The log cabin Democrat. [volume] (Conway, Ark.) 1901-1982, 1908-06-11
The Faulkner County Rural Let


lied at Conway Saturday night. In
Faulkner county there are now ~
rural delivery routes. The six routes
out Of Conway serve a total of about
500 families and about 1000 people.
The average length of the 20 routes
in the country is about % miles, the
total mileage being nearly 475 miles.
In the course of year the carriers
traverse a total distance of nearly
100000 miles, or six times the dis
lance around the globe. the sala-
ries of the carriers range from 1920
to 1850 a year, the total annual sala-
ries being about $4,000. The
officers of the Faulkner county asso-
citation are: H. O. Moore, president;
Marvin Matthews, vice-president;
J D. f. Tucker, secretary and treas
uref.
H. T. Lodgson, SO years of age
and resident of Fort Smith, gifted
with a remarkable memory, is said
to be able to repeat, almost word for
| word, the contents of more than 300
books. He first discovered that he
had this gift when 9 years of age,
when his mother read to him a book,
the subject matter in which he has
ever since been able to repeat. 1t
requires Is hours for him to recite
the contents of the largest book re-
tanned in his memory. Lodgson has,
it is said, attended school for only
a short time, and it is said to be
difficult task for him to read. He
was born in Indiana ana has been a
resident of Fort Smith several years.
At a meeting of the Knight of
Pythias lodge at Ozark Wednesday
night the following officers were
elected: Chancellor commander, F.
P. Nichols; vice-chancellor, W. J..
Glenn; prelate, A. d. Reynolds !;
master of work, j. H. Critics; keeper
of record and seal, D. A. Ransom !;
master of finance, G. A. Pullen !;
master of exchequer, NJ. P. Conat-
ser; master of arm, Arthur Little
ton; inner guard, Oscar Anderson,
outer guard, Charles Bell.
At mass meeting of citizens OF
Monticello recently a booster club
was organized and several commit
tees appointed to work out details for
| the advancement of Monticello's in
terests. The following officers were
elected: Judge H. W. Wells, presi-
dent; Jack Curry, vice-president
Lamar Williamson, secretary, and j.
j. McCloy, treasurer.
At a meeting of Jefferson lodge
| No. 225, I. @. O. F., at Pine Bluff
Tuesday night, the following officers
were elected for the term: Noble
Grind, G. w. Byington; vice-grand,
DR.. R. NJ. Porter; secretary, G. P.
Chestnut; treasurer, J. C. Hiersh-
spiel; district deputy grand master,
j. W. Bell.
The Arkansas Medical Eclectic
Society will meet at Eureka Springs
June 1916. Letters have been re-
ceived from different states acnounc-
ing that there will be many visitors
from those states to the convention.
From Eureka Springs the visitors
will 60 to Kansas City to attend the
national convention of Eclectic ply
sicians.
After being shut down for five
weeks, the announcement is made
that the plant of the Equitable Pow
der Company at Fort Smith mill re-
sumo operations. A full force of
workmen will be given employment,
He. Birtchners, who has been serv.
ing in the United States navy the
past four years, recently received an
honorable discharge and returned to
his home in Texarkana Monday
For the past two years Mr.. Birtch-
ner has been coxwain of the armor-
ed cruiser California.
Two unidentified men assaulted
and robbed Thomas Fielder of Bay
in the road near Jonesboro sSatur-
day night, securing Sal. One of the
men struck Fielding with a quart
bottle of whiskey and inflicted sew
eral gashes in his face.
w. R. Cooley, brakeman on the
Iron Mountain road, was caught be.
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