Judsonia weekly advance., 1916-11-08


 Bluff Highway, six miles of which never was improved, is said to be as. sured in an agreement or proposal submitted to the commissioners of the particular district by County Judge Joe Asher.
 On behalf of Pulaski County, Judge Asher proposes that half the cost of the road work, estimated to mean an outlay of perhaps $60,000, will be as- sumed by the county, the other half to be paid for by the improvement district in which the unimproved road is located.
 In addition to half the cost of the road, Pulaski County will build all bridges and culverts that are longer than 10 feet This will mean con- struction of bridge about 120 feet long another some 50 feet long and four or five averaging 20 feet, which will cost close to $10,000
 Completion of the highway would give Little Rock people an improved road extending to Pine Bluff and Star City and Grady, thence by Hoop back to Pine Bluff, drive of considerably more than 100 miles on highly improved roads.
 c. W. Watson, state agent Of the Extension Division Of the University of Arkansas and the United States Department of Agriculture, said that O. G. Baxter, government drainage en- gineer, will be glad to cooperate with county demonstration agents in Ar kansas to show the farmers how to drain wet spots on their farms and the value of doing this. In addition, MT. Baxter will be glad to cooperate with warmers who wish to do district drainage work.
 A citizen of Blythevflle, passing the county jail, was asked by a negro prisoner for chew of tobacco. When he told the negro he had none, the ne- gro cursed him vilely. For this infrac- tion of the jail rules the negro was soundly whipped After being whip ped, the negro said he had long had a desire to "cuss out' white man and thought because he was in jail it would be safe for him to enjoy such rare treat.
 A. Cross, who came to Poinsett raised 24 bales of cotton with one team of small mules this year. MT. Cross has written to former neighbors in Mississippi telling them of the re- suit of his work in Arkansas and 13 families have arranged to come from Mississippi to Poinsett county to lo- cate.
 The Synod of Arkansas will meet in the Presbyterian church at Fordyce November IA. The synod embraces the entire state and consists of four pres byteries, Washburn, Arkansas, Ouach- ita and Pine Bluff. Seventy-fve dele gates, ministers and laymen are ex- pected to attend.
 Contracts were agreed to for five block shelter to be erected at South Fort Smith at cost of $250,000. Ope- rators of the Joplin, Mo-, field are in- terested in the venture The plant will be under construction within the next 90 days.
 John Sebastian Little, 65 years old, twenty-eighth governor of Arkansas, died at the State Hospital for Nerv- ous Diseases, where he had been un- dergoing treatment for an organic brain disease during the last five or six years.
 A jury in Circuit Court at Piggott found that spark from locomotive caused fire that destroyed a saw mill at Rector and awarded Joel A. Taylor $8,250 damages against the Cotton Belt and Iron Mountain rail- roads.
 A debate on Woman Suffrage" at the Judsonia High School was won by the affirmative, represented by Ever cit Meachem and Wilma Miller. Fitz- hugh Welbnrn and Kate Gibson sup ported the negative.
 The McGehee Water and Light Com pany has purchased Diesel engine, costing S12,OOO and additional gene