The Sentinel=record., 1914-07-08
REV. MANVILLE ' PASSES AWAY
DIED LAST NIGHT AT 7:3o O'CLoCN AT HIS HoME-FUNERAL TO
 BE HELD THURSDAY.
Was a Superanuated Methodist Min ister Who Worked Among All Glass es and Was Immensely Popular Wherever Known.

Rev w. B. Manville, one of the best known Methodist ministers in the Little Rock conference, died at his home on Third street in South Hot Springs at 730 o'clock. The end came peacefully. He had known for some days, even for a week, that he would not survive the decline of pass ing years.
 Rev. Manville was one of the most popular ministers that ever served congregation in Hot Springs, He was of the Methodist denomination, but he was a worker in field of mankind and in his ast days he asked that the inscription be placed on his tomb; "Manvile Loves People,
 He came to Hot Springs as pastor of the Malvern avenue Methodist church about the time the ArKaAsas State Fair was in it's infancy, and he became an enthuiastic booster for this institution. He loved nature, and nature. He took particular interest in the tomato plant and leaves as a legacy among his friends the Man vile Tomato" plant which he orig
 mated by grating, and which is said to be the perfection in the art of to. mato growing.
 In his religious work Rev. Manyil e had been 5 most ardent advocate of the God he served. Withal ne was kin to human weaknesses and frailties and his influence was not confined to those among the ranks of either his own or any other congregation, but in that broader field of human kind. After leaving Hot Springs Rev. Man Iyille went to Sheridan and served some years as pastor Of the Methodist church of that city, after which he was superanuated by the Little Rock lconference. The friendships he had made in Hot Springs had been respon. sive, and before ne retired from the ministry there was by happy volun- | teer subscription among his friends here q fund created to build for him a home here that he might live out | his declining years among those whC loved him so. Here ne and his widow ived, continuing the good Christian work they had ever done in the work | of the cause they represented
 Even though in his last months o life he was never faltering when the call came from friends The funeral | will be held from the Third stree church in South Hot Springs Thurs. day afternoon at 3o'clock Rev. Dr
 Alonzo Monk, presiding elder of this
 district, and Rev. J. A. Sage of Pine
 Bluff, will officiate at the services The Masonic fraternity, of which Rev
 Manyile. was member, will attend
 the funeral of the body.
 In 1887 Rev. Manyile took a con | spieuous part in the first state fair
 ever held in Arkansas. This fair was held at Little Rock, and Rev. Man
 vile was superintendent of the agri- cultural department. and took a great
 interest in the work, securing ex- aibits form many counties. Pillow ing that work he became secretary
 to the immigration bureau, the first
 ever conducted in this state. and
 later became deputy agricultural
 commissioner for the state.
 Rev. Manville was splendid
 writer on agricultural subjects, and
 contributed many articles for The
 Sentine-Record in the years gone ny
 under the title of "Old links" that lwill be remembered with interest by
 those who followed them. For three years he was agricultural editor of
 the Arkansas Gazette, and during
 many years he contributed at inter vals to that publication.