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Newspaper
Prescott Daily News
Location
Prescott, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 1908
Page
4
Community updates include visits by J D Purtle and the Lightfoot sisters, guards returning from Little Rock, and Election Proclamation ahead of September 14 voting. Rain reports target Laneburg and nearby areas while Prescott misses a shower arc. A Main Spring camp meeting and W C T U gathering are announced, with local tax delinquents list nearing 170 names.
C Sharp lineman for the telephone company is in Arka delphia attending a nervous wedding. Sheriff Hood traveled to Little Rock to place Miss Elnora Hicks of Georgia township in the state hospital for nervous diseases. She was accompanied by her brother Ab Hicks who lived with her.
Special to the News reports a St. Louis Iron Mountain train en route from Little Rock to Kansas City ran off the track just across the state line near Ft. Smith at 2 17 this morning. Thirteen passengers are seriously injured but no deaths are reported. The engine stayed on the rails and cause is not yet known.
The first bale of Texas big ball cotton was delivered by Geo. Dismukes a Black resident west of town earning a $25 premium. Jim Flowers white farmer from Spring Hill brought a second bale weighing 582 pounds sold to Staple Cotton Co. for 10 cents per pound. Otis Brazell pitcher for Monroe in Cotton States League impressed in a 6 to 1 win over Mobile. Hope city council approved a deal for 80 acres of ball park and fair grounds contingent on a street warranty deed from local landowners. Luther Middlebrooks tours by easy stages plans a world trip returning Sept 1 1909. The Water District No. 1 property assessments list to be submitted for bonding approval.
Mrs Johnson traveled from here to Little Rock to appeal a $100 pistol fine for her husband. Judge Batteree remitted the fine after receiving letters of support from local figures, with Gov. Pindall and others mentioned. The piece also notes a university scholarship contest and rail policy remarks on weed enforcement and depot funding.
Little Rock Aug 20 Superintendent M. M. Richey of the Tron Mountain said the Union station remains unfinished because there is no money to resume work. The remark explains why construction has stalled and highlights financial constraints facing the project.
Miss Lyda Griffin tours eastern markets for millinery styles. Circuit Judge J. M. Carter travels to Winthrop and Little River for fishing with Derrell A. Rimes and others. Texarkana receives first cotton bale of the season grown near Red Water Bowie county, weighing 610 pounds and bought by Jno. Ingram for Lee Rosenberg Cotton Co at 10 cents. H. A. Brinkerhoff visits from Long Prairie Lafayette county to view a steam plow, 110 horsepower, 12 foot swath, 40 acres daily, three operators, capable on steep grades and thick brush. he plans to plow his land and neighbors’.
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