The Russellville Democrat., 1876-07-13
Our principal towns are:


 the year. D. F. WILLIAMSON. 1 Our principal towns are;
 I RUsLELLyILLE.
 One of the most lively, prosper ous towns on the line of the l.. R.
 & F. $. By, is Russe!lyille. The town is 76 miles from Little Rock
 and about the same distance from
 Van Buren. It is three miles 1 from the Arkansas river and is surrounded by a good farming country. The situation is most beautiful, being d small prairie dotted all ovet with nice little groves of trees. The place was settled In 1884 by F. C. lIolledger,
 wlIo built the first house in the l place. The house was purchased l in the following year by Dr. Thos. J. Russell, and still stands in the western part of town on Main street ut this day. The chimney at the cast end oi this house was the first stone chimney ever built in Pope county. Alex. Maddux also came here and pitched his tent in this place during the lat ter part of the year 1891. Dr. Thos. J. Russell moved here in
 1885 and from him the town took its name. He made this his home continuously-the interval of the rebellion cScepted-until the year 1865, the date of his death at his home in this place.
 TLe town improved but little until the L. R. & F. s. By. was completed. Since that time it has enjoyed steady growth and now has population of about 800 souls. There are fifteen stores, one tin shop, enc sho" shop, one sad,llery shop, two blacksmith shops, two carpenter and cabinet shops, two cotton gins, one fouring Y i'll and wool carding factory, two silver smiths, two hotels, one barber shop, one livery stable, one mar ket house and one saloon. The town sustai;.s q good nine months free school. Has two churches Presbyterian and Methodist Epis- copal.
 Health is good, water first rate l good supply of fuel both wood | and stone-coal.
 The professions are well repre- sentsd. We have six doctors, | five lawyers, one dentist. Of SO cieties we have one lodge l. o. of G. T., one lodge Masons and q fine Sunday school. The town and county sustains one news paper--the DEMoCRAT-the circu- lation of which now numbers near one thousand and is steadily increasing.
 ATKINS.
 This is a fourishing young town located about 62 mics west of Little Rock on the l.. R. & F. $. Ky. Dirt was broken for the first building in the place by Mr. E. A. Darr, one of the representa- tive men and leading merchants of the place, in July or August 1873. He erected a store and dwelling. During the same sum mcr and fall the following acqui- sltions were added to the town: Messrs. Embry & Embry, mer- chants; Whisonant & Dickey, merchants; Darr & Darr, mcr- chants; Whiteslde & Whiteside, druggists; and J. M. Guest, mer- chant. Later, Messrs. Mourning & Bro, merchants, and N. Holder field, now IIolderiicld & Guest, located at Atkins. There is one church, Methodist, one school, by Rev. 0. H. Tucker and lady, and q Sabbath School under the di. rection of the NJ. +. Church South, superintended by Rev. o. II. Tucker. A Masonic Lodge. Odd Fellows Lodge, Lodge of l. o. G. T., Terpsichorean League and n Base Ball Club constitute ; the other societies of the town. , Of professional men there arc three of acknowledged abil ity and skill-Drs. Whiteside, Potts and Warren. Of lawyers the town considers itself fortu- . nate to have not one. Mechan- i lcs five; hotels, one; livery sta q bles, one; one very fiue ifouring mill almost completed. The present population is about two hundred. The town is surround ed by a very excellent country and is building up steadily. To c the credit of the people who live q in and around Atkins it can be C claimed as a mark of their intelli- f igence, that the Atkins post | office has the next to the largest U club of subscribers to the DEMO 1RAT of any place in the county.
 NoRRlSTOWN, A quiet little village, situated on he northern bank of the Arkan- ,as river, some 3 miles from the station of Russellville, on the l.. a. & r. $. Ky, was settled some imc about the year 1929 by 'aml. Norris, of Pennsylvania, rom whom the place took it's |,