NEWS ITEMS

Chicot County Arkansas Genealogy Trails

--The Railroad business is lively at Chicot. Source:  LITTLE ROCK DAILY REPUBLICAN, September 2, 1873, contributed by Frances Cooley.

--A large flour depot is to be established at Chicot.  Source:  LITTLE ROCK DAILY REPUBLICAN, September 2, 1873, contributed by Frances Cooley.

--It was one hundred and five in the shade in Chicot last week.  Rain is badly needed.  Source:  LITTLE ROCK DAILY REPUBLICAN, September 2, 1873, contributed by Frances Cooley.

--A Mr. Laine, living in Chicot County, was bitten on the hand last week by a huge rattlesnake, concealed under a stack of lumber on which he was at work, and which he was attempting to turn over.  It took a gallon and a half of Chicot whisky to kill the effects of the bite.  Source:  LITTLE ROCK DAILY REPUBLICAN, September 2, 1873, contributed by Frances Cooley.



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