The log cabin Democrat., 1913-05-12
STATE PRESS GANG
 GIVEN WRITE UPS'
SOUVENIR EDITION ISSUED
CONWAY NEWSPAPER MEN s / PORTRAITS ADORN "ARKAN-
 SAS PRESS"

In commemoration of the fortieth anniversary of the Arkansas Press Association, the Western Newspaper Union of Little Rock has just issued handsome sovenir, "The Arkansas Press,' an edition of "A pages devoted to the activities of the newspaper fra ternity of Arkansas. The souvenir is handsome not only because it is beauti fully printed on high-grade paper, but because its pages are adorned with portraits of practically every newspa- iper man in Arkansas.
 Write-ups of several Conway and former Conway newspaper men are published in the edition. J. A. Living iston of the Russellville Courier Demo- crat, who was once a devil" in the Log Cabin Democrat office and is na- tive of Faulkner county, is described Fas the "man who made Enola famous" MT. Livingston, the article says, "is product of Arkansas and makes no eff fort to conceal it. He says he was born at Enola-there has been some question as to whether this was the name of town or a disease-but as the birthplace of Mr. Livingston, the fact that it really is town in Faulk- ner county is fairly we'll established. 1"
 Of Tom E. Wren of the Russellville Recor1, who also served his appren- ticeship on the Log Cabin Democrat, the Press" says in part:
 I "Mr. Wren was born at Conway in 1888 and did his first newspaper work when he was 12 years old, startling with the Log Cabin Democrat at Con- way. He remained with that paper for 12 years, working during the last five years of that period as reporter and advertising manager of the Daily Democrat. In April, 1912, he went to | IRussellville as advertising manager of 1 the Courier-Democrat and was suc- cessful in largely increasing the adver- Using business of that paper He left the Courier-Democrat to join Mr. Rag land in the purchase Of the Record.
 "Mr. Ragland is married and has a son whom he admits is about the best thing in the way of sons that has yet been discovered. MT. Wren is not mar ried but he issues a general invitation or threat, whichever it may be re- igarded, by declaring that he has no ob- Elections to becoming benedict"
 r The "write-ups" of the editors of the two Conway papers follow:
 'It would be a mighty poor legisla- ture without J. B. Higgins in charge as clerk in the lower house He has served six terms in such capacity, and he never allowed a session to ad- journ without taking home the warm personal friendship of every member of the lower house Jim is inclined to admit that he never did quite so much squirming as during the last session when so many anti-newspaper bills were being tossed about, but his influence for the press was power ful factor in the defeat of these per nicious measures. He did everything 'open and above board, but he did it. And even the friends of these meas ures think he is the best clerk the low CT house ever had.
 Higgins is the editor and publisher of the Arkansas Farmer at Conway He is young man, turning slightly gray from the effects of strenuous po- litical life, but he is so young that he | is ashamed to admit the date of his birth. He first learned to set type un- der the late M. R. White, who was dubbed 'Opie Read by many. Later he became reporter on daily news paper at Helena, published by Ben Higgins and L. A. Palmer. In 1897 he started the Quitman Tribune which he edited for IS months, then located at Conway in charge of the Conway Weekly Times, which has since been transformed into the Arkansas Farm CT. With one or two brief intervals he has been connected with this paper ev CT since, and he probably will be for all time to come"
 Frank E. Robins and the Conway I ' n rI nhAYY