Town Gossip
June 5,
1926 Little River News Article
SEVERAL
YEARS AGO
June 8th,
1912
At a meeting of the stockholders of the Little River County
Bank the following officers and directors were elected: J.T. Cowling, president; J.H. Wallace, Vice-President; Lon T. Jones, Cashier; J.L. Martin and Clifford Locke, Assistant Cashiers.
The Carey Davenport saw mill at Red Bluff was destroyed by fire
Sunday morning. The mill will not be
rebuilt.
J.R. Bowles left
last week for Jena, La., where he will have charge of a large lumber
concern. Mr. Bowles is a first class lumber man and will be able to deliver the
goods.
Dr. W.W. York has
purchased a new automobile. It arrived
Tuesday and the doctor drove it about town like an old hand. The machine is a Ford model.
The water was turned on Tuesday for the first time in the mains
of the new system. We will have plenty
of good water now.
Contract has been let for graveling the street from the Little
River County Bank to the Price Hotel
Call for your bread checks at the New England Bakery, 27 loaves
for $1.00.
Miss Majel Quinn and
Roscoe Wood have returned from
Fayetteville where they have been attending the University of Arkansas.
O.D. Turner, G.A. Orton and C.N. Thill spent Wednesday and Thursday fishing on Little River.