Judsonia weekly advance., 1915-05-12


 Dean Martin Nelson of the agricul- tural college and Vice President w. " Gladson of the university also ad- dressed the convention and the uni versity instructors in music rendered a recital.
 Mrs. Edwin Bevens of Helena, in charge of the fellowship endowments for university training offered by the federation, announced that another endowment of S4,Q00 had been secur ed, which will be awarded a male stu cent. The federation already has one young 'adv student in the university.
 Undoubtedly the most instructive lecture that has yet been delivered during the meeting was that of Dr. J. R. Jewell of the department of educa- tion of the university.
 J. A. Bauer, of Searcy, the largest individual grower of strawberry plants in Arkansas, says that from present prospects White county will ship easily 500 cars of choice berries for which between $800,OO0 and S1,- 000,000 will be received. During the past season he has sold more than 10.000,000 plants in the United States, Canada and Mexico Prospects are the most fattering in the history os strawberry growing ill this county, and weather conditions have been ideal
 Much to the surprise of many citi- zens at Benton, so much opposition to the plan for bringing the Arkansas State Guard to Benton for it's regular summer camp developed that the pro- ject has been dropped. Those oppos- ing the encampment did so because they feared that the conduct of the soldiers would not be what it should be.
 The Cotton Belt Levee Board sold to the Hibernia Trust Company of New Orleans and the Mississippi Val ley Trust Company of St. Louis joint ly, S35O.000 worth of the districts bonds at par, and will open bids for extensive enlargement of the levee5 jn the district.
 A good road from Garfield to tie western line of Mississippi county will be built soon, the preliminary engj- Feering having been done. It has not tynf T will be of solid concrete, but it is thought that it will
 Forty-one diplomas, granting degree of Hcentiate of instruction. will be awarded to students of the Arkansas State Normal School of Conway on Thursday morning, June 3. The class to be graduated is the largest in the history of the institution.
 A model practical school of seven grades at the Arkansas State Normal School of Conway, the only one of it's kind in the state, is proving a vast help in the training of teachers.
 D. c. Dodson, the fiddle maker of St. James, Stone county, was exhibit ing very fine violin which he has recently made, and which he will send to President Wilson.
 W. D. Ashcraft, who lives near Me na, caught five wolf pups recently Unless he is able to sell them alive he will kill them and get a bounty of s5 for each scalp.
 More than 150 men are working in night and day shifts at DeVaIIs Btu loading bauxite ore, which was shipped by rail from the mines at HaGXite to river barges.
 Eighty acres of alfalfa planted in 1911 by Judge J. T. Coston on land owned by him at Osceola have pro- duced more than S5.500 worth of al- falfa up to January 1. 1915.
 The Red Cloud mine, one of the pest properties Tn the Rush camp, near Yellville, started to work after shutdown of several years, owing to legal difficulties.
 Eighteen houses were blown down and several persons seriously injured in wind storm which swept the small town of Dell, 12 miles north of Blytheville.
 The city council has granted W. W. Winters a franchise to operate an electric light plant at Plainview for 25 years.
 The town of Sparkman, in the west ern part of this county, boasts of the fact that it is the smallest town in Arkansas that has electric lights. The Sparkman electric light, plant opened with l.. J. Goodrich as manager, and is receiving the hearty support of the people. Sparkman has less than 500 population.
 It seems probable that Lake VII