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Newspaper
Conway Log Cabin
Location
Conway, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Oct 16, 1900
Page
3
Trains on the Little Rock and Fort Smith Railway depart Conway going east and west with schedule times for No. 2M at 6 07 a m No 234 at 9 32 p m No 232 at 6 40 p m and No 231 at 10 02 p m J W James Agent.
The column gathers casual notes from Conway area residents including visits from Col J T Harper and W S Shaw, transportation to Little Rock, local commerce at Paine's and Allinder & McCulloch, and social events with 4 000 people in town. It mentions J W Firestone finishing a brick kiln, J E Little river farm cotton crop, and the death of A C Hovis with the body moved to Oak Grove.
Monday crowd of about 3000 attended the Lemon Bros circus with two railroad trains needed to move the show along the line. The item notes rapid recovery from minor injuries using Chamberlains Pain Balm sold by W. H. Martin & Co.
Cotton is selling on the streets at 8.25 to 8.50 and cotton seed at 14 per ton in Conway. Nearby notes report marriages near Maryville, several local residences and property sales, road improvements, and community updates from Beryl and surrounding towns.
The ninth annual Confederate veterans reunion met in Little Rock on June 9 and 10. They selected City Park for a monument to fallen comrades and urged a one mill pension tax. 10,000 dollars was requested for the monument fund. Col Newman spoke for tax fairness, and Col W T Cook was re elected commander with a slate of brigade generals. Also reported: Nelson Williams, 19, jailed in Mississippi County for killing his father and sister with an ax and arson to conceal the crime. Attorney General Davis and Governor Jones clash over county clerk appointments in large counties. Jones to appoint, court likely to decide legality.
Sheriff Hammock of Drew County arrested two white men named Briggs and Hemmill on a passenger train returning from the United Confederate Veterans encampment in Little Rock. Unarmed, he confronted the suspects, recovered a pistol, and forced surrender. The pair were jailed in Monticello and face horse stealing charges.
Secretary Hull refused to certify nominations for congress man at large saying no official notice shows the state is entitled to another seat. If Congress re enacts the 173 000 population rule the state would gain a representative but a reapportionment act is expected soon in the next session.
A carriage carrying James Sellen and family from Newport ran off a high embankment. The four year old daughter died, the wife was badly injured with doubtful recovery, one mule died, and the driver broke his ankle after jumping from the vehicle.
The Arkansas Southwestern Railway Company filed amended articles with the secretary of state announcing an extension of its line to Murfreesboro from Pike City, adding three miles to the current terminus.
The state railroad commission ordered the standard freight distance tariff extended between White & Black River Valley Railroad stations and connected lines of the Choctaw Oklahoma & Gulf Railroad within Arkansas and to Arkansas Midland Railroad. All current tariffs are cancelled and the two railroads must print and publish the standard distance tariff by October 25, 1909.
Geo Gates, a colored man from Graves Bayou, captured in Memphis, faces trial in Marion Crittenden county for a murder six years past. Kye Durham, neighbor, planned to take his wife away after Gates formed an attachment. Durham’s wife refused to go, jealousy rose, and Gates fatally shot Durham from ambush. Gates was ordered jailed but escaped en route.
A Washington dispatch reports the Arkansas monitor will be launched at Newport News Virginia around the first of next month. Preparation work has begun as the ship nears completion and a sponsor from Arkansas is expected to be announced soon. A river of dignitaries and Masons attended memorial services for R M Smith in Hot Springs on Sunday.
Little Rock police launch raids on dives to curb idle behavior among unemployed Black residents. Authorities plan to arrest those without steady work and assign them to county farm chores if they cannot prove lawful labor.
In a Helena district court Mary Young a 70 year old black woman was convicted of perjury for drawing about 1200 dollars as a dependent widow pension while having remarried after her husband’s death. The testimony showed she had remarried.
Rogers forms a brass band of young ladies. Sheriff elect B T Brewer of Cleveland County is dead. Flora Layton is cashier at the Bank of Yellville. W P Wittrell’s Hamburg sawmill burned. Malvern druggists to close Sundays. Texarkana compress to be rebuilt after fire. James Mc Cune’s Helena grocery burned on the 12th. A fireman and two tramps killed in a Kansas City Southern wreck near Mena. James Wilson struck dead by a falling limb near Take City. Arkansas monitor launch set for November 10 at Newport. Capital commission to lay corner stone November 14. Pine Bluff seeks census recount. A 7-year-old dies from peach seed kernels. Duncan’s marriage to Miss Malone weighing 363 pounds. Faulkner County boy 11 years old picked 200 pounds of cotton. Joe Daniel missing four months since last seen. Fulton Cooperage plant fire. loss about 10000 with 3000 insured. 11-year-old Henry Calloway, record juvenile cotton picker. Sam Cummings kills Andy Kirkpatrick at Atlanta in a dispute over a woman. T Newberry pardoned after manslaughter conviction. Government reports 493444 acres in Arkansas available for homesteads. Mrs Green wed to J H Leviser in Wynne. Tallest Arkansas man Henry Deppe, six seven, at Little Rock.
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