Judsonia weekly advance., 1915-10-06

for mayor It now is pending in the supreme court. MT. Middleton now has the office.
 Nine of the 13 men indicted were clerks in the election, while six were judges. They were charged with al lowing men to vote who had not paid poll taxes The other 121 men were indicted for voting without having paid their poll taxes.
 Even more sensational than the rap id advance of the price of cotton has been the advance of the cottonseed market locally during the past few days. Selling less than a week ago at SIS per ton, it brought s31.50. A big advance in the price of oil and a local buyers war is said to be responsible. The prevailing price of cotton at Con- way was 12 1-2 cents, with few bales bringing 12.S0 cents.
 "The pardoning of Mead Fentress Is but continuation of long series of unwarranted pardons. Fentress' ac- tion in defying the law and officers of the law immediately upon his re- turn home after receiving his pardon :s the natural consequence of the abuse of the pardoning power," reads paragraph of report made to the Circuit Court by the Grand Jury of Fort Smith.
 The original purchasers of the bonds of the big road improvement district in Pope county have fallen down" on the deal, the bonds hay been resold and contractor has order- cd his road building machinery shipped hero from Texas and proposes to begin construction work at once.
 The first week of the University of Arkansas closed with an enrolment of 682, according to Auditor Wm. H. Cravens, which is four more than was enrolled at the same time last year Auditor Crayens said he expected enough students to register to make the enrolment over 700.
 A jury in Circuit Court fined D. A. Fox, a former Fort Smith liquor man, $50 for selling liquor in case to test the closing order of Judge Paul Little. At the close of the evidence Judge Little instructed the jurors to find Fox guilty and to fix his fine anywhere from $50 to $200.
 The zinc camp broke all monthly records this month for zinc ore pre- duction. Ten of the 40 cars were shipped from Zinc. Dodd City and the Kingdom Springs camps will total five before the month ends, giving the north side of the field IS cars for the month.
 Work on Bayou Deview drainage will begin about November 1. The dis trict, known as District No. l, covers about 50,000 acres of land in Jackson, Monroe and Woodruff counties.
 Miss Beula Crabtree, daughter of Joe Crabtree of Huntington, was struck by lightning at McAlester, Okla, recently. She was not fatally injured.
 According to the Wilmot Weekly. the hay crop in that section amounted to 81,00O 75-pound bales, which repre- isents a value of about s50,0OO. For the second time within a week some unknown person has attempted to assassinate F. P Anderson, owner of a sawmill at Kent.
 The early bird hasn't an edge on the sBlytheville Courier The Courier is now agitating the oiling of streets next spring.
 Fire destroyed portion of the business section of Blevins, causing loss estimated at S1,500.
 Since September w. B. Ghent, To- cal dealer, has shipped s1,SO0 worth of slaves from Pangburn
 Failure to set the brakes on a large automobile caused it to plunge into Little river from ferry boat at Nor ris' ferry, south of Horatio. The car belonged to Alexander Lamb of Win throp. It has not been recovered
 Real estate in north Arkansas be- longing to the estate of Mrs. Carrie A. Nation, Of prohibition fame, was sold at auction recently for little more than s300e. Property in Oklaho, ma, Washington and Alabama is yet to Do disposed of.