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Newspaper
Prescott Daily News
Location
Prescott, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
May 08, 1908
Page
2
The item from Prescott Arkansas reflects on a teacher admired for moral instruction and influence on pupils. It lauds the educator as a model of virtue and devotion within the town, highlighting character over campus achievements. The tone resembles a memorial tribute published in a daily paper.
The News will gladly correct any erroneous reflection on diaries standing or reputation of any person firm or corporation if brought to the publishers’ attention.
A sketch honors Prof Dunaway then Prescott schools superintendent election five years earlier and his work transforming the district. He united teachers patrons and pupils in school improvement creating enthusiasm and lasting results guiding a declamation contest and a 1908 state victory for the boys.
The Prescott school board invites sealed bids for a two story brick school building with plans available at Hamby & Haynie in Prescott or Gibb & Son in Little Rock. Bids open June 1 008 with contract awarded to the lowest responsible bidder. board reserves right to reject all bids.
In Prescott a regular meeting is called at the office of A. Bush on Saturday at 6 o clock PM to nominate two directors for the school district. The nominees include Miguel Torryan John M Pittman A Monson Teatise The d Putetes dot MM MiPien deck Cosyean I MM Wins Vi Buchanan John Smith.
Rainy weather dominates the week as Mrs Edd Beaver and Miss Esther Knights with Baylas Gillespie and others vacation guests of Wise and Gordon Gillespie on Sunday. Mrs Bynam Jolleman’s musical was enjoyed by all including Mr Tynan Jolleman. Miss Ethel Sweatman of Chidester visited relatives here Sunday.
A coroner's jury hears that Mrs. Bella Guinness sought her relative's help to locate missing victims and urged him to visit LaPorte. Letters in Norwegian urged selling his brother's stock and collaborating to find him. Roy Lamphere faces murder charges tied to Mrs. Guinness's killings.
Bessie Conklin, a Michigan City resident and former LaPorte neighborhood resident, is jailed in LaPorte as a key witness in the Lamphere Guinness murder case. She is not accused of complicity, but her testimony is deemed crucial for the grand jury hearing next week. Authorities say Lamphere threatened Mrs. Guinness and claimed to possess information that could implicate her.
A Laporte County widow known as Mrs Guinness ran a matrimonial ad in Chicago May listing a farm owner seeks a well supplied gentleman to join fortunes. Victims lured to personal visits with no letter replies accepted. Police report suggests deadly outcomes for those who answered.
Secret session of the Alabama International Sunday School association executive committee investigated a protest against Booker T. Washington as a speaker at the Louisville convention. The protest was deemed too late, and Washington will remain on the program, likely boosting Alabama attendance.
Mrs M A Stevens died of heart failure aged seventy six. She was mother of Hon T N Jones and had lived in Tyler twenty two years after coming from Yazoo City Mississippi.
Palestine Texas May 8 Mrs Samuel Bradt widow of a man killed in a railroad wreck was awarded 20000 damages against the International and Great Northern railway in a court decision announced today.
May 8 in Denton Texas the game is canceled due to pastors in the city opposing allowing a female baseball team to play here.
In Amarillo Texas Mrs R B Wyllie wife of the Santa Fe shops master mechanic was seriously wounded when her young son discharged a revolver by accident The incident occurred in Amarillo on May 8 and left the mother in serious condition with no further details given about treatment or aftermath.
In New Orleans on May 8 a new fire erupted hours after the Canal street store of F. F. Hansell & Bro and H. B. Stevens & Co seemed extinguished. The adjacent Dreyfus company building caught fire and burned completely by 10 o'clock, increasing the total loss to about 500000 to 600000 dollars.
Modern Woodmen in Texas convenes in Austin on May 8 with about 300 attendees at the first annual Texas gathering.
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