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Newspaper
Conway Log Cabin
Location
Conway, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1901
Page
3
Rail schedule lists Little Rock and Fort Smith Railway trains from Conway Eastbound No 24 at 6 07 am Westbound No 235 at 9 32 pm Eastbound No 22 at 6 40 pm Westbound No 242 at 2 00 am. Local notices mention residents traveling, appointments, and community events.
Crops suffer from rain drought with oat harvest nearing end and grain shortages feared. Farmers push on while grand jury tensions rise among youths. Community notes include sickening anecdotes and local events with teachers joining summer programs and professions moving through town.
The Faulkner county Sunday School convention to be held at Enders on the Friday before the third Sunday in July 1901 features a lengthy program. It lists devotions, enrollment of delegates, talks on Sunday school aims and benefits, and various discussions led by Robt Pery J S Utley A M Ledbetter J E Wofford Dr Kelsoe W C Kelsoe C E Goode Mrs Melvina Trump T J Matthews C C Jones T M Norwood Z Bays R G Dunaway Hardin Martin A M Ledbetter and others with a Sunday mass meeting and officers election to follow.
Advertisement for Sweet Breath companion to a well ordered stomach and Dr Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin to keep breath pure. Sold by Dr C J Hamilton. Also legal blanks for sale at this office.
The University of Arkansas law school began in Little Rock on the 14th with several graduates named. J. H. Venable of Camden and T. Cotham of Monticello lead the list alongside W. B. Brooks of Little Rock R. T. Quinn of Benton F. W. Kee of Sheridan and W. F. Nichols of Milford among others.
The census bureau lists Ar kansas growth since the war with 1900 population 1 311 564 and earlier figures 1890 1 128 179 1880 802 524 1870 484 471 1860 455 450. J W Kuykendall elected to lead the State University preparatory department. Harrison enforces Sunday law shutting most business for a day except hotels and livery stables. Walter Self, son of a New Orleans citizen, killed in a fire. Alo Barnett, colored, lynched in Hancock county Mississippi for assault on a white girl. Striking coal miners dynamite a colored church near Madisonville Kentucky to drive out nonunion members.
Jeffersonville Indiana May 15 Dr Pepsin Syrup Co Monticello Ill receives a testimonial from Mrs Maggie Hooper claiming long term stomach trouble and dyspepsia relief after using Dr Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin urging publication so others may learn of the cure Sold by Dr C J Hamilton
A Star City Ledger warning urges boys to settle with banana merchants before taking fruit. It cautions that theft brands a boy as a thief, stains a mother’s memory, and could lead to crime, asking mothers to question if the youth is theirs.
Stray mouse colored mare mule with a black shoulder stripe and dish face, two years old, disappeared about a month ago near Wooster. A liberal reward is offered for her return or any information leading to recovery. Contact J. H. Hrert, Wooster, Arkansas, June 24, 1901.
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