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Newspaper
Prescott Daily News
Location
Prescott, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Oct 12, 1908
Page
4
Community items include visits to relatives, births, and travel to fairs in Hot Springs and Indianapolis. Local businesses promote meats, groceries, and cigars at Geo J Terry and Buchanan Cloud while rail tickets to the State Fair are offered. Theaters announce the new program at Theatorium and Hortense Neilsen coming January 31.
Theatorium will offer a souvenir to every attending lady for Wedu day. Proff&. BE. Crump of Emmet reported Kiomet Heil school thriving. Ben J. Daniel returned from Omaha after attending the National Rural Carriers Convention as Arkansas delegate. Nevada County common pleas held court with Judge Denman. several cases on the docket. Woodmen from Prescott lodge traveled to Laneburg for a meeting where candidates were initiated.
O. D. Ludwig secretary of state filed suit in Little Rock against Reverends James A. Anderson A C Millar P R Engleberger and D J Weems publishers of the Western Methodist. The suit charges slander for articles condemning the state board of election commissioners and alleging they sold out to the whiskey ring in appointing county election commissioners.
The article states Wig seeks fifty thousand dollars in damages charged directly to the state board led by Gov. Pindall Attorney General Kirby and Secretary Ludwig with other aides expected to follow.
Phillip Scott reports Chicago trip success locating homeseekers for Clark county. Frank Dillard from Prescott plans a first class clothing shop near West Side Hotel. A new two story brick hotel opened to the public. Train service paused to welcome visitors. Major J L Beirne dies at 86, buried as a Mason in Beirne cemetery after long decline.
Texarkana Arkansas October 11 The Estate Synods of the Southern Presbyterian Church of Arkansas and Texas will convene in annual session in this city next month. The gathering marks a joint meeting of the two state synods to discuss church affairs and regional concerns.
The Arkansas synod will meet on the Arkansas side and the Texas synod on the Texas side in First Presbyterian church. About 100 Arkansas and 200 Texas delegates are expected, many ministers among them. Joint sessions and national speaker addresses are planned, with warm welcomes prepared. A preliminary evangelistic conference under the Evangelistic Mission begins tomorrow at the First Presbyterian church.
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