Judsonia weekly advance., 1918-02-27

Cetuoeu d TuSH to the Tag department of the State Highway Department.
 By decision of United States District Court title to 2,3OO acres of land known as Musgrave Bar, near Blytheyil]e, is vested in Henry Brig gans. MT. Briggans purchased the land few years ago for SLIGO. It Is now worth $2OO,000.
 According to reports there are now nearly 50 organizations of teachers in as many counties in the state, and J. L. Bond, superintendent of public instruction, is making an effort to or ganize the remaining counties.
 The report of the Arkansas Tuber- culosis Sanatorium at Bonneville for January shows that there were 134 patients in the institution February l. Seventeen were received during the month and IT released.
 The erection of a canning factory at Olvey has begun under the direc- tion of H. G. Walton and R. E.. Mahon of Seymour, Mo. A large acreage has been pledged. Tomatoes will be the main product the first year.
 Drilling for oil in Ashley county Is showing renewed activity The we'll being drilled on the Hamburg -Monti- cello road is now 1,700 feet deep, and the drillers are determined to make test well of it.
 Many of the counties are filling up the quotas asked for men for the shipbuilding service, according to re- ports received by w G. Sprague, state chairman of the United States Public Service Reserve.
 While shucking corn at his home near Subiaco, H. A. Lyle found a. white ear that had a perfect cross in red grains on it. There were no red grains in the ear except those that made the cross.
 Strawberry growers in the White county strawberry district expect bumper crop this year. The plants have not been damaged by the severe weather and the snow has helped them.
 Plans were sent out by the State Highway Department for a 15-mile road from Greenwood north to the county line, which will be of shale IA feet wide and will cost S,409.62.
 The S300,000 endowment campaign of Oauchita College at Philadelphia, authorized at the last Arkansas Bap- tist state convention, has gotten un- der way energetically.
 Ten dead horses and mules were found in one spot in a canebrake in Mississippi county after the recent severe weather. They had been starv- ed or frozen to death.
 Superintendent D. P. Holmes re- ports that the schools at Ashdown now have the largest attendance in their history. The enrolment for this year has reached 425.
 Capt Cabell Greenwood of Paris is very jubilant over his success in re- cruiting his local company for the Fourth Arkansas Regiment, 131 men having enlisted.
 ed a census taken at Cotton Plant. It is expected that there will be suffl- cient population to place the city in the second class.
 The Jackson County Grand Jury un- animousIy adopted resolution asking Governor Brough to call special ses- sion of the legislature to amend the bone dry law.
 P. H. Pinnex of Murfreesboro, for merly cashier of the Pike County Bank, has been appointed chief clerk of the State Banking Department, to succeed T. E. Herbey, who resigned to accept a position as manager of a large mercantile establishment at | Hope.
 Governor Brough announced the ap pointment of Dr. Lester M. Hill of Lit tie Rock as member of the Chiro practic Board to succeed Dr. Burt Car l ter.