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Newspaper
Prescott Daily News
Location
Prescott, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Oct 24, 1908
Page
2
A 1907 Prescott Daily News notice cites the paper’s post office entry date and subscription rates. Report describes night riders fleeing a guarded countryside with posses and soldiers as Governor Patterson faces open threats during his departure from camp en route to Walnut Log.
Camp Nero Tenn October 23 Startling developments point to arrests of masked night riders who stormed Walnut Log hotel Tuesday morning killing Capt Quentin Rankin and sparing Col R Taylor who aided prosecutions of squatters on fishing and hunting lands. Military authorities say evidence supports arrest of about 50 men. martial law looms as troops converge. Governor Patterson has not issued a proclamation yet awaiting Union City court session. Col Tatum commands state militia awaiting further orders.
Major Will Stoddard travels Carlisle for the Central of Arkansas Fair gathering quality horticultural and agricultural exhibits. He previously secured top specimens at the Hot Springs Fair and received a barrel of apples from Fayetteville for the department display under Commissioner Tucker.
State Superintendent George D. Cook and a party returned from an eastern trip aimed at gathering data to foster Arkansas agricultural colleges. They visited Wisconsin and Minnesota institutions, the Chicago University Agricultural Department, and conferred in New York Boston and Albany with the Southern Education Board.
The report praises the University of Wisconsin farm college with 4,900 students and its impact on corn production, livestock quality, and dairy energy. It notes the State Agricultural High School near St Paul with 700 trainees and the Stout Industrial Training School in Menominee endowing agricultural careers. Arkansas hopes to establish similar institutions statewide.
Church schedule lists Catholic, Cumberland Presbyterian, Methodist and other denominations with service times, Sunday school hours, and upcoming topics. Notable items include Missionary day for Sunday schools, Bible class topics on origins and destiny, and invitations to join Bible study at Woodmanha.
The Bohemian Magazine presents diverse fiction and features for November. A standout tale by Henry Oyen, An Anarchist of the Big Timber, follows a lone backwoodsman fighting a lumber firm in Chicago. Other pieces include Pra ter Emerson Browne's From Them That Have Went and Twenty Thousand Miles with Bernhardt, plus articles on science, graft, and theatrical color portfolios. The humorous department shines as the season’s best.
Notice of an election on November 8 1908 in Nevada County Arkansas for nine presidential electors and one congressman with designated polling places in Albany Laneburg Sutton Boughton Rosston Emmet Morris Hatley's Store Glenville Court House Bodcaw Brisbane Redland Lackland Wire Road School House Wallsville Pleasant Hill Bluff City Subscribed October 1908 by Sheriff E D Hood.
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