The Forrest City times., 1903-06-05
FORREST CITY
After Many Years.
Mrs MARY L. WHITsoN.

Forrest City, county seat OF st Fran
CHS County, Arkansas, is building and
improving in material DEVELOPMENT
more rapidly than any town in The
state. Two banks, two railroads. a
large oil mill, staye works, spoke facto.
~, bottliDg works, water works. ice
plant, several gins, speak we'll for the
enterprise of her citizens.
A very handsome courthouse. ele.
gantly furnished-the cleanest, incest
and best kept one / ever saw-costing
$4,000; would be credit to any place.
Arkansas is splendid State, and
like West Virginia has come to the
front very fast In the last twenty wears.
Not in the wide world can YOU find
more intelligent, hospitable, courteous
people than IL Forrest City,. Tennessee.
Mississippi and Kentucky have con-
trlbuted largely to the building up of
Eastern Arkansas.
Not having seen Forrest City for
many years, it is pleasure to look
around, and note the Improvements
that have been made here.
The assessed value of St. Francis
County is So ,O1S, 159. | had this infor.
nation from the popular and obllging
County Court Clerk, Mr.. Il. G. Merwin,
one armed and gallant Confederate
soldier, native of Louisville, Ky Mr..
Merwin fought in the 1st Ark. Cavalry.
under Gen. Albert Pike, ard was a
prisoner on Johnson's Island when the
surrender came. Was elected to this
Office in 1900, having been Clerk of Lee
County from 1878 to 1884 Was Deputy
Clerk from 1891 to 1900 Is mason
and member of the Royal Arcanum.
DIR. J. ID. Mcknight, Sheriff of st.
Francis County, has long been lead
ing physician of this community; was
born in Fayette County, Tennessee.
March 12tb, 1912. Having taken lee
lures at Nashville, he graduated at
Memphis in 1854. Was a non commits.
stoned officer in the 18th Tenn, Co. G.,
Confederate Army; fought with Gen.
Bragg; was wounded number of times
slightly, and badly at Jonesboro, Ga,
20 miles from Atlanta. Moved to Ar
kansas in 1870 Was elected Sheriff and
took charge of the. Office Nov. |, 1902
IS President of the st. Francis Medical
Society, IA Mason, Odd-Fellow and
member of the Methodist Church.
Mr.. VIM. Murphree, Deputy Sheriff,
Was born in Mississippi in 1866 His
father from South Carolina, mother
from Mississippi Has lived here since
1875. Has been in. Office six years, and
in Forrest City five. Is a Mason, Odd
Fellow and Redman. He treats stran.
gers with great courtesy.
There is not more gentlemany set.
of county officers anywhere in the State
than here.
In their elegant Office in the. court
house, you will find Taylor, knight 4
Co., Fire, Life and Accident Insurance,
Real Estate and Loans. These young
men have grown up together and edu-
Gated together, and now conduct a most
successful and prosperous business
Z igar +. Taylor and II. A. Knight.
Tne BUSINESS was established
in 1876. Represents thrly-one Insu-
rance Companies, the leading ones of
1.-THE United States, too numerous to
N ntion-the Etna, German, p. lix
of Brooklyn, Phoenix of London, and
80 many others, that there is not room
for them. Mr. Knight was born in For.
rest City; Instantly from Illinois; grad.
uated from the Gem City Business Col
lege, Quincy, Ills; is a member of the
Episcopal Church. Mr.. Taylor is also
native of this city These young men
have made the strictest integrity the
basis upon which they have built up
the splendid business.
Forrest City has one of the finest
equipped Ice Pants IN Arkansas. Ey-
erything is complete connected with it,
re ,pital stock S30,c0o. Organized two
years ago, twenty-five ton capacity.
Ice made here OF the finest qualty-as
clear as crystal Shipped in carload lots
throughout the surrounding country.
This is an enterprise that the town is
very proud of, and is managed 10y Mr.
Walter L. German, a young man Just
stwenty-one years old, son of the Mayor
and educated Sewanee, Tenn, the very
SWEETEST school in the South
Tae Boiling Works is IA new and
successful enterprise, established bere
Hast Maicl by A. Muller Il Son. Nearly
5000 is invested in the work. Ship
about one hundred cases per day within
radi of forty miles around here
Messrs. Muller & Son came here from
DeS,t', Mo.
TheWater Works, located high above
the town, is an investment of S92 0G0.
Pumps six thousand gallons per hour.