Judsonia weekly advance., 1916-02-23

There will be a 21 days race meet ing in Hot Springs, beginning March Il, reports to the contrary notwitn. standing
 The news that racing would be re- | vived here and that the meet would | be conducted in much the same man. her as by the business men in New | Orleans has caused the larger hotels to receive a flood of reservations for | rooms. It seems that a greater DOT. | tion of the patronage at New Orleans | will come to this city. he railroads are making arrangements for special trains. Horsemen who have been par ticipating in the races in New Orleans are notifying officials of the league | they will bring their stock to this city. Other owners, some of them in | Texas, others as far away as Califor- nia, have communicated with Presie dent Gus Strauss and Secretary Geo. R. Belding of the league.
 This opening will be made an occa. J sion for half holiday. It is probable there will be some special ceremony
 
 entrance or on the track, commence. rating the revival of racing in Hot Springs.
 The fact that city and county off cials are cooperating with the officers of the league to make the meeting success by waging war on bootleg gers" and places of i'll repute, clearing the way of any trouble that might ma terialize, is generally commended. The activity of officials since that time, the close scrutiny they have given to places under suspicion, the thorough searches and few arrests, indicate that the officials are determined to carry out the wishes of the people as expressed at the meeting, and elimi- nate every feature that would detract | from the success of the race meeting. With one vast sheet of water ov- ering the greater part of the area of 10 counties in Southeast Arkansas, with a remarkably small loss of life so far reported, with loss to build- ings, live stock, seed, foodstuffs and 1 farm implements estimated in the millions, conservative business men, ] bankers and merchants who are in l touch with the situation are of the l opinion that the greatest harm done by the flood of January and February, 1916, will be to put the small land owner and the tenant farmer back on credit basis, by wiping out of ex- istence all the profits he had accumu- lated because of the practice last year of the farm d1versifcation plans. Suit was filed in the Crawford County Circuit Court at Van Buren by the Clear Creek Oil and Gas Com pany of Fort Smith against the Wild cat Oil Company of Fort Smith for possession of oil and gas rights or the 40-acre J. B. Cox farm, Crawford county. The Wildcat company re- l gently erected a derrick on the farm preparatory to drilling.
 Acting upon petition presented by Mayor J. A. Frisby for the residents of Morrilton and taxpayers of Con- way county, Circuit Judge A. E, Prddy granted temporary ra- straining erdsg an injunction Jas served upon Experts 1 1ccount- ! Jlnts, H. w. McDermott and w. M. Martin of the Leathem C4mpany, Memphis, preventing further akdit of tHo bOo1yc Of nO1,p+v and oitv ofti pia1c
 The continuation of the fight of To- cal officers to enforce the statewide prohibition law came when Sheriff Jarman, Chief of Police Clancy and Constable Bailey, with an injunction from Circuyit Judge J. M. Jackson, closed temporarily the business house O. the Helena Wholesale Gro cery Company, one of the largest and best known business institutions i'll eastern Arkansas.
 The Hot Springs, Pine Bluff !ss Mississippi Railway Company, capi- talized at s3,500,000 and authorized to build and operate a railroad from Hot Springs to some point on the Mississippi River east of Dewitt, in Arkansas County, filed articles of ln- corporation in the office of Earle w Hodges, secretary of state.
 The Wildcat Oil and Gas Company made application to the City Comms- sion for a franchise to sell gas in Fort Smith. This company was organ. ized as result of the recent discov- cry of the big Crawford county gas field. It has no producing wells, but | recently made location between well | No 1 and test No. 2 of the Clear Creek Oil and Gas Company
 While Tom Pelham. was bringing his two children out of- the high wa ters near Stony Point, Johnson coun- ty, the children fell out of Ehe boat. He jumped into the water a&d res cued them, but was unable to Veach 1 the boat with ther, Io ond +l, GhIl-