3rd Annual Meeting of Little River Baptist Association ~ 1917

 

Minutes of the Third Annual Meeting of the Little River Baptist Association at Ashdown, Arkansas on October 12,13 and 14, 1917

  

Page 16-17

Report on Obituaries:

We your committee on Obituaries report. From the reading of the letters of the church that ten brethren and sisters have been called from time to eternity, to wit:

Sisters & Brothers: Robert Brown, Mary Bill Webb, J.B. Jones, Ben Boyd, Rena Gordon, R.J. Bettis (Deacon), J.T. Holt, J.T. Cowling, H.L. Majors and R.H. Parker.

 

We extend our heartfelt sympathies and prayers in the bereaved. Knowing God's ways and dealings with his children are just and right. We all bow in humble Submission to his will.

Committee: J.C. Powers, J.H. Barkman, and Charles H. Parks.

Ashdown Local News ~ 1912

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.

1917 Little River Baptist Association Minutes ~ Obits

3rd Annual Meeting of Little River Baptist Association

Minutes of the Third Annual Meeting of the Little River Baptist Association at Ashdown, Arkansas on October 12,13 and 14, 1917

Page 16-17

Report on Obituaries:

We your committee on Obituaries report. From the reading of the letters of the church that ten brethren and sisters have been called from time to eternity, to wit:

Sisters & Brothers: Robert Brown, Mary Bill Webb, J.B. Jones, Ben Boyd, Rena Gordon, R.J. Bettis (Deacon), J.T. Holt, J.T. Cowling, H.L. Majors and R.H. Parker.

We extend our heartfelt sympathies and prayers in the bereaved. Knowing God's ways and dealings with his children are just and right. We all bow in humble Submission to his will.

Committee: J.C. Powers, J.H. Barkman, and Charles H. Parks

LRCGS, 2007

George Marcus Barrett

Former Owner of L. R News Dies at Hugo

Hugo- George Mark Barrett, a one time owner of the Little River News, died Friday at his home here following a week's illness with heart ailment. Funeral services were held Monday at the First Baptist Church, Hugo.

Judge Barrett is remembered by the long-time residents of Ashdown, as he studied law in the office of the late Judge Cowling, and was admitted to the bar in 1902. Judge Cowling's law office at that time was in the wooden building on the present site of the Dixie Theatre. While a practicing attorney here, Judge Barrett bought the Little River News, which he owned for a short time.

He moved to Idabel, Okla., where he was county attorney of McCurtain County.  He served as state and federal judge in Oklahoma and at the time of his death, he was city attorney at Hugo.


George Marcus Barrett (1874-1947) was my great grand uncle and was married to Della Herndon (1879-1966).  They are buried in  Mt Olivet Cemetery in Hugo, OK.

Little River News ~ November 20, 1947