Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1910-08-12
LAYING OF CORNERSTONE
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done so much to make the Soutt what it is today, and as long as the history of the South is read, Lee, the Warrior, will stand out side by side with Lee, the masterly scholar ant teacher.
 And this building you are planning so wisely will give to the sons and daughter of southeast Arkansas that which will make monuments, not o1 stone or brass, but monuments of liv- ing, active educated boys and girls give them that which will fit then for life's duty; give them that which will place them where they can in- telligently and with less labor get better crops, better stock and bet ter homes, and until we learn these things fully, there will not be that love for the farm life that could and would be, if farmers had the com- forts and returns for his efforts as do many lines of labor.
 Arkansas is the Queen of the South, the peer of the States. There ] is no reason why her lands should not be valued with the highest, for l they are the best. There is no req son why her graineries should not be full to overfloWing; her fleecy staple filling her warehouses, nor her cat tie the finest on earth. All we need is to put our people on their mettle, let them wake up and do things. Liv- ing here is so easily made that we forget to hustle. Every acre of cotton planted, if scientifically farm ed, ought to produce a bale; every acre of corn seventy-five bushels; every COW ought to be a Jersey or Holstein, even before the train kills them; and instead of buying mules in Missouri, raise them at home. have great faith in my native State; great faith in her people; there are no truer or better on earth. All we need is to wake up and do things. At the head of the school you have a man, Hon. J. L. Spence, whose life and heart is in this work. A man peculiary fitted for this labor, and if we will do our pa t, but half, the effects of this school will not be con- | fined to Drew county, or southeast Arkansas, but every State in this Union will feel the flow of the young blood and life passing through the walls and going out to mingle with others in life's battles.
 And if l should succeed in repre- senting this district in the National 1 Congress, my life's energies will be | devoted to obtaining for my native State all that is coming to her. The State where my life has been spent, where my dead lie under her sod j; the State whose people I love, and who are capable of making this land 1 blossom like rose.
 Pine Bluff Delegation.
 The Board of Trades special train left Pine Bluff one hour late, but the delay did not lessen the enthusiasm of the Jefferson county boosters on their way to attend the cornerstone laying and barbecue at Monticello to- day. The train, though far from being up to the usual standard of the Iron Mountain special train service, ill equipment, was decorated with ban ners bearing the greeting: Pine Bluff, the Cream of the Valley Greets Monticello the Peach of the Hiils''; i; Pine Bluff is a City Builder, But Back to the Land, Boys, and Pine Bluff is Pulling for Our Agricultural School
 The train consisted of baggage and four chair ears. When it arrived from Little Rock it was discovered that the baggage car was without end doors, and for fear of being compelled to stop evry few minutes and climb through the side doors of the baggage car, the delegation insisted that the refreshments be loaded in the adjoin- AAiS NAcAA NoA anu lACy WClc At Du. mas delegation of fifteen Desha county citizens, boarded the train and similar delegations went aboard as the train neared Monticello.
 At every station the Pine Bluffians were given cordial reception by friends, who gathered at the stations to meet them. The mild summer weather had tendency to make the trip pleasant and the ladies in the party, as usuad, added to the pleasure of the trip materially with their presence
 On the train were A. W. Mum, P. P. Byrd. James Gould, Dr. J. L. Cald- we'll J. A. Clement, W. E. Mullikin, V. O. Alexander and wife, w. W. Byrd, W M Price and wife, of Stutt- garr, M. G. May, G. H. Williams, w. H. Bowers of Jacksonville; Architest Sanders, of Little Rock. A. w. Lowe, Charles Chestnut, Bud" Byrd, H. B. Bahlau, H. H. Ferguson and wife, D. w. Richey, J. H. Dellmon and wife, D