Judsonia weekly advance., 1918-06-05

to date from May Is. c. S. Jackson of El Dorado is in command of the battalion.
 Seventy-five men from the neighbor- hood of Flint Creek, 10 miles west of Siloam Springs joined with the com mittee from the Ad Club of that city and in one day surveyed, cut the tim Der and graded the road up this si1e of Flint Creek to five per cent grade.
 The Northwang family of Faulkner county is patriotic, having three sons in the service. Fred is now a boat swain in the navy, his brother Carl is a jacky aboard the cruiser Des Moines and his brother Dave is a soldier in the trenches in France.
 w. Edward Spencer of Monticello, who for the past two years has been Institute, has written a song which is creating a stir in the West. It is en- titled "A Military Sport" Words and music are by young Spencer.
 During the heavy rains of last week Payton Creek. in Searcy county, went on a rampage and reached a stage higher than ever before reached in the memory of the oldest inhabitants. Many farms were totally ruined by the high water, it is said.
 Thomas Mckee, who recently re- turned from France, is visiting his mother, Mrs. Wisdom, at Mulberry. He served four yeas in the navy and recently re-enlisted but was per mitted furlough to allow him to visit his mother.
 Whitaker & Go. of Chicago were the successful bidders on $70000 of six per cent bonds issued for the pur- pose of building 145 miles of highway from the Fort Smith district limits to the Greenwood city limits.
 All records for high priced straw berries were broken at Decatur recent ly, when four cars were sold through the Ozark Fruit Growers Association for $5 crate on track, bringing the growers S2,240 per car.
 In spite of the pessimistic reports concerning the peach crop there will be fair crop in the big orchards near Nashville. The Johnson orchard, It is estimated, will ship more than 300 carloads this year.
 The Greenwood Coal Company has commenced work on a levee prepara- tory to pumping out its No. 1 and No. 2 mines, which were badly flooded by an overflow from Vache Grasse two weeks. ago.
 Work has been abandoned on the test oil well near Nashville and the casing has been pulled It requires four months to sink the well. It is said another we'll will be sunk near Nashville.
 The J. R. Bever Produce Company of Gentry has just finished loading it's eleventh car of eggs. which was shipped to Chicago. Ten other cars have been shipped since the first of May.
 The Huntsville Milling Company is busy producing two carloads of flour which it has contracted to sell to the government for shipment to France. The amount is about 120,000 pounds.
 R. B. Dunn, formerly editor of the Marmaduke Cackler, who now makes his home at Blairstown, Mo, was mar ried a few days ago to Mrs. Alice Maupin of Harrisonville, Mo-
 J. M Metcalf, cashier of the bank at Black Rock, has three brothers, all of whom are cashiers of banks. One brother is at Batesville, one at Even ing Shade and one at Hardy. W. r. Hill, the veteran blacksmith of Buck Range, is 80 years of age and has been working at his trade for 62 years. He does full six days of work each week and in addition to this he walks two miles every day for his mail