Judsonia weekly advance., 1916-01-26

tuho CdIe Ol tuOS0 HOW uOluluS ledSeS on the property on which options have been given.
 This feature, however, it is believed. will cause no difficulty, because those who have establishments in the prop erty desired have, in many instances made arrangements with the promo. ters to occupy the same location in the new stores the promoters will erect.
 Chairman Roth said in his telegram that he was writing letter to Sub. chairman Jones, which will explain in detail his conference with the capi- talists-
 Frank Parsons, we'll known in Brad ley county, where his father, Metho- dist minister, was stationed, and where his mother was reared, has been arrested in California and returned to Texas. On March 2, 1915, an explo- sion wrecked the railroad station at Lufkin, Texas. Fire followed and the stations with other property, was de- stroyed. In the fire the bones of a man were found and these bones were supposed to be those of arson, who disappeared apparently while the ire i was under way. Collection of life 1n- surance on Parsons life was contest ed by some companies. Parsons ar- rest is the result of investigation by detectives employed by the insurance companies.
 The long buried scare that the Ouachita River may change it's course, leaving the City of Camden high and dry on a big muddy bayou in the shape of horseshoe with the pres ent wharf as it's Dase, has been re- vived, and this time seriously, by ot- ficers in charge of the government snagboat Joseph E. Ransdell.
 The Bigelow school building was de- stroyed by fire. It was large frame building, and when flames were found in the roof there was no hope of saw ing it. Only the piano was taken out. The loss is about $14,000, with insur- ance of $7,000. School will be carried on in another building pending re- building.
 The last option on property cover ing ten acres, located in the heart of Hot Springs" and which is desired by capitalists of New York, Pittsburg, Chicago and Milwaukee, was secured, on which it is proposed to erect a SIC, 0,000,000 sanitarium, one-third larg- CT than any of it's kind in the world. The City Council has agreed with Mayor Simon Bloom that Pine Bluff can get along without passing an oc- cupation tax to raise additional reve. nue. A proposed ordinance, which was submitted to the City Council, was tabled by unanimous vote as soon as the ordinance was read the first time.
 A decrease of three per cent of tax able property of all kinds in Faulkner county is shown in the abstract of taxes submitted Sheriff and Collector Waverly Bishop by County Clerk J. A. Lea. The total tax for 1915 is $91,- O4S1S, as compared with $94,46O17 in 1914, decrease of $3,411.99. hof ha ofo fo 1ox hibiting the sale of liquor would be strictly enforced and credit given to the women for the work they have done in behalf of prohibition were given the members of the w. c. T. U. of Pine Bluff by district. county and township officials.
 A. E. Ferguson, new farm demon. strator and experimentor for Clark County, has laid plans for organizing corn and live stock clubs, and Miss Mamie Weaver, canning club expert, is mapping out the work among the girls of the county.
 While putting down prospect shaft near Kingdom Springs, in Marion 1 county, the workmen broke through the rock into an underground stream of water. The water is now flowing
 through the top of the hole. The town of Sulphur Rock Is to have electric lights soon. 
 Iron ore has been found in the vi
 cinity of Arkana.
 The Parker Township correspond
 ent of the Star of Hope says that a
 mother whose baby was blown away I by the tornado which touched that
 community on last Thanksgiving Day
 has been driven insane by her sorrow and is dying of g broken heart
 N. B. McClain, a teacher. of the
 Bunch school, which is located about
 seven miles east of Wicks. Polk coun. .'z xtro -n.ss