Judsonia weekly advance., 1915-08-11

can be shipped" said MT Mobley, and we want to sell our cotton
 The next meeting of the union will be held in Jonesboro
 The condition of the crops in the southern portion of Arkansas are very favorable for the time of the year. and the prospects for bumper harvest are very good. Reports from the coun- ty demonstrators and leading planters Of Southern Arkansas received here are to the effect that the crops are in G better condition than they have been in number of years. It is also esti- mated that about five per cent more land was cultivated this year than last
 The different county demonstrators were successful during the early part of the spring in persuading the farm CTS to diversity their crops as much as possible, and as result the planters who followed the advice of the experts will have sufficient products to live on for another year, while the ones who planted the regular cotton crop will take chances on getting a fair price. The statistics at the present time show that the cotton acreage was decreased nearly 20 per- fiIore wheat oats, peas, potatoes, corn and peanuts were planted to take the place of cotton.
 Among the applications coming be- fore the Pope County Confederate Pension Board was that of one man who seems to have been a special tar get for the Federal sharpshooters. The application blank showed that he had gunShot wounds in the left ear, head, neck and breast, both shoulders, both arms above the elbow, both arms be- low the. elbow, hoth hips, both thighs, both legs below the knees and both ankles. The board declared that he had had more lead shot through his anatomy than any man they had ever examined, and they granted him the maximum pension of $10O per. year.
 The International Federation of Christian Workers held their third annual convention at Sloan Springs. Thousands of people from all over the United States were in attendance. The headquarters of the federation is at Los Angeles and Sloan Springs. and many are in attendance from the former city
 p. K. Belk, 6S, one of the best known farmers in the vicinity of Tex arkana, was so badly wounded in the course of difficulty with his son-in- l law, Francis James, A, at the latter's home near Eylau, five miles southwest of here, that he died soon afterward The trouble was caused by BelIz claiming $2.50 for damaged corn.
 The general committee of the Crit tenden County Good Roads Associa. tion has appointed number of suh- committees to arrange for the good roads rally and barbecue to be held at Marion on August 26.
 GX-OOuSIeSSlndu MlllOT wallace 0f Hot Springs was the principal speaker I at a social affair for the boys de- partment of the r. M c. A. at Pine Bluff. His subject was "Character Building"
 | Ralph Young of 1909 West Ninth Avenue, Pine Bluff, sustained the loss of two fingers on his left hand while at work at Sanders mill His hand was caught in rip saw.
 James Stevens, aged g, stationery engineer at the coal chute in the Iron Mountain yards at McGehee, while repairing cable in the coal-hoistinp machinery lost his balance and fell headlong about 50 feet to coal pile 1 Death was almost instantaneous.
 Farmers in Cleburne County are preparing to thresh wheat. great deal of this grain was planted this year, and the production will he far greater than any in the history of the | county