Judsonia weekly advance., 1917-06-20


 from Memphis and spent several hours with Iron Mountain engineers arranging the route of the double spur track to be laid to the camps site.
 The site will be laid out by Col. How. ell within the next few days along the highest point of the 3,000-acre tract which will be donated to the government by the people of Little Rock. Where the topography of the groand permits it is to be the policy of the government to have the camps laid out in crescent or horseshoe shape
 The 5000 acre tract on which the two and one-half miles north of the army post. It is on a high, we'll drain ed, wooded plataeu, drained toward the southeast toward the fve-mile creek into Kelly's Creek, Spring Creek and Bayou Meto, several miles below Little Rock. The soil general ly is of sand and gravel.
 On the exact location of the camp site necessarily will depend the route and the terminus of the spur track. The Iron Mountain is making prepa- rations to begin immediate construc- tion that there will not be any delay in getting material to the site for the construction of the camp.
 The Army Post Development Com pany filed articles of incorpation with the state with capital stock of $300,- D00
 The company was organized to pur chase site for the army cantonmen. near Fort Roots and to donate it to the federal government. The articles show the company also was organized to cooperate with the government and with the cities of Little Rock and Argenta in making the camp sue. cess.
 Ed Cornish, Moorhead Wright. A. D. Cohn, J. E. England, Jr., c. K. Lin. coin, H. Kahn, E. o. Manees. H. L. Remmel and w. l.. Hemingway were named as the corporators.
 A. R. Connerly sent up a paper bal loon at Lake Village one evening last week and the result was flock oi wild stories. One story, which gain ed circulation among the negroes, was that it was German airship and that when it was shot down it was found to contain six Germans, An. plane going from New Orleans to Lit. tie Rock.
 Over in White county, Arkansas, one husky young farmer walked three miles to Rosebud to register There he was told to go to Romance, about 10 miles away. He hiked out for Ro. nance. It was late in the afternoon when he reached Romance He was still in the wrong place, and was sent to Joy, about five miles distant. He pulled into Joy just in time to regis ter, but he did not know his age.
 At meeting of the Heber Springs Chamber of Commerce action was taken on the proposed macadamized road from Heber Springs to Little Rock, via Conway The road will go south from Heber Springs via Rose bud, then to Conway.
 The last frame building used as store at Earle is being torn down. Il is an old landmark, built 25 years age by Dick Brown, pioneer of the town The old settlers who saw it being torn down told many interesting stories oi the early days here.
 The Clarksville City Council has awarded paving contract to the Bell and Walker Asphalt Company of Dal las, Tex. The leading thoroughfares of the town, including court square will be paved at cost of $33,OOO.
 Improved cattle and other stock ;s being bought by stock men near Rog CTS in increasing quantities. In the past three days a Shorthorn bull, five Holstein calves and pair of goats have come to local men.
 A cash gift of $20,000 was giver Galloway College at Searcy on com mencement day. The gift is in the form of an endowment for the chai of English. The donor asked that his name be withheld.
 In the Miller County Circuit Cour James M. Lyles, of Texarkana, a white man about 34 years old, pleaded guil ty to bigamy and was sentenced tt serve three years in the penitentiary DNI,o e,tr ro MI ,orrrr and tLo on .l.x al, .-