Judsonia weekly advance., 1918-03-13

by the citizens of Dermott | Mayor J. L. Green of Clarendon is-
 sued an order closing all negro
 churches and lodges till further or ders, on account of a case of small pox which has existed there for more I than week.
 l W. T. Briggs of Russellville has
 been appointed to serve on the Hotel
 and Restaurant Committee for Food l Conservation. The appointment came
 from Food Administrator Hamp Will | Hams.
 The Harrison Canning Company is | appealing to the farmers of this sec | tion to plant as large an acreage as l possible this year in tomatoes, both | from patriotic and financial stand | point.
 Chief of Police J. Frank Stewart of
 Pine Bluff has announced that his de partment will make war on loafers and that all able-bodied men will be forced to go to work or go to war. | According to the Chicot Spectator | Gordon E. Greenfield of Little Rock
 has purchased from H. w. Graves the Sterling plantation in the southern
 part of Chicot county for $181,560. | AS part of the Salvation Army drive for $1,200 from Ouachita county for war relief work, Capt. A. Kranz of | St. Louis has organized committee | at Camden to canvass the county. A derrick and engine has been | erected at Cambs, Madison county, to sink a deep shaft in prospecting for gold, of which encouraging quantities
 have already been found Capt. w. c. Allsopp of the Jones'
 boro company of the Fourth Regi-
 ment advised the adjutant general
 that there are now more than 100
 members in that company.
 Fire partly destroyed the plant of
 the Grant Manufacturing Company,
 which recently was moved to Pine
 Bluff from Newport The plant man.
 ufactures oak handles.
 The Junior Missionary Society of | the Methodist Church of Fordyce of
 which Mrs. Robert Finley is director,
 has set aside fund for the support of French war orphan. | Dr. Brokaw of the International 1 Board of Health of New York City at | Cotton Plant preparatory co making
 a sanitary survey of the Southern
 district of this county.
 The Benton company of the Fourth Regiment now has 101 men qualified
 for service, according to the report of
 the inspection officers, who have in- spected that company.
 | Sheriff R. E. Fillmore and the police of ParagOuld are making war on
 vagrants. The sheriff is compiling a
 list of Paragould idlers, which he will
 send to the governor.
 Following an address by Chaplain
 M. c. Reeves of Camp Pike at the First Methodist church at Pine Bluff | S303.25 was raised to buy testaments | for the soldiers.
 City officials of Tuckerman have passed a resolution asking Governor
 Brough to call a. special session of
 the legislature to amend the bone dry law.
 The road building from Branson to
 connect with highway running from l Springfield, Mo-, to Harrison, Ark, will be completed by the first of May. | c. w. Waggoner of Bentonville has
 received an order for 100000 frost proof cabbage plants to be delivered
 the lase of April to Plainview, Minn. MT. Hollinsworth of Memphis, the
 contractor, has large force of men at work putting in the foundation of
 the new courthouse at Harrisburg. The closing exercises of Cloverdalc
 rural school included a pie and cake 1 supper, which netted $23 for the School Improvement Association.