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Newspaper
Prescott Daily News
Location
Prescott, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1908
Page
4
Local Memphis items note ice cream at Hester ly's fountain and short trips to Gurdon. Pine shingles offered by Junction City Lumber Co. Several residents travel, with Mrs. J F Stone and Mrs. J W Tedford among visitors. Auction and rental notices appear along with real estate for sale and frame pictures.
Local view post cards at the Nevada County Drug Store. Invitations are sent to Prescott young ladies for a reception tomorrow at Miss Journlee Powell s home in compliment to Miss Berta Pittman. George W. Johnson of Freder ick Okla visits Prescott to see his son Sim Johnson. An all day singing is planned at Bluff Springs on the third Sunday in June. Everyone invited, bring song books and baskets. Iron Mountain uses own tracks for light traffic amid rising Red River flooding and bridge washout reports.
A large party from leading town families planned a Lackland Springs visit next month. Dic Lewis, Woodman Camp clerk, cannot attend the Lov W C Gosden monument unveiling at Oaklawn Cemetery in Little Rock next Sunday but will send an oration from the camp. Also reported is a theft loss of $200 from Mr C W Waters of Taylor township, with funds kept in a trunk. investigation continues to identify the thief.
The passage recalls women's pivotal role in pushing laws to raise soldiers pay and prohibit liquor in soldiers homes, praises the District of Columbia child labor act, notes Senate approval of treaties and momentum toward arbitration. It envisions a future where swords become ploughshares and women gain influence in peace efforts.
Austin June 16 Chairman Mayfield of the railroad commission declared no ruling bars express firms from hauling ice and fresh meat free to railroad section houses. He noted the anti pass law has no provision for free transport of these goods to employees, who may be forced to do without in heat. Also noted, thirty University of Texas students, mostly middle class, sat for the legal license exam before the district board.
The International Printing Pressmen and Assistants' Union of North America began a weeklong session in Mobile on Monday with a sizeable delegation in attendance.
Evelyn Thaw and her husband are reconciled and will not be separated, attorney Daniel O'Reilly stating the couple remains united. The news notes the thaw in the high-profile family matter prominent in New York on June 16.
Memphis June 1 The Commercial-Appeal crop summary describes above normal rainfall in central and western states with rapid growth and thrifty cultivation. Eastern states show light to moderate rain and promising crops. Oklahoma and western Arkansas face excessive rain with inundated bottoms and lost cotton. Replanting underway where lands recede. Stands generally good elsewhere. southern Texas fly-fruited. Tennessee and northern Mississippi and Alabama show grassy conditions.
The transport Sherman reached Astoria and headed to quarantine grounds after a navy man aboard died of smallpox before Honolulu. Two days earlier another enlisted man showed symptoms. The 1,182 sailors must be vaccinated and quarantined for fourteen days and the ship fumigated under quarantine measures.
Washington reports the state department says Alcazar united forces near Tangier after killing the commander and declaring for the pretender. The governor said the prisoner was sent to Fez. Also, Levee at Taylortown near Shreveport broke at 3 am flooding rich farmland and crops. Three local brick buildings damaged by a Shattuck cyclone. Pugilist George Siler dies in cage. A dynamite blast at Randle Carter kills one. A negro, aged 116, dies at Ennis. A mule dies from a county accident. J Gregg Spravert noted farmer.
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