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Newspaper
Prescott Daily News
Location
Prescott, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1908
Page
4
Local roundup reports multiple travel plans business trips and family visits across Arkadelphia Jackson Township and Newport. It notes a Gordon Phillips Bertha Schaiff marriage license first in a week and grave unveiling for Sovereign Joe Britt at Boughton on Sunday Aug 30.
Judge Hirst of Morris and Anderson Vick visit Prescott while J B Munn of Laneburg and Brooks Hamilton of Little Rock spend a day in town. Prescott Supply & Hardware advertises galvanized roofing. Mr and Mrs Crow visit Cam en. Mrs Herring and Mrs Warmack of Bodcaw tour the city. Elder Felts opens a protracted meeting at New Home church with a large crowd expected for singing by county classes.
B H Bowman from ten miles south of Warren delivered the season's first bale of cotton to Warren, weighing 500 pounds and selling for 15 cents to J T Ederington & Co. The bale will be shipped to Pine Bluff to claim the regional premium for the first bale.
A young man pleads with a saloon keeper to refuse service to prevent ruin. He recalls his own descent after heavy drinking and asks the landlord to deny drinks to the two youths. The keeper vows never to sell again, hoping to spare others. The scene ends with a call to public duty and a moral about drink.
Fragmentary verse urges strict licensing laws on alcohol, echoing calls to write it on ballots and gates. The lines emphasize nationwide enforcement and duty across churches, halls, and state spaces, stressing that where alcohol exists, regulation should follow.
Frankfort Kentucky August 15 Governor Willson emphatically denied that he told W S Taylor to return to Kentucky after the November election to stand trial on indictments charging complicity in the Goebel murder The governor said there is absolutely no foundation for any reference in the dispatch from a Louisville newspaper.
Indianapolis dispatch reports William B. Taylor denying knowledge of a Kentucky trial return after the election. He insists on no further comment or reporting and confirms he wants no payment. A separate note from Texas describes blacksmith Charles McDowell being kicked by a mule at Rhean Mill, sustaining minor scalp injuries.
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Rev. R. Mc Quie of Montgomery claims after visiting Marthasville Warren County Missouri graveyard that Daniel Boone was never moved to Kentucky. He says Kentucky men misidentified a stranger’s grave for Boone and Boone and his wife were not buried together.
Pekin August 15 no official notice has been taken regarding reports that juntas have been smuggling guns and ammunition of Japanese origin into Chin chou.
Tony Pastor the theatrical manager in New York said to be near death shows some improvement. Kansas City wheat shipments on Thursday totaled 200000 bushels.
San Antonio August 15 The new Democratic executive committee took no action to name a candidate for commissioner of agriculture in place of Colonel Miner because the nominee has not filed his declination of the nomination received in the primaries.
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