Judsonia weekly advance., 1916-11-29

Military training is part of the course in physical education in IS Chicago high schools.
 Three trainmen were injured when the Dixie Flyer, Chicago to Jackson- vile. Fla, jumped the track on the railroad near Wauhatchie, Tenn.
 Thomas Bidwell, 34, of Evansville, Ind, married man, committed suicide in the room of Miss Fife Walker, 19, and unmarried.
 Ten thousand hotel men will discuss that hat checking evil and other af. fairs in their annual convention at the Grand Central Palace in New York. It is announced officially that 341 persons have been killed and 667 wounded in an explosion at Bataritza, Russia.
 There will be 313 hours less of work and more of rest in Sing Sing prison every year from now on. Warden Der. rick's work day ends at 3 p. m., in- stead of 4, as it did heretofore.
 
 Washington school children are pay ing strict attention to business these days. An antiquated school regulation permits corporal punishment-with a rubber hose, if necessary.
 
 Charles Dorr of Cleveland, O., is not inpatient. For 12 years he toiled for SIS week without complaining be- cause he wasn't paid. Now he Is suing to collect at least years salary.
 John Crum Clark, widely known as a circus clown, .gymnast and high jumper 60 years ago, is dead at his home in Long Branch, N. J., at the age of 85.
 The first congressman-elect to ar- rive in Washington by aeroplane sailed into the capital and after cir cling the Washington monument land- ed on the polo grounds to the south of the White House. O. D. Bleakley of Franklin, Pa., 60 years old, enjoys this distinction.
 Calling fire" whe nshe meant to scream "mice," Rosie Rothman start ed panic in New York apartment that resulted in the injury of four per sons and the hasty appearance of the firemen.
 Mrs. Ella Hedrich and Mrs. Rebecca Boatwright of Lexington, Tenn, were shot and killed by robbers who car ried off their strong box containing $2,O00.
 Residents of Middletown, N. r., are in such straits on account of the shortage in the coal supply that they have made a formal appeal to Presi- dent Wilson to relieve the situation. The Northern Forests Protective as. sociation. through it's secretary, Thomas Wyman, is placing in hunting camps throughout upper Michigan emergency food boxes made of metal.
 
 Deposits in postal savings banks continue to show record-breaking gains. The increase for October was $4,700,000, or twice that for October, 1915. In the last four months depos- its have increased more than $17, ,00O,- 900, almost as much as for the entire year ended June 30, 1916.
 
 The population of continental Unit ed States has passed the 1O3,OO0,O0O mark. Officials, in their monthly statement, estimate that on Nov. the population of the country was 103,002,OOO.
 Fat men and women of Chicago are planning monster protest to the city council to prevent the passage of q resolution to make theater seats two inches smaller.
 V. Gilbert Richardson, mayor of Batesville. Ark. was acquitted of mur- der by a jury in circuit court. Rich ardson killed Farrell Padgett. 23. Padgett had tried to lure his 17-year- old wife from home
 The property and mines of the Great Western Coal and Coke Co. at Wilburton, Ok. were sold to James Dunacn of Alton. H., and c. H. Kim ball of St. Louis. boadholders.
 
 Beer at cents a schooner" or the changing of "schooners" to "skiffs" is threatened by the brewers in Cincin- nati.