Judsonia weekly advance., 1921-12-01
State Happenings
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 tfon with the murder of Jessie R Johnson, prohibition enforcement of ficer near Bland.
 Jackson.-The meeting of the Cen tral Medical association was held re- gently at the Jackson Chamber oi Commerce rooms.
 Jonesboro-The case of the state vs. Lonzo overheart, charged with murder in the first degree, has started in the municipal court here.
 Searcy.-All stores were closed in Searcy for Thanksgiving, according to the custom of many years. Services were held in the morning at the Ma. zarene church.
 Marianna-Miss Emma Clark, chair. man for Lee county, has accepted a quota of $500 for the Christmas seal campaign for the Arkansas tubercu- | losis association.
 Piggott-Jess Dunlap suffered a badly mashed foot when he was thrown between two cars of Cotton Belt freight train on which he was stealing ride near here.
 Little Rock.-Henry and Barney Ives, minors, on pleas of guilty to pos sessing apparatus for the manufacture of whisky, were sentenced to serve three months in the Pulaski county jail
 Bald Knob.-The trapping season is on in full blast and the music of the paying coon dogs is heard nightly all through the bottoms. A large number of belts have been disposed of to To- cal buyers
 Bald Knob.-The heavy rains last | week did considerable damage to the roadbed of the Arkansas and Missouri pike road. Ungraveled edges suffered considerably in places. Little Rock.-The Arkansas railroad commission has authorized company to construct an hydro-electric power dam on the Caddo river in Clark coun- ty. The work of constructing the dam will begin shortly, it was said.
 
 Little Rock-The Arkansas tax com mission disposed of the petition of the Helena gas and electric company for a reduction in it's 1921 assessment by reducing the assessment from $300,00O to s255,OO
 Fort Smith.-Nine persons were in jured two of whom may die, as the result of an automobile plunging through the railing of bridge cross ing the suburban railroad tracks on the Greenwood road, three miles from this city.
 Little Rock.-Floyd Wingo of Stutt- gart, brother of Congressman Otis Wingo, has been elected commander of the Arkansas American Legion by the executive committee of the organi- zation.
 Conway.-R. E. Womack, superin- tendent of the public schools, has been elected superintendent of the Sunday school of the First Methodist church to succeed M J. Russell who held that position for about IA years.
 
 Little Rock-Gov. McRae issued a proclamation offering a reward of S200 for the arrest and conviction of the murderer of Jesse R Johnson, prohi. bition agent, who was killed Nov. 20, near Bland. Saline county.
  Bald Knob.-This point is rapidly getting into the limelight as a ship ping station for strawberry plants, sey- eral hundred thousand going out every day billed to points in Texas, Louisi- ana Alabama, Georgia and Mississ;p- pi where fall setting of plants is the rule.
 1 Little Rock.-Consent judgments for S2,000 each were given c. c. Pearson In Pulaski circuit court for the death of his mother, Mrs. Ella May Pearson, and his daughter, Ruth Curl Pearson, who were killed in railroad accident at Austin, Lonoke county, August 19 last, when an automobile was crossing the Missouri Pacific track Everton.-The county grader and i engine which have been working be i tween this place and Western Grove for the last two weeks have complet ed a splendid road, which gives Ever ton connection with the Jefferson highway, running through Boone county.
 Newport Members of Nell Griffin Post, American Legion, have contract ed for plot of ground at the Walnut Grove cemetery here to be,made a me morial to those young men of the county who paid the supreme sacrifice in France during the world war.
 Walnut Ridge.-The Black Rock but ton factory, which has been closed fo, some months, resumed operations las week. The additional labor they wer, able to procure since the close of tn, |