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Newspaper
Prescott Daily News
Location
Prescott, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Oct 23, 1908
Page
4
Local notices report theater goers attending Romeo and Juliet at Theator ium and a large audience at Texarkana vireus showing. Miss Marion Waller spends day in Emmet while J H Bliss travels to Fourdon on business.
Fresh celery at Hitt Grocery Co. Ernest Stainton spends today in Texarkana. Theater change to night at Theaterium Edison Munn in town today. A daughter born yesterday to Mr. and Mrs. Clint Sanridge. Mrs. W. N. Bentis leaves on the Cannon Ball for Texarkana. For sale good safe horse apply to H. F. Richardson. Mrs. Shankle receives hats Cow Boy Bronco Crusher. First meeting of Geo J. Terry creditors in Texarkana on November 2. Sheriff Hood sends poll books for county election on November 3. Jay Stainton back from six months west trip, plans Prescott fall. Mr. and Mrs T. C. McRae and others attend reception for Mr. and Mrs. John D. Barlow at Hope.
W J Orner came back from a two week trip to his former home in Indianapolis where politics run high and opinions vary greatly. Rev J W Barkwell pastor of Maal Vern Presbyterian and treasurer of the Akane tas Anti Saloon League is in the city registered at the Metropolitan. He formerly led the Cumberland Presbyterian church in Little Rock and has joined the Southern Presbyterian. he believes unification of Presbyterian factions is near.
Arkansas Railroad Commission in special session weighs whether Rock Island should build a new station at West Seventh Street or near Pulaski Heights. Committees from both areas presented arguments, and the matter was taken under advisement for review on November 4. Notice will be issued to railroads filing the new passenger rate, to be considered at the next meeting.
The commission will review three count rates and decide approvals. They ordered notices to railroad companies to follow a rule estimating cottonwood gum lumber and wood weight where no railroad loadages exist. An alternative order may require Cotton Belt to stop a fast day train at Humphrey or add a night station agent. Pine Bluff and Arkansas River Railroad must add an extra coach from Pine Bluff to Sheridan due to demand. A decision on a 500-foot track to connect Blytheville with the Frisco and Paragould Southwestern line was postponed for closer study.
Conway reports J. J. Doyne president of the state normal school has secured a promise of 10000 from the Peabody Educational Fund for an agricultural school linked to the normal. He expects a 40000 state appropriation in the next legislature to support the project.
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