Semi=weekly graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1895-1902, 1896-08-08
PICTURESQUE
ALTHE|MER ]
The Fairest Eden Nature
Has Produced.
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THE GREAT COTTON AND CORN
SECTION SECTION 9E JEFF FEERsss0 E
COUNTY.
School. Churches. etc.--Peopled by
a Live and Prosperous
People.
ssrsou.aea by Fine Farms. Munifloont
Crops-Thus You Have asPiCture
of Altheimer.
where once was stately forests.
And wild-fiowers blooming gay.
Stands the community OF Altheimer,
Glorious and grand today.

And wild-fiowers blooming gay.
Stands the community OF Altheimer
Glorious and grand today.
Altheimer, one OF the go-aheada-
tive communities of Jefferson county
is located on the Cotton Belt Rail
Road twelve miles north of Pine
Bluff. The community has a pop
ulation of $50, which is being con-
stantly augmented and increased.
It is located in that part of Jeffer-
son county which is attracting the
atten ton of citizens of the world.
It's elements of wealth surpass
Persia of old. Altheimer has
always been favored community,
and by the enterprise and liberality
of its citizens is growing rapidly in
wealth, culture and education. 1t
is surrounded by beautiful fertile
country, with its fields of snowy
cotton and beautiful fruit trees, set
tied by an Industrious population
that swear by Altheimer. Althe-
mer is live center, and all the
noble influences which characterize
refined life are eentered there.
Before 1870 naught could be seen
Of the prosperous community of
Altheimer but q few cleared fields,
around which basked the June sun.
The dense forest, as up into the
clear blue sky, wreathed lazily or
swayed fantas tically in the evening
breeze, the pale blue smoke from
the wooden ehimnevs of the few log
#huts that then comprised the en-
bryo village, clothed in all their
natural grandeur. The Indian
hunted lazily through the forest,
while the dark-eyed damsel made
love to the brave, as the wild flow
ers kissed the morning dew or as
the luminary of the universe cast
its scintillant rays Ger the forest
and departing day. But behold the
changel The iron horse carries the
products of the plantations, or
chards, etc, to the markets of the
world beyond. The church, wherein
the spiritual is administered by gen
tlemen of intellectual attachments
in theological subjects.
Yes, Altheimer has grown until
today il stands without peer in the
race for supremacy of natural adj
yantages, and upon this basis,
coupled with the wide-awake inter
est taken by her inhabitants, has
pushed Altheimer to the front. On
ward is her cry, and onward she goes
undaunted by obstacles.
ALTHEIMER
Was founded in 1883, when the Cot
ton Belt Railway was built through
that section. Since that date her
rise has been rapid and substantial.
The Altheimer branch of the Cot
ton Belt extends from here, thus
giving communication with Little
Rock It may be truly said that one
may step upon y train in Altheimer
and with the usual delays, changes
of cars, ETC., travel to any point on
the American continent Fourteen
trains pass through Altheimer daily;
thus ample communication is given
with other points of this section.
POPULATION.
A careful observer will place the
population of Aitheimer III the
neighborhood of $50 These people
are rich in the possession of citizen
ship in community that will in the
near future equal any of the sur
rounding cities on the map in point
of population.
SCHOOLS.
In school facilities Altheimer is
fully abreast with the times. She
has first-class graded school. The
building is fine, commodious one,
being two stories, 30x60 feet in d.
mansions. The upper floor is de-
voted to the Masonic Lodge head
quarters.
CHURCHES.
Altheimer may well be called q
city of churches, numbering as she
does FIVE of these houses of worship.
We doubt if there is another town
in the county that can show as good
record in this direction. Mcdowell
Chapel, the white Methodist Church
is a model of beauty.
WATER SUPPLY.
AS in everything else, the matter
of water supply in Altheimer has
long ago been solved, and when we
state that the water obtained here
vii. bear favorable comparison with
that obtained anywhere else in the
county, we but state plain, unyar-
nished fact.
MASONIC LODGE.
The Masons have fine lodge here
with a membership of thirty-five.
SURROUNDING COUNTRY.
The garden spot of Jefferson
where the fieecy cotton and
the many golden hued ears of corn
are raised, needs no touches from |
our zen TO commend it to the man |
seeking home. The farms sur