Judsonia weekly advance., 1921-05-19
STATE NEWS
BRIEFLYTOLD
For Readers Who Are Interested
In Arkansas and Its
Affairs.

Stephens High School will be held
Friday, May 81.
Ozark.-The Ozark Concert band
will give a concert every Saturday
night during the summer.
Corning.-G. B. Oliver, local attor-
ney, has let contract for a $4,000
hollow tile residence.
Hermitage.-The graduating class
OF the grammar school gave an enter
tainment recently.
acknowledgements In farm work
in Greene county is slower this spring
than for many years, on account of
excessive rains and cold weather.
Evening Shade.-Mrs. Eliza Goodwin
celebrated her eighty-eighth birthday
at the home of her son, E. w. God
win, near Ash Flat, recently.
Ozark-Thieves entered Wakefield
G Co.'S store recently and stole CLOTH
ing and other goods. A pane of glass
was removed from a rear window.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES work has
begun on the new First Presbyterian
church, which will be erected at the
corner of Main and Seventh streets.
Pine Bluff.-A campaign to raise
$4,000 to carry on the work of the AS
ISOLATED Charities has been inaugu-
rated.
Fayetteyille.-The University of Ar
kansas is now sending out wireless
telephone concerts. 1t is the first
college to do so.
Fayetteville.-Miss Fern Kimberley
OF Eureka Springs will teach music
and art in the University of Arkansas
summer school.
Brinkley.-The Rusher hotel here
has announced a new schedule of
rates. All 81 rooms will be reduced
to $3.50, and $3.50 rooms to SO.
Mammoth Spring.-The Mammoth
Spring Commercial Club has elected
D. C. W. Culp, president, and ]. H.
Caldwell, secretary.
Bald Knob.-Local talent from JUDI
sonia staged play, Diamonds and
Hearts" at the high school auditorium.
The play was well received. The pro-
ceeds will be used for the benefit of
the Bald Knob baseball team.
Stephens.-One Of the many social
functions which usually mark the be-
ginning of the end of school, took
place recently when the Juniors en-
tertained the Seniors at the home of
Miss Mary Lee Yarbrough.
Monticello.-The new Masonic lodge
hall here, erected at cost of $4,000,
has been opened for use. Opening of
the new hall was celebrauec with a
f1ve-course dinner at which more than
900 were present.
Corning.-Sixty-nin Clay county
students recently were presented GER
tiflcates issued by the State Depart
ment of Education at the annual Clay
county grammar school graduating ex-
ercises at Corning.
Hope.zThe home of w. E. Rhodes,
on Park avenue, was destroyed by fire
recently. The family was away from
home and the origin of the fire is I'M
known. Very little was saved from
the house, which was only partially in
sured.
Newport.-The Boy Scouts and ''E1y
Y" boys are to build clubhouse on
the banks of Bergen lake, Jackson
county's finest fishing stream. The
contract for the clubhouse, which will
be two large rooms, kitchen and
screened-in porches, has been let to
William Bengel.
Paragould-Heavy rains through
out Greene county will further delay
farmin corporations for several days.
The ground has. not been dry enough
to cultivate inthis county three days
in succession for the past six weeks,
and the farmers are very late with
their planting.
Bearden.-The third monthly sales
day was held here recently. A large
crowd Of farmers from Dallas, Ouachi-
Ia and Calhoun counties was present.
w. R. Rich of Crossett made an adj
dress on Better Farming" A big
parade was staged.
Fayetteville.-A gold medal has
just been presented by o. l.. Wolf, OF
Springdale, to the best impromptu
speaker in the Periclean Society at
the University of Arkansas, in a con-
test. Fred Boyd Of Tyronza won the
medal.
Crossett.-The annual membership
banquet of the Crossett Y. M. Z. A.
was held in the auditorium last week.
The Rev. w. B. Hogg of Little Rock
was the principal speaker Music was