Judsonia weekly advance., 1917-09-26

The following directors were elect ed: E. k. Mitchell of Morrillton, Nor ton Corden of Malvern and Roy Gill of Fort Smith.
 President J. c. Futrall of the Uni versity of Arkansas, at Fayetteville, who is chairman of the Rhodes Schoi= arship Committee for Arkansas. has just been informed by the Rhodes trustees that there will be no election of Rhodes scholars in America for the year 1919. The examination will b. conducted at Little Rock October : and 3, and those candidates who pass will be eligible at the next election of scholars, provided they are Eot then beyond the aga limit.
 Ralph Graham and E. s. Skidler, bankers and ranchmen of Haw City, 1 Okla, purchased of the Neimeyer Lumber Company of Little Rock 20, 000 acres Of cutover land in Pulaski county for S50,000. The owners II stock the place at once with 2.G00 cat tle Future plans of the purchasers call for 1000 cows and 50 bulls for breeding purposes.
 Hugh A. Brown, formerly instructor in electrical engineering in the Uni versity of Arkansas at Fayetteville, and now teacher of wireless at the aviation school of the Universiey of Illinois, has written a textbook On wireless telegraphy that is being used in government aviation schools all over the country.
 D. B. Nivens, active vice president of the Citizens Bank at Pine Bluff, who has returned from a visit to the Carolinas, where he inspected the eot ton mills, particularly the Loray mills, at Gastonia, N. C., came fully prepared to initiate a movement tc organize company for this purpose, and 10 organize a pulp or paper com pany.
 The bankers and business men of ] Ozark held good roads meeting and 1 elected c. c. Colburn of the Democrat Enterprise, chairman. The road ques- tion was thoroughly discussed \ committee was appointed to confer with the county judge, arouse the road overseers to the importance of study ing more closely road making.
 Mrs. c. w. Pettigrew of Pine Bluff chairman of District No. 6 of the State War Library Council, recently appointed by Governor Brough, will appoint 10 women to assits her in the campaien to raise $2,000 in this 1 district, which comprises Jefferson, Grant, Lincoln, Cleveland and Arkan- sas counties.
 Bill Southerland Granville Reid 1 and Ed Wallace of Jonesboro were arrested by the officers of the Lake 1 City district. charged with violating the bone dGry law by bringing a quan- tity of wfiskey from Missouri into l Arkansas in an auto. The Whlskey was seized by the officers.
 The Missouri Pacific railway will at once enlarge it's stock yards at Tex arkana by the addition of 30 pens, to be used exclusively for cattle from tick-free territory. The enlargement was made necessary by the increased area of the Southwest. which lately has been freed from ticks.
 Raymond Reese of the Department Of Animal Husbandry of the Jones'
 boro Agricultural School, has receiv- ed request from the management of the district fair at Helena to send a
 carload of stock from the herds of the
 institution for exhibition.
 The interior work on the new $50,
 900 postoffice building at Philadelphia
 is now occupying the contractors
 Practically all of the exterior work and stone work has been completed.