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Judsonia weekly advance., 1918-03-27
Haig's Morning Report.

LOndOn.-FOWerIuI enemy dttdCkS. delivered with great weight of infan- try and artillery, have broken through the British defensive system west of St. Quentin, the war office announces.
 The British troops on the northern portion of the battle field are hold ing their positions. The British west of St. Quentin are falling back in good order to positions farther west. Very heavy fighting with fresh enemy forces is in prog ress.
 Ire war office states that there are prepared positions behind the British, to which they are falling back.
 The statement follows:
 Heavy fighting continued until late hours last night on the whole battle front. During the afternoon powerful hostile attacks delivered with great weight of infantry and artillery, broke through our defensive system west of St.. Quentin. Our troops on this part of the battle front are falling back in good order across the devastated area to prepared posi- tions farther west. Our troops on the northern DOT | their positions.
 "Very heavy fighting with fresh | hostile forces is in progress" With the British Armies in the Field.-Fighting is steadily growing in intensity as the worlds greatest battle developed.
 The regions of Nurlu, Morg, Merca- | tel, Neuville and Vitasse have been | the scenes of colossal struggles, Brit ish rear guards performing miracles | in the face of far superior numbers. It was reported this morning that | enemy infantry had pushed down had driven forward against the posi- tions to which the British had re- tired. German cavalry was seen ad- vancing behind the infantry.
 There was small doubt but that the attacking forces intended to make a supreme effort to rupture the British line in this sector. The Germans this afternoon were pressing the attack hard on the Brit fish right flank near Ham, while on the northern end of the battlefield there has been desperate fighting since yesterday about Mory, which changed hands several times.
 All night, under the stars and a. brilliant moon; all day, under the sprinkling sun-Hindenburg's legions hurled themselves against the valiant British, whose withdrawal continues in perfect order, despite the most frenzied eoffrts to break their line
 German and Bavarian stormtruppen (storm troops), sandwiched between divisions of Prussian Guard and grenadiers, were flung with Hohen- zollern fury along roads and across open, sunlit fields, regardless of | losses.
 The slopes of the hills from Arras to Lafere are groy with dead.
 Call after call was sent to the Brit ish artillery to train all guns on the country.
 Airplanes, skimming low, machine gunned huge marching bodies of men, too big to miss.
 The hardest fighting continues agains the British right, though the battle rattles ceaselessly throughout a 59-mile line.
 Huge Austrian high velocity guns are constantly attempting harrass ing fire. far behind the lines.
Judsonia weekly advance., 1918-03-27

James Hewitt of Siloam Springs was killed near Grayette last week when his horse ran away and threw him from his wagon. He was found with a deep wound in his head and died few minutes after he was found.
Judsonia weekly advance., 1918-03-27

A silk service flag of 22 stars has been unfurled with appropriate cere- money at the M. E. Church, South, at Piggott in honor of men who have gone from that church into the mili- tary service of the United States.
Judsonia weekly advance., 1918-03-27

He who loves and runs away will have fewer bills to pay.
Judsonia weekly advance., 1918-03-27

Being bad all the time is doubtless
Judsonia weekly advance., 1918-03-27
STATE HAPPENINGS.

Otis Wood was fatally hurt near Blevins when a wire, which had been passed across load of barrels on wagon, gave way while Wood was on top of the load. He was thrown to the ground and in falling became en- tangled in the wire. The team ran away and he was caught between a wheel of the wagon and a tree. He was taken to Prescott, where he died.
 Commissioners for Road District No 1 at Clarksville sold to Edgar Hahn of Little Rock s259, 1000 in bonds at 95 cents. The plan is to build an asphalt road east and west across Johnson county, 35 miles in length. This is to be a link in the proposed highway from Little Rock to Fort Smith.
 The Supreme Court at last will be given the opportunity to pass upon the validity of the order of the State Board of Health requiring school chil dren to be vaccinated which order has been contested in several coun- ties.
 The Piggott Civic Club in an effort to make the city more healthful has Issued a statement to school children stating that during the next few weeks 10 cents per 100 will be paid for all house flies killed and delivered to the committee.
 O. E. Piety, manager for the Bol- finger Oil Company of Terre Haute, Ind, has resumed drilling in the we'll brought in last year on the Denton farm, 12 miles west of Waldron.
 The Executive Committee of the Farmers Union of Arkansas selected Little Rock for the next annual meet dng of the union, August 6-9.
 The Merkle-Hines Machinery Con- pany of Kansas City, Mo, filed cer- tificate announcing that 1t had ceased to do business in Arkansas.
 Seventy-five negro convicts arrived recently from Little Rock and were put to work on the Eureka Springs and Ssligman highway.
Judsonia weekly advance., 1918-03-27

l organized company to drill for gas, oil and minerals in this section, and who has leases on more than 5000 acres, arrived few days ago to make preparations to start work. The State Highway Commission l and the Penitentiary Commission l reached an agreement by which 75 | convicts from the state farm at Cum mins will be sent to Carroll county to | be employed on road work. The Liberty Lead and Zinc Com pany,, operating the Willett mine on Hall mountain, six miles west of Cot l ter, put 150ton concentrating plant | into operation last week. The first run was success.
 Governor Brough appointed John H. Whorton of Ell Doado as lieutenant colonel of the Fourth Regiment. Lieu tenant Colonel Whorton was about 60 days ago commissioned as major in the new regiment.
 The Clear Creek Gas and Oil Con- pany of Fort Smith brought in D. 100000 gasser on the Kibler farm. quarter of mile north of Kibler. This is the company's sixteenth well. l The Liberty Loan organization in south Franklin county Is being com pleted. County Chairman J. s. Smith has made all of his appointments and his helpers are organizing the county. Crocheting while she walked to l school near Mountain Home, little Miss Robbie Dearmore slipped and fell. The needle was pushed into her side and she was seriously injured. Dr. c. w. Garrison, state health of l ficer announced on his return from Bigelow, that a campaign for control of malaria will be conducted in that vicinity this summer.
 1 A franchise for an electric light plant at Delight has been granted to B. F. Ryon of Texarkana, who will begin the erection of the plant with in a few days.
 Two cars of eggs are shipped out of Searcy every week by Goodwin & Jean, and the supply for local use is quite sufficient and the price down to 25 cents.
 More than $37,O0O was recommend ed by the State Advisory Board and approved by the State Highway De- partment for state aid to Arkansas highways.
 A registered Duroc,Jersey pig, two months old, donated to the Red Cross chapter by w. E. Hodges of Vilonia, sold at public auction at Conway for $S6.50.
 H. s. Lyle of Subiaco has forward ed to the Red Cross chapter at Fort Smith an ear of white corn that has II red grains formed in perfect cross.
 Engineers of the State Highway De- partment began a survey across Null berry township in Crawford county for the proposed Bankhead Highway.
 John H. Page, commissioner of az riculeure, received an inquiry for a large body of land for colonization. The land most desired is large tracts of cutover land or small partially i'm proved farms in one community. Those who have such lands will be placed in touch with the prospective buyers by applying to MT. Page.
 Miss Margaret Wilson, daughter of the president, will sing at the Army Y. M. c. A. auditorium at Camp Pike Monday, April 8. 1t was announced.
Judsonia weekly advance., 1918-03-27
Rugs Made From TIssue Paper.

Rugs are now being made entirely from fine tissue paper and mixtures of paper and wool. The tissue paper is twisted into threads and woven into compact heavy mat or fabric.
Judsonia weekly advance., 1918-03-27

AVOID A DOCTORS BILL on the first of the month by taking now bottle of Mansfield Cough Bal sam for that hacking, hollow cough. Price 25c and 50c.-Adv.
Judsonia weekly advance., 1918-03-27

A. B. Wise of F1ippin, who recently organized a company to drill for gas, oil and minerals in this section, and who has leases on more than 5000 acres, arrived few days ago to make preparations to start work
Judsonia weekly advance., 1918-03-27

Miss Margaret Wilson, daughter O the president, will sing at the Arm! Y. M. c. A. auditorium at Camp Pix, Monday, April 8, 1t was announced.
Judsonia weekly advance., 1918-03-27

' Seventy-five negro convicts arrived recently from Little Rock and were put to work on the Eureka Springs and Ssligman highway.
Judsonia weekly advance., 1918-03-27

The Merkle-Hines Machinery Con- pany of Kansas City, Mo, filed cer- tificate announcing that 1t had ceased to do business in Arkansas.
Judsonia weekly advance., 1918-03-27

Two cars of eggs are shipped out of Searcy every week by Goodwin & Jean, and the supply for local use is quite sufficient and the price down to 25 cents.
Judsonia weekly advance., 1918-03-27

A franchise for an electric light plant at Delight has been granted to B. F. Ryon of Texarkana, who will begin the erection of the plant with in few days.
Judsonia weekly advance., 1918-03-27

John H. Page, commissioner of az riculeure, received an inquiry for a large body of land for colonization. The land most desired is large tracts of cutover land or small partially i'm proved farms in one community. Those who have such lands will be placed in touch with the prospective buyers by applying to MT. Page.
Judsonia weekly advance., 1918-03-27

More than $37,000 was recommend ed by the State Advisory Board and approved by the State Highway De- partment for state aid to Arkansas highways.
Judsonia weekly advance., 1918-03-27

Engineers of the State Highway De partment began a survey across Mul berry township in Crawford count. for the proposed Bankhead Highway
Judsonia weekly advance., 1918-03-27

The Executive Committee of the Farmers Union of Arkansas selected Little Rock for the next annual meet dng of the union, August 6-9
Judsonia weekly advance., 1918-03-27

A registered Duroc,Jersey pig, two months old, donated to the Red Cross chapter by w. E. Hodges of Vilonia, sold at public auction at Conway for SS6.50.
Judsonia weekly advance., 1918-03-27

The State Highway Commission and the Penitentiary Commission reached an agreement by which 75 convicts from the state farm at Cum mins will be sent to Carroll county to be employed on road work.
Judsonia weekly advance., 1918-03-27

H. s. Lyle of Subiaco has forward ed to the Red Cross chapter at Fort Smith an ear of white corn that has II red grains formed in perfect cross.
Judsonia weekly advance., 1918-03-27

Dr. c. w. Garrison, state health of ficer, announced on his return from Bigelow, that a campaign for control of malaria will be conducted in that vicinity this summer.
Judsonia weekly advance., 1918-03-27

O. E. Piety, manager for the Bol- finger Oil Company of Terre Haute, Ind, has resumed drilling in the we'll brought in last year on the Denton 6arm, 12 miles west of Waldron.
Judsonia weekly advance., 1918-03-27

The Liberty Lead and Zinc Com pany, operating the Willett mine on Hall mountain, six miles west of Cot ter, put a 15Oton concentrating plant into operation last week. The first run was a success.
Judsonia weekly advance., 1918-03-27

Crocheting while she walked to school near Mountain Home, little Miss Robbie Dearmore slipped and fell. The needle was pushed into her side and she was seriously injured.
Bisbee daily review., 1918-02-03
AGRICULTURAL OFFENSIVE
 OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE IS
 SOON 10 BE IN FULL SWING

be disturbed by a prod from a blow, Moreover. the explosive in a shell or grenade deteriorates rapidly from a burial in damp earth. Buried barb wire must be picked up, pulled up. or cut Of as it is encountered. Concrete fragments. heavy iron and the like will have to be picked up bodily and cart ed away.
 This leaves one problem to be solved-a practicable way of effecting the first rough cultivation"
 The first implement to be used should be a harrow of enormous strength. raking the earth 10 a depth of eighteen inches to two feet. It could be hauled by a 20-fOOt cable from tank tractor. The next proc ess would be a further smoothing of the ground by means of string of tractor blows. After that the ground would be ready for the ordinary proc esses of cultivation"
Bisbee daily review., 1918-02-03
lust a line to the folks.

lead in organized recreation near mum ition factories. writes in her first let ter home: The streets are all very dimly lighted and all street lights have a hood over the top to turn the light rays down so they cannot be seen from above. All stores have the shut ters partially closed as soon as the lights are on. and entirely closed at six o'clock. Women are in every con ceivable upation-delivering milk. and bread. acting as porters at sta tiOns, and conductors. One lump of sugar a day is all that is allowed a person. All bread is war bread. but like it better than any bread I ever ate"
 Miss Henrietta Roelofs, of Grand Rapids. who was called from the AS sOciation work in this country by a group of representative French wom- en, writes from Paris:
 If Americans only knew how the whole world is hanging its hope and trust in Americans, they would do ev- en more than they are doing now. To us it seems as though America is do- ing super-human things, but this coun- try will have to.
 They do not write much about war here. The oppression of it is all too heavy. In Paris it Is hard to believe a war is going on but you sense it from the pOilu on leave or the clean ing women-surely America cannot fail the world now-is in their minds.
 Miss JOlOoah Burner of New York City is one of the last four Y. W. C. A. representatives to reach France, get ting there this week [January 2Srd). Miss Burner will do recreation work and club work with the American nurses stationed near the French lines. The Y W. c. A. is providing huts where the nurses may have pleasant place for rest and social hour after coming from their trying and often horrible duties in the base hospitals.
Bisbee daily review., 1918-02-03
Carmen Demand
 Status for Union
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 ST. LOUIS, Mo. Feb. 2-Demands for a newly organized union of street railway employees were presented this afternoon to the United Railways of St. Louis, the local traction company and tonight the union men held a meet ing to decide on a course of action in case the demands should be refused.
 The union demands an increase in the wage scale of motormen and con ductors from the present average of twenty-nine cents an hour to forty and forty-five cents and that the company discontinue the alleged practice of giving women conductors preference over men their senior in service in the assignment of favored runs. An ad justment of hours also is asked.
Bisbee daily review., 1918-02-03
oVERsUsscRIsEs QUOTA

GALVESTON, Tex. Feb. 2.-Galves- ton county is the first county in the United States to OverSubscribe its monthly quota Of war savings stamps. according 10 a letter received today by George Sealey. Galveston county director Of war savings, from Louis Lipsing of Dallas. state director of war savings committee. E. R. Cheese brough. postmaster. announced that $124.121.65 worth of war savings stamps were sold in the county dur ing January. The cOunty's monthly quota is $74.75S.
Bisbee daily review., 1918-02-03
FRENCH TROOPS ON ITALIAN FRONT TEACH NATIVES MUCH
 AND LEARN AT SAME TIME

Italian troops in this sector. who are among the finest in the Italian army.
 The telefericO system does not date from the war but was in part in- stalled beforehand. and was used for purely commercial purposes, to haul up supplies and food to the settle ments up in the mountains But with the beginning of the war the tre- mendOUs advantages Of the aerial transportation lines were instantly re- cOgniZe6. and the existing lines were increased in number as fast as pos sible, both in the Mount Pasrbio sector. at Mount Grappa. and else where.
 Important as it is, however. 1T is but one factor in the tremendous defen- sive system that has held the Aus trians' in check for more than thirty months The roads. those which all ready existed and those that have been built out Of the rocky sides of the mountains. are another very i'm portant feature. especially when one considers that on their dizzy curves the high-powered, specially construct ed Italian camions can haul huge loads to an altitude of more than 5000 feet
 Mules by the thousand have been imported from North and South Amer ica Spain and elsewhere. and are especially valuable because unlike the horses they seem to suffer little if at all from the bitter weather. eat little and can 90 for long periods with out the water that is so precious at great nights
 Even dogs have been introduced and beasts of burden in the higher regions because they are very sure footed and willing The number Of horses is negligible, most of them be- ing used lower down for artillery. And then there always remains man. power which staggers upward with uncOunted bundles of wood.
 The soldiers who hold the Mount Pasubio sector are a hardy lot, and the majority have been nesting in the comfortable little wooden bar racks that dot the mountains for per iOds or from 12 to 30 months. because while furlOughs are easy enough to get the transportation problems in Italy are so serious that a man com ing down into the plains can get farther south to his home only with difficulty.
 . AS compensation in part for the denied opportunity of getting home frequently and for not being able, for months on end. to enjoy the ordinary social intercourse of peace times, the men are comfortably housed and ap- parently well-fed- Many have been Tn Ama-ica and SnaaE EngIiSh and many more come from Piedmont and speak French as well as Italian.
 The heavy work, such as shoveling away the incessant snow, is now being done by deserters who were sentenc- ed to Imprisonment after the German Austrian drive but who in many cases are put at wOrk-and find it so dis tasteful that they have almost unanfm- Ously applied for permission to go into the front fighting lines again.
Bisbee daily review., 1918-02-03
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 LONDON. Jan. l5 Correspondence of the Associated PresSl.-The British war office is making plans for carry ing out an agricultural offensive on an enormous scale this spring behind the British lines in France. With the cordial cooperation of the French gov ernment. thousands of acres Qf grass land will be plowed up. as well as some parts Of the old battle.ields. British soldiers by the thousands will be employed on the work. most of them being assigned to this labor dur ing their period of reserve duty.
 The food grown in this way will. fl the war lasts long enough. go to help n feeding the British army. Ameri- can tractor blows will be largely used in the work of turning over the ground.
 The area to be titled includes one of the most fiercely contested battle grounds of the war. Heretofore it has been held that little could be done for perhaps several generations to- ward restoring these battlefelds to cultivation, owing partly to the soil being poisoned" by asphyxiating gases and high explosives, and partly 10 the fact that uneNploded shells and grenades would make blowing very dangerous. But practical farm CTS do not agree with this theory. an American farmer who recently visited the whole Somme area. studying the possibilities of cultivation there, states:
 "To those who believe that the land aas been poisoned by gas and shell fumes. l might point out that while these fumes wilt fresh foliage, the ef- feet is only temporary. rarely lasting for more than a week or two. The soil itself is not deleteriOusly affected.
 As to the churning up of the earth by bursting shells. I might point ou' that sub-sOil cultivation by the use of dynamite has been practiced in America for several years. In all the world I know of no soil more likely to benefit by this process than that | of northern France, underlaid as it is i by strata of decompOsing chalk. [ Evidence of the fertility of these battlefields is found in the wealth oi | flowers and weeds with which they are already covered. Never under the | hands of the husbandman have these [ farms brought forth such verdure. '1 believe that the danger from un exploded shells is practically negligi ble A shell which has failed to gC [ on at the end of a five or ten-milc | flight through the air is not likely tC
Bisbee daily review., 1918-02-03
HOUSING QUESTION
 is BEING HANDED BY Y. ". [. 4. ABROAD

T have a temporary cot in a bath room for which l pay 16 francs, or S3-20 a day. I have no heat. electricity gas, plumbing facilities, drawer space or closet room But many of the girls in this city have to sleep three or four in a bed"
 Miss Perrie Jones of Wabasha, Minn. who is office secretary for the Y. w. C. A in Paris, in a recent letter gave this glimpse of housing conditions in Paris as American women found them.
 It is largely to meet such needs as this that the Y. w C. A. opened the Hotel PetrOgrad in that city a few weeks ago. IL is a hotel run by Amer ican women for American women. Miss Mabel Little, formerly director of the dining halls at Cornell Univer- sity, is to be the housekeeping director of the hotel.
 Miss Blanche Geary, a British born woman. who has been the Association building expert in the erection of the Hostess Houses at the camps and As sOciation buildings in this country is now managing the hotel. She writes that We want the hotel to be the cen ter for night life in Paris for the Am erican girl Not a woman in the house would want to wander through the darwenek streets and many an outside girl is being drawn to the social rooms for an evening of good fun. Women are coming to the hotel from all class es of society. It also will be the place where American soldiers coming over here. can meet their women friends nmdpr rlrOUpr cha
 Near munition and powder factories. foyers are being opened by the AssO- citation. where hot drinks of tea, cOf- fee and chocolate are served to the girls as they come off duty. A pleas ant fire is kept burning and the place is a rest and recreation room for the workers whose work rooms and dor mitOries are cheerless places. Certain of the munitiOn work turns the skin and hair of the women yellow. Many of the workers are half sick from the bad conditions under which they work.
 ''I find very quick and responsive personalities behind the yellow stain cd faces" writes Miss Agnes Winter. of Philadelphia. who is in charge of the foyer near a factory at Lyons. "I found a woman looking over a poem the other day deciding whether she would commit it to memory This woman is familiar with the best music and her neighbor was eager to begin the study of English"
 Another Association worker. Miss Jean Cavers of Columbus. who has just reached France, where she will
Bisbee daily review., 1918-02-03
STRIKER IS CALLED
 MIXER" AT FUNSTON
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CAMP FUNSTON. Kas.. Feb. g. When a soldier at this national army cantonment finds an excuse 10 avoid guard duty. Or drill, or a long hike, '' il is called mixing" and the person making such an excuse is a mixer. '' This corresponds to the shirker in civilian life.
 Some of the so-called mixers" have become past masters in the art. but a remedy has been found for every form of mixing. and the men are finding it much more pleasant to participate in drills than to spend 24 hours in bed with nothing to read.