboard and accidentally started the big machine. Seeing what he had done, he leaped to the ground. A rail. road man who happened to be some 200 yards down the track jumped aboard the wild engine and stopped it before any damage was done.
 More than 60 years ago Wesley Bates brought from Georgia to the Big Fork community of Polk county an apples which now grows in many orchards there and is known as the Wes apple. The fruit is of fair size. VI in of but is unfit for use until late in the winter.
 fire originating in the sheriff's office caused S2,5O0 damage to the Little River County courthouse at Ash, down, 16 miles north of Texarkana. While assisting to subdue the flames, John D. Freeman, 60, prominent citi. zen, fell from the second story of the building and was almost instantly killed
 George Morris and Herbert Forrest are opening a line of general mer. chandise in the Ward building on Arch street at Searcy. The new place will be known as the Cash Store ''
 The work of rebuilding the Red river levee, washed away by the re- i cent overflow, has been started Con- struction is under the supervision of James Sanderson of Ashdown.
 The first auto ever seen in Lexing- ton, Van Buren county, passed through there a few days ago and caused something of sensation
 After resisting many attempts, the great gas well of the Clear Creek Oil and Gas Company has been capped and brought under control
 Van Buren and Mulberry business men have organized a company with capital of s50,O00 to develop the oil and gas field of Crawford county.
 J. B. Finn, who lives near Mena. has raised a beet which weights Is 1-2 pounds, is IS inches in circumference and 2S inches in length.
 Drillers for oil and gas at Paris have reacheu depth of over 3,20O feet. The prospectors are confident of ultimate success.
 Three cars of mules, six cars of cat. tie and one car of sheep, all valued at $20,000, were shipped out of Hardy to Northern markets and Missouri buyers.
 ExCongressman Minor Wallace, who represents the Anti-Saloon League in Arkansas, has returned to Hot Springs from trip over the state. MT. Wallace has been invited to de, liver addresses in Oklahoma Texas Louisiana, Nebraska and Michiga during the next year.
 the Paragould District, captured a rabbit which had trapped itself on the Paragould Southeastern railroad by placing it's forepaws on frosty rail. The paws were frozen to the rail so that the rabbit could not lose itself. Stockholders of the Craighead Coun. ty Fair Association voted to increase the capital stock and to abolish the of flee of business manager Another meeting will be held in Januarv to ratify this action