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Excerpts from 1939 Forrest City Daily Times Herald By Paul V. Isbell-November 23, 2016

Index:

Births:, 1 Telephone and Advertisements for 1939:, Deaths:, 6 152 Local News:, 47 Telephone Numbers and Advertisements Marriages:, 115 other than 1939 :, 136 National News:, 126 World News:, 127

Births:

Birth-19390301-Born to Mr. and Mrs. Rufus Webster of Marianna, a daughter. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Bullock announce the arrival of a son, born last night at the Bullock home, named Ralph, Jr. Born at Baptist Hosp. in Memphis, a daughter, to Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Bagwill of Round Pond. Of Interest here is the announcement of the birth of a son yesterday to Dr. and Mrs. John Gholson of Clarksdale, Tenn, named John Gholson, Jr. Page 2 of 158

Birth-19390306-Born last night to Mr. and Mrs. William Bradford of Bonair, a son.

Birth-19390308--Born this morning to Mr. and Mrs. Pressley Clark, a daughter, at the Baptist Hosp. in Memphis

Birth-19390313-Born to Dr. and Mrs. C. N. Bogart, Saturday at the Bogart home, a son, John Newton.

Birth-19390405-Born last night to Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Walter Sanders of this city, a son, at the Baptist Hosp. in Memphis.

Birth-19390410-Born Easter Sunday morning at the Baptist Hosp. in Memphis, a daughter, to Mr. and Mrs. William Fogg of Forrest City, named Donna Deane.

Birth-19390411-Of Interest here is the announcement of the birth of a daughter this morning to Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Bland of Lonoke. Mrs. Bland is the former Pauline Waterman of this City.

Birth-19390417-Mr. and Mrs. Carl Beadle announce the birth of their daughter, born this morning at the home of Mrs. Beadle, Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Crawford.

Birth-19390427-Born yesterday afternoon to Mr. and Mrs. Archie Ford a son at the Baptist Hosp. in Memphis named Charles Wade.

Birth-19390429-An announcement of interest is that of the birth of a son, Raymond Lee Garrison, Jr., early this morning at the Baptist Hosp. in Memphis, to Mr. and Mrs. Ray Garrison of this city. This is the first grandchild of County Clark and Mrs. C. R. Garrison.

Birth-19390510-Of interest is the birth of twin girls yesterday to Mr. and Mrs. Everette Rawlings of Los Angeles, former residents of Forrest City.

Birth-19390520-Born yesterday at the Baptist Hosp. in Memphis, a daughter, to Mr. and Mrs. James Hicky of this city.

Birth-19390613-Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Kent of Dallas, Texas announce the birth of a son, Jack William born this morning at the home of Mrs. Kent’s mother in Forrest City. Mrs. Kent will be remembered at the former Dorene Tipton.

Birth-19390620-Born this morning to Mr. and Mrs. Lonnie Felder, a boy.

Birth-19390707-Born this morning to Mr. and Mrs. James Fussell, Jr., of this city, a son.

Birth-19390710-Born last night to Mr. and Mrs. John C. Valentine at the Methodist Hosp. in Memphis, a son, named John Charles Valentine, Jr. Mrs. Valentine is the former Mildred Nolan. Of interest here is the announcement of the birth of a son to Mrs. Charles Page 3 of 158

Starkey of Johnson City, Tenn. on June 28, she will be remembered as Miss Martha Frances Raymer, a former resident of this city.

Birth-19390711-Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Briney announce the birth of a daughter born Friday at their home in this city and named her Alcie Yvonne.

Birth-19390712-Of interest here is the announcement of the birth of a son on July 7 to Dr. and Mrs. W. Hillman Williams in Ft.Worth hospital. He is named William David, II. The couple were former residents, he being employed with the Soil Conservation Service.

Birth-19390713-The infant son of Mr. and Mrs. James Fussell born last week has been named Alston Randolph.

Birth-19390714-Born Saturday to Mr. and Mrs. Jerome Fondren of this city, a daughter.

Birth-19390718-Mr. and Mrs. Henry W. Gregory, Jr. announce the birth of a daughter born at 5 am this morning at a Pine Bluff hospital They have named her Lida Simmons Gregory.

Birth-19390803-Mr. and Mrs. Joe West announce the birth of their daughter, July 28 at their home on Wolfe Street, named Jean. Born yesterday to Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Edgar Long, a son, named Jon Merriman.

Birth-19390805-An announcement of interest here of the birth of a daughter this morning to Mr. and Mrs. Edward Heustess at the hospital in Brownwood, Tenn. They are former residents of this city. She is the former Willena Paslay.

Birth-19390805-Mr. and Mrs. Henry Thomas announce the birth of a son born yesterday at Baptist Hosp. in Memphis, named James Allison.

Birth-19390815-born Friday to Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Parks of Helena, a son. They were former residents of this city.

Birth-19390818-An announcement of interest is that of the birth of a son on Aug. 13 to Mr. and Mrs. Howard McGhee of Haynes, named Gene Howard. Mrs. McGhee is the former Willie Mae Fondren. She and the baby are at her mother’s home, Mrs. Joe Conger in this city.

Birth-19390826-Of interest is the announcement of the birth of a daughter last night at the Baptist Hosp. in Memphis to Dr. and Mrs. C. B. Moore, Mrs. Moore is the former Adine Jones. Page 4 of 158

Birth-19390829-Born yesterday to Mr. and Mrs. O. W. Burns at their home in this city, a boy. Mr. and Mrs. B. B. Pankey announce the birth of a son, born this morning at their home in this city. He has been named Charles Lee.

Birth-19390902-An announcement of interest is the birth of a son yesterday to Mr. and Mrs. Woodrow Castleberry of Paragould. Mrs. Castleberry is the former Martha Hine of this city.

Birth-19390906-The infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Bert Sulcer has been named John Clarke, he was born Thursday at the Gartly-Ramsey Hosp. in Memphis. Mr. and Mrs. Herman Lambert announce the birth of a daughter, Joan Marie, born this week at their home west of this city. Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Oswalt announce the birth of a son, named Gerald Heustess Oswalt, last night at Baptist Hosp. in Memphis.

Birth-19390923-Born on Sept. 16 to Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Finch, at their home on Cross Street, a girl weighing 9 ¾ pounds, named Marilyn Dean.

Birth-19391003-Born Sunday to Mr. and Mrs. John R. Epps of Madison, a daughter at the McLemore Clinic in Memphis.

Birth-19391004-Born Saturday to Mr. and Mrs. Edward Harris at their home north of this city, a son.

Birth-19391007-Born yesterday afternoon to Mr. and Mrs. Roy H. Morris this city at Baptist Hosp. in Memphis, a girl.

Birth-19391011-Of interest is the birth of a daughter on Saturday to Mr. and Mrs. Fred Reginal of Lake Providence, La. Mrs. Reginal is the former Edna Grossman of this city. J. A. Clark of Heth is under treatment at the Baptist Hosp. in Memphis. Taylor B. Pyle and son Albert returned to Memphis, after visit to Mr. Pyle’s mother, Mrs. A. B. Pyle. Miss Bernice Cureton has returned to Blackfish Lake after visit to relatives in Panama, Okla. She and brother Eldon of Forrest City is visiting her here. J. A. Clark was admitted to Baptist Hosp. in Memphis for observation and treatment. FCHS Mustang football team: Backfield-Bob Cope, Talley Turk, Gene Freeman, Ernest Whittenton, and Willie Vincent; Forward wall-Sossaman, Ostrander, Stewart, Doyle Harris, Garland Williams, Walter Moody, Ed McMahon, Meredith Wilson, Tom Seay, Bill Jolly.

Birth-19391018-An announcement of the birth of a son yesterday to Mr. and Mrs. Joe McGee of Conway at the Memorial Hosp. in Conway. Mrs. McGee is the former Sara Darnall of Colt. Page 5 of 158

Birth-19391019-Born yesterday to Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Pettus of Widener, a son, at the Baptist Hosp. in Memphis.

Birth-19391020-An announcement of interest is the birth of a son Tuesday at the Baptist Hosp. in Memphis to Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Wood. Mrs. Wood is the former Mary Elizabeth Carrick.

Birth-19391021-Born this morning a son to Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Evans. Born to Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Alexander of Pine Bluff on Monday, a girl. Mr. Alexander is son of Mr. V. O. Alexander, and brother of Mrs. W. W. Draper. Mr. and Mrs. Marion E. Durst of Tampa, Fla. gave birth to a daughter yesterday. Mr. Durst is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Walter V Durst of this city.

Birth-19391030-Born yesterday morning to Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Devazier of Caldwell, a son, Richard Harvey, at the home of Mrs. Devazier’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Dick Porter of Forrest City.

Birth-19391107-Born this week at the Methodist Hosp. in Memphis, a son to Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Lunsford of Hughes.

Birth-19391115-Born Sunday morning to Mr. and Mrs. I. B. Stewart, a son, I. B. Stewart, Jr.

Birth-19391116-Born Oct. 31 to Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Bell at their home west of this city, a girl.

Birth-19391121-Of interest here is the birth of son on Saturday to Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Gall of Gainesville, Fla. The baby is named James Robert, Mrs. Gall is the former Juanita Atkins of this city.

Birth-19391129-Born to Mr. and Mrs. Richard Smith of Round Pond this week, at the Methodist Hosp. in Memphis, a son. JP G. M. Dooley is recovering from a lights stroke of paralysis which he suffered Friday.

Birth-19391207-Birth of a daughter last evening to Mr. and Mrs. Samuel L. Bowman of Eudora at the Lake Village hospital named Alice Ann. Mrs. Bowman is the former Frances Walker of this city. Mrs. George P. Walker, Sr. is in Lake Village for the homecoming of her granddaughter.

Birth-19391209-Born this morning to Mr. and Mrs. Jake Crigger at the Baptist Hosp. in Memphis, a son. The father is Chief of Police for Forrest City. Page 6 of 158

Birth-19391211-Born Saturday afternoon to Mr. and Mrs. Haven Hodges of Parkin at the Baptist Hosp. in Memphis, a daughter, names Nancy.

Birth-19391212-Born this morning at St. Joseph’s Hosp. in Memphis a girl to Mr. and Mrs. Hugh L. Petty of this city.

Birth-19391213-Of interest here is the birth of a daughter Monday afternoon at the Baptist Hosp. in Memphis to Mr. and Mrs. Dana F. Sulcer of Marion.

Birth-19391219-Born yesterday to Mr. and Mrs. E. M. Collins of this city at Baptist Hosp. in Memphis a son named Bryant Greer Collins.

Birth-19391230-Born last night to Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Thomas of this city at the Baptist Hosp. in Memphis, a baby boy named W. D., Jr., Mrs. Thomas is the former Dora Neblett.

Deaths:

Death-19390301: Among those from out of town who attended the funeral services held here yesterday for Mrs. Willie A. (Walter A.) Wilkins were Miss Catherine Wilkins, Mr. and Mrs. Dan McKenzie, Mrs. Lula Albright, Mrs. Robert Jones, Mrs. Lou Smith, John Gray, Mrs. Mary West, Memphis; Mr. and Mrs. W. V. Moye, Marianna; Mrs. Ben Carr and Miss Robbie Cunningham, Parkin. Born 1862 Died 1939 FAG 15446524 Per 1900 Census Madison Township-Children: Sons: Walter Jacob “Jake” age 16 (b.1884 Miss-1909); Maurice Owen age 14 (b.1886 Miss-1960) Daughters: Willie Lee age 8 Married Weir & Richardson (b.1892 Ark-1967) Nannie V. age 5 b.Ark

Death-19390302: Colonel James M. Stewart, former prominent resident of this city dies in Little Rock. Body will be brought for burial in City Cemetery Friday morning. Colonel James M. Stewart, 97, Confederate Veteran, former clerk of the Circuit Court of St. Francis Co., died Wednesday, Mar.1,1939, at his home in Little Rock, 200 Gaines Street. Mr. Stewart moved from Forrest City in 1890. His death occurred on his birthday anniversary. Born in 1842 at Collierville, Tenn., 24 miles east of Memphis, Colonel Stewart came to Arkansas with his parents when he was 13. His father operated a sawmill at Madison, four miles from Forrest City. When the war between the states broke out, his parents at first refused to allow him to enlist because of his youth., Finally he was granted permission and joined Hart’s regiment at Forrest City under Paul M. Cobbs. The regiment originally was a cavalry unit, but was dismounted and became an infantry unit in General McRae’s brigade. He served in Arkansas throughout the war and in the battle of Prairie Grove, suffered a bullet wound in the thigh which forced him to remain in a hospital for three weeks. He was adjutant in Hart’s regiment at the close of the war. He returned to Forrest City after the war and played a leading part in the development of the city. The city’s development began after the famous Southern general, General Nathan Page 7 of 158

Bedford Forrest built a construction camp there and began work on the railroad from Memphis to Little Rock. Colonel Stewart served as circuit clerk of St. Francis Co. for 12 years. He was one of the original stockholders of the Bank of Eastern Arkansas and helped to organize it in 1866. He also was one of a group which built the Marion Hotel at Forrest City. He was in the insurance business here under the firm name Stewart & Taylor. The firm now is known as Taylor-Knight & King. He was a Mason and held many honors in Confederate veteran organizations. At one time he was elected general of the Order of Stars and Bars. Colonel Stewart became Secretary of the Arkansas Building and Loan Assoc. in Little Rock. Later he wrote insurance, and early in the 1920’s, became owner with Garland Tillar of a 320 acre tract on the Arch Street pike, which they developed into an addition to Little Rock. Colonel Stewart is survived by a son, Dr. Elbert Stewart of Little Rock, and a daughter, Mrs. Mary Elise Stewart (J. W.) Naylor of Forrest City. The body will arrive on the Rock Island train Friday morning, with services and burial at City Cemetery. Pallbearers will be: Harry Knight, Jr., Jeff Eaton, Alston Taylor, James Taylor, Otto Bridgforth, and Olmon Hargraves, all of Forrest City. FAG 15446346

Death-19390302-Relatives and friends from St. Francis County who attended the funeral services held Tuesday at Wynne for M. W. Cobbs were: Mrs. Charles Izard, Mrs. Nettie Christopher, A. M. Heath, Lee Heath, and children and Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Tittle, Forrest City; Mrs. W. H. Harmon, Mr. and Mrs. Jack Jones, Mrs. Paul Spivey, Mrs. Frank McCown, Mrs. E. W. Pollard, Mrs. T. Ellis, Mrs. E. C. Beck, Mrs. W. D. Burch, Mr. and Mrs. O. G. Moore, Mrs. T. H. Tucker, Mrs. M. D. Warren, Mrs. R. B. Wise, Mrs. Tom Green, Mildred Green, Dr. and Mrs. E. J. Chaffin, and son, Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Ray, Dr. C. B. Russworm, Mr. and Mrs. R. G. Nickle, Mar. and Mrs. J. G. Adams, Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Love, and Miss Evelyn Pilkington, Hughes.

Death-19390306-Brinkley-Jack Gray, 43 year old farmer of the Keevil community, near here, was killed when struck by a passenger train a mile south of Brinkley Saturday night. Engineer Pete Peterson said Mr. Gray was lying on the tracks as his train rounded a curve and that he did not see him in time to avoid running over him. FAG 47294155 Born:Aug.31,1896 Died:Mar.4,1939

Death-19390313-Clarence McCollum, 26 year old grocery man of Greasy Corner, is being held in the St. Francis Co. jail here today on a manslaughter charge in connection with the death Saturday night, March 11,1939, of Bob Hickman, 45 year old carpenter of Hughes. McCollum’s bond has been set at $500. Coroner Parham Christopher said this morning that the inquest held yesterday at Hughes, the coroner’s jury returned the verdict that Hickman’s death was the result of a heavy blow received on the head when he was struck with a stone thrown by McCollum. Deputy Mitchell Taylor reports that the two had been engaged in a fight on the streets of Hughes at about 9:30 pm Saturday Page 8 of 158 night. Hickman is survived by a wife and two daughters, one 13, and one 7. Funeral services were held yesterday afternoon.

Death-19390314-Funeral services were to be held this afternoon at the Citizens FH in W. Memphis for Mrs. Beulah Grace Holmes (Luther K.) Hadley, of Hughes, who died yesterday, Feb.13,1939, at the Baptist Hosp. in Memphis of pneumonia. Services will be conducted by Rev. E. A. Autry with burial in Elmwood Cemetery. Mrs. Hadley, a former resident of Toccopola, Miss. had been in hospital since Feb.11. She was a member of the Baptist Church. Surviving are her husband, three children, Mary, Charles, and Marguerette Hadley; her father, R. M. Holmes of Oxford, Miss.; four sisters, Mrs. Edna Florence (H. C.) Black of Oxford; Mrs. Jack Little of W. Memphis; and Mrs. Dovie Jewell (R. B.) Shelton of Memphis; three brothers, H. N. Holmes of Mathiston, Miss; Raymond Victor and George Asbury Holmes of Memphis. Born:Jun.23,1915 Died:Mar.13,1939 FAG 115970473

Death-19390314-Winfield Davis, prominent St. Francis Co. farmer, passes away at Memphis Baptist Hosp. last night following a long illness. Services to be held this afternoon at Stevens FH, and interment at City Cemetery. A native of Forrest City, Mr. Davis was born on June 19,1883, the son of the late Thomas Asbury Ramsay Davis and Anna Jones Alley Davis. He lived the greater part of his life at the Davis ancestral home located west of Forrest City where he maintained farming interests. The youngest of seven children, Mr. Davis was the last to be claimed by death. His brothers and sisters preceded him in death as follows: Benjamin Davis, Jan.18,1868; Sudie Davis, Jan.29,1893; Charles A. Davis, Nov.29,1893; Henry A. Davis, Oct.12, 1920; Mattiella Davis, Jul.2,1928; Tommie Anna Davis Beazley, Dec. 11,1934. On Aug. 17,1911, he was married to Mrs. Kate Fields in Memphis, and to this union were born three children: Thomas Fields Davis, Memphis; Richard and Margaret Davis of Forrest City. Mr. Davis was a member of the Methodist Church, having been baptized in 1884 by the late Rev. Ar. R. Winfield, one of the outstanding Methodist ministers of Arkansas at that time. Mr. Davis’ grandfather, the Rev. Arthur Davis was a pioneer minister of this section of the state and preached the second sermon ever delivered in Forrest City. Throughout Mr. Davis held the respect of the people of his community. His honesty, truthfulness, and aggressiveness won admiration and love of a host of friends. He is survived by his wife and children. Rev. R. S. Hayden, pastor of First Methodist Church in charge of services. Active Pallbearers will be: Webb Sweet, Dudley McFall, J. B. Fletcher, Tom Campbell, S. C. Armstrong, and Fred Eldridge. Honorary pallbearers: S. A. Rolfe, E. A. Rolfe, E. J. Dean, George Morledge, Roger West, John Christian, Frank King, D. E. Hoshall, J. M. Campbell, F. F. Harrelson, R. C. Eldridge, Fenner Eldridge, Walter Allen, Charles Buford, Charles Havens, Carol Woods, Clabe Fletcher, H. A. Knight, Sr., Louis McDaniel, Finas McDaniel, Page 9 of 158

Bruce Smith, C. R. Garrison, J. T. Sanders, Tom Horney, Dr. E. J. Kyle, Dr. J. S. Davidson, and Dr. N. C. McCown. FAG 15132615 Born:Jun.19,1883 Died: Mar.14,1939

Death-19390317-Former Resident of Colt dies in Little Rock, Miss Elizabeth C. Hamilton, died today, age 52. Services will be at Loughridge cemetery, 5 miles east of Colt tomorrow conducted by Rev. Clarence Weinand. Miss Hamilton is survived by four brothers, Virgia Hamilton, Claud Hamilton, Thurston Hamilton, and Edgar Hamilton of Colt; one sister, Mrs. Annie C. Fletcher of Forrest City and other relatives. FAG 171567129

Death-19390317-Negro woman dies of burns received when home burns. Mrs. Idalle Lee, aged about 40 years, died last night of burns when her home on the Charley Johnson place near Burnt Cane was destroyed by fire yesterday afternoon. She is survived by her husband, Clemmie Lee.

Death-19390325-Baptist brotherhood respecting the death of James G. Sanders on March 23, 1939. Brother Sanders was an active, much beloved and valuable member of First Baptist Church as a deacon and long time leader. Could be Jim Gwyn Sanders died Dec.18,1938 (By J. C. Ashworth, J. M. Williams, Grover C. Prince, Committee]

Death-19390327: Funeral services will be held for George Millican, nephew of Mrs. S. C. Armstrong, today at Vicksburg, Miss., who died Saturday night in Vicksburg from injuries received in plane crash two hours before. He was flying with Lieut. Joe Moore when the plane crashed near the Vicksburg airport. The Lieutenant received critical injuries. Mr. Millican is survived by his wife and two children.

Death-19390327-Mrs. S. J. Dean left Saturday for Ft. Smith, having been called there on account of the death of her brother in law, Gilmer Kirk (G. K.) Dixon, Sr.. She will remain in Ft. Smith all week. Born 1882 Died 1939 FAG 54764181 Son: Gilmer Kirk Dixon (1911- 1987) Wife: Maye T. Dixon (1888-1969)

Death-19390328-Jury convicts W. H. Freeman, Negro, on trial in St. Francis Co. Circuit Court for the murder of Charley McEwen, also Negro, as the result of a shooting during a craps game in Hughes last year. Convicted of second degree murder with a penalty of seven years in prison. Elmo Taylor, the new prosecuting attorney’s first case. Billy Baker, student at Mississippi State College, will arrive tonight to visit his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Baker. Mrs. Jennie b. Wilkins returned yesterday to her home in Arkabutla, Miss., after a visit with her daughter, Mrs. W. J. Baker,. And family. Mrs. Lucille Benson will leave tomorrow for Gulfport, Miss. to visit her daughter, Miss Edith Benson who is an instructor in the college at Gulfport. Shirley Beck of Hughes is a patient in the Baptist Hosp. in Memphis. Page 10 of 158

Death-19390330-Testimony began this afternoon in the trial of Mrs. Cora Davis, former operator of Hillcrest, a dance hall and tourist camp east of Forrest City, who is charged in the first degree murder in the death of Eugene Puckett, 23, son of Mr. and Mrs. M. F. Puckett, whose body pierced with a bullet was found in the bed room of Mrs. Davis at Hillcrest, shortly after midnight, Aug.14,1938. It is believed that Mrs. Davis was jealous of Helen, wife of Eugene Puckett. The father of Puckett was the first to take the stand and testified that his son had frequently stayed at Hillcrest for weeks at time. Other witnesses who testified were Dr. W. A. Winter, Dr. J. S. Davidson, and Frank Hunter. The doctors said the bullet entered through the back. Mr. Hunter, formerly of Marianna, came from Los Angeles, Calif. to testify, as he was there that night. Jury chosen: W. R. Ferguson, Fred G. Moseley, T. E. Christopher, Palmer Hobbs, W. J. Baker, Edgar Lindsey, Thomas W. Stout, O. L. Kinder, Jim Edgar, Frank Burkhart, John Ellis and Jack Pettus. Judge is A. M. Bradford replacing Circuit Judge E. M. Pipkin.

Death-19390331-Dr. and Mrs. F. L. Proctor left early this morning for Fordyce, having been called there on account of the death of Dr. Proctor’s mother, Mrs. Mary Francis Henry Proctor, who passed away at her home in that city yesterday. Funeral arrangements had not been made last night. Spouse: William Joseph Proctor (1836-1920) Born Sep. 14,1842 Died: Mar. 30,1939 Children: William Jesse Proctor (1870 - 1958)* Feaster Legrand Proctor (1875 - 1956) Aubrey Henry Proctor (1879 - 1945)* Mary Eureka Proctor Evans (1884 - 1982)* FAG 5987764

Death-1939033-Mrs. A. M. Bradford and son, Hope Lee, left this morning for Tunica, Miss., to attend the funeral of a friend, Mrs. Evelyn S. Caldwell (S. P.) Hammond. Born Mar.15,1877 Died Mar.30,1939 FAG 102431886

Death-19390405-Mrs. Evalina Jane Robertson Tarver, 89, passed away at the home of her daughter, Mrs. C. C. Fogg, in Widener this morning after a lingering illness. Mrs. Tarver, known to her many friends as, “Miss Queen,” had made her home in Widener for the past three and a half years. A native of Mississippi, she was born Nov.12, 1849, at Pleasant Hill, and had spent the greater part of her life in that city. She was married to Benjamin T. Tarver, who preceded her in death about 27 years ago. Mrs. Tarver was a devoted member of the Methodist Church. Surviving her are one daughter, Mrs. Fogg; two sons, Clyde Tarver, Pleasant Hill, Miss.; and George Tarver, Las Cruces, N. Mexico; one sister, Mrs. Alice Henley, Pleasant Hill, Miss. 10 grandchildren, and 14 great grandchildren and one great great grandchild. Funeral service tomorrow afternoon at the Methodist Church in Pleasant Hill, the Rev. Thomas McKnight of Widener will be conducting the services. FAG 104342029 Page 11 of 158

Death-19390405-The body of a Negro woman picked up from the Missouri-Pacific railroad tracks one and one half miles west of Hamlin, Cross county, after it had been hit by a freight train Sunday night was identified as being that of Susie Bowles, age 17, of Forrest City, officers said today. It is reported that members of the train crew said the woman was sitting on the rail with her head between her knees. The engineer saw her, but believed that it was a piece of paper or trash on the track. When he discovered that it was a woman, it was too late to stop the train. The body was turned over to Coroner W. C. Kernodle, Cross County, and the investigation discovered that she appeared to have been beaten, and then placed on the tracks.

Death-19390410-An inquest was held early yesterday morning into the death of Robert Hardin, 52 year old Negro who was fatally shot around 10pm Saturday night by Clarence Drones, 20 year old Negro, on the Tom Buford Farm at Linden Island, St. Francis Co. Coroner Parham Christopher reported today. Drones shot Hardin after the latter Negro had cut Drones’ mother in a fight between the Negress and Hardin, the coroner said. Both were armed when the shooting occurred Mr. Christopher reported. The Coroner’s jury found Drones justified in the shooting.

Death-19390411-Funeral services were held Sunday afternoon at Wyles Cemetery near here for Josh Sutton, 59, who died at his home near Forrest City Saturday following a long illness due to stomach ailment. Services conducted by Rev. E. H. Clark. Mr. Sutton is survived by his wife, two daughters, Mrs. Dave Russell of Wynne, and Mrs. Lucille Gill of Parkin; and two sons, Charley and C. B. Sutton of Hughes. Believe this is Wylds Cemetery. Not on Find A Grave.

Death-19390411-Word has been received that Cleo C. Perry, owner of Perry’s Grocery, passed away at the Methodist Hosp. in Memphis this afternoon after a long illness. At Press time no arrangements had been made other than the remains will be brought to Forrest City this afternoon. Apr.12-Funeral services to be held at family residence on Fussell Street, Apr.13, for Cleo C. Perry who passed away at the Methodist Hosp. in Memphis after a lingering illness. Services to be conducted by Rev. R. S. Hayden, Pastor of the Methodist Church. Interment in the Mount Vernon Cemetery. Active Pallbearers will be Paul Myers, Ray Garrison, R. D. Baker, Charles Woodfin, Henry Thomas, Raymond McIlwain, and Fred Lacefield; Honorary Pallbearers include: W. B. Barnes, Joe Fleming, Oscar Heath, Harry Dreyfuss, Jim Edgar, S. J. Dean, T. J. Aycock, O. N. Warren, Albert Laser, Will David, Charles Havens, Tom Seay, Henry Gray, Al Nimocks, J. T. Harris, Lloyd Neill, John Patrichios, A. M. Bradford, Steve Armstrong, Ned Mallory, Gaither Dooley, J. J. Tharp, George P. Walker, Jr., Max Cohen, Rodgers Deaderick, Bert Mallory, L. M. Royal and Joe Campbell, The son of Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Perry, he was born at Hazen on Feb.10,1888, where he spent the greater part of his youth. When still young he went to Page 12 of 158

Little Rock where he was employed for a number of years at Gus Blass Dept. Store. Later he moved to Helena where he resided four years. Mr. Perry came to Forrest City about 25 years ago. He had engaged in the grocery business here for 20 years. On June 16,1926, he was married to Mary Jane Eldridge of this city, and to this union a son, Cleo C. Perry, Jr. was born. Mr. Perry was a World War veteran, having served the United States Army in France. He was a former commander of the local post of the American Legion. He was a member of the Methodist Church of this city. Surviving him are his wife, and son, four sisters: Mrs. E. L. Aydelott, Mrs. J. W. Crigger, Mrs. Jake Crigger of this city, and Mrs. Jeremy Screeton of Washington, D. C.; and two brothers, Joe E. Perry of Washington, D. C., and H. A. Perry of Oklahoma City. Burial in Mt. Vernon Cemetery. Born:Feb.19,1888 Died: Apr.11,1939 FAG 16436698 Wife: Mary Jane Eldridge Perry (1897-1980)

Death-19390412-Funeral services were held this afternoon, Apr. 12, 1939, at the Methodist Church in Colt for Nathaniel Greenberry Williams, Sr., 66, who passed away at his home in Colt yesterday afternoon after an illness of several years. Services were conducted by Rev. R. S. Hayden, pastor of the First Methodist Church of this city. The Masonic rites were held at Hughes Cemetery under the direction of the Wynne lodge. Honorary pallbearers included: F. B. Wolfe, George Weddington, Jesse Taylor, L. G. Fitzpatrick, Fletcher Rankins, Elbert Chapman, C. E. Vinson, Harry Moseley, and Dr. E. Darnall, all of Colt. Mr. Williams was a native of Colt, and had lived there all his life. Prior to his illness, he maintained a merchandising business and planting interests at Colt. He had been a member of the Masonic Lodge of Wynne for over 25 years. Mr. Williams is survived by his wife, Hattie Williams: three son, C. D. Williams, Oxford, Miss.; H. E. and Seale Williams of Colt; and four daughters, Miss Dorothy Williams and Mrs. Frances Taylor of Colt; Miss Tolise Williams of Oxford, Miss., and Mrs. Greathel Williams of Blytheville. Born: 1873 Died:Apr. 11,1939 FAG 18465968 Spouse:Hattie S. Phillips Williams (1875-1949)

Death-19390412-S. G. Woods, 73, passed away at the home of his son, Richard Woods this morning. Mr. Woods came to Forrest City several weeks ago from Crowder, Miss., where he had lived a number of years. Services tomorrow at Hughes Cemetery. Born: 1866 Died: Apr. 12,1939 FAG 171843187

Death-19390412-Services were held Sunday afternoon at the cemetery five miles north of Palestine for Allen Lee Bray, 60, farmer of that vicinity who passed away Saturday, Apr. 8,1939. Services conducted by Rev. R. S. Hayden, pastor of the First Methodist Church in this city. Mr. Bray is survived by his wife, Annie Bray; three daughters, Mrs. Birdie Thweatt, Mrs. Pauline Devazier, and Mrs. Anny Allen, Palestine; two brothers, Henry and Arthur Bray, on sister, Mrs. Rosie Brown, and 10 grandchildren. Born: Jan.31,1879 Died: Page 13 of 158

Apr. 8,1939 FAG 17521374 Spouse: Annie Levitt Bray (1879-1968) Marriage: Jan.27,1901 between Allen L. Bray b.1879 St. Francis Co. to Leavitt age 19 by T. C. Merwin, Clerk.

Death-19390413-Birtus A. Rudolph, father of Mrs. Lynn L. Smith of this city, passed away at his home near Fayetteville yesterday afternoon, Apr.12, 1939. He was 66. Mr. Rudolph was a farmer and had operated a canning factory at Fayetteville. He is survived by a son and five daughters. Born: 1863 Died: 1939 Wife: Emma E. b.1878 d.1924 FAG 28651220

Death-19390415-Jeff Davis, owner of a grocery business at Palestine, passed away at the home of his son, Floyd B. Davis in Palestine last night, he was 75. Mr. Davis came to Palestine from Halls, Tenn., 40 years ago. He had been in the grocery business there for over 20 years. He was a member of the Christian Church. Surviving him are his wife, Mrs. Ellen A. Davis; two sons, Floyd and Homer; five grand children and a niece, Mrs. L. S. Land of Little Rock. Funeral services will be held tomorrow at the Floyd Davis home, the Rev. T. P. Sharpe, pastor of the First Christian Church will conduct the services . Burial will be in the Bell Cemetery near Palestine. Born: Feb.15,1864 Died: Apr. 14,1939 FAG 17521486 Wife: Ellen A. Davis (1878-1963) Child: Floyd B. Davis (1901-1970)

Death-19390415-Saturday-Funeral services were held yesterday afternoon at Wynne for Mrs. Jocie (W. T.) Murry, aunt of Mrs. James Dillon of this city. Burial was in Hughes cemetery. Mrs. Murry died Wednesday, Apr. 12,1939, night following a lingering illness. Mrs. Dillon was reared in the Murry home, two miles west of Wynne. Other Survivors are: Mr. Murry, Three sons, three brothers, and one sister. Marriage: Josie Haynes age 19 married Jan.12,1908 to Will Murry age 20, Cross Co., Arkansas FAG 18467334

Death-19390418-Robert Young, grandson of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Aldridge of this city, passed away last night in Neenah, Wisc., from injuries he received in an automobile wreck on the night of April 8 in Neenah. He was 20 years old. Mr. Young was born in Appleton, Wisc. and attended St. John’s Military Academy at Delafield, Wisc. Besides his grandparents, he is survived by his mother, Mrs. Edna A. Young, and one sister, Betty, of Chicago, Illinois. Funeral arrangements are for tomorrow. He was well known here on his many visits. Lawrence Jones and Miss Laurie Gene Williams left for Neenah last night to attend the funeral.

Death-19390421-Charles A. Ahlstedt, contractor, passed away at his home in this city this morning as a result of two heart attacks which he suffered Wednesday. He was 78. Mr. Ahlstedt came to Forrest City in 1898 from Little Rock to build the St. Francis Co. Courthouse. Since then he had continued his residence here. Besides the courthouse, Mr. Ahlstedt was the contractor for many other prominent buildings of Forrest City. A native of Sweden, Mr. Ahlstedt came to America with his mother and two sisters when he was five years old. He was educated in Iowa, attending the county schools until he was Page 14 of 158 admitted to Cornell where he studied for several years. He began his business career as an apprentice in the builders’ trade. Mr. Ahlstedt came to Arkansas in 1888 from California where he had spent two years. He was married in 1883 to Miss Jennie Liddle of Nevada, Mo., who died in 1887. His second marriage occurred in 1891 when he married Mrs. Marie O. Smith of Little Rock and to this union was born one child, a daughter. Both preceded him in death. Mr. Ahlstedt is survived by a granddaughter, Mrs. Archie Ford of this city. Funeral services tomorrow at the W. E. Stevens FH, the Rev. R. S. Hayden, pastor of the First Methodist Church will conduct the services, interment in the City Cemetery. Born: Sep.2,1861 Died: Apr.21,1939 FAG 16969006

Death-19390421-Death today closed the case against C. W. Brown, 52 year old fisherman of Madison who had faced a manslaughter charge in the death of LeRoy Courtney, Madison youth. Courtney died in November as the result of injuries he received in a cutting scrape with Brown, according to the Coroner’s report. Brown died this morning at the home along the bank of the St. Francis river at Madison. Coroner Parham Christopher reported the death was due to a heart attack. Funeral services were to be held this afternoon at Madison. Mr. Brown is survived by two small children, a boy and a girl, and one step-daughter, Joe May Pugh. Trial for Brown was continued during the March term of St. Francis Co. Circuit Court.

Death-19390421-Funeral services were held at Kosciusko, Miss., Tuesday for Mrs. Gillie Antonette Hammond Sparkman, sister of Mrs. Frank Burkhart of this city. Interment was in the City Cemetery. She was born there on Oct. 23,1873, and was married to Mr. Sparkman in 1893. She was a member of the Presbyterian Church and had been a resident of Pascagoula for the past 24 years. She was the wife of W. T. Sparkman, Sr., editor of the Pascagoula Chronicle Star. Besides her sister, Mrs. Sparkman leaves her husband, two sons, Ned P. Sparkman, Chicago; W. T. Sparkman, Jr. Pascagoula; a daughter, Miss Alice Sparkman, Pascagoula; two brothers, W. J. Hammond, Victor Hammond, Kosciusko; two sisters, Mrs. Houston Potts, Mrs. Warren Potts both of Kosciusko. FAG 50079426Born: Oct.23,1871 Died: Apr.17,1939 Spouse: William Taylor Sparkman (1865-1944)

Death-19390424-Bodies of three Memphis women who lost their lives Saturday night in a three way auto wreck on Hwy 70 near Goodwin Saturday were carried to Memphis yesterday. The three, all laboratory technicians were enroute to Little rock to attend a convention. When their car went out of control and sideswiped an eastbound Arkansas car towing another auto, turned bottom up and burst into flames. Two of the bodies had been brought to Stevens FH here after the tragic accident. They are those of Miss Marjorie Lee Wilkins, 26, a native of Wynne and Mrs. Lucile Franklin, 36. Both were trapped in the burning wreckage. The body of the other victim, Mrs. Marie Bernice Page 15 of 158

Kennedy, 30 and driver of the Memphis car, was taken to Memphis from Brinkley after being thrown out of the vehicle. W. H. Hardy and Mrs. Lillian Nicholson, both of Strong, Ark., and occupants of the Arkansas car, are reported to be improving in the Brinkley hospital. The Coroner’s jury determined that the women came to their death by “accident having burned in the wrecked car.” Brewster Jones, of near Goodwin, who was one of the first to arrive at the fatal plane crash three years ago, was getting of a bus when he saw the accident. He tried to retrieve the women from the burning car, but was unable due to expanding flames and her foot being caught in the wreckage. Other witnesses were J. T. Riffey and E. L. Long, also of Goodwin.

Death-19390428-Abner Erwin Gill, originator of Gill’s Rolling Stores, passed away at his home in this city early last night after a long illness. Mr. Gill came to Forrest City from Parkin in 1935 and operated a mercantile business and a fleet of rolling stores. He is the first person known to have originated stores on wheels in this section. Later he moved near Parkin where he still maintained his rolling stores and mercantile business at Gill’s Corner, so named because of the business brought to the settlement at that point. Last year, Mr. Gill returned to Forrest City and opened the first curb market ever to be established here. He disposed of his interests in the market because of failing health. Mr. Gill was born at Monticello on Mar.22,1885 and spent the greater part of his youth there. Later he moved to Earle. On Oct.8,1919, he was married to Miss Reppe Freeman of Lovelady, Texas. He was a lifelong member of the Baptist church, having united with the denomination in his early youth. Surviving him are his wife, two children, Hazel and Abner Gill, Jr.; three sisters, Mrs. G. W. Hogue of Memphis; Mrs. G. G. Bowles of Memphis; Mrs. A. B. Carty, Helena; four brothers, T. W. Gill, Gould; Gaston Gill, Greenville, Miss.; Charles Gill, Seattle, Wash.; and Lee Gill, New York City. Funeral services will be held tomorrow morning at the First Baptist Church, the Rev. Grover C. Prince presiding. Burial will be in the cemetery in Wynne. Active pallbearers are: Vernon Hodges, Talmadge Christopher, W. G. Oswalt, Fred G. Moseley, and Nall Brantley. The honorary pallbearers: all members of the Sunday School Class in the Intermediate Dept. of the Baptist Church, formerly taught by Mr. Gill. Born Mar.22,1885 Died Apr. 27,1939 FAG 45729972 Spouse: Reppe Freeman Gill (1886-1964)

Death-19390428-Albert B. Pyle, well known citizen of this city, passed away early last night at his home of a heart attack. Mr. Pyle was in apparent good health and had dressed to go to the Methodist Church to attend the fellowship meeting held their last night. He was reading the evening paper when he collapsed. His wife was standing nearby. Mr. Pyle was born at Lockwood, Mo. on Nov.28,1880. He was the son of Albert and Marjorie Pyle. He attended the public schools of Lockwood from which he later graduated. He was also a graduate of Hendrix College in Conway. On July 26,1903 he Page 16 of 158 was married to Miss Norma Taylor of this city. Soon after his graduation from college, Mr. Pyle worked for many years in banks in Oklahoma. He was at one time a bank examiner of that state and worked for four years as assistant bank commissioner. Coming to Forrest City, he was associated with the N. B. Rice Motor Co. and with various other auto companies of Memphis. At the time of his death he was material checker for the government. He was a member of the Presbyterian Church and had been very active in the affairs of the church Surviving him are his wife, one son, Taylor Pyle of Memphis; three grandchildren. two brothers, F. L. Pyle of Wynnewood, Okla., Lucus Pyle of New York City; one sister, Mrs. Katherine Lamar of Aurora, Illinois. Funeral services will be held tomorrow at Stevens FH. The Rev. J. V. Cobb, pastor of the Graham Memorial Presbyterian Church will conduct the services, with burial in City Cemetery. Active Pallbearers: Albert Laser, Edmond Norfleet, Roger West, F. F. Harrelson, Dr. E. J. Kyle, James Fussell, Sr., and Barry Raiford, Memphis. The honorary pallbearers are: Wilbur Alley, N. B. Rice, E. T. Altman, Jim McCrary, Peyton Scott, A. C. Bridewell, Alston Taylor, James Taylor, Ed Taylor, W. W. Campbell, Thomas Lloyd, Bob Raiford, Memphis; Francis Fitzhugh, Marianna; Fred Mitchell, Little Rock; and W. B. Raiford, Memphis. FAG 88856318 Spouse: Norma A. Taylor Pyle (1882-1970)

Death-19390428-Funeral services for George G. Dorris, 64, prominent businessman of Wynne and a native of St. Francis Co., were conducted by the Rev. W. J. Spicer, minister of Wynne, assisted b the Rev. E. L. Oliver of Heber Springs, at the Methodist Church in Wynne yesterday afternoon. Burial was in the Cogbill cemetery in that city. Mrs. Dorris was found dead in the office of his bottling plant at Wynne, early Wednesday morning. A resident of St. Francis Co. for many years, he moved to Wynne in 1923 where he had made his home up until the time of his death. In addition to his bottling plant, Mr. Dorris owned extensive farming interests and was a director and former President of the Cross Co. Bank in Wynne. He is survived by his wife, Cora Lee Morgan Dorris (1881-1977); one son, James Ferguson Dorris of Wynne; three daughters, Mrs. Wilmuth Dorris (Harry) Scott, Mrs. Ruth Dorris (W. M.) Robinson, Jr., and Mrs. Kathleen Dorris Hilliard (1912-2002), all of Wynne; three grandchildren, Dorris Lee Scott, Harry Scott, and Barbara Judith Hilliard of Wynne; two sisters, Mrs. Ada Dorris (J. F.) McDougal of Forrest City and Mrs. Lou Kate Dorris (James P.) Anderson of Colt. Born Sep.30,1878 Died Apr.26,1939 FAG 9281320 Believe name is also Dorriss.

Death-19390502-Odessa Haywood, 22 year old Negress was drowned yesterday afternoon on a bayou on the farm of Judge Charles Fleming near Round Pond, according to Coroner Parham Christopher. She was fiving with a companion in the bayou when she fell over backwards out of the boat into the water. The companion tried to help her and Page 17 of 158 caught her foot, but it was a futile effort to bring her body to the surface. Two witnesses tried to rush to rescue, but were too late.

Death-19390503-Card of Thanks-for support to F. C. Clay Tensley and Cobb and H. L. Williams Funeral Homes for their efficient and courteous services in death of wife and mother, Mrs. Mary Frances Thornton by T. M. Thornton, husband, children, and grandchildren.

Death-19390504-Funeral services were to be held this afternoon at the Methodist Church in Wheatley for DeWitt Henderson Smith, Sr., 59, who died at his home there yesterday. Mr. Smith was born at Byhalia, Miss., on Jul.7,1879, and moved to Wheatley when he was seven. Besides his wife, he is survived by a daughter, Miss Laura Eleanor Smith of Wheatley; three sons, DeWitt H. Smith, Jr. an instructor in Forrest City schools, Frank Smith of Wheatley, and Clark Smith of Stuttgart; two sisters, Mrs. A. A. McClendon and Mrs. H. D. Bogart of Marianna; two brothers, George Carter and Henry King Smith of Wheatley. Born Jul 7,1879 Died May 3,1939 FAG 17521909 Spouse: D. H. Smith (1877- 1970)

Death-19390508-Funeral services were to be held this afternoon at the funeral residence of J. T. Hinton and Son, Memphis, for Mrs. Bessie Hood Secat, 52, a former resident of Forrest City, who passed away at her home in Memphis Saturday evening. Services to be conducted by Rev. Dr. Howell R. Taylor of Memphis. Mrs. Secat is survived by her husband, William H. Secat, Sr.; two sons, James H. and William H., Jr.; two brothers, Henry Hood Of Memphis, John E. Hood of Norfolk, Va.; and one sister, Mrs. W. R. Ferguson of this city.

Death-19390513-Jackson, Miss.-Charles R. Harwood, 55, President and manager of the United Bond Corp., and a former jeweler of Forrest City, was found fatally wounded by himself yesterday by firing a pistol shot through his head at his office. Formerly of Pontotoc, Miss., he left a note to his wife, Mrs. Rubye Harwood, giving directions for disposition of his body. He was in poor health, and said he had fought as long as he could. He is survived by a daughter, Miss Mary Elizabeth Harwood of Memphis; two sons, C. R. Harwood, Jr., of Memphis, and Harry G. Harwood of Jackson, Tenn.; five brothers, Jess, Clarence and Alex of Houlka; Henry of Shannon, and Sam of Verona; two sisters, both living at Pontotoc. Funeral services today at the Wright and Ferguson chapel by Dr. W. A. Hewitt, of the First Baptist Church. Mr. Harwood operated the Crescent Jewelry Store here for three years, leaving about ten years ago.

Death-19390513-Willie Lee Divine Harris dies at St. Louis. Funeral services with full military honors were held Wednesday at the National Cemetery, St. Louis, Mo., for W. L. Harris, native of St. Francis Co., who died at the Veteran’s Hosp. in St. Louis Monday. Mr. Page 18 of 158

Harris was born in Forrest City on April 9,1901, and had spent the greater part of his life at Palestine where he had farming interests. He moved to St. Louis about two years ago. His survivors include: His wife, Mrs. Dorothy Harris; three children, W. L. Harris, Jr., Cecilia Ann, and Robert Louis; two sisters, Mrs. Mable Dearrington of Forrest City; Mrs. J. W. Morris of St. Louis; two brothers, Carl D. Harris of St. Louis, Claude Robert Harris of Little Rock; one half brother, Edward L. Hughes of Little Rock. Born Apr.9,1901 Died May 8, 1939 FAG 8836528 Name on Military Stone: Willie Leavine Harris. per FAG, he married Dorothy Lozelle Hawes Sep.15,1928 in Concordia Parish, La. He is the son of Frank Rush Harris (1869-1911) and Nina Ophelia Carr Hughes (1878-1917) Spouse: Dorothy Lozelle Hawes Channell (1913-1973)

Death-19390515-Ben Bradford Johnson, 40 year old Negro of Brinkley died instantly here around 6 o’clock yesterday morning after being hit by a Missouri-Pacific train, No. 110, at the railroad crossing one Broadway, Coroner Parham Christopher reported this morning. He was walking across the tracks when the train hit him, a witness at the inquest said Johnson had been given a dollar by some tourists who were parked in a car by the tracks to make a purchase for them, and that he was trying to escape with the money.

Death-19390515-Eudora, Miss.-Capt. James Franklin Dooley, 98, oldest alumnus of the Univ. of Mississippi, and last Confederate veteran of Desoto County, was buried at Oxford today. Ill only a short time, Capt. Dooley died at his home here yesterday, May 14,1939.

Death-19390515-Funeral services were held this afternoon at the family residence for Mrs. Mary Lucetia Hinton Boyle, 72, who passed away here early yesterday, May 14,1939, after a lingering illness. Services were conducted by the Rev. T. P. Sharp, pastor of the First Christian Church, interment in Forrest Park cemetery. The Active pallbearers: W. R. Cox, Enos Altman, R. E. Hudson, F. W. Matheny, Newton Landers, and Charles Havens. The honorary pallbearers: N. B. Rice, Paul Tischer, A. C. Bridewell, John Patrichios, Roger West, C. E. Wyder, Thomas Lloyd, Dr. E. J. Kyle, Dr. J. S. Davidson and Clifford Barton. Kernodle funeral home was in charge of the funeral. Mrs. Boyle, a native of St. Francis Co., was born on Aug.29,1866 at Yocona, seven miles south of Forrest City, in the W. W. Bryan home which at time was owned by her parents, the late Alexander and Mary Elizabeth Hinton. She had spent the greater part of her life in Forrest City. She was the wife of the late Arthur Donald Boyle (1866-1926) who owned a jewelry business in Forrest City. She was a member of Macabees. Surviving are a daughter, Mrs. Mary Boyle Gustafson (1890-1960); one grandson, William Arthur Gustafson (1915-1962); and one brother, R. E. Hinton of Texarkana, Texas (Believe this is Robert E. Hinton (1865-1944) FAG 140395783. Born Aug.26,1866 Died May 14,1939 FAG 16847642 Page 19 of 158

Death-19390515-Grandmother of Mrs. Robert Gall dies at Holly Grove. Funeral services were to be held this afternoon at Clarendon for Mrs. Lillie M. Martson, 82, grandmother of Mrs. Robert E. Gall of Gainesville, Fla., and a former Forrest City resident. Mrs. Martson died at her home in Holly Grove early yesterday, May 14,1939, after a ten day illness. She was a native of Carrollton, Ala., and had lived in Clarendon for 30 years before moving to Holly Grove six months ago. Besides her granddaughter, she is survived by a son, Fred R. Atkins of Holly Grove and a sister, Mrs. J. H. Kendall of Clarendon.

Death-19390516-Funeral services were to be held this afternoon at the Wylds Cemetery near Linden for John W. Utley, 66 year old St. Francis Co. farmer, who passed away at his home early yesterday morning, May 15,1939, after a long illness. The services were conducted by the Rev. Thomas McKnight, minister of Widener. A native of Augusta, Mr. Utley came to St. Francis Co. when a young boy and had spent the greater part of his life on a farm near Linden. He is survived by his wife Lugenia; a sister, Mrs. Walter Taylor of Memphis; one half sister, Mrs. Enos Altman of Forrest City; and one half brother, Freeman Hughes of near Linden. FAG 17199536-Marriage: Utley, Eva Collins Mrs. age 24 mar.1904 John Utley age 26

Death-19390516-Services today for Ruth C. Farmer, this afternoon at McDaniel Cemetery, south of Forrest City. Miss Ruth Farmer, 19, who passed away yesterday at the home of her mother, Mrs. Lois Woods at Bonair, after a long illness. Services to be conducted by Rev. T. P. Sharp, pastor of the First Christian Church. Miss Farmer attended the Forrest City schools. Born Dec.26,1919 Died May 15,1939 FAG 17898141

Death-19390517-Boyd Yarbrough, brother in law of Frank Warren of this city passed away at his home in Calhoun City, Miss.. Funeral services to be held tomorrow afternoon in Calhoun City. Interment will be in the cemetery near Pontotoc, Miss. Mr. Warren left today for the funeral.

Death-19390522-Sheriff J. M. Campbell leaves tomorrow to bring Alexander Walker, Negro, back to Forrest City from Chinook, Montana. He is wanted for the Sep.12,1936 murder of Walter Heard.

Death-19390524-Wednesday-C. A. Lincoln and his sister, Mrs. Stella Jones, of Rt. 1 Forrest City, returned last night form Marble Hill, Mo., where they were called on account of the illness and death of their father, the Rev. Andrew Jackson Lincoln, a Baptist minister for more than 40 years. Death occurred Saturday, and funeral services were held Sunday afternoon. In addition to Mr. Lincoln and Mrs. Jones of this county, the Rev. Mr. Lincoln is survived by three other daughters, all of whom were at the funeral services. Born Jul. 20,1861 Died May 20,1939 FAG 24216820 Spouse: Rebecca Elizabeth Newell Page 20 of 158

Lincoln (1864-1942) C. A. Lincoln could be Coy Andrew Lincoln (1896-1971) FAG 18466961

Death-19390525-Funeral services were held here this afternoon at the Stevens FH for Mrs. Etta Stringfellow, who passed away at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Annette (Nall Carroll) McCown last night, May 24,1939, following an illness of several weeks. The services were conducted by the Rev. James V. Cobb of the Graham Memorial Presbyterian Church of this city. Honorary pallbearers: C. E. Wyder, John W. Alderson, A. C. Bridewell, W. W. Campbell, J. E. Harris, Henry Gray, J. T. Sanders, Louis McDaniel, Bill Clanton, Gazzola Vaccaro, R. C. Eldridge, Leo Grobmyer, Roger West, E. A. Rolfe, Charles Buford, Dr. J. O. Rush, Thomas Gray, C. R. Garrison, Lindsay Bridgforth, Dr. H. R. Clark, Newton Landers, Frank King, William David, H. A. Knight, Sr., J. A. Patterson, James DeRossitt, and Bert Mallory. The body will be shipped to Carrollton, Ky., late this afternoon and a short service will be held at the Odd Fellows Cemetery. The family left by motor following the services here. A native of Kentucky, Mrs. Stringfellow, was born on Dec.13,1858, in Carrollton where she spent the greater part of her life. On Sept.25,1885, she was married to James Thomas Stringfellow who preceded her in death in 1913. Mrs. Stringfellow had made her home here for 25 years, having arrived shortly after the death of her husband, to make her home with Mrs. McCown, and Dr. McCown. She is survived by two daughters, Mrs. McCown and Miss Nell Stringfellow of this city; three grandchildren, Mrs. Robert E. White of Butte, Montana and Carroll and Kenneth McCown of Forrest City; one great grandchild, Annette Landers McCown; two sisters, Miss Carrie Haydon and Mrs. Fannie Masterson of Carrollton. FAG 19390525-Funeral services were held here this afternoon at the Stevens FH for Mrs. Etta Stringfellow, who passed away at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Annette (Nall Carroll) McCown last night, May 24,1939, following an illness of several weeks. The services were conducted by the Rev. James V. Cobb of the Graham Memorial Presbyterian Church of this city. Honorary pallbearers: C. E. Wyder, John W. Alderson, A. C. Bridewell, W. W. Campbell, J. E. Harris, Henry Gray, J. T. Sanders, Louis McDaniel, Bill Clanton, Gazzola Vaccaro, R. C. Eldridge, Leo Grobmyer, Roger West, E. A. Rolfe, Charles Buford, Dr. J. O. Rush, Thomas Gray, C. R. Garrison, Lindsay Bridgforth, Dr. H. R. Clark, Newton Landers, Frank King, William David, H. A. Knight, Sr., J. A. Patterson, James DeRossitt, and Bert Mallory. The body will be shipped to Carrollton, Ky., late this afternoon and a short service will be held at the Odd Fellows Cemetery. The family left by motor following the services here. A native of Kentucky, Mrs. Stringfellow, was born on Dec.13,1858, in Carrollton where she spent the greater part of her life. On Sept.25,1885, she was married to James Thomas Stringfellow who preceded her in death in 1913. Mrs. Stringfellow had made her home here for 25 years, having arrived shortly after the death of her husband, to make her home with Mrs. McCown, and Dr. McCown. She is survived by two daughters, Mrs. McCown and Miss Nell Page 21 of 158

Stringfellow of this city; three grandchildren, Mrs. Robert E. White of Butte, Montana and Carroll and Kenneth McCown of Forrest City; one great grandchild, Annette Landers McCown; two sisters, Miss Carrie Haydon and Mrs. Fannie Masterson of Carrollton. FAG 19390525-Funeral services were held here this afternoon at the Stevens FH for Mrs. Etta Stringfellow, who passed away at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Annette (Nall Carroll) McCown last night, May 24,1939, following an illness of several weeks. The services were conducted by the Rev. James V. Cobb of the Graham Memorial Presbyterian Church of this city. Honorary pallbearers: C. E. Wyder, John W. Alderson, A. C. Bridewell, W. W. Campbell, J. E. Harris, Henry Gray, J. T. Sanders, Louis McDaniel, Bill Clanton, Gazzola Vaccaro, R. C. Eldridge, Leo Grobmyer, Roger West, E. A. Rolfe, Charles Buford, Dr. J. O. Rush, Thomas Gray, C. R. Garrison, Lindsay Bridgforth, Dr. H. R. Clark, Newton Landers, Frank King, William David, H. A. Knight, Sr., J. A. Patterson, James DeRossitt, and Bert Mallory. The body will be shipped to Carrollton, Ky., late this afternoon and a short service will be held at the Odd Fellows Cemetery. The family left by motor following the services here. A native of Kentucky, Mrs. Stringfellow, was born on Dec.13,1858, in Carrollton where she spent the greater part of her life. On Sept.25,1885, she was married to James Thomas Stringfellow who preceded her in death in 1913. Mrs. Stringfellow had made her home here for 25 years, having arrived shortly after the death of her husband, to make her home with Mrs. McCown, and Dr. McCown. She is survived by two daughters, Mrs. McCown and Miss Nell Stringfellow of this city; three grandchildren, Mrs. Robert E. White of Butte, Montana and Carroll and Kenneth McCown of Forrest City; one great grandchild, Annette Landers McCown; two sisters, Miss Carrie Haydon and Mrs. Fannie Masterson of Carrollton.FAG 172005071- Daughter: Annette Stringfellow McCown (1888- 1984) [Spouse: John Thomas Stringfellow (1854-1913) FAG 31779173] Daughter: Annette Stringfellow McCown (1888-1984) Daughter: Annette Stringfellow McCown (1888-1984) [Father: John Thomas Stringfellow (1854-1913) FAG 31779173]

Death-19390525-Funeral services were held yesterday afternoon at the First Methodist Church in Clarendon for Mrs. Martha M. (J. B.) Burke, mother of Mrs. H. T. Evans of Forrest City, who passed away at her home in Clarendon, Tuesday night, May 23,1939, she was 74. Mrs. Burke had been a resident of Monroe County practically all her life. Besides her daughter, she is survived by a son, Richard Mills, and a stepson, Henry W. Burke of Clarendon; and daughters, Mrs. Georgia Malone, Mrs. Minnie Dyer, and Mrs. Will Martin of Clarendon. Born Jul.22,1866 Died May 23,1939-FAG 55046151 Probably Spouse: James B. Burke (1857-1934)

Death-19390527-Funeral services were held at Little Rock Saturday for Ransom Lee, father of Mrs. Lester Shuler of this city. Besides Mrs. Shuler, Mr. Lee is survived by daughters, Mrs. Walter House, Little Rock, Mrs. J. L. Hudson, Manning; Mrs. H. B. Cash, Page 22 of 158

Friendship, Miss Loraine Lee, Norfolk, Va.; and Mrs. A. J. Tatom, Emmett; and three sons, E. J. Lee, Gurdon; A. H. Lee, Little Rock; U. G. Lee, Long Beach, Calif. Mrs. Shuler arrived home from Little Rock yesterday. Not on Find A Grave.

Death-19390527-William A. McKee passed away at his home at Round Pond this morning, after a long illness. Mr. McKee had made his home in St. Francis Co. for nearly a year. Among his survivors are his wife, and daughter, Mrs. Ree McKee (Edwin Baird) Belshe of Round Pond and two sisters. The body will be shipped to Chicago late this evening, where the funeral services will be held. Not on Find A Grave. May 29-Funeral services will be held at the Acacia Mausoleum for William A. McKee, 66, who passed away at his home in Round Pond late yesterday morning. He underwent an operation about three weeks ago, and been in ill health for several months. Porter FH of Park Ridge, Illinois in charge of burial. A native of Freeport, Illinois, Mr. McKee had spent the greater part of his life in Park Ridge, Illinois, where he was engaged in Real Estate and life insurance business. His parents came to America from England.

Death-19390527-Word has been received here of the death of Mrs. B. Frank Merritt, mother of Mrs. Roy D. Campbell of this city, who passed away early this morning at Lake Village. Mr. and Mrs. Campbell were at her bedside. Mrs. Everette B. Gibson, granddaughter of Mrs. Merrett, left here for Lake Village this morning. The funeral is scheduled for this afternoon. Not on Find A Grave. May 30-She died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. M. E. Wilson at Lake Village. Services conducted by Rev. George Stowell, rector of the Episcopal Church. Burial was in the City Cemetery in Lake Village. Mrs. Merritt was the wife of Judge B. F. Merritt. Besides her daughters, she is survived by three sons, Calmes Merritt (1885-1957), sheriff of Chicot Co., Lake Village; Frank of Lake Village, and Howard of Larchmont, N. York. Mrs. Merritt was born in Brooksville, Miss., in 1860. She was married to Mr. Merritt at Arkansas City in 1883, and had been a resident of Lake Village since 1899.

Death-19390529-Word has been received of the death Saturday night of Homer Ocena Barnhardt at his home in Charlotte, N. C. He was a former resident of Forrest City. Surviving him besides his wife and five children are his mother, Mrs. M. C. Null of Colt, three brothers, H. E. Barnhardt of this city, C. A. Barnhardt of Jackson, Tenn., and W. H. Barnhardt of Charlotte; three sisters, Mrs. D. A. Clark of Haynes, Mrs. Stanley Rounds of Knoxville, Tenn., and Mrs. Joe Wooley of Gilbertsville, Ky. H. E. Barnhardt, Mrs. Betty Virginia (Mull or Null) Barnhardt and Mrs. Chassie Jane Barnhardt Clark left yesterday for the funeral scheduled for tomorrow in Charlotte. Born Jan.14,1896 Died May 27,1939 FAG 140798045 Wife per FAG site: Millie Wallace Page 23 of 158

Death-19390603-An unidentified Negro was fatally shot here around 3 am this morning by Herman “Red” Bokker as the Negro attempted to siphon gasoline from Bokker’s car parked at the home of Charlie White, Coroner Parham Christopher reported. Bokker was found justifiable by a coroner’s jury at an inquest. Two shots were fired by Bokker. A car parked nearby had driver’s license, signed “Nelson Brady, Cotton Plant.” But it is not verified. June 5-Verified.

Death-19390606-Luther Benton Peevey, Sr., farmer and lumber dealer, passed away at his home in Colt around midnight last night, after an illness of several weeks, He was 68. A native of Alabama, Mr. Peevey had made his home in St. Francis Co. practically all his life. He moved to Colt when a child with his parents. He was married to Miss Mary Vinson of Colt, who preceded him in death in 1926. Mr. Peevey maintained farming interests and was an active timber dealer at Colt, and a member of the Methodist Church. Surviving are seven children, Harold and Luther Peevey, sons; Miss Lorhea Peevey, Miss Myrtis Peevey, Mrs. Rena (John Tillman) Armstrong (Note: She is widow on 1930 Census with 4 year old daughter Dorothy living with her father, Luther B., Sr.), Mrs. Ernest Nelson, and Mrs. Carol Thompson, daughters. Funeral services to be held tomorrow at the Methodist Church in Colt with Rev. R. S. Hayden, pastor of the Methodist Church here in charge, assisted by the Methodist minister of Colt. Burial in Hughes Cemetery. Born Nov.21,1870 Died Jun. 6,1939 FAG 18465041 Spouse: Mary Lou Vinson (1877-1926) Father: Robert Wadkins Peevey (1827-1906)

Death-19390607-Funeral services for Rev. Joseph Washington (J. W.) Porter, father of Capt. J. R. Porter of Little Rock and formerly this city, will be held at the W. Helena Baptist Church tomorrow by the Rev. T. H. Jordan of Hot Springs, formerly pastor of W. Helena, assisted by the Rev. E. J. Kilbride of Helena and the Rev. C. H. Franks of W. Helena. The Rev. Mr. Porter died Monday night at a Memphis hospital. He formerly was missionary pastor for the Arkansas Valley Baptist Assoc. and organized the Phillips Bayou Riverside Church, the West Helena, Elaine, Hughes, Turner, Hickory Ridge and Becks Chapel (Hughes) churches. Those from Forrest City who will serve as honorary pallbearers are W. W. Campbell, Ray D. Campbell, C. R. Garrison, Louis McDaniel, and Vernon Hodges. Per death Certificate per Informant Robert B. Porter-Father: Columbus Porter b. W.Helena, Ark. Mother: Jennie Odde b.Near Helena-: Name: Joseph Washington Porter. Born Apr.11,1872 Phillips Bayou, Ark. Occupation: Minister/Real Estate- Spouse: Nancy McHaney Died Jun.5,1939 Burial: Maple Cemetery, Helena by Kessban FH FAG 25367991

Death-19390607-Memphis-Arthur Everett Rollins, 40, bridegroom for a month, World War veteran and grocer, was found dead this morning in Confederate Park, his army service receiver by his side. A bullet from the 45 caliber pistol which he brought back with him Page 24 of 158 from France had penetrated his heart, gone through the body, cut the bark off a nearby tree, hit a stone bench and ricocheted to the pavement. Capt. Frank M. Glisson has not completed his reports, but Mr. Rollin’s mother, Mrs. A. R. Curtis, who made her home with Mr. and Mrs. Rollins and formerly lived at Forrest City, Ark., said she was sure it was a suicide. Neither the mother or the bride, the former Mary Allie Brattain, could assign any reason for the act. Three of Mrs. Curtis son’s went to France, one older son, Andrew J. Rollins, killed himself, 1921, only a few years after the war. The third son is Owen A. Curtis. Mr. Rollins had been missing since yesterday. Mr. Rollins and his wife would have been married one month tomorrow. In addition to his mother, brother, and wife, survivors include a 12 year old daughter by a former marriage, Sue Kathleen. Services tomorrow by Rev. W. C. Aden at Highland Heights Methodist Church, with National FH in charge, burial at Forrest City. Mr. Rollins was a former resident of Forrest City, later moving to Hughes, and then to Memphis. Per Death Certificate: by Wife, Mrs. Mary Allie Rollins-Father: John L. Rollins b.Arkansas Mother: Edna Chilton b. Missouri-Occupation:Groceryman- Born:Oct.22,1899 Died June 7,1939 Burial City Cemetery.

Death-193906090-Pantaton Reyes, 34, is in St. Francis Co. Jail, his condition is reported satisfactory after attempting suicide after murdering his sweetheart, per Health Officer C. V. Powell. Mr. Pantaton is charged with the murder yesterday afternoon of Petria Ortiz, 16, near Hughes. Coroner Parham Christopher investigated the killing and decided an inquest was not necessary. Reyes, in a fit of jealousy, went to the home of the parents of Petria, to whom he had been paying attentions, and stabbed her to death, in the presence of her mother, and then stabbed himself apparently with suicidal intent. Both are Mexicans, the man working on the Sid Clark place and the girl having lived with her parents on the Kellogg plantation.

Death-19390610-Lonoke-Boyd Hope, 54, Western Union Lineman of Brinkley was killed Friday afternoon when his small railroad motor car collided with a fast Rock Island freight train two miles west of Lonoke. Coroner Fred Berry was reluctant to stop the fast freight to hold an inquest Friday and said it will be held on Sunday when the crew returns here. W. L. Zerp was the conductor; C. L. Yates, Engineer, and a Mr. Ross, fireman. He believes that Mr. Hope might have suffered an attack of some sort just before the collision. State Patrolman B. R. Oliphant and Dep. Sheriff Lester Carroll also are investigating. Mr. Boyd had lived in Brinkley the past four weeks. He was a native of Missouri and spent his youth at Knobel. He lived in Forrest City for 20 years before coming here. He is survived by his wife and sister, Mrs. Fay Dean of St. Louis. Boyd Hope lived in Forrest City for a score or more years, working out of this city as a lineman for the Western Union. He is an uncle of Neil Hope, of this city. Funeral services will be held in Forrest Park Cemetery on Sunday. Born Jan.24,1886 Died Jun. 9,1939-FAG 17669823 Page 25 of 158

Death-19390612-Funeral services held yesterday afternoon for Charley Royal, 17, of Caldwell who was fatally injured Saturday night when he was run over by a gravel truck on Hwy 1 North of Forrest City. Services were conducted at Hughes Cemetery by the Rev. Grover C. Prince. Royal was hanging on the truck between the cab and bed when he lost balance and fell to the road below, landing under the truck, officers reported. The rear wheels of the truck ran over his chest crushing it, it is said. Royal’s brother, Willard, was also riding on the truck at the same time the accident happened. It is reported that Willard reached for his brother as he fell, but was unable to break the fall. The truck was enroute from Forrest City to Caldwell. Royal is survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Everette Royal; three sisters, and two brothers. One sister is Mrs. Effie (Joe) Burkhart of this city. Born 1922 Died Jun. 11,1939 FAG 18465346

Death-19390612-Mrs. L. S. Marshall, Mr. and Mrs. Raoul Carlisle, Mr. and Mrs. N. B. Rice, Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Beattie, Mrs. John Cargill, Mr. and Mrs. Edmond Norfleet, Mr. and Mrs. M. B. Norfleet and Mrs. W. C. Oursler of this city are in Memphis today attending the funeral services for Mr. Mattie S. Sills (W. W.) Norfleet who died at her home in Collierville, Tenn., yesterday after a long illness. Born May 13,1873 Died Jun. 11,1939 FAG 8144945 Spouse: W. W. Norfleet (d.1942)

Death-19390612-S. T. Jackson, 37 year old Forrest City Negro, died last night from injuries he received yesterday morning when he was struck by a Missouri-Pacific freight about two and one half miles north of this city, Deputy Mitchell Taylor reported this morning. He also said the members of the crew reported that the man was sitting on the track when the train struck him. No inquest was held.

Death-19390614-Mr. and Mrs. Ben Fogg and daughter, Mary Jane, and Mrs. C. C. Fogg, Sr., of Widener, attended the funeral service held yesterday in Mississippi for Mrs Ethel Fogg of Horn Lake, Miss., cousin of Mr. Fogg. Born 1900 Died Jun.13,1939 FAG 67734062

Death-19390614-Rosie Giles, 42 year old Negress, was burned to death early this morning in a fire which destroyed two houses and badly damaged another on West Ash street in this city, Parham Christopher, reported today. The lady ran into the burning home of Georgia Clark, to grab a basket of clothes when the blazing roof fell in upon her. Originating in the home of the Clark lady, the fire spread next door, completely destroying another home.

Death-19390614-Three Negroes, reported to be from St. Francis County, were killed instantly and six others were seriously injured in an auto wreck which happened on Hwy 70 knar Hazen this morning. A carload of workers from the Groves and Walker farm in this county, it is reported, were enroute to Prescott to attend a funeral when they Page 26 of 158 crashed into a Gordon Transport truck near Hazen. The dead are said to be a woman and two children.

Death-19390616- Funeral services will be held this afternoon at the Stevens FH for Henry Freeman Brown, 66, who passed away at his home here yesterday afternoon. Services to be conducted by Rev. Grover C. Prince, pastor of the Baptist Church, and burial will be in the cemetery at Goodwin. Mr. Brown had made his home in Forrest City for the past four years, and was a member of the Baptist Church. Surviving are his wife, Annie Brown; and four brothers, Cleve, Ben, Tom and Dan. Not on Find A Grave. Jun.21-Thank you from family, wife and daughter, Mrs. H. F. Brown, and Mrs. Earl Hodges.

Death-19390616-Mr. and Mrs. B. B. Pankey and small son attended the funeral services held at Marks, Miss., yesterday for Mr. Pankey’s sister, Miss Mable Pankey. Miss Pankey, age 18, passed away Wednesday morning. Not on Find A Grave.

Death-19390621-Alfred Burman Treadway, of Marianna, salesman, dropped dead here in the grocery store of R. P. Hays located near the Forrest City Cotton Oil Mill, around 8 pm last night. A local physician said death was due to a heart attack. Mr. Treadway was making his regular weekly call at the grocery store. A short time before his death, he told of suffering an attack of acute indigestion several weeks ago. He was preparing to go to his car parked outside to bring his samples into the store when the attack occurred. Relatives were notified in Marianna immediately. Mr. Treadway is survived by a wife, and two children. Born Nov. 20,1899 Died Jun.20,1939 FAG 158050855

Death-19390624-Mr. and Mrs. N. E. Adams attended the funeral services held yesterday at Marianna for Mr. Adams’ aunt, Mrs. Stella Gillenwater (Walter C.) Lane. Born Apr.9,1885 Died Jun. 22,1939 FAG 158450731-Spouse:Walter C. Lane (1875-1953)

Death-19390628-Charles Fay Kennedy of Forrest City and Shreveport, La., district sales representative for a refinery, died suddenly at a hospital in Shreveport yesterday afternoon of a heart attack. He was 39. Mr. Kennedy had been serving as District Sales Representative for State of Louisiana for the National Refining Co. His headquarters were in Shreveport since Jan. 1,1936. His service with the refinery had extended over 14 years. He formerly was bookkeeper for the Globe Grocer Co. here. Since he had been stationed in Shreveport, Mr. Kennedy had spent each weekend here with his wife, and daughter, Alice Marie, who survive him. Mr. Kennedy was born Dec.13,1900 at Monticello. He was a member of the Methodist Church and the American Legion . He was also a Shriner. Besides his wife, and daughter, he leaves to survive him two sisters, Mrs. Maud Herring of Bauxite, and Mrs. Harry Rose of Eudora. The body arrived here this morning. Services will be held tomorrow at the First Methodist Church, the Rev. R. S. Hayden will conduct the services. Interment will be in the City Cemetery. Pallbearers will be: Richard Page 27 of 158

Weis of Wheatley; Fred Causey, Robert Griffin, J. B. Fletcher, W. E. Blackburn, and Clyde Berry of Madison. Born Dec.13,1898 Died Jun. 27,1939 FAG 15132982

Death-19390629-Funeral services were held today at the Hughes Cemetery for James A. Cahill, farmer, who passed away at his home at Bonair in Tuesday of a heart attack. The services were conducted by his wife, three sons, two sister, and a brother. Died Jun.27,1939 FAG18467802

Death-19390629-Funeral services will be held this afternoon at the Methodist Church in Newcastle for William F. Gordy, 62, who died yesterday afternoon at the Veterans’ Hosp. in Memphis. Services to be conducted by Rev. R. S. Hayden and the Rev. Clarence Weenan. Interment in the Loughridge cemetery. Mr. Gordy was born in Cross County and had spent the greater part of his life there and St. Francis Co. where he maintained farming interests. He was a World War veteran, having served in the United States Army in France. He was a member of the Methodist Church. Surviving are his wife, Molly Nichols Webb Gordy; two daughters, Mrs. James Woods, Miss Ernestine Gordy, of this city; one son, John P. Gordy of Fort Sill, Okla.; four stepchildren, Mrs. Horace White, Mrs. Virgil Webb, Hubert Webb, and J. E. Webb of this city. Born 1876 Died Jun. 28,1939 FAG 8617430 Per Death Certificate: Born Nov.23,1876 Tenn. Died Jun. 28,1939 Father: William F. Gordy b.Georgia Mother: Margaret Hayes Gordy b.Georgia Undertaker: J. T. Hinton and son.

Death-19390705-George Luster (Lester) Turk, well known farmer of St. Francis County, passed away at his home north of Forrest City yesterday afternoon. Mr. Turk had been ill for over a year and had been confined to bed for the past several months. A native of Georgia, he was born Oct.17,1879 in Atlanta. He had lived in St. Francis Co. since he was four years of age when he came here with his parents. On Aug. 11,1909, he married Miss Katie May, and to this union five children were born. He had been a member of the Wesley Methodist Church since 1916. He was a loyal husband and loving father. Surviving him are his wife, step-father, D. Duncan; three daughters, Mrs. Louise T. (Duey) Hutchens of Troy, Mo., Mrs. Mary (E. C.) Roberts, Mrs. Annie Gertrude Turk Stewart Jones; and two sons, G. L. Turk, Jr. and Vernon David Turk; and four grandchildren. Funeral services will be held tomorrow at the Good Hope Church by Rev. J. V. Cobb, pastor of the Presbyterian Church. Interment in Hughes Cemetery. Active pallbearers are: Ray Voncannon, Bedford Davis, Lee Satterfield, Ernest Sulcer, Robert Munn, Jess Culver and Frank Walls. Honorary pallbearers are: J. B. Fletcher, G. F. Green, Raoul Carlisle, Leo Grobmyer, M. B. Currie, Erskine Williams, S. A. Devereux, Dr. W. A. Winter, Bill Coats, Marion Satterfield, J. W. Beazley, Sr., Byron Butler, and G. W. Trimue. Born Oct.17,1879 Died Jul. 6,1939 FAG 18465887 Spouse: Katie May Turk (1891-1983) Page 28 of 158

Death-19390705-Leona Burnside, 26 year old Negress, was bound over to the Grand Jury this morning by Coroner Parham Christopher on a charge of manslaughter. The Negress is charged with the death of Ida Dell Broosk, another Negress, who died of injuries she received in a fight between the two early Sunday morning, according to the Coroner’s report. The Brooks Negress was cut in the throat.

Death-19390705-Services were held this morning at the family residence for the Rev. Jilson G. Williams, 70, who passed away Monday night at the home of his brother, W. A. Williams, in this city. Services were conducted by Rev. R. S. Hayden, pastor of the Methodist Church. Burial to be in Drummond, Tenn. The Rev. Mr. Williams was a retired Methodist minister, who moved to Forrest City from Memphis. Only his brother survives him. Born Sep.26,1869 Died July 3,1939 FAG 85086453 Spouse: Edna A. Williams (1869- 1927)

Death-19390706-Mrs. Rose Lee Wallace Sanders passed away this morning at the Baptist Hosp. in Memphis after a month’s illness. She was admitted to the hospital on Saturday. A native of Texas, Mrs. Sanders was born Dec.21,1879 in San Antonio. She moved with her family to Tennessee where she spent the greater part of her childhood. Mrs. Sanders had made her home in Forrest City since 1914 when she came here to accept a position in the public schools. She was a teacher in the elementary grades for three years. Previously she had taught in public schools in Devalls Bluff and other points in Arkansas. She was an active and devoted member of the Baptist Church and had served as a teacher in the primary department of the Sunday school from 1914 up until the time of her death. She was also a loyal worker in the Women’s Missionary Society of the church and held several offices in this organization. On Dec. 21,1917, her birthday anniversary, she was married to John Thomas Sanders, well-known druggist of this city, who survives her. Besides her husband, Mrs. Sanders leaves her mother, Mrs. W. W. Wallace of Harriman, Tenn.; her daughter, Miss Rose Lee Sanders of this city; six step-children, Mrs. S. H. Daggett, Mrs. Louis F. Cox, and Hugh Walter Sanders of this city; J. T. Sanders, Jr., Ponca City, Okla.; Mr. C. C. Moore, Hughes; and Ross Sanders, Houston, Texas; two sisters, Mrs. Fannie Dunn of Harriman and Mrs. C. D. White of Knoxville, Tenn; five brothers, Gus, Frank, John, Robert and Paul Wallace of Harriman. Services will be conducted tomorrow afternoon at the First Baptist Church, by Rev. Grover C. Prince, pastor. Interment will be in City Cemetery. Active pallbearers are: Frank Reed of Pine Bluff, C. B. Jarvis, of Wynne, Olmon Hargraves of Memphis, C. C. Moore of Hughes, S. H. Daggett and Louis Cox of this city. The honorary pallbearers are deacons of the Baptist Church: F. G. Moseley, W. G. Oswalt, J. V. Hodges, E. F. Hodges, Talmadge Christopher, E. M. Collins, J. P. Driscol, and J. M. Williams. Born Dec.21,1879 Died July 6,1939 FAG Page 29 of 158

15446657 Spouse: John Thomas Sanders (1873-1943) Note: Tombstone shows birth 1878.

Death-19390710-Announcement was received of the death last night in a Tampa., Fla., hospital of Mrs. Lucy C. Stewart, 68, sister of Mrs. Wallace V. Durst of this city, following an illness of several weeks. Mrs. Stewart is survived by three sons, two daughters, one brother, and three sisters. Mrs. Durst went from Forrest City to Tampa earlier in the month to be with her sister during her illness. She will return to Forrest City later in the month. Not on Find A Grave.

Death-19390712-Claude Parrish dies at Wynne. Funeral services were held at the Kernodle FH in Wynne this morning Claude Parrish, age 52, of Forrest City, Route No. 1, who died yesterday morning. Services conducted by Rev. T. Powell Sharp, pastor of the First Christian Church of this city. Interment in the Cogbill cemetery. Mr. Parrish was taken to Wynne for treatment Monday afternoon. He had been suffering from neuritis and had just several teeth extracted when he became seriously ill. A former resident of Wynne, Mr. Parrish erected a large brick building and several rent houses while he lived there. In later life he operated a farm. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Bertha Parrish; two sons, Goldman b.abt.1911 and Gene b.abt.1927 Parrish; and two daughters, Maxine Parrish b.abt.1919, and Mrs. Verma P. Rackley (1916-1986) , both of Forrest City; and his father, E. N. Parrish of Maynard. Born Mar. 16,1887 Died Jul. 11, 1939 FAG 47108863 Spouse: Bertha Parrish (1888-1967) Child: Claude Parrish, Jr. (1924-1930)

Death-19390718-Edgar P. Taylor, Jr., passes away in Memphis, age 32, passed away suddenly at the Baptist Hosp. in Memphis this morning at 2 am. He was stricken at a Memphis hotel and was rushed to the hospital where he died 15 minutes later. A native of Forrest City, he was the son of the late Edgar P. Taylor, Sr. and Annie Alston Fussell Taylor, he was born May 29,1907. He attended the Univ. of Arkansas, and was a member of the Presbyterian Church. Mr. Taylor is survived by two brothers, Alston Graham Taylor and James Fussell Taylor, of this city. The body was brought to Forrest City in the Stevens ambulance. Services will be tomorrow morning at the Stevens FH. by Rev. James V. Cobb, pastor of the Graham Memorial Presbyterian Church. Burial will be in the City Cemetery. Pallbearers will be: H. A. Knight, Jr., C. N. Haven, Newton Landers, William Alderson, Virgil Casbeer, and Dudley McFall. Born May 29,1907 Died Jul. 18,1939 FAG 15446438

Death-19390719-Funeral services were held yesterday at Oxford, Miss., for Clifton Delough Hodge, Oxford business man and father of Mrs. Kennon Moore, teacher in the Forrest City schools. Mr. Hodge died at his home in Oxford Sunday, July 16, 1939, age 64. He was branch manager for the Okolona Gin co., and was affiliated with the Methodist Page 30 of 158

Church and was a Mason. Besides Mrs. Moore, he leaves his wife Cora A. Hodge; three sons, Dr. W. C. Hodge of Marianna; Theren E. Hodge (1909-1972) of Oxford and Elbert Hodge of Horn Lake, Miss.; a daughter, Mrs. W. A. Temple of Springfield, Illinois: two sisters, Mrs. John Purvis and Mrs. Bill Purvis, both of Oxford, and a brother, Oliver Hodge of Philip, Miss. Born 1874 Died July 16,1939 FAG 89999555 Spouse: Cora A. Hodge (1878- 1959)

Death-19390729-Services were conducted yesterday afternoon at the National FH in Memphis for William Joseph (Willie) Cobb, former traveling salesman and a brother of Mrs. Pearl Hamblin of this city. Mr. Cobb, a native of Memphis, died at the John Gaston Hosp. there Friday morning, July 28,1939, of a throat infection. He had been in ill health nearly four months, suffering from a nervous disorder. He was the son of Mrs. Lottie Homer Fields Cobb Slankard of Memphis and the late George Cobb of New Albany, Miss. He was the stepson of Frank Slankard. He attended St. Paul School and once lived at New Albany. He was a member of the New Albany Methodist Church. Besides his mother, step-father, and sister, he leaves five brothers, all of Memphis and another sister, Mrs. J. W. Scott of Memphis. Born Aug. 8,1903 Died Jul. 28, 1939 FAG 113731760 Spouse: Lottie Fields Slankard (1880-1947) Tombstone says death July 28 and the death certificate shows 5:25 am on July 28, 1939.

Death-19390731-Hamp Jones, 50 year old Negro who lived on the Ed Hodges farm, was knocked down and killed by an automobile at 9 o’clock Saturday night while he was walking on Hwy 1 south of Forrest City, Coroner Parham Christopher reported this morning. The accident happened on the St. Francis Co. line, the coroner said. The driver of the car was Paul Hill, who with his wife and mother in law, was enroute from Charleston, Mo. to Elaine. The Coroner’s jury returned the verdict of “unavoidable accident.”

Death-19390810-Funeral services were to be held today in Paragould for the Rev. George Washington (G. W.) (Cap) Lloyd, father of Thomas H. Lloyd of this city. Rev. Lloyd passed away at his home in South Paragould Monday night, following a month’s illness. He was 87. He was a native of Cross county and moved to Greene Co. in early boyhood. He was a superannuated Methodist minister. Besides his son here, the Rev. Mr. Lloyd is survived by his wife, Mrs. Nannie Lloyd; three daughters, Mrs. A. W. Fligor of Paragould; Mrs. W. M. Ulmer of Palmharbor, Fla., and Mrs. O. O. Whitman of Paragould; two sons, W. H. Lloyd of Knoxville, Tenn.; and C. H. Lloyd of Paragould. Born Oct. 9,1852 Died Aug. 8, 1939 FAG 96890536 Spouse: Margaret Frances Highfill Lloyd (1855-1942)

Death-19390811-James Allen Walls, 70, president and founder of the Bank of Holly Grove and one of the wealthiest planters and landowners of Eastern Arkansas died at his home Page 31 of 158 here yesterday, Aug. 10,1939, after a long illness. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Julia Louise Patterson Walls; three daughters, Mrs. Louise Walls Thomas and Julia Walls of Holly Grove, and Mrs. Mae (H. C.) Casey of Ardmore, Okla.; a son, Milton Patterson (M. P.) Walls of Holly Grove. Funeral services will be held today at the Presbyterian Church of Holly Grove, with Rev. W. H. Pruitt, pastor in charge. Burial to be in Macedonia Cemetery. Born 1869 Died 1939 FAG 49138622 Spouse: Julia Louise Patterson Walls (1871-1946)

Death-19390811-Miss Mildred Massey and Miss Barbara Massey, left yesterday for Coldwater, Miss., having been called there on account of the death of their grandfather, David Greer (D. G.) Massey. Born 1852 Died 1939 FAG 30665894 Spouse: Hattie Delanie Munns Massey (1854-1919)

Death-19390815-At a coroner’s inquest held yesterday into the death of Leroy Williams, Negro, the jury found that Williams came to his death from a wound in the head, caused by a shot fired by Jim Hale, another Negro, Coroner Parham Christopher reported this morning. Williams was killed in a shooting scrape between Hale, Percy Jewell, another Negro; and himself, which took place Friday night near Hughes, the Coroner said. Hale and Jewell escaped after the shooting.

Death-19390815-Funeral services were held yesterday in Birmingham, Ala., for Mrs. Faye Chesnutt Gatling, wife of James L. Gatling. Mrs. Gatling died suddenly at the hospital in Birmingham Saturday. She had made her home in Birmingham for the past 17 years, after moving there from Little Rock. Besides her husband, she is survived by her mother, Mrs. Anna Chesnutt of Little Rock; two sons, James Lawrence (1914-1956) and Charles Gatling of Birmingham; two sisters, Mrs. P. A. Van Amburg of Dallas, Texas and Mrs. Frank Mullen of Jackson, Tenn.; a brother, Dr. C. R. Chesnutt of Little Rock. Relatives from this city who attended the funeral were Mrs. E. C. Gatling, Mrs. James Gilliam and son Julian, and Mrs. Lindsay Bridgforth. Born Feb.11,1889 Died Aug. 12,1939 FAG 108306278 Spouse: James Lawrence Gatling, Sr. (1891-1971)

Death-19390819-John Paul Tischer passes away in Memphis. Funeral services will be held here tomorrow afternoon at the Stevens FH. Paul Tischer, 51, jeweler of this city, passed away yesterday at Baptist Hosp. in Memphis following an illness of several months. He was admitted to the Methodist Hosp. in Memphis a month ago when he was under treatment for a week. His condition suddenly became worse Thursday, and he was rushed to the Baptist Hospital. Mr. Tischer was born in Germany. He came to America in 1909 and settled in California. Later he moved to Kansas City. While there, he married Lorene Mary Endicott. Mr. Tischer bought the Gustafson Jewelry Store in Forrest City three years ago and had made his home here since. He was a Mason and a member of the Lutheran Church. He is survived by his wife, three children, John, Carl, and Shirley Page 32 of 158

Tischer of this city.; two sisters, and four brothers who live in Germany. Services will be conducted by Rev. J. L. Dedman, presiding elder of the Helena District, Methodist church. Members of the Masonic Lodge in this city will be pallbearers, with interment in the Forrest Park Cemetery. Born May 5, 1888 Died Aug. 18,1939 FAG 17522199

Death-19390821-News has been received here of the death of the infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Parks of Helena. They are former residents of this city. Not on Find A Grave

Death-19390826-Mrs. M. A. Cavin, mother of Homer Cavin of this city, passed away this morning at a Little Rock hospital, following an illness of several weeks. Funeral services will be held tomorrow at Vilonia. Mr. and Mrs. Homer Cavin left for Little Rock last night. Not on Find A Grave.

Death-19390831-An inquest was held last night into the death of Fred Richardson, Negro, who worked on the plantation of Dr. Luther Davis in this county, per Coroner Parham Christopher. The Negro died from a shot gun wound in the head yesterday,. Aug.30,1939, allegedly inflicted by Curley Davis, Negro, who also worked on the Davis plantation. An argument over loading hay resulted in the shooting. Davis fled after the shooting, and had not, up until noon today been found by officers. Not on Find A Grave.

Death-19390901-Charles Alexander (Charlie) Scott passed away at his home in Wheatley, at noon yesterday, Aug. 31,1939, of a heart attack. He was 72 and had made his home in Wheatley for 40 years. He was a retired business man. Mr. Scott is survived by his wife, four sons, William Clarence, Herbert Lawrence and Samuel Cecil Scott of Wheatley, and Harry Scott of Memphis; a daughter, Miss Lillian Scott, teacher in the Earle schools; and a sister, Mrs. L. Bixley of Nashville, Tenn. Funeral arrangements could not be learned. Born Dec. 15,1867 Moro Died Aug. 31,1939 FAG 17521899 Spouse: Tennessee Melvina Jamison Scott (1872-1957)

Death-19390901-Word was received here today of the death Wednesday night of Mrs. Belle (John E.) Black, former resident of Forrest City, who passed away at a hospital in Atlanta, Ga.. Mrs. Black underwent an operation a week ago at the hospital. She had been in ill health for over four years. Mrs. Black made her home here for about eight years, and was a very active member of the Baptist Church, the Sunday school and Missionary Society. He husband was employed as an engineer at the district highway shops while they were located in Forrest City. She leaves her husband, one son, Eugene, and daughter, Joan. Funeral services will be Sunday afternoon at Mena, her girlhood home. Born Aug. 31,1904 Died Aug. 31,1939 FAG 42418429

Death-19390904-Funeral services were held Saturday afternoon at the family residence for Robert C. Gray, Sr., St. Francis Co. farmer, who passed away at his home south of this Page 33 of 158 city, Friday night, following a stroke, he was 62. Mr. Gray was born in North Carolina Oct.8,1877. He is survived by his wife, Eliza Hodges Gray. Other near relatives are Jack Vaughn and Clyde Hodges of this city. Believe he is buried in Yocono (Yocana) Cemetery. Miss Eliza Hodges, daughter of L. H. Hodges of Yocona, and Mr. Robert Gray, age 25, were happily married at the courthouse by Hon. Walter Gorman. Both of Yocona, it being a runaway match, being assisted by Tom Tatum and Chas. Padgett. 7-17-1903 Forrest City Times.

Death-19390909-Helena-A 32 year old levee worker and his 28 year old wife were in the county jail here today in connection with the fatal shooting of Albert C. Slaughter, 46, Phillips Co. Game Warden, near Millwood Thursday. Dep. Prosecuting Attorney John Anderson filed charges of first degree murder charges against Willis Davis and that Davis’ wife, Mary, is being held as a material witness. The shooting occurred on the front lawn of a trailer home occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Davis. They stated they had struggled with Mr. Slaughter over his pistol after Davis resented attentions to his wife by Slaughter. Sheriff F. F. Kitchens said that Mrs. Davis denied her husband had done the shooting, and said she was the one. Miss Lorraine Ash will enroll in the Fontbonne School for Girls in St. Louis for the 1939-1940 term. Forrest City Annual Horse Show to be held Oct.6,1939 at the Circular Track by the High School athletic field.

Death-19390909-Two Negro children lost their lives in a fire of unknown origin which destroyed a tenant house on the Jake Taylor farm near Widener on Wednesday. One child was three years old and the other eighteen months. They were the children of Amos Jones who with his wife and four other children barely escaped serious injury while running from the burning building. All clothing and household items were destroyed in the flames. Help is asked for clothing for a woman size 40, boy age 10, boy age 5, girl age 8, and a girl age 4. Anything to offer please call Mrs. Jake Taylor number 649.

Death-19390911-Leo Ottis Stotts, Jr., 24, of Searcy was fatally burned and R. G. Houser, 29, of Lexa and Wynne received painful injuries in a automobile wreck which happened on Hwy 1 two miles north of Caldwell last night about 9 pm. Stotts was rushed by Stevens ambulance to Baptist Hosp. in Memphis and Hauser to the Pederson’s Clinic in Wynne after the crash. It is reported that Hauser was headed north, and parked on the highway when hit in the rear by Stott’s vehicle, and Hauser’s gasoline tank caught on fire. Jim Busby saw the accident from his home and rushed to help the men, and pulled both from their vehicles to safety. Funeral services were held in Searcy at the Methodist Church with the Rev. Aubrey G. Walton officiating. Mr. Stotts was an outstanding football player both at Searcy HS and at Hendrix College in Conway. He captained the Hendrix team for two years. Mr. Stotts is survived by his parents, Dr. and Mrs. L. O. Stotts; a sister, Miss Virginia Stotts; and a brother, John Stotts, all of Searcy. Born Dec.15,1914 Page 34 of 158

Died Sep. 11,1939-Son of Leo O. and Esther L. Stotts FAG 72982808 Per Death Certificate: He was single, a Drug Clerk, born in Searcy, Ark.-Parents, Leo Ottis Stotts, Sr. born Jonesboro, Ark., and Esther Lindsey born Marianna, Ark. Miss Martha Pilkington is in Searcy having been called there on account of the death of her cousin, Leo Stotts, Jr. He was also a cousin of Miss Mary Danehower of this city.

Death-19390911-Mrs. Matilda C. H. Porter, 75, passed away at her home on West Dillard street around noon today, Sep.11,1939, following a year’s illness. Mrs. Porter suffered a second stroke last Wednesday night. Funeral services will be held at the Baptist Church by Rev. Grover C. Prince. Pallbearers will be her grandchildren: Richard, Odell, Porter, and Floyd, Joe, Dan and Harold Evans. Mrs. Porter was a native of White County, before coming to Forrest City to make her home she had lived in Chicago and points in Louisiana. She was born on Sep. 9,1864. She had been married twice and both her husband’s preceded her in death. In 1887 she and Thomas Evans of Missouri were married and to this union one son was born, S.T. Evans (b.abt.1887 Illinois-Wife: Shannon M. b.abt.1890 Arkansas), who now survives. In 1890 she married T. R. Porter of Cairo, Illinois. Mr. Porter died in 1907. Four children were born to them, three of whom survive. They are Clarence Richard Porter and Mrs. Nina F. Lamar Humphrey of this city, and Mrs. Everett Rollins of Memphis. Interment will be in the City Cemetery. In 1930 census as Mother in Law Widowed age 65 born Arkansas, living with Lamar Humphrey age 32, son in law, wife of Nina F. age 30

Death-19390913-Eugene Williams, Sr., 58, died suddenly about 1:30 today from a heart attack, at the Williams residence on North Izard and Broadway. Mr. Williams had suffered several attacks during the past several months. Funeral arrangements had not been announced at press time. They are probably waiting for his eldest sister, Mrs. Eula (Lef) Winship of St. Louis. In addition to his sister, he is survived by his mother, Mrs. E. G. Williams, two sons, Eugene of Forrest City and Mortimer of Brooklyn, N. Y., and the following sisters and brothers: Mrs. Mabel (Frederick Roberts) Atkins of Holly Grove; Will Williams of Chicago; Edwin Williams of Los Angeles, Calif.; Mrs. Hortense (George E.) Parker of Forrest City; Mallory Williams of Little Rock; Mrs. Bessie Mae (Thomas) Gatling and Miss Evelyn Williams of Forrest City. Mr. Williams for the past few years had been engaged in the insurance and brokerage business. He was a former assistant cashier of Planters Bank and Trust Co., and was for several years cashier of the old Forrest City Bank, which later was reorganized as the First National Bank, of which he was cashier until 1917, at which time he left Forrest City to engage in the brokerage business in New York City. Later he was in the automobile business in Memphis and also engaged in the oil business in Texas, returning here several years ago. Mr. Williams was a member of pioneer families of Eastern Arkansas. His father, the late William (Bill) Williams, was Page 35 of 158 sheriff of St. Francis Co. for 18 years. Out of town relatives and friends who attended the funeral services include: Mrs. Lef Winship, of St. Louis; a brother, Mallory Williams and Mrs. Williams of Little Rock; brother Robin Williams of Dallas, Texas; niece, Mrs. Richard Lines of Wynne; Mrs. Pearl Vaccaro, Harry Wade, and Edwin Wade of Memphis; son, Mortimer Williams and Mrs. Williams. Funeral services will be held Sep. 15 at the Stevens FH for Mr. Williams who died at the home of his mother of a heart attack. Mr. Williams wife, Sadie Moseley of West Point, Miss., whom he married in 1901, preceded him in death several years ago. Services to be conducted by Rev. R. S. Hayden, pastor of the First Methodist Church. Burial will be in Mount Vernon cemetery. Born Dec.23,1882 Died Sep. 13, 1939 FAG 32832053

Death-19390919-Maggie Carouthers, 75 year old Negress, the victim of a highway accident which happened here yesterday morning, died yesterday afternoon. She was knocked down by an automobile driven by John LaFarlett of Manilla as she walked onto the highway from behind a truck the car was attempting to pass. Not on Find A Grave.

Death-19390919-Mrs. Fannie Haynes Campbell died suddenly at her home in Caldwell last night of a heart attack, she was 68. Mrs. Campbell was born in Graves Co., Kentucky, in 1871. She moved to St. Francis Co. with her family in her early girlhood and had since made her home here. In 1889 she married W. J. Campbell of Colt and to this union were born 10 children, seven of whom survive. She was a devoted member of the Baptist Church. Mrs. Campbell leaves her husband, William J. Campbell; four sons, James Carl and Roy Audrey Campbell of Forrest City and Clyde J. Campbell of Caldwell; three daughters, Mrs. Lillie Mae (Will) Adams of Forrest City; Mrs. Lura Avis (Bill) Ellis of Trumann, and Mrs. Geraldine C. (Dick) Jayroe of Palestine’ a brother, J. N. Haynes; and sister, Mrs. Azalie (F. F.) Devazier (born 1874). Funeral services are tomorrow at the family residence, by the Rev. Grover C. Prince. Burial will be in Hughes Cemetery. Born Jul. 13,1871 Died Sep. 18,1939 FAG 18467642 Spouse: William J. Campbell (1863-1953)

Death-19390921-A civil case against the Missouri-Pacific Railroad by the father of Susie May Boles, Negro girl who was struck near Wynne on Apr.2 was resumed in St. Francis Co. Circuit Court. The suit is to determine if she had been placed on the tracks, or was accidentally killed. The jury found for the defendant and no damages were awarded. Not on Find A Grave.

Death-19390925-H. A. Henard, Wheatley barber and former Forrest City resident, being held in jail in connection with shooting of two Oehlschlager brothers at Wheatley. Erwin Oehlschlager, 39, lifelong resident of Wheatley and bookkeeper for the Wheatley Spoke Co., was killed instantly and Ewald, his brother, was wounded in a shooting which occurred at 1:15 am yesterday, Sep. 24,1939, at the home in Wheatley of the victim wife Page 36 of 158 occupied jointly with H. A. Hennard and his wife, his brother in law, and Henard’s wife. Henard, operator of the Owl Barber Shop in Wheatley and a former resident of Forrest City, is being held in connection with the shooting. Ewald Oehlschlager, shot in the abdomen, was taken to the United States Veteran’s Hosp. in Memphis. Henard was arrested by Dep. Sheriff John Cook of Wheatley. He said Henard admitted shooting Mr. Oehlschlager. The shooting is said to be an aftermath of domestic troubles between Henard and his wife who were married last March. He said Oehlschlager entered his bedroom while he was sleeping and after referring to the alleged mistreatment of his sister, cursed him and made threatening remarks. And when Oehlschlager reached for his pocket, he, Henard, took a gun from under the pillow and fired three shots into Oehlschlager, and he fell dead on the spot. Then Ewald Oehlschlager rushed into the bedroom and while wrestling for the gun it fired, injuring Ewald Oehlschlager. Neither of the Oehlschlager brothers were armed per Dep. Sheriff Cook. Oehlschlager is survived by his wife, his father, Alexander Oehlschlager; four sisters, the Misses Oren Hilda, Martha and Nellie Oehlschlager; and three brothers, Lambert, Ewald and Alvin. The body is at Midkiff & Son FH at Brinkley pending funeral arrangements. FAG 172678026

Death-19390925-Morrilton-Mrs. Will P. Harris, 55, wife of a Marianna merchant and planter, died Sep.24, 1939, at a hospital here. The fourth victim of an auto wreck on Petit Jean Mountain Wednesday afternoon. She suffered internal injuries. Mrs. Harris lived in Marianna most of her life. She was active in church, social and civic affairs. She was President of the Women’s Auxiliary of St. Andrews Episcopal Church of Marianna. She is survived by her husband, two sons, D.T. Harris of Memphis and Mayo Harris of New Orleans; a brother, D. S. Clark of Marianna; a sister, Miss Emma Clark of Marianna; and three grandchildren, Virginia Harris, Margaret Ann Harris, and Helen Harris. Funeral services will be held Sep.25 at Marianna. Not on Find A Grave.

Death-19390928-Former resident of Yocona, Mrs. Lela Ann Williams (Noah) Hodges, passed away suddenly at her home in New Salem, Texas at 1:30 am this morning of a heart attack. She had been ill for nearly a year. Mrs. Hodges was a resident of Yocona for over 30 years. She moved to New Salem, Texas four years ago and had since made her home there. She leaves her husband, Noah Jackson Hodges, mother, Mrs. Victoria Elizabeth Stark (Cleve) Williams of New Salem; eight children, Mrs. Fred Compton, Mrs. Dude Medford, Mrs. Joe Swink, Mrs. Olen Costella, Leonard Hodges of New Salem; Mrs. Earl Hodges and Mrs. Ray Hodges of this city; and nine grandchildren. Funeral services in New Salem this afternoon. Born June 2,1878 Died Sep. 28,1939 FAG 11582248 Spouse: Noah Jackson Hodges (1878 Arkansas-1965) Note per death certificate son of Robert and Frankie :Per 1880 Census Franks Township: Husband, age 10, is son of Robert Hodges b.1842 and Frankie M. Castelle b.1857 (Casteel ?) Page 37 of 158

Death-19391005-Funeral services will be held at Kingsland for Mrs. Virginia Attwood (B. D.) Marks, 54, of Haynes who died yesterday at the Baptist Hosp. in Memphis. Mrs. Marks was admitted to the hospital two weeks ago when she suffered a heart attack. She is survived by her husband, B. D. Marks, and four sons. Per death certificate: Born Sep. 2,1885 Died Oct.4,1939 Father: Clark Attwood born N. C. Mother: Tootie Barnett born Arkansas Stevens FH handling burial Death due to heart attack. Per FAG 40165902 married to Belve Dansby “Bev” Marks, Sr. on Dec.29,1909 in Cleveland Co., Arkansas Spouse: Belve D. Marks (1887-1972)

Death-19391007-Charles J. Bernauer (1885-1947) left this morning for Muenster, Texas, having been called there on account of the death of his mother, Mrs. Mary Haverkamp Bernauer who passed away yesterday morning. FAG 34014014 Born Apr. 7,1858 Illinois Died Oct. 5,1939 married Adolph Bernauer in St. Joseph, Tenn. Ten children, moved to Muenster in 1908. Spouse: Adolph Bernauer (1856-1929)

Death-19391009-An inquest into the death of Georgia Amos Barnett, 36 year old St. Francis Co. Negress, was held last night by Coroner Parham Christopher. The coroner reported that he found death resulted from natural cause, heart failure. She had suffered a severe hemorrhage Saturday night. Walter Harrington, who was with her at the time of the hemorrhage.

Death-19391009-Funeral services were held yesterday afternoon at the City Cemetery for Mrs. Viola Skelton, 42, who passed away Saturday at St. Joseph’s Hosp. in Memphis following a short illness. Services were conducted by Rev. R. S. Hayden. Mrs. Skelton had made her home in Blackfish community for the past 12 years. She was a native of Water Valley, Miss. She was a member of the Methodist Church. Her survivors include a husband, W. C. Skelton; and one son, of Blackfish; one sister, Mrs. Josie Pennington, Blackfish; and a brother who lives in Carlisle. Among out of town guests for the funeral were Mr. and Mrs. James Pennington and children of Carlisle; Mr. and Mrs. Joe Skelton, father of William C. Skelton, all of Lake City; Mr. and Mrs. Tom Pennington of near Water Valley, Miss.; and a large number of friends and relatives from Memphis. Per death Certificate: Born July 23,1897 Died Oct.7,1939 Father: C. W. Pennington Mother: Laura Gorton both born in Water Valley, Miss. Husband: William C. Skelton Route 1, Heth burial in Forrest City by Stevens FH. FAG 172711868

Death-19391010-Funeral services were to be held this afternoon at the Bell Cemetery near Palestine for John Doolin who passed away at his home in Palestine yesterday morning of a heart attack. Not on Find A Grave.

Death-19391013-The body of a man, about 70, found Monday one and a half miles north of West Helena by a Missouri and Arkansas crew is believed to be that of Bud Williams of Page 38 of 158

Palestine. Authorities here at the request of Mrs. Chester Williams, sister in law of Bud Williams, called the Phillips Co. Coroner J. W. Nicholls this morning for a complete identification of the body. She says it appears to be him, who left home south of Palestine early Monday morning for the Helena Crossing to pick up a suitcase he had left there last spring. The man had appeared to die of natural causes, and Bud Williams suffered from frequent heart attacks. Mrs. Williams and the widow will go to Helena tomorrow to identify the remains. After Oct.15, Miss Virginia Hine will engage in the business of public stenography, located in office of Campbell and Horton law firm.

Death-19391017-N. Little Rock-O. N. Warren, Sr. of Forrest City, was killed this afternoon and S. J. Dean, Forrest City banker, suffered a broken arm and other injuries when a car in which they were enroute from Forrest City to Little Rock, a truck collided here. Eugene Warren, driver of the car, suffered minor injuries. William Lockard, driver of the truck was arrested on a charge of negligent homicide. Lockard was a driver for a local bottling company, Rand Beverage Co., Inc. of Little Rock. Mr. Warren’s body was returned to Forrest City, following an autopsy. Mr. Warren was born in Farmington, Missouri, the son of the late Mary Maryberry and William Warren. He came to Forrest City in 1906 from Jonesboro where he was employed for a number of years by the Clapp Drug Co. Previous to that time he had worked in Helena where he was associated with the Fitzpatrick Drug Co. He formerly operated the old City Drug Store here which he sold. In 1928 he opened the Neal-Warren Drug Store which later became the Edgar-Warren Drug Store when he became associated with Jim Edgar. He operated it at the time of his death. On Dec. 4,1907, Mr. Warren married Sula Snyder of Jonesboro. Mr. Warren was a member of the Edgar-Warren Drug Co. here. He owned considerable improved city property and farming interests. He was St. Francis Co. conciliation commissioner under the U. S. Farm Debt Moratorium Laws. He was a member of the Church of the Good Shepherd, Episcopal, and had served as a vestry member. He was one of the directors of the Planters Bank and Trust Co. Funeral services for O. N. Warren, Sr., 55, will be held Oct.19,1939 conducted by Rev. Gardner D. Underhill at Episcopal church. Interment will be in Forrest Park Cemetery. Pall bearers will be: Neil Snyder, John Snyder of St. Louis, William and Gene Snyder of Memphis, Gilbert Antoine of St. Louis, and Jim Edgar of this city. Honorary pallbearers are: Dr. J. S. Davidson, Marvin B. Norfleet, S. J. Dean, Dr. F. L. Proctor, Ed Neal, J. O. E. Beck of Hughes, Judge A. L. Hutchins, James Fussell, Gazzola Vaccaro, Luther Bush of Hazen, W. G. Huxtable of Mario, B. C. Pounder, Hamilton Moses, Little Rock, Joe Hollie, Little Rock, S. A. Rolfe, Eugene Rolfe, Albert Laser, Charles Gorman, Harry Dreyfus, A. C. Bridewell, Albert W. Buford, J. B. Fletcher, Leo Vaccaro, John A. Riggs, Jr., Little Rock, Willis Holmes, Little Rock, Tom J. Terral, Little Rock, S. C. Armstrong, E. J. Butler, T. J. Aycock, Nathan B. Norton, J. A. Patterson, J. M. Campbell, E. C. Gathings, Jerry Screeton, Hazen, Roy M. Nelson, Hughes, Fred Rolfe, Wynne. Page 39 of 158

Surviving are his wife, and two sons, Eugene of Little Rock, and Ollie N., Jr., druggist of Hughes; a brother, Paul Warren of St. Louis, Missouri.

Death-19391018-Mrs. Mary Wooldridge Jeffries, aged 68, passed away at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Gordon Love, at Hughes yesterday afternoon. She is survived by four daughters, Mrs. Polly Jeffries (James Gordon) Love of Hughes, Mrs. B. J. Tanner of Grace, Miss.; Mrs. Foster P. Johnson of Hughes; Mrs. W. H. Overall of Ashville, N. C.; one son, James G. Jeffries of Dallas, Texas; three sisters, Mrs. W. C. Troian and Mrs. J. C. Wooldridge of Memphis and Mrs. Monroe Pointer of Como, Miss. The funeral cortege was to proceed from the National Funeral home in Memphis this afternoon. Services to be conducted by Rev. E. M. Nesbitt and Rev. H. L. Lipford of Earle at the New Bethlehem Presbyterian Church, Horn Lake, Miss. Interment in New Bethlehem Cemetery. Born May 21,1872 Died Oct. 17, 1939 FAG 28679196 Spouse: Richard Wesley Jeffries (1869-1909)

Death-19391021-Appreciation from family to H. L. Williams & Co. for their funeral service to our family. Mr. and Mrs. Willie Ed McDonald, Wheatley, Arkansas.

Death-19391021-Friends of Mrs. William Hugh (W. H.) Wilson, a former resident of this city, will be sorry to learn of the death of her husband, who passed away Friday last week at the Methodist Hosp. in Memphis. Funeral services were held Monday at Houlka, Miss. Mr. and Mrs. Wilson had lived here. He was head of the Metropolitan Life Ins. Agency farm loan unit in this city for a short time. The couple left here for Monette to make their home. Mrs. Wilson is the former Kitty Newman. Per Death Certificate: Birth Sept.15, 1903 Mississippi Died Oct. 14,1939 FAG 58111795 Full Obituary on FAG-Father: Jefferson Davis Wilson (1861-1919) born Mississippi Mother Daisy Adison Harris (1872- 1959) also born Mississippi

Death-19391024-Mrs. Edith Reed, Mrs. Gus Cobb, and Mrs. Charles McDaniel will attend the funeral services tomorrow to be held in Memphis at the Cosmopolitan FH for Mrs. Minnie Schutt Caldwell, a former resident of Forrest City, who passed away Sunday afternoon at the Methodist Hosp. age 77. Surviving her are a husband J. R. Caldwell; and a sister, Mrs. George C. Keshmer, Salina, Kansas. Born 1862 Illinois Died Oct. 22,1939 FAG 129472959 Per Death Certificate: Parents; Arthur Connely born in Ohio and Ann Ross born Virginia-Husband was J. R. Caldwell. Name Minnie C. Connely Caldwell

Death-19391030-Card of thanks to the friends and relatives for their kindness upon the illness and death of our son, John Edgar Lindsey. Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Lindsey, Mr. and Mrs. P. S. Stapleton, Mrs. Sarah Lindsey, Grandmother, and Mr. F. L. Gatten, Grandfather. Born Jun.16,1917 Died Oct. 26,1939 FAG 18466991 Page 40 of 158

Death-19391030-J. William Evick of Credo, West Virginia, died yesterday morning, Oct.29,1939, at the John Gaston Hosp. in Memphis of injuries when he was struck by an automobile on Hwy 70 near the St. Francis River Bridge Wednesday. He was 65. Funeral arrangements were incomplete last night. The driver of the car who struck the aged hitchhiker, was W. C. Stovall of Union City, Tenn. Per death certificate: Father William Evick born Ohio Undertaker J. J. Collins Inc., burial in West Virginia Oct.31,1939. Per FAG 171078507-Born Jan.31,1874 Died Oct.29,1939

Death-19391031-Funeral services were to be held this afternoon at the Wheatley Methodist Church for Roy C. Merkle, 54, who died Sunday at a Baptist Hosp. in Memphis. Mr. Merkle was a native of Brocton, Illinois. He came to Wheatley 19 years ago to make his home. He was one of Wheatley’s leading citizens. He is survived by his wife and a son, Andrew, of Wheatley, and a sister, Mrs. Max Stringer of Flint, Michigan. The Rev. H. C. Couchman is in charge of the service, with interment in the Oaklawn Cemetery in Brinkley. Born 1885 Died 1939 FAG 65262029 Spouse: Lelia Erp Merkle (1890-1974) Son: Andrew E. Merkle (1912-1998)

Death-19391101-Lola Pearl Carr, 9 years old, died at 6:30 pm yesterday, Oct.31,1939, at the Baptist Hosp. in Memphis from an attack of pneumonia. The child was taken to the hospital Friday, she had been ill only a week. She was a student in the third grade at the Forrest City Grammar School. Surviving are her parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Wesley Carr; one sister, Betty Jean; three brothers, John Wesley, Jr., James Richard, and Thomas Douglass; grandmothers, Mrs. Ella Carr, and Mrs. Bessie Bomar Darden Herrod; grandfather, James Tucker Herrod, Jr.. Funeral services conducted this afternoon at Stevens FH by the Rev. Grover C. Prince, pastor of the First Baptist Church. Interment will be in the Forrest Park Cemetery. Born May 28,1930 Died Oct.31,1939 FAG 1766969 Father: John Wesley Carr (1903-1980) Mother:

Death-19391108-Funeral services were held yesterday afternoon at Cotton Plant for Mrs. Annie Yarbro, aunt of Miss Fannie Carroll Legg of this city. Mrs. Yarbro died at her home in Cotton Plant Monday, following a stroke of paralysis Sunday. She is survived by a brother, Tom Legg of Gould; one sister, Mrs. Fannie Killough of Cotton Plant; one uncle, E. H. Legg of Wynne; and two nieces, Miss Legg of this city and Mrs. Worley Legg of Gould. Not on Find A Grave.

Death-19391113-Funeral services will be held In W. Memphis tomorrow morning for William Elmer Littell, Heth farmer who was killed Saturday night, Nov.11,1939, in an auto bus collision on Hwy 70, 13 miles west of W. Memphis. The body will be brought to Forrest City to be buried in Forrest Park Cemetery. Mr. Littell was a native of St. Francis Co. and had lived here all his life. He leaves his mother, Mrs. Amanda Littell of Heth; Page 41 of 158 three brothers, Pike Littell of Heth, T. E. Littell of Tucumcari, N. Mexico, and Bob Littell of Forrest City; and a sister, Mrs. M. C. Pavatt of Conway. The automobile in which Mr. Littell was driving collided head on with a Missouri-Pacific Trailways bus. It is reported that he was driving in a mist and apparently did not see the bus. Born Oct. 10,1893 Died Nov. 11,1939 FAG 15602694 Son of Pike and Amanday Caroline Littell (1860-1941) Brother: Robert Littell (1877-1957)

Death-19391114-Mrs. J. F. Peterson returned Saturday night from New York City where she had spent the last several weeks. Mrs. Peterson was called to New York on account of the death of her mother, Mrs. Emma C. Leith. Not On Find A Grave.

Death-193911150Two St. Francis Co. Negroes were drowned late yesterday afternoon when a car in which they were driving plunged off a private ferry into the St. Francis river at Clark’s corner north of Madison. They were Henry Johnson, 20; and Silas Lyons, 36; both of Clark’s corner. Coroner Parham Christopher reported today that the driver of the car had pulled onto the ferry and stopped once, but started on the ferry to make room for others when he apparently lost control and went into the river. The bodies were found by Archie Heath, foreman on the Forrest City Grocer Co. farm near Clark’s corner, and Jake Eaton, Negro, who operated the ferry. No inquest was held.

Death-19391117-Charles Grigsby Barton, Sr., treasurer of Crittenden County and prominent farmer of Earle, died today, Nov. 17,1939, at the Baptist Hosp. in Memphis of a heart ailment. He was taken to the hospital two weeks ago. Mr. Barton was a native of Crittenden county and had made his home in Earle practically all his life. He is survived by his wife, Musetta Foster Barton; one son, Charles G. Barton, Jr. of Forrest City; one daughter, Mrs. Thomas Wilson of Wynne; and a granddaughter, Carol Wilson. Funeral services to be held tomorrow at the Methodist Church in Earle by Rev. James Hughey, pastor. Burial will be in Elmwood Cemetery in Memphis. Born Feb. 7,1875 Died Nov. 17,1939 FAG 109821659 Spouse: Musetta Foster Barton (1873-1966) Per death Certificate C. G. Barton, Jr. : Father-Frank Barton Mother: Lizzie Edwards born Kentucky Occupation: Planter Born Arkansas Son: Charles Grigsby Barton, Jr. (1903-1961)

Death-19391117-Miss Mary Sweet, Mrs. T. D. Rambo, and Emory Sweet are in Dyersburg, Tenn., today attending the funeral services for their uncle, Thomas Chamberlin. Mr. Chamberlin passed away Wednesday at Oklahoma City. Not on Find A Grave.

Death-1939111-Mrs. Annie Mary Stewart McDaniel passed away at her home on South Izard Street this morning after a long illness. Mrs. McDaniel was born in Pontotoc, Miss. on Feb. 16,1886. She was the daughter of the late Redmand Gregsby Stewart and Sara Jane McCleskey-Stewart. On Oct. 2,1909 she was married to S. A. McDaniel of Forrest City. Before she became ill several years ago, Mrs. McDaniel had been very active in the Page 42 of 158 work of the First Baptist Church. Surviving are her husband, two daughters, Mrs. Evelyn S. (Roy H.) Morrow and Miss Anne Louise McDaniel; and one brother, Dr. T. J. Stewart of Wynne. Funeral services will be conducted tomorrow afternoon at the Stevens FH by the Rev. Grover C. Prince, pastor of the First Baptist Church, with interment in the McDaniel family cemetery. Pallbearers will be : Louis McDaniel, Finas McDaniel, Thomas McDaniel, S. P. McDaniel, L. O. McDaniel, Jr., Charles McDaniel, Steve McKnight and S. C. Armstrong. Honorary pallbearers will be: Guy V. McCleskey, William David, and J. S. Stewart of Shinbone, Miss. Born Feb. 16,1886 Died Nov. 11,1939 FAG 17669960 Note: Kathleen Bell records show burial in Forrest Park Cemetery as her husband is shown there, Spouse: Sidney Ambrose McDaniel (1892-1949) Father: Redmond Gregsby Stewart (1849-1918) Mother: Sara Jane McCleskey (Sallie) Stewart (1849-1926) Brother: T. J. Stewart (1877-1941)

Death-19391125-Funeral services were held this morning at Hope for John Fitzsimmons who passed away at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Henry Hicks, there yesterday morning of a heart ailment. Mr. Fitzsimmons was a former resident of Forrest City and Brinkley. He was the brother in law of William George (1871-1945) and James F. Wolfe (1881-1974) of this city. Mr. Fitzsimmons moved to Forrest City with his family when he was a small child. He was telegraph operator here for a number of years and was later a train dispatcher for the Rock Island lines at Brinkley. He moved from Brinkley to Hope where he has since lived. He was married to Miss Mamie Wolfe (1865-aft.1940) of Forrest City in 1890. He is survived by his wife, one son, Burton Wolfe Fitzsimmons (1896-1978) of Beaumont, Texas; one daughter, Mrs. Virginia (Henry Cooper) Hicks (1908-1980) of Hope; and two grandchildren. Burial will be in the Hope cemetery. Mamie Fitzsimmons on 1940 Census as widow in Forrest City-Not on Find A Grave-Born abt.1865-Died Nov.24,1939 Note: Mamie is probably buried in the Wolfe plot in City Cemetery with rest of Wolfe family.

Death-19391127-Jim Williams of Memphis, Negro brakeman for the Rock Island Lines, was killed here last night when the cow catcher of a special freight train on which he was riding collided with a trailer of a bread truck at the Washington St. crossing. Lloyd Burr, driver of the bread truck testified at the inquest last night that he did not see the train on the tracks, per Coroner Parham Christopher. The Negro was thrown from his perch on the cow catcher to the track below by the impact of the engine and the train ran over him. Engineer E. O. Haggard was at the throttle of the train. No arrests made. Not on Find A Grave

Death-19391127-W. A. Williams, 72, former furniture salesman of Forrest City, died early this morning, Nov.27,1939, at a Little Rock hospital of a heart ailment. Mr. Williams was a native of Tennessee, but had spent the greater part of his life in Forrest City. He is Page 43 of 158 survived by his wife; two daughters, Mrs. H. D. Holloway of this city and Mrs. L. A. Fleschute of Texas; and one son, John H. Williams of Kennett, Mo. Funeral services will be conducted at the family residence on Izard street by Rev. R. S. Hayden, pastor of the First Methodist Church. Not on Find A Grave-Card of Thanks Dec.8,1939-Mrs. W. A. Williams, Mrs. H. D. Holloway and family, Mr. and Mrs. John W. Williams.

Death-19391201-Stephen Alfred Devereux, prominent St. Francis Co. farmer, passed away at his home in Newcastle this morning of a heart attack. He had been seriously ill for several weeks. Mr. Devereux had been a lifelong resident of the county. He was born in Forrest City on April 4,1880. He lived here until 1913 when he moved to Newcastle where he had since made his home. Mr. Devereux owned and operated a large farm at Newcastle. He was a member of the Methodist Church. Conducting the ceremonies were Rev. R. S. Hayden, Pastor of the First Methodist Church, assisted by Rev. Clarence Welmand, of Colt Methodist Church. Surviving him are his wife, Hugh Ella Hamilton Devereux; seven children, Hugh S. (1907-1986), S. A., Jr. , Arthur Louie (1921-2009), and Miss Elizabeth Devereux (1919-2008) , Mrs. Katherine (Small) Morgan (1908-2003), Mrs. Ed Harris, and Mrs. Louise (W. V.) Armstrong (1910-1999); one brother, Phillip John Devereux (1886-1961); two sisters, Mrs. George Owen of Jonesboro and Mrs. Kate Oliver (R. E.) Oliver (1889-1982); and three grandchildren, Frances Ann Harris, Jimmie Steve Harris, and Elizabeth Morgan. Funeral service will be held tomorrow at the family residence in Newcastle, with interment in the Hughes cemetery at Good Hope. Pallbearers active: Earl Horton, Lee Horton, Hubert Hamilton, Pete Woods, Harold Horton and Troy Armstrong. Honorary pallbearers: M. S. Smith, Bert Batts, James Wolfe, E. Roy Keller, J. M. Thomason, W. W. Campbell, Elmer Hudson, Dr. J. O. Rush, Dr. N. C. McCown, Dan Wylds, J. C. Ashworth, Turley Davis, Frank Walls, J. C. Brown, Leslie Allen, L. L. Replogle, J. B. Fletcher, Webb Sweet, Jim Harris and Freeman Nichols. Born Apr. 4,1880 Died Dec.1,1939 Spouse: Hugh Ella Hamilton Devereux (1886-1963) FAG 18468084 Parents: Nicholas John Devereux (1839-1902) Tennie Ashworth Devereux (1856-1930) Note: Samuel A. Devereux (1925-1944) is probably Stephen Alfred Jr., aka S. C. on 1930 Census.

Death-19391202-Former resident injured in a hit and run accident, Mrs. Mattie Cannon Hobson of Memphis was killed and her daughter, Mrs. R. C. Hobson, a former Forrest City resident was seriously injured in an automobile accident on Linden Circle in Memphis early Saturday night. FAG 57144285. Per Death Certificate: Born Feb.27,1866 Died Dec.2,1939 Widow-Father: Dr. Robert Hines Cannon both born N.Carolina Mother: Honoria Devereux Cannon Per Dr. Jack J. Hobson burial in Somerset, Tenn. by J. T. Hinton & Son FH-Spouse: Junius Hobson (1857-1888) Page 44 of 158

Death-19391202-Funeral services were to be held today at Houston, Miss. for Ollie Lee Franks, storekeeper of near Hughes who died yesterday at the Baptist Hosp. in Memphis, he was 46. Mr. Franks had been ill for two years. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Mamie Bell Franks; his daughter, Mrs. Addie Lou Rice of Houston, and his sister, Mrs. Sallie Criddell of Houston. Born May 15,1891 Died Dec.1,1939 FAG 26725156 Spouse: Mamie Bell Doss Franks (1893-1958) Child: Addie Lou Franks Rice (1911-1991) His sister, Mrs. Sallie Criddle dies after collapse at brothers funeral and her services held Sunday afternoon per FAG site.

Death-19391207-Claims paid in car-truck crash near Forrest City in 1937. In the accident near Forrest City, Mrs. Clemons Moore of Wynne lost her husband on Nov.17,1937 on Hwy 1 when car he was driving ran into the rear of State Highway Dept. truck which had stalled on the highway. Ralph Kinney of Brinkley was owner of the car driven by Mr. Moore.

Death-19391207-Funeral services were held yesterday afternoon at the Colt Methodist Church for Mr. Annie Moore, age 70, who died at her home in Colt Tuesday, Dec.5,1939, following a week’s illness. The Rev. Clarence Wienand, pastor, conducting the ceremony, assisted by Rev. W. J. Spicer of Wynne. Burial was at the Colt Hughes cemetery. Mrs. Moore was the widow of the late Creed T. Moore, one of the pioneer residents of the section who died about three years ago. She leaves 68 living descendants, including a grandson, Forrest Henderson, and step-grand son, Edward G. Mullins, who made their home with her. Among her other survivors are: two daughters, Mrs. Hattie Henderson of Winter Garden, Fla., and Mrs. Hortie Speer of Wynne; one step-daughter, Mrs. Edward Mullins of Colt; three step sons, J. D. Moore, school teacher at Cherry Valley; H. G. Moore, superintendent of schools at Booneville; and James McKee of Colt; and one brother, James Barton of Cherry Valley. Born 1869 Died Dec.5, 1939 FAG 12764572

Death-19391207-Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Ragland attended the funeral services held yesterday at Danceyville, Tenn., for Mrs. Ragland’s uncle, R. W. Mays. Not on Find A Grave

Death-19391208-Funeral services were held at the Good Hope church this morning by Rev. Peter Kittel, Methodist Minister, for James Lee Hubbard, 38, who died yesterday, Dec. 7,1939 at the Baptist Hosp. in Memphis, following a week’s illness. Burial was in the Hughes cemetery. Mr. Hubbard was a native of St. Francis Co. and was a farmer. He was also a former employee of the Crow Creek Gravel and Sand Co. He is survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Matt Hubbard; three sons, James Charles, Henry A., and Max Reever Hubbard; one sister, Myrtle Hubbard; and three brothers, Emmett, Claud, and Casey Hubbard. Per Death Certificate: Widow-DOB Unknown-Died Dec.7,1939 Born Page 45 of 158

Forrest City, Ark. Father: Charles Matt Hubbard born Decatur, Ala. Mother: Sally Myers born Corinth, Miss. per Claude C. Hubbard

Death-19391214-Friends here of Mrs. J. D. Shemwell, a former Forrest City resident, who is now living in Little Rock, will be sorry to learn of the death of her mother, Mrs. Sohri, who died this morning at El Dorado. Funeral services to be held tomorrow at Maynard, Ark.

Death-19391215-George Williamson Christian, former St. Francis Co. Surveyor, passed away at his home in this city, this morning after a lingering illness. He would have been 90 years old in April. Mr. Christian was a native of Georgia, having been born on April 18,1850. He was married to Mary Elizabeth Castleberry on June 27,1893 and to this union were born nine children, eight of whom survive. His wife preceded him in death on Oct.7,1938. He had been a resident of Forrest City since 1904 when he moved here from Mississippi. Mr. Christian was a teacher and a civil engineer before he retired from public service. He is survived by five daughters: Mr. J. P. Williams of Jackson, Miss.; Mrs. E. L. Dwiggins of Drew, Miss.; Mrs. C. C. Boone of Cedar Rapids, Iowa; Mrs. Clyde Berry of Madison; and Mrs. A. B. Gilbert of this city; and three sons, George W. Christian, Jr. of Memphis, and John C. and James Christian of this city. Funeral services will be at the Stevens FH by Rev. Gardner D. Underhill, pastor of the Church of the Good Shepherd, Episcopal. Interment will be in the City Cemetery. Active pallbearers: Nash Berger, J. P. Williams, Jackson, Miss.; E. L. Dwiggins, Drew, Miss.; Edward Dwiggins, C. C. Boone, Cedar Rapids, Iowa; Billy Dwiggins, Quantico, Va.; Clyde Berry, Madison; and A. B. Gilbert, of this city. Honorary pallbearers: M. B. Norfleet, Dennis W. Horton, Norman Humphrey, J. M. Campbell, C. R. Garrison, W. V. Armstrong, Judge A. L. Hutchins, G. M. Dooley, R. J. Lanier, N. B. Rice, Dr. J. A. Bogart, Rev. Edwin Hemmen, E. A. Rolfe, R. L. Berry, and Ben Fogg. Born Apr.18,1850 Died Dec. 15,1939 FAG 15132553

Death-19391218-Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Hudson attended the funeral services at Marianna Friday afternoon for Mrs. Hudson’s brother, Emmett Frank Jones. Mr. Jones passed away Thursday at a Memphis hospital. Per death certificate: Married-Wife: Blanche Jones Born Oct.15,1872 Tennessee Died Dec.14,1939 Father John H. Jones Mother Mattie Hamilton both born Tennessee-info from patient Occupation Bookkeeper-Not on Find A Grave.

Death-19391219-Funeral services were conducted this afternoon at the Wylds cemetery by Rev. Grover C. Prince for Sidney Kimble, farmer who passed away at his home in Madison yesterday, he was 29. Mr. Kimble was a native of St. Francis County and born on May 15, 1910. Surviving him are his wife, Frances Kimble and two children, Jimmy and Sidney. FAG 173020903 Page 46 of 158

Death-19391223-Samuel B. Malouf, 58, operator of a broom factory and a former restaurant owner in Forrest City was killed on Hwy 70 last night, Dec. 22,1939, when he was struck by an automobile as he walked along the highway between Carl’s Place and Lehi. The gasoline supply of his car had been exhausted and he was going to a filling station when he was struck by a American Tobacco Co. Salesman from Kentucky, it was reported, no name. Mr. Malouf was a native of Mt. Lebaman, Syria. He and his wife came to America over 35 years ago and settled in Forrest City where they have been ever since. He operated a restaurant business here for many years. Several years ago he opened a broom factory which he was operating at the time of his death. He was a member of the St. Francis Catholic Church. Surviving him are his wife and six children: Miss Matilda Malouf of Forrest City; Edward Malouf of Memphis; Mrs. Sam Hauck of Houston, Texas; Mrs. T. J. Metz, Jr., Mrs. Charles Malouf, and Joseph Malouf of Los Angeles, Calif. Born 1881 Died Dec. 22,1939 FAG 15602749 Spouse: Nellie Malouf (1886- 1951) Son: Edward Malouf (1909-1978)

Death-19391223-William Bruce Robertson, 21 year old farmer of Round Pond, was killed yesterday when he was struck by a falling tree while he was clearing land on the Forrest City Grocer Co. farm south of Round Pond. He is survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Robertson, four brothers, and four sisters, all of Round Pond. Funeral services at cemetery near Earle on Monday. Born Oct.21,1917 Died Dec. 21,1939 FAG 35979299 Per Memorial, parents were William F. and Margaret Viola Sproles Robertson.

Death-19391226-Four persons of this city were fatally injured about 7:30 pm last night in an auto-truck collision which occurred on Hwy 70 12 miles east of here. The dead are George A. Wiltshire, Manager of the Economy Grocery Store, Mrs. George A. Wiltshire, Mrs, Minnie Beck, mother of Mrs. Wiltshire, and Jackson Wiltshire, 18 months old son of the Wiltshires. Another child, Betty Jean Wiltshire, 8, is in serious condition in the Baptist Hosp. in Memphis. The family was returning from a Christmas holiday with relatives in Cleveland, Miss. According to Dep. Sheriff Mitchell Taylor, the investigating officer, the Wiltshire car ran into the rear end of a truck which had run out of fuel and was parked on the highway. The driver of the truck was Roy Mooneyham of Round Pound who had gone to find gasoline. The baby died this morning at the Baptist Hosp. in Memphis. The two women died on the side of the highway, and Mr. Wiltshire died enroute to the hospital. The bodies of Mrs. Beck and Mrs. Wiltshire were taken to a W. Memphis Funeral Home. The body of the boy was taken to McDowell FH. in Memphis. Arrangements are not made as of yet, but will be held in Cleveland, Miss. Mrs. Beck and the Wiltshires were natives of Mississippi, and Mr. Wiltshire became manager here at the Economy Grocery Store about six months ago. They were members of First Baptist Church. Page 47 of 158

Death-19391228-Edward Campbell, 59, brother of Roy D. Campbell of this city passed away at his home in Little Rock yesterday afternoon, Dec.27,1939. He was born at Augusta and was a member of a pioneer family. He was the son of the late Major William Peyton Campbell and Virginia Caroline Davies Campbell, who was clerk of the Arkansas Supreme Court many years. Mr. Campbell was a well known Little Rock salesman. He was with Kempner shoe store there for 40 years. He is survived by his wife, four sons, Edward Linton and John Davies Campbell of Little Rock; W. W. Campbell of Shreveport, La.; and Lieut. James Harry Campbell of Honolulu, Hawaii; three brothers, William A. and Clifton Breckenridge Campbell of Little Rock, and Mr. Roy Davies Campbell of Forrest City; and three sisters, Mrs. E. C. Marshall, Mrs. Lotta Stayton, and Mrs. Eva Shields of Little Rock. He was a member of the First Methodist Church and a Mason. Funeral services to be held at the Methodist Church in Little Rock on Friday. Born Dec.31,1879 Died Dec. 27,1939 FAG 70747623 Spouse: Hazel Kirk Wadley (1883-1965)

Death-19391914-Miss Fannie Carroll Legg, teacher at FCHS, received a message this morning telling of the death of her uncle, Thomas R. Yarbrough, in Cotton Plant. She will leave for Cotton Plant this afternoon. Born Oct.31,1977 Died Sep. 14,1939 FAG 137978021

Local News:

Local-19390229-Friday-Mustangs defeat Morrilton 7 to 0, as Whittington scores all the points. D. E. Hoshall, revenue collector for St. Francis Co. said the 1940 automobile licenses go on sale November 1,1939. David Neal Stayton of Palestine left for Corning to visit his sister, Mrs. F. L. Thacker and Mr. Hacker. Brooks Norfleet, Jr. has entered St. Louis University, qualifying him to then enter and take his law course at Harvard Law School in Boston. Mrs. E. B. Horen, mother of Mrs. Gazzola Vaccaro, returned to her home in Byhalia, Miss. Mr. and Mrs. Blanton Neel of Pittsburgh, Pa. will come for visit with relatives, Mr. Neel is brother of Mrs. Lela Grady, and Mrs. Neel is sister of Mrs. Ned Mallory. John Eldridge has entered the Univ. of Arkansas Medical School in Little Rock where he is a Junior this year. Miss Laura Joe Stayton will spend the weekend with parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Stayton of Palestine, she is student nurse at St. Vincent’s School for Nurses in Little Rock.

Local-19390301-Wednesday-At the Memphis Hospitals-Mrs. Nettie Johnson of Widener in Baptist. Miss Geraldine Johnson returned home yesterday from Baptist Hosp. Mrs. Leo Grobmyer is expected home Sunday from Baptist Hosp. in Memphis. Maxine Bell is recuperating at her home from a tonsil operation she underwent on Friday in a Memphis Clinic. City Library to begin opening on Saturday. Rossman’s announces they are going out of business, they have been in business for two years next door to Sanders Drug Page 48 of 158

Store. The fifth district senior boys basketball tournament awarded to Forrest City will begin Friday morning at the FCHS gym.

Local-19390302-Mad dog scare in north part of city when the examination of a dead dog’s head from Forrest City had rabies. It was shot around midnight by T. J. Aycock after it had bitten tow of his dogs in a fight near his home. It is reported that the same dog had bitten other dogs in that section. Mrs. Grace Chism Perry is granted a divorce today in Chancery Court today from T. J. Perry, and she was given custody of T. J., Jr., their only child. FCHS student council named for 1939: Seniors: Elizabeth Ellis, Ora Beattie, Arthur Louis Devereux and Woodson Moseley; Juniors: Martha Carlisle, Mildred Graves, and Ed McMahon. Sophomores: Marian Pearl Heustess, and Paul Richie Eldridge; Freshman: Al Nimocks. Guests today the Rev. W. J. Faust and Mrs. Faust of Batesville at the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Chappell. E. B. Ragland barely escaped loss of his four cows last night, when they were released from the barn on the Ragland property in the south end of the city. He found one wandering when he arrived home around nine o’clock. He began a search, and found two men herding the other three cows towards the west outskirts of the city, who ran away when Mr. Ragland came upon them. Betty Claire Carlisle is ill at her home. Mrs. Lindsay Bridgforth and Mrs. Ross Mathis will leave for St. Petersburg, Fla. to be guests of Mrs. M. L. Norton. Mrs. C. H. Jones is under treatment at the Baptist Hosp. in Memphis. Mrs. Edward Rawlings is also in Baptist Hosp. under observation. Edmond Goldstein is a patient at the same hospital. Alston Taylor left for Biloxi, Miss. for an indefinite period. Oyster beds containing millions of fossil shells found in Crow Creek with a thickness of about five feet deep. A similar deposit was found at a depth of 250 feet in a well dug in Forrest City in 1938.

Local-19390303-Local News-The recently completed Wheatley Vocational Agricultural Building was dedicated last week, it cost approximately $10,000, per T. A. White, instructor. Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Freeland and Mr. and Mrs. Virgil Webster of Los Angeles, Calif., are guests in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Burns. Mrs. Freeland is a sister of Mrs. Burns and Mrs. Webster is his niece. A grove of approximately twenty yellow poplar trees, aka Tulip trees, located at Summersweet in St. Francis Co., contains the only known virgin trees remaining in the state of Arkansas of this beautiful and valuable species, according to R. E. Nelson, Area Forester of the Soil Conservation Service.

Local-19390304-Saturday-Local News-The annual meeting of the Woodruff Electric Cooperative Corp. was held on Tuesday in Augusta with 200 members present in person or proxy. An extension for Cross, Lee, St. Francis, Monroe and Phillips county was approved with 422 miles of lines, which was sent to the Examining Division of the Rural Electrification Administration for approval. Only two original stockholders of Bank of Eastern Arkansas are living after the death of Col. James M. Stewart, and they are R. Page 49 of 158

Block of Wynne and Judge J. J. Mardis of Harrisburg, who is the oldest practicing attorney in Eastern Arkansas. Mrs. J. T. Fondren, Jr. of Burdette, is spending the week as the guest of Mrs. J. T. Fondren, Sr. Mrs. Nellie P. Dortch of Mllagale, Scott, Ark., is the guest of her son, W. R. Dortch and family. Addison Bradford expects to return to Jonesboro State College tomorrow after a short stay here because of illness. Bob Young returned to his home in Chicago after several months stay with his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Aldridge. Russell Williams returned home Thursday from Baptist Hosp. in Memphis where he had been under treatment.

Local-19390306-Dr. J. M. Williams of Hendrix College, Conway, spoke at the regular evening services yesterday at the First Methodist Church. Dr. Williams formerly was president of Galloway College Methodist School for Girls, which has been combined with Hendrix. Mrs. J. H. Cunningham of this city is a patient in the Baptist Hosp. in Memphis, as well as J. W. Robertson of Crawfordsville. Teresa Louis Haury of Little Rock spent this weekend with her father, Dr. F. W. Haury. Mrs. Lef Winship of St. Louis is visiting her mother, Mrs. E. C. Williams. Eugene Williams suffered a heart attack Saturday night and is recuperating at his mother’s home, Mrs. E. C. Williams. Miss Norma Chappell, student at Ark. State Teachers College in Conway is ill with the flu at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Chappell. Mrs. Charles Manley and children, Mary Sue and Charles, returned to their home in Osceola yesterday after a visit with her mother, Mrs. R. J. Izard. Louis Ash, student at Draughon’s Business College, Memphis, spent the weekend at home.

Local-19390308-Gregory’s to furnish the new city hall with a low bid of $565 with 45 % of the cost is a PWA grant and the remainder a loan. Local firemen had their third alarm this afternoon in the last two days. 2 am yesterday, government warehouse fire; 11 am yesterday, grass fire at James Gilliam residence; 3 pm yesterday, roof fire at Gus Ezell residence; 1:30 am this morning, Dillon Dress Shop fire; 1:29 pm this afternoon, grass fire on vacant lot east of Thomas Stout residence on Broadway; 1:30 pm grass fire on vacant lot across the street from J. E. Ferguson residence on South Rosser Street. J. J. Powers, formerly of Forrest City, but now a resident of Longview, Texas, has spent the last few days visiting here accompanied by his mother, Mrs. M. E. Sanderson, who had been visiting him there, and on his visit here was accompanied by his daughter, Mrs. Louise Maddox of Centralia, Illinois. Winfield Davis is under treatment at Baptist Hosp. in Memphis, is reported to have regained consciousness. Miss Mary Faith Bernauer has been ill for the past ten days at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Bernauer. She is expected to have six weeks more bed time. Mrs. Everett Rawlings who is suffering from a dislocated and broken shoulder, is in Baptist Hosp., and reported to be resting well today. Mrs. Nannie Grobmyer of Memphis is guest of her daughter, Mrs. Ernest Page 50 of 158

Philpot, and family. Miss Ann Campbell, student at Stephens College, Columbia, Mo., is home for weekend.

Local-19390313-Monday-St. Francis Co. officers are searching today for John Henry “Shorty” Dove, Negro, who allegedly shot and seriously wounded his mother in law, Odessa Jefferson, around 10 o’clock Saturday night while the two were engaged in a family argument. The shooting occurred near the John Dillon farm on the St. Francis River east of Forrest City. Owel Benson of Sevierville, Tenn., has purchased the Forrest City Curb Market from A. E. Gill on Friday. Mr. Gill is suffering from ill health, which caused his sale. Mr. Benson has hired Gerstile Nail of Birmingham, Ala. to manage his new business as of Mar.10. Two Memphis Negroes, Elmo Newman, 40, and Floyd Butler, 36, are lodged in the St. Francis Co. jail here on charges of grand larceny after they snatched pocket books from two local Negroes. One of the pursed contained $15, and the other $10. Police reported they had taken possession of a Model A Ford car in which they say the Negroes had driven in Forrest City with three other Negro companions, who are still at large, per Deputy Mitchell Taylor. Dep. Taylor this morning recovered a Master Chevrolet black coupe, believed to be stolen property, on a county road about a half mile east of Hwy 1 eight miles north of Forrest City. The vehicle had been stripped of all wheels, its license plate, cushion seat, and an electric clock. It was discovered the owner was Ross Allinder of Forrest City and was stolen in front of the home of Mrs. Mae Mason Lewis, where Mr. Allinder and wife reside. Kuhl Fogg, formerly of Forrest City, WPA engineer in Phillips County, has been transferred to Jonesboro. Miss Ann Campbell returned home last night from the Methodist Hosp. in Memphis, where she had been treated for injuries in an auto wreck Friday. Her mother, Mrs. W. W. Campbell, also received injuries and is still in Methodist Hosp. Betty Jo Petty, daughter Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Petty, returned home this morning from Baptist Hosp. where she had been under treatment. Mrs. Grace Perry had her tonsils removed at the Davidson Clinic. A. E. Gill entered the Methodist Hosp. in Memphis for observation. Mrs. Jeff Grames has entered the Baptist Hosp. in Memphis for observation. Mrs. Lula Kirby is a patient their also.

Local-19390314-Mrs. Leo Grobmyer returned home Sunday from Baptist Hosp. in Memphis where she had been under treatment. Mrs. Gaither Dooley of this city underwent major surgery at the Methodist Hosp. yesterday.

Local-19390317-Friday-Elizabeth Ellis, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. P. Ellis of Palestine, with grade of 94, is Valedictorian, and Lorraine Ash, daughter of Mrs. A. M. Ash of this city, is named Salutatorian, with grade of 93, for FCHS in 1939. Third place went to Verla Voss with a grade on 91. Joe Goldstein is under treatment for flu at Baptist Hosp. in Memphis. Neil Snyder, Jr., student at State Teachers College in Conway visited last night with his mother, Mrs. Neil Snyder. Mrs. Pressley Clarke and infant daughter, Marsha Page 51 of 158

Claire, arrived home yesterday from Baptist Hosp. in Memphis. Mrs. A. E. Gill and Miss Hazel Gill visited A. E. Gill in the Baptist Hosp. in Memphis yesterday. George O’Brien, student at th Univ. of Alabama, is visiting his mother, Mrs. E. H. Simmons this morning. Jimmie Grobmyer, son of Mr. and Mrs. Louis Grobmyer, is under treatment at St. Joseph’s Hosp. in Memphis.

Local-19390318 Saturday-Mrs. Fred Jordan returned to Little Rock after a visit as guest of Mrs. Wright Lewis. J. E Perry of Wash., D. C., is expected on visit to his sister, Mrs. Jake Crigger. Mrs. George R. Myers of Harrison and Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Endicott and children of Cushing, Okla. Are guests of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Tischer. Mrs. Myers is the mother of Mrs. Tischer and Mr. Endicott is her brother. Jim McDougal arrived home this week from the Univ. of Arkansas. John C. Crawford is recovering from a leg operation at the Methodist Hosp. in Memphis. John Eldridge, student at the Univ. Of Arkansas Medical School in Little Rock is spending the week at home. Miss Frances Nail of Keiser, formerly of this city, is reported much improved after her appendix operation at Baptist Hosp. in Memphis. Jack Covington of Memphis is spending the weekend with his aunt, Mrs. William David, and Mr. David. Mr. and Mrs. George F. McKinney, son, Bobby, and Mrs. McKinney’s mother, Mrs. Jessie Liebenguth of Little Rock will be weekend guests of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Cox. Miss Virginia Halbert and Miss Pauline Trail will leave tonight for Tuscumbia, Ala. to visit Miss Trail’s sister, Mrs. Thomas Crow.

Local-19390322-Wednesday-The grand jury returned 12 indictments, all felonies. Circuit Judge E. M. Pipkin presiding. Clarence McCollum first degree murder, in the death of Bob Hickman, at Hughes; Ruth Edwards, first degree murder in the death of Prince Edwards, at Hix Corner, both colored. W. H. Freeman, first degree murder in the death of Charlie McEwin, at Hughes; C. W. Brown, white, Manslaughter in the death of Leroy Courtney at Madison.; Otis Willis, Illmod Newman, and Clem Daniels, all colored, indicted on charges of grand larceny. The jury of St. Francis Co. Circuit Court returned a verdict in the case of Mrs. May Roberts, Adminlatrix vs. Arkansas Power & Light Co., in which Mrs. Roberts was suing the company for $20,000 damages for the suffering and death of Joe Eddie Clark-Roberts last May. The child died last May after he had been run over by an Arkansas Power & Light Co. truck driven by Lere Colemen, Negro, witnesses in the case testified. Judgment was for $2,500 total. Lawyers for the Plaintiff were Norton and Butler, Marvin B. Norfleet and S. S. Hargraves. The company was represented by Henry W. Gregory, Jr. Barn burns on E. F. Bunch farm in a grass fire last night. Two runs yesterday afternoon, grass fires on South Rosser Street, and near the Standard Oil Bulk plant. Forrest City Public Library opens its new building on Dennis Park Site. It was reopened after moving the books from the Armory building, the former headquarters. New hours are from 1 to 5:30 pm, per Librarian, Mrs. F. L. Proctor. The new building was a Page 52 of 158

WPA project. In the fall of 1920 the Community Service Circle was formed by the women of Forrest City. And in Nov.1921, the C. S. C. held book shower, and Mrs. Nelie Buford and Mrs. F. L. Proctor took turns keeping it open for a few hours two afternoons a week. It was then moved to the Elks building and combined with a Women’s Exchange. E. H. Warren of Wheatley is in Baptist Hosp. in Memphis, and Orville Lee of Moro in Methodist Hosp. Mr. and Mrs. H. D. Tedrick will leave for the races at Hot Springs on Thursday. Mrs. Richard W. Freeman and son of Chicago are visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Louis McDaniel. Mr. and Mrs. George P. Walker, Jr., and Mrs. Clement Walker and Mrs. George P. Walker, Sr., returned Monday from a trip to Natchez, Miss. and New Orleans, La. Miss Atrelle Paslay has recovered from an attack of tonsillitis, and is back to work at The Bonnet and Beauty Shop.

Local-19390323-FCHS to have 7 home games out of 11 total: Here: W. Memphis, West Helena, Morrilton, Paragould, Stuttgart, Russellville, and Blytheville. There: Little Rock, Marianna, Jonesboro, Clarksdale. Large crowd views Robert Wadlow, a eight foot and 1/7 inch tall giant, here made possible by Collins & Dooley Dept. Store. His shoe size is 37. Total cotton bales ginned for1938 crop reaches 58,937 ginned in St. Francis Co. compared to 70,963 in 1937. Mrs. Donna M. Beck and Mrs. E. C. Durell of Memphis were guests of Mrs. N. W. Fisher on Wednesday. Miss Virginia Hine will spend the weekend in Paragould with sister, Mrs. Woodrow Castleberry and Mr. Castleberry. James Aycock, student at East Mississippi College is expected to spend the weekend with his mother, Mrs. E. H. Eason. Mrs. W. R. Caraway and Mrs. Homer Elder return to Chicago, after visit with their mother, Mrs. J. W. Harris.

Local-19390324-Capt. and Mrs. Carlos Emmanuell are now making their home in Little Rock as he was transferred to Camp Joseph T. Robinson as command of Company 3797 CCC. Miss Laura Louise McDaniel underwent operation for appendix removal at Baptist Hosp. in Memphis. Vassar McCleskey is home for a visit from Arkansas Tech in Russellville. Firemen made a run last night to the home of Mrs. W. C. Oursler on Cross street for a roof fire.

Local-19390325-C. W. Martin has been nominated for President of Hughes Rotary Club. Others nominated are Ollie Warren, Jr., VP; B. C. Pouncey, Jr., Sect.; Gordon Love, Treas.;; and Charles Adams as sergeant at arms. Directors will be Palmer Kellogg, R. C. Nickle, Roy Nelson, and Graham Griffith. Mrs. Fred Moseley is spending the weekend at Arkadelphia visiting her daughter, Fredene, a student at Quachita College. Fred Moseley will visit his mother in Searcy over the weekend, Mrs. N. C. Moseley. Jack Bridgforth, student at the Univ. of Arkansas is spending weekend at home. Miss Margaret Theresa Eason left yesterday for Kansas City where she will be employed with the National Page 53 of 158

Producing Co. Miss Rose Lee Sanders will arrive home from Quachita College for short visit home.

Local-19390327-John C. Crawford returned home yesterday from Methodist Hosp. in Memphis where he underwent surgery. Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Thompson will leave for Peoria, Illinois, to make their home. Mr. and Mrs. B. R. Harris were guests of their daughter, Mrs. W. P. Royal, and family in Oxford, Miss. this weekend. Miss Frances Snyder, student at State Teachers College, Conway, is home with her mother, Mrs. Neil Snyder. Mrs. Mae Mason Lewis has returned from a visit to her daughter, Constance, who is a student at the School of Organic Education in Mobile, Ala. Mrs. Max Cohen spent yesterday visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Morris Reagler in Wynne. Mr. and Mrs. Emory Geary and baby daughter, Patricia Anne, Mr. and Mrs. Rowlett ?aine and daughters, Elizabeth Annablle and Jane V., all of Memphis were Sunday guests of Mrs. T. D. Rambo and Miss Mary Sweet. Louis Jones of Madison, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Jones, who is a sophomore at Hendrix College, Conway, will serve as escort for Miss Francis Eppes of Forrest City, a sophomore maid in the court of this year’s Hendrix May queen, it was announced yesterday. Mr. and Mrs. B. H. Booth of Drew, Miss., were weekend guests of Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Parks. Conrad Snyder, infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Ruben Snyder, was brought home from the Baptist Hosp. in Memphis where he had been under treatment.

Local-19390328-New Orchestra engaged for a dramatic club benefit dance, the Stevens Swingsters will make their debut Thursday night, Mar. 30, at the Legion Hut when they play for a benefit dance sponsored by the FCHS Dramatic Club. Mrs. William C. Bengel and baby daughter, Vivian Kathryn, of Ashdown, are visiting Mrs. Bengel’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Beorge B. Rucks. Mrs. Jesse Weatherford of this city is under treatment at the Methodist Hosp. in Memphis.

Local-19390329-A. F. Thomas underwent an appendectomy yesterday at The Baptist Hosp. in Memphis. County school election results: Forrest City, No. 7-Dr. N. C. McCown and James Fussell, 3 years each; Zier, No.14-John D. Holmes, 3 years, Fred Cook, 2 years; Mrs. Ismael Meadows, 1 year; Palestine-No. 18-J. E. Barber, 5 years; Bert Sulcer, 2 years.; Macedonia, No. 20-Mrs. Wesley Thomas, 5 years; Hughes-No. 27-G. W. Martin, 5 years, S. M. Capra, 1 year; Wheatley-No. 28-E. F. Loewer, 5 years; Smith, No. 35-C. A. Johnson, 3 years, Ernest Finger, 1 year; Hawkins, No. 39-J. W. West, 3 years. County Welfare Board election results-R. J. Lanier, of this city was chosen Chairman of the newly appointed St. Francis Co. Welfare Board; and Mrs. Helen Borden Jones was re- elected county welfare director. Members of the board are: Mr. Lanier, A. C. Bridewell, the Rev. Edwin Hemmen of this city; Eldridge Butler of Madison and Dr. J. R. Hall of Wheatley. Page 54 of 158

Local-1939032-Jack R. Porter, age 37, appointed state parole officer, and will move family to Little Rock at completion of school term. Orchestra being organized here: The organization is under direction of W. E. Stevens, Jr., with the following personnel: Bernice Beazley, Lorraine Ash, Frank Galloway, Jr., Ross Carwile, Ed McMahon, Tommy Lloyd, J. L. Dedman, Jr., and Woodson Moseley.

Local-19390330-Officers of the Forrest City Daily Times-Herald-John T. Durst, Pres.-Roy H. Caldwell, VP-Walter V. Durst, Sect/Treas.

Local-19390331-Local News-Miss Corsie Gardenhire of Camden is here visiting her uncle, George B. Rucks and Mrs. Rucks. Mrs. V. O. Alexander will leave tomorrow for Pine Bluff to visit relatives. Mr. and Mrs. Woodrow Forbes and small son, Joseph Woodrow, of Munford, Tenn. were weekend guests of Mr. Forbes’ parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Forbes of Shell Lake. Mr. and Mrs. Jessie Wolfe and children, Mr. and Mrs. Warl Wolfe of Memphis were guests of relatives, Mrs. A. A. Pennington and Mr. and Mrs. Clint Skelton on Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Pierce and small daughter, Bettie Jo, of Parkin, were guests of their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Pace of Shell Lake. Vernon Bernard was a business visitor in Turrell and Frenchman’s Bayou on Monday of this week. Mrs. Bernard and small son Steve Butler, accompanied him.

Local-19390401-Saturday-Mrs. A. M. Farley will return to her home in Durant, Okla. Tomorrow, after a visit with relatives here. She will be accompanied by Miss Virginia Dooley. Plans discussed for Scout troop at Palestine. Those from Palestine to meet the Boy Scout committee of the St. Francis Co. District were: Lee Pankey, Bert Sulcer, Banks Wilkinson, and Professor Short.

Local-19390405-Wednesday-David A. Bridewell, now has a law office in Field Building, Chicago. Son of Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Bridewell, after graduating from the Univ. Of the South in 1930. He attended Princeton Univ. Graduate College where he received an M. A. Degree with honors. He then graduated from George Washington Univ. Law School. He practiced law here with Mann-Mann in 1933-1934, and later was District Attorney for the HOLC with the eastern Arkansas district office at Jonesboro. From 1935-1936 he lived in Washington, where he served as attorney with the Reconstruction Finance Corp. and later resigned to accept a position with the legal brief, opinion and advisement section of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board, Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corp. and the Home Owners’ Loan Corp. Mr. and Mrs. B. Frank King are spending the week in Sweet Briar, Va., visiting their daughter, Miss Alice King, who is a student at Sweet Briar College, accompanied by Mr. and Mrs. James Walker of Memphis, who are visiting their daughter, Miss Vive Walker, also a student there. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Shoemake have moved into their home on Tennessee street, formerly occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Walsh. Page 55 of 158

Carroll McCown began employment with the Cleo-Vess Bottling Co. Mrs. W. A. Clement and two children, of Dickson, Tenn., are here visiting Mrs. Clement’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Brown. Miss Helen Harrelson of St. Louis, is here visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Fred F. Harrelson. FCHS football squad: Back, Bob Cope, Neal Hare and Vernon Turk; Center, Ed McMahon; Guards, Doyle Harris, Elmer Thompson and Bill Jolly; ends, Harper Ostrander, Andrew Forrester and David Seaton; tackles, Garland Williams and Bill Gatling.

Local-19390406-Arthur Whitted, formerly of Forrest City, has been named Sect/Treas. of Columbia, Missouri Local No. 160, of the International Typographical Union. Richard McCulloch, student at the Univ. of Arkansas, will arrive today to visit with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. B. McCulloch.

Local-19390410-It has been reported that R. H. Sales, a ministerial student, of Forrest City has made the dean’s list at Wofford College by Dean A. M. DuPree. Fumes overcome Thomas sisters, Mary Ann, 14, and Betty, age 12, daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Thomas are responding to treatment at Baptist Hosp. in Memphis. They were overcome in the back of the car enroute to Memphis earlier by carbon monoxide. Both were asleep in the back seat and they were awakened as they approached West Memphis per Mr. Thomas. C. C. Perry was admitted to Methodist Hosp. in Memphis yesterday where his condition today is critical. Gus Sweet returned home yesterday from the Baptist Hosp. in Memphis where he had received treatment. Thomas Fondren, Jr., of Memphis, and Mrs. Thomas Fondren, Jr., of Burdette, were Easter guest of Mrs. Thomas Fondren, Sr. John Eldridge, student at the Univ. of Arkansas Medical School in Little Rock spent the weekend at home with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Eldridge. Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Wilson, and son Bob, of Little Rock, were visitors last evening, Mr. and Mrs. Wilson are parents of Winston Wilson. Mrs. Rodgers Deaderick is expected home tomorrow from the Baptist Hosp. in Memphis where she underwent major surgery. Miss Martha Dillon is reported to be recovering nicely from a recent appendix operation at Baptist Hosp. in Memphis.

Local-19390411-Tuesday-City officials take oaths: Mayor, Charles D. Buford; Charles N. Havens, Treasurer; W. E. Heustess, Police Judge; H. R. Clark, Alderman; Third Ward Alderman, Vernon Hodges; Second Ward-Fenner Laughinghouse; and E. T. Ferguson, Jr., Alderman First Ward. There was slight change for the better reported today in the condition on Russell Williams, who is recovering from a major operation at his home in this city. Mrs. E. C. Williams is quite ill at her home in this city. Mrs. Edmond Ash and children, Delores and Edmond, Jr., will arrive tonight from Jacksonville, Fla., for a visit with Mrs. A. M. Ash and family. Mrs. Thomas C. Watson of Benton is guest of her daughter, Mrs. James Oursler, and Mr. Oursler. Mrs. M. Glonbundy and daughters of Kansas City are guests of her sister, Mrs. Paul Tischer and Mr. Tischer. Mrs. James Page 56 of 158

Derossitt who is recuperating from a recent major operation at the Baptist Hosp. in Memphis, is expected home on Sunday. Mrs. Robert E. Gall of Gainesville, Fla. is here visiting relatives, and is staying with her aunt, Mrs. George E. Parker.

Local-19390412-Steve Hurt, local fireman, received painful injuries this morning when he fell while fighting a fire at the home of Joe Fleming in the west part of the city. He was in the attic with several other firemen when a chimney crumbled and bricks fell through the roof and the floor of the attic where he stood, he stumbled and fell thru the attic floor, 12 feet below. Mrs. G. E. Snell and Perry G. Snell of Ft. Myers, Fla., are expected to arrive soon to visit Mr. and Mrs. W. E. McMahon. Mrs. Snell is Mrs. McMahon’s mother, and Mr. Snell is her brother. Mrs. Hugh Walter Sanders and infant son, Hugh Walter Sanders, Jr., are expected home from the Baptist Hosp. soon. Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Marshall and family left last night for Little Rock to make their home, he is transferred by the Soil Conservation Service. Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Gilbert and daughter Gale, left for Hot Springs for about two weeks. W. E. Stevens and T. J. Aycock left Monday on a motor trip to Florida. Miss Dorothy French, music teacher, will present two piano pupils, Misses Lorraine Ash and Ernestine Crutchfield at the FCHS tomorrow evening. There is some improvement in the condition of A. E. Gill who suffered a stroke at his home Sunday. Mrs. Lynn L. Smith left last night for Fayetteville, having been called there on account of a serious illness of her father, B. A. Rudolph. Her children, Betty and Alice are in the home of Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Dortch during her absence.

Local-19390413-Semi-Annual meeting of Third District Medical Society being held here. Physicians from Cross, Woodruff, Phillips, Monroe, Prairie and St. Francis, Arkansas are gathered at the Aycock Blue Room today with Dr. M. C. Johns of Stuttgart, President of the society presiding. Miss Elva Lois Garrison of Forrest City, a freshman at Hendrix College in Conway, will spend the weekend at Petit Jean Mountain state park, daughter of Mrs. and Mrs. C. R. Garrison. (Shell Lake and Blackfish News-Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Fulks, and Miss Blanche Beazley, teachers at Heth, had an Easter Egg hunt last Friday at the school house. Mr. and Mrs. Ollie Frazier have had Mr. Frazier’s father, J. L. Frazier of Indianola, Miss., as their guest for several days. Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Shultz of Greenwood, Miss. and Mr. S. V. Frazier and family of Osceola were their guests during the weekend. Mrs. Carl Edmondson had a Easter Egg hunt for their children, June and Donald. Roy Brown of Conway has been a visitor in the home of his sister, Mrs. Ralph Fulks of Heth for the past several days. Mr. and Mrs. Ellis Cureton of Forrest City were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Edmondson on Sunday. Per Mrs. Vernon Bernard} James Fussell, Jr. has bought the new cottage at the back of the Ray Garrison home in the Vaccaro addition, and will move his family around the first of the week. Thomas O’ Brien of Forrest City and Hughes, is now in Heber Springs where he is managing a restaurant it was learned today. Page 57 of 158

Local-19390414-Friday-Claud Hamilton and C. A. Lincoln left today for hunting trip to White Oak Mountain near Harrison for annual wild turkey hunt. Donald Bissell of this city is under treatment at the Baptist Hosp. in Memphis. Forrest City gardener, Norman Humphrey has a sunken garden in annual garden pilgrimage and Flower Show with “Better Homes Week” Apr. 30-May 6. Forrest Street is traversed by two creeks, Cow Springs Branch, and Stewart Spring Branch, now known as Norfleet Spring Branch. FCHS Band led by Band Director J. M. Shefner will give a concert at Palestine school tonight. Lee Horton and son Eugene, returned from a visit to Dallas, Texas. Mrs. Horton and son Russell visited relatives at Wynne while they were away.

Local-19390415-Mr. Hugh Devereux is resting in Baptist Hosp. in Memphis after his appendectomy yesterday. Mrs. J. M. Campbell underwent an operation at Baptist Hosp. in Memphis. Miss Martha Dillon returned home from the Baptist Hosp. in Memphis after an appendectomy. Miss Martha Pilkington is a new employee at the offices of the county agent in this city.

Local-19390415-Saturday-Wheatley 1939-40 school term faculty is announced: E. S. Brown is Superintendent, Mrs. R. J. Hall has been re-elected Principal and English teacher. Other teachers are: T. A. White, Vocational Agriculture; Leola Brown McCorkle, Fifth and Sixth grades; Mrs. A. H. Williams, third and fourth grades; and Mrs. D. H. Smith, primary grades. Miss Audrey Lawson will teach the Lake Grove School; Mrs. Bernard Ray and Miss Anne Platt, the Goodwin school, and Miss Estelle Chipman, Posey.

Local-19390417-Melodeers to furnish music under direction of W. E. Stevens, Jr. at the Civic Auditorium here next Friday, April 21. Mrs. David Gates of Lonoke spent the weekend here as guests of her sons, Gere and David Gates, Jr. Ed Vaccaro left yesterday for Washington, D. C., where he will re-enter prep school after holidays here with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Gazzola Vaccaro. Rolfe Eldridge, Jr., arrived Saturday night from McGregor, Iowa, to visit his parents for several weeks. Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Oates and Mrs. Oates’ sister, Mrs. Zora Cummings of Fayetteville were guests of Rev. and Mrs. R. S. Hayden. Dr. Paul Lanier and family are now making their home in Round Pond with Mr. and Mrs. W. F. McCachren. Dr. Lanier is carrying on with the practice of Dr. C. V. Powell at Round Pond who is giving up his practice when he assumed the duties of the St. Francis County health department in January. Major and Mrs. Newman Laughinghouse and daughter Lyle Mae, are expected to arrive this week from Riverside, Calif., to visit Major Laughinghouse’s sister, Mrs. Fred Seaton. The Major had recently been transferred by the Army to Riverside post, from Honolulu.

Local-19390418-Formal re-opening of Dillon Dress Shop set for Friday night after repairs to shop from a fire several weeks ago. 28 local youths enrolled at CCC Camps, 21 white Page 58 of 158 and 7 Negro youths from the county have joined, the first group of white enrollees left for Little Rock where they will undergo examinations: Walter Louis Baskins, Gilbert Steven Brown, Irvin Chilner, Robert Edwin Harris, Noble Frank Hooten, Carl Fay Horn, Melvin Nelson, Otis Lee Stepp, Paul Andrew Street, and Jessie Leon Thomas. Those going to camp Hollis near Hot Springs: Willie Eugene Atterberry, Wallace Eliga Brown, James Drew David, William Silas Ellison, Jr., Hurley O. Evans, Jr., Cecil Hayens Higgins, John Miller Jones, Willard Lavern Stizes, Olan Ralph Sybert, Webb O’Neal, and John Nelson Varner. The Negro enrollees were sent to the local CCC Camp: Clyde Barker, Walter Bee Blount, Scott Lewis, Jr., George Houston Miller, Ralph Nesbitt, James O. Lacy, and Ernest Satterwhite. Harry Cohen of Memphis is visiting his son, Max Cohen. Mrs. R. C. Hobson and daughter, Mary, Will leave for Memphis to join Mr. Hobson about May 1. He began employment with the Union Planters Bank there. His son Bob, will join after completion of classes in June at FCHS. Alleyne DeRossitt, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James DeRossitt is expected home from Baptist Hosp. in Memphis after treatment. Mrs. Guy V. McCleskey returned home last night from a visit with her mother, Mrs. A. J. Bounds, at Calhoun City, Miss.

Local-19390419-FCHS is undergoing examination by the North Central Assoc. of the State Dept. of Education to measure standards. D. E. Hoshall, St. Francis Co. revenue collector recovering from painful injuries suffered in an automobile accident that occurred on Broadway, when a taxi owned by Marshall Anthony, Madison Negro, drove into the car of Mr. Hoshall as he entered Broadway from North Forrest Street. Notice from County Judge Charles Fleming: I am authorized to select 10 people for attendance at the Univ. of Arkansas which entitle the holder to free tuition for four years. Contact the Registrar at Fayetteville for complete qualifications, expenses, etc. to enter. Mrs. J. M. Campbell returned home yesterday from Baptist Hosp. in Memphis after operation recently. The condition of Miss Goldie Harris who is recovering from an appendectomy at Baptist Hosp. in Memphis. Mrs. Ralph N. Farrar, Jr. of Blytheville, is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Adams. Mrs. August Korte of Little Rock was a guest of her brother, J. A. Patterson this past weekend. Mrs. H. R. Neblett and sons, Jack of this city, and Harry of Memphis spent Sunday at Ruleville, Miss., visiting Mrs. Neblett’s sister, Mrs. Bessye Dickerson. Mrs. S. J. Ambrose will enter Baptist Hosp. in Memphis for treatment of arthritis. Judge A. L. Hutchins is confined to his home suffering from a severe cold. G. W. Christian celebrated his 80th birthday yesterday. [Shell Lake & Blackfish News-Mr. and Mrs. James Rutledge of Hermanville, Miss., and former residents of Blackfish Lake were guests this Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Bernard had their parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Carter and family of Alligator, Miss. as guests Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. John Sharp of Proctor are celebrating birth of a son, born Sunday in Memphis.] Page 59 of 158

Local-19390420-The Beech-Nut Miniature Circus here today at the local schools. Federal Compress & Warehouse Co., to increase its licensed storage capacity to 70,000 bales, and 18,000 increase. The condition of W. P. Royal is reported improved, he has been in Baptist Hosp. in Memphis since Thursday. Mrs. Richard Lines and daughter, Chambliss, of Wynne, are spending several days with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Russell Williams. Mrs. C. C. Campbell of Caldwell is under treatment at the Baptist Hosp. in Memphis. A bicycle belonging to Ed Johnston, son of Mrs. J. B. Johnston, was stolen off the front porch on Rosser Street.

Local-19390421-Robbery last night at Forrest City Motor Co. yields one auto, 1937 Ford, four new tires, desk radio, and typewriter.

Local-19390424-Mike O’Keefe of Memphis visited his aunts, Mrs. R. U. Patterson and Mrs. L. O’Keefe here Saturday. Also Jack O’Keefe, Miss Dorris Dobbins, Jim Harwell of Blytheville, Mrs. Odus McElroy of Wynne and Miss Jimmie Louise Leevers of Turrell were guests of Mrs. R. U. Patterson and family. Mr. and Mrs. Percy Goyne and small daughter, Laura Louise, are visiting Mrs. Goyne’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Eldridge Butler at Madison. Mrs. Henry Gray visited her son, Thomas, student at Hendrix College in Conway yesterday. Miss Sara Lanier of Little Rock spent the weekend at home with her mother, Mrs. W. J. Lanier, who also welcomed her son, W. J. Lanier, Jr. and family of Memphis. Mrs. James DeRossitt was brought home yesterday from the Baptist Hosp. in Memphis where she underwent a major operation.

Local-19390427-Three of six gravel trucks have been delivered to the county to be used in dumping gravel on country roads. Another four will be ordered later. Drivers for the trucks and oil and gas are to be provided by the WPA. Five road projects are under construction in St. Francis Co. Mrs. L. P. Swan is under treatment at the Methodist Hosp. in Memphis. Mrs. Ella Stringfellow is ill at the home of her daughter, Mrs. N. C. McCown. W. B. Barnes is ill at his home suffering from an attack of the flu. Mrs. E. L. Kittrell of Augusta was the guest Tuesday night and Wednesday of Mrs. J. B. Johnston. [Black Fish and Shell Lake News-Mrs. A. A. Pennington and son Darien, were Memphis shoppers yesterday. Mr. and Mrs. Jessie Wolfe and children of Memphis were weekend guests of Mr. and Mrs. Clint Skelton. Mr. and Mrs. Joe Forbes had their son, Woodrow Forbes, Mrs. Forbes and small son of Munford, Tenn. as guests for the weekend.] Wheatley-Weis Butane Co., headquartered in Wheatley, maintains bulk storage plants at Blytheville, and Forrest City from which dependable service is maintained to their customers in Eastern Arkansas.

Local-19390428-The Arkansas State Employment Service announced they need 1,000 strawberry pickers at McRae. Mrs. Pearl Mason of Memphis visited her parents, Mr. and Page 60 of 158

Mrs. Jim Alderson. Mrs. H. W. Woodward of Fayetteville is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Beazley. R. E. Haynes who had been seriously ill, has been taken to Little Rock Hosp. for treatment from his daughter’s home, Mrs. Azilee Devazier. Mrs. Wooten Anderson, Mrs. J. O. E. Beck, Miss Rebecca Taylor and Mrs. H. C. Pouncey, Sr., left for San Francisco for the Exposition, then on to Honolulu, being back around June 1. Roy Burrow and Katie Gwathney, of Palestine, are in Baptist Hosp., Memphis. Mr. and Mrs. Ben B. Blackmon have as their guest, Mrs. Thomas J. Cowell of Montgomery, Ala., she is Mrs. Blackmon’s mother.

Local-19390429-Saturday-Locat PTA elections held: Mrs. Frank Rauscher, Pres. To succeed Archie Smith; Mrs. Fred Seaton, First VP; Mrs. Elizabeth Connaway, Second VP; Miss Edna Joyce Ramsey, Sect.; and Mrs. Gladys Williams, Treasurer. Mrs. Jere Gates is ill at her home.

Local-19390501-Monday-Miller Bros. Shows arrived yesterday and today for an engagement of one week on State Hwy 1, McDaniel Show grounds, north of the American Legion Hut. Ten shows in total, with ten rides, two bands, and two big free acts. Mrs. Mary Berry Wheeler of Marion is a guest today of Mrs. Fred Jones. Mrs. A. J. Vaccaro returned to Memphis today after a visit here as guest of Mrs. James Alley. Miss Delia Hudson of Brinkley is new employee at the Bonnet Beauty Shop. Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Butler expect to move Thursday into the H. B. Renfro home in the Vaccaro addition. Mrs, Kirk Dixon and son, Gilmer, of Ft. Smith and Mrs. W. B. East of Arkadelphia were guests of Mrs. Dixon’s and Mrs. East’s sister, Mrs. S. J. Dean, and family. Mrs. Ella Stringfellow is improved at the home of her daughter, Mrs. N. C. McCown. Mrs. Charles Buford and small daughter, Barbara Ann, left for Jackson, Miss., yesterday, to spend two weeks with Mrs. Buford’s sister, Mrs. D. C. McRea.

Local-19390502-Tenth annual Crowley Ridge Peach Festival officers selected: Richard B. McCulloch, General Chairman, replacing Jack R. Porter, who has served in that capacity for the first nine Festivals, as he moved to Little Rock. Many people shown. Mrs. Madeleine Rollwage (John Henry) Schlosser of Memphis is here visiting her daughter, Mrs. Eldridge Jones Butler. Jimmy Barry, son of Mr. and Mrs. George Barry was admitted to Baptist Hosp. in Memphis for treatment. Mrs. C. H. Martin has returned to Senatobia, Miss., after visit here with her daughter, Mrs. Jerry Burns, and Mr. Burns. [Shell Lake & Blackfish News-Darien Pennington, Wayne Ferguson, and Gernie Foster, all of whom are Hughes HS graduating class attended the Junior-Senior Dance last Thursday night. Jack Lancaster, Edward James, Janie Belle Sims, and James Sims of Shell Lake also attended the dance. ] Page 61 of 158

Local-19390503-“Curley Fox,” well known fiddler, “Texas Ruby,” the yodeling cowgirl and their company of five, “\The Fox Hunters, “ all popular radio stars of station WREC, Memphis, will appear at Colt school on May 9. Mrs. H. M. Jinks is spending the week at Portageville, Mo., visiting her sister, Mrs. Harlan Whitaker. Mrs. C. E. Bates and daughter, Mary Eunice, of Gloster, Miss., are visiting here with Mrs. Bates’ son and wife, W. C. Bates at the Walker apartments. Miss Ronnie Winforn of Hot Springs, Miss Cleo Fisther and Miss Doris Sanders of Little Rock are now employees at the Perrye Health and Beauty Salon.

Local-19390504-Round Pond Child, Forrest Lynne Smith, eight year old son of Mr. and Mrs. G. E. Smith, loses an eye in an accident while he was playing “Indian” with a playmate, when the arrow he shot lodged in the eye while playing at the Smith home. The victim is the nephew of Mrs. J. C. Ashworth of this city. Hughes will have a Compress per Federal Compress and Warehouse Co., of Memphis, which will handle 30,000 bales to cost more than $125,000. The land was purchased from the Hughes Estate, near the Missouri-Pacific Depot. This will be the 35th under Federal Company management in Arkansas. Miss Mary Perdzock will attend the weekend at Quachita College in Arkadelphia as guest of Miss Annie Mary Perry. Mrs. Annie Dial of Memphis was the guest of her son, Aubrey, and plans to return here soon. Miss Claudia Hout of Tuckerman was the guest of her sister, Mrs. Nathan Penix.

Local-19390505-Friday-Melvin Parker of Memphis is visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Parker. D. E. Hoshall and daughter, Mrs. Frank Rauscher, were business visitors in Little Rock yesterday. Mrs. H. B. Pankey and small son, returned from Roswell, N. M., where they spent two weeks at the mother of Mrs. Pankey, Mrs. Nora McCrary.

Local-19390508-Monday-Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Simmons will move into the Paul Lanier residence on North Forrest Street. Mrs. Barney McFall is visiting her mother, Mrs. Browning, in Conway. Mrs. R. B. McCulloch and daughter, Peggy, were visitors in Marianna on Saturday to attend the Senior play there. Joe Gray, son of Mr. and Mrs. Tom Gray is expected home after an appendectomy at Baptist Hosp. in Memphis. Mrs. Barry Harah and children and Miss Lucy Harah of Ponca City, Okla., are visiting Mrs. Harah’s mother, Mrs. E. L. Aydelott. The condition of Mrs. Rodney Bryan is reported improving today. Mr. and Mrs. Albert Vaccaro of Memphis were weekend guests of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Ferguson.

Local-19390509-The mysterious disappearance of Roy Babin, employee of the Underwood Welding Co. here, remained unsolved today. He came to Forrest City from Memphis, and has been missing since last Wednesday when he left there with a truck loaded with cylinder heads which he was expected to deliver to Texarkana per Ernest Underwood, Page 62 of 158

Proprietor. May 13-Roy Babin still missing. FCHS is ready to publish the first annual in many years, and covers the 1938-1939 school year. The annual is dedicated to Miss Ona Marie Schneider, head of the journalism and business administration of the high school. The staff of Seniors that published the Corral are: Jeanne Hine, Editor; Verla Voss, Sub- Editor; Betty Cook, Lucille Pursell, Dorothy Harris, Emmalie Chappell, Marylee Draper, Art Editor; Barney Boyce and Dillie Crook. Valedictorian for 1939 is Elizabeth Ellis, and Salutatorian is Lorraine Ash. Mrs. R. C. Ruckle of Orlando, Fla., is here visiting Mrs. L. L. Replogle. She is the former Freddie Hamilton. Miss Pauline Jolley of Monticello is spending several days as guest of Mrs. C. E. Hammond. Mr. and Mrs. Lewis C. Hawley had as guests the past weekend his mother, Mrs. Sallie Hawley of Grady; and Mrs. P. D. Phillips and daughter, Peggy, of Gould.

Local-19390510-Wednesday-C. L. Childress, formerly of Newport, will open the Quality Bargain Store here Friday in the Times-Herald Building, and front of North Izard Street. They buy and sell bankrupt stocks of men’s and women’s clothing, shoes, hats, shirts, ties, etc., and used clothing. E C. Cole of Parkin has leased the building on the corner of Front and Rosser streets, occupied for years by the Busy Dept. Store, and will open three places of business, (1) one a grocery named the True American Grocery, with B. W. Brewer, formerly of Parkin, as manager. A meat market in conjunction with the grocery, and (2) a café to be operated by Fred McMullin, also of Parkin. (3)A dry goods and clothing store, manager not announced. Mr. Cole operates similar stores in Joiner, Luxora, Trumann and Parkin. Mrs. Robert E. Cole returned to Russellville yesterday after visit to her mother, Mrs. J. B. Johnston. Mrs. H. S. Goodwin of Memphis is a visitor to her parents, Mrs. and Mrs. W. E. Haynie. Mrs. Doyle Rowland of Dumas is guest of her sisters, Misses Ann and Mae Horton and Miss Elma King.

Local-19390512-Friday-Four garage robberies in Eastern Arkansas, one of the at the Forrest City Motor Co., were said by officers to be solved today. They have a signed confession from Robert Austin, 35 year old Negro, who admitted to the Apr. 21 burglary here. Costello Bros. building a mule barn on Hwy 70 back of Moomey’s garage on West Broadway to replace the one that burned several months ago. J. M. Laws, near farm ownership, a tenant farmer, he is close to receiving a loan from the Farm Security Administration when approved. He is one of ten St. Francis Co. tenant farmers selected this year for loans under the Bankhead-Jones Act, and will have forty years to pay for the Farm at three percent interest. Mrs. Will Duffel left today for Conway for a visit with her daughter, Miss Mary Elizabeth Folbre, who is attending Hendrix College. Friends of Jack Porter will be glad to learn that the condition of his father, J. W. Porter of W. Helena is reported improved today at the Baptist Hosp. in Memphis where his father underwent several operations. Page 63 of 158

Local-19390513-Saturday-Mrs. A. W. Buford is under treatment at Baptist Hosp. in Memphis, expects to return home Monday. Mrs. C. C. Birkicht underwent a major operation at Baptist Hosp. in Memphis yesterday. The condition of Eugene Williams who is recovering from several heart attacks he suffered this week is reported improved. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Warren and Frank, Jr., left this mooring of Calhoun City, Miss., having been called there on account of a serious illness of Mr. Warren’s brother in law, Boyd Yarbrough. Lieut. R. C. Eldridge, Jr., was transferred this week from CCC Camp at McGregor, Iowa, to the camp at Des Moines, Iowa. Basil Hodges and family of Little Rock, Norman Hodges of Newport, Mrs. Paul Isbell of Memphis, and Mr. and Mrs. Haven Hodges of Parkin will be Mothers’ day guests of Mrs. S. L. Hodges.

Local-19390515-Monday-Local salesman disappears, officers today had been asked to look for Aubrey Phillips, 23 year old salesman for the Merchants Specialty Co. here who disappeared late Friday night. According to an officer, Phillips left the company Friday morning on one of the company’s trucks to make a usual run expected to return Friday night. Aubrey Harris, manager of the company, learned Saturday morning that the truck had been left in Brinkley and the keys turned over to an employee at a Brinkley café with instructions to notify Mr. Harris where the truck had been parked. Two fined for possession of whisky for sale, Frank Hollins and Robert Gregory, Negroes, were fined $50 each in police court this morning. The arrests had been made by officer Rowe and Edmondson, in the west end of the city, Saturday night. Will Duffel spent yesterday at Wynne visiting his mother, Mrs. Robert Jones. Mrs. C. O. Forrester has returned from visit to her mother, Mrs. R. P. Thompson of Black Rock. Mrs. Annie Dial will arrive from Memphis to make her home with her son, Aubrey Dial who rented an apartment in the home of Mrs. T. A. Buford on Division Street. Mrs. J. C. Reynolds of Fredrick, Okla., is here visiting Mrs. Annie Dorris and Mrs. T. E. Christopher. Dr. A. B. Caldwell is under treatment at Baptist Hosp. in Memphis for a ruptured appendix.

Local-19390516-Tuesday-W. V. Armstrong, St. Francis Co. school examiner, last night received the Bachelor of Science Degree from Jonesboro State College at Jonesboro. Mrs. Kelsie Whitted and sons, Cecil, Jr., and Garrett, and Mrs. Alberta Downey will leave tomorrow for Ft. Worth on visit. Mr. and Mrs. E. T. Altman spent Sunday in Memphis visiting their son, Enos,.and Mrs. Walter Taylor.

Local-19390517-Wednesday-Mrs. John Daggett of Marianna is the guest today of her sister, Mrs. Ray Garrison. Mrs. Grace Perry spent last night at Holly Grove visiting her mother, Mrs. R. L. Chism, who is quite ill at her home from injuries received in a fall. Mrs. C. V. Powell of Round Pond has guests her sisters, Mrs. W. H. Askew of Mobile, Ala., and Mrs. J. P. Wiggins of Cleveland, Miss. Jim Scott returned this morning from Baptist Hosp. in Memphis where he underwent surgery. Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Valentine of Prattsville are Page 64 of 158 guests of Mrs. Valentine’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Nolan. Mr. and Mrs. Charles and Henry Hequenbourg and son of Charleston, Mo. are visiting Mrs. Charles Hequenbourg’s mother, Mrs. N. B. Nelson.

Local-19390518-Thursday-LSU, Baton Rouge-John Plummer, son of Mrs. Harry Plummer of Forrest City, is one of the 88 members of the infantry unit of the LSU Reserve Officers Training Corps to receive commissions as second lieutenants in the United States Army Infantry reserves. Also from Forrest City at LSU, Frank Hamilton was selected by the Student Council President to be one of the seven justices of the Honor Court for next year. Chief of Police, Jake Crigger today reported two robberies which occurred in the north part of the city Tuesday night. The homes of E. H. Simmons on N. Forrest street, and Archie Smith on N. Rosser street by picking a screen and opening a window. Barbara Vaccaro, small daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Gazzola Vaccaro was brought home from Baptist Hosp. in Memphis yesterday where she had her tonsils and adenoids removed. George I. Turk who has been ill at his home here is reported holding his own today. Also, Luther B. Peevey is critically ill at his home in Colt. Oil test wells near Wheatley, Goodwin and Moro, to start drilling by east Texas oilmen.

Local-19390519-Friday-Car leaves road as local driver sleeps at wheel of an automobile on Hwy 64 three miles east of Wynne Wednesday night at 11:30 pm. He is an employee of a service station in Forrest City. He was brought to Forrest City for treatment by passing motorists. The Forrest City Police Dept. received delivery of a new patrol car, a 1939 Chevrolet sedan, from the Forrest City Motor Co. Hammond Dooley has been re-instated with the Civil Service Commission, and awarded Carrier of Palestine mail route, succeeding W. F. Jones. Mr. Dooley had been detached in 1929 due to ill health from clerk in the Forrest City Postofffice for nine years. Roy D. Campbell has bought a home on N. Forrest street from Mrs. Sarah W. Cook. The Forrest City American Legion Junior Baseball Team has about 25 candidates reporting daily to practice. Frank King, Jr. was elected Captain of the team. Among the candidates: Bill Vincent, Algy Jolly, Orin Dangeau, Pitchers; Bill Gatling, Catcher; Frank King, Jr., A. Nimocks, Jr., Frank Warren, Jr., Tom Aycock and J. W. Crigger, Jr., infielders; Luther Bledsoe, Knox Kinney, Clark Kinney, and Billy Armstrong, outfielders. Ben Horne is the manager.

Local-19390520-Saturday-Faculty for next term at Forrest City schools, 1939-1940 per Superintendant, M. S. Smith: Grammar School-Mrs. Finas McDaniel, Principal; Mrs. Ben Horne, Auditorium; Mrs. Mabel Patterson, art and spelling; Miss Geraldine Johnson, music and health; Miss Callie McElroy, arithmetic; Mrs. Ben Fogg, social studies; Miss Loraine Lindsey, English and reading; Mrs. A. B. Caldwell, English and reading; Mrs. Howard Cranor, auditorium and music; Mrs. James Oursler, Miss Mary Lindsey, and Mrs. Kennon Moore, Third grade; Mrs. Jeff Eaton, second grade; Miss Pearle David, first grade; Miss Page 65 of 158

Drucilla Barrow, first and Second grade. Forrest City HS: Lewis C. Hawley, Principal; Mrs. Edwin Walker, Miss Nora Morgan also teaches French, and Mrs. Ercil Brown, Senior English; Miss Edna Joyce Ramsey and Miss Frances Counts, junior English; Miss Ophelia Fisther and Dewitt Smith, Senior history; Miss Bertha Davidson, junior history; Kennon Moore, senior science; Mrs. Doris Smith, Junior Science; Hugh Guest, junior science and shop; Miss Fannie Carroll Legg, senior science; Luther Lieblong, senior math; Miss Mildred Horton, junior math; Miss Stella Doyle, junior math; Coy Tommey, vocational agriculture; Miss Tolise King and Miss Grace Hurst, home economics; Miss Sara Dunn Sistrunck, music; J. M. Shafner, band; Mrs. Otis Holwerk, junior science and secretary to principal; William Irving, Coach, clerk of school board and assistant to superintendant. Rural Schools: Mrs. Ernest Sulcer, Miss Mary McDaniel, Miss Ruby Turner, Miss Ethel Lewis, Mrs. Thomas McKnight, and Jack Gates, Madison; Miss Tessa Dial, Mrs. John Danehower, Round Pond; Mrs. W. V. Armstrong, Miss Pauline Roebuc, Mrs. Earl Horton, Newcastle; Miss Naomi Brantley, Mrs. Rena Armstrong, Mrs. Erin Williams, Colt; Mrs. Hal Cook, Miss Claudia Proctor, Caldwell. Aubrey Phillips has been found in Dewitt, per Aubrey Harris, manager of company for which Phillips worked. Ed Schellhous underwent removal of his tonsils at St. Joseph’s Hosp. in Memphis. Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Bridewell are in Hammond, La. at home of his mother, Mrs. M. E. Bridewell. Mrs. E. C. Gathings will visit her mother, Mrs. S. L. Kirkpatrick Tuesday. Mrs. Mary M. Lindsey is recovering from a major operation in Baptist Hosp. in Memphis. James Aycock returned for summer from East Mississippi College to be with his mother, Mrs. E. B. Eason, and Mr. Eason. He was accompanied by his sister, Mrs. J. D. Richards of Corinth, Miss. Mrs. Ollie Lambert is in Wyatt, Miss., visiting her uncle, D. M. Brantley.

Local-19390522-Monday-Miss Mary Katherine Wilkins of this city will receive nursing diploma Thursday from Methodist Hosp. School of Nursing in Memphis. C. R. Hine, Sr. is ill at home in this city with the flu. Dr. and Mrs. W. A. Regnier and family will leave for Crossett where he will be resident physician for the Crossett Lumber Co. His successor at the CCC camp here is not known at this time. Thomas Cope of Dyersburg, Tenn., was a visitor here yesterday, he was transferred there by Liberty Cash Grocery from Jonesboro. [Black Fish and Shell News-Mrs. Vernon Bernard and son Steve Butler, have returned home from a visit to Mrs. Bernard’s parents in Aligator, Miss. Mrs. M. E. Erwin and Mrs. Sally Erwin visited Mrs. Josie Lewis at the Baptist Hosp. in Memphis, Friday. Miss Macel Kirk of Memphis is a guest of her aunt, Mrs. A. A. Pennington. ]

Local-19390523-Tuesday-Co. H-153rd Infantry, local National Guard organization will celebrate the 18th anniversary at the Presbyterian Church tonight. Recent promotions: Sergeants Loyce C. Harvey, Harold E. Grobmyer, and William D. O’Brien, William A. Clarke, Jr., Corporals; Roland D. Burrows, Meredith R. Grobmyer, Charles W. Helen, III, Page 66 of 158 and William D. Thomas. Possible Forrest City graduates of Univ. of Arkansas on June 5: Forrest Lee, Henry C. Gilliam, Miss Grace Jewell Lincoln, John G. Bridgforth, and Willliam M. Campbell. Faculty of Round Pond selected: Mrs. Oscie Walker, Principal and 4th and 5th grades; Mrs. John Danehower, and Mrs. Eula Adams. George O’Brien is expected tomorrow from the Univ. of Alabama to spend summer with his mother, Mrs. E. H. Simmons, and Mr. Simmons. R. P. Bailey of Palestine is a patient in Methodist Hosp. in Memphis. Miss Mildred Anderson of this city is under treatment at the McLemore Clinic in Memphis. Mrs. A. C. Leach of Hughes has been admitted to the Baptist Hosp. in Memphis.

Local-19390524-Wednesday-Peach Festival Queen selected, Miss Patsy Hughes of Forrest City, and maids, Gladys Williams and Kitty Nichols. Miss Marcille Mullikin was selected Junior Princess, and her maids are Beverly Causey and Gale Gilbert. Mrs. Roy D. Campbell is in Lake Village, having been called on account of the illness of her mother. Mrs. R. B. Byerley of Wichita, Ks., is expected to arrive around June 1 to visit her sister, Mrs. William Dawson. Charles Merrell will leave today to make his home with his great uncle in Tampa, Fla.

Local-19390525-Thursday-Bob Austin, Negro, who confessed to the robbery of the Forrest City Motor Co. on May 11 has been placed in Wynne jail. Blacktop paving work south of city of Hwy 11 to begin May 29, and when completed there will only be one stretch of 6,000 feet between Forrest City and Helena that is not paved, which is at railway tracks south of Haynes where the Missouri-Pacific overpass at Canaan needs to be constructed. Hogan Const. Co. has the contract, and materials will be mixed at the plant at Crow Creek Gravel and Sand Co., approximately 125 people will be employed. Lightning struck a barn owned by Arch Kelso on the C. E. Vincent farm near Colt yesterday and destroyed the barn, and its contents, two tons of hay. Billy Gustafson assumed management this week of the Lion Oil Station of West Broadway, replacing R. D. Baker. Mrs. John Patrichios attended the graduation exercises of Tech High last night in Memphis, her brother, Robert Wright, Jr., was among the graduates. [Shell Lake and Blackfish News- Mrs. Joe Tate Moran and son, Joe Tate, III, have returned home from Memphis after visit to their aunt, Mr. A. A. Pennington and family. Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Payne visited relatives at Dyess on Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. M. O. Carter of Senatobia, Miss., and Mr. and Mrs. Bill Gullege of Memphis were visitors with Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Bernard on Sunday.]

Local-19390526-Friday-Completely remodeled and redecorated Kroger store at 231 Front Street to hold opening on Saturday. Notice of Filing of application for Liquor permit to sell at 113 North Rosser Street effective July 1,1939 by F. R. Adams has been filed. Graduates from St. Joseph’s Nursing School in Memphis are Miss Lucille Ballman of this city and Miss Eudora Dempsey of Heth. Graduates from Methodist Hospital School of Nursing in Memphis are Miss Katherine Wilkins, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. M. O. Wilkins of Page 67 of 158 this city. Pete Moore of Heth has been admitted to Baptist Hosp. in Memphis, and Mr. L. P. Parnall of this city is in Methodist Hosp. in Memphis. Roy D. Campbell left today for Lake Village to join Mrs. Campbell, who is attending her mother who is critically ill.

Local-19390527-Saturday-John Clarke, son of E. B. Clarke, bookkeeper for the Crow Creek Gravel & Sand Co., won third place in National contest in the Class B tuba solo contest in Indianapolis, Indiana. Colonel Thomas A. Davis of San Diego, Calif., will be a weekend guest of Mr. and Mrs. John W. Alderson. Davis is cousin of Mr. Alderson.

Local-19390529-Monday-Mrs. Grace Perry is suffering from an attack of ptomaine poisoning. Per Manager Otto Bridgforth, the Hotel Arlington dining room will be closed for the summer while the new air-cooling equipment is installed. The Larkwood Hosiery Bar will open Wednesday, in the space formerly occupied by the Bonnett Beauty Shop, opened by Gordon Mathews, of Jonesboro, and managed by Miss Madalyn Ash of this city. Mrs. Ann Young Durst, proprietor of the Bonnet Beauty Shop has discontinued the sale of millinery department. More than 400 singers from St. Francis Co. register at the singing meet yesterday in the city auditorium. Officers selected are Frank Warren, Pres., D. Clarke, VP, and Dorris Nail, Sect/Treas. Miss Virginia Cranor, student at State Teachers College in Conway has arrived home for summer vacation. Fourteen members of the Delta Beta Sigma Sorority will graduate June 2 from FCHS: Misses Emmalie Chappell, Jane Laughinghouse, Peggy McCulloch, Lorraine Ash, Jeanne Hine, Marjorie Newman, Mary Perdzock, Ernestine Crutchfield, Dorothy Harris, Marylee Draper, Ora Beattie, Dora Beattie, Jean Poole, and Betty Cobb. Mrs. J. T. Sanders, Jr. and two children, will leave Thursday for Pnnca City, Okla., to join Mr. Sanders and make their home. Dr. Frederick William Haury will leave today for Little Rock to see his daughter, Ann Christina Haury, graduate from junior high school. J. O. Ewart, will graduate from the Univ. of Tennessee on Saturday, Mrs. W. C. Oursler, grandmother, and parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. O. Ewart of Memphis will attend the ceremonies. Mrs. Otto Bridgforth and son left yesterday for Yazoo City, Miss. to visit with her mother, Mrs. J. R. Jones, accompanied by her sister, Miss Ruth Jones. Vassar McCleskey has arrived home from Arkansas Tech in Russellville for the summer vacation. Eugene Williams was admitted to St. Joseph’s Hosp. in Memphis for treatment of a heart ailment. Mrs. W. S. Mitchell and daughter of Little Rock were guests of her grandmother, Mrs. O. B. Rollwage. Stinette Fondren has been admitted to Baptist Hosp. in Memphis for treatment. Mrs. William David was the guest of her sister, in Memphis, Miss Sarah Dockery.

Local-19390530-Tuesday-Mrs. Leona Whittenton returned to Booneville Sunday after visit with her mother, Mrs. S. Blackmor. Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Parks will leave to make their home in Helena. He had been employed here with the Forrest City Grocer Co. and has accepted a position with the Heinz Company. Mrs. W. A. Perry and Mrs. Fred Moseley will Page 68 of 158 go to Arkadelphia to bring home daughters from Quachita College, Annie Marie Perry and Fredene Moseley. Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Knight will leave Saturday for trip out west, and will visit Mr. Knight’s brother, S. P. Knight, at Long Beach, Calif., and Mrs. Knight’s brothers, Will and Frank Mervin at Pittsburg, Kansas. Frank Hamilton has arrived home from LSU in Baton Rouge for the summer. Miss Kathryn Izard received her degree from Dodd College in Shreveport. She is daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Izard of this city. Mrs. T. D. Rambo has returned from Brownsville, Tenn., where she was guest of Mrs. Austin Mann, and attended the wedding of Sweet-Norvell at Stanton on Sunday.

Local-19390531-Wednesday-First year of Catholic Parochial School was a success in Forrest City. They will add the fifth grade to the 1939-1940 school year in addition to the other four grades taught this year. Those attending: Christine Ross, William Matthew Brown, Leo Vaccaro, Jr., Patricia Perdzock, Edward Grobmyer, Stephen Shapkoff, Gazzola Vaccaro, Jr., Joanne Burkhart, Donald Shapkoff, Anna Mae Ross, Mary Faith Bernauer, and Ralph Chapman. Stinnette Fondren underwent major surgery today. John Plummer has arrived home from LSU at Baton Rouge where he received his Bachelor of Science Degree in the School of Business Administration. Mrs. Dick Neblett of Los Angeles, Calif., arrived today to be guest of Mr. and Mrs. H. R. Neblett, enroute to the New York World’s Fair. Miss Elizabeth Heustess left this morning for Okla. A. & M. College in Stillwater, Okla. To enroll for the summer term. Mrs. Lucille Benson and daughter Edith will arrive home today from Gulfport, Miss., where Miss Benson has been an instructor In Gulf Park College. Miss Frances Snyder has returned to State Teachers College in Conway for the summer term. Frank Swartz, a former merchant of Forrest City, but for the past 12 years in St. Louis, is visiting friends here, accompanied by his two sons, Leonard and J. G. Swartz. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas W. Wilkie and son Thomas, and Miss Pauline Vance returned from Springfield, Mo. where they were guest of Mr. and Mrs. Wilkie’s daughter, Mrs. Henry Lyons. Mrs. L. R. Grobymer will leave today for Benton to spend time with her daughter, Mrs. Arthur Buchholz. Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Smith returned from Little Rock, where he had an operation performed. Notice of filing of application for liquor license at Anna, Post Office, Round Pond eff. July 1,1939 by John Schroeder.

Local-19390601-Thursday-1939 FCHS Graduates announced: Lorraine Ash, Marjorie Barton, Dora Beattie, Ora Beattie, Annie Wilma Billingsley, Mildred Bullock, Emmalie Chappell, Betty Jean Crook, Ernestine Crutchfield., Retha Dangeau, Neil Dean Dooley, Marylee Draper, Eileen Dunn, Elizabeth Ellis, Imogene Freeman, Dorothy Harris, Eddie Vick Harrell, Eulene Heath, Alice Mae Herrod, Lucy Evelyn Hicks, Bernadine Hicks, Jeanne Hine, Patsy Hughes, Marie Jolly, Marie Latham, Janie Laughinghouse, Peggy McCulloch, Margaret McDaniel, Mary Ella McMickle, Marjorie Newman, Mary Perdzock, Jean Poole, Lucille Purcell, Marie Shepherd, Pearl Stabley, Mildred Thomas, Wella Mae Page 69 of 158

Vogel, Verlin Voss, Jane Waterman, Mildred Vaughn, Kim Arnold, Hope Lee Bradford, Barney Boyce, Ross Carwile, Bob Gore, Ollie Crook, Arthur L. Devereux, Roy Doland, Gerald Fleming, Bill Fogg, Billy Fondren, Paul Groves, David Hamilton, Doyle Harris, Bob Hobson, Eugene Horton, Neil Hope, James Hunter, Billy Jordan, Otto Kirkpatrick, Hays McMickle, Woodson Moseley, William Pairmore, Chester Parker, Harding Smith, John Sossaman, David Stayton, Billy Bryan, and J. L. Dedman. Officers: Woodson Moseley, Pres./Bob Cope, VP; Jean Poole, Sect./ and Dorothy Harris, Treas. Sponsors are Mrs. Ercell Brown and Luther Lieblong. L. L. “Slim” Replogle to open auto repair shop, O. K. Garage, at the Lion Oil Station on West Broadway. R. H. “Bob” Griffin is to open a bowling alley next door to Jack’s café on Broadway, within the next few days. It will be managed by A. D. “Red” Nichols.

Local-19390602-Friday-Twelve cases of Tuberculosis found in St. Francis County during the recent control clinic. A Total of 108 x-rays were made, 32 were children. Minor damage at Madison Mill Fire today, one unit of the Erskine-Williams Lumber Co. plant was destroyed today. Miss Eva Lois Garrison has arrived home from Hendrix College in Conway for the summer vacation. Dr. J. R. Grant, President of Quachita College will address the 1939 FCHS commencement exercises tonight. Mrs. Walter Meals and daughter, Margaret, and Mr. and Mrs. Homer Cavin were Memphis visitors yesterday. Miss Hilda Perkins will leave for Oxford, Miss., her home. Jack Gates has enrolled at West Tennessee Teachers’ College in Memphis for the summer session. Joe Burkhart underwent emergency appendectomy in Memphis at St. Joseph’s Hosp. last night. Mrs. E. T. Slaughter, and children, Billy and Eddie, of Dallas, Texas, are visiting her parents, Dr. and Mrs. J. O. Rush. Miss Jean Prince arrived home from Quachita College in Arkadelphia to spend the summer. Notice of filing of application for liquor permit for Main Street, Widener, Eff. Jul.1,1939 by J. B. Bell.

Local-19390603-Saturday-Mrs. J. B. Johnston has purchased the home on Cleveland now occupied by the W. W. Adams family. She plans to remodel and make into two apartments. FCHS band has seventy four members. Officers selected are: Ed McMahon, Pres., A. F. Thomas, VP, Betty Claire Carlisle, Sect.; Business Manager-Jerry Hicky, Head Librarian is Rufus Woody, Jr.; Asst. librarians William Thompson, Albert Laser, Jr.,; Stage Manager is James Dillon; Asst. Stage Managers are George Morledge and Tommy Lloyd. Notice of Bankruptcy of A. L. Kern of Wheatley., eff. June 2,1939-Lee Cazort, Referee in Bankruptcy. Henry Haven, and Joe E. Ferguson, Jr. arrived home from the Univ. of Arkansas to spend the summer. Mrs. Freeman Irby and children of Topeka, Kansas, will arrive tomorrow to visit her parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. R. Hine. J. M. Shofner will leave in morning to attend the Vanderbilt School of Music in Chicago for the summer session. Mr. and Mrs. Roy H. Caldwell and family will spend the weekend at New Albany, Miss. visiting Page 70 of 158

Mr. Caldwell’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. B. T. Caldwell accompanied by Mrs. John Thomas, who will spend time with her parents, Dr. and Mrs. Cullins. Mr. and Mrs. Coy Tommey will leave tomorrow for Starksville, Miss., where he will enroll in Mississippi State College for the summer term. Mrs. James Hicky and infant daughter, Martha, arrive home from Baptist Hosp. in Memphis. Mrs. M. P. Lindsey, of Montgomery, Ala., mother of Mrs. Hicky accompanied them home. Miss Fannie Carroll Legg, FCHS teacher, will complete her Master’s Degree at Peabody College, in Nashville, Tenn., this summer. Only four surviving Confederate soldiers in Shelby Co., Tenn.: Col. John Gunter, age 92; Gen. R. E. Bellington, 92; Rev. R. P. Smith, 92; and Col. John Porter, age 93.

Local-19390605-Monday-Tom Gray has returned from Hendrix College in Conway for the summer. [Blackfish and Shell Lake News-M. E. Edwin was a Memphis visitor yesterday. Mrs. Marvin Payne and children have returned home from visiting relative in Greenbriar, Ark. Mrs. Sally Erein and Mrs. M. E. Edwin visited Memphis Friday. Mrs. Carl Edmondson and children have returned home from visit to relatives in Panama, Okla. Mrs. Paul Cox, sister of Mrs. Edmondson, of Spiro, Okla, returned with them for a visit here. Their brother, Eldon Cureton, also returned to Forrest City.]

Local-19390607-Wednesday-County fair Oct. 5, 6, 7 in Forrest city. Elected officers of the County Agricultural committee: Pres.-Wiley T. Jones, Madison, and J. B. Fletcher, Sect/Treasurer. Fred Eldridge resigns from Forrest City Grocer Co., and will devote his time to farming interests. He has been with them for 33 years. Parmer Taylor of Little Rock, is visiting his sisters, Mrs. Nettie Christopher, Mrs. H. L. Waldrep, and Mrs. H.W. Mosley, all of Forrest City, and his sister in Colt, Mrs. Vella Williams. William H. Doyle of Halleyville, Okla., is here visiting his sisters, Misses Mamie and Stella Doyle, and brother, Frank Doyle. Mr. J. E. Binion and daughter, Johnnie Evelyn, are spending two weeks at Montgomery, Alabama. Mrs. J. A. Jones of Phoenix, Arizona, is spending several weeks visiting her son, James Jones, and Mrs. Jones, and Mrs. F. W. Derossitt. Miss May Elizabeth Folbre arrived home from Hendrix College for summer vacation. William W. Campbell, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Campbell, began employment today at the National Bank of Eastern Arkansas. He graduated from the Univ. of Arkansas School of Business Administration this week. Notice of filing of Application for Liquor Permit for Anna, Post Office, Round Pond by John Schroeder. Dr. J. E. Burke, local dentist, wishes to announce that he is back in his office and ready to serve his clientele. He just completed 6 weeks of post graduate work at the Univ. of California Dental College.

Local-19390608-Thursday-Boy Scouts from Hughes, Wynne, Elaine, Clarendon, and Parkin are here to attend a jamboree, with over 100 scouts. Mrs. J. H. Fuller of Little Rock is the guest of her sister, Mrs. Mae Mason Lewis. Bobby Walker, son of Mr. and Mrs. George P. Walker, Jr., is quite ill at the Baptist Hosp. in Memphis. Fire destroys barn west of city on Page 71 of 158 the tenant farm of John Tilman, Negro, locate west of this city near Hwy 70. Four mules and five hogs were in the barn and were taken to safety, The barn is owned by Mrs. Buford Stewart. Notice of filing of Application for Liquor Permit at 110 E. Broadway in Forrest City, is filed by Sam Wexman. Mrs. R. B. Wyerley of Wichita, Kansas will arrive today as guest of Mrs. William Dawson.

Local-19390609-Friday-Rock Island to reduce local force. J. R. Sangster, the present agent, is to retire, and employee of Freight Dept. to move over to Passenger Dept. Sturch to be transferred. The duties of the freight agent and the cashier will be consolidated with those of telegraph operators and the offices of the freight agent and cashier will be moved from the freight office to the ticket office in the passenger depot. J. K. Sales, who will serve as second operator, and W. A. Perry, will serve as second operator. Mr. Sales is now serving during the day will probably assume the duties of the night operator, Mr. C. R. Sturch, who will probably be transferred to a station in Louisiana, Mr. Sangster said. Kyle Woods will remain here, it is said. Mrs. Lucille Engin and son Bob, of Kansas City, arrived last night to visit her parents,. Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Sangster, on North Izard Street. Miss Elizabeth Devereux will leave tomorrow on trip to the east to include the New York World’s Fair in New York City. Miss Alice King arrived home from Sweet Briar College in Virginia yesterday. Miss Corinne Hodges and Miss Mary Frances Johnston, left this morning for Hot Springs to attend annual convention of the Arkansas Press Association.

Local-19390610-Saturday-Welfare checks mailed out to 384 persons in St. Francis Co. in June, totaling $2,460.00: Old age assistance was $2,100.75 for 343 cases; Aid dependent Children: $286.56 for 113 children; Aid to blind: $63.75 for 9 cases.

Local-19390612-Monday-Edward Hill and Son Page, Negro youths were arrested yesterday in Madison on charges of cattle stealing. They had been placed in the county jail here awaiting hearing tomorrow. They are charged with stealing a cow from the R. L. Berry pasture north of Madison. Harley Deere strikes out nine batters as the Forrest City Steers’ baseball team stretched their season’s wins to eight yesterday at Smith Field when they shellacked the Stuttgart Slovacs to the tune of 22 to 8. Sol Cohn, Max Berlotsky and Isador Bilsky left yesterday on a motor trip which will take them to St. Louis, Mo., Minneapolis, Minn., Rochester, Minn., and St. Paul, Minn. At St. Louis, Mr. Berlotsky will visit the markets. Mr. Cohn will enter Mayo Clinic in Rochcester, and Mr. Bertlosky will visit his mother, Mrs. Fannie Bertlotsky, in Minneapolis, and his sisters, Mrs. Bernard Stamashkin and Mrs. Louis Lipschultz, at St. Paul. Roy Castleberry of Little Rock spent yesterday as guest of his sister, Mrs. Charles Cluitt.

Local-19390613-Tuesday-Cotton stalk with 12 squares on display at our office at the Times-Herald, brought in by Vernon Bernard near Blackfish Lake on Hwy 70. State Police Page 72 of 158 join in search for Will Danehower, who has been missing from the Danehower farm since Sunday night. The 17 year old son of Mrs. Nora Danehower, who has been missing from his home on the Danehower farm, 2 and ½ miles southwest of Forrest City. He was last seen at 7:30 pm Sunday evening as he approached the Danehower home after he had turned the mules in the lot from the pasture. His mother saw him coming up a high hill that approaches the house with a broad grin on his face. Wanted at Wynne-Sheriff C. M. Stacy announced this morning that he had warrants for the arrest of Miss Frances Lawrence and Leroy Jackson of Forrest city as the result of a fight at the skating rink in the northern edge of the city Sunday night. It is alleged that the Lawrence girl and Beatrice Searcy were engaged in a fight and when the mother, Mrs. Van Searcy attempted to separate them, Jackson hit her. Homer Smith O’Fallin, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. J. O’Fallin began employment this week as assistant credit manager of the Cudahy Packing Co. in Memphis. Mr. and Mrs. Roy D. Campbell and Mrs. Everette B. Gibson are in Memphis at the graduation of Frank Campbell, son of Mr. and Mrs. Roy D. Campbell, who is graduating from Southwestern University. W. M. David visited his aunt on Sunday, Mrs. Betty Davis in Greenville, Miss. Misses Leona and Dorothy McCrary left this morning for Roswell, N. Mexico, where they will join their mother, Mrs. Nora McCrary, and make their home. They have made their home for the past two years with their sister, Mrs. B. B. Pankey and Mr. Pankey of this city. Miss Arline Rust left yesterday for Little Rock to visit her sister, Mrs. Bertha Groves.

Local-19390614-Wednesday-Search for Will Danehower leads to Memphis. A clue given yesterday by Willie Kennedy, an employee of the Lemke Service Station here, proved futile in finding Danehower. Will Roe Danehower, 17 year old son of Mr. Nora Danehower, who has been missing since Sunday night. Kennedy told members of the family that Will had walked into the Lemke Station around 8 to 9 on Sunday night, and had caught a ride with a man in a Illinois coupe. After learning this, his sister, Miss Mary Danehower left immediately yesterday for the city in an futile attempt to locate Will. The condition of Paul Tischer who is under treatment at the Methodist Hosp. in Memphis is reported somewhat improved today. Mrs. R. E. Oliver and Mr. and Mrs. Howard Cranor moved yesterday into the cottage on East Cook street formerly occupied by Mr. and Mrs. James Gilliam, it is owned by Miss Sara Lanier. The J. A. Poole family has moved into the cottage owned by George L. Turk located on Division Street and formerly occupied by Mrs. R. E. Oliver and Mr. and Mrs. Howard Cranor. Mrs. C. B. Coleman of Poplar Bluff, Mo., was the guest of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. D. McDaniel last night. Miss Ann McDaniel will accompany Mrs. Coleman on trip to Washington, D. C. and New York City.

Local-19390616-Friday-The Widener Gin Co. formerly operated by Edward Roleson of this city has been purchased by G. R. Vardaman, R. C. Gregg, and Thomas Norsworthy of Page 73 of 158

Widener. It will be renamed the Widener Electric Gin Co. with Mr. Vardaman as President, Mr. Gregg, VP, and Mr. Norsworthy as Sect/Treasurer. Highway 79 meeting in Marianna to hear plans to finish paving the US. 79. The Forrest City delegation is headed by Sen. Dennis Horton. It is pointed out that only 35 per cent of Arkansas highways have been paved so far. The association wishes to speed the paving from Lehi where it intersects Hwy 70 to Haynesville, La. Mr. and Mrs. Phillip Lanier of Copperhill, Tenn. arrived last night for a visit with Mr. Lanier’s mother, Mrs. W. J. Lanier. Mrs. W. A. Harris suffered a light heart attack yesterday at her home. W. A. Harris is slowly recovering from a slight stroke he suffered Tuesday and was taken to a Memphis clinic for treatment, but now is at home. Mrs. S. L. Kirkpatrick returned home from week’s visit in Batesville, Miss. as the guest of her daughter, Mrs. Brown Pilkington, and Mr. Pilkington. Otto Kirkpatrick has enrolled at Draughon’s Business College in Memphis. Mrs. Freeman Irby and her two children, of Topeka, Kansas, have returned to this city to visit her parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. R. Hine, after a stay in Paragould, as guest of her sister, Mrs. Woodrow Castleberry. Scott L., Kirkpatrick, Jr., of Forrest City graduated from the George Washington University with the degree of Bachelor of Arts at the 118th annual commencement on June 14. Forrest Henderson strikes out eleven and leads hitting for the Forrest City Steers in an 11 to 4 victory over the Guiseck Cubs at Smith Field.

Local-19390617-Saturday-Will Roe Danehower located at Indianapolis, Indiana. Danehower, 17 years old son of Mrs. Nora Danehower had been missing since Sunday night. The family was informed that he had applied for an a job at the welfare office in Indianapolis several days ago. Miss Marjorie Wood has been selected as Princess to represent Parkin in the Crowley Ridge Peach Festival. Stinette Fondren has returned home from the Baptist Hosp. in Memphis where he underwent a major surgery. Mrs. J. F. McDougal will returned from Egypt, Miss. after visit to her sister. Mrs. T. C. Nall of Washington, D. C., will arrive to visit with Dr. and Mrs. J. A. Bogart. She is the wife of the late Mr. Nall, a former Superintendent of the Forrest City schools. Mr. and Mrs. Clell Burnett of El Dorado have enrolled at the Univ. of Louisiana for the summer term. Mrs. Burnett is the former Frances Myers of this city. Miss Eva Davidson has arrived home from Washington Univ. in St. Louis, where she received her degree this past semester, where her parents Dr. and Mrs. J. S. Davidson attended the graduation exercises. W. F. Gordy was admitted to the Veterans’ Hosp. in Memphis Wednesday for treatment, accompanied by his daughter, Ernestine.

Local-19390619-Monday-Church of the Good Shepherd engages new rector, Rev. Gardner D. Underhill, of Antwerp, New York, who will assume duties Sept.1. He is a young man in his early thirties, married with two children. He is succeeding Rev. Harley B. Bullock, who resigned as rector last summer. Mrs. Robert E. White will return to her home in Page 74 of 158

Butte, Montana, Wednesday, after spending several weeks with her parents, Dr. and Mrs. N. C. McCown. Mrs. E. A. Fisher and daughter, Miss Ophelia Fisher, have moved into the cottage on Tennessee street, owned by Mrs. M. S. Smith, Sr. Mrs. M. S. Smith, Sr., will arrive in New York City today for visit with her daughter, Miss Harriet Smith. Mr. and Mrs. Howard Barnett, from Morrilton, have rented the cottage on the corner of Hill and Forrest street, now occupied by Mr. and Mrs. H. B. Renfro. Mr. Barnett is employed with the CCC camp as superintendent, succeeding E. M. Galin.

Local-19390620-Tuesday-St. Francis Co. has received $6.30 per enumerated child in state apportionments this school year which amounts to $81,737.70 for the year. Most went to Dist. No. 7, Forrest City for $16,148.65. Mrs. Gordon Dunn of El Paso, Texas, is spending several days as guest of her grandparents, Mrs. E. G. Gatling and Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Morrow. She will be remembered as the former Louise Morrow. Miss Dorothy Bridgforth will leave Saturday for New York then onward to Europe aboard the Caledonia. Miss Marylee Draper is sick with malaria at her home. Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Bell and son, Cecil Wayne, were guests Sunday of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Blessing of Wynne. Mr. and Mrs. C. R. Sturch and son Dick, will leave for Ruston, La. to make their home, where he will be the telegraph operator for the Rock Island at a station near that city. Miss Irene Freeman returned from a Memphis hospital where she received treatment. Mrs. Fred Jones of this city is under treatment at the Baptist Hosp. in Memphis. Mrs. D. S. Cosgrobe of New Orleans, La., is visiting her aunt, Mrs. Robert Williams in Widener.

Local-19390621-Wednesday-First cotton bloom brought into our offices yesterday by R. R. Weeks from his Old River Farm. It was grown by a colored tenant, Joe Mitchell. Local authorities disregarded as a “hoax” the story told them yesterday by a 27 years old white man who claimed he had been kidnapped and taken on a two day “ride” through Arkansas. The man who identified himself as Forrester G. Oikie, a medical student at Johns Hopkins. The officers said a man answering Oikies’s description had approached them last year with a similar story when asking for aid. Miss Catherine McCormick of Meadville, Miss., is here visiting her sister, Mrs. Forrest W. Yawn. Leave for camp at Ferndale: Joe Woody, Bobby Laser, Bobby Swan, Mertis Bell, Frances Ann Smith, Elizabeth Fulkerth, Elizabeth Ann Aycock, and Sara Jack O’Neill left today to attend a five day Pioneer camp held for boys and girls of the Presbytery of Arkansas. Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Austin left last weekend for Cleveland, Miss., to make their home. Thomas Lloyd returned from Veterans’ Hosp. in Memphis where he had undergone treatment. Mrs. D. F. Taylor, Sr. and Jr., of Osceola, were guests of Dr. and Mrs. E. J. Kyle. Mr. and Mrs. Willard Bland are now making their home here, Mr. Bland having been transferred by the State Welfare Dept. from Lonoke. Mrs. Bland is the former Pauline Waterman. Page 75 of 158

Local-19390622-Thursday-City water softener plant in operation, the $20,000 water plant at the City Water Plant was installed this week. R. E. A. office to open here with the next several days for the rural electrification project for which 115 miles of electric lines to furnish 300 customers in St. Francis Co. Modern duplex to be built on Washington street, the present site is being razed, on property owned by Louis Haven, Sr. south of the French apartments on S. Washington street began today. Contract was awarded to Fred Lindauer. County property assessed at $6,537,264 by County Clerk C. R. Garrison today. Taxes due will be $58,838.38 on that amount. Miss Nina Grimstead of Richmond, Va. is guest of her aunt,. Mrs. A. C. Bridewell and Mr. Bridewell. Bob Gray has been admitted to the Baptist Hosp. in Memphis for treatment. Mrs. Martin Lewis of Greenville, Miss., visited relatives here, she is the former Lillian Boyce.

Local-19390623-Friday-J. T. Fondren, Jr., of Memphis, is spending a ten day vacation with Mrs. Fondren and his mother, Mrs. J. T. Fondren, Sr. He is a student at medical school in Memphis. Mrs. George W. Thaxton has returned to her home in Memphis after a visit with her sister, Mrs. Winfield Davis.

Local-19390624-Saturday-Mrs. Jennie Scott, widow of James L. Scott, who served Forrest City as Mayor for several terms, suffered a stroke Thursday of last week at in Denison, Texas, at the home of her brother, Don Nelson, and sister, Miss Sue Nelson, where she has lived the past few years. A cousin of Mrs. Scott, says in a letter she received, Mrs. May Davis Murphy. The worst peach market in many years has resulted in an almost complete shutdown of the packing shed for the Thompson-Warren orchards at McCrory, Charley Warren of Wynne said yesterday. Considerable damage due to grasshopper plagues has been reported by a large number of farmers in the Delta section of St. Francis County. They are moving in on fields of cotton, soybeans, and other cultivated fields. Martha Ann DeRossitt was elected president of the Emma Sweet Rambo Chapter of the Children of the Confederacy. Arthur Louis Devereux and Eugene Horton of Newcastle spent Thursday evening in Wynne visiting with Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Izard, and accompanied home by Russell Horton. Mr. and Mrs. Ercil Brown will have as guests for the weekend, Mrs. Brown’s parents, \Dr. and Mrs. C. M. Peeler of Pangborn, and her sister, Mrs. Gus Nash, Jr. and Mr. Nash of Jonesboro.

Local-19390627-Tuesday-Highway wreck near Palestine this morning, the injured woman was Ruth Brimhall, and very little hope is held for her recovery. Billy Joe McCown, age 4, was also an occupant of the car. In the collision of the car and a wagon which occurred on Hwy 70 about one and one half miles west of Palestine this morning. In the car were Rev. and Mrs. Joseph Woother of Glendale, Calif., who are reported suffering from shock and bruises. Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Phelps, Ruth Brimhall, Lizzie Brimhall, and Mrs. Josephine Gossage and one of the Brimhall children were riding in the wagon, all of whom live near Page 76 of 158

Goodwin. The car crashed into the back of the wagon as they were headed east, and most on the wagon were thrown from the wagon from the impact. $419,061.47 paid to 5,216 St. Francis County farmers since April 8 for 1938 Agricultural Conservation Payments, according to County Agent J. M. Thomason. Miss Heartsell Burnham of Pocahontas will arrive today for visit with parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Tharp. Mrs. George Peay of South Orange, New Jersey, will visit her father, W. W. Bryan in July. Mr. and Mrs. W. W. White of Columbia, Mo. are guests of Mrs. White’s mother, Mrs. Will McCain. Mrs. Heber Hughes and son, Lawson, have returned from a week’s visit in Little Rock as guests of Mrs. Hughes sister, Mrs. Paul Autrey. Mrs. David Gates, Sr. of Lonoke, is here visiting her sons, David and Jere, and will then go to visit Lemuel in Keiser. Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Patterson, and son, Jerry, spent the weekend in N. Little Rock visiting her sister, Mrs. August Korte and Mr. Korte. Forrest City Steers baseball team has obtained former big league player, Joe Bradshaw as manager. Honor Roll at the Univ. of Arkansas includes Joseph Eugene Ferguson, of Forrest City.

Local-19390628-Wednesday-Mr. and Mrs. H. B. Renfro left Friday for Memphis for an indefinite stay. Their son, Clayton, to remain here as guest of Prentice DeRossitt. Elma Elizabeth Mallory, small daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ned Mallory had her tonsils and adenoids removed at the Mitchell Clinic in Memphis.

Local-19390629-Thursday-Forrest W. Yawn, regional forester in the Eastern Arkansas territory says due to curtailment of funds, he will be transferred to Clarksville and this region will become inactive. The couple will leave for Clarksville on Saturday with their small daughter. Two locals pass the bar examination, Roy D. Campbell, Jr. and N. M. “Nat” Norton of this city were among the 29 who passed the bar of the Arkansas Bar this week. New residents, Mr. and Mrs. Bill Hickingbottom from Helena. They are staying at the McKie apartments on Division Street, and he has leased the service shop at Grobmyer Service. Final warning, all dogs must be vaccinated before June 30, to be permitted to run at large. Penalty will be death of the dog. Mr. and Mrs. Calvin Johnson will leave for new post in Walnut Ridge with the WPA. Brooks Norfleet is expected home for Fourth of July with his parents from the Univ. of Arkansas. Miss Virginia Staten returned to Louisville, Ky., to resume her duties as a nurse. She has been visiting Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Staten here. Rev. Edwin Hemmen has returned from visit with relatives in Detroit, and Mr. and Mrs. William Hemmen, Sr., accompanied him home to live with him here. Mrs. Oscie Bell is reported seriously ill at home here.

Local-19390630-Friday-Richard E. Cope of Harrison has rented the Rollwage Building located one door east of Jack’s Café, and will open an electric supply company there in the next several days. He will handle General Electric appliances. E. A. Rolfe, Jr., and Betty Cobb have been admitted to the Baptist Hosp. in Memphis. Lady Mary Craig Page 77 of 158 returned to Little Rock today after a visit here with her grandmother, Mrs. Walter Sweet. Mrs. Rosalind Taylor of Chicago is here for visit with her aunt, Mrs. Sam Sharpe, and Mr. Sharpe. Miss Lohrea Peevey left yesterday for Baltimore, Maryland to spend the next two months. Miss Leah Adell Krivcher of Memphis is visiting her sister, Mrs. Raymond Sharpe, and Mr. Sharpe. Mrs. H. L. Woodward of Fayetteville arrived for visit with parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Beazley, Sr. Mrs. Richard Lines and daughter of Wynne were visiting with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Russell Williams.

Local-19390701-Saturday-Co. H of 153rd Infantry of the Arkansas National Guard will leave tomorrow for Camp Joseph T. Robinson for its annual two week’ encampment, headed by Capt. John Dillon, 1st Lt. Charles W. Hulen, and 2nd Lt. Dennis W. Horton, and 1st Sgt. Wilton Austin. Others in the unit: Richard Dooley, Harold Grobmyer, Loyce C. Harvey, William B. O’Brien, James A. Pearson, Ernest W. Philpot, William A. Clarke, Jr., Roland D. Burrows, James W. Cox, Emmit C. Gadberry, Meredith S. Grobmyer, Charles W. Hulen, III, Fred P. Miller, William D. Thomas, Cecil Yeary, Eugene W. Ambrose, Clayborn E. Anderson, Lyle D. Bobeck, James W. Brewer, Albert B. Dean, Calvin J. Downey, Doyle V. Harris, L. Johnson, E. Hollaway, Beecher L. Johnson, Alfred F. Nicholas, Micky L. Reed, Luther F. Tully, Ralph M. Whittington, Fred E. Whitted, Everett A. Akes, Emery C. Baskins, James L. Britton, Thomas J. Cheney, John J. Dewitt, Lawrence D. Dewitt, Louis L. Faughn, Leon R. Gadberry, William Gatling, John E. Grant, Rush F. Hobbs, Thomas M. Holland, Billie H. Jordan, James A. Luker, Elmer A. Martin, Brady C. Page, Oswalt E. Pounders, Oliver L. Roland, Jr., James R. Shepherd, Teddy R. Stephens, Warren H. Sulcer, Vernon D. Turk, Eugene N. Thomas, William H. White, Bernis J. Walker, Harry L. Beasley, Jerry L. Burnes, Logan C. Ainsworth, Merwin McCoy, and Patrick McFall. Everette Moseley arrived yesterday from Jonesboro and will begin employment Monday at Moseley’s Steam Laundry. Miss Mildred Thomas will leave to enter nursing course at Baptist Hosp. in Memphis today. Miss Ida Mae Bridewell is home from Fayetteville for visit with parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Bridewell. Mrs. Ethel Bridgforth is spending the holiday week at Gurdon visiting her son, Harold Bridgforth, and Mrs. Bridgforth. O. L. Crawford of Cotton Plant was the guest of her daughter, Mrs. Hammond Dooley and family yesterday. Mrs. W. B. Brady of Memphis is here visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Dooley.

Local-19390705-Wednesday-Local residents injured in West Memphis automobile accident, Mr. and Mrs. Webb Sweet and Mr. and Mrs. Lockhart Sweet received painful injuries Monday evening when their car ran into a Missouri-Pacific Bus on Hwy 70 near West Memphis. All four were taken to St. Joseph’s Hosp. in Memphis for treatment, the Webb Sweet car was demolished. The McQueen Feed and Seed Store was purchased by Ray Price, of Price and Mullikin, on Rosser Street, it was announced today. J. C. Brooks Page 78 of 158 transferred to the main office in Helena by Interstate Grocer Co., and C. M. Smith of Wynne has replaced him here as salesman, a new manager has not been selected as of yet. Jane Schellhous underwent a appendectomy at St. Joseph’s Hosp. in Memphis yesterday. Miss Elizabeth Heustess who is attending Okla. A. & M. in Stillwater, Okla, is home for holiday with her parents, Mr. and Mr. J. D. Heustess. Patsy Harris, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Harris, former residents of this city, who are now at home in Shreveport, La., will be a guest of Jean Woody next Friday.

Local-19390706-Thursday-Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Waters, Sr., moved yesterday into the C. R. Sturch cottage on Broadway. He is connected with the Forrest City Implement Co. J. M. Shofner, FCHS Band Director and Mrs. Shofner have returned from Mexico on Sunday. Prentice DeRossitt is under treatment at Baptist Hosp. in Memphis for a infection of the leg caused by a chigger bite. Mr. and Mrs. Ben Blackmon and son Ben, will leave for motor trip to Florida, and will visit Mr. and Mrs. Blackmon’s parents in Montgomery, Alabama. Mr. and Mrs. Joe Todd, Jr. , had as guests over the fourth holiday Mrs. Todd’s mother, Mrs. Bettie Hodges of Yocona; and her two sisters, Mrs. Walter Green of Memphis and Mrs. Raymond Fisher of Mercer Island, Washington. Mrs. Arthur Buchholz of Benton is here attending her mother, Mrs. Mary Emma Grasmick ( L. R.) Grobmyer who is seriously ill.

Local-19390707-Friday-American Legion chooses Lawrence Jones as Commander. He succeeds J. C. Brown, St. Other elected, Max Berlotsky, 1st Vice Commander, Fred Swan, 2nd Vice Commander, Fred Causey, adjutant, and J. C. Brown, Finance officer. Mrs. T. A. Buford is quite ill at her home in this city. Mrs. Lewis Lowe of Cotton Plant is guest of her sister, Mrs. Hammond Dooley. Mrs. Albert Buford is recovering from a operation at Baptist Hosp. in Memphis. A. B. Nimocks is expected home from Baptist Hosp. in Memphis today. Mrs. John T. Snyder and two daughters, Ann and Patty, of Great Bend, Kansas are visiting Mrs. Snyder’s mother,. Mrs. Ellis Turley.

Local-19390708-Saturday-Judges for Peach Festival are selected: E. E. Clark, President of Merchants Exchange, Memphis; Vance Alexander, President Union Planters National Bank, Memphis; Oscar Johnston, Scott, Miss.; W. H. Jaspon, President of Perkins Oil Co.; George B. Rose, attorney of Little Rock; Pinchback Taylor, Taylor Insurance Co., Pine Bluff; E. A. Matthews, General American Life Ins. Co., Pine Bluff; Joe Nichol, President Simmons National Bank, Pine Bluff; L. W. Baldwin, President of Missouri Pacific Railway Co.; G. G. Fox, VP of Armour & Co., Chicago; Harvey Couch, Pres. Of Arkansas Power & Light, Pine Bluff; John Sorrells, Managing Editor, Memphis Commercial Appeal, Memphis; J. N. Helskell, Pres. Of Arkansas Gazette, Little Rock; /W. W. Mallory, Memphis Power Commission; A. W. Harville, Sect. to Governor, Little Rock; John F. Wells, Corporation Commission, Little Rock. Federal Game Warden, Leo Grobmyer, apprehended Herbert Page 79 of 158

Taylor and Jim Powers at the Upper End of Old River using an illegal trammel net to fish yesterday. JP G. M. Hopper fined each $100 and costs. Thomas O’Brien, former resident to open new restaurant in Hughes in the near future. Work was started on construction of a new service station and store across from the Cabin in the Cotton on Hwy 70 east, to be operated by Len Shaver selling Shell Oil products. Miss Mildred Hamilton will spend the weekend with her aunt, Mrs. Effie Levesque at Wynne. Miss Louise Adams is now employed in Baton Rouge, La., as secretary in the sales manager of Gulf Utility. Mrs. G. O. McLaren will begin employment at Williams Drug Store as bookkeeper Monday. Mrs. George Peay will arrive from South Orange, N. J., to visit her father, W. W. Bryan, and other relatives. Construction on a grandstand at the ball park located across from Butler’s on Hwy 70 West was completed today. It will seat 250 persons and is ready for tomorrow’s game between the G. Smith all-stars of Memphis and the Forrest City Giants.

Local-19390710-Monday-Excavation work started this morning on the lot on Izard Street which joins the Stout Building on the north, preparatory to the construction, by John A. Moore, of a new office building for the firm of Norton and Butler, Attorneys. Mrs. J. W. Beazley, Sr. and Miss Bernice Beazley left for the World Fair in New York City yesterday. Prentice DeRossitt has returned home from the Baptist Hosp. in Memphis. Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Bell and children, Marion, Maxine, and Cecil; and Jean Newman left yesterday for the World’s Fair in San Francisco. Officers of the Planters Bank & Trust Co.-President- Louis McDaniel; VP-Ed Ash; Sect/Attorney-C. W. Norton; Directors: W. W. Campbell, Gazzola Vaccaro, and W. E. Stevens.

Local-19390711-Tuesday-Carl’s Place on Washington Street is being enlarged by adding a large room on the southside of the building which will house the lunch room. Murray C. Hambleton, Jr., acquires interest in the Cleo-Vess Bottling Co. He has been employed with the Forrest City Cotton Oil Mill for the past four years. A graduate of FCHS and Furman University, of Greenville, S. Carolina. He is the son of M. C. Hambleton, of the Fussell-Graham-Alderson, Co. He advises the company has been incorporated, and new trucks are being purchased as well as beautiful patented bottles that will acquaint the public with the various products that are being manufactured at the plant. It has been in operation for the past year, and Tom H. Lloyd, who has been with the plant since it began, will be in charge of production and Mr. Hambleton in charge of advertising and distribution. The new name, Cleo Vess Bottling Co. of Eastern Arkansas and they plan to market throughout eastern Arkansas. Miss Milrene Arnold and Miss Virginia Hollis of Camden were weekend guests of Edwin Wright at the home of his mother, Mrs. Alleyne Wright. Mrs. Albert Laughinghouse left with her mother, Mrs. John Pope of Memphis, and sister, Mrs. Erick Hecksher, and the Rev. Mr. Hecksher of Texas on a trip to the World Fair in New York City and Washington, D. C. Vanlouis McDaniel is under treatment at the Page 80 of 158

Baptist Hosp. in Memphis. Mrs. A. B. Carter and children of Aligator, Miss., have been guests of Mrs. Carter’s daughter, Mrs. Vernon Bernard and Mr. Bernard. The revival at Blackfish which had Rev. R. S. Hayden of Forrest City of the First Methodist Church conducting the services. The church district has decided to build a local church. The building committee: Carl Edmondson, S. M. Capps, H. D. Ternin, Joe Forbes, Eldridge Butler of Madison, M. B. Payne and Vernon Bernard.

Local-19390712-Wednesday-Mr. Henry E. Pettus was honored with a surprise party at his home Monday evening, the occasion was his birthday anniversary, July 10,1864. The courtesy was extended by his daughter, Mr. Charles Simmons, and nieces, Mrs. Roger West, Mrs. J. E. Ferguson, and Mrs. C. W. Wyder. Mrs. J. E. Ferguson and Mrs. Roger West was admitted to Baptist Hosp. in Memphis yesterday for examination. Mrs. Hazel Blackwell of Sheffield, Ala., and Mrs. C. F. Manley and children, Sue and Charles of Osceola, are guests of their mother, Mrs. R. J. Izard. Mr. C. C. Fogg, Sr. left today for Booneville for an indefinite stay.

Local-19390713-Thursday-The next peach festival will be held July 27, while present Peach Festival royalty will compete for title of “Empress of Arkansas” at Camp Joseph Robinson near Little Rock. Miss Patsy Hughes, festival hostess queen, and festival maids, Miss Gladys Williams and Miss Kitty Nichols, and bathing beauty, Miss Juanita Pelkey will attend. A modern cotton gin is nearing completion at Newcastle to replace the 27 year old gin. Earl and Lee Horton are the principal stockholders of the Newcastle Gin Co. A large shed is now under construction at Caldwell by Harvey Devazier to be used for packing peaches. New residence for H. M. Brinkley, farm manager, on the Bruins plantation near Hughes at a cost of $35,000 is being constructed by W. T. Hudson, contractor of Memphis. Legislators Oscar J. Gandy and E. J. Butler left this morning for Little Rock to attend a special session of the Arkansas Legislature who will be joined by Senator Dennis Horton who has been at National Guard Camp. O. J. Gandy, Jr. will accompany his dad. Mr. and Mrs. George Adams of Aberdeen, Miss. are spending several days with Mrs. Adam’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. R. Neblett. Mrs. Ruth Kinsey of Memphis is a visitor in the city today to visit her sister, Mrs. Henry Gorman, and Mr. Gorman. Mrs. Jane Shellhous returned home from St. Joseph’s Hosp. in Memphis where she had an appendectomy performed. Mrs. Walter Holbert and children of Stuttgart are visiting her sister, Mrs. Walter Crossfield. Mrs. James Alley has visiting Mrs. V. L. Chapman and daughter, Narcissa, of Memphis, and Mrs. M. M Lindsay of Brookhaven, Miss., and Mrs. A. J. Vaccaro arrived today from Dallas, Texas. Mrs. Forrest McKinney is ill at her home in Caldwell. Fred Rutherford of Okla. City is spending week with his grandmother, Mrs. W. C. Oursler. Mr. and Mrs. Bascom Green of Memphis are spending the day with her parents, Mrs. and Mrs. W. A. Morrow. Today is Mr. Morrow’s birthday anniversary. Mrs. J. E. Page 81 of 158

Ferguson is recovering from a tonsil operation at Baptist Hosp. in Memphis, and her sister, Mrs. M. L. Morley of Jonesboro is assisting in recovery.

Local-19390714-Friday-Mrs. Albert Vescova of Clarksdale, Miss. is spending week with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Ferguson who also have grandson, Murray Lancaster, Jr. of Memphis visiting. W. F. McCachren of Round Pond has assumed his duties here as agent operator at the Rock Island station in this city, he was transferred from Brinkley. Twelve St. Francis Co. boys to local CCC Camps: 8 White men to Mena-Henry A. Buchanan, Carl McGee, Raymond Carter, Charles Merrill, Donald Franks, Willie Leon Spencer, Lawrence Dye, and James J. Middleton. 4 Colored to local camp: Odie Seals, David Myers, Andrew Ewing, and Wade Taylor. Miss Dorothy Overly of Memphis is here visiting parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Overly. James Aycock left yesterday for Corinth, Miss. for visit with his sister, Mrs. J. D. Richards. Mrs. E. B. Eason, his mother is also a guest. Mrs. Jennie B. Wilkins of Arkabutla, Miss. is visiting her daughter, Mrs. W. J. Baker and family. Mr. and Mrs. B. Frank King, and daughter, Alice, left for St. Petersburg today to visit Mr. and Mrs. Sam H. Mann. Mrs. H. F. Rust returned Monday from visit to Montgomery, Ala. to visit her son, C. H. Rust.

Local-19390715-Saturday-Three cases of typhoid fever in St. Francis Co. reported, all in one family, Negroes, outside the city limits of Forrest City. Byron E. Moore of Blytheville, is here working on temporary appointment with the local AAA (Agricultural Adjustment Assoc.) as a junior county performance supervisor in the checking for farmlands with aerial photographs. Miss Elizabeth Dudley of DeWitt spent yesterday with her sister, Mrs. John G. Bridgforth and family. Mrs. E. T. Ferguson had guests, her mother, Mrs. L. E. Pruett; sister, Mrs. C. J. Straub, and daughter, Patricia Ann of Helena; and Mrs. Floyd Caseboldt and two children of Paragould. C. O. McCormick of Colt is under treatment at the Baptist Hosp. in Memphis. Henry Gray is reported to be resting at Baptist Hosp. in Memphis after an appendectomy yesterday. Mrs. Roy Keller returned Saturday night from visit to her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. Jones of Eagleville, Mo. She was accompanied home by her sister, Miss Nina Jones. Miss Dorothy Jean Scaggs of McAllister, Okla. Has arrived for a visit to her mother, Mrs. Doris Scaggs. Mildred M. Bynum, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Bynum of Forrest City has enrolled in Chilliecothe Business College in Missouri. Walter B. Barnes, Jr. will enter Baptist Hosp. in Memphis for tonsil and adenoid operation. Mrs. T. A. Buford returned home from treatment at Baptist Hosp. in Memphis yesterday. Mrs. Edmond T. Norfleet was admitted to Baptist Hosp. in Memphis for treatment. Mr. and Mrs. Gratz Jones, Sr. of Marks, Miss., were weekend guests of Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Turley. Charles Turley accompanied them home for the summer with his parents. Page 82 of 158

Local-19390717-Monday-The first carload of Crowley Ridge Elberta peaches is expected to be shipped to northern markets from the Wynne packing shed of Summersweet Orchards today.

Local-19390718-Tuesday-Marvin Solomon assumed duties here this week as manager of the shoe department at Cohen’s Dept. Store. His home is in Pine Bluff, and came here from Indianapolis, Ind. where he had been manager of a chain store there. Vernon Poe began employment today for the Electric Service Co. here as salesman. He recently returned from Shawnee, Okla., where he was sales manager for the Crosley Corp. Mrs. Henry Blackstone of Water Valley, Miss., is guest of her daughter, Mrs. James A. Williamson. Mrs. L. C. Cargile and children of Texarkana are guest of her mother, Mrs. J. H. Tipton. Mrs. Jim Alderson had as her guests Sunday, Mrs. Virgie Huffman, Mr. and Mrs. Quince Brown and son, Stanley; Bob Brown and Fred Rhinehart, all of Memphis; Jerrie Hoffman returned to Memphis with her mother after spending a month with her aunt, Mrs. Alderson, and other relatives.

Local-19390719-Wednesday-Mr. and Mrs. Reuben Snyder have purchased a cottage on East Mississippi Street, formerly owned by Mrs. C. W. Norton. Jim McDougal left today for Little Rock to begin employment at the Marion Hotel there. Mrs. Minnie Dyer of Clarendon is here attending her sister, Mrs. S. P. Evans, who is quite ill at her home on Izard Street. Mrs. Annie Allen left recently for Los Angeles, Calif., to visit her son, Orman, for about a month. Mrs. J. A. Patterson and son, Jerry, are guests in Little Rock with Mrs. August Korte.

Local-19390720-Thursday-C. R. Sturch is transferred by Rock Island Railway to Brinkley. He had been stationed in Russton, La., for the past several weeks. Mrs. S. J. Dean is reported resting at the Methodist Hosp. in Memphis where she underwent surgery yesterday. Nurse, Miss Thelma Hardwick, Baptist Hosp. arrived to attend to Dr. H. R. Clark who is quite ill at the Aycock Apartments.

Local-19390721-Friday-Mrs. Ben Tipton of Bastrop, La. and Mrs. G. A. Williams of Warren are spending the weekend with their brother, F. F. Harrelson, who is ill. The condition of Mack Sulcer, former coroner of St. Francis Co. is reported improved today.

Local-19390722-Saturday-Three guardsmen injured in wreck on Hwy 70 west of Palestine early last evening. They were members of the 203rd Coast Artillery of Webb City, Missouri enroute to Pensacola, Fla. The whole troop, 265 members, encamped on the Forrest City High School grounds yesterday afternoon. Walter Barnes, Jr., returned today from the Baptist Hosp. in Memphis after having his tonsils and adenoids removed. Mrs. Ross Land returned to her home in Arlington, Tenn. after a short visit to her mother, Mrs. E. L. Borden. Page 83 of 158

Local-19390724-Monday-“Spot,” commonly referred to as the best rat dog in Forrest City, was run over and killed Saturday night by Charles Havens at the Haven home. For over eight years the dog had been the faithful companion of Mr. and Mrs. C. N. Haven. Mrs. Emma Stone barely escaped injury Saturday morning when she was struck and knocked down by a bicycle as she attempted to cross the Broadway and Rosser street intersection on her way to work at Sharpe’s when the accident happened, a hit and run. Mrs. Walter V. Durst returned Friday from her visit to Florida. Her brother and wife, Mr. and Mrs. Chandler R. Yonge and their daughter, Thelma, returned with her for a visit. Mr. J. E. Ferguson re-entered the Baptist Hosp. in Memphis, yesterday, where she recently had her tonsils removed. Byron Casteel arrived Friday from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, to spend the remainder of summer with his mother, Mrs. Hazel Casteel in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Otis Stevens. His brother, Warren Casteel, who is a student at Texas Univ. is spending his vacation in Forrest City with Mrs. Casteel also, and will work for Mr. Stevens over this summer.

Local-19390725-Tuesday-An unidentified twenty-eight year old white man, who was picked up here Saturday night by city officers was committed to the State Hosp. in Little Rock having been pronounced insane by the County Health Officer Dr. C. V. Powell. The man was found laying on the Rock Island Railroad tracks by Officers Edmondson and Hopper. A Negro prisoner in the jail said the man told him that his name was S. A. Wilson. Frederick William Haury of Little Rock will assist his father, Dr. F. W. Haury, at the House of Maury for the next 30 days. Helen Burnett, daughter of Mrs. Peggy Burnett, is recuperating from a appendectomy on Saturday at Harriman, Tenn. J. M. Stewart of Ripley, Tenn., is the guest of Mrs. I. B. Stewart and sons, and will remain until after the Peach Festival.

Local-19390726-Wednesday-Forrest City prepares to welcome 30,000 Peach Festival guests tomorrow. In a replevin case tried yesterday by JP R. E. Crutchfield, Herbert Taylor was given judgment for 108 pounds of fish taken by Leo Grobmyer, game warden, taken from Taylor on July 7.

Local-19390727-Thursday-First Peach Festival was held Aug. 1,2, 3, 1929. Queens over the years:1.Miss Elizabeth Fussell of Forrest City-2.Miss Eva Metz of Harrisburg-3.Miss Montine McDaniel of Forrest City-4.Miss Virginia Lee Elder of Jonesboro-5.Miss Nona James of Forrest City-6.Miss Maxine Brown-7.Miss Emma Sue Denton of Newport-8.Miss Ruth Allen Trevathon of Batesville-9.Miss Lorene Bailey of Jonesboro.

Local-19390728-Friday-Queen Elberta candidate selected, Miss Jean Thompson of Helena. Two men from Madison to be tried in Marion Monday. Trial of Joe Crews and L. C. Smith, 39, both of Madison, who are charged with leaving the scene of an accident in Page 84 of 158 which the truck which struck Edwin Freels, 45, of West Memphis, a few miles west of W. Memphis on June 30. Mr. Freels was riding a bicycle and was hit in the small of the back by the crossbar on the truck’s trailer. Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Wood, Mrs. Elsie McBurnett and Miss Elsie McBurnett of Memphis; Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Moore and Mrs. Alice Tucker of Hughes and Mrs. Alice guests of Mr. and Mrs. Homer Cavin. Mr. and Mrs. Wylie Summers of Houston, Texas, were guests of the festival yesterday. She is the former Merle Fondren.

Local-19390729-Saturday-Wynne-Two men were arrested on a charge of kidnapping and placed in the county jail here Wednesday by Sheriff C. M. Stacy. They were J. Will Carter of Colt and Sam Auten of the Smith Chapel community. They were charged with kidnapping Alvis Fincher and a Negro, Edwin Campbell, both of near Vanndale. Rebuked the first request to drive the two to Riverfront, they returned and Carter got on the running board of the truck driven by Fincher, and Auten got in the truck brandishing a knife and ordered Campbell to take them to Riverfront. When they reached Levesque, Carter and Auten ordered Campbell to stop the car, taking Mr. Fincher and the Negro into the store with them, the officer said. When they were in the store, Mr. Fincher and Campbell escaped, came to Wynne, and notified officers. Carter and Auten hitch hiked to Riverfront and were picked up by officers.

Local-19390731-Monday-Summersweet Orchards ships record 73,000 bushels of peaches this year. Firemen make run to Henry Pettus home on Division Street this morning where considerable damage was done to the roof, and much water damage. Work progressing on Mack Shawver filling station, at Widener Junction, on Hwy 70, opposite Cabin in the Cotton. Mayor Charles D. Buford received notice for a National Youth Administration (NYA) work project for $20,438 for equipping and operating a wood working shop to be housed in a building furnished by the city. The condition of Enos T. Altman, city clerk, was reported somewhat improved today. He suffers from a leg infection. The H. L. Williams Undertaking Co. and The Peoples Burial Assn. celebrates its silver anniversary August 3. Dr. J. E. Burke, as President, and A. N. Darden as Sect. Treas. First founded by Herman L. Williams in 1914. At his passing it was taken over by Robert J. Williams who has the distinction of having introduced to Forrest City the first motor hearse and having organized the first burial association.

Local-19390801-Tuesday-Gus Cobb barely escaped serious injury this morning when a truck in which he was driving, skidded off Hwy 1 about a mile and a half north of Caldwell this morning. It is reported that he lost control of the vehicle when a coupe drove onto the highway from a side road. A nickelodeon which was being transported in the back of the truck was severely damaged. The truck Is owned by R. Adams and was badly damaged. Fred Wilson of Heth is under treatment at the Baptist Hosp. in Memphis. Mr. Page 85 of 158 and Mrs. M. S. Smith and children left yesterday afternoon for Toccorola, Miss., having been called there on account of the serious illness of Mrs. Smith’s father, M. D. L. Wilson.

Local-19390802-Wednesday-The FCHS Band to lead parade at fete in Nashville, Tenn. Peach Festival this afternoon. Seventeen U. S. Army airplanes circled Forrest City, before proceeding to Memphis. Capt. F. T. McQueen is reported recovering from a recent operation at the Veterans’ Hosp. in Memphis. Mrs. Thomas Watson is returning home to Benton after visit to her daughter, Mrs. James Oursler, and Mr. Oursler. Mrs. Claude Jackson is under treatment at the McLemore Clinic in Memphis. Mrs. J. W. Beazley and Luther Lieblong have been admitted to the Baptist Hosp. in Memphis for treatment.

Local-19390803-Thursday-Mrs. Edwin C. Hass of Pasadena, Calif. is here visiting her sister, Miss Irene Freeman. Mr. and Mrs. Morris Smith are moving into to the French apartment on S. Washington Street formerly occupied by Mr. and Mrs. C. N. Haven, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Tharp left yesterday for Woodward, Okla. to visit their son, Macon Tharp, and Mrs. Tharp. Mrs. George Morledge underwent emergency appendix operation at the Baptist Hosp. in Memphis on Tuesday.

Local-19390804-Friday-The HOLC (Home Owners Loan Corp.) has lowered the interest rate from 5 percent to 4.5 percent following the FHA rate reduction this week to the same. Hughes doctor injured in auto wreck, Dr. W. D. Burch is under treatment at Campbell’s Clinic in Memphis for injuries received the first part of the week in an accident at Huber Corner, one mile east of Hughes. He suffered a broken collar bone and a large cut on his head. Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Barry of Mountain Grove, Mo. will visit his brother, George Barry and family. Dr. Luther Davis returned from a trip to the World Fair in New York City. Mrs. Cecil Boone and children of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, are here visiting her father, G. W. Christian. James Ray Sulcer has been admitted to the Baptist Hosp. in Memphis for treatment. Mrs. James A. Jones will return today from Baptist Hosp. in Memphis where she underwent surgery for removal of her tonsils. Miss Mildren and Barbara Massey received a message yesterday hearing of the serious illness of their grandfather, D. G. Massey, of Coldwater, Miss.

Local-19390805-Saturday-Mr. and Mrs. Will Duffel have leased a portion of McFall Motors Co. on West Broadway, and will open a barbeque, sandwich, and soft drink business about the middle of the month. He will continue the operation of the Broadway Barber Shop, assisting In the new business. Mrs. Duffel, a former hostess to The Rotary Club, will devote full time to the business. Norris Webb and Oswalt Pounders of Caldwell, and Ben Baskin of South Bend, Ind. were injured in an auto wreck which happened on Hwy 70 near Lemke Service Station here yesterday afternoon. Baskin was driving a brand new Hudson which was towing another. He had pulled around a truck on the highway when Page 86 of 158 the accident happened. The rear car crashed into the 1935 Chevrolet in which Webb and Pounders were riding. Baskin is employed by Robert R. Walker Drive-A-Way Co. of South Bend. A dilapidated old stagecoach powered by two hay-burners will pull into Forrest City next Tuesday afternoon, from Mineral Wells, Texas on its way to the World Fair in New York City carrying mail from there and along the way to the fair and then to be re-mailed. Mrs. S. J. Dean will be brought home today from the Methodist Hosp. in Memphis where she underwent major surgery. Luther Harris Lieblong, small son of Mr. and Mrs. Luther Lieblong has returned home from the Baptist Hosp. in Memphis. More than two thousand attended the 25th anniversary celebration of the H. L. Williams Undertaking Co. at Lincoln School grounds Thursday, August 3 with a free Barbeque, program, and Ball game.

Local-19390807-Monday- Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Lowe, new residents in city from Cotton Plant, have rented the apartment in the cottage of Mr. and Mrs. E. T. Ferguson. He is head of the electrical shop at the Electric Service Company. Winston Wilson is in Ft. Sill, Okla. attending a National Guard camp. Mrs. Richard W. Freeman and small son, Richard, Jr., of Chicago, Illinois, will visit her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Louis McDaniel. Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Johns and children, two sons and a daughter, are new residents from Brinkley, They rented the cottage owned by Mrs. C. A. Manley on the corner of N. Izard and Tennessee street. He is new employee of the Dixie Baking Company. Bob Gray of this city is a patient in Baptist Hosp. in Memphis.

Local-19390808-Tuesday-Miss Emmalee Chappell had returned home from Baptist Hosp. in Memphis where she had her tonsils removed yesterday. A reflection of a fire looked so real that he called the fire department to the Norton Garment Factory on Front Street around 9 pm last night. The reflection came from burning trash in an incinerator located in the alley behind the factory to a passerby.

Local-19390809-Wednesday-A tourist and a St. Francis Co. Negro escaped serious injuries yesterday in an auto accident on Hwy 70 east, near the A. M. Bradford residence. The tourist, C. E. Nebecker of Chicago, and the Negro, Napoleon Latimore, both received minor cuts and bruises. The accident occurred when the Negro attempted to turn onto a side road from the highway, and the other car ran into the front of the Negro’s car, swerved toward the embankment and turned over. The state Highway Department is calling for bids to be opened on Aug. 24 for the construction of a concrete and steel bridge over St. Francis Bay, east of Levesque on the Parkin-Wynne road, No. 64 which will be north of the Missouri Pacific Railway bridge. Mrs. W. F. Horney is quite ill at her home in this city. Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. White of Butte, Montana, will arrive Monday to visit Mrs. White’s parents, Dr. and Mrs. N. C. McCown. Dr. and Mrs. L. S. Johnston have returned from a trip up north. Page 87 of 158

Local-19390810-Thursday-The Bachelor of Arts Degree was conferred upon Addison Bradford, Jr., at the second summer graduating exercises held yesterday at Arkansas State College in Jonesboro. Mrs. J. A. Kinchloe of Okla. City is here visiting her sister, Mrs. Louis McDaniel. Mrs. G. E. Fisther will go to Memphis Saturday to visit her daughter, Miss Mildred Thomas, a student nurse at the Baptist Hosp., and her mother, Mrs. Emma Stone who has been receiving treatment for the past two weeks after being knocked down by a bicycle. While in Memphis, she is staying with her daughter, Mrs. J. D. Hamrick, and family. Enos T. Altman, city clerk, has resumed his duties at the City Hall today after an absence of two weeks due to an infection of the leg. Miss Elizabeth Patton of Okla. City will arrive today for visit to her aunt, Mrs. Albert Pyle. Mrs. Billy Gustafson and infant son are expected home today from the Baptist Hosp. in Memphis.

Local-19390811-Friday-The sewer system being installed at Hughes will be completed sometime next week, according to an announcement made by H. C. Baumann, engineer for the West Memphis Construction Co., in charge of the work. This is a WPA project. Mr. and Mrs. H. D. Tedrick will leave Monday for Little Rock to make their home, where he was transferred by the Sinclair Oil Co. Mrs. H. A. Knight suffered a broken wrist when she fell at home Wednesday night. James Ray Sulcer, son of Mr. and Mrs. M. P. Sulcer, is home from the Baptist Hosp. in Memphis where he had an appendectomy.

Local-19390812-Saturday-Firemen made a run last night to Sam Burd’s Dry Goods Store shortly after 9 pm last night. A shortage in the electric wiring there was the cause of the alarm. Everett Young and Hughie Chastain are today the proud exhibitors of a horned toad they found yesterday afternoon on East Garland Street. Richard B. McCulloch of the law firm Mann, Mann & McCulloch, has been named vice president for the First Judicial Arkansas Bar Association. Farm settled 129 years ago still fertile. The first Anglo-Saxon child born in what is now Arkansas was, John Patterson, who originally owned and operated the farm that was the first to be rut under agreement with the South Crowley Ridge Soil Conservation District. The farm is now owned and operated by A. C. Mahan. It consists of 750 acres and lies two miles east of Marianna on Crowley’s Ridge. It was the home site and is also the burial place of John Patterson. Mrs. E. T. Ferguson will go to Helena tomorrow to visit her mother, Mrs. L. E. Prewett, and her sister, Mrs. C. J. Staub. Mrs. J. A. Bogart is in Little Rock to visit her son, Forrest Bogart and family. Mr. and Mrs. John W. Alderson left Thursday on a two weeks’ vacation trip. While away they will visit Col. T. A. Davis and family in Los Angeles, and Mrs. Alderson’s brother, Louis Rollwage in Portland, Oregon.

Local-19390814-Monday-Mrs. Thomas Edmond of Santa Monica, Calif. is here visiting her sons, Marvin B. Norfleet and Edmond Norfleet. W. B. Manley of Atlanta, Ga., Page 88 of 158 superintendent of the Southern Railroad visited his brother, A. T. Manley, Sr. at the home of his nephew, W. F. Manley, here, last week.

Local-19390815-Tuesday-Firemen made a run to the home of Jack Vaughn around 3 pm yesterday afternoon for a shortage in the electric wiring which leads to the house caused the alarm. No damage from the fire. A. O. Miller, assumed duties as assistant manager for the West Bros. Store in this city, he comes from Mansfield, La. He is married and has one daughter. Mrs. Charles Moore of this city is under treatment at the Baptist Hosp. in Memphis. Mrs. R. S. Stephens and daughter, Mary Louise, of Gurdon, are here visiting her daughter, Mrs. Albert Laser and family.

Local-19390816-Wedneday-First bale of cotton ginned at Hughes by L. E. Burch. The bale was ginned by the Tucker Gin Co. in Hughes and weighed 560 pounds. E. P. Wall will leave today for San Pedro, Calif., where he will join the crew of the U. S. S. Saratoga, after a thirty day’s leave with his parents here. Mrs. J. P. Fogg underwent major surgery at the Methodist Hosp. in Memphis today. Miss Eva Davidson will be among guests this evening at a dinner party for her cousin, Miss Edith Davidson, Bride elect.

Local-19390817-Thursday-Mrs. J. H. Chism, Mrs. J. C. Nail, and Mildred Casteel have been admitted to the Baptist Hosp. in Memphis. Mrs. J. E. Griner and son, J. E., left last night for Dixon, Tenn., having been called there on account of the death of Mrs. Griner’s mother.

Local-19390818-Friday-Mr. and Mrs. Clell Burnett have returned to their home in El Dorado after a visit with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Myers. Mrs. Richard W. Freeman of Chicago, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Louis McDaniel, is under treatment at the Methodist Hosp. in Memphis. Paul Tischer is under treatment at Baptist Hosp. in Memphis. Miss Virginia Rowland is a new employee at the Horton-Robinson Auto Co. Wynne-A report of the finding of what appeared to be human bones in the willows along the banks of St. Francis Bay near Birdeye was received here. The bones were discovered by a Negro named DeWitt Johnson while he was fishing last Thursday. He reported the discovery to L. C. Cate, farm manager on the W. M. Smith plantation. An investigation was made by Constable Jack Cobb on Monday, but the bones had disappeared.

Local-19390819-Saturday-Mr. and Mrs. Donald Berryman will move into the cottage owned by Mrs. Alleyne Wright, located on Cook Street. He is employed with the Horton- Robinson Automobile Co. Mrs. M. A. Cavin, mother of Homer Cavin of this city, underwent a major operation at a Little Rock hospital this morning.

Local-19390821-Monday-William E. Endicott has assumed management of the Tischer Jewelry Store on North Washington Street. He is the brother of Mrs. Paul Tischer, wife of Page 89 of 158 the late owner of the store. He and his family came here from Cushing, Okla. and will make their home here in Forrest City. He was an apprentice under Mr. Tischer, and sold two jewelry stores in Oklahoma which he owned, one at Cushing, and the other at Drumright. Mrs. John Gatling Bridgforth of this city and her sister, Miss Elizabeth Dudley of DeWitt have sold their interest in the Barnett Drug Co., DeWitt’s oldest drug firm, to Percy Snarr, Sr. The firm was founded by J. C. Barnett, grandfather of the sisters. Dr. Leonard S. Johnston, Jr., local dentist is moving to Jonesboro to join his father’s firm. Mr. and Mrs. Tom Barrow who are now making their home in Greenwood, Miss., visited Mr. Barrow’s mother, Mrs. E. J. Barrow over the weekend. Raising turkeys is the hobby of Mrs. Jim Trimue of the Caldwell community. She started three years ago with 13 hens and one gobbler. Now she has 63, of which ten are babies.

Local-19390822-Tuesday-Mrs. J. P. Fogg is reported to be recovering from a recent major operation at the Methodist Hosp. in Memphis.

Local-19390823-Wednesday-The Municipal Swimming Pool will close Sunday, Aug. 27, it was announced today by Ed Ash, one of the commissioners.

Local-19390824-Thursday-Mr. and Mrs. Robert Melton have returned to Forrest City after approximately a year’s absence spent in Conway. Mr. Melton has been assigned to the SCS project here. Highway officials announce the last gravel road gap between Bono and Hoxie has been paved, making the trip from Jonesboro to Little Rock completely paved now. Petit jurors for the September term of Circuit Court have been announced: Charles R. Gray, John Hagger, A. M. Heath, Jim Busby, Johnathan Crisp, J. P. Hughes, Edgar Lindsey, Walter Stevens, Jr., Albert Laughinghouse, Mrs. Elizabeth Connaway, R. C. Eldridge, A. B. Gilbert, Murray Hambleton, Jr., Mrs. R. J. Izard, Miss Nell Stringfellow, Mrs. A. W. Laser, A. B. Nimocks, H. E. Pettus, Charlie Haven, Sr., William Alderson, B. F. King, L. O. McDaniel, Jr., J. W. Whittenton, Mrs. T. D. Rambo. Alternate petit jurors: J. W. French, Homer Williamson, A. T. Burns, Carl Edmondson, J. R. Collier, Jr., C. N. Ransom, Mrs. Norma Bridgforth, Dr. Luther Davis, J. M. Gilliam, Sr., W. G. Ferguson, J. E. Ferguson, and L. G. Fitzpatrick. Judge E. M. Pipkin presiding, and it is probable that there will be no grand jury. Mrs. R. E. Roberts of this city has been admitted to Methodist Hosp. in Memphis. Caray Vandiver is under treatment at St. Joseph’s Hosp. in Memphis. Miss Mildred Horton and Russell Horton are guests of Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Izard in Wynne. Mr. William C. Bengel and daughter, Vivian Kathryn, of Ashdown, are visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. G. B. Rucks. Mr. F. L. Proctor expects to leave today for Pine Bluff to spend time with her mother, Mrs. W. R. Smith. Mr. and Mrs. John L. Dunn and son, Dale Ross, of Madison, attended the annual reunion of the Perkins-Fisher family held Sunday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. John M. Perkins, west of Vanndale. Mrs. W. B. Mann of Marianna is visiting her daughter, Mrs. W. W. Campbell and family. Ann McDougal has returned from Page 90 of 158

Baptist Hosp. in Memphis where she had her tonsils removed. Mrs. Louis Stimpson of Hughes is a patient in the Methodist Hosp. in Memphis. Jacqueline Jones and C. L. Jones of Hughes are under treatment at the Baptist Hosp. in Memphis.

Local-19390825-Friday-Teresa Louise Haury arrived yesterday from Little Rock on visit to her father, Dr. Frederick William Haury. Miss Florene Henry of Little Rock will spend the weekend with her mother, Mrs. Gean Henry and sister, Miss Lorene Henry. Earle Haynes Fisher of this city will receive his M. A. Degree from the Univ. of Colorado in Boulder tomorrow. The St. Francis Catholic Parochial School will open for its second year on Monday, Sept. 11, according to Rev. Edwin Hemmer. Mrs. A. K. Taylor and son of Memphis are visiting Mr. and Mrs. Byron Butler. Mrs. Taylor is the former Dorothy Hodges of Widener. Mr. and Mrs. William Fogg moved yesterday into the northside apartment of the Haven duplex on South Washington Street. Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Simmons plan to move into the southside apartment tomorrow.

Local-19390826-Saturday-Work has started on the construction of a six room cottage for C. J. Bernauer on the lot located east of the Wolfe property on Broadway, L. J. Boatner is the contractor. George Taylor, son of Mrs. Mary Taylor of Memphis received his law degree Thursday from the Univ. of Tennessee in where he plans to open his office. They were former residents of Forrest City. Saralu Fondren, small daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Fondren, Jr., suffered a painful and possibly serious injuries when she fell from a tree near her grandmother’s home on North Forrest Street. She was rushed to Memphis hospital in the Stevens Ambulance. Monday, Aug. 28-Still unconscious with a brain concussion and skull fracture in Methodist Hosp. per family. Mrs. J. C. McCurdy is spending time in Little Rock with her daughter, Mrs. Donald Denham. Mrs. James Taylor was visiting in Little Rock with her sister, Mrs. Beverly Lambert, and Mr. Lambert. Mr. and Mrs. Burk Mann are expected home from a Caribbean cruise. They have been away since Aug. 3.

Local-19390828-Monday-Thieves broke into Goldstein’s Ready-To-Wear-Store, sometime during the night and escaped with approximately $500 in merchandise by cutting the glass on the front door by using a glass cutter and a brick. Actual construction of R. E. A. lines in County begins this morning south of Wynne to provide electricity to 239 customers. Mr. and Mrs. Joe Lanier and son of Memphis were guests of Mr.Lanier’s mother, Mrs. W. J. Lanier.

Local-19390829-Tuesday-The cottage of Mrs. Annie Dorris, located on Cook street is being remodeled into a duplex. When completed, Mrs. Dorris and her daughter will occupy one side of the duplex, and the other side will be rented out. Charles Waterman is the contractor. Forrest City public schools to open Sept. 11, 1939. J. C. Brown, Jr. spent Page 91 of 158 last week in Dixon and Chattanooga, Tenn. While in Dixon he was guest of his sister, Mrs. W. A. Clement. Troy Ford of Hughes is under treatment at the Baptist Hosp. in Memphis. Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Wyder will move to Memphis Thursday, after being transferred by the Armour Company. Mrs. W. G. Dooley returned home Sunday from Durant, Okla, where she visited her daughter, Mrs. A. M. Farley. Mrs. J. P. Fogg is expected home from the Methodist Hosp. in Memphis where she underwent a major operation. Mrs. L. M. James and daughter, Anne, arrived from Kansas City, Mo. to spend time with relatives. She is the former Bernice Crews. Edward Bridewell will spend time with his brother, David, in Chicago, then go east to the World Fair in New York City, before returning home.

Local-19390830-Wednesday-Marshall Carlisle, son of Mr. and Mrs. Raoul Carlisle, received serious injuries this morning when a bicycle on which he was riding was hit by a taxi of the Careful Cab Co., on Washington Street in front of Grobmyer’s Market. He received a broken left arm, fractured in two places, and painful bruises on his head, hip, and legs. The driver was Sam Hawkins, Negro. Work on new residence to be built on North Izard. Work started on razing the McCulloch apartment building on North Izard Street, preparatory to building a modern residence for Mr. and Mrs. R. B. McCulloch, with R. G. Bateman as contractor. Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Herrin and two daughters, Marilyn and Martha, of Bloomington, Indiana, stopped over here yesterday to visit Mrs. Herriin’ s sister, Mrs. Robert Adams and Mr. Adams. Mrs. Alfred Ross returned Sunday from St. Joseph’s Hosp. in Memphis where she underwent surgery. Mr. and Mrs. G. T. Wingard and three children are new residents, from Grady, Alabama. They are staying with Mrs. Wingard’s sister,. Mrs. J. E. Binion. Mrs. A. L. Hutchins entered the Methodist Hosp. in Memphis for eye treatment. The infant daughter of Dr. and Mrs. C. B. Moore has been named Patricia Anne, and the mother and child are expected home next Monday. Mrs. A. B. Nimocks was admitted to Baptist Hosp. in Memphis for treatment. Lizabeth Gibson, daughter of Mrs. Everette B. Gibson, underwent an emergency appendectomy Monday afternoon at Baptist Hosp. in Memphis.

Local-19390831-Thursday-The C. F. Kinzer residence on South Forrest Street, was sold yesterday to Mrs. J. B. Johnston. The lot next to it was sold to Mrs. E. J. McBride. Mr. Kinzer purchased from Mrs. Johnston the house on Cleveland Street, formerly occupied by W. W. Adams, and he and Mrs. Kinzer plan to move to their new home around Sep. 11. Mrs. McBride plans to build a duplex on her property. The former Kinzer home will be for rent. Univ. of Arkansas Football schedule released: Central Okla. Teachers College/Mississippi State College/Texas Christian University/Baylor University/Univ. of Texas, Villianova College/ Texas A. & M. College/Rice Institute/Southern Methodist University/ Univ. of Tulsa. Miss Lida Mae Matthews of Widener is under treatment in Page 92 of 158

Baptist Hosp. in Memphis for an ankle infection. Eugene Wilson Smith has been admitted to St. Joseph’s Hosp. in Memphis.

Local-19390901-Friday-Mr. and Mrs. A. D. McDaniel fear for daughter, Mrs. C. B. Coleman, of Poplar Bluff, Mo. as she is with Miss Annie Mae McDaniel of Hughes on a trip to Europe, and were to sail on Aug. 27 from Italy per last word received from them. Revenue agent fatally shot at West Helena, Herman Carvill, 38, sales tax collector for the state Revenue dept. was shot and killed by Eugene Harrison, 26, Mississippi liquor truck driver, who is in county jail charged with the shooting. Mrs. A. B. Nimocks is under treatment at the Baptist Hosp. in Memphis. Mrs. Ercil Brown had as luncheon guests yesterday her sister, Mrs. Gus Nash, Jr., and Mrs. Gus Nash, Sr., Mrs. Stanley Cox and Mrs. Raymond Rutledge, all of Jonesboro. Saralu Fondren, suffering from fall, has spoken a few words at the Methodist Hosp. in Memphis. Mrs. A. C. Armstrong left last night for Memphis for a visit, then she will go to Varnado, La. to spend time with parents, Mr. and Mrs. L. McMillan. Sister Isabel, Sister Athanasia, and Sister Clarisse will arrive late tonight from St. Catharine, Ky., to teach here in the Catholic school this year. FCHS football schedule for 1939: Memphis Humes/West Helena/Morrilton/N. Little Rock/ Marianna/Paragould/Jonesboro/Clarksdale, Miss./ Stuttgart/ Russellville/ Blytheville.

Local-19390902-Saturday-A fire department has been organized at Hughes with officials Guy Arnold, Fire Chief, Fred Bynum, Assistant; and Hugh Dupuy, Sect/Treas. Other members are: Henry Harmon, Herman Bynum, Eupole Guest, Paul Rook, Ben Bruce, A. W. Lawson, Fred Baddour, Don Jones, Leroy Chadwick, C. C. Gaither, Charles Hulen, III, and O. B. Permenter. Mrs. F. F. Harrelson is expected home tonight from St. Louis, Mo. where she has been guest of her daughter, Helen. She will be accompanied home by Miss Harrelson and Carroll Cannon, also of St. Louis, to be her guest of Mrs. Harrelson.

Local-19390904-This week $2,434.50 in public assistance payments are being mailed to 382 recipients of old age assistance, aid to dependent children and aid to the blind in St. Francis Co. Mrs. P. T. Garner has her guest, nephew W. L. Garner, his wife and two children of Aransas, Texas where Mr. Garner is connected with the Humble Oil and Refining Co., of Texas. Mr. and Mrs. Kelly Stone will shortly move into the residence on South Izard street recently purchased by Mrs. J. B. Johnston form O. L. Kinzer. T. B. Arnold, Jr., left this morning for Jonesboro to enter Jonesboro State College. Harold Bridgforth, son of Mrs. Ethel Bridgforth, was taken to Baptist Hosp. in Memphis for emergency appendectomy. Mrs. Heber Hughes and daughter, Patsy, left for Fayetteville where Miss Hughes will enroll at the Univ. of Arkansas for the 1939-1940 term.

Local-19390905-Tuesday-A thief entered the home of Rev. and Mrs. Everett Rawlings Sunday evening and escaped with several personal belongings, the Rev. Mr. Rawlings Page 93 of 158 reported today. The thief helped himself to a meal from the refrigerator before leaving. Mr. and Mrs. Roy Keller, Mrs. S. T. McDaniel, and son, Thomas, and L. O. McDaniel attended the 14th annual Keller-McDaniel families at Christian Valley church, near Jonesboro, Sunday, drawing from six states. Rev. Vernon A. Hammond, has accepted a call to serve as pastor of the First Christian Church of this city. Mrs. W. J. Grossman of Lake Progress, La. is here visiting her parents, Mrs. and Mrs. W. H. Aldridge, and other members of the family. Miss Catherine Wilkins formerly of this city, has taken a position as nurse in Aberdeen, Miss. hospital. Mrs. M. P. Lindsey of Montgomery, Ala. spent the weekend with her daughter, Mrs. James Hicky.

Local-19390906-Wednesday-Eugene Horton and Arthur Louis Devereux have entered Jonesboro State College for the 1939-40 term. Mr. and Mrs. Sam Owen of Decatur, Ala. left for home after visit as guest of Mrs. Owen’s sister, Mrs. Hugh Devereux, and Mr. Devereux.

Local-19390907-Thursday-Through the courtesy of George Barry, genial and public spirited manager of the Coca-Cola Bottling Co. here have stickers for the FCH Mustang football for showing on windows and automobiles windows. Marvin Emmons of Heth has been admitted to St. Joseph’s Hosp. in Memphis. Fire of unknown origin broke out in the store room and repair shop owned by Pete Adams located near Butler’s on Hwy 70 this morning, causing $500 damage. Also several pinball machines were destroyed. Mrs. W. G. Oswalt who is under treatment at Baptist Hosp. in Memphis is critical. Miss Edith Benson is now employed at the offices of Norton & Butler, attorneys. Mrs. James Williamson left for Water Valley, Miss. to visit her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Blackstone.

Local-19390908-Friday-The Master Future Farmers (FFA) exhibit of Arkansas will be set up at the exhibit building of the Mid-South Fair in Memphis by Billy Bryan of this city. Bufford Harlan, Jr. arrived home last night from trip to the World’s Fair in New York City. Mr. and Mrs. Joe Goldstein celebrate birthday of daughter, Ranelle, at the Legion Hut. Ed Schellhous left yesterday for Cincinnati to enroll in the Cincinnati Conservancy of Music for the 1939-1940 term. J. R. Chappell, Jr. left to matriculate at LSU in Baton Rouge, La.

Local-19390909-Saturday-Helena-Roger W. Ingram and Porter Ingram, Negro brothers of Near Palestine, were bound over to the federal grand jury by U. S. Commissioner David Walker yesterday, for possessing and operating a still, without license, and making mash fit for distillation. Bond for each was set at $250. They were arrested by Edward T. Smith and Lewis C. Ledbetter of the Alcohol Tax unit, and they found over 200 gallons of mash and the 50 gallon still.

Local-19390911-Monday-Miss Elizabeth Dean left to matriculate at the Univ. Of Arkansas. Sheriff J. M. Campbell is said to be improving at the Baptist Hosp. in Memphis. Tom Gray, Page 94 of 158

J. L. Dedman, Jr., Woodrow Moseley and Misses Geneva and Frances Eppes have gone to Conway to enroll in Hendrix College for the 1939-1940 term. Misses Fredene Moseley, Juanita Lambert, and Rose Lee Sanders will enroll In Quachita College in Arkadelphia for the 1939-1940 term. Miss Grace Jewell Lincoln of this city has received notice of assistant home management supervisor of the Farm Security Administration in Monroe Co., with headquarters in Clarendon. Miss Lincoln graduated from the Univ. of Arkansas in June. A. F. McCowan of Hughes is under treatment at Baptist Hosp. in Memphis. A Plymouth roadster owned and driven by Gugliolmo Pasquali of Phoenicia, N. Y., caught fire from defective ignition and burned late yesterday afternoon on Hwy 70 about three miles east of Forrest city on the Crow Creek Dump. His wife and baby were unharmed, and they were enroute to Texas. Mr. and Mrs. Dale Choate and children returned home to Shreveport, La. after a visit with Mrs. Choate’s sister, Mrs. Ernest Borden, Jr. and family. They are former residents of Forrest City. Mrs. Ernest Borden and family will move to Little Rock this week, where Mr. Borden had been transferred by the Soil Conservation Service. Enrollees from Forrest City to State Teachers College in Conway are, Miss Dorothy Harris, Miss Francis Whittenton, Miss Frances Snyder, and Neil Snyder. Miss Betty Cobb went to Jackson, Miss. to enroll in Balhaven College there. Cecil forrester was taken to the Baptist Hosp. in Memphis today for an emergency appendectomy. Enos Altman, Jr. left for Memphis where he will be a traveling salesman for a clothing firm. Mr. and Mrs. Loyce G. Harvey will move into the Borden cottage, he is an agronomist at the local CCC Camp.

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Local-19390913-Wednesday-Fayetteville-Dr. J. C. Futrall killed in auto accident, president of the Univ. of Arkansas for 25 years. Miss Grace Ruth Gray of Madison headed for Blue Mountain, Miss. to enter Blue Mountain College for the 1939-1940 term.

Local-19390914-Thursday-Two cars badly damaged in wreck near Madison junction on Hwy 70 west last night. One car was driven by Dr. John H. Walker of Muskogee, Okla. and the other was William Smith, Negro. Fire caused a short in an eclectic circuit damaged a house located back of the grammar school around 9 am this morning. The house was occupied by Negroes. Mrs. A. B. Nimocks returned home from Baptist Hosp. in Memphis where she underwent surgery. Mrs. A. A. Pennington is a patient at St. Joseph’s Hosp. in Memphis. Brooks Norfleet left to enroll in the Univ. of Arkansas for the 1939-1940 term.

Local-19390916-Saturday-Fire of undetermined origin destroyed a large barn on the Graham farm near Madison early last night. The livestock was safely evacuated. The farm is operated by E. F. Bunch. Curtis Feeland Ponder, four year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Tom Ponder of Colt is receiving treatment at a Wynne Clinic for a snake bite. Miss Estelle Page 95 of 158

Sharpe arrived home yesterday from Memphis where she had been attending Miss Wylie’s Office Training School after graduation on Wednesday. Misses Emmalie Chappell, Norma Chappell, Marjorie Newman, and Marcelle Currie left this morning to enroll at Texas State College for Women in Denton, Texas for the 1939-1940 term. Louis Jones, Henry Haven, Richard H. McCulloch, Jr. and Ed Fogg have left to enroll at the Univ. of Arkansas for the 1939-1940 term. The original “Lone Ranger” of motion picture fame, Lee Powell will be unmasked here at performances of the Barnett Brothers Circus on Sep.16. Grand Jury chosen for Sept. Term of St. Francis Co. Circuit Court as follows: D. K. Burns, Mrs. A. W. Gorman, George P. Walker, Sr., Frank Galloway, J. A. McCutchen, Sr., R. C. Weis, E. F. Loewer, A. G. Sweet, Louis McDaniel, Leo Vaccaro, J. B. Fletcher, R. L. Berry, Gordon Love, a. L. Warring, Earl E. Horton, and R. C. McNeil. Alternates are: Ollie Crook, Guy Proctor, Edwin B. Walker, Jere Gates, J. D. Caldwell, and Jim Ellis.

Local-19390918-Monday-Five Mississippi Negroes were injured and two mules killed in a wreck on Hwy 70 near Blackfish this morning when the car in which they were riding crashed into two wagons and teams. Hubert Armstrong was the driver of the car. The wagons were the property of J. R. Young of Blackfish. Fire of undetermined origin destroyed a small house located near Butler’s o Hwy 70 at 2:30 am this morning. The house, unoccupied, was owned by Jack Porter of Little Rock. A second alarm was sounded at 5:30 am for a roof fire at Thompson Service Station on Hwy 70 west. Maggie Carouthers, Negress, suffered a broken leg and severe bruises when she was knocked down by a passing automobile on West Broadway, driven by John LuFarlette of Manilla. Bert Sulcer, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. Bert Sulcer of Palestine underwent emergency appendectomy Thursday at Gartley-Ramsey Hosp. in Memphis. Joe E. Ferguson, Jr. and Ferrell Crews left for the Univ. of Arkansas to enroll for the 1939-1940 term. William Ferrell arrived from Cincinnati for visit to his mother, Mrs. H. A. Ferrell.

Local-19390919-Tuesday-Sale of the Harve Litton property, located west of the Missouri- Pacific tracks across from the Interstate Grocer Co., will result in bringing a new firm to Forrest City. J. H. Turner of Parkin will build and ice and cold storage plant on the site. J. William Fulbright new President of the Univ. of Arkansas. Mr. and Mrs. R. D. Benthall have moved into the cottage owned by N. B. Rice, and formerly occupied by Mr. and Mrs. H. C. VanBuskirk. Mrs. Otis Tatum was taken to Baptist Hosp. in Memphis yesterday. She is reported to be critical. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Bullock are moving into the cottage formerly occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Fred Whitted who moved to Little Rock. Song festival to be held at Shiloh school Sunday, three miles west of Colt.

Local-19390920-Wednesday-E. E. Underwood was acquitted of an embezzlement charge in the court of Justice R. E. Crutchfield yesterday, Mr. Harold Sharpe represented Mr. Underwood. Mrs. W. G. Oswalt, Jr., and infant son arrived home Sunday from a Memphis Page 96 of 158

Hospital. Saralu Fondren, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Fondren, was brought home last night. Edward Austin Littell, son of Mr. and Mrs. Rufus Littell was awarded fourth prize in his age division of the Baby Show which was held in conjunction with the Mid-South Fair. Miss Laurie Gene Williams was taken to Methodist Hosp. in Memphis for treatment of appendicitis attack. Ed. Vaccaro left to enroll in Georgetown Prep School in Washington, D. C. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. Gazzola Vaccaro will go to New York after dropping him off.

Local-19390921-Thursday-A black Chevrolet sedan owned by Mrs. Alleyne Wright, which was stolen Sunday morning while it was parked in front of the Episcopal Church has not been recovered. It was driven by her son, Edwin, who had left the keys in the car. Stirman Love of this city was appointed Red Cross roll call chairman for St. Francis Co. Fire partially destroyed a house on Cherry street where all the furnishings in the home were burned. The Negro family who lived there were away from home when the fire broke out. Addison M. Bradford, Jr. has accepted a position with the National Bank of Commerce in Memphis, his mother will make her home there with him.

Local-19390922-Friday-Televisionj by telephone is said to have been made possible for a distance of 400 miles, persons seeing one another as they converse. Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Driscol are in Mansfield, La. having been called there on account of the serious illness of Mrs. Driscol’s grandmother. Mrs. Leo Grobmyer is under treatment at the Baptist Hosp. in Memphis. J. W. Williams has returned from an extended vacation, part of it was the World’s Fair in New York City, he is staying at his sister’s home, Mrs. J. T. Fondren, Sr.

Local-19390923-Saturday-FCHS Mustangs defeat W. Helena 27 to 0, led by freshman Ernest Whittington.

Local-19390925-Monday-Sweet Brothers store at Widener robbed last night. Around $200 of property taken by Dep. Sheriff Mitchell Taylor. Firemen made a run to a house occupied my Negroes on Buford Street caused by burning rags in the attic. Byron Casteel left for Boston where he will enter Harvard Medical School since he could not return to Scotland at the Univ. Of Edinburgh due to the war in Europe. Leon Mason of Palestine is a patient in the Methodist Hosp. in Memphis.

Local-19390926-Tuesday-E. F. Bunch and Roy Meals received painful injuries this morning when the car in which they were riding collided with a Little Rock car just outside the city limits on Hwy 1 south. The Little Rock car was driven by E. F. Rankin, an employee of the Little Rock Furniture Co. Wallace Hood, 23 year old youth who told officers his home was in Alabama, will be brought before Justice R. E. Crutchfield on charges of robbery and attempted holdup. Hood was arrested here last night after he attempted to hold up John Danehower in front of the Norton building on North Izard street around 1pm. Page 97 of 158

When arrested a purse stolen from the Ostrander home that night was found on Hood. James Beattie is at Baptist Hosp. in Memphis where he was taken for treatment of six broken ribs and other injuries in a highway accident on Saturday night. Walter Underhill, son of the Rev. Gardner D. Underhill and Mrs. Underhill underwent a operation at Baptist Hosp. in Memphis this morning. Mrs. J. T. Fondren, Jr. and daughter, Saralu, will go to Burdette where she will be a teacher in the schools.

Local-19390927-Wednesday-The cotton seed house of Horton Brothers gin at Newcastle built about three weeks ago burned Saturday night and is a total loss of about $1,000.00. Per Earl Horton they will replace the house. Mrs. H. T. Caldwell of New Albany, Miss., underwent a major operation at the Baptist Hosp. in Memphis. She is the mother of Roy H. Caldwell, of this city. Eugene Horton of Newcastle left today where he will enter William R. Moore School of Technology. Mrs. S. L. Pettus, Jr. is being treated at Baptist Hosp. in Memphis from an appendectomy. Wanda Lee Payne, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Payne received serious and painful injuries to her arm after a fall at school on Monday. Memphis-A European war of several years will enable the United States to become the world’s dominant cotton producing country, President Oscar Johnston of the National Cotton Council, said today.

Local-19390928-Thursday-Firemen were called at 1:30 this morning to extinguish a blaze in the wood yard owned by Oscie Bell, located back of the ice plant, there was slight damage.

Local-19390930-Saturday-Beginning tomorrow, Oct.1, another run will be made to Memphis thru Forrest City by Missouri-Pacific bus. It will leave Forrest City at 8:20 am, after leaving Helena thru Marianna. The previous route ran through Chatfield and Hughes to Memphis, which will be cancelled. Per Louis McDaniel, the Forrest City supporters of the Univ. of Arkansas have purchased 115 tickets to the game with Mississippi State in Memphis this afternoon.

Local-19391002-Monday-Local ministers include: Rev. James V. Cobb, Presbyterian; Rev. Grover C. Prince, Baptist; Rev. G. D. Underhill, Episcopal; Rev. R. S. Hayden, Methodist; and Rev. Vernon Hammond, Christian. Mrs. Percy Barker and Mrs. Mayola McDougal are joint winners of automobile contest held in Memphis. Their prize is and LaSalle which cost them exactly 50 cents. A loaded truck owned by W. W. Draper plunged into a deep ravine of 30 feet depth Saturday when a bridge leading to the Draper farm collapsed under the heavy weight of the truck. A wrecker was able to lift the damaged truck from the ravine. W. W. Baker and Vernon Irby, students at Mississippi State College, were weekend guests of Mr. Baker’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Baker. Mr. Irby is from Meridian and roommate of Mr. Baker at M. S. C. Mrs. Boyd Hope of this city is under Page 98 of 158 treatment at Baptist Hosp. in Memphis. J. C. Brown, Jr. has been transferred from here to Clarksdale, Miss. for Kroger Stores. Charles Ragsdale of Dallas, Texas is visiting his sister, Mrs. W. B. Barnes and Mr. Barnes. The W. E. Maupin family has moved into the cottage on N. Washington Street, owned by W. J. Baker. Miss Evelyn McCachren of Round Pond is a student at Mississippi State College for Women was elected to membership in Torch, Junior Honor Society.

Local-19391003-Tuesday-FCHS Student Body officers are elected. Ed McMahon and Betty Claire Carlisle head senior and junior bodies. W. W. Campbell returns home from National Bankers Conference in Seattle, Washington. Mr. and Mrs. Tom Barrow of Greenwood, Miss., spent the weekend with Mr. Barrow’s mother, Mrs. E. J. Barrow. E. L. McBride and Virgil Casbeer will be among local baseball fans who attend several World Series games for 1939 in Cincinnati. Mr. and Mrs. J. B. McGee returned to Conway after visit to Mrs. McGee’s parents in Colt, Mr. and Mrs. E. Darnall. Miss Mildred Williams entered the Baptist Hosp. in Memphis for observation. Mrs. Elizabeth Trice is expected home today from Alcoa, Tenn. where she visited her sister, Mrs. Guy Brindley.

Local-19391004-Wednesday-The stolen car of Mrs. Alleyne Wright was found in Pine Bluff, per Clifford Garrison, of the State Police. Mrs. Wright Lewis went to Little Rock on news her son, Edward Lewis, underwent emergency appendectomy in a hospital there.

Local-19391005-Thursday-The second annual St. Francis Co. Fair and Livestock Show opens today at the fairgrounds north of the high school. Lewis C. Hawley, Principal of FCHS will receive his Master of Science Degree today at the Univ. of Arkansas. He completed study for his degree at the session this past summer. Frankie Lucker of Colt is a patient at the Baptist Hosp. in Memphis. Miss Virginia Rowland is quite ill at the Baptist Hosp. in Memphis. Mr. and Mrs. Ed McDonald attended the McDonald reunion at Marvell Sunday. Bill Lewis has been admitted to Baptist Hosp. in Memphis for treatment. Mrs. T. H. Tucker of Hughes was the guest of her brother, Homer Cavin and Mrs. Cavin. Mrs. J. C. Kirby left Wednesday for Omaha, Nebraska, after a short visit here with her mother, Mrs. Cornelia McGaha, and her brother Clifford. She will make her home in Omaha with her husband. She came here from Van Buren several years ago. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Smith will make Brinkley their new home, as he is manager of Dixie Furn. Co. there. Edwin (Boy) Wright is now employed with the Canova Food Products Co. in Memphis. Frank Fetter is under treatment at the Baptist Hosp. in Memphis. Mrs. Ira W. Rauscher is recuperating from a recent illness.

Local-19391007-Saturday-Miss Virginia Rowland is expected home from Baptist Hosp. in Memphis. Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Laney are new residents from Mississippi. He is with Continental Oil Co. Page 99 of 158

Local-19391009-Monday-Corp. Hazel Powers, formerly lived in Forrest City, is appointed recruit instructor at Omaha, Nebraska at Fort Crook. Benefit social functions held at the school at Zier. Mrs. C. R. Hine and Miss Virginia Hine will go to Memphis to be with Mrs. Hine’s daughter, Mrs. W. H. Bobo who will undergo major operation at the Methodist Hosp. Mrs. F. T. Whitted left for Gladewater, Texas to spend winter with her son.

Local-19391010-Tuesday-New CCC enrollees from St. Francis County: William Aaron Gardner; Herman Nathan Williams, Palestine; William Andrew Heath; Vernon Russell McClure, Colt; Arvel Scroggins, Colt; Jack Edward Parrish; Jordan Vann, Widener; Johnny Billy Snell, Hughes; Jesse Leon Reeves, Palestine; Lowell Richards; Amos Chapman; Tom Ferrell Wall; James Clifton Farr, Colt; Albert Cagle, Colt; Leroy Bieber, Colt; Clyde Eugene Buchanan, Hunter; Davis Neal Stayton, Palestine; Freddie James Smith; James Milton Kirk, Heth; Donald Bryant, Colt; John Allen Larley; William Alfus Flynn, Goodwin; John Harrison Lewis, Palestine; Andrew Jackson Johnson, Jr., Wynne; Lester Warner. All Forrest City unless shown otherwise. Miss Myrtle King of Widener is a patient at Baptist Hosp. in Memphis. Mrs. W. B. Barnes entered the Baptist Hosp. in Memphis for examination. Edward (Buster) Carllee is employed at a cotton office in Blytheville. Mrs. Carllee will join him next week. Rolfe C. Eldridge, Jr. has been appointed commander of CCC Camp 777 in Corydon, Iowa.

Local-19391011-Wednesday-Elmer Kennedy is being held in St. Francis Co. jail without bail, on the charge of rape. Trial over an eleven year old girl, living north of Palestine, will be held in front of Justice J. E. McCutchen on Oct. 20. Mrs. Kathleen Keys and daughter, Jacqueline of Texarkana will return home after visit to Mrs. Key’s sister, Mrs. Hugh Petty and family.

Local-19391012-Thursday-Clifford McGaha has entered the Veteran’s Hosp. in Memphis for observation. Mrs. C. C. Fogg entered the Methodist Hosp. in Memphis for an operation. Confederate Pensions and Old Age Assistance of $20 for one person out of 340 total receiving State Old-Age assistance in St. Francis Co. Harry Beasley, Forrest City, is selected by Arkansas State Teachers College for center on football team. L. C. Hill, REA employee, suffered painful injuries this morning when he fell from a tree as he was clearing the right of way for the REA power line to the Danehower farm south of Forrest City, with a broken ankle and sprained wrist and elbow. Firemen made a run to the home of Mrs. L. S. Marshall and Mr. and Mrs. Raoul Carlisle on South Rosser Street this morning. An oil stove exploded in the bathroom downstairs. George Kelly Wages of Hughes enlists in the U. S. Navy at Memphis today. Page 100 of 158

Local-19391013-Friday-Final acceptance of the PWA of the sewer system which has been completed in Hughes, per Mayor C. C. Moore. Miss Ava Baldridge will teach English at Hughes HS, on Monday. She attended the Huntsville Vocational School in Huntsville.

Local-19391014-Saturday-Firemen make a run this morning to east Dillard Street to extinguish a grass fire located back of the Alford Ross home. Two injured in collision, Coy Lincoln and F. Adamson received painful injuries today shortly after noon when a pickup truck there were riding in collided at the corner of Washington and Garland Streets with another pickup driven by a unknown Negro, reported to be stolen from Lee Heath as officers were in pursuit. Mrs. H. T. Caldwell was brought here yesterday to the home of her son, Roy Caldwell. She had been in Baptist Hosp. in Memphis for a major operation. Miss Johnnie Evelyn Binion underwent an appendectomy at Baptist Hosp. in Memphis.

Local-19391016-Monday-Police Chief Jake Crigger, Dep. Sheriff Mitchell Taylor, and State Highway Patrolman Clifford Garrison arrested Walter Sadler, Negro, age about 26 years, on charge of breaking and entering and grand larceny for the Goldstein store burglary. Ralph Bullock, Jr., seven months’ old son of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Bullock, was badly burned yesterday when he turned over a cup of hot coffee upon himself. A truck loaded with sand turned over on Hwy 70 a block east of Methodist church shortly after 8 am this morning. In another accident this morning about 10 am, when a truck loaded with cotton bales turned over as it rounded the corner of Broadway and Izard streets. The most seriously injured was John Dale, Negro, who suffered severe cuts on his chin and neck as he was thrown into a show window of the Palace Drug Store. Another, Willie Clarke, another Negro, received a leg injury when he was struck by one of the bales from the truck, they were standing on the side of the drug store when the accident happened. The truck owned by Aaron White, Negro, and was driven by Lewis McCoy, who was charged for reckless driving. Mrs. Earle Stanley Gardner of Los Angeles, Calif. is here visiting her cousin, Miss Gertrude Ferrell, and other relatives. Miss Lida Mae Matthews is home from 20 days in Baptist Hosp. in Memphis for treatment of foot infection. William Cannaday of Colt is under treatment at the Methodist Hosp. in Memphis. James Fussell spent the weekend at Bloomington, Tenn. visiting his son Marshall, who is a student at the Junior Military Academy there. Mrs. Joe Miller of Harrison is here visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Rowland, who will also have Mrs. Rowland’s sister, Mrs. M. W. Francis of Atlanta, Ga. James Allison Thomas, infant son of Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Thomas was christened yesterday afternoon at a ceremony at the Church of the Good Shepherd, by Rev. Gardner D. Underhill, pastor.

Local-19391017-Tuesday-Mrs. C. A. Pettus of Widener is under treatment at the Baptist Hosp. in Memphis. Mr. and Mrs. B. B. Blackmon will move to the Rawlings cottage on Page 101 of 158

North Washington street. Rev. and Mrs. Everette Rawlings will move to Ozark next month.

Local-19391018-Wednesday-Forrest City accepts water softener plant recently installed at the city water plant. Larry Durborow buys Brown’s Community Store from Ercil F. Brown. He will operate with one clerk, Thadrick Tatum. The new owner is a nephew of H. V. McCormick who formerly operated a grocery business in the building now occupied by the Community Store. Bessie Smith of Widener, Mrs. Martha G. Wyatt, mother of Mrs. J. B. Fletcher, and Floyd Cowland of Colt are patients at the Baptist Hosp. in Memphis.

Local-19391019-Thursday-David Washington, Negro operator of a restaurant at Hughes, was fined $50 and costs in the court of Justice J. E. McCutchen this morning on a charge of selling liquor without a state license. State Revenue officers Powell and Holder testified they had purchased liquor from Washington on Sept. 3. The defendant’s lawyer took an appeal to the Circuit Court. The States was represented by Dep. Prosecuting Attorney Edmond T. Norfleet. Miss Johnnie Evelyn Binion is expected home today from Baptist Hosp. in Memphis, where she underwent a appendectomy. Ralph Bullock, Jr., seven months old son of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Bullock is slowly recovering from burns on his face and arms on Sunday when he spilled cup of hot coffee upon himself. Mrs. Henry Gray will leave Monday for Memphis to attend a beauty clinic at the Hotel Peabody by the DuBarry Cosmetic Co. Ralph Turner of this city is under treatment at Baptist Hosp. in Memphis.

Local-19391020-Friday-The daring low dives executed above Forrest City yesterday by a “strange” plane were made by Gladys Williams, druggist, as well as an experienced aviator, he learned to fly nine years ago at the Memphis airport. Mr. Williams was trying out a brand new-Taylor cub monoplane which he just purchased. It will be kept in a hanger on the Magness farm north of this city. F. R. Atkins of Holly Grove and Forrest City entered the Baptist Hosp. in Memphis yesterday. Mrs. F. E. McCoy, Mrs. Al Haraway and Miss Beth Watson of Helena were guests yesterday of Mrs. Annie Dial. Mrs. Edna Young of Chicago is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Aldridge. Mrs. Jerry Burns will visit her son, Jerry, a student and tackle on the Memphis Teachers College football team, over the weekend.

Local-19391021-Saturday-Six people injured in auto wreck near Hick’s Corner on Hwy 70 east of here. Moseley’s Steam Laundry, Fred G. Moseley, Proprietor, will begin operations on Monday morning in the new plant on West Broadway, which has a sprinkler system installed. The plant suffered from a fire two weeks ago which badly damaged the building and equipment. Mr. Moseley had established connections with a Little Rock laundry and has been serving patrons from that source. FCHS Mustangs hard pushed to beat Page 102 of 158

Paragould 6 to nothing in football at Smith Stadium last night. Delinquent Tax Sale lists the lands, lots, and parts of lots returned delinquent in St. Francis Co. for 1938 and previous years I shown by item in detail. Mrs. C. C. Fogg, Sr. is recuperating from a major operation at the Methodist Hosp. in Memphis. Mrs. Albert Ross and baby Lanny Lee, Mr. and Mrs. King Bradley all of Memphis, are weekend guests of Mr. and Mrs. George Dooley who are parents of Mrs. Bradley and Mrs. Ross’ grandparents. Miss Martha Prince, St. Francis Co. nurse, and her sister, Miss Florene Prince are renting the east side of Mrs. Annie Dorris duplex on Cook Street. Mrs. Charles B. Coleman of Poplar Bluff, Mo., is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. D. McDaniel. Mr. and Mrs. Jake Taylor have moved into the Connaway cottage on North Izard Street, formerly occupied by Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Sangster. Miss Dorothy Dean and Mrs. C. C. Fogg, Jr., and daughter, Shannon, will spend weekend in Little Rock with their father, S. J. Dean who is under treatment at the Baptist Hosp. there due to injuries in auto accident Tuesday.

Local-19391024-Tuesday-Firemen make run early last night to extinguish a fire beneath the hood of a truck parked in front of the Peacock Grocery, owned by Walter Peacock, Negro. Condition of Harold Miller, Jr., four year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Miller is still critical after suffering injures in a collision on Hey 70 near the St. Francis River bridge on Hwy 70. Administrators’, Guardians’ and Executor’s Settlements announced for conformation on Nov.10,1939:Est. T. W. McClendon, Decd. By W. M. Webber, Adm.-Final Report; Est. Fannie Webber McClendon, Decd. W. M. Webber, Adm. Final Report; Est. P. F. Schroeder, Decd., Alvina Schroeder, Adm. Annual Report; Est. H. M. Flournoy, Decd., Will Flournoy, Adm. Annual Report; Est. A. L. Stevens, Decd., Mrs. J. B. Wright, Adm. 1st and Final Report; Est. Michael Williams, Decd., S. P. Brownlee, Jr. Ex. Final Report; Est. Mrs. J. J. Peevey, Decd., Tommy Higgs, Executor, 1st and Final Settlement; Est. H. W. Jones, Decd., Mrs. H. W. Jones, Admx. 1st and Final Settlement; Est. Marjorie Newman, Minor, Maude Newman, Guardian, Final Report-Per C. R. Garrison, Probate Clerk by Annie A. Campbell, D. C. J. A. Clark has returned home from the Baptist Hosp. in Memphis. Warren Casteel who is a student in the schools of Chemistry and Pharmacy at the Texas Univ. in Austin has been elected to membership in the Rho Chi society, national pharmaceutical organization. He is the son of Mrs. Hazel Casteel of this city. Miss Mae Burks of Little Rock is now an employee of the Perrye Health and Beauty Salon. Miss Ethel Crippen of Memphis spent last night with her mother, Mrs. Grace Crippen, who is ill. Mrs. N. P. Dortch of Scott is visiting her son, W. R. Dortch and Mrs. Dortch. Mrs. M. C. Brownlee of Wheatley has been admitted to the Baptist Hosp. in Memphis, and Luther Harris Lieblong, son of Mr. and Mrs. Luther Lieblong is under treatment there for pneumonia. Mildred Anderson is also in the Baptist Hosp., and Willie Mae Brown is in St. Joseph’s Hosp. in Memphis. Mr. S. J. Dean was brought home by Stevens ambulance today from Little Rock hospital. Page 103 of 158

Local-19391025-Wednesday-Mrs. T. A. Buford returned home yesterday from Memphis where she visited her sister, Mrs. George Taylor who is ill. Aged hitchhiker, J. W. Evick, 70 years old, from Credo, West Virginia, was struck by an automobile, breaking his leg and bruising of the man, while he was walking along Hwy 70 east of St. Francis river bridge, the car driven by W. C. Stovall of Union City, Tenn. Kelly Stone is under treatment at Baptist Hosp. in Memphis for a tonsil infection. He plans to return home Saturday. Roy C. Merkle of Wheatley and Mrs. W. C. Oursler are under treatment at Baptist Hosp. in Memphis. John Edgar Lindsey of Caldwell, son of Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Lindsey, who has been critically ill for the past ten days remained the same today. He was taken to the Baptist Hosp. in Memphis on Sunday for treatment.

Local-19391025-Wednesday-The George F. Adams show will hold Wild West Rodeo to be held here this weekend sponsored by the Forrest City Young Business Men’s Club. The condition of Saralu Fondren who is recuperating from an attack of scarlet fever at the home of her grandfather, E. B. Eason in this city.

Local-19391030-Monday-With no more lots available in Old City Cemetery, it is now expected Forrest Park Cemetery will become principal burial grounds in county. Indebtedness of $3,500 is to be paid off through the sale of lots, and then the cemetery is to be turned over to the city. Sixty of the 80 acres proposed are now being used for farming purposes, the revenue being used to defray expense of upkeep of the cemetery. Twelve of the 20 acres not under lease have been platted, but lots have only been sold in only a few acres, and it is believed the 12 acres will be sufficient for many years to come. Mayor Buford, and Alderman A. C. Bridewell, Henry C. Gray, and J. Vernon Hodges attended the meeting this morning. Mrs. S. B. Stoddard of Hughes is a patient in the Baptist Hosp. in Memphis. Bill Stewart of Colt and Mrs. Roger West who underwent an operation, and Miss Mildred Williams are patients in the Baptist Hosp. in Memphis. Arthur Louis Devereux, student at Jonesboro State College in Jonesboro spent weekend with parents, Mr. and Mrs. S. R. Devereux.

Local-19391031-Tuesday-The Bureau of the Census through the Dept. of Commerce reports that 40,962 bales of cotton have been ginned in St. Francis Co. from the 1939 crop. Mrs. Hazel Gill will enter Baptist Hosp. in Memphis tomorrow for major operation. Mr. and Mrs. Ned Mallory and daughter, Elma, will visit Mrs. Mallory’s brother, Dr. James Scott in Ripley, Tenn. Mrs. Ethel Bridgforth and Mrs. Lindsay Bridgforth were in Little Rock with Harold Bridgforth who underwent surgery at the Baptist Hosp. there yesterday morning.

Local-19391101-Wednesday-New York-World’s Fair closes until May 25,1940. Over 25 million visitors came for the six month period. Mrs. Martha G. Wyatt returned from Page 104 of 158

Baptist Hosp. in Memphis. Mrs. A. L. Hutchins underwent an operation at Baptist Hosp. in Memphis. Walter Hill is undergoing treatment at Methodist Hosp. in Memphis. Mrs. Roger West returned home from the Baptist Hosp. in Memphis where she underwent an operation. Mrs. T. W. House is a patient in Baptist Hosp. in Memphis.

Local-19391102-Thursday-About 75 Juniors at FCHS left this morning on a trip to the Gulf Coast accompanied by Miss Bertha Davidson, Dewitt Smith, and Miss Edna Joyce Ramsey, faculty of FCHS. Frank Hamilton, formerly of Forrest City, received honors at LSU school of arts and sciences as a member of Omicron Delta Kappa, national men’s leadership fraternity. Mr. and Mrs. Stirman Love returned home from Dardenelle where they had been called on account of Mr. Love’s mother, Mrs. D. A. Love who is ill. Hazel Lyon of Madison is under treatment at Baptist Hosp. in Memphis. A Goodyear baby blimp passed over Forrest City yesterday enroute from Little Rock to Memphis. New York-Big ships, the French liner Normandie, and British liner Queen Mary are being guarded in New York’s Hudson River after discovery of a sabotage plot. Mrs. J. F. McDougal is moving today to Memphis, where she will join her daughter, Mrs. Percy Barker and make their home there. Mrs. Barker is attending a business course at Miss Wyle’s School there. Mrs. Mayola McDougal and daughter, Ann, who have made their home with Mrs. McDougal in the Heustess apartment on Cook Street will live at the home of Mrs. Annie Dorris.

Local-19391103-Friday-FCHS Junior Carnival for 1939 on Nov.23: Mary Frances Fleming, Marion Pearle Heustess, Donald Horton, Frank King, Ida Grace Herrod, Frank Warren, George Morledge, Paul Richie Eldridge, Eugenia Greer, Mary Frances Webb, Pauline Fisher, Hal Cook, Lurlain Osborn, Delanie Massey, Bill Hughes, C. J. Austin, Virginia Gorman, Howell Thompson, Richard Porter, Andy Forrester, Virginia Sue Ruffin, Kathleen Hull, J. W. Westbrook, Jimmy Dortch, James Williams, Bill Jolly, Bob Clark, Ruth Tyson, Frances Brown, Retha Faye Jett, Margaret Meak, Bobbie Cisco, A. F. Thomas, Dorothy Jean Rae, Ann Poole, Corinne Dunn, Elizabeth Leach, Pauline Betty Dorris, Josephine Miller, Patsy Leamon, Ormind Dangeau, Dann Watt, Rod Bryan, Betty Ruth Cope, Bobby Hunter, Lenie Mark Dorris, Algie Vaughn, Mayone Lee, Lillie Bell Evans, Jimmy Scott. Today marks the 34th wedding anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. Clifton Barton. Joe Burkhart assumed management of the Coney Island Café on Rosser Street Nov.1,1939. Miss Mary Schmitt, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Schmitt of Forrest City, and senior at Arkansas State Teachers College in Conway is one of six students to be represented in Who’s Who Among Students in American Universities and Colleges.

Local-19391104-Saturday-Firemen made two runs, a lawn fire on the High School early this afternoon. Yesterday afternoon to the home of Mrs. J. L. Whittenton on North Washington which suffered considerable damage to the roof. Three receive Scottish Rite degree tomorrow: Louis Haven, Jr., of Forrest City, C. C. Fogg, Jr. of Widener, and C. C. Page 105 of 158

Moore of Hughes at the Albert Pike Temple in Little Rock tomorrow. Washington-Pres. Roosevelt signed the new neutrality act today completing appeal of the arms embargo and opening new markets to cash and carry purchases by belligerents. Wylds cemetery to be cleaned starting on Thursday.

Local-19391106-Monday-Miss Elizabeth Heustess returns to LeFlore, Okla., to resume her teaching in the public schools there, after visit to her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Heustess. James Beattie was taken to Baptist Hosp. in Memphis Saturday for treatment. Charles E. Cagle of Colt is under treatment there also. Mrs. E. A. Fisher entered the Methodist Hosp. in Memphis.

Local-19391107-Tuesday-Harry A. Knight, Jr. of this city, sold a registered Jersey Cow to Mr. and Mrs. S. I. Robinson of Vanndale. Improvements at Forrest Park cemetery where a number of Poplars and shrubbery are being planted as well as cleanup of weeds and rubbish being cleared. S. J. Dean resumed his duties at the Planters Bank and Trust Co. today after an absence of three weeks. Henry Haven is home from the Univ. of Arkansas this weekend. Mrs. Pugh Hodges entered Methodist Hosp. in Memphis for an operation.

Local-19391108-Wednesday-Little Rock-381 in St. Francis County receive public welfare. Old age Assistance: 338 cases for $2,070.76. Aid to Blind-9 cases for $75; Aid to Dependent Children-30 cases, 109 children, $262.50 Confederate old age-one case $12; Confederate pension-3 cases for $12.00. E. B. Eason sells property to J. W. Dunlap of Birmingham, Alabama, on West Broadway which includes filling station, hotel and tourists’ cabins. T. W. Thompson of the Sinclair Refining Co. has leased the service station from Mr. Dunlap, and that Leon Ferguson will operate the station. Mrs. C. W. Hulen of Hughes is a patient at the Baptist Hosp. in Memphis. Mrs. Ellis Cureton underwent emergency appendectomy at the Baptist Hosp. in Memphis yesterday. Rev. Best Busby of Hughes is under treatment at the Baptist Hosp. in Memphis. Walter Hill has returned home from the Methodist Hosp. in Memphis.

Local-19391109-Thursday-A new $10,000 Barn burns on J. O. E. Beck plantation of undetermined origin near Hughes yesterday. Total damage estimated at $20,000. This is the third barn to burn on the plantation this year. Stuttgart brings special train to homecoming game here with FCHS. Martha Carlisle elected 1939 football queen, FCHS senior, the maids are Betty Claire Carlisle, Mary Ella Crook, Marilyn Humphrey, and Nona Marie Hurt. Firemen make two runs early this afternoon to extinguish grass fires, first in front of the Gulf Oil Co. bulk plant and second, from Cranor’s Stockyards. Mrs. J. L. Whittenton is ill at her home on North Washington Street. Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Richards of Corinth, Miss. are visiting Mrs. Richards’ mother, Mrs. E. B. Eason and Mr. Eason. Page 106 of 158

Local-19391110-Friday-Firemen were kept busy yesterday answering calls to grass fires, of the five alarms, four were for grass fires, the fifth alarm was a large bon fire built by boosters of the FCHS Mustang football team in the street in front of the Safeway Store. Fire of undetermined origin destroyed the large auction barn and the office building of the V. O. Turner farm located two miles north of Forrest City. The hay barn was the property of the Fussell estate. Damages this morning were estimated at $5,000, partially covered by insurance. Mrs. W. R. Mann of Marianna is here visiting her daughter, Mrs. W. W. Campbell and Mr. Campbell. Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Eldridge will spend Sunday in Gregory as guests of Mrs. Aldridge’s aunt, Mrs. A. C. Jett. George E. Parker entered the Baptist Hosp. in Memphis for treatment.

Local-19391111-Saturday-FCHS defeats Stuttgart Ricebirds 14 to 6 last night at homecoming. FCHS faculty has issued a book of student body rules and regulations governing the student body, sponsored by Principal Lewis C. Hawley and faculty member Mrs. Ercil Brown. Twist Bros. Plantation, 15,276 acre tract of rich delta lands in Cross and Crittenden Counties, has been tentatively approved to lease to the Farm Security Administration, approved by Judge A. L. Hutchins here, yesterday. The partnership, Twist Bros. was placed in receivership in January, 1938, following the death of Clarence C. Twist, one of the partners. Acting manager A. L. Gray of St. Louis has been serving as receiver. Mrs. Archie Ford and son and Miss Elizabeth Dorris will spend the weekend in Helena with Mr. and Mrs. Henry Barnard, and Mr. and Mrs. E. T. James. C. R. Henson of Clarksdale, Miss. is a new employee of Kroger on Front Street. Mr. and Mrs. L. O. McDaniel have as guests this week, Mrs. Clara Neal of Los Angeles, Calif., a former Forrest City resident. Albert Ross began employment this week with the J. D. Dennis Feed and Grocery Store as meat market manager. S. A. Devereux is seriously ill at his home in Newcastle. Chancery Court: Edgar Reeder Nichols vs. Lydia Gertrude Nichols.

Local-19391113-Monday-Mrs. Richard Dooley was taken to the Baptist Hosp. in Memphis yesterday for treatment. Mrs. J. H. McCrary is under treatment at Baptist Hosp. in Memphis. T. R. Perry spent the weekend in Memphis with his father, T. J. Perry. Mrs. Heartsill Burnham of Pocahontas is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Tharp. Harold Bridgforth, son of Mrs. Ethel Bridgforth, is going to Baptist Hosp. in Little Rock for treatment. Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Blackburn spent the weekend in Houston, Miss., as guest of her sister, Mrs. S. M. Hall.

Local-19391114-Tuesday-The Seaton’s greenhouses, located north of Forrest City, have been more than doubled in size, per Fred Seaton, Sr., owner. J. Alfred Ross has opened a meat department at the local market in connection with the J. D. Dennis Feed and Grocery Store on Rosser street. M. H. Vernon, Bud Lane and Albert Nickleberry, the latter two being Negroes, were each fined $25 and costs by Justice J. E. McCutchen this Page 107 of 158 morning on charges of hunting fur bearing animals out of season (Opossums). Mr. and Mrs. Lee Horton and sons, Eugene and Russell, at Newcastle, spent Sunday in Wynne as guests of Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Izard. Eugene returned to Memphis where he is enrolled at the William R. Moore School of Technology.

Local-19391115-Wednesday-Mr. and Mrs. Gaither Dooley have as their guests, Mrs. Dooley’s grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Robertson of Magazine, and her father, Fred Castling. Charles Adams, Jr., small son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Adams of Hughes, and Ralph Turner are under treatment at the Baptist Hosp. in Memphis. Mr. and Mrs. Jams Hicky and small daughter are expected home from Montgomery, Alabama, where they were visiting Mrs. Hicky’s mother, Mrs. M. P. Lindsey.

Local-19391116-Thursday-Four more cottages are to be built by Cabins in the Cotton, on Hwy 70, six miles West of Forrest City. The place is under new management, now being operated by Mr. and Mrs. M. W. Blair, who also operate a sandwich shop and filling station at Benton. Mrs. W. B. Bradford will return today from six week vacation, spent with her daughter, Mrs. I. Creston Bronner in New York City, and her son, Roy H. Bradford in Portland, Maine. Charley Apple and Bill Rogers were injured in a truck collision which happened about two miles west of Forrest City early this morning. Mr. Rogers had a broken arm and was treated at Davidson Clinic, and Mr. Apple suffered a broken collar bone and scratches, and was treated at the Bogart’s clinic.

Local-19391117-Friday-The Smith Studio of Dancing, in Memphis, to open branch here at the home of Mrs. J. A. Pooleat 912 Division Street under direction of Miss Martha Jane Smith. College student Miss Elizabeth Dean, home from the Univ. of Arkansas. Al Smith of Widener and Edmond Goldstein are under treatment at the Baptist Hosp. in Memphis. Miss Margaret Eldridge and Winston Wilson are among those here who are attending Southern Methodist Univ. Arkansas game in Little Rock this afternoon.

Local-19391118-Saturday-Construction work was started this week on a modern duplex apartment for Mr. and Mrs. E. L. McBride on their lot located south of the property of Mrs. J. B. Johnston on South Izard Street. John Moore is contractor for the double home with four rooms and bath each for rent. FCHS Mustangs defeat Russellville 19 to 14. Gar Williams turns in a great game and scores first touchdown. Miss Grace Hurst is directing the Junior Carnival at FCHS, and can be reached at phone 162. C. W. Pittinger, president, announced today that the Jonesboro Special School District will purchase the Jonesboro College properties here for $50,000 to release the mortgage of the Home Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention. Mrs. T. J. Aycock is under treatment at the Baptist Hosp. in Memphis. Miss Ophelia Fisher is in Memphis with her mother, Mrs. E. A. Fisher, who is under treatment at the Baptist Hosp. in Memphis. Mrs. John Holt and Mrs. Arlene Page 108 of 158

Griffin of Mobile arrived Thursday night to spend several days with Mrs. Holt’s brother, Carl Morris and Mrs. Morris. Mrs. Holt is the former Stella Morris.

Local-19391120-Monday-Miss Virginia Cranor, student at State Teachers College in Conway spent weekend at home. Mrs. W. P. Royal and Martha Frances Dooley are under treatment at the Baptist Hosp. in Memphis, and Mrs. Clifford Garrison is returning from their today. The C. J. Bernauers have moved into their new residence on East Broadway from the Walter Prewett house. Miss Jean Prince, student at Quachita College in Arkadelphia is home with parents, Rev. and Mrs. Grover C. Prince for weekend. Miss Rose Lee Sanders is home from Quachita College visiting her father, J. T. Sanders. Edward Austin Littell, son of Mr. and Mrs. Rufus Littell has been ill for the past several days.

Local-19391121-Tuesday-The St. Francis Co. Tuberculosis Assoc. was organized here, Mrs. Elizabeth Connaway elected President; Mrs. Vernon Ray of Wheatley, VP; Mrs. A. L. Waring of Hughes, Second VP; Mrs. William Alderson, secretary; and W. W. Campbell, Treasurer. Hugh Guest has resigned his duties as instructor of math, science, and shop at FCHS to accept position in Pine Bluff on Dec. 4. No successor at Forrest City as of yet. Mrs. Hugh Keller will leave to join husband in Little Rock to make their home there. Mrs. Keller is the former Mary Evelyn Moore. W. L. Barry of Madison is in St. Joseph’s Hosp. in Memphis for treatment. Mrs. S. Otis Holwerk is ill at home with the flu. Miss Estelle Ruth Sharpe is employed with Sears Roebuck and Co. in Memphis in the credit department. George E. Parker returned to the Baptist Hosp. in Memphis for treatment.

Local-19391122-Wednesday-R. L Berry underwent an appendectomy at St. Joseph’s Hosp. in Memphis yesterday. Marshal Cagle, Jr. of Colt is a patient in the Baptist Hosp. in Memphis. Roy L. Meals and Mrs. Richard Dooley under treatment at the Baptist Hosp. in Memphis.

Local-19391123-Thursday-J. R. Chappell, Jr. is home from LSU for visit with parents.

Local-19391124-Friday-Firemen make two runs, one to a house occupied by Negroes, located on Scott street with considerable damage to the interior of the home. At noon today a grass fire at the Bell home on South Rosser, no damage. Judge Hutchins approves Twist land being leased to the Farm Security Administration, 12,000 acres, and the remaining land leased to B. G. Dickey of Earle. J. F. Twist and L. F. Twist, Trustees of the Twist properties were appointed to execute the leases on Jan.1,1940. Mr. and Mrs. Hammond Dooley have as their guests today Mrs. Dooley’s father, D. L. Crafford of Cotton Plant, and her sister, Mrs. Joseph Key of Ripley, Miss. Mrs. Frank Raucher surprised her parents, Mr. and Mrs. D. E. Hoshall with a party celebrating their 41st wedding anniversary. Wage earners aged 65 to get letter from U. S. notifies those who received lump sum payment under the Social Security Act that there case can be reopened, and Page 109 of 158 may be eligible for monthly checks for the rest of their life starting in 1940. Approximately 1,350 recipients of such payments in Arkansas may be eligible. Under the original act this change to monthly was not to start until 1942, but recent changes have changed it. The only requirement is that they had at least six quarters of coverage jobs coming under the act, and at least $50 must have been earned in each of six quarters after 1936.

Local-19391125-Saturday-Choir Members of Church of Good Shepherd: Mrs. Alleyne Wright/Mrs. John W. Naylor/Miss Nell Gorman/Mrs. Harry Plummer/ Mrs. Norma R. Bridgforth/ Mrs. Harry Knight/ Miss Evelyn Arden Bridgforth/ Mrs. W. C. McCoy/ Mrs. George B. Morledge/ Mrs. Lindsay Bridgforth/ Miss Frances Counts/ Miss Elizabeth Fulkerth/ Mrs. S. Otis Holwerk/ Mrs. A. G. Turley/ Mr. I. M. Fulkerth/ Mr. Frank Hayden/ Mr. Jack Neblett-Director: Otis Holwerk/ Organist: Mrs. B. W. McFall. Homer Hine of New York City arrived this week to visit his parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. R. Hines until after Christmas holidays. Hawthorne Sales and G. M. Chowning will return to Wofford College in Spartanburg, S. C. after visit for Thanksgiving with Mr. Sales’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. K. Sales. Mrs. M. B. Currie will leave for Memphis, and then Utica, Miss. to join Mr. Currie, who is recuperating from a recent illness at the home of his father, M. L. Currie. Mr. Currie resigned his position with the Erskine-Williams Lumber Co. in Madison several weeks ago. Mrs. E. S. Stephens left for Chicago after six weeks at her country home south of the city.

Local-19391127-Monday-John Eldridge and Charles Yarbrough, students at the Univ. Of Arkansas Medical School in Little Rock will visit with Eldridge’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Eldridge. Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Stone and Miss Miriam Chandler of Union City, Tenn. were guest of their grandmother, Mrs. O. B. Rollwage. Mrs. Richard Dooley and baby daughter, Martha Frances, returned from the Baptist Hosp. in Memphis to stay at her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Will Harris home while recuperating. Vanlouis McDaniel had an emergency appendectomy at The Baptist Hosp. in Memphis last night.

Local-19391128-Tuesday-Augustus Peters, Negro, was wounded in a shooting which occurred yesterday near Palestine. The gun shot grazed the back of his neck and an arm. Charley Bond, Negro, is charged with the shooting, officers here said. Bond escaped and has not yet been located.

Local-19391129-Wednesday-Firemen made a run to a house on West Davis street this morning for a small roof fire occupied by Lula Dilworth, Negro. Crawfordsville HS will play six man football game at Smith Stadium against Devalls Bluff HS. Charles Adams, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Adams of Hughes is under treatment at Baptist Hosp. in Memphis. Page 110 of 158

Local-19391201-Friday-Blytheville Chicks defeats FCHS Mustangs 39 to 6 to end the season. Homer Ellis is reported in critical condition at the Veteran’s Hosp. in Memphis for treatment of a severe skull fracture which he suffered Wednesday while repairing a pump on the Love Banks farm in Palestine when a heavy chain broke and hit him in the head. Big grass fire here on Thanksgiving which spread from old Hwy 70 over Dooley’s Hill almost to the Lemke Service Station. Two alarms were rounded during the fire which occurred in the afternoon.

Local-19391202-Saturday-Firemen called to house on Ash Street last night resulting from explosion of an oil stove. The house was occupied by Negroes. Mrs. Hugh Tate of Hughes and Al Smith of Widener are under treatment at the Baptist Hosp. in Memphis. Mr. and Mrs. Howard Barnett will move Jan. 1 into the C. E. Royer cottage on N. Washington street. Mr. Barnett is superintendent of the local CCC camp. The Royers and their son will leave the first of year on an extended trip. Richard E. Cope received a strained wrist and severe bruises in a 14 foot fall yesterday from the attic of the Mann building. Mrs. Annie Dorris has accepted a position at Dillon’s Dress Shop. Mrs. O. B. Rollwage will be hostess to a meeting of the N. B. Forrest Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy at her home Wednesday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Harsh and three children returned to Ponca City, Okla. after visit with Mrs. Harsh’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. E.L. Aydelott. Mrs. E. H. Simmons will leave for Miami, Fla. for an indefinite stay, and be guest of her daughter, Mrs. H. M. Sharpe. She will be accompanied by her son, George O’Brien, student at the Univ. of Alabama. Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Shofner will move in the E. H. Simmons apartment in the Haven Duplex on S. Washington Street. Robert Stark of Palestine is a patient in the Methodist Hosp. in Memphis.

Local-19391204-Monday-Little Rock-Saying the 1939 act transferring state Confederate pension rolls to the Welfare Dept. had left some pensioners inadequately provided for per Mrs. John M. Lofton, First VP of the U. D. C. The United States now has two thirds of all the world’s visible monetary gold supply-13 billion dollars worth. Dr. R. J. Hall of Wheatley is under treatment at the Baptist Hosp. in Memphis. The condition of George W. Christian, Sr. was reported improved today. County Clerk C. R. Garrison is under treatment at the Methodist Hosp. in Memphis. George W. Christian, Jr. and Miss Eva Davidson are recovering from an emergency appendectomies at the Baptist Hosp. in Memphis.

Local-19391206-Wednesday-A grass fire near the Missouri-Pacific freight depot resulted in damaging about a dozen poles stacked near the depot, property of the REA. E. E. Sulcer and Hubert Clark will call the figures of the square dance which will be a feature of a barn dance to held Friday night at the Forrest City HS. Mrs. James Davis of Widener and T. R. Marcareno, Jr. of Hughes are patients in the Baptist Hosp. in Memphis. Page 111 of 158

Local-19391207-Thursday-H. D. Torin of Heth is a patient in the Baptist Hosp. in Memphis. Wade Clinton McCoy, son of Mrs. W. C. McCoy of this city enlisted in the U. S. Marine Corps, and transferred to San Diego, Calif. for training. Doyle Harris, 1939 Captain of the Mustangs, left for Jackson, Miss. to begin employment with the Kroger store there. Herman Bokker is under treatment at St. Joseph Hosp. in Memphis. James Hubbard is being treated at Baptist Hosp. in Memphis.

Local-19391208-Friday-Firemen had five alarms between yesterday and today, four were for grass fires at the homes of E. L. Staten, Barney McFall, and J. J. O’Fallin. One call to the home of Charles Simmons was a small roof fire. Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Lipman of Wichita, Kansas were guests of Mrs. Lipman’s cousins, Mrs. A. B. Pyle and Mrs. Peyton Scott, she is the former Mary Ward of Forrest City. Mrs. Ethel Bridgforth and Arch Pryor of Hughes are being treated at the Baptist Hosp. in Memphis. Wynne-Dr. R. Longest was chosen President of the Cross Co. Medical Society, succeeding Dr. J. S. Miller of Parkin. VP is Dr. Thomas Price, and Dr. T. A. Peterson, Sect.

Local-19391209-Saturday-Col. Neil Snyder of Pocahontas, formerly of Forrest City, was elected third VP and R. J. Lanier of this city was chosen as councilman at large by the Eastern Ark. Boy Scouts Council. Roosevelt Knox, Negro, was treated at the offices of Dr. J. O. Rush for severe cuts on his arms and hand he received in a cutting scrape at a downtown pool hall for Negroes this afternoon. He alleges that he was playing pool with another Negro, Lewis Moore, and they got into an argument that ended in a scuffle. Mrs. L. S. Marshall purchased the cottage on East Dillard Street now occupied by the Webb Sweets, from Vaccaro-Grobmyer Co. yesterday. Fines were imposed on Jim Kelso and Norris Webb who live near the Jones farm near Newcastle, by JP in Wynne Thursday as the outgrowth of an automobile accident which occurred Wednesday afternoon on Hwy 1 between Forrest City and Wynne. Kelso fined $100 for driving while intoxicated and $5 for driving without a license. Webb was fined $5 on charges of public drunkenness and $1 for an assault and battery charge. Injured were Mrs. J. W. McDaniel of Wynne and Mrs. Bill Griffin of Wynne was uninjured, who were also in the car.

Local-19391211-Monday-Elmer Kennedy denied bail before Circuit Court Judge E. M. Pipkin, he is charged with rape. Oscar J. Gandy of Colt and Mrs. J. T. Fondren, Sr., have entered the Baptist Hosp. in Memphis for treatment. Mr. and Mrs. Albert Alley will move to Pine Bluff to make their home, he was transferred by the Southwestern Bell Telephone Co. Also, Mr. and Mrs. Carl Keling are moving to Pine Buff for transfer by the same company. Page 112 of 158

Local-19391212-Tuesday-A. G. Sweet is under treatment at the Baptist Hosp. in Memphis. William Paul Barringer of New Orleans was a visitor on Monday to his aunt, Mrs. A. B. Pyle.

Local-19391213-Wednesday-John Volentine succeeds H. Guest as FCHS instructor of shop, science and math. He is a graduate of the Univ. of Arkansas, and he and his wife are making their home with Mrs. Volentine’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Nolan.

Local-19391214-Thursday-A. P. & L. Co. buys Trumann electric properties. Census Supervisors selected: Forrest City-Jennings A. Patterson. They will select the census workers.

Local-19391215-Friday-Fifty years ago an obscure doctor named Robert Kotch discovered the tubercle bacillus which is the cause of tuberculosis. A petition to have a Federal Court in Forrest City, signed by 92 percent of the Forrest City attorneys for removal from Helena. Firemen make two runs, yesterday to the home of D. E. Hoshall on Rosser Street for a flue fire. The second, this morning to the Lawrence Jones home on Mississippi street for burning leaves in a gutter on the rear of the home. Ed Vaccaro is expected home from Georgetown Prep School near Washington, D. C. for the Christmas holidays. Miss Peggy McCulloch is expected home from Chevy Chase College in Washington, D. C. for holidays with parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. B. McCulloch.

Local-19391216-Saturday-Brooks Norfleet, Jr. is expected home from St. Louis Univ. in St. Louis for the Christmas vacation. John Lanier, Jr. is arrived home from Sewanee Military Academy in Sewanee, Tenn. for the holidays. Julian Gilliam arrived home from Port Arthur College in Port Arthur, Texas for the holidays. Tom Gray is home from Hendrix College in Conway for the holidays. Mrs. E. H. Simmons left yesterday for Florida for an indefinite stay.

Local-19391218-Monday-Woodson Moseley is home from Hendrix College in Conway for the holidays. Mr. and Mrs. R. B. McCulloch expect to move into their new home on North Izard Street the latter part of the week. Misses Joan Prince, Rose Lee Sanders and Fredene Moseley, are home for holidays from Quachita College in Arkadelphia. These from the Univ. of Arkansas expected for the holidays are Joe Ferguson, Jr., Ed Fogg, and Elizabeth Dean, Richard McCulloch. Firemen make run to home on Stone street occupied by Mrs. E. Hartsell where a oil stove flooded.

Local-19391219-Tuesday-George L. Pugh buys Bradford Grocery on Franklin street and will operate himself. McKnight Implement Co. moves to west side of the City Gulf Station on West Broadway. The stock is being moved from the N. B. Rice building on South Washington Street to the new location. Billy Bryan Is home for holidays from Arkansas Page 113 of 158

Tech at Russellville. Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. White will arrive from Portland, Oregon, where they have been visiting Mr. White’s parents. The will spend the holidays with Mrs. White’s parents, Dr. and Mrs. N. C. McCown. The Whites plan to move to Oklahoma City early next year, previously they have been living in Montana. Mrs. Will A. Harris underwent an appendectomy at the Baptist Hosp. in Memphis yesterday. Mr. and Mrs. Richard W. Freeman and small son are expected tomorrow from Chicago to visit Mrs. Freeman’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Louis McDaniel. Expected home from Texas State College for Women in Denton, Texas are Misses Marjorie Newman, Emmalie Chappell, and Norma Chappell. Also, J. R. Chappell will arrive from LSU in Baton Rouge, La. Ed Schellhous, student at the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music is expected home for holidays to be with parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Schellhous.

Local-19391220-Wednesday-Mallory Buford of Washington, D. C. is expected home for the holidays tomorrow. Mrs. M. P. Lindsey of Montgomery, Alabama is here for holidays with parents, Mr. and Mrs. James Hicky. Miss Elizabeth Heustess will arrive from LeFlore, Okla. to visit her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Heustess, she is teacher in the schools at LeFlore. Miss Mildred Bynum is expected from Chillicothe Business College in Chillicothe, Missouri to visit her parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Bynum.

Local-19391221-Thursday-W. H. Robinson announces he is taking over interests of E. S. Horton of the Horton-Robinson Auto Co., and will be named Robinson Motor Company. The firm was opened in August in the old W. C. Moomey garage, and came here from Memphis. Miss Patsy Hughes arrived from the Univ. of Arkansas for the holidays. Miss Mildred Bullock returned home from five months stay at Sault Ste. Marie, Mich. visiting her sister, Mrs. E. C. Hopper and Mr. Hopper. Mr. and Mrs. Hays Brantley of Memphis will be guests of Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Scott and Mrs. Ira W. Rauscher. Their sons Scott and Hays, Jr. will arrive on Monday. Miss Margaret and Virginia Wylds of Roseville, Calif. will come for holidays to visit with their father, R. F. Wylds. They are in Little Rock today visiting their aunt, Mrs. William Moseley.

Local-19391222-Friday-No window service at Post Office on Dec.25,1939 per A. D. McDaniel, Postmaster.

Local-19391223-Saturday-Miss Ida Mae Bridewell arrived from Fayetteville to spend holiday with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Bridewell.

Local-19391226-Tuesday-Bernice Harris is under treatment at the Baptist Hosp. in Memphis.

Local-19391227-Wednesday-Bob Shankle, St. Francis Co. farmer, is suffering a broken leg and severe bruises he received Friday when he was knocked down by an automobile as Page 114 of 158 he was walking along Hwy 1 south of here. His leg was broken in two places. The driver of the car was J. T. Bishop of Marianna and Dallas Bishop told officers that he was blinded by the lights of two automobiles approaching his car and did not see Shankle in time to avoid the accident. Miss Virginia Casbeer of Washington, D. C. is spending several days here visiting her brother, Virgil Casbeer, and friends.

Local-19391228-Thursday-The home of Walter B. Curtis, at Haynes, was completely destroyed by fire Friday of last week. He was at home alone with his six weeks old granddaughter at the time of the fire. Mrs. J. R. Hall will open a Tea Room in the building now occupied by Ann’s Beauty Shop in the McDaniel building on Broadway. Ann’s will move into the Times-Herald building where the Perrye Beauty Shop has been. Perrye shop will be moving to the Norton building. Firemen were called to the home of Jack London on W. Broadway to extinguish a mattress fire. Mustang tackle, Garland Williams, who received All-State mention this season is included in the lineup of the Arkansas senior prep football squad which will meet the Tennessee senior prep squad at Crump Stadium Sunday in Memphis. Mrs. Guy V. McCleskey returned last night from Memphis as guest of her sister, Mrs. Robert Shufford.

Local-19391229-Friday-Two runs made by firemen this morning, one to the home of C. R. Hine on Rosser street for fire in wall in dining room around the flue, second, to the home of Mrs. A. M. Ash on North Forrest street, a floor joist near the furnace pipe in the basement was on fire. Small damage. A FBI report today revealed that two of the three men who were arrested here Tuesday on charges of drunkenness and were later taken to Little Rock State Police Headquarters have been arrested over the country for similar charges, they were C. F. Bostick and C. T. Bostick.

Local-19391230-Saturday-Webb and Lockhart Sweet have taken over the interests of their uncles, A. G. Sweet and Emory Sweet, known as Sweet Bros. in Widener. The interests include large farms and a store. Webb Sweet is resigning from the National Bank of Eastern Arkansas as assistant cashier to move to Widener and manage the store. Firemen answered two calls this morning, one to a false alarm when a oil stove at the home of Talmadge Christopher begin smoking and caused alarm. The second was to a Negro’s home on Beech street to extinguish a small roof fire. Several new homes are being built in and around Hughes. The brick home of B. C. Pouncey, Jr. four miles north of Hughes; the M. D. Baddour home in Hughes; and the homes of J. E. Allen, Fred L. Hodges, and Jones Sims. Murray B. Hambleton, Jr. will begin employment next week at the Erskine-Williams Lumber Co. in Madison as bookkeeper for the firm, in addition to his interest in the Cleo-Vess Bottling Co. here. Mr. and Mrs. Tom Barrow will move next week to the Peter’s farm located between Brickeys and Hughes and will assist in managing the farm. Mr. and Mrs. Eddie Martin Gorman and family are moving to Memphis where Mr. Page 115 of 158

Gorman has accepted a position with Armour & Co, after working at the Forrest City Cotton Oil Mill here for the past several years.

Marriages:

Marriage-19390302-Raymond/Wilson-Mrs. J. M. Wilson announces the marriage of her daughter, Eloise, to William Raymond of Forrest City on Monday evening at the Methodist parsonage, the Rev. R. S. Hayden performing the ceremony. Mr. Raymond is employed at the Crowley Ridge Chronicle office.

Marriage-19390308-Dalton/Forrester-Mr. and Mrs. C. G. Forrester of this city announce the marriage of their daughter, Opal, to Ewing C. Dalton of Parkin on Jan. 20, at Marion. Mrs. Dalton is a FCHS graduate, and the groom of Parkin HS. Mr. Dalton is associated in business with Mr. Forrester.

Marriage-19390314-Helm/Norris-Miss Helen Norris and T. C. Helm, both of Memphis, were united in marriage here yesterday afternoon at the Baptist Parsonage, with Rev. Grover C. Prince performing the ceremony. They will make their home in Collierville, Tenn.

Marriage-19390317-Goos/Ferrell-Friends of Miss Eleanor Goos, daughter of Fred Goos of Hamilton, Ohio, and William Ferrell, of Cincinnati, Ohio, son of Mrs. H. A. Ferrell of Forrest City plan to be married on March 25.

Marriage-19390324- Bateman/Griffith-Mrs. Edmond T. Norfleet and Mrs. Frank Galloway left today for Clarendon to attend wedding of Miss Elizabeth Bateman and Edward Griffith in the afternoon at the Methodist Church in that city.

Marriage-19390324-Pollard/Sweet-Webb Sweet entertained with dinner Tuesday honoring his brother, Louis Lockhart Sweet, whose marriage to Miss Margaret Rosalie Pollard will be solemnized on Sunday by Rev. Grover C. Prince at the First Baptist Church. Both are graduates of FCHS, and have attended college.

Marriage-19390401-Hurt/Moncrief-Miss Vivian Irene Hurt, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. S. A. Hurt and William Lloyd Moncrief, all of this city, were united in marriage last evening at the Baptist parsonage with Rev. Grover C. Prince presiding. The bride is a FCHS graduate, and Mr. Moncrief is manager of the Duble Dek Ice Cream Co. in this city. He came here from Florida about two years ago.

Marriage-19390406-Kirkpatrick/Gathings-Miss Tolise Rollwage Kirkpatrick, attractive daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Scott L. Kirkpatrick of this city, and the Hon. E. C. “Took” Gathings of W. Memphis, and Washington, D. C., Congressman from the First Page 116 of 158

Congressional Dist. Of Arkansas. Marriage this afternoon at the Rolfe-Warren home in this city, the Rev. Algenon Killough, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Marianna.

Marriage-19390411-Gibson/Lyttle-Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Gibson of N. Little Rock announce the marriage of their daughter, Rebecca Ann, to Franklin Lytle, son of Mr. and Mrs. Walter F. Lytle of Searcy. The bride is a FCHS graduate and the groom a graduate of Searcy HS. They will make their home in N. Little Rock.

Marriage-19390412-Gardner/Love-Miss Caddie Louise Gardner of Memphis, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R. B. Gardner of Tishomingo, Miss. and Robert L. Love, of Memphis, formerly of Hughes, will be married tomorrow at Tate Street Baptist Church in Corinth, Miss., conducted by Rev. J. O. Gunthrope.

Marriage-19390413-Clarke/Lee-Miss Virginia Ann Clarke, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Clarke of Madison, and Ed B. Carl Lee of this city, were united in marriage in Forrest City on Easter Sunday afternoon. Mrs. Lee is a FCHS graduate, Mr. Lee graduated from High School in Memphis, and is now employed with the Cleo-Vess Bottling Co. here..

Marriage-19390415-Fleming/Byars-Mr. and Mrs. Sidney M. Jordan of Louisville announce the marriage of Miss Pearl Byars to Dale Salis Fleming. The ceremony was performed by Rev. Ira F. Metts of Jackson, Miss. on March 24. Mrs. Fleming received her degree from Mississippi State College for Women and the groom from the Univ. of Mississippi. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Joe S. Fleming of Forrest City. They will make their home in Merigold, Miss. where he is a member of the Merigold HS faculty.

Marriage-19390417-Martin/Isbell-Miss Grace Martin of Pine Bluff and Carter Isbell of Parkin and Forrest City were united in marriage yesterday at the Methodist Church in Pine Bluff. The groom is employed at Merchants Specialty Co. here in Forrest City. The bride is a former employee of the La Vogue Beauty Shoppe of this city.

Marriage-19390419-Gorman/Brown-Miss Mildred D. Brown of Tupelo, Miss. and Memphis, and Henry F. P. Gorman of this city were united in marriage Monday afternoon at the home of the bride’s sister, Mrs. J. B. Kinsey in Memphis, performed by Rev. W. J. Millard, pastor of the Evergreen Presbyterian Church in Memphis. They are now at home in the Gorman residence on Hill street.

Marriage-19390428-Yancey/Robbins-Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Yancey of Honjin announce the engagement of their daughter, Jessie, to Mr. Hermit Robbins of Hughes, son of Mrs. E. D. Robbins of Bogaulsa, La. at the First Methodist Church in Marianna on June 8.

Marriage-19390502-McQueen/Wright-Mr. and Mrs. F. T. McQueen announces the engagement of their daughter, Carolyn, to Robert L. Wright the first part of June, son of Page 117 of 158

Mrs. Alleyne Wright. Both of graduates of FCHS. Mr. Wright attended the Univ. of Arkansas.

Marriage-19390503-Brown/Chapman-Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Chapman of Wynne announce the marriage of their daughter, Zelma, to Virgil G. Brown, son of Cliff Brown of Colt on Apr.29 at Haynes, performed by Rev. J. W. Harger, Methodist minister. The groom is a FCHS graduate, and is now employed at Colt. Mrs. Brown is a member of the Junior Class at Wynne HS.

Marriage-19390503-Carter/Gardner-Mrs. Andrew Jackson Carter of Parkin announces the engagement of her daughter, Julia Mary Carter, to John Randolph Gardner of Earle, wedding to be on June 8 in Parkin. The bride is on faculty at Hughes HS, and a graduate of State Teachers College in Memphis. The groom is a prominent lumberman in Earle.

Marriage-19390504-Albright/Gordon-Announcement of marriage of Miss Anna Mae Albright, daughter of Mrs. R. N. Albright of Jonesboro, and Ben F. Gordon, son of Mrs. M. W. Hazel, Sr. of Marked Tree on Friday at the First Methodist Church in Jonesboro, with Rev. Rudolph Schuster of the First Presbyterian Church officiating. Mr. Gordon is a former resident of Forrest City and is employed with a tobacco company in Jonesboro.

Marriage-19390508-Buford/Stutts-Mrs. Mollie Lipsey Stutts and Lawrence T. Buford, both of Wynne were married here Saturday night by Rev. Grover C. Prince at the Baptist parsonage. They were attended by Billy Patterson of Forrest City, and will make their home in Wynne.

Marriage-19390518-Armstrong/Wenzel-Mr. and Mrs. Forrest Hamilton Armstrong of Forrest City announce the engagement of their daughter, Dorothy Marie, to Henry William Wenzel of Helena , and the wedding to be on June 10 at the First Baptist Church in this city. Miss Armstrong is a Wynne HS graduate, and Mr. Wenzel is the son of Mrs. Hugo A. Wenzel and the late Mr. Wenzel, and is a graduate of Helena HS. He is proprietor of the Interior Decorating and Home Furnishing Co. of Helena. Hammett/Thompson-Mrs. Lillie Thompson of W. Memphis announces the marriage of her daughter, Virginia, to Archie Hammett of Forrest City at Horn Lake, Miss. on Sunday morning. She is a graduate of Humes HS in Memphis, and the groom is employed at the Merchants Specialty in this city.

Marriage-19390520-Johnson/Pilkington-Mrs. Evelyn Pilkington and Fsoter Johnson, both of Hughes, were united in marriage last night at the Christian Church parsonage here. Performed by Rev. T. P. Sharp, pastor. Mrs. Johnson is the sister of Mrs. Gordon Love of Hughes, and the groom is engaged in the implement business in Hughes. Page 118 of 158

Marriage-19390520-Yancey/Robbins-Marianna, Miss Jessie Yancey has chosen June 8 for marriage to Kermit Estus Robbins at the Methodist church. Mr. Robbins is now in the cotton gin and wholesale oil business in Hughes where they will make their home.

Marriage-19390524-Wilkins/Baker-Mrs. Ben Wilkins of Colt announces the engagement of her daughter, Marie Lisbeth, to Barney Clotis Baker of Norfolk, Va. to be married on Jun 4 at the Colt Baptist Church.

Marriage-19390526-McQueen/Wright-Wedding on June 3 of Miss Carolyn McQueen and Robert Wright.

Marriage-19390527-Leslie/Caudle-Miss Evelyn Caudle of St. Louis and W. H. Leslie of this city were united in marriage Thursday evening at the home of Mr. and Mrs. George P. Walker, by Rev. James V. Cobb of the Presbyterian Church. The couple are at home at 203 Cleveland Street. Dr. J. Malcolm Neel of Salisbury, N. C. and Asbell C. Neel of El Dorado are guests of their sister, Mrs. Leila Grady, at the Aycock apartments. Miss Estelle Sharpe returned home yesterday from Memphis business school. Miss Mary Schmitt, Miss Frances Snyder and Neil Snyder, Jr., arrived home from State Teachers College in Conway. Miss Ann Campbell is expected home from Stephens College in Columbia, Mo. Miss Mabel Loraine Dedman will be home from Hot Springs, where she is on the faculty of the Rix Grammar School, with her parents, Dr. and Mrs. J. L. Dedman.

Marriage-19390529-Dudley/Bridgforth-R. W. Dudley of DeWitt announces the engagement of his daughter, Sallie Pearl, to John Gatling Bridgforth of this city, and marriage on June 25 at the First Baptist Church in Dewitt, by Rev. R. A. Butler, Pastor. Miss Dudley is a graduate of Christian College, Columbia, Mo., and the Univ. of Arkansas. Mr. Bridgforth has attended the Washington and Lee University, and is expecting to graduate in June from the Univ. Of Arkansas.

Marriage-19390603-Wilkins/Baker-Miss Marie Lisbeth Wilkins of Colt and Barney Cletis Baker of Norfolk, Va. will be united in marriage tomorrow at the First Baptist Church in Colt by Rev. Lewis Shotaw, pastor of Central Baptist Church, Jonesboro.

Marriage-19390607-Wyatt/Trunty-Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Fletcher spent the weekend at Newbern, Tenn. attending wedding of Mrs. Fletcher’s uncle, Dr. W. R. Wyatt, and Merle Trunty. They were accompanied home by Mrs. Fletcher’ s mother, Mrs. Martha G. Wyatt, who had been visiting relatives in Tennessee.

Marriage-19390612-Wenzel/Armstrong-The wedding of Miss Dorothy Armstrong, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Forrest Hamilton Armstrong of Forrest City and Henry William Wenzel, son of Mrs. Hugo A. Wenzel and the late Mr. Wenzel of Helena, was on Saturday afternoon at the Helena First Baptist Church with Rev. Grover C. Prince, pastor of First Baptist Church Page 119 of 158 in Forrest City. Mrs. Wenzel attended the Forrest City schools, and is a graduate of Wynne HS. She has made her home in Helena for the past year. Mr. Wenzel is a graduate of Helena HS, and is owner of Wenzel’s interior decorating in Helena. Sam Mann of St. Petersburg, Fla., is guest of his sister, Mrs. Frank King. Waring Black of New Orleans is spending two weeks here on business. He was accompanied by his wife, the former Margaret Merritt of Clarendon who taught at the Forrest City Public schools several years ago. They are staying at the Aycock Apartments. Mr. and Mrs. George Christian of Memphis are visiting his father, G. W. Christian.

Marriage-19390617-Lindauer/Armstrong-Miss Mary Helen Armstrong, daughter of Mrs. John Armstrong of Newcastle, and Henry Lindauer, son of Mrs. Charles Lindauer of Forrest City, were united in marriage last night at the home of the bride’s cousin, Mrs. L. L. Replogle, and Mr. Replogle in this city, by Rev. R. S. Hayden, of the First Methodist Church. They will reside in Forrest City where Mr. Lindauer is employed as a carpenter. Bowen/McDaniel- Mr. and Mrs. Louis McDaniel announce the marriage of their daughter, Laura Louise,. to John Canada Bowen, Jr. of Senatobia, Miss., son of Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Bowen, Sr. the latter part of August. She is a FCHS graduate and attended Stephens College in Columbia, Mo., and the Univ. of Arkansas. Mr. Bowen attended the Univ. of Texas and graduated magna cum laude from the Univ. of Mississippi. On the maternal side, Mr. Bowen is a descendent of Mr. and Mrs. Halcot Insce Gill and on the paternal side, Mr. and Mrs. John Strong Bowen, both are prominent north Mississippi families.

Marriage-19390624-Bridgforth/Dudley-The wedding of Miss Sallie Pearl Dudley, daughter of R. W. Dudley of DeWitt, and John Gatling Bridgforth, son of Mr. and Mrs. Lindsay Bridgforth of this city, will take place tomorrow at the First Baptist Church in Dewitt. Rev. R. A. Butler, pastor officiating. Mr. Bridgforth graduated Forrest City Schools, attended Washington and Lee University, and graduated from the Univ. of Arkansas in June and is associated with his father at the Bridgforth Plantation at Whitmire. Mrs. Bridgforth was graduated from Christian College, Columbia, Missouri, and Cum Laude from the Univ. of Arkansas School of Business Administration.

Marriage-19390715-Draper/Borden-Miss Marylee Draper, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Draper, announce the marriage of the bride of W. Brooks Borden on Saturday at the Graham Memorial Presbyterian Church with Rev. James V. Cobb, pastor performing the ceremony. Mrs. Borden is a FCHS Graduate, and granddaughter of one of Arkansas’ earliest families, Mrs. V. O. Alexander of Pine Bluff and the late Mr. Alexander. Mr. Borden is also a FCHS graduate, and attended Jonesboro State College in Jonesboro. He is employed with the Forrest City Cotton Oil Mill. Beasley/Wilkie-Miss Blanche Beasley, daughter of Mrs. Dorris Beasley, Sr., of Heber Springs, and Charles G. Wilkie, son of Mr. and Mrs. W.T. Wilkie, Sr. of Heth, were united in marriage yesterday at the home of the Page 120 of 158 bride’s mother. Rev. C. E. Lawrence, pastor of the Baptist Church at Heber Springs performing the ceremony. Mrs. Wilkie attended State Teachers College in Conway, and taught school at Heth last year. Mr. Wilkie was educated in California and New York schools. He is engaged in farming near Hughes. Fisher/Hodges-Miss Evelyn May Hodges and Robert W. Fisher, both of this city, were united in marriage on Saturday afternoon at the Baptist parsonage by Rev. Grover C. Prince. Mr. Fisher is engaged in farming. Pounds/Schull-Miss Kathleen Schull and Claude H. Pounds, both of Memphis, were united in marriage at the Baptist parsonage by Rev. Grover C. Prince. They will make their home in Memphis.

Marriage-19390724-Eppes/Odom-Miss Mildred Thelma Odom of Vanndale and William Eppes of Madison were united in marriage yesterday afternoon at the Baptist parsonage by Rev. Grover C. Prince. They will make their home in Madison where Mr. Eppes is employed in the logging industry. Power/Bunch-Miss Birdie Powers and Robert Edward Bunch; Miss Mildred Stough and Patrick Wesley McFall were united in marriage at a double wedding ceremony at Brinkley July 10. Miss Powers is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Powers of this city. Mr. Bunch is the son of Mr. and Mrs. E. F. Bunch of Madison. Mr. Bunch is associated with his father in farming. Miss Stough is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. D. Stough of this city, and Mr. McFall is the son of Mr. and Mrs. P. W. McFall of Madison. They will make their home in Forrest City where Mr. McFall is salesman for the Planters Peanut Company.

Marriage-19390729-Hulen/Lacey- Mr. and Mrs. O. F. Lacey of Wynne announce the marriage of their daughter, Mariam Elizabeth, to Charles William Hulen III, of Hughes, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Hulen, Jr. Ceremony on June 27 at the Methodist parsonage in Elaine, with Rev. E. G. Patchell officiating. Miss Hulen is a graduate of Hughes HS, and attended the Univ. of Arkansas. Mr. Hulen graduated from Hughes HS and attended Arkansas State Teachers College in Conway. They will make their home in Hughes where Mr. Hulen is in business with his father .

Marriage-19390808-Richards/Dorris-Miss Mazie Dorris and Ivan Edgar Richards, Jr. both of Memphis were married Monday night at the residence of Rev. and Mrs. E. Rawlings.

Marriage-19390809-Gadberry/Hartman-Mr. and Mrs. Chester Hartman announce the marriage of their daughter, Fannie Dean, to Leon Gadberry on Aug. 6 at the Catholic Parish House with the Rev. Edwin Hemmen, pastor of the St. Francis of Assissi Church, officiating. Both are FCHS graduates, and Mr. Gadberry is employed with the Busy Dept. Store.

Marriage-19390811-Land/Reisman-The engagement of Miss Frances Land, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Max Land of St. Louis, Mo., to Mervin F. Reisman, son of Mr. and Mrs. Morris Page 121 of 158

Riesman of Hughes, was recently announced by Mr. and Mrs. Land. The wedding will be Sept. 8 in St. Louis. The bride is a graduate of Soldan HS in St. Louis, and Mr. Reisman is a graduate from Turrell HS, and attended Mississippi State College, and is in business with his father.

Marriage-19390814-Surginer/D’Arcy-Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Surginer announce the marriage of their daughter, Evelyn, to Jack D’Arcy, son of John D’Arcy of Springfield, Illinois. The ceremony took place in Wynne with the Rev. Roy Davis, of the Wynne Presbyterian Church officiating. Mrs. D’Arcy is a FCHS Graduate and attended Southwestern Univ. in Memphis. He is employed here at Ozburn-Abston Company. They will make their home at the J. T. Sanders residence on Division Street.

Marriage-19390815-Nelson/Taylor-Of interest here is the announcement of the marriage of Miss Ruth Taylor, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Taylor of McCrory, to Roy M. Helson of Hughes, which took place on Aug. 9 at the Second Methodist Church in Ft. Smith, with Rev. J. J. Galloway, pastor, officiating. The bride attended Arkansas Polytechnic College in Russellville, and Arkansas State Teachers College in Conway. She taught home economics in the McCrory HS for several years, and for some time was employed by the Arkansas Power & Light Co. in Little Rock. Mr. Nelson is a graduate of Erskine College in Duawest, S. C. and of the Univ. of South Carolina at Columbia. He was superintendent of the Ola schools for a number of years, and is now Superintendent of Hughes schools, where they will make their home.

Marriage-19390822-Davidson/Reiter-Miss Eva Davidson honors Miss Edith Davidson of Marvell, bride elect of Murray Reiter of New York City.

Marriage-19390831-Mrs. E. J. Butler will leave for Baton Rouge, La. for short stay with her brother, J. H. Schlosser, Jr. who is getting married on Sunday afternoon in Beaumont, Texas, to Miss Joyce Hicsig of Beaumont. Mrs. Butler is to attend the wedding.

Marriage-19390902-Roe/Prewett-Miss Mary Prewett of Nashville, Tenn., and Walter Lee Roe of Madison, Wisc. were united in marriage yesterday morning at the Methodist parsonage in this city with Rev. R. S. Hayden officiating. They make their home in Wisconsin.

Marriage-19390909-Schlosser/Heisig-Beaumont, Texas-The marriage of Miss Marguerite Joyce Heisig, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. T. Heisig, to John Henry Schlosser, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Schlosser of Memphis, Tenn. and Forrest City was celebrated on Sep.3 in the home of the bride’s mother, with the Rev. J. A. Smart reading the ceremony. The bride attended local schools in Beaumont, and then went to Lamar College and later graduated from LSU in Baton Rouge, where Mr. Schlosser also attended. He is employed Page 122 of 158 with the Gulf States Utilities company. Mrs. E. J. Butler, of Forrest City, sister of the bridegroom attended from here.

Marriage-19390918-McDonald/Wingfield-Mrs. L. B. McDonald of Pine Bluff announces the marriage of her daughter, Miss Ola McDonald, to Isaac Seldon Wingfield of Forrest City on Wednesday, Sep. 12 at the First Presbyterian Church in Pine Bluff. Mr. Wingfield was recently transferred from Pine Bluff to work at the Forrest City Cotton Oil Mill and are at home on 308 North Izard Street.

Marriage-19390925-Pace/Wilkins-Miss Laverne Wilkins, daughter of Mrs. Lillian Wilkins and the late Dr. Wilkins of Wynne, and Ned Pace, son of Mr. and Mrs. C. O. Pace of Hardin, Ky. and Florida, were married Saturday evening at the Methodist parsonage by Rev. R. S. Hayden. Mrs. Pace was raised in Wynne and was graduate of Wynne HS, and she attended Draughons’s Business College in Memphis, and employed at the district office of the State Highway Dept. in Wynne since 1937. Mr. Pace was educated at schools in Arkansas, Tennessee, Kentucky and Florida. He is a Mason, and is employed with J. E. Hollan and Son at Levesque.

Marriage-19390930-Gill/Myers-Last night Miss Hazel Louise Gill, daughter of Mrs. A. E. Gill and the late Mr. Gill, became the bride of Ross D. Myers, son of Mrs. Georgia Myers of Little Rock. Rev. Grover C. Prince conducted the ceremonies at the home of the bride. The bride is a graduate of FCHS and attended Blue Mountain College, Blue Mountain, Miss. Mr. Myers also is a FCHS graduate, and Hemphill Diesel School in Memphis, and is now employed with the Lewis Supply Co., in Memphis.

Marriage-19391002-Rabb/Lindsey-Of interest is the engagement of Miss Kathleen Rabb of Helena, daughter of Mrs. Bart T. Rabb of Helena, to Charles Nash Lindsey, Jr. of Helena in the late fall. Miss Rabb is the sister of Mrs. Freed Lowry, former resident of this city.

Marriage-19391011-Mr. and Mrs. William Wilkie attended the wedding of Mrs. Wilkie’s sister, Mrs. Annie T. Griffin, Sunday, who married on Sunday to Edward F. Berry in the home of the bride’s mother in Memphis.

Marriage-19391024-Morrison/Smith-Of interest here is marriage of Miss Josephine Smith, of St. Louis, Mo., a former resident of Forrest City, and Carl Morrison, also of St. Louis at Macon, Missouri on Saturday Oct. 21. The bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Smith, now of Sheridan. Mr. Morrison is a foreman in the Ford plant in St. Louis.

Marriage-19391030-Miller/Pelky-The marriage of Miss Juanita Pelky of Widener and James D. Miller of Brinkley was solemnized yesterday afternoon at the home of Mr. T. M. Hughes. The Rev. S. O. Patty, pastor of the First Methodist Church in Brinkley performing the ceremony. Mrs. Miller is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. T. A. Pelky of Widener, and a Page 123 of 158

FCHS graduate. The groom is a graduate of Brinkley HS, and is employed by the Busy Store in Brinkley.

Marriage-19391102-Keller/Moore-Mr. and Mr. Joe Moore announce the marriage of their daughter, Mary Evelyn to Hugh A. Keller of Little Rock, son of Mr. and Mrs. Dan Keller of Jonesboro on Tuesday, at the First Methodist Church in Forrest City, Rev. Vernon A. Hammond officiating. Mrs. Keller is a senior in FCHS, while Mr. Keller is a graduate of Jonesboro State College, and is employed with General Motors a the Little Rock office. Scott/Stiedle-Miss Mildred Louis Stiedle, and Len Franklin Scott, both of W. Memphis, were married at the Baptist parsonage in this city by Rev. Grover C. Prince, pastor of the First Baptist Church. They will make their home in West Helena.

Marriage-19391106-Goodwin/Coleman-Mr. and Mrs. John William Goodwin, Sr. of McGehee announce the engagement of their daughter, Marlotta Goodwin, to Jack Furlow Coleman of Forrest City, son of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Lee Coleman of Lonoke on Nov. 26 at the First Presbyterian Church in McGehee with Dr. G. S. Sosemore, Pastor. Miss Goodwin graduated from McGehee HS and attended Hendrix College. The groom was a Lonoke HS graduate, attended the Univ. of Arkansas with a degree from the College of Agriculture.

Marriage-19391108-Brown/Myers-Mr. and Mrs. Herbert E. Brown of Cincinnati, Ohio, announce the marriage of their daughter, Katherine Marie, to Albert E. Myers, son of Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Myers of Forrest City, on Nov.23 at the Westwood Salem Presbyterian Church in Cincinnati. Miss Brown is a student at the Univ. of Cincinnati, and Mr. Myers graduated from FCHS and has attended the Univ. of Cincinnati.

Marriage-19391113-Voss/Ragland-Miss Verla Voss, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Voss, and Mervyn C. Ragland, son of Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Ragland were united in marriage Saturday night at the home of Rev. James V. Cobb, pastor of Graham Memorial Presbyterian Church. Mrs. Ragland graduate from FCHS last year. Mr. Ragland is also a graduate of FCHS and has been employed with the Western Auto Convenience Store. Southall/Leatherwood-Miss Grace Leatherwood of this city and R. R. Southall of Palestine were married Saturday afternoon at the Baptist Parsonage by Rev. Grover C. Prince, pastor. Reaves/Maddox-Miss Maxine Maddox and Walter L. Reaves, Jr., both of Memphis were united in marriage Saturday night at the Presbyterian manse by Rev. James V. Cobb, pastor. Mr. Reaves is a nephew of Mrs. E. L. Borden, Sr. of this city. Guest/Thomas- Miss Mary Joe Thomas of Kansas City, Mo., daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph H. Thomas of Texarkana, Texas, and Hugh Preston Guest of this city, son of D. Guest of Marshall, Texas last evening at the Catholic rectory by Rev. Edwin Hemmen. Mrs. Guest attended Texarkana High School and Sacred Heart Academy in Texarkana. Mr. Guest is a graduate Page 124 of 158 of Marshall HS and State Teachers College in Conway. He is a faculty member of FCHS for the last two years and make their home at the Kyle apartments on Washington street.

Marriage-19391115-Wadell/Brown-Missoula, Montana-Miss Sara Wadell, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Clay Waddell of Forrest City, and Clark Howard Brown, son of Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Brown were married yesterday at the home of the bride’s aunt, Miss Elsie Wadell by Rev. J. Gordon Bennett. Mrs. Brown graduated from the Missoula County HS and attended Montana State University. Mr. Brown also graduated from Missoula HS and Montana State University, and is employed with the Gold Medal Dairies as sales manager. They will reside at 113 West Broadway. Burks/Baker-Miss Evelyn Baker and Paul Burks of Little Rock were married Sunday at Little Rock. Mrs. Burks parents are Mr. and Mrs. Henry Baker of Forrest City.

Marriage-19391117-Thompson/Ferguson-Mr. and Mrs. T. W. Thompson announce the engagement of their daughter, Alby, to Leon Ferguson, son of Mr. and Mrs. E. T. Ferguson, Sr. on Nov. 25 at the Baptist pastorium. Raft/Lindsey-Mrs. Annie Dial attended the wedding of her niece, Miss Kathleen Raft and Charles Nash Lindsey, Jr., in Helena yesterday afternoon.

Marriage-19391118-Taylor/Hurley-Mrs. Walter Roderick Taylor of Memphis announces the marriage of her daughter, Mary Alva, to George S. Hurley, also of Memphis. On Sunday, Oct. 15, 1939, in Hernando, Miss. Mrs. Hurley is a former resident of Forrest City and niece of Mrs. Albert Pyle and Mrs. E. T. Altman.

Marriage-19391121-Gruby/Brown-Miss Bess Eva Brown, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Math Brown of Wynne, and James Gruby, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Gruby of Wynne were married by Rev. R. S. Hayden, pastor of the First Methodist Church here. Mrs. Gruby graduated from Swifton HS and Mr. Gruby from Wynne HS. They will make home in Wynne where Mr. Gruby works at the Lion Services Station.

Marriage-19391122-Myers/Brown-Charlie Myers will leave tonight for Cincinnati to attend the wedding of his brother tomorrow, Albert E. Myers and Miss Kathleen Marie Brown. Donovan/Moorman-Mr. and Mrs. Carl H. Morris attended the wedding of Miss Kathleen Moorman and J. J. Donovan at St. Andrew’s Cathedral in Little Rock yesterday.

Marriage-19391123-Beattie/Cranor-Miss Ora Beattie, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James E. Beattie became the bride of Earl Cranor, son of Mr. and Mrs. James Cranor, at the Methodist parsonage this morning, by Rev. R. S. Hayden. Miss Dora Beattie, twin sister, was the only attendee. Mrs. Cranor graduated from FCHS last year. Mr. Cranor also attended FCHS. He is now in business with his father, prominent farmer and livestock dealer. Page 125 of 158

Marriage-19391124-Gardner/Schlecte-Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Gardner of Waco, Texas announce the marriage of their daughter, Ruth Evelyn to Mr. Marvin Charles Schlecte of Galveston, Texas. On Dec. 9th at the First Baptist church in Waco, Texas. Mrs. Gardner will be remembered here as Iva Cos, a former teacher in FCHS.

Marriage-19391125-Odom/Danehower-Mrs. Nora Danehower announces the marriage of her daughter, Azile, to J. E. Odom, son of Mrs. Flora Odom at Wynne on April 23 by Rev. J. Ernest Cox. Both graduated from FCHS in 1936. Mr. Odom is employed as bookkeeper at the Merchants Specialty Co. Rowland/Wilson-Mr. and Mrs. Walter Rowland of Torrance, Calif., announce the engagement of their daughter, Maxine, to John Harrison Wilson, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Wilson of Birmingham, Ala. Miss Rowland is a former resident of this city and graduated from FCHS in 1936. Mr. Wilson is employed at Long Beach, Calif.

Marriage-19391127-Goodwin/Coleman-Miss Marietta Goodwin was married Saturday afternoon at the First Presbyterian Church of McGehee by Rev. G. S. Sizemore, to Jack Furlow Coleman of Forrest City. The bride is the youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Goodwin of McGehee, and Mr. Coleman is the son of Mr. and Mrs. John William Goodwin of McGehee. The groom is employed in Forrest City as assistant agent.

Marriage-19391208-Taylor/Hare-Mrs. J. B. Hare of Wynne announces the marriage of her daughter, Mary Louise, to Walter R. Taylor of Memphis, and formerly of Forrest City on Nov.23,1939 in Hernando, Miss. with Rev. W. D. Cook officiating. The bride is a graduate of Wynne HS and Galloway College in Searcy. Mr. Taylor is a graduate of FCHS.

Marriage-19391209-McDaniel/Hurst-Miss Grace Marie Hurst of Forrest City, daughter of Mrs. James N. Hurst of Knoxville, Tenn. and John Thomas McDaniel, son of Mrs. S. T. McDaniel of Forrest City were married yesterday afternoon in the chapel of the Church of the Good Shepherd, Episcopal by Rev. Gardner D. Underhill. Mrs. McDaniel is a graduate of the Univ. of Tennessee, and is on FCHS faculty. Mr. McDaniel is a grad of FCHS and the Univ. of Arkansas.

Marriage-19391211-Hodges/McBurnett-Of interest here is the recent marriage by Miss Elsie McBurnett of Pine Bluff and Norman Hodges of Forrest City and Memphis several months ago. They are now making their home in Memphis where he is employed at the Ford plant.

Marriage-19391213-Perry/Davis-Of interest here is marriage of Joe E. Perry, formerly of Forrest City, and Miss Mary Sue Davis of Ft. Worth, Texas three weeks ago. They are making their home in Texas where he is employed with the REA as an auditor.

Marriage-19391218-Hambleton/Hamilton-Miss Mildred Hamilton and Murray Charles Hambleton, Jr. were married yesterday morning at the home of the bride’s aunt, Mrs. A. Page 126 of 158

G. Sweet on North Forrest street by Rev. Gardner D. Underhill of the Church of the Good Shepherd, Episcopal. Mrs. Hambleton is the daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Edward Hamilton of Wynne, and attended Lindenwood College in St. Charles, Missouri. She is now employed with the National Bank of Eastern Arkansas as a bookkeeper. Mr. Hambleton is the son of Mr. and Mrs. M. C. Hambleton, Sr., and is a graduate of Furman Univ. in Greenville, S. C. He is engaged in the bottling business in this city. White/Williams-Mr. and Mrs. Horace M. White of this city announce the marriage of their only daughter, Miss Bobbie Bernice, to Jerome K. Williams, Jr. son of J. R. Williams, Sr. of Ripley, Tenn. at Marion by Rev. Mr. Bearden. Mrs. Williams is a graduate of FCHS, and Mr. Williams graduated from Ripley HS and later attended East Tennessee Military Academy. They are at home in Brinkley where he is employed with the Volty Construction Co.

Marriage-19391226-May/Butler-Mr. and Mrs. Byron L. Butler announce the marriage of their daughter, Annilee Bell, to George G. May, son of the late Mr. and Mrs. A. S. May of Good Hope on Christmas day at the home of Rev. Vernon A. Hammond, pastor of the First Christian Church. Mrs. May graduated from Newton, Illinois HS, and Mr. May local Forrest City schools. Mr. May is asst. manager of Butler’s Service station on North Washington Street. Mrs. Butler’s mother, Mrs. Jennie Boyett and her sister, Mrs. Claud Cowden and Miss Polly Rampage, all of Memphis were in attendance.

Marriage-Lee/Willey-Mrs. Aubrey Dial of this city, Mrs. Douglas Chism and Mrs. John D. Martin of Memphis will hostess a kitchen shower at Mrs. Martin’s home for Miss Norma Lee of Memphis whose marriage to Willis Howard Willey, Jr., will take place in Memphis on Saturday.

National News:

National-19390401-Hartford, Ct.-Connecticut, one of the original 13 states, ratified the Bill of Rights of the Federal Constitution. The last state of the original 13 to do so.

National-19390429-World’s Fair to open tomorrow in New York city, with exhibits from 35 states, and 60 foreign countries. Thirty warships arrived today for the celebration of the 1 million visitors expected the first day. The French Liner Normandie will arrive with $2 million dollars worth of paintings on Monday.

National-19390602-Washington-Only 49 million dollar earners in 1937, down from 61 in 1936.

National-19390807-Washington-WPA (Works Project Administration) official today resumed the task of ordering gradual dismissal of 650,000 persons who have been on the WPA rolls for 18 consecutive months or more, after pausing in July thinking the 1940 Work-Relief Act might amend the provision making them mandatory. Page 127 of 158

National-19390810-Atlanta-The University of Georgia yesterday purchased the original copy of the Confederate States of America Constitution from Wymberly W. Derenne, Savannah, Ga. for $20,000. Historians value the document at $100,000, but under the will of the late Wymberly W. Derenne, the Georgia school was the only prospective purchaser to obtain a clear title. Universities of Arkansas, Virginia, Michigan and Columbia in New York sought possession of the aged document. The document drawn in the handwriting of R. R. Cobb, George, and Lawrence Sparrow, Louisiana, was passed March 11,1861. It superseded the provisional constitution, which now lies in the Confederate Memorial Library, Richmond, Virginia. The Derenne family purchased the permanent document from agents of G. F. Defontaine, who barely rescued the paper from federal troops who looted boxes containing valuable state papers when they closed in on Confederates near Columbia, S. C. Members of the committee who drew the document were A. D. Rhett and P. Chestnut, South Carolina; Robert H. Smith and Richard W. Walker, Alabama; Jackson Morton and James H. Owens, Florida; Allen Declonet and Lawrence Sparrow, Louisiana; A. M. Clayton and W. P. Harris, Mississippi.

National-19390821-Two hundred to attend 49th annual reunion of the United Confederate Veterans in Trinidad, Colorado. Charles S. Riggan, 97, of Warren Co., North Carolina, was the first delegate to arrive. Fewer than 600 will answer the roll call of the Thin Blue Line in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania at the annual encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic here Aug. 27.

National-19390829-New York-The German liner Bremen, held at its pier for an almost unprecedented search by government agents was boarded today by immigration officials who rounded up 17 passengers and took them back to Ellis Island in a taxicabs.

National-19391010-Washington-Embattled isolationists, Senator Arthur H. Vandenburg of Michigan and Senator Robert M. La Follette, Jr. of Wisconsin are leading fight against Pres. Roosevelt over the change of neutrality law.

World News:

World-19390301-Berlin-Germany boasts her air force is unbeatable. Experts estimate her airplane production equals that of the United States, Great Britain and France combined.

World-19390307-Washington. The United States today condemned Germany’s temporary extinguishment of Czechoslovakia in a formal statement so strongly worded that a further strain in relations of the two countries seemed certain, per Under Sect. of State, Welles..

World-19390328-Hendaye-Nationalist announce unconditional surrender of republican defense council and the white flag is hoisted at Madrid. Nationalist troops reported to Page 128 of 158 have entered suburbs. With the win of over 32 months, a new Fascist state was born today, when the armies of Gen. Francisco Franco took over Madrid. This means France and Britain are surrounded on three sides by Fascist regimes. London-Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain to make important international affairs announcement in the House of Commons this afternoon after urgent meeting of cabinet’s foreign affairs committee; chief of general staff and director of military operations go to France to inspect Maginot Line defenses. Paris-Foreign Minister Georges Bonnet may resign if France starts negotiations to satisfy Mussolini’s “aspirations’; Anatole De Monzie, public works minister, probably would succeed him. Moscow-British trade mission conducted important talks on European situation, official communiqué discloses. Washington-Navy plans for big battleships, of 45,000 tons. They believe Japan is building ships larger than treaty limits of 35,000. The Navy now has six 35,000 to battleships under construction.

World-19390331-London-Great Britain and France today pledged military aid to Poland in event that nation is forced into a war in defense of her independence.

World-1939040-Wilhelmshaven, Germany-Hitler’s answer to Chamberlain is that Germany is ready for war if Great Britain wants it and says that Britain’s present attitude may destroy the Munich agreement between the two that they would go to war together.

World-19390415-Washington-President Roosevelt proposed to Chancellor Hitler of Germany and Premier Mussolini of Italy to promise to keep the peace for at least 10 years, and preferably 25 years. Given such a promise, he would hold world disarmament and economic conferences in which the United States would participate. It was received icily in Berlin and in Paris, Premier Eduard Daladier today notified that France would accept President Roosevelt’s peace plan.

World-19390419-Washington-Pres. Roosevelt moves the fleet to the Pacific

World-19390421-London:Russia offers Britain and France full alliance in which each participant would pledge defense of others. Germany’s “spring cruise” through the English Channel on way to Spain. Rome-Hungary agrees to cooperate with “Axis” powers. Paris: Britain, France and Russia, in proposed alliance, would have 25 million soldiers, 18,000 airplanes; Russia reported to have over 200 submarines. Cabinet to create armaments tax on commercial payments. Belgrade: Jugoslavia reported to have called up 300 thousand soldiers. Budapest: Official announcement that Slovak artillery fired into Hungarian territory last night at the village of Saros Remete and the Hungarians returned fire.

World-19390428-Berlin-Adolf Hitler rejects Pres. Roosevelt’s plea for peace. Demands returne of Danzig and denounces treaties with Poland and Great Britain. Page 129 of 158

World-19390504-Tokyo-Japan will not join German-Italian Axis as the leaders do not wish to antagonize Britain, France, and the United States

World-19390616-Bordeaux, France-French start Trans-Atlantic plane service with six- motored airplane Ville D. St. Pierre that took off with a crew of eight and one passenger for Port Washington, N. York to establish French trans-Atlantic air service. Washington- Military requirements have forced Japan to ship almost $400,000,000 in gold to the United States since it declared war on China in the summer of 1937.

World-19390628-On the 20th anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Versailles, the European situation is gravest since the end of World War due to military preparations.

World-19390710-London-Yankee Clipper makes northern trip from New York on the first passenger flight over the northern trans-Atlantic route.

World-19390711-Paris-Former Premier Andre Tardieu, regarded by many as France’s strong man behind the scenes, published a manifesto to the French people today accusing an enemy of France of publishing war scare rumors. An author of the Versailles Treaty, and one of the signers. He believes Hitler is playing a game of bluff and urges France to remain calm. Nearly 150 British bombing and fighting planes carried out a lightning “raid” today and “bombed” half a dozen French cities from Le Havre to the French Spanish border.

World-19390725-Hsinking, Manchukue-Japanese press dispatches say that there planes had shot down 41 out of 100 Russian airplanes that flew over the Manchukuo-Outer Mongolia frontier. They admitted to one of their aircraft as being lost. Moscow-Navy Commissar Admiral N. G. Kuznetsov said that the Soviets have more submarines than any other power in the world, and more than Japan and Germany combined.

World-19390727-Washington-United States abrogates 1911 Japanese treaty. After six months may impose embargoes upon sale of war materials to Japan. This is to counter Japan’s attempt by military force to impose a “new order in Asia.”

World-19390801-Berlin-By order of Adolph Hitler, greater Germany’s mighty army will celebrate the 25th Anniversary of outbreak of World War. In 1914, Germany had a total of 7,600,000 fully trained men, today they have 1,800,000, swollen by reserves. London- Great Britain and Russia have modified their naval agreement to allow Russia to build battleships of 45,000 tons. The treaty concluded July 6,1938 was supplementary to the British-American naval limitation treaty which set the limit at 36,000 tons. This was after Britain decided to increase its 1938 building program to over 70 warships. Page 130 of 158

World-19390824-Tokyo-Emperor Hirohito intends to summon an imperial council meeting to consider Japan’s foreign policy in view of a diplomatic emergency precipitated by Germany’s pact with Russia as they considered Germany had forfeited their confidence, it was reported today. Rome-President Roosevelt today appealed, after earlier appeals to Premier Benito Mussolini, and to King Victor of Italy to exert all possible influence to preserve peace at his majesty’s summer residence, near Turin, by United States Ambassador William Phillips. London-U. S. Ambassador Joseph P. Kennedy advises American tourists to leave England because of the war crisis. Great Britain mobilizes liners and cruise ships for use if necessary to transport an expeditionary force to France. Great Britain prepared for “the imminent peril of war” today after Adolf Hitler had tightened the Nazi vise on Poland’s outlet to the Baltic Sea. British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain told Adolf Hitler directly that Great Britain was prepared, ready and determined to fight the Nazi Fuehrer’s demand for a “free hand” in eastern Europe by power of the sword. Paris-The American embassy today advised United States citizens to leave France unless they are compelled to remain. The Council of Ministers today unanimously ratified the government’s extraordinary military preparations and considered recalling the mission negotiating vainly in Moscow for a British-French military alliance with Soviet Russia. They fear Germany may quickly subdue Poland, and then throw full force against the French front. France calls up her reservists for service behind the Maginot Line. Berlin-The United States embassy today advised American citizens to leave Germany. London-The German embassy announced today that no Germans have been advised to leave Great Britain.

World-19390826-Berlin- Adolf Hitler sent new proposals to Great Britain today regarding Germany’s dispute with Poland, and backed them up by calling tens of thousands of men to the colors.

World-19390828-Paris-Premiier Edonard Daladier imposed the censorship as War Minister. The official journal published decrees today establishing censorship of newspapers and other printed matter, French and foreign. Photographs, film, and radio scripts must also be submitted to the censors. Also they are prohibiting flying of airplanes over eastern France. Washington-General George C. Marshall succeeds the veteran Gen. Malin Craig, as Chief of Staff effective Sept.1,1939, becoming a four-star general for the duty. The shift thrusts a non West Pointer into the Army’s number one post. General Marshall graduated from Virginia Military Institute in 1901 at the top of his class .London-Great Britain sent her Ambassador, Neville Henderson, back to Berlin today to advise Adolf Hitler that they did not accept his terms for solution of Germany’s quarrel with Poland. Tokyo-Big scale fighting between Japanese and Russian forces was reported today on t Manchukuo-Outer Mongolia frontier. It was asserted that 5,000 Page 131 of 158

Russian troops had crossed the Khalka River on the frontier and that Japanese troops were attempting to encircle them. Berlin-The Jews remaining in Germany today are living in a state of isolation, figuratively with their bags packed, with pressure on them to leave. There are approximately 265,000 left, half the number before Hitler. Portsmouth, New Hampshire- The submarine Squalus raised to the surface and her cargo of 26 dead men today. The sub sank 97 days ago in 40 fathoms of water.

World-19390830-Berlin-Adolf Hitler tightened Europe’s war crisis today with a paradoxical offer to negotiate a settlement if it were agreed in advance to meet his demands on Poland. New York-The French Line today ordered the French liner, Normandie to stay in New York port until further notice, as the largest ship afloat, she would be a magnificent prize for a sea raider.

World-19390831-Bratislava, Slovakia-Nazi Germany massed 400,000 troops today on the northern Slovak border in positions from which they could thrust northward into the heart of Poland. London-Great Britain will begin the mass evacuation of 3,000,000 children, mothers,. Expectant mothers, blind people and cripples, equipped with gas masks, to safety areas, the Ministry of Health announced today. London-Great Britain orders complete mobilization of her naval, regular army, and air forces. Also, all phone service to Germany has been suspended.

World-19390901-Warsaw-President Ignacy Moseieki proclaimed a state of war in Poland today after German airplanes had bombed Polish cities, including Warsaw, and German troops had smashed across the border frontier from Slovakia to the Baltic. Berlin-Hitler sends armed forces across Polish border, annexes Danzig in an undeclared war. Bombs Warsaw and other Polish cities where were deemed to be “Fortified.” Paris-The cabinet today orders general mobilization of forces, declares a state of siege throughout France and Algeria. Washington-President Roosevelt pledged today his administration will make every effort to keep United States out of war. He also announced resignation of Ambassador Hugh R. Wilson to Germany. London-The Admiralty spokesman said today that the reports of the British warship having intercepted the German liner, Bremen, which left New York Wednesday is unlikely as Great Britain is not at war.

World-19390902-London-London and Southern England emerged at dawn today from a night of darkness, due to an emergency blackout. Berlin-Fuehrer Adolf Hitler has agreed to unconditionally to President Roosevelt that the nations refrain from bombing undefended cities or anything but military objectives. The British and French Parliaments held emergency sessions today, faced with the problem of whether to declare that a state of war exists and the two allies must fight for Poland. They hope that Germany will accept their offer that if they invasion is stopped, they will not declare war. New Orleans- Page 132 of 158

A valuable cargo of gasoline, essential war time material, was enroute today to an undisclosed port in Europe. A tanker loaded with 2 million gallons left for Houston, Texas to get another 3 million gallons. No Insurance was available to cover the $5 million dollar cargo.

World-19390904-New York-Queen Mary, flagship of Great Britain’s merchant marine, raced into port today after a crossing of the Atlantic during which she was on constant guard for enemy submarines. It had the largest passenger list, 2,331 persons, in its’ history, and $44,550,000 in Gold. Washington-Pres. Roosevelt calls special congressional session where he advised of the sinking of the British liner Athenia after being torpedoed 250 miles off the coast of Ireland with 1,400 persons on board, including many Americans. London-The stock exchange will remain closed until further notice. Of the passengers on the liner, all were rescued except those killed in the explosion after the German submarine attack. The British war fleet strung out across the North Sea clamped a tight blockade on Germany. France opened general land, sea and air operations against the Reich’s armies. Sep.5-The battle cruiser Repulse will convoy the S. S. Empress of Australia on which the King George and Queen will sail tomorrow for America. Last night they dined with U. S. Ambassador Joseph P. Kennedy and all nine of Kennedy’s children, and 26 other guests including the Duke and Duchess of Beaufort and of Devonshire. At the palace, Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret helped pack the 40 trunks and boxes for their parent’s trip.

World-19390905-London-Survivors of the British Liner Athenia positive she was torpedoed by submarine. The attack was without warning, and said they fired two shells at men, women, and children scrambling into lifeboats. Tokyo-The Japanese foreign office today formally notified the American, British, French, Polish, and German and Italian envoys that Japan will remain neutral in the European war. Washington-Acting Sect. of the Navy, Charles Edison, disclosed today that the United States plans to re-commission 116 destroyers now lying idle in navy yards at Philadelphia and San Diego.

World-19390906-New York-First hint of what might have happened to the liner Bremen, two of the life buoys of the $20,000,000 vessel had washed ashore in Massachusetts surf. London-British warships wage war against German submarines in North Sea. Nazi warplanes struck at England today but turned back before a blast of anti-aircraft fire.

World-19390907-Paris-French troop advance into Germany’s rich Saar industrial area; big push indicated with official announcement British troops arriving to take place in time with French. Page 133 of 158

World-19390908-Paris-German troops diverted from Poland counter attack French along Limes line. The British-French forces are trying to break Siegfried Line. London-Scotland Yard arrests 6,000 suspected German spies and sympathizers.

World-19390909-Warsaw-German armies now hold western third of Poland.

World-19390913-Halifax, N. S.-The American freighter, City of Flint, her decks jammed with 223 survivors of the Athenia disaster, arrived in this North Atlantic port today. The black hulled rescue vessel led by her convoys, the U. S. Coast Guard cutters Bibb and Campbell. The survivors were reported near collapse after the nine-day journey on a ship built to handle eight passengers. Berlin-Army high command announces Warsaw is surrounded, claims Germans capture 60,000 Polish troops.

World-19390918-Germany, triumphant over Poland’s armies, struck back at the British blockade on the seas today when a Nazi-U-boat sank the big aircraft carrier Courageous. Russian troops claim sweeping gains in Poland including occupation of 13 towns and advances 40 miles westward from frontier.

World-19390921-Rumania-Armand Calinescu, Premier of Rumania killed by pro-Nazi Iron Guard. Paris-France completes general mobilization of country’s entire man-power ready at concentration points on western front.

World-19390922-Washington-President Roosevelt asked Congress to repeal the arms embargo feature of the present neutrality law, passed in 1937 by Congress, and substitute a Cash and carry system of dealing with nations at war yesterday. Berlin-Nazi and Soviet armies split Poland today while next door Rumania sought to suppress terrorist remnants of the Iron Guard organization with concentration camps and firing squads.

World-19390929-Berlin-Russia and Germany put continuance of European war up to Britain and France and agree on partition of Poland. London-Great Britain will reject the Russian-German demand for an immediate peace despite an implied threat in the new Nazi-Communist agreement that unless the allies pull off the war on Germany’s terms, Russia may join in against them.

World-19391002-London-Admiralty cautions all ships in South Atlantic after British steamship Clement sunk by heavily armed enemy vessel. British report air battle over Siegfried Line. Britain and France ready for a finish fight after rejecting the German- Russian offer of peace. Washington-Sect. of State Cordell Hull rejects the conquest of Poland by Germany and Russia. They will continue to deal with the present Polish government reorganized in France. Page 134 of 158

World-19391003-London-Germany claims they sunk the British carrier Royal Ark, but British War Ministry said the big ship is safe in her allotted station.

World-19391004-Moscow-Russia plans to continue trade with Germany and Great Britain at the same time. They continue to rent Norwegian ships to carry on war time trade with Great Britain and opened negotiations with Sweden and Denmark to rent their ships. North Sea-A reported air raid by German bombers on British battleships Barham and Ramilles, and the French warship Dunkirque.

World-19391016-Berlin-Germany says submarine sunk British ship Royal Oak and put the British battle cruiser Repulse out of commission. London-Survivors of the French liners Bretagne and Lousiane said today that German submarines attacked their ships without warning and killed or wounded more than 40 persons by shelling them as lifeboats were being lowered. British lost 786 lives in the attack on the battleship Royal Oak out of 1,200 officers and men in the ship.

World-19391018-London-Offices of the Ellerman lines announced today that a German submarine had sunk the British steamer, City of Mandalay in the Atlantic Ocean. It is believed the crew was saved by the American freighter, Independence Hall.

World-19391019-Paris-An Agency radio news agency dispatched from La Harve reported today that the 11,502 ton French freighter Vermont had been sunk in the Atlantic on the France-Gulf of Mexico route, but that the crew was safe. Sunk on return voyage to U. S. after it had landed 19 Airplanes for the French Aviation Corps. Berlin-Adolf Hitler issued a decree today establishing the provinces of West Prussia, the name of the old pre-World War German province, and Posen-in conquered Poland-within the framework of the Reich.

World-19391021-Stockholm-The Swedish steamship Gustav Adolf was torpedoed off the Shetland Islands today. The crew of 19 was saved by the Norwegian steamer Biscay. This brings the ships lost since the outbreak of war to 75. The British had lost 39 merchant vessels, the French 6, Germana 4 and Neutrals 26.

World-19391024-Copenhagen, Denmark-The crack German cruiser Emden, at large on the high seas as a raider in defiance of the British blockade, captured the American freighter, City of Flint, and put a prize crew aboard which sailed it to Kola Bay in the Russian Arctic Sea, it was disclosed today. U. S. ambassador calls on Soviet authorities concerning the City of Flint. They think that the ship will be returned to America since Russia Is neutral. Washington-Senate isolationists agreed at a conference today to accept a limitation of debate on the administration’s neutrality bill. They predicted a vote on the measure late this week. Page 135 of 158

World-19391030-London-German sub sinks another British ship, the steamer Malabar In the Atlantic today. Seventy of seventy five crewmen were rescued and landed in at a port in Western England.

World-19391031-Moscow-Premier and Foreign Commissar V. M Molotove tonight denounced Great Britain as the aggressor in addressing an extraordinary session of the Supreme Soviet Council.

World-19391103-Los Angeles-Southern California aircraft factories expect today a carte blanche order form England and France for every warplane they can turn out-some 760 per month-the minute the arms embargo is lifted.

World-19391104-Haugesund, Norway-The American Freighter City of Flint, freed by the Norwegian government from a German Nazi Prize crew, rode at anchor today awaiting the its master of the United States line whether to run the gauntlet through a German submarine blockade of the British Isles or to head to home.

World-19391106-New York City-John D. Rockefeller, Jr., drives home the last rivet in ceremony marking completion of the14th and final building of Rockefeller Center, Rivet was silver alloy, Building project extended eight years. Berlin-German demands City of Flint be returned by Norway. London-Great Britain has lost 56 merchant ships since the start of the war. Frances has lost six ships, and neutrals 32 ships.

World-19391111-Berlin-Adolf Hitler to exact heavy toll for Munich assassination bombing attack on him. London-Great Britain to place large orders in United States for American machine tools and raw materials.

World-19391116-Washington-Supreme Court Justice Pierce Butler, one of the two remaining conservative members of the nation’s highest court died early today, age 73. His death creates the fifth vacancy on the nine man bench during Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt’s presidency.

World-19391118-Prague-Ten thousand Nazi storm troopers rule Prague after executing nine and arresting 1,200 students; city is calm as Czechs avoid public places. Former President Benes of Czechoslovakia, in London, describes executions as a “ crime.”

World-19391120-London-Sinking of 14 ships in the last nine days, most of them by mines, has prompted the British to believe that Germany has started unrestricted sea warfare. Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain announces the British will seize German exports on the high seas in retaliation for the increased sinking of vessels by Germany. Page 136 of 158

World-19391128-London-44 ships sunk in sea warfare in eleven days. Reports to naval quarters said today that British warships, blockading the North Atlantic had captured or sunk 12 German merchant ships which had sailed from the United States disguised as neutrals. The German pocket battleship Deutschland sunk the former liner Rawalpindi off the southeast coast of Iceland last Thursday. Berlin-Nazis reported that they have sunk the 10th British warship since the war began, the heavy cruiser was sunk off the coast of east of the Shetland Islands. Paris-Six German submarines have been sunk by naval patrols during the last ten days, French dispatches said today.

World-19391201-Soviet Russia invades Finland. Berlin-Germany claims to have sunk 194 ships in war. Listing of Delinquent Personal Property Taxes shown for the year 1938 by Sheriff J. M. Campbell. Mrs. Frank Boyd entertained last evening at the Hunt Apartment in honor of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. L. A. Ellis who celebrated their 49th wedding anniversary. Lieut. A. M. Bradford, Jr. left yesterday for Ft. Benning, Georgia, where his is stationed with the U. S. Army. Paul Forrester, student at Texas Christian Univ. at Ft. Worth, is here for Thanksgiving with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. O. Forrester.

World-19391213-London-Five British steamships have disappeared in the south Atlantic, believed victims of the German Pocket Battleship Admiral Scheer. New York City-Uncle Sam’s Ambassador to Britain, Joseph Kennedy, arrives on Dixie Clipper at Port Washington, Long Island and is met by Mrs. Kennedy. He is expected to return after the holidays.

World-19391214-Geneva-League of Nations expels Russia for invasion of Finland, on unanimous vote, with four nations not voting.

World-19391216-Montevideo, Uruguay-The German pocket Battleship Graf Spee faced the alternative today of a suicide dash to the sea into the guns of the allied fleet, or the internment of their proud ship for the duration of the war.

World-19391218-London-Britons, rejoicing at the death of the German pocket battleship Graf Spree which was ordered by Adolf Hitler, were informed officially today that a British submarine had sunk one of Germany’s cruisers, Little Ursula.

Telephone Numbers and Advertisements other than 1939:

000-Ad-A. M. Bradford-Attorney at Law-Rollwage Building [1933 Sep 1] 000-Ad-A. W. Buford, Consulting Engineer-Certificate No. 22- [1940 Jan 29] 000-Ad-Arkansas Power & Light Co.-Dillard and Division Streets-Barney Harris, Local Manager-See the Coolerator Refrigeration [1934 Aug 1] 000-Ad-Arkansas Power & Light Co.-Division & Dillard Sts.-B. H. Harris, Local Manager [1934 Aug 8] Page 137 of 158

000-Ad-Ash Department Store-Judge Ash’s Merchandise by Quality-Not by Price [1933 Apr 13] 000-Ad-B. F. King & Co.-General Insurance, 2nd Floor Mann Bldg- 000-Ad-Broadway Barber Shop [1934 Aug 2] Page 36 of 55 000-Ad-Broadway Drug Co.-We carry 8 or more different kinds of Ice Cream at all times. [1933 Apr 28] 000-Ad-Broadway Shoe Shop-“Better Shoe Repairing” F. W. Matheny-[1934 Aug 2] 000-Ad-Bus Schedule-Greyhound, Arkansas Motor Coaches and Missouri Pacific [1940 Feb 17] 000-Ad-Busy Dept. Store-“We Sell to Sell Again” [1937 Feb 19] 000-Ad-C. W. Norton-Attorney at Law-Office-First floor Mann Building, 1933 Feb 24 000-Ad-Cheap Lands for Rent-On the A. G. Wheeler Plantation, better known as the Tankersley’s Place, three and one half miles of Widener, and a half mile from Highway 50. See G. R. Vardaman, Madison, Ark. [1933 Apr 10] 000-Ad-Clarence Saunders Store-Otis Stevens, Inc.-Forrest City-[1934 Aug 2] 000-Ad-Coca-Cola Bottling Plant-[1934 Aug 2] 000-Ad-Cohen’s on North Rosser St.-“Better Values for Less Money” [1934 Aug 2] 000-Ad-Cohn’s Penny Grocery-Cheapest in Town-Broadway and Railroad [1934 Aug 2] 000-Ad-Daily Times Herald-By Mail-25 cents for five weeks-$2.50 for one year; By Carrier Boy in Forrest City-one week, 10 cents, and $5.00 per year [1937 Feb 3] 000-Ad-Davidson’s going out of Business by Oct.1, 1933-On Washington Street-Between The Banks [1933 Sep 14] 000-Ad-Deaderick Tire Store-Next Door to Jack’s Café-On Broadway [1938 Feb 17] 000-Ad-Deposits Insured by The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. up to $5,000 [1934 Aug 31] 000-Ad-Dillon Dress Shop-Next to City Drug Store-Ask to See the All Rubber Bathing Suits [1933 Apr 27] 000-Ad-Dr. N. B. Burch, Mann Building, Ear, Nose and Throat Specialist-[1934 Aug 14] 000-Ad-Drive out to Butler’s-on Hwy 70 West of North Washington-Barbecue our Specialty- [1940 Jan 1] 000-Ad-Eat at Gustafson’s Café on Broadway-Coldest Beer in Town-[1934 Aug 2] 000-Ad-Edgar-Warren Drug Co.-Agency for Fortune’s All Cream Ice Cream [1934 Aug 2] Page 37 of 55 000-Ad-Edmond T. Norfleet-Attorney at Law-Office-Second floor Times-Herald Building, 1933 Feb 24 000-Ad-Eugene Wave Shop- Mann Building, N. Washington St.-Mrs. R. H. (Jackie) Winfield, Prop. [1937 Feb 19] 000-Ad-Eugene Wave Shope-Jackie Rust, Operator located in City Barber Shop [1933 Oct 30] 000-Ad-Everett A. Ham, Dealer-Frigidaire Refrigerator for $96-Showrooms at East Arkansas Lumber Co. [1933 Apr 27] 000-Ad-F. F. Harrelson-Lawyer-Office-Second Floor Times-Herald Building-1933 Feb 24 000-Ad-Fine Watch and Clock Repairing-Work Guaranteed, and estimates free. Paul Page 138 of 158

Tischer at Gustafson Jewelry and Gift Shop [1937 Feb 1] 000-Ad-For Sale: I will sell my six room modern home on West Franklin for $1,250, Furnishings also for sale. Mrs. Worsley. Or will rent for $17 per month, me to retain a room. Deep lot with fruit trees. [1934 Aug 15] 000-Ad-For Sale-Cotton Seed-Farmers Gin Co. of Round Pond or W. R. Cox, Forrest City- 1933 Apr 1 000-Ad-For the Best Sandwiches, Cold Drinks, Beer, Gas & Oil-Curb Service, Butler Station, west on Broadway [1933 Sep 9] 000-Ad-For Trade or Sale: Good young mules, a new shipment just received. See Tom Boswell, located back of the Planters Gin, Hughes, Ark. 000-Ad-Forrest City Savings & Loan Assoc.-Assets Dec.31,1939 $123,312.44-21st Year- Officers: Louis McDaniel, Pres.; Ed Ash, VP; C. W. Norton, Sect./Attorney; W. W. Campbell, Director; W. E. Stevens, Director; Gazzola Vaccaro, Director. 000-Ad-G. F. Rauscher Motor Co.-Jackson & Izard Streets-New 1940 Pontiac $733 [1940 Jan 17] 000-Ad-G. M. Hopper-New Deal Barber Shop-No longer with the Williams Barber Shop [1936 Jan 15] 000-Ad-Goldstein’s-Forrest City’s Progressive Store- 000-Ad-Gregory’s Hardware & Furniture Co.-H. W. Gregory-Forrest City [1938 Jan 20] Page 38 of 55 000-Ad-Haury Jeweler-114 West Broadway-Expert Watch, Clock and Jewelry Repairing- Engraving, Diamond setting. [1937 Feb 1] 000-Ad-Hilliard’s Bargain Basement-“Walk Down Stairs to Lower Prices” [1933 Apr 13] 000-Ad-Hudson Cars and Essex Terraplanes-Loyd N. Myers-South Front Street-[1933 Sep 15] 000-Ad-Imperial Theatre-Price of Admission-10 cents and 25 cents. See Mae West in “I’m No Angel” [1933 Oct 30] 000-Ad-Interstate Grocer Co.-Helena/Forrest City/Clarksdale-Budweiser Beer [1934 Aug 2] 000-Ad-Kroger Stores-Two Stores-Broadway and Front Street-Sugar 10 lb bag for 49 cents [1936 Feb 12] 000-Ad-Kurly Lox Beauty Shop-Mrs. Dudley McFall, Prop.-in Home Furniture Co. on Hill Street [1936 Jan 20] 000-Ad-Lauderdale & Lauderdale-Attorneys at Law-Beck Building-1933 Feb 24 000-Ad-Leavitt’s Cut Price Store-Forrest City, Arkansas-Creditors demand Entire Stock by Sold by May 15th [1933 Apr 27] 000-Ad-Leavitt’s Cut Price Store-Forrest City-Liquidation Close out sale to satisfy Creditors 000-Ad-Lux Soap Dealers-Forrest City: Cohn’s Penny Store/True American Cash Store, A. J. Grobmyer, Wm. M. David, C. C. Perry, Otis Stevens, Christopher’s IGA Store, Herman E. Boone, John C. Ashworth, Larry’s Community Store, Havens’ Grocery & Market, Economy Grocery, Safeway, Kroger, J. T. Sanders, Palace Drug Store, City Drug Store, Broadway Drug Store, Williams’ Drug Store, Edgar-Warren Drug Co.; Haynes: Lee J. Hughes, John J. Hughes, G. R. Roebuck, Draper’s Store, S. Y. May. 000-Ad-M. B. Norfleet-Attorney at Law-Office Money to Loan on Real Estate-Second floor Page 139 of 158

Times-Herald Building-1933 Feb 24 000-Ad-Mann & Mann-Attorneys at Law-Office in Mann Building-1933 Feb 24 000-Ad-McCleskey Bros. –Cleaners [1934 Aug 2] 000-Ad-Mid-South Cotton Growers’ Ass’n.-C. B. Rowland, Mgr. [1933 Sep 21] 000-Ad-Mrs. Hall’s Tea Room, Opening Jan.4, 1940-Mrs. J. R. Hall-Next door to Forrest city Newsstand on Broadway [1940 Jan 4] Page 39 of 55 000-Ad-National Bank of Eastern Arkansas-Marking the 50th Anniversary ‘[1936 Jan 31] 000-Ad-New Ford Car-$505 and up. F.O.B. Detroit-Easy terms through Universal Credit Co., the Authorized Ford Finance Plan [1934 Aug 8] 000-Ad-Notice of Sale by Administrator, A. C. Bridewell of National Bank of Eastern Arkansas-Estate of H. A. Boulton, deceased. On Feb.27th. 000-Ad-Oswalt Brothers Store-New Stock of Fresh Meats, Produce and Groceries We Deliver 10 pounds. Sugar 53 cents [1934 Aug 2] 000-Ad-Perrye Health and Beauty Salon-Mrs. Jack Perry and Mrs. Ruth Gatlin-[1934 Aug 1] 000-Ad-Planters Bank & Trust Co.-H. W. Gregory, Pres.-S. J. Dean, Cashier-[1933 Apr 14] 000-Ad-Planters Café for Sunday Dinner-Our Prices are Popular-[1933 Sep 23] 000-Ad-Planters Café-“Where Friends Meet”-Special Sunday Dinner 50 Cents-1933 Apr.1 000-Ad-Powder Puff Beauty Shop-[Feb.17, 1933] 000-Ad-Price & Mullikin, Agents-Funk Bros. Hybrid Seed Corn [1940 Jan 6] 000-Ad-Quilts for Sale-Five pound quilts $2.00; Seven pound $3.00. All newly made. -Ida Greenhill, Rte. 1, Box 155, Colt, Arkansas 000-Ad-R. J. Williams-Attorney at Law-Forrest City-1933 Feb 24 000-Ad-Real Pit Barbeque-Uncle Jim’s Place-Best in Forrest City [1938 Jan 1] 000-Ad-Reward-$15 reward for information on who burglarized my store Mar.2-R. L. Steidley-Heth, Ark. [1940 Mar 4] 000-Ad-Robert H. Griffin-Jewelers on Broadway [1934 Aug 2] 000-Ad-Rock Island-Plan Now for a Winter Vacation-J. R. Sangster, Agent-Forrest City [1938 Jan 7] 000-Ad-Rock Island-Travel and Ship-W. F. McCachren, Manager-[1940 Jan 18] 000-Ad-S. S. Hargraves-Lawyer-914 Exchange Bldg.-Memphis, Tenn.-1933 Feb 24 000-Ad-Safeway-Grocery Market ]1940 Jan 4] 000-Ad-Sample Shoe Shop-West Broadway-Shoes Dyed to Any Color [1933 Sep 16] Page 40 of 55 000-Ad-See Hodges Furniture and Hardware Store for Plow Gear for the Spring Farm Work-[1938 Feb.23] 000-Ad-Sharpe The Tailor-The Men’s Store where the Ladies Feel at Home-Everything Must Fit [1933 Apr 27] 000-Ad-Shoe Repairing-Work guaranteed, prices are right, give us a try. 207 Rosser St.- Auten & Dean [1938 Jan 1] 000-Ad-Small Cars Washed, Greased, and Oil Changed for $2.15. Pure Pennsylvania Oil 50cents per gallon. U. S. Tires and Tubes 15 per cent off list at Nowlin Oil Co. [1933 Apr 13] Page 140 of 158

000-Ad-Southwestern Bell Telephone Co. [1940 Feb 19] 000-Ad-Sterling Department Store-Store Closing on Jan.11 [1936 Jan 2] 000-Ad-Sterling Dept. Store-Store Closing Sale-Only two more days [1936 Jan 9] 000-Ad-Stewart Warner Radios-See Everett A. Ham, at East Arkansas Lumber Co. [1933 Sep 11] 000-Ad-Taylor, Knight & Co.-Insurance And Real Estate [1934 Aug 2] 000-Ad-The Band Box-Agents for Jean’s Exquisite Hosiery [1933 Apr 27] 000-Ad-The Band Box-Miss Fannie Winfield-New Low Prices on Summer Hats [1934 Aug 10] 000-Ad-The Band Box-Miss Fannie Winfield-Summer Hats-[1934 Aug 2] 000-Ad-The Coca-Cola Bottling Company Forrest City-Try the Six Pack Carton [1940 Feb 21] 000-Ad-The Maidell Shop-Women’s Clothing-“Cash Works Wonders” [1936 Jan 9] 000-Ad-The National Bank of Eastern Arkansas-Established 1886 000-Ad-The National Bank of Eastern Arkansas-Officers’. W. Campbell, Pres.-John W. Alderson, Vice Pres.-A. C. Bridewell, Cashier-Walter Allen, Asst. Cashier-C. L. Simmons, Asst. Cashier; C. T. Woodfin, Teller’ Directors: John W. Alderson/Eldridge Butler/W. W. Campbell/A. C. Bridewell/Walter Allen/James Fussell/S. T. McDaniel/C. W. Norton/A. G. Sweet/E. P. Taylor/James F. Wolff. 000-Ad-Thomas Shoe Shop-All of a Cow, Hide Don’t-[1933 Sep 22] Page 41 of 55 000-Ad-Title Guaranty & Abstract Co.-F. M. Harrelson, Mgr.-Forrest City-1933 Feb 24 000-Ad-W. M. Burnett-Attorney at Law-Office Second floor Times-Herald Building, 1933 Feb 24 000-Ad-W. S. Alley-Insurance (Fire, Life, Health and Accident, Real Estate [1936 Jan 8] 000-Ad-Wanted To Buy: About 40 acres of good hill land for farming close to town. L. H. Milton, 404 Franklin St., Forrest City-1933 Feb 28 000-Ad-Wanted-Two or three unfurnished rooms for light housekeeping, A. F. Evans at Wolfe’s Pool Hall [1936 Jan 3] 000-Ad-Weis Oil & Tire Co.-Dick Weis-One of General’s Oldest Distributors- Wheatley/Forrest City/Brinkley [1933 Apr 17] 000-Ad-Western Auto Assoc. Store-Forrest City-offers $1 for your old car radiator. [1937 Feb 17] 000-Ad-Williams Drug Store-See us for Office Supplies [1936 Jan 4] 000-Ad-Yoffie’s Army and Navy Department Store-Will refund your transportation fare one way with $10.00 purchase [1933 Apr 14] 001-Ad-A. C. Hindsley-420 S. Rosser St.-Phone No. 1-Interior Decorating, Paperhanging, and Floor Grainer [1934 Aug 1] 001-Ad-Vaccaro-Grobmyer Co.-Hydrated Lime for Spraying the Orchard-Phones 1 and 75- Feb.17, 1933 001-Ad-Vaccaro-Grobmyer Company-Lumber and Hardware-Phones 1 and 75-Celebrating 26 years in Business [1934 Aug 1] 001-Ad-Vaccaro-Grobymer Co.-Lumber & Hardware-our 28 th Year-Let us help secure your FHA Loan Phone 1 and 75 [1936 Jan 24] Page 141 of 158

001-Ad-Vaccaro-Grobymer-Repair, Remodel, or Build under the FHA Loan Program-Phone 1 and 75 [1936 Jan 6] 005-Ad-Free: About 200 yards dirt for the removing. Call W. N. Landers, phone 5, Arlington or Marion Hotel [1938 Jan 5] 006 Ad-Logan's Drug Store-Gibson Art Cards 1922 006 Ad-Red Cross Drug Co. 1932 006-Ad-Red Cross Drug Co., Called for and Delivered-Phone 6-[1933 Sep 21] Page 42 of 55 006-Ad-Red Cross Drug Co.-Gladys Williams-Phone 6-Quick Delivery [1934 Aug 1] 006-Ad-Williams Drug Store-Quick Delivery-Telephone 6-Free 1936 Chevrolet Sedan, See at our Store [1936 Jan 30] 007-Ad-Electrical Work, Motor Repairs. Service Calls given prompt attention. A. D. Chilner at Western Auto Co. Phone 7-[1940 Jan 6] 007-Ad-The Bell Store-Bring your Relief Checks to the Bell Store, you will get more for your Grocery money and no charge for cashing for our customers-Phone 7-[1936 Jan 9] 010 Ad-Buford Grocery Co.-Phone 10 and 11-We deliver in a covered truck. 1929 1922 010 Ad-Oursler Bros.-Pineapple, Strawberries, String Beans, Potatoes 1919 011 Ad-Oursler Bros.-Pineapple, Strawberries, String Beans, Potatoes 1919 1917 012 Ad-Vadakin & Landvoigt-The Forrest City Times 1914 016 Ad-R. H. Winfield & CO.-Opera House Block-Dry Goods 1920 In Mann Building 1908 1911 016-Ad-Broadway Drug Co., corner of Broadway and Washington-Headquarters for Second Hand Books that are state adopted, Phone 16 [1933 Sep 9] 016-Ad-Broadway Drug Co.-Bill Clanton/Pat McAdams-Phone 16-Miss Saylor’s Candy-[1936 Feb 6] 017 Ad-Fondren and Smith, Grocers-Corner of Washington and Jackson Street –Free Delivery 1901 1903 017-Ad-Cohen’s Dept. Store-Phone 17-N. Rosser St. [1940 Jan 2] 017-Ad-Cohen’s-Better Values-Rosser Street-Phone 17 [1938 Jan 07] 018 Ad-Dr. J. S. Davidson-Physician and Surgeon-Office-Rollwage Bldg.= 18, Residence- 206 E. Cleveland= 98 1932 018 Ad-Forrest City Steam Laundry-Mrs. J. B. Moody, Prop.-Rollwage Building, South Side 1903 018 Ad-Klondike Bakery-James Toney Prop. 1911 018-Ad-J. S. Davidson-Physician and Surgeon-Office Phone 18-Home Phone 98-Feb 16, 1933 019 Ad-J. S. Shields & Co.-Prescriptiona Druggists 1917 1908 019 Ad-The Quality Grocery-Harry Thomas, Manager-119 Rosser Street 1919 019-Ad-Crowley Ridge Motors-Service Co. Building-Phone 19-Dodge/ Plymouth [1937 Feb 17] 021 Ad-Waters-Pierce Oil Co. Office 1913 024 Ad-Rollwage & Alderson- 1903 Page 43 of 55 025 Ad-The Leader-R. C. Wilkinson, Proprietor-Clothing store 1926 Page 142 of 158

025-Ad-Ann’s Beauty Shop-Phone 25-Ann Young Durst, Prop. [1940 Jan 18] 025-Ad-Ann’s Beauty Shop-Times Herald Building, Izard St. Entrance-Phone 25 [1940 Jan 6] 026 Ad-A. J. Vaccaro & Co.-Proprietors of the Emporium -Ladies Millinery 1909 027 Ad-Lesser Goldman Cotton Co.-Office upstairs in the Pettus Building-I. H. Edwards, Manager 1923 028 Ad-Furnished Rooms for Rent-Call 28 1911 029 Ad-Fondren Bros. Groceries 1913 029 Ad-G. N. Laughinghouse & Co.-G. N. Laughinghouse and T. E. Haskins-Dealers in Fresh Fish, Beef, Pork, Mutton, Vegetables in Season-Free Delivery 1903 029 Ad-John I. Jones-Thanksgiving Dinners-We carry everything in Staples. 1917 029 Ad-L. B. Golden's Quality Grocery-Free Delivery 1925 029 Ad-Mallory & Fogg-The Palace Saloon-Corner Washington & Jackson Street-in the Winthrop Building-Fine Wines, Liquors, & Cigars-Keg & Bottle Beers 1908 030-Ad-For Rent: A modern four room and bath apartment. Call Mrs. A. B. Pyle, Phone 30 {1933 Apr 7] 030-Ad-Underwood Welding Service-Old Dixie Motor Co. Bldg. Old Hwy 70 West [1938 Feb 15] 031 Ad-City Drug Store Hatcher & Caldwell-1911 031 Ad-City Drug Store- Phone 31 1913 031 Ad-City Drug Store-H. G. Gray and T. G. Gray 1931-Gray Brothers 1920 031 Ad-City Drug Store-O. N. Warren, Prop. 1909 031-Ad-City Drug Store-Gray Bros. Phone 31 [1933 Sep 22] 031-Ad-City Drug Store-Gray Brothers-Pure Drugs-Phone 31 [1936 Jan 21] 031-Ad-City Drug Store-Whitman’s Candy-Prescription Specialists-Gray Bros.-Phone 31 032 Ad-C. C. Perry-Staple and Fancy Groceries-Phone 26 and 32 1929 034 Ad- W. T. Sanders-Dealer in Dry Goods-114 Front St-Free Delivery 1908 034 Ad-Grobmyer Garage-Graham Brothers Trucks, sold by Dodge Dealers Everywhere 1926 034 Ad-H.R.NEBLETT-GROCERY AND DRY GOODS 1910 1909 1911 - 1912 - - 034 Ad-Neblett, The Grocer-Groceries delivered as quick as the quickest. Phone 34 1913 035 Ad-The Fair No.35-R. C. Wilkinson, Mgr. 1919 035-Ad-Wood For Sale-Any length, by load or cord. Call C. E. Cresap, Phone 35 Billy’s Place [1937 Feb 1] 037-Ad-City Drug Store-“Your Rexall Store” H. C. Gray-Phone 37 [1940 Jan 4] Page 44 of 55 037-Ad-For Sale: Home Comfort, grey enamel kitchen range. In good condition. Phone 37- [1936 Jan 16] 038 Ad-East Arkansas Lumber Co.-C. R. Garrison, Manager 1926 038 Ad-East Arkansas Lumber Co.-Everett A. Ham, Manager 1933 038 Ad-Ewart Marshall Lumber Co. 1910 1911 038 Ad-Van Houten-Marshall Lumber Co. 1917 040 Ad-Hotel Marion, Formerly the Belser-Mrs. Pauline Goddard, Prop. The Only $2 House in the City 1901 Page 143 of 158

040-Ad-Palace Drug Store-Prompt Delivery-Thos. Gray-Phone 40 [1940 Jan 2] 041 Ad-Fussell-Graham-Alderson Co.-Successors to Fussell Graham & Co.-and L. Rollwage & Alderson-Telephone 41 1902 1923 042 Ad-Landvoigt & Vadakin-Book, Music Store, and Printing Office 1908 1911 044 Ad-The Forrest City Bottling Works- 1911 044 Ad-Wylds Garage-Telephone when you need a service car, handling Buick and Dodge Vehicles 1917 044-Ad-Cohen’s-Better Values-Rosser Street-Phone 44-Formerly Occupied by Sterlings [1936 Feb 10] 044-Ad-Mittie McCrary-Public Stenographer-Located over the National Bank of Eastern Arkansas-Office Phone 44, Residence 251 [1933 Apr 6] 046 Ad-Forrest City Grocer Co.-Wholesale Grocers, Produce Grain & Hay, BEVO Distributors 1917 046-Ad-Forrest City Wholesale Grocer-Phone 46-Front St.-Blatz Brewing Co.-[1934 Aug 16] 047 Home-Mrs. N. W. Norton-Residence 1913 048 Ad-F. W. DeRossitt-Will Pay Cash for Mule and Horse Colts 1909 - - - 049 Ad-Eldridge & Scott 1917 049 Ad-Forrest City Motor Company-Jackson Street-Mallory & Eldridge-Carload of Mules 1924 049 Ad-Forrest City Real Estate Co.--J. L. Newsome, Pres/W. H. Brown, Sect./Wm. W. Campbell, Treas. 1910 - - - 049 Ad-Newsome, Eldridge & Co.-Mallory & Eldridge in 1914 1910 049-Ad-Forrest City Motor Co.-Phone 49-On Broadway-R. C. Eldridge and Bert Mallory Chevrolet Trucks from $515-GMAC Credit Co., Detroit [1934 Aug 8] 049-Ad-Forrest City Motor Company-On Broadway-R. C. Eldridge/Bert Mallory-Chevrolet Cars from $455 to $565-Phone 49 [1933 Apr 12] 051 Ad-White Garage-Charlie White, Proprietor-Willard Batteries, Swinehart Tires, Filling Station-Old Presbyterian church building-In 1928, Whippet Automobiles for sale. 1925 052 Ad-Newsome & Ferrell Realtors 1911 052-Ad-Ashworth’s Grocery & Market-Free Delivery-Phone 52 & 53 [1940 Jan.25] Page 45 of 55 052-Ad-J. C. Ashworth-Grocery and Market-Free Delivery-Phone 52 & 53 [1940 Jan 4] 054-Ad-Brown’s Community Store-Phone 54-Instant Delivery [1938 Feb 23] 058-Ad-Pettus & Buford-General Merchandise and Plantation Supplies 1910 1911 1912 1913 059 Ad-Robert L. Pettus Clothing & Dry Goods-Invites Your Trade-Telephone No.59- McCrary Building 1902 060 Ad-John Schlosser-Residence 1913 061 Ad-N. B. Nelson & Co.-Jug Trade a Specialty 1902 1903 061 Ad-The Pearl Saloon-I. W. Mallory, Prop.-Telephone 61 1901 062-Ad-Ruckle Battery Service-Batteries $5.25-East Broadway, Opposite Standard Oil Station Phone 62 [1936 Jan 3] 063 Ad-Dr. D. O. Bridgforth-over the Planters Bank Building-Office 63, and Residence 335 1920 Page 144 of 158

065-Ad-For Sale-One carload of good work mares. Apply H. F. Beetch, H & R Implement Co., Phone 65 [1938 Jan 1] 066 Ad-Moseley Steam Laundry 1922 068 Home-C. P. Muller-Residence 1913 069 Ad-Moseley's Steam Laundry-F. G. Mosely, Proprietor 1931 070 Ad-Browne & Billings, Inc.-Ice Cream B and B Coal-Try our Empire Coal 1926 071 Ad-J.$ T. Dement-Dealer in High Class Groceries-Phone 71-1902 071 Ad-New Meat Market-Berry Fussell, Prop.-Beef, Pork, Mutton, Lamb, Veal, and Poultry-Also Handle Fresh Eggs, Butter & Vegetables 1908 1909 071-Ad-V. B. Izard & Co. 073 Ad-E. N. Gilliland-Tubular Wells, Plumbing, Steam Fitting-N. Washington by the Presbyterian Church-1908 073 Ad-W. T. Sanders-Call 73 when you want quick delivery and lowest cash prices on groceries 1919 073 Home-Miss Alice Currie-Residence 1913 073-Ad-Edgar-Warren Drug Co.-Phone 73-Full Supply-Diphtheria Toxoid, Pneumonia Bacterin, and Typhoid Bacterin-[1937 Feb 4] 073-Ad-For Rent: Unfurnished apartment-4 rooms, private bath, front and back entrances, $25 per month. Call Buster Carl Lee at Edgar-Warren Drug Co., Phone 73 [1936 Jan 11] 074 Ad-Norton Abstract and Loan Co.-Rollwage Building 1928 075 Ad-Grobmyer Lumber & Feed Co.-Dealers in All Kinds of Lumber, Sash, Doors, Shingles, Etc.-Prompt Delivery 1908 191001911 1912 075 Ad-Vaccaro-Grobmyer Co.-Long Distance 1806, local 75 1922 1917 077 Ad-Brandon & Baugh-North Front Street-Long Distance Phone 77 1901 1917 079-Ad- Purity Dairy-S. B. Trapp,-Prop. 1912 Page 46 of 55 080-Ad-Buford & Oursler-Phone 80 on Broadway-1940 Model Kelvinator Refrigerator starting at $119.95 [1940 Feb 9] 081-Ad-Neely & Neblett-Dry Goods & Groceries 1908 082 Ad-Klondike Bakery-Fred Kleiber, Prop. Telephone 62-Fresh Bread Every Morning 084 Ad-Forrest City Ice & Power Co.-Agents for Cudahy Packing Co.’s Products 1901 1902 1903 086 Ad-M. Rutsky & Co.-Dealer in Groceries, Clothes, and Shoes 1917 086 Ad-New Racket Store-M. Rutsky & Co., Prop. Free Delivery 1909 086 Ad-The Combination Shop-S. L. Berry, Mgr.-Shoe, Saddle & Harness 1908 088 Ad-C. H. Havens, Undertaker & Funeral Director-All Kinds of Coffins and Caskets- Burial Robes Kept in Stock-Telephone 88, Two Rings 1901 091 Ad-Enterprise Meat Market-Scuh & Co. 1910 091 Ad-Louis Grobmyer and C. C. Canterberry-Wholesale Distributors of NIB The favorite cereal beverage-Phone 91 and 181 1925 091 Ad-Palace Market-T. O'Brien, Proprietor Phone 91 1913 091 Ad-Shumacker Market & Grocery1919 091 Ad-T. O'Brien-Dealer in Fresh Beef, Pork, Veal, Mutton, Poultry & Produce-Prompt Delivery 1908 Page 145 of 158

091 Ad-The Palace Market & Grocery-Tom O’Brien & Willie Havens-Prop.-Rosser Street Opposite the Red Gin 1911 093 Ad-W. R. Yelton-Authorized Dealer-Delco Light Farm Electricity and Frigidaire Refrigerators 1926 095 Ad-Mrs. C. L. Platt-Your order for fruit cakes. $\Phone 95 1926 097 Ad-Jno. W. Naylor-Teams Wanted to Transfer Lumber from St. Francis River to Crow Creek 1908 100 Home-Dr. W. H. Alley-Residence 1913 101 Ad-W. D. Paslay & Co. On Jackson Street, Near Stone’s Livery Stable-Telephone 101, Free Delivery 1901 103 Ad-J. W. Williams Dress Goods, Trimmings, Notions, Etc. 1903 106 Ad-The Ideal Beauty Shop- Call Miss Lida Hinckley. 1920 108 Ad-Havens Bros-J. K. Havens & Charles Havens-Dealers in Staples & Fine Groceries, etc.-Lunches to Order Telephone 108-Free Delivery 1902 108 Ad-Restaurant-Short Orders Only-Rush J. Ash-Staple and Fancy Groceries-New Building, W. Jackson St. -Telephone 108-Free Delivery1903 112 Ad-E. Turley & Co.-Byhalia Cash Store, Hancock Building 1902 112 Ad-Turley Bros. & Gilliam in the Hancock Building on N. Washington Street 1910 114 Ad-Robert Bowens-Steam Cleaning and Pressing Club 1922 1920 116 Ad-C. A. Harris-Notice: Flies and Mosquitoes are coming, let me do your screen work, and other repairs. 1928 121-Ad-Forrest City Cleaners-Phone 121-“Kleeners that Klean” We Deliver [1940 Jan 2] 122 Ad-D. Downey-Residence 1913 124 Ad-W. B. Mann, Jr. Laundry 1902 Page 47 of 55 126 Ad-Izard & Williams, Forrest City, Ark.-Real Estate & Insurance-Office over J. W. Beck & Co. 1901 126 Ad-Stevens Bros., Undertakers & Embalmers- South East Corner, South Washington and Front Streets-Phone 126 Day & Night 1903 126 Ad-W. E. Williams & Son-Real Estate & General Insurance Agents 1902 131 Ad-A. L. Grady-Dealer in Dry Goods-New Store-Telephone 131-Free Delivery 1902 131 Ad-See Thomas L. Stout-Dealer of Remington Cash Registers 1926 134 Ad-Atkins & Horne-Dealers in Hardware, Stoves, Tinware-J. H. Atkins 1901 1902 134 Ad-L. R. Grobmyer’s City Meat Market1929 1911 137 Ad-Pettus & Fogg-General Merchandise-Robert L. Pettus and E. K. Fogg, Prop. 1909 138 Ad-Henry F. P. Gorman-Expert Service Electrically and Mechanically-At residence 1926 144 Ad-The Hot Shop Bakery- 1926 147 Ad-City Water & Light Co. 1911 1912 1917 147 Ad-R. C. Prewett, Physician & Surgeon-Over Dunavants’s Drug Store 1902 1901 148 Home-1929 Model Tudor Ford Sedan, in good condition for sale, $85.00, see L. R. Mullikin, phone 148. 1933 148-Ad-Ray F. Price and George P. Walker, Jr. Insurance-Times Herald Bldg.-Phone 148 and 149 [1936 Jan 13] Page 146 of 158

150 Home-J. W. Morrow-Residence 1920 1913 152 Ad-St. Francis County Abstract Co.-Office in the Mann Building-Farm Loans available at 7 per cent interest. 155 Ad-Miss Blanche Smith-Residence 1913 158 Ad-The Bynn Yanns Store-Cash and Carry-L. N. Block, Local Trustee and Manager 1920 161-Ad-Call Charles Shelton for Taxi Service-25 cents to anywhere in the city-Phone 161 [1936 Jan 23] 163 Ad-B. W. McCrary-Dentist-Office over R. W. Bensons-Call 163 1919 163-Ad-Eugene Wave Shop-Bertha Groves and Lottie Hodges-Phone 163 [1940 Jan 15] 165-Ad-Hodges Hardware & Furniture Co.-Front Street- Phone 165 1940 Frigidaire for $128.50. [1940 Jan 26] 166 Ad-Taylor, Knight & Co.-Real Estate and Insurance 1922 170 Ad-Forrest City Ice & Coal Co.-Bottling Works and Steam Laundry-George P. Taylor, Prop. 1920 1910 1911 1912 1913 1917 170 Ad-Forrest City Ice Cream Company-one gallon $1.50 cash, $1.75 charge 1920 172 Ad-Hot Tamales: Will begin making this week, fill orders anytime and deliver. Mrs. A. D. Boyle 1932 174 Ad-Becker & Lewis Coal 1913 1910 174 Ad-Becker & Lewis-Furniture 1909- 175 Ad-Holland & Sellers-The Pure Food Groceries 1917 175 Ad-Pyle Piano Company-Pianos, Player Pianos, Edison’s, Sonora’s 1920 Page 48 of 55 175 Ad-Rice Auto Co.-Trucks for Sale-GMC New, as low as $595 1932 175-Ad-N. B. Rice Motor Co. for Plymouth Cars and Trucks-Phone 175 [1933 Sep 8] 175-Ad-N. B. Rice Motor Co.-The New Plymouth, The Airflow DeSoto-GMC Truck-Sales and Service-Phone 175 [1934 Aug 7] 175-Ad-Wood-Stove and Furnace Wood for Sale. Delivered at a moderate price. N. B Rice, Phone 175 [1933 Sep 16] 178 Ad-Forrest City Coal Co. Forrest City Ice & Coal-1922 1917 178 Ad-Forrest City Gin Co. for wood or coal 1917 178-Ad-Rice Auto Co.-Trucks for Sale G.M.C. New as low as $595 Trailers to suit all Hauling-Phone 178 180-Ad-For Sale-Broiling size chickens. Apply Mrs. Clifford Barton, phone 180 [1938 Jan 13] 184 Ad-Dr. W. J. McCauley-Graduate Veterinarian at the Oklahoma Horse and Mule Barn- Forrest City Phone 184 and 179 1913 184 Ad-W. E. Kirby & Co. 1910 1909 1911 185 Ad-King's Greenhouses-Cut Flowers 1922 186 Home-J. E. Satterfield-Residence 1913 187 Ad-Norton & Hughes-Lawyers N. B. Norton-Rollwage Building-1919 1913 188 Ad-Robert Brittain Staple & Fancy Groceries1910 189 Ad-Bus Service from Iron Mountain Railroad to Hotel Fisher 1911 190 Ad-Palace Meat Market-Phone 91 and 190 1929 Page 147 of 158

191 Ad-Forrest City Cleaning & Pressing Club-L. S. C. Williams, Prop.-Shop near Presbyterian Church 1902 191 Ad-The Pearl Café-R. J. Ash Brothers, Prop.-Fresh Fancy Groceries, Fruits, Nuts, & Confections, Cigars & Tobacco 1908 1909 192 Ad=Walter Gorman-Lawyer 1913 199 Ad-J. T. Sanders, P .G.-Enterprise Drug Store-Hoadley’s Ice Cream, Prescription Druggist-Prompt Delivery 1908 1902 199-Ad-Telephone 199 Sanders for anything kept in a first class drug store [1938 Feb 22] 199-Ad-W. J. Herring & Co., Inc.-Arkansas’ Oldest Investment House, Little Rock-Local Representative: Ross Sanders-Call 199 [1936 Jan 1] 204 Ad-McDaniel & Watson, Successor to W. F. Klotz-Harry O. Watson and Louis McDaniel 1914 204 Ad-W. F. Klotz-The Hardware Man-West Jackson Street-John Deere Plow Co. Implements 1912 1911 - - - 206 Ad-The Elite Cafe-Wholesale and Retail for Schlitz Beer 1923 208-Ad-For Rent: Furnished room in modern home for two young men; steam heat, hot water. Phone 208 [1937 Feb 1] Page 49 of 55 209 Ad-Sellers & Scott Grocery 1910 211 Ad-Planters Gin-Talk to Arthur Boyle About Your Coal Supply for Winter 1908 212 Ad-Our Bakery 1911 220-Ad-For Rent-Room for two adults, Preferably men; with board-Phone 220 [1937 Feb 1] 225 Ad-J. I. Hawk-Realtor 1908 225 Home-G. W. Christian-Residence 1913 228 Ad-W. L. Lawrence, Prop.-City Grocery, Prompt Delivery 1909 228-Ad-For Sale-Business, West End including building. Telephone 228, Choctaw Street [1910 Feb 7] 232 Home-J. R. Johnson-Residence 1913 238 Ad-Dillon Beauty Shop-Beulah Hudson, Operator 1932 238-Ad-Dillon’s Millinery-“Thrifty Individuality” Phone 238 [1937 Feb 18] 239 Ad-Jim Thompson Hauling 1910 241 Ad-Dr. Hugh Puckett-Graduate Veterinarian 1919 241 Ad-Vogue Beauty Salon-Wet finger waves, 25 cents 1932 241-Ad-La Vogue Beauty Sboppe Phone 241-Shampoo and Finger Wave 50 Cents [1933 Sep 22] 241-Ad-LaVogue Beauty Shoppe-Washington Street-Call 241 [1936 Jan 4] 244 Home-L. Barnett-Residence 1913 244-Ad-Madalyn Shop opening in old Maidwell Garment Co. Building-Phone 244 [1938 Feb 17] 245 Ad-Forrest City Bakery-D. E. Osborn-New Bakery at the old "Our Bakery"-Feb.7th Phone 245 1913 248 Ad-City Grocery-W. L. Lawrence, Prop. 1910 248 Ad-L. F. Rollwage & Co.-High Class Groceries, Fruits, Produce-Quick Delivery 1908 248 Ad-Lawrence’s City Grocery-Fresh Holsome Bread- 1911 Page 148 of 158

248Ad-New Meat Market-Berry Fussell-Prop. Beef, Pork, Mutton, Lamb, Veal, and Poultry- Also Fresh Eggs, Butter, & Vegetables 1908 252 Ad-W. J. Stolzer, Prop.-Concrete Plant on Madison Road 1909 253 Home-A. A. French-Residence 1913 254 Ad-Forrest City Furniture Co.-214 North Front Street 1908 1911 257 Ad-Dr. D. A. Pelton-Physician and Surgeon-Office over the Sol Lewis store. Phone 257 and 307 1913 263 Ad-C. Murphy & Co.-110 Washington Street Basement-Starr Made Pianos, Players 1922 266 Ad-The Cheese Factory-Hill Street 1929 268-Ad-Phone 268, Mrs. J. T. Sanders, for eggs from pure Rhode Island Red Chickens, 50 cents a setting. [1938 Feb 28] Page 50 of 55 269 Ad-B. B. Boggs-The New Plumber-Residence Phone 1909 269-Ad-Sam Burd-“Reliable-Dependable” Phone 269 Betty Rose Dresses [1940 Feb 29] 269-Ad-Sam Burd-Ladies’ Ready-to Wear, Clothing and Novelties-On Front Street-Phone 269-[1933 Apr 4] 270 Ad-A. H. Wood-Plumbing & Heating-217 N. Washington ST. 1917 272 Home-Darwin Thompson-Residence 1913 273 Ad-Rose's Home Grocery-1 Block West of Public School 1914 275 Ad-Tharp Grocery 1919 278-Ad-Milk: The best complete food. Have many customers here. Could supply a few more. See Peter Kittel or Phone 278 [1938 Jan 18] 279-Ad-For Rent-Five-room furnished apartment on S. Rosser, Close in. Apply to W. S. Alley, Phone 279 [1938 Jan 18] 282 Ad-Canterberry-Nash Produce Co.-Rosser Street 1920 282 Ad-Forrest City Produce Company-for Certo and Fruit Jars 1923 282-Ad-For Sale: Fryers 8 to 10 weeks old. Battery fed. Call Mrs. James Sharkoff, at 282 [1940 Jan 6] 284 Ad-Herring and Schellhous-Land Engineers-Accurate Crop Measurements and Land Surveys-Mann Building 1919 285 Ad-Max Heuman-Dealer-Wynne, Arkansas-Hudson and Essex Cars 1920 290 Ad-Davis-Mize & Co.-Wholesale Only-Grocers and Dealer in Feeds 1923 293 Ad-C. C. Weier-Bricklayer & Builder1910 294 Home-A. Goldberg-Residence 1913 298 Ad-Merchants Grocer Company-Wholesale Only-Edmond E. Stevens, Mgr.-Hill and Grant Streets 1919 298 Ad-Singer Sewing Machines-J. D. Caldwell, Manager-Wynne, Arkansas 1924 298-For Rent: Five Room partly furnished apartment. North Rosser Street- One block from Post office, Phone 298 [1940 Feb. 2] 299 Ad-J. L. Scott & Co.-South Front Street 1919 299 Ad-R. E. Sellers-Groceries-Pettus Building 1909 299 Ad-Scott and Ferguson-Home Needs Suppliers-Front Street Phone 299 1913 299 Ad-Sellers & Scott Grocery 1911 1910 - - - Page 149 of 158

300 Ad-Forrest City Steam Laundry-E. H. Overfield, Manager 1910 301 Pettus & Ferguson-Insurance-F. G. Pettus and J. E. Ferguson-Office in Beck Building 1919 303 Ad-St.Francis Motor Co. 1931 1926 1923 303-Ad-New Ford V-8 on Display Here Next Tuesday-St. Francis Motor Co. Phone 303 (Feb.18,1933) Page 51 of 55 303-Ad-St. Francis Motor Co.-Forrest City-Phone 303 Trade In Tire Sale-Firestone [1933 Sep 15] 303-Ad-St. Francis Motor Company-Phone 303-See the Mercury [1940 Jan 31] 304 Ad-Perry Cooperman's Furniture House-on Front Street 1919 311 Ad-Wood for Sale: J. L. Newsom-First Class Wood Yard 1911 312 Ad-A. D. Boyle-Jeweler-Imperial Building 1912 313 Ad-T. C. Green-Cabinet Maker-Furniture repaired or made to order. 1926 313-Ad-Ask for Magnolia Products at the Following: Haven Street-Phone 313 and 629- Bernard Faisst: See Forrest City Motor Co., W. W. Bryan in Bryanville, Whitmore Merc. Co., N. B. Rice Motor Co., St. Francis Motor Co., J. H. Shackleford, L. B. Jones & Sons in Madison, Oak Hill Tourist Camp, Carl’s Place in Blackfish, Dave Abel in Palestine, and J. D. Kerr in Colt. [1934 Aug 7] 313-Ad-Everett A. Ham-Frigidaire Dealer-Phone 313 on Broadway [1934 Aug 2] 313-Ad-Ramsey’s Greenhouses-119 N. Washington-Phone 313 [1936 Jan 13] 316-Ad-For Sale: Nice Elberta peaches at 50 cents per bushel. Dawson Farm, phone 316 [1934 Aug 1] 316-Ad-Warm and Comfortable-Furnished apartment two rooms and bath. Efficient, economical oil burning heat throughout. 611 N. Washington-Phone 316 [1940 Feb.2] 318-Ad-For Radio Service-Call E. A. Ham, Phone 318 [1936 Jan 1] 318-Ad-For Rent: Furnished Apartment, 4 rooms and bath in the McCulloch apartments on Izard Street. Phone 318 [1936 Jan 1] 319-Ad-For Rent-Two-room housekeeping apartment. Nice neighborhood, Phone 319 [1938 Jan 18] 323W-Ad-For Rent-A two-room furnished housekeeping apartment. Close in. Mrs. Pauline Goddard, 306 E. Hill Street, phone 323W. [1938 Jan 18] 324-Ad-Linn Turley-Phone 324-Administrator of J. R. Hall Estate. For Sale: 25 Head of work mules and mares, all of which are good, work stove. Made crop in 1935 on Haynes farm. See mat Saturday at Forrest City Production Assoc. Office-[1936 Feb 11] 333-Ad-Daniel Truck Line, Local and Long Distance. Daily to and from Memphis. Telephone 333, L. M. Jackson, Forrest City [1938 Feb 28] 333-Ad-Strayed or Stolen: Brindle Male dog with white face. Answers to name Spot. Apply Sinclair Service Station, Phone 333- [1938 Jan 1] Page 52 of 55 335 Home-Dr. D. O. Bridgforth-Residence 1920 1913 336-Ad-Quality Cleaners-Phone 336-New unit for Silks and Light Woolens-[1938 Feb 15] 338 Ad-Ira M. Walden-Painting and Decorating-Opposite New Methodist Church 1917 339 Ad-Grapes-Call at vineyard, or call 339. H. E. Schelhous. 1929 Page 150 of 158

341 Ad-Joe E. Beck-Blacksmithing Shop on Jackson Street Near Iron Mountain Railroad 1911 341-Ad-McCormick-Deering Store-Grant & Garland Streets-Phone 341-Farmall 12 Tractors [1938 Jan 26] 344 Ad-Smith's Service-Hauling and Towing 1920 345 Ad-Nathan B. Norton-Unimproved land in western portion of St.Francis County-1000 acres. Phone 345 1913 346 Ad-Brown Beauty Shop-Announces their Depression Prices-Located at the rear of Davidson's Popular Discount Price Shoe Store 1932 347-Ad-For Rent-My residence at 304 W. Dillard. Mrs. George Walker, Phone 347 [1940 Jan 4] 349-Ad-Bill Gray-Phone 349-Wanted Old Gold-Highest Cash Prices Paid [1936 Feb 10] 352 Ad-David Grocery Co. gives merchants tickets for Trades Day June 20-Phone 352 and 452 1929 1923 353-Ad-Sharpe’s-For Best Values-Rosser Street=Phone 353 [1938 Jan 4] 354 Ad-Sharpe The Tailor-Corner Washington and Jackson 1919 1914 355 Home-Paul Johnson-Residence 1913 357 Ad-Cooperman's-Let us repair your phonograph 1926 357 Ad-We Deliver-COD 1914 358-Ad-For Rent: One furnished bedroom, steam heat. Men only apply. Mrs. Fred Harrelson, Phone 358 [1937 Feb 23] 362 Ad-R. E. Crutchfield-Best Kentucky Lump Coal and Famous Empire Brand from Alabama 1931 367 Home-Lula S. Blount-Residence 1913 368 Ad-Dr. E. M. Barnett and Dr. W. J. McCauley-Veterinary Surgeons and Dentists 09/26/13 Phone 368 1913 370J Ad-For Rent: One nice bed room, three blocks from town. Also sewing done-Call Mrs. Jennie Boyett. 1925 379 Ad-Society and Personal-the Herald The Times Herald Publishing Co.-1919 1931 1917 379-Ad-Forrest City Daily Times-Herald-Phone 379 [1938 Jan 18] 379-Ad-Times-Herald-Phone 379-Free Ads for Week of January 6 [1936 Jan 3] 387-Ad-Mattresses Renovated-Furniture Upholstered and Refinished. Tri-State Mattress Co., Memphis. Miss Dorothy McCurdy, Phone 387, Forrest City [1934 Aug 3] Page 53 of 55 388 Home-D. Edgar-Residence 1913 391 Ad-Coleman's Dairy-For delicious milk 1922 395-Ad-Mary Frances Johnston, Editor of the Forrest City Daily Times Herald-Office Phone 379 Residence 395 [1940 Jan 09] 404-Ad-Service Station-Percy H. Barker, Jr., has bought a lease for the Standard Oil Company Service Station opposite the Methodist Church-Corner of Izard and Jackson 1926 404-Ad-Service Station-Walter Prewett, Proprietor-Ajax Tires and Tubes, Tire Repairing 1927 409-Ad-B & F Advertising Company-Outdoor-Neon or Bulletin-Service guaranteed. Phone Page 151 of 158

409 [1937 Feb 1] 412 Ad-McCleskey Brothers-Let us Dye for you! 1929 1925 420 Ad-The Quality Motor Co.-N. B. Rice- 1919 422 Ad-Forrest City Bottling Co.-Mallory & Gorman, Props. Gorman & Gorman 1920 423 Ad-Grissom Taxi Service 1928 426 Ad-Cash Market-R. E. Sellers, Manager-208 N. Washington-Choice Meats & Produce 1922 442-Ad-For Hire-One Dodge half-ton truck with driver. Will haul in or out of town at a reasonable rate. Apply Curtis Mosley, 903 Christian St.-, Phone 442 [1938 Jan 1] 453 Ad-Dr. H. R. Clark-Dentist-Office in the Pettus Building 1920 453-Ad-For Rent: 35 acres of good land with four room house and good barn. Rent reasonable. Apply David Grocery Co., Rosser Street, phone 452 [1936 Jan 11] 454-Ad-Fryers-Raised by Ed Ash, on sale at Haven’s Grocery and Market-Phone 454-Avg. Weight 2 lbs [1940 Jan 17] 454-Ad-Lost-White Eskimo Spitz. Answers to name “Pinky”. Reward, contact Mrs. James DeRossitt, phone 454 or 133. [1937 Feb 1] 455 Ad-First Baptist Church-Rev. Blount F. Davidson Pastor 1926 474 Ad-Grissom Taxi Service 1929 477W-Ad-Five Room Un-Furnished House; Also have for sale a coal heater and a small range and other pieces of furniture. Mrs. Ella Allen, phone 477 W. [1933 Sep 11] 480-Ad-Dixie Beauty Shop-Jerry McFall and Imogene Freeman-Upstairs in Ash Bldg. Room 207-Phone 480 [1940 Mar 15] 484-Ad-Marlong Cleaners-Call 484 for Delivery Service-Feb 16, 1933 484-Ad-Turkey Eggs for setting for sale, also baby turkeys. Mrs. Phil Hicky, phone 484, Forrest City [1933 Apr 28] Page 54 of 55 485 Ad-B. F. King-Florist 485 Ad-Godwin-Honnell Florists-Artistic Corsages, Wedding Bouquets 1925 485 Ad-Morgan Honnell Florist 1929 485-Ad-Ramsey Greenhouses-Phone 485-[1933 Apr 14] 485-Ad-Wanted: A good cook and housekeeper, settled woman preferred. Servant’s house on yard. Phone 485 [1938 Jan 1] 489 Ad-The Bonnet Shop-Special Price on Permanent Waves $7.50-Mrs.Laura McClintock, an experienced operator in charge! 1927 500 Ad-Forrest City Gin Co. Filling Station-Road Service 1923 1922 500-Ad-The Service Co.-Good Year Tires-Phone 500 [1933 Sep 14] 500-Ad-The Service Co.-Phone 500-Goodyear Tires, Philco Radios $22.50 up-[1934 Aug 16] 502-Ad-J M. Emmons-Dealer in Staple and Fancy Groceries and a nice line of meats 1917 517 Ad-Oursler's Grocery-We are Prompt-Phone 17 and 517 1929 524-Ad-L. J. Boatner, general contractor; floor finishing; furniture made, repaired and refinished. Phone 524-On West Front Street, Residence Phone 136 [1940 Jan 2] 525 Ad-Rollwage Motor Company-Try us for car washing, tire changing, tires and tubes Page 152 of 158

1925 527-Ad-Harris Grocery and Market-Phone 527-K . C. Meats- 534-Ad-For Rent: Four room furnished apartment with bath, private entrance. Apply Miss Lula Sinclair-Phone 534 [1938 Jan 3] 534-Ad-For Rent-Four room apartment, furnished. Private entrance and private bath. Lula Sinclair, phone 534. [1937 Feb 1] 543 Ad-Forrest City Electric Co.-H. C. Batts-Automatic Oil Heat/Wiring/Repairs/Appliances 1929 543-Ad-Swaby’s Radio Shop now located at 121 E. Broadway-Homer Swaby [1940 Jan 2] 555 Ad-Coca-Cola Bottling Co. 1931 570-Ad-J. A. Patterson Agcy.- 402 S. Washington Street-Phone 570-Insurance [1940 Jan 4] 579-Ad-Storrs Schaefer & Co. Representative here Monday/Tues/Wed.-Custom Coat Fitting-at Ash Dept. Store-Phone 579 ]1936 Jan 8] 619-Ad-Dr. M. A. Arrington-Graduate Veterinarian-Day phone 73, Night Phone 619 Forrest City [1938 Jan 1] Page 55 of 55 630-Ad-Perrye Health & Beauty Salon-Scalp Treatments-Tonic Baths-Phone 630 [1936 Jan 21] 632 Ad-Wanted: Roomers and Boarders. Meals served family style. 207 S. Izard Street 1932 7F2-Ad-For Sale: Lespedeza hay, fire wood, and heater wood. Call V. O. Turner, phone 7F2 [1938 Jan 1] 808F02 Home-Tom Bridgforth-Residence 1913 808F03 Home-J. A. Whittenton-Residence 1913 808F04 Home-Sam Danehower-Residence 1913 808F05 Home-John McCrary-Residence 1913 808F11 Home-Clifford Whittenton-Residence 1913 808F12 Home-W. T. Nolan-Residence 1913 814 K. Home-M. Wilkins-Residence 1913 815 A. Ad-Bird-Riverview 1913 819F14 Ad-P. W. McFall Garage and Service Station-Up to date Free Tourist Camp- Madison 1923 820F02 Home-W. R. McFall-Madison 1913 820F11-Ad-Erskine Williams Lumber Co.-Madison, Ark. Phone 820-F-11 [1933 Aug 1] 820F11-Ad-Williams-Bernauer Lumber Co.-Madison-We Have It- Phone 820F11-[1933 Sep 1] 822 Ad-Morgan and West Box Co.-Madison, Arkansas 1925 8-4121-Ad-D.Canale & Co.-Memphis-Distributors of Cook’s Goldblume Beer-Phone 8-4121 [1933 Sep 25] 9F13-Ad-For Sale: Dry saw mill stove wood and kindling, green country heater wood. Mrs. Herman J. Rodrain (Nell R. Perkins Rodrian), Madison, phone 9F13 [1938 Jan 14]

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000-Ad-[Recruitment for United States Navy, recruiting officer will be here Apr. 14-15, applicants must meet these requirements: Age Limits-White must be between the ages of 17 to 25; colored must be between 18 to 26. Must be unmarried; not divorced or separated, with dependent children; not paying alimony or maintenance. Must be able to furnish satisfactory references covering a period of several years. If under 21, must have the written consent of parents, or legal guardian. Must not be less that 63 inches in height(if under 18 years of age) not less than 64 inches in height. Must be a citizen of the United States.] [1939 Apr 11]

000-Ad-Ann’s Beauty Shop, formerly Bonnet Beauty Shop-Ann Young Durst, Prop. ]1939 Jun 1]

000-Ad-Announcing opening of a new curb market. The Broadway Grocery Market-J. S. Conger-Located across railroad on 70. [1939 Oct 10]

000-Ad-Barnett Bros. Circus-Big 3 Ring-At Butler’s Field, Sep. 16 [1939 Sep 11]

000-Ad-Busy Dept. Store-Leon Gadberry, Mgr. Cordial Holiday Greetings [1939 Dec 22]

000-Ad-Costello & Son Mule Barn, located on Hwy 7- West, Near Butler’s-Mules for Sale or Trade-Grand Opening [1939 Oct 3]

000-Ad-Demand Reed Bros. Dairy Products-Daco Protected-of your grocer-Cottage Cheese-Sour Cream. Green Spot Orangeade, delivered daily [1939 May 1]

000-Ad-Eason’s Tourist Camp-302 West Broadway-Palmistry by Madam Marie [1939 Oct 11]

000-Ad-For Lease: Naylor farm, south of Madison, consisting of 555 acres. Possession Jan. 1,1940. Apply S. S. Hargraves for Mrs. John W. Naylor. [1939 Jul 1]

000-Ad-For Rent: After Dec. 31-Offices formerly occupied by Norton and Butler. See Nathan M. Norton [1939 Nov 13]

000-Ad-For Sale or Trade-Just received from the country, 40 Head Young Mules and Brooding Mares-ages 2 to 6 years-at J. W. Moore’s Barn-Jim Scott [1939 Sep 11]

000-Ad-Handling Arkansas Fertilizer in St. Francis Co.: Lindsey Mercantile Co.-Caldwell; O. J. Gandy, Colt’ Sulcer Bros., Palestine; Banks Wilkinson, Palestine; W. W. Bryan, Bryanville; Price & Mullikin, Forrest City-Ray F. Price, Traveler agent, Little Rock [1939 Apr 17]

000-Ad-Horton-Robinson Co.-Broadway in Forrest City-Dodge and Plymouth Dealers [1939 Jul 25] Page 154 of 158

000-Ad-Lifebuoy Soap Sold at: Stores: Forrest City-Cohn’s Penny Store, Oswalt Grocery & Market, Grobmyer Market, David’s Grocery, C. C. Perry’s Grocery, Otis Stevens, Brown’s Community Store, Christopher’s IGA Grocery & Market, H. E. Boone Grocery & Market, Haven’s Grocery & Market, Kroger Stores; Madison: S. A. Brown, Henry Halbert, Virgil Hamilton, Eppe’s Grocery; Widener Edward H. Fong; Druggists: J. T. Sanders, Palace Drug Store, City Drug Store, Broadway Drug Store, Williams’ Drug Store, Edgar-Warren Drug Co. Notice of filing for application for liquor permit eff. Jul.1,1939 at D. F. Weaver’s Liquor Store, Black Fish Lake, Hwy 70 by D. F. Weaver. Notice of filing for application for liquor permit eff Jul.1,1939, for 110 E. Broadway, Forrest City by Sam Wexman. Notice of filing for application for liquor permit eff. Jul.1,1939 for Hicks Station (Widener) on Hwy 70 by G. W. Wallace. Notice for fliling for application for liquor permit eff. Jul.1,1939 Sterling Liquor Store No. 2, at 213 East Broadway, Forrest City, by H. O. Dreyfus.

000-Ad-Mammoth Marine Hippodrome, 68 ton Sea Monster, 55 feet long-See at Rock Island Depot March 22-[1939 Mar 18]

000-Ad-Motor Inn-Now under management of Wert Smith at Blackfish Lake-Try our Special Chicken and Fish dinners. Owner-Joe Bradshaw-[1939 Jun 24]

000-Ad-Pay your Levee taxes at the courthouse-Mrs. C. C. Dawson-Collector [1939 Oct 9]

000-Ad-Penny Saveers Groceries-Pay Less-Brinkley and Forrest City-[1939 Oct 19]

000-Ad-Pink Palace Café-For Good Food-Try our Famous Steaks [1939 Dec. 13]

000-Ad-Planters Bank & Trust Officers: S. J. Dean, Pres.; J. B. Fletcher, VP; H. L. Petty, Cashier; C. N. Haven, Jr., Asst. Cashier; Dione Kennedy, Asst. Cashier; Virgil Owen, Asst. Cashier in Cotton Plant: Directors: C. T. Doss, O. N. Warren, S. M. Bush, H. L. Petty, W. A. Arthurs, S. J. Dean, Marvin B. Norfleet, C. N. Haven, Sam Sharpe, J. B. Fletcher [1939 Apr 28]

000-Ad-Safeway-Now a Super-Safeway-Formerly the Liberty Cash Grocery [1939 Aug 10]

000-Ad-See America’s Two Great Fairs-New York’s Worlds Fair, and Golden Gate International Exposition on San Francisco Bay-Round Trip starting Apr. 28-$90 in Coach/ $135 in Pullman-Rock Island-J. R. Sangster, Ticket Agent -[1939 Apr 06]

000-Ad-Simmons Implement Co., Inc. $777 and up for an Oldsmobile–Garland and Grant Street [1939 Apr 12]

000-Ad-Simmons Implement Co., Inc.-Garland & Grant Street-Internaional Trucks [1939 Jun 12] Page 155 of 158

000-Ad-Taylor-Casbeer-Exclusive Men’s Wear-On Broadway- [1939 Oct. 13]

000-Ad-The Bonnet Shop Beauty Parlor-Miss Ann Young, Prop. Next Door to the Forrest City Newstand [1939 Mar 1]

000-Ad-W. T. Jones, Trustee of the J. F. McDougal estate, accepting bids for sale of lands between Oct.1 and Dec.15,1939. [1939 Sep 22]

000-Ad-Wanted: Twenty-five hungry people for lunch. Plate Lunch 25c, sandwiches 10c beer 10c. Joe’s & Jessie’s Café-Air Conditioning. Next to Christopher’s Market on Hill Street [1939 Jul 28]

000-Special for Peach Festival Day: Chicken Dinners-Frog Legs-at Cabins in the Cotton on Hwy 70 East [1939 Jul 27]

007-Ad-Western Auto Store-Call Jesse Tharp-Phone 7-Free Faucet Repair [1939 Jul 15]

008-Ad-P. E. Folk-Rug and Carpet Cleaning-Forrest City- Insured [1939 Jul 11]

027-Ad-Aycock Café-Station-Air Cooled Busses-Arkansas Motor Coaches-[1939 Sep 4]

037-Ad-Lost-Black and white rat terrier. Answers to name of “Smoky.” Phone 37, Ann McDougal [1939 Apr 27]

045-Ad-The Man’s Shop-Next Door to Pink Palace Café-Phone 45 [1939 Mar 23]

051-Ad-Charlie White’s Garage-Phone 51-Tire Balance and Aiighment-[1939 Sep 4]

066-Ad-McQueen Feed and Seed Co. Phone 66-Cream Buying Station [1939 Mar 22]

068-Ad-O. K. Garage-Phone 68-L. L. (Slim) Replogle-on West Broadway-[1939 Jun 1]

070-Ad-Uncle Jim’s Place-The Biggest, the Best, the Most Decent and Orderly conducted place of its kind in Forrest City-18 Clean Cottages with Running Water and Gas Heat- Sandwiches and Drinks-The Best Barbeque in Town-The Coldest Beer in Town-The only licensed Wine Dealer in Town-Open Day and Night-Shell Gasoline-Phone 70-Highway 70 West- [1939 Oct 18]

105-Ad-Smith Studio of Dancing-Forrest City branch, Phone 105-Special classes for Babies 3 to 5 years old. Contact Mrs. J. A. Poole. [1939 Nov 20]

165-Ad-Are You Satisfied with your old radio? Trade it in on a 1940 RCA Victor, designed for Television. Homer Swaby, Phone 165, Hodges Furniture Co. [1939 Jul 27] Page 156 of 158

175-Ad-For Sale- One roll top desk, one small laundry stove, one coal stove, one 1933 V-8 two door Ford Sedan; one 1935 Dodge four door sedan; one 1936 Four door Plymouth Sedan. Call 175, N. B. Rice. [1939 Sep 21]

175-Ad-McKnight Implement Co.-Phone 175-Allis-Chalmers Model 40 All-Crop Harvestor $387.50 [1939 May 24]

1-F2-Ad-Lespedeza Hay-Bright Green No. 1-$10 at barn in Palestine. Phone 1-F 2. Banks Wilkinson [1939 Apr 27]

201-Ad-City Gulf Service-Phone 201 [1939 Jul 24]

201-Ad-McFall Motor Co.-At CityService Station, West Broadway-Hudson Autos Starting at $695 FOB Detroit-Phone 201 [1939 Mar 22]

204-Ad-Gregory’s Furniture-East Front Street-Phone 204-We have with us now, Mr. V. P. Harmon, formerly with Whitelaw Bros, Jackson, Tenn. [1939 Mar 1]

213-Ad-Mary’s Sandwich Shop-West Broadway and Division. Specializes in Barbeque, Sandwiches of all kinds, Short Orders, Coffee, Cold Drinks, Cigars, Cigarettes, etc. Will appreciate a call. Phone 213-We Deliver-[1939 Oct 19]

2-3464-Ad-The Guardian Co.-Little Rock-Build-Buy-Refinance-Nathaniel Dyke, Jr. Pres. Phone 2-3464 FHA Loans 4 ½ percent [1939 Sep 18]

301-Ad-Lost:White spitz seven years old, small, answers to name “Toodles” Reward. Call Mrs. C. F. Kennedy, Phone 301 [1939 Mar 17]

308-Ad-Dr. Leonard S. Johnston-Dentist-Phone 308-Office in Mallory Bldg.-[1939 Mar 1]

315-Ad-For Sale: Fryers, two pound weight. Will Deliver. Julian Gilliam, Phone 315 [1939 May 1]

319-Ad-For Rent: Two room furnished apartment. Phone 319, Mrs. Harry Thomas [1939 Mar 25]

339-Ad-For Sale: Full blood German Police Puppies, six weeks old, $3.00-Phone 339, T. W. Thompson [1939 Apr 27]

353-Ad-Sharpe’s-For Best Values-Trade in an air-Cooled store-[1939 Jul 1]

387-Ad-For Sale-Seven room house on Cook Street. Call 387 [1939 Apr 20]

400-Ad-Reward for Information as to whereabouts of brown and white pointer bird dog, ten years old-known as Jack. William Campbell, Phone 400 [1939 Jul 27] Page 157 of 158

408-Ad-Arnold’s Transfer Co.-For Hauling-Moving-See us at Forrest City Curb Marker- Phone 408 [1939 Apr 10]

412-Ad-McCleskey Clearners-Insured, Pay Next Fall-Storage of Furs [1939 May 3]

420-Ad-Lost Last Week-Tan and white Collie puppy. Reward, call 420 [1939 Mar 1]

440-Ad-Cleo Vess Bottling Co. Phone 440-Every Bottle Sterilized [1939 Jul 24]

440-Ad-Cleo Vess Bottling Co.-Phone 440-Murray C. Hambleton and T. H. Lloyd [1939 Sep 4]

452-Ad-Announcing that Mrs. Will David is local sponsor for Manley Tours. Special Rates on California, and New York World Fair Trips. Call 452 [1939 May 12]

456-Ad-Havens Grocery & Market-“For the best in Meats and Groceries, Vegetables, etc.” Phones 456 and 457 [1939 Apr 10]

478-Ad-J. D. Dennis-Purina Feed and Groceries-Phone 478-159 Rosser St.-[1939 Jul 20]

485-Ad-Newman’s Greenhouses-Phone 485 [1939 Dec 13]

492-Ad-For Sale: White and Post Oak fence posts, 7 ½ cents each. Country stove wood $5.00 per cord. O. C. Bell, next to Gulf Oil Co. bulk plant. Phone 492 [1939 Mar 18]

500-Ad-Hay Trucking Co.-Ship via Our Line [1939 Jul 27]

500-Ad-The Service Co.-Goodyear Tires-Texaco Gasoline and Oil-‘Phone 500 [1939 Jun 23]

502-Ad-For Rent: Well furnished room to gentlemen. Close in. Phone 502 [1939 Jun 20]

509-W-Ad-Mrs. T. K. Arnold will open a kindergarten Monday-Call 509-W [1939 Oct 2].

510-Ad-For Rent: One large furnished room, large closet, convenient to bath, private entrance. Mrs. Fred Wilson, Phone 510, Cleveland Street [1939 Apr 27]

510-Ad-Wanted: Four or five room unfurnished house. Permanent residents. Call 510 after 1 p. m. [1939 Mar 3]

521-Ad-Horton-Robinson Co.-Dodge & Plymouth Dealer-Phone 521 [1939 Dec. 13]

524-Ad-L. J. Boatner-General Contracting, Cabinet Shop, Furniture made, repaired, and refinished-Phone 524-Residence 136 [1939 Jun 28] Page 158 of 158

543-Ad-Electric Service Co.-121 E. Broadway-Phone 543-Next door to Jack’s Café-GE Appliances [1939 Jul 6]

552-Ad-For Sale: 14 church pews in excellent condition, each new 9 feet long. A bargain at $10 each. See Rev. Edwin A. Hemmen at Catholic rectory, or phone 552. [1939 Jul 6]

570-Ad-J. A. Patterson Agency-402 S. Washington St.-“My Policy is Your Protection” Insurance [1939 Aug 24}

596-Ad-Room and Board for Two-Apply Mrs. J. B. Johnston-Phone 596 [1939 Apr 1]

621-Ad-For Rent-Nicely furnished large south bedroom, private entrance and bath, well balanced meals. Apply Mrs. J. R. Wright, 206 N. Rosser-Phone 621 [1939 May 17]

641-Ad-Farmers Gin Co.-Rosser St.-Phone 641-Arkansas Anthracite Coal per ton $8.00 plus sales tax [1939 Nov. 14]