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Newspaper
Prescott Daily News
Location
Prescott, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1908
Page
4
Local items report visits from Albert McMahon and Mrs. Duke, and travelers from Nashville and Louisiana. Church services, fraternal picnic plans, and business moves are noted, including E Woolford considering moving to Prescott and J W Lewis buying East Third Street property. Several residents plan longer stays or new homes.
Mrs. O H Helbig returned from St Louis visit. Galvanized roofing in stock at Prescott Supply. Misses Laura Carlyle and Jamie Young of Okolona visiting. Mrs. J L Moore and Mrs Millard Wallthall left for Texarkana. Mrs W W Tompkins returned from Clin ton visit. South bound Cannon Ball reports heavy rain from Missouri line. O L Moncrief improving markedly. Merchants urged to offer premiums for first bale of new cotton. Open bolls reported. first bale soon to market. Marshal Marsh reports two jailbreakers fled toward Washington road and west of town. authorities alerted but escape risks remain.
The W. O. U. Solumn group meets with Mrs. Hugh Moncrief on August 21 and appoints a committee of Mesdames Pittman Westmoreland and Christopher to arrange for accepting a generous Nevada County Drug Store offer that will donate half its proceeds for a day. Ada Cantley Boney of Stamps, president of the W. CG. T. A., speaks on Scientific Temperance Instruction in the Schools, praising teachers’ role in the temperance movement.
A grown view of childhood studies shows ongoing, steady work to apply scientific knowledge for public good. Educators praise the department, Catholic abstinence groups push study in parochial schools, and universities add courses to train teachers for lifelong voluntary prohibition via reason science and faith.
The Presbyterian church will hold preaching tomorrow at 11 a.m. and 8 15 p.m with Sabbath School at 10 a.m. Rev Dinwiddie preaches next Sunday at Cumberland Presbyterian Church urging members to attend. Session topic is Consecration for Service with a morning sermon and no evening service as the pastor visits Mt Olive Church in the county.
Elder Erwin invites members to a service schedule next week with Bible school at 10 a m preaching at 11 a m on The Mother Church and an evening message at 8 15 p m titled The Way of the Transgressor It Hard Cordial invitation extended by ELD R A Highsmith.
Brief items report a Tutt ish cabinet with two Christians. a Democratic ticket organized in Shelby County Tennessee. excitement in Byers Clay Texas. a buggy accident at Yorktown Texas. A B Hollifield’s store near Dallas robbed of 700 dollars. a 14 000 attendance at a Confederate reunion in Dirll Brath county Texas. Houston city commissioners vote 100000 bond for streets. Opal Vance of San Antonio dies while hair combing. ex Confederate soldier A N Atkinson dies near Karnes City after a beating. J P Archibald of Blairsville Pa elected president of the National Association of Retail Jewelers in Cincinnati. First Lieutenant Gordon assigned at Carlisle Military Academy in Texas.
Cardinal Gibbons shows improvement as intestinal trouble ends. Wheat receipts in Kansas City on Thursday reach 199,000 bushels amid strong market activity.
Captain G Purse records a developer death by self inflicted shooting in Savannah Georgia during August. An active demand note from New York refers to opening stocks showing strong buying interest as markets begin Friday trading.
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