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Portanith Rail- Opera shows No 2B at 9 32 p m and No 231 at 10 02 a m. W James is the agent.
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Newspaper
Conway Log Cabin
Location
Conway, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Feb 26, 1901
Page
3
Portanith Rail- Opera shows No 2B at 9 32 p m and No 231 at 10 02 a m. W James is the agent.
S Y Cox and other residents visited Conway and Little Rock the past week. A piano sale, pure seed oats at Cole's, and farm notices punctuate a string of local movements and activities around Martinville and nearby towns.
D. E. Agee returns from New Orleans after attending the Woodmen of the World meeting. D. Monroe pays $15 and costs for wife beating in Justice J. A. King's court. Cork & Co promotes seed oats. Luther Manship to lecture at Hendrix March 1 on Dialects of Nations. Mr and Mrs J. H. Hall visit Conway. Hall was county surveyor 1894–96. Road work party examines district toads. Advert indicates Gregory's Anti Septic Healing Oil for croup relief.
A Conway area page reports on court fines for McCulloch and King, building repairs at Hilliard’s coffin shop, Griffing's business trip to St Louis, and canvassing plans for Twentieth Century Manufacturing. It also includes medical remedies from Chamberlain’s products, a death in the Heiligers family, hotel bill settlement with two book agents, and notes on Rev. Street’s first year at the Baptist church and President Lile’s undecided future.
Mrs. Mary Imboden died suddenly Tuesday morning February 26 at about two miles south of town after waking her daughters for church. She leaves several grown children and many grieving friends. Also noted are local notices for church services, missionary rally requests, and a testimonial endorsing Chamberlain's Cough Remedy sold by W. H. Martin & Co.
The Franklin and Harlan Literary Societies of Hendrix College held their annual joint open session last Friday night. The program featured Declamation by W. T. Menard Oration by W. N. Pittman Debate on suffrage limits with teams for and against led by W. Townsend M. E. Dunaway J. B. Cox and John D. Dunaway Literary Address by Rev. F. E. Maddox and music by the Conway String Band. A reader notes a testimonial about Chamberlain's Pain Balm curing rheumatism after a skeptic was persuaded to try it. Sold by W. H. Martin & Co.
George H. Hansford former general passenger agent of the Chicago Milwaukee and St. Paul has been chosen first vice president and general manager of the Morning Star Railway Company. The firm with a capitalization of 2.5 million plans a line to develop zinc deposits in Northern Arkansas.
Public exam will occur on March 21 and 22 in Conway to assess the qualifications of all applicants seeking teaching positions in Faulkner county public schools. J Walter White, County Examiner, Cato, Feb 14. I also offer for sale three steam engines, two 20 HP and one 25 HP, plus a Kingsland and Douglass saw rig and a wood lathe at Conway Arkansas. H L Thompson.
Guy Murphy, a senior and prominent Hendrix student, was injured during the annual field sports at Hendrix when attempting a running jump. He struck the back of his neck on landing dislocating the neck and paralyzing his lower limbs. Doctors treated him and he rests with a chance to recover as his parents travel from Smackover Arkansas.
The county clerk issued marriage licenses to E. B. Bledse and Lizzie Burgess of Conway W. M. Hill and Easter Davidson of Mt. Vernon H. B. Harrell of Faulkner and Dutchie Scott of Romaike Walter Harkrider and Minnie Reece of Lollie Joe Troutman and Mattie Tew of Lollie W. A. Brown of Beryl and Addie Crow of Otto Charley Garth of Mayflower and Francis Rushin of Palarm Tom Taylor and Lettie Hall of Conner R. Cain and Lula Ealy of Martinsville T. L. Tucker and Minnie Spears of Greenbrier J. F. Gibbs and D. A. Brantly of Holland J. H. Berry and Mary Roden of Hamlet Edmaneather and Sallie Sublett of Mt. Vernon C. Penny and Narcissus Smith of El Paso.
A series of violent crimes is described including the lynching of Fred King a black man at Dyersburg Tennessee and the lynching of Thos Vital a colored man near Fenton Louisiana. A Mississippi farmer posse killed Ishman and Henry Fed accused of barn burning. Charles E K Bent of St Louis killed his wife then shot himself. Mrs Nation in Topeka was placed in fit after refusing bond. Alabama allocates funds for a Confederate relics museum. Sam Pheo deaux and his half brother were involved in a shooting in Louisiana following the lynching attempt.
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