Judsonia weekly advance., 1919-07-17

The report of the government IA
Dor investigators says that 1873 white
women and 1876 negro women are
employed in hotels in % places visit
ed. Negro women fare considerably
better than the white women the re-
port shows, as they receive consider
ably higher wages and have shorter
hours.
When the Arkansas legislature con-
venes in special session at the state
capitol shortly to ratify the suffrage
amendment to the federal constitu-
ton efforts will be made to extend
the session for the consideration of
other legislation, according to sever
al senators and representatives who
were in Little Rock.
Al The celebration of the 25th yea
of the founding of the Pine Bluff
Christian Church, held at the high
school auditorium more than $4,000
in cash was pledged as the nucleus CT
a building fund for the erection of
new church edifice which will cost ap-
proximately $4,000.
Letters were mailed by Thomas A.
Wilson, state labor commissioners,
calling attention to employers of wo-
men and children to many alleged VI
olations of the maximum hour and
minimum wage and child labor laws
discovered recently by inspectors
from the United States Bureau of La
Dor.
At meeting at Little Rock the
Aero Club of Arkansas was formed,
with Cant. J. G. Gone as president;
First Lieut.. B. H. Griffin as vise pres
ident. and First Lieut. Dave W. Wei
gel. secretary-treasurer. The vclub
will affiliate with the Aero Club OF
America.
The committee of citizens named
by Mayor Brickhouse to inaugurate
campaign for Identifying the city and
to improve sanitation conditions in
Little Rock, met in the maycdrs Office
and -org-:ed by the election o.
Frank NJ 1iaisde1l a. 2 nd, nd
Mrs. Geo. A. Leiper, secretary.
Three thousand refrigerator cars
now are stored in Arkansas and 30
additional will be diverted to that
state daily to move the huge peach
and cantaloupe crop. This is the in
formation obtained by Representative
Jacoway from the Railroad Admins
tration.
Little Rock ranks eighth among
the thirteen leading Southern States
in the relative low average retail
costs of forty principal food products,
according to the latest report pub
lished by the United States Bureau
of Labor Statistics.
The Baraca Class of the Baptist
church of FL Dorado claims to have
furnished more men to the world war
than any other similar organization,
in the state Their service flag con-
tains A blue stars and one gold one.
Depositors of the defunct Farmers
and Merchants bank of Murfreeshoro
were paid IL per cent of their de-
rosits, aggregating $4,000. by the
State Banking Department, it was an
nounced by w. T. Maxwell commits
sfoner.
Eureka Springs was chosen as the
place FOR holding the 1920 convention
| of the Arkansas Rural Letter Car
riers' Association at the final session
of their two-day meeting at Little
Rock
Charles Davis, son of Judge w. T.
Davis, has returned home from over
seas. He was the only Van Buren,
county boy to win the coveted French
war cross.
J. E. White. Washington county
farmer, recently sold carload of
hogs at Chicago for $21:O per hun
dredweight, according to information
received by Jim G.. Ferguson, commits
sioner of mines, manufactures ana ag-
riculture.
DR.. J. T. Upton, county health Of
ficer of Baxter county, has issued
warning to the people of this county
against typhoid fever and has advised
| them tn clean I'M thoir nreynisoc md