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NEWS ITEMS
Prairie County Arkansas Genealogy Trails --Little Rock Daily Republican, Sept 2, 1873--Sneak-thieves are plentiful at Devalls Bluff. --Contributed by Frances Cooley. --Little Rock Daily Republican, Sept. 2, 1873--Prairie County, especially the southern portion, is suffering for want of rain. If the drought continues the crops will be cut short. --Contributed by Frances Cooley. --Little Rock Daily Republican, Sept. 2, 1873--The White River Journal has been shown some specimens of corn and cotton "that can't be beat." They were grown on Grand Prairie some eight miles south of Duvals Bluff, and what makes it the more remarkable is that this is the first year the land has been cultivated. There are thousands of acres of these lands in Prairie County untilled, but which we are glad to know are being brought info favorable notice. --Contributed by Frances Cooley. --Isaac Gates, senior member of the firm of of Gates & Bro., Devall's Bluff and Des Arc, lost a two year old child a few days ago, the little one having been drowned in a tub of water into which it had fallen. (Source: Arkansaw Dispatch, Nov 24, 1883; contributed by Tina Easley.) --L. F. Martin, Des Arc, Ark. was at one time a District Lecturer for the Farmers Union. (Source: The History and Times of the Farmers Union, 1909; transcribed by Tina Easley.) |