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Newspaper
Conway Log Cabin
Location
Conway, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1900
Page
3
Rail line timetable shows westbound departures from CatPeway with the 6:07 a.m. No 2 and 9:32 p.m. No 232, plus 6:36 p.m. No 231 and 10:02 p.m. No 7. Wawns, Agent.
Readable items show frequent visits by residents and visitors to Conway, Little Rock, and surrounding areas. Advertisements promote Paine's and Cole's groceries, J N Simpson & Son dry goods, and Corsets from Worcester. Local notices mention land sales by H E Cureton and various personal visits, with brief medical note on Gregory's Healing Oil and Chamberlain's remedy sale.
Journal notes include seed cotton prices from Allinder and McCulloch, Miss Glennie Miles visiting family, J N Simpson and Son shoes, Benton Turner hospitalized in Memphis for cancer, Paine Co canned meats arrival, and J H Gunningham with T W Milam traveling to Kansas City to buy horses.
The County Uniformity Board adjourned after a several day session. It adopted a list including Overton Physiology Baldwin Readers Lee Advanced History Blucher Civil Government Shinn History of Arkansas Wentworth Arithmetic and Algebra Woodward Tiernan Geographies Primary Speller Language Lessons Reed Kelley Higher Lessons in English Butler Sheldon Co Prac Speller Rand McNally Penmanship and Lippincott Primary History. The board will meet again December 22 to finish duties with an official price list to follow.
H H Black of Grahamsville Sullivan County New York says his five year old son who suffered frequent croup attacks is cured by Oak Remedy. He notes the remedy dissolves mucus and is safe for all ages and doses as symptoms appear. Sold by W H Martin Co.
A Conway Arkansas note reports a man cured of a thirteen year cough after taking Gregory's Healing Oil. He thanks the product for restoring health with two doses of five drops each and says the cough is gone. The message appears as a testimonial in a 22-tf advertisement.
Stockholders met on Monday to elect directors D O Horton Jo Frauenthal J P Thines George Simon J B Moore J W James and G D Dickerson The directors then chose officers G D Dickerson as President Jo Frauenthal as Vice President J W James as Secretary and D O Horton as Treasurer The mill reports a more prosperous year with encouraging prospects.
A notice invites Conway citizens to a December 10 meeting at 7 30 PM at the Presbyterian Church to organize committees for the Western Arkansas Teachers Association convention in Conway on December 27 and 28. Signers include A C Millar J G Line D L Paisley and J E Martin.
Mr R A Begsley of Cato and Mrs Sue Hemphill of War-Saw wed at 11 am at J E Hogan home with Rev C G Howard officiating. Thanksgiving basket supper at the Cato school raised 24 dollars 15 cents toward an organ for the Methodist church. W A Black returns from Heber. date Nov 30 1900.
For sale at terms to suit purchaser three steam engines in good condition two are 20 HP and one 25 HP also one Kingsland and Douglass saw rig and a first class wood lathe. Call on or address H L Tompson Conway Arkansas.
Advertiser seeks 20 to 30 good mule colts and will be at Walton's stable on Mondays and Saturdays. Mr Walton can be seen at other times.
Advertises Chamberlains Pain Balm for cuts bruises burns and sprains claiming instant pain relief and quicker healing with no scar unless injury is severe. Notes uses for rheumatism sprains swellings and lameness and instructs on corn removal with warm water soaking paring and balm twice daily. Sold by W H Martin & Co.
Thirty Japanese applicants to enter the United States via Canada were discovered with fraudulent naturalization papers. A band of Yaqui Indians attracted Mexican troops into a Sonora valley, causing many to be shot at. United States Senator C. K. Davies of Minnesota is dead. Miss Clara Barton buys and ships 1,000,000 strawberry plants to flood districts in Texas. A Washington University vs Christian Brothers College football game in St. Louis ended in a rough melee with players injured.
The World reports the death of Oscar Wilde in London. The steamer St Olaf sank in a Quebec storm with twenty five passengers drowning. A Minneapolis socialite Leonard Day was stabbed to death in a quarrel with F H Hamilton over a young lady.
Kruger is notified that France will not adopt an active stance in intervention in South Africa. If other powers consider such action, they may join under defined conditions. The rest of the report covers mineral output in 1899, a deadly San Francisco glass works collapse, a Southern Pacific strike in Lonore Mex division, a new army bill under Secretary Root, a cotton seed oil mill venture in the South, Guardia Trust Company receiver status, and stockholder opposition to Kansas City Mexico & Orient railroad.
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