The Little River news., 1916-06-24
 CROPS ARE FINE
 lN LITTLE RIVER



 A News man was invited by Sheriff w. D. Waldrop Thursday to accom- pany him on a tour of the west and north end qf county, and we went The sheriff was making the trip ill hlS Ford car. the modern way of notify ing citizens that the court dtsired their services as jurors at the July term of the Little River Circuit C0ur,. We headed north for Wilton over the new Ashdown to Wilton highway, and were reminded again of that day two summ IFS ago when some hund- reds of Ashdown citizens labored nightly in the heat of the day to build the road. Today there are few better dirt roads in the county for motoring. Soon We began to see crops, good crops and clean, well cultivated All day it was good good crops and better crops. and busy i farmers working in them. We could see at a glance that the crops were good. and when pressed the farmers smilingly admitted it. Having a long distance to travel We passed Wilton on high" and were soon eating up the miles into the interior of section of the county heretofore uneXplore1 by the News scribe. The roads wero O. ly fair over long stretch out of Wilton toward Allene, but were free Of stumps, and the judicious use of grader at this time is all that is need cd to put them in first class condi- tiol for any purpose. Scarcely any where along the route from Wilton to Allpne to Foreman and to Winthrop, were we far from rural free delivery mail boxes, sometimes clust IFS Of theui, indicating that farm homes were thick off the road. To one who has never investigated this section of tie county cave from a railroad train the crops and the fertility of the soil was a r-yelation. There were evid ences of improved farming and d. versifcation on every hand Crops of cantaloupes sorghum, soy beans. water melons and Sudan grass were common Some miles out of Allene wheel, making good roads. Mir. Ed wards, standing on the d's,ck of a road grader manipulating the steering wheel, making good roads. Mir. FL
 wards is one of the best Overseers in the county and judging from the roads already built he will soon have the Burke township str tch of this road in a class by itself. We stopped at Allene, transacted some business and i took dinner at the Harvey House, that magnificent well appointed bunga- low hotel that is the pride of the town. We were surprised when told by the hostess that the magnificent meal had been cooked by Russel Hum 1 u, where he had been expected to die i from gunshot injuries a few weeks i ago. Mr. Humphreys antatomy res ! embled very much the lid Of a pepper box, but he was on the highroad to recovery. Allene is supported by a saWmilling, timber and farming in l terests and is surrounded by good country.
 From Allene we went by way of Foreman t. Winthrop.,We were climb ing the gravel hills that led to Fore man and passing through some won Ccrfuily fertile farms In the out skirts of Foreman we turned north of trc Foreman and Morris Ferry road north This is a stretch of the pro- posed and surveyed Jefferson High way through the county. All tho way the road bed is natural gravel climb ing over gentle grades, which the Johnnie scoo,ed up with a whir of joy. This road passes through the most picturesque and beautiful country that We have seen in Little