Judsonia weekly advance., 1917-07-18

port to Stegall and on to Grubbs and east to the Poinsett county line, about 20 miles east of this city.
 w. N Nance of Eight Mile, R. D, Wilmans of Diaz, and Hendrix Will. Hams of Grubbs, leading business men of their communities, are promoting the proposed improvement district. active work for the construction of which will begin at once. These men I have been chosen as commissioners, and will begin the work of surveying and cutting the right-of-way for the proposed road at once so that no time l will be lost in getting construction work started once the bonds are sold, which is estimated will require less | tenn contemplated under this improve ment district includes three roads, 1 the other two to connect Johnstown, Amagon and Beedeville with Newport In addition to these roads, lateral roads will tap the main highway at various points, thus making almost all points in the eastern part of the county accessible to Newport at all times of the year by gravel or con- crete road. Road Improvement Dis trict No. 1, recently formed, has be- gun work on road from Newport to .Diaz, thence east to Grubbs, and two districts contemplating the construc- tion of approximated 75 miles of road way through what is the best agri- cultural section of the county
 The section to be traversed by these various roads is covered with farms, virgin timber and plantations and in many sections land that is now selling for $50 acre found slow market at S20 three years ago.
 A new district is soon to be form ed to build concrete or gravel road from Newport to Tuckerman, ten miles north of this city.
 Angle Lee Case of Ruddels. aged 13, has bought a Liberty bond with money she made by raising and sell ing vegetables. She has garden which she superintends. The heavy work is done by negro, but little Miss Case does the light work The employees of the Arkansas Lime Com pany of Ruddels are the chief custom CTS of Miss Cases garden.
 H. L. Remmel of Little Rock, mem Der of the state council of national defense, has offered the government, frao nco 0f o00 aornc of, ,iab ooaJ1ondc lying on the banks of the Arkansas River, near Dardanelle, he announced. Engineers estimate that 8000,000 tons of coal suitable for naval use are in the fields.
 Negroes of Marked Tree and vicin- ity celebrated the Fourth of July by hosting large American flag. A pa triotic address was delivered by Rev. H. R. Brunson, negro preacher of Memphis, who urged his people to stand behind the president
 Jackson County Road District, which was formed some weeks ago, sold their issue of $250,O00 of bonds to Gunter & Co.,, bond buyers of Lit tie Rock, at par, the bonds bearing five per cent. The roads of this dis trict comprise 52 miles of main road and eight miles of lateral roads.
 Oil prospectors are showing in- creasing activity in Ashley county. A we'll in the southern part of the county is now down 2,600 feet, while derricks for drilling are being erect ed at Pine Prairie and at Synder
 Owing to the advance in the cost of drugs the physicians of Conway have agreed to a uniform advance in fees, which became effective on the first of this month.
 Burg Israel, who was the first white child born in the town of Wal nut Ridge, died recently at St. Louis, where he was engaged in the insur- ance business MT. Israel lived most of his life in Walnut Ridge.
 Tax Assessor Homer Harris has is- sued notice that the dates for as- sessing taxes in Hope have been changed The assessor and assist ants will be in Hope from July 23 to August 4, inclusive.
 Little Rock bank clearings for June set new high record, bankers announced, having exceeded clearings for June, 1916. by $6,307, POI. Total clearings for the past month were s14,971,907.