Judsonia weekly advance., 1921-08-25
STATE NEWS
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For Readers Who Are lnte re sxed In Arkansas and It's
 Affairs.
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 showing much improvement since the recent rains.
 Waldo.-Work on remodeling the St. Louis Southwestern railway sta ton here is under way.
 Camden.-Mrs. M Baum of Cam den is taking course in kindergar- ten instruction in Chicago during the summer months
 Camden. = Street Commissioner Thomas Morton is scarifying several of the streets and applying new gravel in several places.
 Scranton.-Corn crops in this vi cinity were badly damaged by wind during the recent wind and rain storm.
 Eureka ngs.-Beneficial rains have fallen in this section the past two or three days, breaking long drouth.
 OdAl "A. "A SuCCeSsIul I6NlNdl Has ujst closed at Grand Prairie. There were seven conversions and eight ad- ditions to the Methodist church.
 Mena.-After a delay of almost a year, a new contract has been let for the paving of Mena's principal busi ness street with asphalt and con struction work has been started again. Walnut Ridge. = The rock road con meeting Walnut Ridge and Pocahontas Is completed. A high dump making the approach to the bridge was opened about 10 days ago
 Fort Smith.-Frances Greer, nine year-old girl, broke her arm when she fell over an iron pipe in the front yard Of the Greer home. The break is a compound one below the elbow.
 Walnut Ridge. = The drive put on here by Mrs. Ellen Rogers at the re- quest of Governor McRae for the bene- fit of the Arkansas Anti-TuL erculosis Society netted $25.
 Hardy-The watermelon crop in this section has been unusually me this season. No melons are shipped from this point, but the local market has been well supplied.
 Warren-Joe Coggins, working on H. l., Turner's Sunflower plantation, brought in the first open cotton in this section this year. The cotton is of the long staple variety.
 Van Buren.-A small restaurant saear the Missouri Pacific railroad sta ton here was slightly damaged by fire when defective flue resulted in ~ slight blaze.
 Foxdyce.- Elliott & Ramsey, local Merchants, are having their building repaired. A new wooden awning has been added and improvements in the interior are being made.
 Conway.-The home of w. J. Hun ter at Vilonia, 15 miles east of here, burned recently. MT. Hunter was in Little Rock attending the Arkansas Ginners' Association meeting.
 Ashdown.-The corn crop in this section IS fine, and this years yield will be one of the largest on record. An abundace of potatoes, peas and an enormous hay crop is being grown. Piggott.- -Watermelons and canta-
  loupe shipping in this section has ceased on account of the high freight rates. and these two edables can now be bought on the streets almost for a song.
 Conway.-Final settlement for 1920 tax collections have been made by Sheriff and Collector w. M. Brady with State Auditor J. G. Tucker. Sheriff Brady paid into the state treas ury $43,S37.09.
 DeWitt.-Crop conditions in Ark ansas county have shown much i'm provement during the past two weeks. Good rains have fallen in prac- tically every section of the county. Farmers are elated.
 Mountain view.-Rev. J. M. Gibbs of Mountain Home is assisting the Rev. Mir. Suggs, pastor of the captisr church here. in revival here. It has been in progress some time and 22 conversions have been reported. It is one of the most successful meetings ever held here.
 ardy.-Recent rains have been beneficial to growing crops in Sharp county Corn and cotton crops along Spring river are unusually fine, and crops in the hii,s are above an av- craze.
 Gurdun.-The Dildy-Johnson Co.,, wholesale grocery dealers of Hope, is preparing to establish a branch, dis tributing house in Gurdon. The off