The Springdale news., 1908-05-15

l.. NJ. RIGGs.
 "Breathes there a man with soul so dead, who never to him. self has said, this is my own. my native land?" l.. NJ. Riggs IS not such. for lie IS proud to ac- knowledge his native land, in about tile center of the North Temperate Zone. Aurora, Ark ansas was his birthplace, Sept. 30, 1sS5. He was interrupted in his very busy days, when he was learning all lie could in his limit ed area Of operations, at the age of two years, and Was transferred to Huntsville. the capital of Madison Co. For five years he worked at enlargine, his horizon of knowledge there. In lS94 we find him in Noeona, Texas. Three wears he wrestled with na- ture and art Ill acquiring more information Ill that vast state, and then he eame back to Wash ington Co.,. that adjoining the county Of his birth. and pursued his studies ln the school of life in Springdale, in the school room and outside. Worked his way along till about ls97, lie went to the big city of St. Louis, to com pete With the teemlng thousands there and learn more of tile world and it's ways. With small purse of money, he landed there with but little but q good healthy body and ambition to make an honorable advance and accumu- late few shining shekels. He soon obtained position as street car conductor, and for four years attended to arduous duties of that position, an advantageous pla1 C for him 10 study human nature e. He there met, Tn business way. every day, and Sunday toe. for one and one half years of the time, the millionaire banker and business man, the smaller busi- ness man Of almost every vocation. the poor man, the dandy and the dandyine, the professor and the ignorant man, the preacher, the politician. the big statesman and the gambler and boodler. the prizetig htcr and the invalid. the woman With her poodle which they generally did not let ride
 the lady with her Teal baby, the bootblaek and the bonanza king, the cowboy and the ttndertoot, III short the wise and the foolish, the guilty and just. He learn- ed them and their ways. He gained much valuable informa- tion i'll his business, and Tn de gree. social relations with all classes and conditions of men. women and children. His route was Olive Street, the great mer- cantile thoroughtare of St. Louis, out to Forest Park. Oh what variety of human beings did he conduct out to and from the Worlds | air Grounds, His little vacation times he gathered good knowledge U tie metropolis and it's ways. He had good habits. kept clear of thousands of entic- ing temptations to evil life. and saved lHs money. On January |. l9o6. he bought one-hdif inter- est in the furniture and under taking business that he How o8ns. taking over his partner's hdIf at ter | few months of the partner ship. He has q splendid furn- ture store, keeps 1t and lis under taking business III neat and buSl- ness-hke fashion, and has stead- fly developed and has constant ly increasing business. because he is alert accommodating and courteous Tn the treatment of the public. The little fellow with the wings and the bow and arrow got hln, like lie gets all large and handsome men, as well as the less favored. and he became the husband of Miss Myrtle May Phillips, Oct. 2, 1907. Is Baptist, and is J. W. in the local Masonic lodge. \ clever young business man, good citizen, d genial companion, he is popular as we'll as prosperous.