('OjATJ^htN!' 
 
 COn-RIGHT DEI>08n 
 
The Standard 
 
 Blue Book 
 
 OF 
 
 Arkansas 
 1911-14 
 
 Enlcrecl according to nn Art of Con^ross in 
 the year of li)ll, by A. J. FEELKH. in the 
 
 office of the 
 Librarian of f'onercws. at WashiiiBton. D. (".. 
 
 An Exclusive 
 
 Edition De Luxe 
 
 Limited to one hundred and Iwenty-eiiJhl pafie». not exeeediniS twenty-eifiht paiSes 
 of straight advertisine matter 
 
 A. J. Peeler& Company, Publishers and Proprietors 
 
 Dallas, Texas 
 
 P.O. Box 732 
 
 A. .1. Pooler, Miss Eleanor Watson, McK. J. Sullivan, 
 
 President. Editor an.l Social Editor and Assistant Manager 
 
 General Manaser Special Representative and Associate Editor 
 

 CCI.A280631 
 
The Standard Blue Book of Arkansas 
 
 Introductory 
 
 Our Plan 
 
 After many months of constant labor, intermingled with pleasant associations, we submit, 
 without an apology, our edition de luxe of the Standard Blue Book of Arkansas. During the last four 
 years we have completed and issued editions de luxe of the Standard Blue Book on the State of Oklahoma; 
 Houston, Texas; Beaumont, lexas; East Texas and the State of Tennessee, including this book on the 
 principal cities of Arkansas, probably the strongest works ever issued on the commercial, social and 
 intellectual progress of any States or cities in the American Union. Our plan of bringing together and 
 blending the commercial conditions of a community and State into a happy, entertaining and attractive 
 volume is original and unique and we believe to be the most effective and powerful method of presenting 
 the actual conditions of a State or a country to the world. 
 
 Pa^es Limited 
 
 This book is restricted and positively limited to 128 pages, and will not exceed 28 pages of paid 
 advertising matter. This restriction is made so as to enable the work to go through the mails at a reason- 
 able expense, reaching the marts of trade and the centers of population throughout the United States 
 and European countries. 
 
 The Advertising Section 
 
 The advertising section admits only such persons, firms or corporations as can establish a record 
 for integrity and honesty and whose express purposes are clearly and substantially trustworthy and 
 honest. Thorough investigations are specifically made in each and every instance as regards both the 
 advertiser and the advertisement. 
 
 Standing behind this section is the guarantee of the publishers and the assurance that individual 
 investigation has been made with unfaltering exactness and that every person contained in this section 
 from an advertising standpoint is deserving of public confidence. 
 
 The advertising section of the Standard Blue Book publications are simply the channel of com- 
 munication between honest persons engaged in straightforward business pursuits upon a basis of rectitude, 
 valid declarations and substantiated facts. 
 
 It will be the constant aim and ambition of its publishers to hold this department to the high 
 commercial confidence and prestige it has enjoyed in the past. 
 
 The Material Selected 
 
 The material selected herein exploiting the commercial representation of the respective cities of 
 Arkansas has been properly and duly submitted by us to the various commercial clubs. Boards of Trade 
 and Chambers of Commerce for approval, and meritorious citizenship has been first and foremost con- 
 sidered. Our best effort has been made to gioe the world a good, clean, reliable, trustworthy publication, free 
 from paid photos and "write-ups" and biographical sketches of the living for which a compensation is charged. 
 
 Social Section 
 
 Our Standard Blue Book publications are fashioned after the Blue Books issued by the United 
 States Government on trade conditions, blended with the improved idea of the Social Blue Book of Euro- 
 pean countries with harmonious perfection. 
 
The Standard Blue Book of Arkansas 
 
 Social Section — Continued 
 
 The social section of the Standard Blue Book of Arkansas, like all of our other State and National 
 publications, is held primarily above a money consideration, and meritorious citizenship will be first and 
 foremost considered. 
 
 Every personal illustration contained in the work of prominent club, social and commercial 
 leaders of the State will be selected under the advice of an advisory board, and the pretentious and 
 mediocre will be excluded. 
 
 We will eliminate from the Standard Blue Book of Arkansas, with but rare exceptions, personal 
 sketches of the living and under no circumstances indulge in"wrlte-ups"and cheap and extravagant flattery, 
 reserving the right only to preserve historical data in perpetuating some distinguished pioneer citizen. 
 
 There will be no space rates charged for any personal photographic illustration in the Standard 
 Blue Book of Arkansas, but all photographs and engravings must be furnished without cost to publishers 
 to insure insertion. 
 
 We will properly and justly recognize unselfish and patriotic assistance given us in making this 
 
 work a success in behalf of civic, social and industrial pride in the State's best interest by dedicating a 
 
 conspicuous part in the Blue Book for the enrollment of such names of the citizens of Arkansas to whom 
 
 honors are meritoriously due. _, t t i-i 
 
 Ciommandiiig Iniluence 
 
 The rapid, industrial, educational and social development of this Imperial State demand the 
 production, in permanent form from time to time, of a correct account of the statistical progress, com- 
 mercial and social advantages and club life of its various cities, portraying therein the names and faces of 
 their men and women that have assisted materially in the general welfare and progress of the country 
 and whose lives have stood for the highest order of enlightened progress. We believe this feature alone 
 gives the work a commanding influence before the American people. 
 
 Confidence of Foreign Capital 
 
 It will be observed that we have brought into the work the personality of many of the citizens 
 of the State of Arkansas, because in so doing we wished to make plain and fully exploit our views upon 
 a subject to which we have given years of experience and thought. We believe to encourage a better 
 class of permanent citizenship, and to gain the confidence of foreign capital and interest it in our prolific 
 opportunities, it is just as necessary to show the refinement and stability of a community as it is to give 
 statistical data setting out strictly the commercial advantages. 
 
 State Record and Family Souvenir 
 
 Then, again, outside of all business considerations, this work, in years to come, will be prized 
 beyond a money value as a State record and family souvenir, giving the living a lasting pleasure in com- 
 memorating the names and faces of those loved ones long since passed away to the Great Beyond and 
 serving as a tribute of respect to those who have done their part faithfully and well in the race and progress 
 of human life. 
 
 Worthy of Representation 
 
 In the compilation of this work we have faithfully and honestly tried to give every one worthy 
 of representation in the cities of this State treated upon in this edition a place in this book. We have 
 extended a personal invitation to every eligible citizen of the principal cities of the State to help us make 
 the Standard Blue Book of Arkansas the greatest work of its kind ever issued, and we are pleased to 
 say that we have had a strong support along these lines and have no hesitation in saying that we present 
 to the public the most representative work of its kind ever issued in Arkansas. 
 
The Standard Blue Book of Arkansas 
 
 Indispensable to the Home 
 
 We have incorporated in this work such matters as to make it indispensable to the home as a 
 constant reference book, and it will there occupy the same relative position as the city directory does 
 in the business world, as well as a financial and social guide book. This work will be invaluable to (he 
 merchant, the banker, the manufacturer and business house of every nature as the only direct, permanent, 
 reliable method in reaching the wealth and culture of a community. 
 
 Powerful Advei'tising Medium 
 
 It is the only possible way in which an advertisement can reach the banking and bond houses, 
 stock exchanges and the commercial institutions of this and other States and the drawing rooms and 
 libraries of the wealthy and be made lasting and perpetual. 
 
 As An Authority 
 
 This work will be accepted as an authority and as a reliable guide by the homeseeker, investor, 
 tourist and capitalist and will be a powerful medium in upbuilding the community, introducing one 
 section of the State, their people and industries to the other and in placing business interests in touch 
 with capital seeking investment. It can readily be seen that we have diverged from all stereotyped 
 methods in the plan and preparation of this work and have blazed out unaided through virgin forests 
 in hope of new discoveries in ideas and methods, seeking to bring together, if possible, a happy com- 
 bination of the social and poetic side of life, intermingled and blended with the prosaic conditions of 
 commercialism and wealth into a happy union, a crystallized charm of entertaining reflection and study 
 as well as a peerless and most powerful advertising medium. 
 
 Success Is Due 
 
 If we have achieved any measure of success we want to take this opportunity to say that our 
 success is due to those useful citizens of Arkansas whose names are found in this volume. Without their 
 aid and unqualified support, zeal and unselfish patriotic devotion to their respective sections such an 
 undertaking would have been, on our part, the wildest folly. 
 
 Enviable and Invulnerable Position 
 
 We do not deem it important to go into a full, detailed account of the contents of this volume, 
 as the book will speak for itself, but there is no getting around these important facts that Arkansas, 
 with her extensive cotton and hardwood markets, great agricultural and mineral resources, her many 
 and great facilities of railroad and deep water river transportation, with her increasing manufacturing 
 enterprises, is causing the world to sit up and take notice of the marvelous resources of a most wonderful 
 State. The throbbing and pulsating heart of the greatest and wealthiest undeveloped territory of raw 
 material of any State on the American continent now desires to take advantage of her material and 
 favorable trade conditions and claim her proper place among her sister States of the American Union. 
 Her close proximity to the Gulf seaboards, together with the great Mississippi washing her eastern 
 boundary, gives her an enviable and almost invulnerable position. 
 
 Respectfully submitted, 
 
 A. J. PEELER. 
 
The Standard Blue Book of Arkansas 9 
 
 Officers and Editorial Staff of The Standard Bine Book Publications 
 
 COL. A. J. pp:ei.er 
 
 President. Kditor and General Manager 
 
 Col. A. J. Peeler 
 
 President of The Standard 
 Blue Book Publications. 
 
 The Memphis N e ^v s - 
 Scimitar of Nleinphis. 
 Tenn., of date, January '2ti, 
 11)10, in referring to Col. 
 Peeler, says: **Ho is iin in- 
 dustrial and social expo- 
 nent, as applied to the 
 development of trade con- 
 ditions of international 
 I'eputation. In aj>precia- 
 titin of his ability alon^ 
 these lines, he M'as placed 
 upon the National Pay 
 Roll by the great Military 
 Ruler of our sinter Re- 
 public. He has served as a 
 Presidential Toastmaster, 
 is a University (Texas) 
 graduate and a retired hank 
 presiflent and for IS years 
 has been a close student of 
 industrial d e v el op me n t 
 and has dedicated his life 
 to this w^ork." 
 
 MISS ELEANOR WATSON 
 Social Editor and Special Representative 
 
 McK. J. SDLLIV^AN 
 Assistant Manager and Associate Editor 
 
The Standard Blue Book of Arkansas 
 
 Classified Directory 
 
 of Prominent Business Firms 
 of Arkansas 
 
 ABSTRACT AND TITLE COMPANIES 
 
 Arkansas Guaranty Title and Trust Co., Little Rock, Ark. 
 (See adv.) 
 
 AMMUNITION 
 
 J. H. Martin Arms Co.. Little Rock, Ark. (See adv.) 
 Whittington, Stearns Hardware Co., Hot Springs, Ark. 
 
 ARCHITECTS 
 
 Wm. Dill, State Bank Bldg., Little Rock, Ark. 
 Theodore M. Sanders. Little Rock, Ark. (See adv.) 
 Thos. G. Singleton, Texarkana, Ark. (See adv.) 
 Witt & Seibert, Texarkana, Ark. (See adv.) 
 H. J. Harker, Little Rock, Ark. (See adv.) 
 
 ATTORNEYS- AT-LAW 
 
 W. H. Arnold, Texarkana, Ark. 
 
 C. T. Cothara. Hot Springs, Ark. 
 
 G. A. Hayes, Texarkana, Ark. 
 
 Jo Johnson, Ft. Smith, Ark. 
 
 Judge Z. W. Lakenan, Hot Springs, Ark. 
 
 Jaa. McConnell, Hot Springs, Ark. (See adv.) 
 
 W. H. Martin. Hot Springs, Ark. 
 
 Frank S. Quinn, Texarkana, Ark. 
 
 Sima & Cella, Texarkana, Ark. 
 
 Chas. S. Todd. Texarkana, Ark. 
 
 Webber & Webber, Texarkana, Ark. 
 
 AUTOMOBILES 
 
 Hudson Auto Co., Little Rock, Ark. 
 
 AUin Machine Co., Helena, Ark. (See adv.) 
 
 Crenshaw-Mills Auto Livery Co., Little Rock, Ark. (See 
 
 adv.) 
 Little Rock Auto Co.. Little Rock, Ark. 
 Tedford Auto Co., Little Rock, Ark. (See adv.) 
 H. O. Rodgers. ("Cole 30") Little Rock, Ark. 
 J. A. Snyder, Little Rock. Ark. 
 
 John Deere Plow Co., Little Rock, Ark. (See adv.) 
 S. R. Thomas, ("The Cadillac"), Little Rock, Ark. 
 
 BANKS, BANKING HOUSES AND TRUST COS. 
 
 Arkansas Guaranty Title and Trust Co., Little Rock, Ark. 
 
 (See adv.) 
 Arkansas National Bank, Hot Springs, Ark. 
 Arkansas Vallev Trust Co.. Ft. Smith, Ark. 
 Bank of Pine Bluff, Pine Bluff, Ark. 
 Citizens Bank, Pine Bluff, Ark. (See adv.) 
 Citizens Bank, Hope, Ark. 
 Citizens National Bank. Hot Spring?, Ark. 
 First National Bank, Eureka Springs, Ark, 
 German National Bank. Little Rock, Ark. 
 Hope National Bank. Hope. Ark. (See adv.) 
 Hempstead County Bank. Hope, Ark. 
 Merchants National Bank, Ft. Smith, Ark. 
 Merchants and Planters Bank, Pine Bluff, Ark. 
 Night and Day Bank, Little Rock. Ark. 
 State National Bank, Texarkana, Ark. 
 Twin City Bank, Argenta, Ark. 
 Texarkana Nationnl Bank, Texarkana, Ark. 
 Texarkana Trust Co., Texarkana, Ark. (See adv.) 
 Valley Savings Bank, Argenta. Ark. 
 
 BOARDING HOUSES 
 
 Miss Emma E. Blount, ^Lagnolia House, Hot Springs, Ark. 
 
 (See adv.) 
 Mrs. A. P. McCrary, McCrary Hotel, Hot Springs. Ark. 
 
 (See adv.) 
 Mrs. J. S. Topping, Topping House, Hot Springs. Ark. (.See 
 
 adv.) 
 
 BRICK AND STONE 
 
 Arkansas Brick and Manufacturing Co., Little Rock. Ark. 
 (See adv.) 
 
 CAFES 
 
 Gleason Hotel Cafe (C. Lucchcsi, Prop.). Little Rock, Ark. 
 
 CARPETS 
 
 Arkani'as Carpet and Furniture Co., Liitle Rock, Ark. (See 
 
 adv.) 
 Union Furniture Co., Argentn. Ark. 
 
 CAPITALISTS 
 
 A. J. Peeler, Dallas. Texas. 
 J. L. Solomon, Helena, Ark. 
 
 CHAUTAUQUA WORKER 
 
 Mrs. Laura G. Huntsman, Hot Springs. Ark. 
 
 CHRISTIAN SCIENCE PRACTITIONERS 
 
 W. M. Beck, Committee on Publications, Ft. Smith, Ark. 
 
 CHIROPRACTORS 
 
 M. Mitchell, Hot Springs, Ark. 
 
 CIVIL ENGINEERS 
 
 Witt & Seibert, Texarkana, Ark. (See adv.) 
 Ford & MacCrea, Little Rock, Ark. (See adv.) 
 Dickinson & Watkins. Little Rock, Ark. 
 Lund & Hill, Little Rock, Ark. 
 
 COLLEGES 
 
 Carr-Burdette College, Sherman. Texas. (See adv.) 
 Ouachita College, Arkadelphia, Ark. (See adv.) 
 Sister ^L Thomasine, Hope, Ark. (See adv.) 
 St. Rose Academy, Hope, Ark. (.See Adv.) 
 
 COTTON BUYER 
 
 Jos. L. Solomon, Helena, Ark. 
 
 DANCING SCHOOLS 
 
 Babcock's Dancing Academy, Hot Springs, Ark. (See adv.) 
 DECORATORS 
 
 Abeles Decorating Co., Little Rock. Ark. 
 
 Crawford Paint and Paper Co., Little Rock, Ark. (See adv.) 
 
 Olmstead & Co., Hot Springs, Ark. (See adv.) 
 
 DENTISTS 
 
 Hopkins & Pixley, Argenta, Ark. 
 Alex. Westbrook, Little Rock, Ark. 
 Edgar W. Smith, Little Rock, Ark. 
 C. B. Rosson, Little Rock. Ark. 
 J. W. Barnett, Little Rork, Ark. 
 
 DEPARTMENT STORES 
 
 Joe D. Back & Bro.. Little Rock, Ark. 
 S. M. Duffie & Co.. Hot Sorings, Ark. (See adv.) 
 The Fashion, Little Rock, Ark. (See adv.) 
 Gus Blass Dry Goods Co., Little Rock, Ark. 
 Gans & Co., Little Rock. .\rk. 
 
 DIAMONDS 
 
 W. E. Bell. Little Rock, Ark. (See adv.) 
 
 The Blake Jewelrv Co., Hot Springs, Ark. {See Adv.) 
 
 T. E. Towell, Hot Springs, Ark. 
 
The Standard Blue Book of Arkansas 
 
 13 
 
 Classified Directory 
 
 of Prominent Bnsiness Finns 
 of Arkansas — Continued 
 
 DRUGS AND DRUGGISTS' SUNDRIES 
 
 W. H. Ellis, Hot Spring3, Ark. 
 W. J. Greer, Hot Springs, Ark. 
 G. A. Hogaboom, Hot .Springt<. Ark. 
 (). K. Hukill. Hot Springs. Ark. 
 C. C. Lemly, Hot Springs, Ark. 
 W. J. MoDonaki. Hot Spring. Ark. 
 Fred F. Myers. Hot Springs, Ark. 
 Sorrcll's Drug Store. Hot Springs, Ark. 
 Arthur Thompson. Hot Springs. Ark. 
 Henry Weimar. Hot Springs, Ark. 
 
 Pat. W. McClendon Drug Co., State Bank BIdg., Little 
 Rock, Ark. 
 
 ELECTRIC LIGHT COMPANIES 
 
 Ft. Smith Light and Traction Co., Ft. Smith. Ark. (See adv.) 
 Texarkana Gas and Electric Co.. Texarkana, Ark. (See adv.) 
 Pine Bluff Corporation, Pine Bluff, Ark. 
 
 ELECTRIC RAILWAYS 
 
 Ft. Smith Light and Traction Co., Ft. Smith, Ark. (See adv.) 
 Texarkana Gas and Electric Co.. Texarkana. Ark. (See adv.) 
 
 ELECTRICAL CONTRACTORS 
 
 Pine Bluff Corporation. Pine Bluff, Ark. 
 
 Geo. T. Schmelzel, Hot Sprintrs, Ark. (See adv.) 
 
 ENGINES AND BOILERS 
 
 DiHey Foundry Co.. Pine Bluff, Ark. 
 
 Hot Springs Plumbing and Machinery Co. (See adv.) 
 
 FOUNDRIES 
 
 Dilley Foundry Co., Pine Bluff, Ark. 
 
 GLASSWARE AND CHINA 
 Sanders & Co.. Little Rock, Ark. 
 
 FLOURING MILLS 
 Arkadelphia Milling Co., Arkadclphia, Ark. (See adv.) 
 
 FURNITURE COMPANIES 
 
 Arkansas Furniture and Carpet Co., Little Rock, Ark. (See 
 
 adv.) 
 Union Furniture Corporation. Argenta, Ark. 
 
 FISCAL AGENTS 
 
 A. J. Peeler & Co., Houston, Texas. 
 
 GAS COMPANIES 
 
 Texarkana Gas and Electric Co., Texarkana, Ark. (See adv.) 
 Pine Bluff Corporation, Pine Bluff, Ark. 
 Pulaski Gas Light Co., Little Hock, Ark. 
 
 GUNS 
 
 J. H. Martin Arms Co., Little Rock, Ark. (See adv.) 
 Whittington, Stearns Hardware Co., Little Rock, Ark. 
 
 HARDWARE 
 
 Bracy Bros. Hardware Co., Little Rock. Ark. 
 E. D. Bracy, Hardware Co.. Little Rock, .\rk. 
 Whittington. Stearns Hardware Co.. Hot Springs, Ark. 
 Hamp Williams Hardware Co., Hot Springs, Ark. 
 
 HEAVY MACHINERY 
 
 AUin Machine Co., Helena, Ark. (See adv.) 
 Dilley Foundry Co-. Pine Bluff, Ark. 
 
 The Jno. Deere Plow Co.. Little Rock, Ark. (See adv.) 
 Hot Springs Plumbing and Machinery Co., Hot Springs, Ark. 
 (See adv.) 
 
 HOSPITALS 
 
 Crystal St. Hospital, Hot Springs, Ark. (See adv.) 
 
 State Osteopathic Health Home. Texarkana. Ark. (See adv.) 
 
 Little Rock Sanitarium, Little Rock, Ark. (See adv.) 
 
 HOTELS 
 
 The Brockhaus, Texarkana, Ark. 
 Clerburne Hotel, Helena. Ark. 
 Eddy Hotel, Hot Springs, Ark. (See adv ) 
 Gleason Hotel, Little Hock, Ark. (See adv.) 
 Jefferson Hotel, Hot Springs, Ark. (See adv.) 
 Magnolia Hotel. Hot Springs. Ark. (See adv.) 
 Hotel Main, Little Rock, Ark. (See adv.) 
 Majestic Hotel. Hot Springs. Ark. (See adv.) 
 Marquette Hotel, Hot Springs, Ark. (See adv.) 
 McCrary Hotel, Hot Springs, Ark. (See adv.) 
 Merchants Hotel, Little Rock, Ark. (See adv.) 
 Milwaukee Hotel, Hot Springs. Ark. (See adv.) 
 Moody Hotel, Hot Springs, Ark. (See adv.) 
 Mountain Valley Hotel, Hot Springs, Ark. (See adv.) 
 Pullman Hotel, Hot Springs. Ark. (See adv.) 
 Putiiian Hotel, Hot Springs, Ark. (See adv.) 
 Southern Hotel, Hot Springs, Ark. (See adv.) 
 Southern Hotel, Texarkana. Ark. (See adv.) 
 Svunpter Hotel, l^Iot Springs, Ark. (See adv.) 
 ToppiTi;; House, Hot Springs. Ark. (See adv.) 
 New Towiisend Hotel, Hot Springs, Ark. (See adv.) 
 Waukesha Hotel. Hot Springs, Ark. (See adv.) 
 
 INDUSTRIAL EXPONENTS 
 
 A. J. Peeler & Co., Houston, Tex. 
 
 JEWELERS 
 
 W. E. Bell, Little Rock, Ark. (See adv.) 
 
 The Blake Jewelry Co., Hot Springs, Ark. (See adv.) 
 
 T. E. Towell. Hot Springs, Ark. 
 
 JUSTICE OF THE PEACE 
 
 W. H. Ramsey, Argenta, Ark. 
 
 LAWYERS 
 
 (See Attorneys-at-Law) 
 
 ^ LAUNDRIES 
 
 The Craighead Laundry, Hot Springs, Ark. (See atlv.) 
 Franks Laundry, Little Rock, Ark. 
 Little Rock Laundry, Little Rock, .\rk. 
 
 LIFE INSURANCE COMPANIES 
 
 Des Moines Life Insurance Co., Little Rock. Ark. (See adv.l 
 Four States Life Insurance Co., Texarkana, Ark. (See adv.) 
 G. W. Pardee, Kansas City Life, Little Rock, Ark. 
 H. M. Ramey, Little Rock. Ark. 
 
 LIVERY STABLES 
 
 C. J. Ledwidge, Hot Springs, Ark. (See adv.) 
 E. A. Ramsey, Argenta, Ark. 
 
 LOAN OFFICE 
 
 W. E. Bell, Little Rock, Ark. (See adv.) 
 
 LIQUORS, WINES, Etc. 
 
 L. Craddock, Dallas, Texas. (See adv.) 
 M. Cans Co., Pine Bluff, Ark. 
 Sandefur-JulianCo., Little Rock, Ark. (See a<lv.) 
 
 MILL SUPPLIES 
 
 Dilley Foundry Co., Pine Bluff, Ark. 
 
The Standard Blue Book of Arkansas 
 
 15 
 
 Classified Directory 
 
 of Prominent Business Firms 
 of Arkansas — Continued 
 
 MILLINERS AND MILLINERY SUPPLIES 
 
 Simon Mendel. Hot Springs, Ark. (See adv.) 
 Duffie & Co., Hot Springs, Arlt. (See adv.) 
 Lensing Millinery Co.. Little Rock., Ark. (See adv.) 
 Gus Bias Dry Goods Co., Little Rock. Ark. 
 Gans Dry Goods Co., Little Rock, Ark. 
 
 MINERAL WATERS 
 
 Mountain Valley .Springs Co., Hot Springs. .\rk. (Sec adv.) 
 DeSoto Springs, Hot Spring.-, Ark. (See adv.) 
 
 MUSIC STUDIOS' 
 
 Miss Emma yi. Dengler, Hot Springs, .\rk. 
 
 MASSEUR 
 
 A. F. B. Odcn, Hot Springs, Ark. (See adv.) 
 
 OFFICE SUPPLIES 
 
 Parkin-Langley Co., Little Rock. Ark. (See adv.) 
 D. C. Ricliards & Co . Hot Springs. Ark. 
 
 OSTEOPATHS 
 
 Dr. A. W. Bcrrow, Hot Springs, Ark. (See adv.) 
 Dr. C. A. Dodson, Little Rock, Ark. (See adv.) 
 Dr. Jennie C. Mitchell, Texarkana, Ark. (See adv.) 
 Dr. J, Falkner, Texarkana, Ark. (See adv.) 
 
 PAINTS 
 
 Crawford Paint and Paper Co., Little Rock, Ark. (See adv.) 
 Olmstead Sc Co.. Hot Springs, .\rk. (See adv.) 
 .\bele3 Decorating Co., Little Rock, Ark. 
 
 PHOTOGRAPHERS 
 
 J. H. Harris. Little Rock. Ark. (See adv.) 
 J. Shrader, Little Rock, Ark. (See adv.) 
 
 PIANOS AND ORGANS 
 
 HoUenbcrg Music Co.. Little Rock, Ark. 
 O. K. Houek Piano Co., Little Rock, Ark. 
 
 D. C. Richards & Co., Hot Springs, Ark. 
 
 PLUMBING COMPANIES 
 
 Hot Springs Plumbing and Machinery- Co., Hot Springs. Ark. 
 (See adv.) 
 
 PROMOTERS 
 A. J. Peeler & Co., Dallas, Tex. 
 
 PUBLISHERS 
 
 A. J. Peeler & Co., Dallas, Tex. 
 
 PROPRIETARY REMEDIES 
 
 Lopez Remedy Co., Hot .Springs. .Vrk. (.Sec adv.) 
 
 PHYSICIANS, SURGEONS, SPECIALISTS 
 
 Dr. W. S. M,ay, Little Rock, Ark. (See adv.) 
 W. G. Choate, (^■ene^eal Diseases) Hot Springs, Ark. (.See 
 adv.) 
 
 E. H. Eastman, Hot Springs, Ark. 
 
 Dr. Morris Hale. Hot Springs. Ark. (See adv.) 
 
 V. H. Hallraan. Hot Springs. Ark. 
 
 O. K. Hooper, (Skin and Blood Diseases) Hot Springs, Ark. 
 
 O. K. Hukill. Hot Springs. Ark. 
 
 W. J. McDonald, Hot Springs, Ark. 
 
 G. A. Hinton, Hot Springs, Ark. 
 
 .1. P. Randolph, Hot Springs, Ark. 
 
 Tlios. B. Ricler, Hot .Springs, Ark. 
 
 A. L. Sneed, (Eruptive Skin Diseases) Hot .Springs, Ark. 
 
 (.See adv.) 
 J. B. Strachan. Hot Springs, Ark. 
 W. E Winegar. Hot .Springs, Ark. 
 S. C. Vanleer, (Practice limited to Skin and Blood Diseases) 
 
 Hot Springs, Ark. (See adv.) 
 
 C. P. Merriwether, Little Rock, Ark. 
 
 A. G. McGill, Little Rock, Ark. 
 
 J. C. Cunningham, Little Rock, Ark. 
 
 W. H. Neibuss. Little Rock. 
 
 James L. Vail, Little Rock, Ark. 
 
 Drs. Sweatland and Walt, Little Rock, Ark. 
 
 W. C. Green, Little Rook, Ark. 
 
 READY-TO-WEAR 
 
 Joe D. Back & Bro., Little Rock. Ark. 
 S. M. Duffie & Co., Hot Springs, Ark. (See adv.) 
 Gus Blass Dry Goods Co., Little Rock, Ark. 
 The Fashion, Little Rock, Ark. (See adv.) 
 Gans Dry Goods Co., Little Rock, Ark. 
 .Simon Mendel, Hot Springs, Ark. (See adv.) 
 
 REAL ESTATE 
 
 Bridwell & Henry, Hope, Ark. 
 
 G. A. Hayes, Texarkana, Ark. 
 
 Kelley & Allen, Helena, Ark. (See adv.) 
 
 F. F. Kitchens, Helena, Ark. (See adv.) 
 
 A. B. Gerlach & Co., Argenta, Ark. (See adv.) 
 
 Pliillips County Real Estate Co., Helena, Ark. (See adv.) 
 
 RAILWAYS 
 
 St. Louis and Iron Mountain Railway. Little Rock. Ark. 
 (.See adv.) 
 
 RAILWAY CONTRACTORS 
 
 J. J. Ball, Little Rock, Ark. (.See adv.) 
 
 SANITARIUMS 
 
 Crystal St. Sanitarium, Hot Springs, Ark. (See adv.) 
 
 Little Rock Sanitarium, Little Rock. Ark. (See adv.) 
 
 State Osteopathic Health Home. Texarkana, Ark. (See adv.) 
 
 SCHOOLS 
 
 (See Colleges) 
 
 SHOE STORE 
 
 Frank-Anthony Shoe Co., Hot Springs, Ark. 
 
 SPORTING GOODS 
 
 J. H. Martin Arms Co., Little Rock. Ark. (See adv.) 
 Whittington, Stearns Hardware Co., Hot Springs, Ark. 
 
 TAILORS 
 
 Will A. Kirk, Hot Springs, Ark. (See adv.) 
 Standard Woolen Mills, Little Rock, Ark. (See adv.) 
 M. T. Welch, Little Rock, Ark. (See adv.) 
 
 TAXICABS 
 
 Crenshaw-Mills ."Vuto Livery Co., Little Rock, Ark. (See adv.) 
 
 TITLE COMPANIES 
 
 Arkansas Guaranty Title and Trust Co.. Little Rock, Ark. 
 (See adv.) 
 
 TRUST COMPANIES 
 
 .Arkansas Guaranty Title and Trust Co., Little Rock, Ark. 
 
 (See adv.) 
 Texarkana Trust Co.. Texarkana, Ark. (See adv.) 
 
 UNDERTAKERS 
 
 C. J. Lcdwidge, Hot Springs, Ark. (See adv.) 
 H. McCafferty, Hot .Springs. .\rk. (See adv.) 
 
 VETERINARY 
 
 Dr. B. H. Merchant, V.S., Little Rock, Ark. 
 
 WATCHES 
 W. E. Bell, Little Rock, Ark. (See adv.) 
 The Blake Jewelry Co., Hot Springs, .\rk. (See adv.) 
 T. E. Towell. Hot Springs, Ark. 
 
 WATER 
 
 Pine Bluff Corporation, Pine Bluff, .\rk. 
 
The Standard Blue Book of Arkansas 
 
 17 
 
 Hot Springs, Arkansas 
 
 By GEO. R. BELDIN 
 The World's Greatest Health and Pleasure Resort 
 
 That De Soto and his army were in Hot Springs— or rather on the spot that is now Hot Springs 
 
 in the winter of 1541-42 is now an accepted fact by all writers upon our history. He died in May, 1542, 
 on the Mississippi about two hundred miles from this city. The Indians of course had used the waters 
 long before the coming of the Spaniard, and to this day the descendants of the red man in Oklahoma 
 come to the traditional waters warmed by the Great Spirit for their healing. 
 
 There is no more beautiful country in the United States than that which surrounds Hot Springs. 
 The mountains are covered with green all the year and the bleak and the barren— sometimes called the 
 grand— are never to be seen, but in its stead are all the colors Nature ever dons, and mountains high 
 enough to afford miles and miles of superb scenery to the eye of him who climbs their sides. Mountains 
 rivers, fertile valleys, railroads winding in and out and under, picturesque country roads and public 
 highways are spread out before the eye in pictures as beautiful as Nature ever expresses herself in. 
 
 The city has grown from a hamlet to a cosmopolitan community of some 20,000 souls in the last 
 few years, and is today entertaining each year twice the people of Carlsbad. 
 
 The United States Government owns and controls the springs, of which there are forty-four, 
 discharging more than 1,000,000 gallons of water each day, with an average temperature of 135 degrees. 
 This water is supplied by the Government to more than twenty bath houses that have cost from $15,000 
 to $60,000 each. Not only does the Government regulate the waters and its use by the bath houses, but 
 the practice of medicine in so far as the water as a remedial agent is concerned. The bath houses are 
 not permitted to give a bath to a patient of a doctor that is not registered by the Government. 
 
 Central Avenue, Hot Springs, Arkansas 
 
The Standard Blue Book of Arkansas 
 
 19 
 
 Physicians and Medical Regulations 
 
 The United States Government through the Interior Department regulates and controls the 
 practice of medicine in connection with the hot waters. A local Federal Medical Board passes on the 
 applications of physicians who wish to prescribe the hot waters. All who meet the requirements of the 
 Board are placed on the accredited list. Copies of the list are hung in all of the bath houses and only 
 those whose names appear thereon are permitted to prescribe the hot waters. For the benefit of visitors 
 these lists are also kept at the office of the Superintendent of the Reservation. 
 
 These regulations apply only to those who take medical treatment. Others get the baths without 
 formalities of any kind. 
 
 The corps of physicians and surgeons at Hot Springs include many practitioners who are recog- 
 nized the country over as standing in the foremost rank of the medical profession. 
 
 The city is modern in every way and was one of the first in the South to adopt electricity for 
 lighting purposes. The hotels are the equals of those of any resort in the country. There are four hotels 
 costing close to $1,000,000 each, beside some fifty that have cost from $30,000 to $150,000 each, while 
 there are 500 of lesser pretentions. The streets of the city are paved for miles and the Government has, 
 at great expense, parked the adjacent mountains, which are covered with paths and roads, where the 
 visitor can walk or drive for hours. 
 
 The Government has here the most popular General Hospital in the Army and Navy. It holds 
 the world's hospital record of returning 93 per cent, of its patients to duty. Hot Springs doctors claim 
 that if other physicians would follow the rules of Uncle Sam — that is, send all patients here in whose cases 
 the hot waters were indicated — the percentage in the favor of the general practice would be equally 
 as good. The Government has spent more than $1,000,000 on the Hospital, which is being added to 
 from year to year as the demand increases. 
 
 U. S. Army and Navy Ho.spital. Hot Springs, .Vrkansns 
 
The Standard Blue Book of Arkansas 
 
 21 
 
 The adjacent mountains are the depositories of much that is valuable in stone and mineral, with 
 great undeveloped possibilities. Here are found the famous Arkansas and Washita oil stones, shipped 
 in the rough all over the earth to be made into the finest abrasive material known. Most of it goes to 
 New Hampshire, but much to Germany and France. The only clay known from which the finest of 
 pottery can be made without mixing is found here, while fullers earth is mined a short distance away. 
 Not far away are the diamond mines, and the mines from which is taken the buxite from which 75 per 
 cent, of the world's supply of aluminum is made. 
 
 Gold and silver bearing rock is here, but no means of profitably extracting it have been discovered. 
 
 The hot waters were so peculiar in their action, with such a small evidence of mineral impregna- 
 tion, that the Government sent here some time ago a chemist, Mr. Boltwood of Harvard, to make a 
 thorough examination. The result was that he reported unmistakable radio-activity in gaseous form. 
 For the benefit of those who wish to know something of theeffectof this water as different from other hot 
 waters we wish to say, you can' take a bath at a temperature of, say, 99 degrees at home in your own 
 bathroom up to your knees and the rest of your body will remain as it was before, with no sign of perspira- 
 tion; now take this same bath two degrees cooler in Hot Springs water and the perspiration will roll off 
 your body. You can take four times the quantity of some medicines here that you can at home if you 
 are drinking and bathing in the hot water. 
 
 Out of the 200,000 visitors who are here each year, half, at least, come for their health, thousands 
 are cured, while almost all are benefited. Hot Springs as a city has one of the world's smallest death 
 rates, in spite of the fact that many of her people come here for their health. The evidence would bear 
 us out in our claim that the sick man who comes to Hot Springs and gets cured is well. 
 
 Wfstern Slope of Hot Springs Mountiiin and Grand Kntrance, Hot Springs, Arkansas 
 
The Standard Blue Book of Arkansas 23 
 
 Hot Springs has one of the best eighteen-hole golf links in the United States, in fact the late 
 Willie Anderson, many times champion of America, who laid them out, considered them his best effort 
 and at the same time pronounced them the best naturally he had ever seen. It is safe to predict that 
 these links will soon be the most popular in the country. The Club House and other improvements 
 have cost $40,000. 
 
 The cold waters of Hot Springs are rapidly taking their place in the ranks of the best table and 
 medicinal waters of the United States, and hundreds of carloads are shipped to all parts of the country 
 each year. These waters are famed for their exceptional purity, and are used in the treatment of rheu- 
 matism, kidney and bladder troubles and all affections of the stomach. One of the companies marketing 
 these cold waters has recently erected on the main thoroughfare of the city a spring house costing $75,000. 
 This is the finest spring house in America and is one of the show places of the city, where thousands of 
 people go to drink the water and meet and converse with friends. 
 
 The visitor at Hot Springs has much to see, many places to go and much to do while here. About 
 ten of the hotels and bath houses maintain orchestras and give morning, afternoon and evening concerts. 
 The larger hotels have dances one night each week, and as they alternate these dances there is a dance 
 at some large hotel, to which the guests of the other hotels are invited, every night in the week. The 
 best equipped livery establishments in the country are here, and there are more fine saddle horses here 
 than in any city in the United States of 50,000 people. Automobiling can be indulged in with as many 
 advantages as anywhere, and garages are equipped with machines to suit every demand. 
 
 Many of the hotels have bath departments, and you get the famous hot water baths under the 
 same roof as the hotel at which you stop. This is a most convenient arrangement for invalids, as they 
 are wheeled down halls of even temperature to the bath department and back again to their room, 
 thereby avoiding any possible chance of contracting cold. 
 
 Tlie Government Reservation is under the management of a Superintendent, who is ably assisted 
 by a physician of the Army, who looks after the sanitation of the baths. All irregularities are carried 
 to the Superintendent, who in turn reports to the Interior Department. 
 
 The city is well governed and well regulated and is one of the cleanest towns in the world from a 
 sanitary standpoint, while from a moral one it is as good as the best of its size in America. 
 
 The citizens maintain a commercial organization, the Business Men's League, and the secretary 
 of this League devotes his whole time to its affairs. The headquarters of the League are in a beautiful 
 building owned by the organization, situated between the post office and city hall, directly opposite 
 the Rock Island depot. Here the visitor is made welcome and given every information about the city he 
 wishes and in addition he will be shown the possibilities of Arkansas, for Hot Springs is also the home of 
 the Arkansas State Fair, one of the most successful State Fairs in the country. The grounds on which 
 the Fair is held are valued at more than a half million dollars. Any communications addressed to the 
 secretary of the Business Men's League in regard to the waters will be promptly answered. If you are 
 not sure about the waters being what you need, ask; if you are desirous of finding out about what it will 
 cost you to remain here for one, two, three, or more weeks, write the secretary and he will give you an 
 idea as to what it will cost you. Beautiful illustrated literature is supplied and will be mailed you for 
 the asking. 
 
 Two railroads run into the city, the Missouri Pacific (Iron Mountain Route) and the Rock Island. 
 Either of these roads will give you Hot Springs information if you will make inquiry at their nearest 
 Station. Through trains are run in from St. Louis and Chicago by the Missouri Pacific in winter, and 
 the Rock Island has a special winter service. 
 
 Hot Springs boasts an average temperature of 62 degrees and is the perfect, all-the-year-round 
 resort in every way. No matter when you come you will be delighted with the climate 
 
The Standard Blue Book of Arkansas 
 
 25 
 
 Government Analysis 
 
 The United States Government made an analysis of the forty-four hot springs in the year 1 903. 
 They were ail very nearly alike, and below is shown that of the Big Iron Spring, the largest of the group. 
 
 Temperature, 147 deg.; daily flow, 201,600 gallons. 
 
 Gases (number of cubic centimeters per liter at degree C. and 760 mm. pressure. — Nitrogen, 
 8.80; oxygen, 3.79; carbon dioxide (free), 6.92; in combination, 30.02; hydrogen sulphide, none. 
 
 Formula and Names 
 
 Parts 
 
 Per 
 
 Million 
 
 Per Cent 
 of Total in 
 Organic Ma- 
 terial in 
 
 Solution 
 
 Amount of 
 Water 
 Used for 
 Each De- 
 termination 
 
 SiO= (silica) 45.59 
 
 SO* (sulphuric a'cid radicle) 7.84 
 
 HCO^ (bicarbonic acid radicle) 168. 10 
 
 NO^ (nitric acid radicle) .44 
 
 NO" (nitrous acid radicle) .0016 
 
 PO* (phosphoric acid radicle) 05 
 
 AsO* (arsenic acid radicle) None 
 
 BO^ (metaboric acid radicle) 1 29 
 
 CI (chlorine) 2.53 
 
 Br (bromine) Trace 
 
 I (iodine) Trace 
 
 Fl (fluorine) None 
 
 A| \ (iron and aluminum) .19 
 
 Mn (manganese) .34 
 
 Ba (barium) Trace 
 
 Sr (strontium) Trace 
 
 Ca (calcium) 46.93 
 
 Mg (magnesium) 5.10 
 
 K (potassium) 1 . 60 
 
 Na (sodium) 4.76 
 
 Li (lithium) Trace 
 
 Total ^84.80f6 
 
 Total solids 198.50 
 
 Albuminoid ammonia .035 
 
 Oxygen required .55 
 
 C. C. 
 
 16 00 lo.boo 
 
 2.75 4.000 
 
 59 02 100 
 
 .16 100 
 
 100 
 
 .02 8,000 
 
 5,000 
 
 .45 6,750 
 
 .89 700 
 
 8,000 
 
 8.000 
 
 15,000 
 
 .07 8.000 
 
 .12 4,000 
 
 15.000 
 
 6,000 
 
 16.48 4,000 
 
 1.79 4,000 
 
 .56 4,000 
 
 1.67 4,000 
 
 4,000 
 
 100 
 
 200 
 
 500 
 
 200 
 
 How Hot Springs is Reached 
 
 The Iron Mountain Route and L. R. & H. S. W. Ry. run through sleepers from Chicago (via 
 Chicago & Alton R. R.), a solid through train from St. Louis, through sleepers from Memphis and 
 Kansas City and through service from Texas and Louisiana points. For information address: 
 
 B. H. PAYNE. 
 General Passenger Agent, St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Ry., St. Louis, Mo. 
 
 G. W. HOUSLEY. 
 General Passenger and Ticket Agent, L. R. & H. S. W. Ry., Hot Springs, Ark. 
 The Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Ry. runs solid through trains from Memphis to Hot Springs, 
 with through sleeping cars from Chicago and Kansas City. For information, address: 
 
 W. M. ANDERSON, 
 City Passenger Agent, Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Ry., Hot Springs, Ark. 
 Reduced rate round-trip tickets to Hot Springs can be obtained at all principal points in the 
 United States and Canada. 
 
The Standard Blue Book of Arkansas 
 
 27 
 
 Social Directory 
 
 Hot Springs, Arkansas 
 
 Amis, Rev. and Mrs. W. T.. 1603 Central Ave. 
 
 Angle. Mr. and Mrs. J. W., 1010 Central Ave. 
 
 Avery, Mr. and Mrs. J. H., 646 Quapaw Ave. 
 
 Baker, Dr. and Mrs. B. B.. 444 Orange St. 
 
 Bancroft, Mr. and Mrs. E. H.. 109 Hobson Ave. 
 
 Bancroft. Mrs. W. L., 663 Prospect Ave. 
 
 Barry, Dr. and Mrs. L. H., 15 Hazel St. 
 
 Barry. Dr. and Mrs. W. H., 521 W. Grand 
 
 Beitler, Mr. and Mrs. D., 833 Park Ave. 
 
 Belding, Mr. and Mrs. Geo. R., 752 Quapaw Ave. 
 
 Belding. Mr. and Mrs. A. B., 614 Quapaw Ave. 
 
 Berrow. Dr. and Mrs. A. W., 129 Crest St. 
 
 Biggs, Dr. and Mrs. Orvis, 314 Park St. 
 
 Biggs, Dr. and Mrs. E. L., 415 Market St. 
 
 Birnbaum. Mr. and Mrs. Chas., 19 N. Border St. 
 
 Bouic, Mr. and Mrs. W. G. 
 
 Boving, Mr. and Mrs. F. C. 1 15 Pecan St. 
 
 Breedlove, Dr. and Mrs. B. W., 
 
 Buchanan, Mr. and Mrs,. S. A. 544 Prospect Ave. 
 
 Burqauer, Mr. and Mrs. E., 231 Whittington Ave. 
 
 Burks, Mr. and Mrs. J. P., 718 Oak St. 
 
 Burton, Dr. and Mrs. 0. H. 
 
 Busch, The Misses. 622 Quapaw Ave. 
 
 Caruth. Mr. and Mrs. P. J., 265 Cedar St. 
 
 Cobb, Mr. and Mrs. M. S., 445 4th St. 
 
 Cohn, Miss Hattie M., 368 Central Ave. 
 
 Collings, Dr. and Mrs. S. P.. 805 Park Ave. 
 
 Collins, Dr. and Mrs. H. P., 602 Quapaw Ave. 
 
 Connell, Dr. and Mrs. W. H.. 632 Quapaw Ave. 
 
 Cook, Dr. and Mrs. E. T., 135 Cedar St. 
 
 Cotham, Mr. and Mrs. Bruce R., 415 Alcorn St. 
 
 Cotham, Mr. and Mrs. C. T., S. Central. 
 
 Covington, Mr. and Mrs. Hy. C. Central and Greenwood Ave. 
 
 Curl, Judge A., 641 Quapaw Ave. 
 
 Curl, The Misses. 641 Quapaw Ave. 
 
 Curl, Mr. and Mrs. Whitney, 1312 Malvern Ave. 
 
 Dake, Dr. and Mrs. Chas., 700 Prospect Ave. 
 
 Davis, Dr. and Mrs. R. G. 
 
 Demby, Mr. and Mrs. J. H., 484 Prospect Ave. 
 
 Dengler, Miss Emma. Gaines Bidg. 
 
 Dillard, Mr. and Mrs. J., 120 Cove St. 
 
 Dodson. Mr. and Mrs. G. W., Little Rock Rd. 
 
 Douglass. Mr. and Mrs. E. A., Upper Park. 
 
 Drennen, Dr. and Mrs. C. T., Exchange and Mountain Sts. 
 
 Eastman. Dr. and Mrs. E. H.. 2 Holly. 
 
 Eckler, Mr. and Mrs. E. H., 726 Quapaw Ave. 
 
 Edwards, Dr. and Mrs. A. J., 444 Prospect Ave. 
 
 Eisele, Mr. and Mrs. M. A., 7 Canyon St. 
 
 Ellis, Dr. and Mrs. L. R., 109 Hawthorne St. 
 
 Ellsworth. Dr. and Mrs. P. H., 808 Park Ave. 
 
 Eddy, Mrs. I. M.. Eddy Hotel. 
 
 Fellheimer, Mr. and Mrs. H.. 124 Oak Si. 
 
 Findley, Mr. 0. P., Business Men's League. 
 
 Garnett, Dr. and Mrs. A. S., 856 Park Av?. 
 
 Gebhardt, Dr. and Mrs. J. C.. Whittington Ave. 
 
 Gray, Mr. and Mrs. F., 229 Hobson St. 
 
 Greaves. Mr. and Mrs. Chas. D.. 805 Quapaw Ave. 
 
 Gregory, Mr. and Mrs. F. W., 635 Quapaw Ave. 
 
 Greer, Mr. and Mrs. W. J., Orange and Ouachita. 
 
 Greenway. Dr. and Mrs. G. C, 118 Whittington Ave. 
 
 Hallman, Dr. and Mrs. V. H.. 629 Quapaw Ave. 
 
 Harrell, Dr. and Mrs. M. L., South Central Ave. 
 
 Hay, Dr. and Mrs. E. C, 102 Exchange. 
 
 Henderson, Mr. and Mrs. M. J., 114 Hickory St. 
 
 Higgins, Mr. and Mrs. J. G.. 336 Garden St. 
 
 Hinton, Dr. and Mrs. G. A., 28 Exchange. 
 
 Hogue, Mr. and Mrs. J. E.. 132 Arbor St. 
 
 Holland, Dr. and Mrs. E. D.. 9 Henderson St. 
 
 Horner, Dr. and Mrs. J. S., 535 Prospect Ave. 
 
 Housley, Mr. and Mrs. E. T.. 1 1 1 Hickory St. 
 
 Hudgins, Mr. and Mrs. J. W., Hawthorne and Quapaw Ave. 
 
 Huntington, Mr. and Mrs. R. J., 640 Park Ave. 
 
 Hutchinson, Rev. and Mrs. Forney, 1 1 3 Olive St. 
 
 Huntsland, Mrs.. Seigler Apartments. 
 
 Jaggers, Mrs. K. R., 130 Hawthorne. St. 
 
 James, Mrs. Sue L., 475 Prospect Ave. 
 
 Jelks, Dr. and Mrs. F. W., 480 Prospect Ave. 
 
 Jennings, Mr. and Mrs. A. C. 1116 Central Ave. 
 
 Jodd, Mr. and Mrs. M. H., 412 Prospect Ave. 
 
 Johnson. Mr. and Mrs. Ed. H., 125 Hawthorne St. 
 
 Jones, Mr. and Mrs. A. C, 738 Park Ave. 
 
 Keller. Dr. and Mrs. J. M., 253 Cedar St. 
 
 Kennan, Mr. and Mrs. Geo. P., 130 Hawthorne St. 
 
 King. Dr. and Mrs. C. A.. 915 W. Grand. 
 
 Lakenan. Mr. and Mrs. Z. W.. 243 Cedar St. 
 
 Laser. Mr. and Mrs. D., 642 Quapaw Ave. 
 
 Latta, Mr. and Mrs. G. G., 230 Whittington. 
 
 Laws. Dr. and Mrs. W. V., 1 1 1 Olive St. 
 
 Little, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. J., 217 Prospect Ave. 
 
 Llwyd, Rev. and Mrs., 228 Spring St. 
 
 Lower, Mr. and Mrs. G. H.. 123 Hawthorne St. 
 
 Luebben, Mr. and Mrs. 0. W., 1006 Malvern. 
 
 Marsh, Mr. and Mrs. C. E.. Hobson and Combs Sts. 
 
 Martin. Dr. and Mrs. E. H.. Violet and Prospect Ave. 
 
 Martin, Mr. and Mrs. W. H., 815 Quapaw Ave. 
 
 Mason. Rev. and Mrs. B. F., 931 Malvern. 
 
 Massey, Mr. and Mrs. W. E.. 738 Quapaw Ave. 
 
 Mendel, Mr. and Mrs. A., 1117 Central Ave. 
 
 Mendel. Mr. and Mrs. M., 1 101 Central Ave. 
 
 Meyer, Mr. and Mrs. H. H.. L'.S. Reservation Fountain. 
 
 Minor. Dr. and Mrs. J. C. Eddy Hotel. 
 
 Mooney, Mr. and Mrs. R. H., 212 Parker 
 
 Mount. Dr. and Mrs. M. F., 109 Crescent. 
 
 Murphy. Mr. and Mrs. J. B.. 1223 Lincoln. 
 
 McCallum, Mr. and Mrs. T. D.. 1530 Central Ave. 
 
 McClendon. Dr. and Mrs. J. W,, 213 Cottage. 
 
 Moody, Mr. and Mrs. N. M.. Moody Hotel! 
 
 Muggeridge, Mr. and Mrs. H. S., 201 Prospect. 
 
 McConnell, Dr. and Mrs. C. A., 234 Pecan St. 
 
 McGill, Father. 100 Whittington Ave. 
 
 McKeehan, Mr. and Mrs. S. P. 1421 Central Ave. 
 
 O'Bryan, Mr. and Mrs. C. W., 214 Park Ave. 
 
 Parker, Rev. and Mrs. J. A.. 109 3rd St. 
 
 Pollard. Dr. and Mrs. W. B.. Dugan-Stuart Bldg. 
 
 Price. Miss Carrie. Maurice Flats. 
 
 Randolph, Dr. and Mrs. J. P., 602 Prospect Ave. 
 
 Reamey, Mr. and Mrs. J. S.. 4th and W. Grand. 
 
 Rector, Mr. and Mrs. E. W., Central Ave. 
 
The Standard Blue Book of Arkansas 
 
 29 
 
 Social Directory 
 
 of 
 
 Hot Springs, Arkansas 
 
 (Continued.) 
 
 Rhine, Rabbi and Mrs. A. B., 315 E. Grand. 
 Rix, Mr. and Mrs. C. N., 502 Quapaw Ave. 
 Roberts, Dr. and Mrs. C. M., 308 Hawthorne Ave. 
 Roth. Mr. and Mrs. E. N., 319 Prospect Ave. 
 Rowland, Dr. and Mrs. J. F., 122 Garland. 
 Rowland, Miss Rosa, 626 Central. 
 Rushing, Rev. and Mrs. J. R., 8 Glenn. 
 Reynolds, Mr. and Mrs. Al. H., Waukesha Hotel. 
 Sanders, Dr. and Mrs. T. E., 127 Hobson. 
 Sawyer, Mr. and Mrs. L. E., Maurice Flats. 
 Sellers, Mrs. S. W., 231 Cedar St. 
 Shippey, Dr. and Mrs. E. A., 745 Pleasant. 
 Short, Dr. and Mrs. Z. N., 107 Hawthorne. 
 Sigler, Mr. and Mrs. F. M., 335 Ouachita Ave. 
 Sorrells. Mr. and Mrs. W. S., 314 Park Ave. 
 Stallcup, Mr. and Mrs J. A., 226 Garden St. 
 Stearns, Mr. and Mrs, F. C, 127 Cedar St. 
 Stitt, Mr. and Mrs. F. L., 130 Oriole. 
 Stitt, Mr. and Mrs. S. H.. 824 Park Ave. 
 Strauss, Mr. and Mrs. Gus, 472 Prospect. 
 
 Sullenberger, Mr. and Mrs. A. G.. 39 Henderson Ave. 
 Strachan. Dr. J. B., Dugan-Stuart Bldg. 
 Teague. Mr. and Mrs. C. V., 608 Reserve. 
 Thompson, Rev. and Mrs. F. W., Holly St. 
 Townsend, Mr. and Mrs. J. A.. Townsend Hotel. 
 Vaughan. Dr. and Mrs. P. T., 766 Park Ave. 
 Van Leer. Dr. and Mrs. S. C. 
 Wadleigh. Mr. and Mrs. J. L., 719 Malvern Ave. 
 Waters, Mr. and Mrs. W. W., 220 Garden St. 
 Weaver. Mr. and Mrs. Ed. S., 133 Magnolia Ave. 
 Whittington, Mr. and Mrs. Alf, Hobson and Combs. 
 Whittington. Col. and Mrs. Alf.. 1 19 Park Ave. 
 Wiatt. Mr. and Mrs. Ed., 159 Cedar St. 
 Williams, Dr. and Mrs. F. M., 408 Prospect Ave. 
 Williams, Dr. and Mrs. A. U.. 420 Quapaw Ave. 
 Williams, Mr. and Mrs. Hamp. 528 W. Grand. 
 Winegar, Dr. and Mrs. E. F.. 1 Upper Park. 
 Wood, Dr. and Mrs. J. S.. 352 Central. 
 Wootten, Dr. and Mrs. W. T.. 158 Cedar St. 
 
 DeSoto Springs liiiilding. Hot Springs, Arkansas 
 
 THE DeSOTO springs 
 
 "The Finest Spring House in America." The Source of DeSoto Maguesia Water — Nature' 
 
 Purest Beverage. Laxative, Diuretic Tonic for Stoniach, Liver and Kidneys. 
 
 It Cleanses the Blood and is Indicated in all Kheuniatic 
 
 Conditions. An Ideal Table Water. 
 
 Water Shipped Kv^erywhere 
 
 R. J. HUNTINGTON, Manager. 
 
 HOT SPRINGS. ARKANSAS 
 
The Standard Blue Book of Arkansas 
 
 31 
 
 THK SUN PAKLOR 
 
 Tht' hantLsoiiio EDDY HOTEL (European), Hot Spriiics, Arkansas 
 
 Kirst Class Cafe in Connection 
 
 The Annex Adjoinins is Fitted Out For House-Keeping Apartments. Rvery Equipment Modern 
 
The Standard Blue Book of Arkansas 
 
 33 
 
 One of Hot Springs Leading Hotels and Bath Houses 
 
 MoviiijJ a 00.000 jiound Boiler over Hot Sprini^M Mountain by 
 
 Hot Springs Plumbing and Machine Company 
 
 Contractors in all kind of Machinery 
 Plumbing and Heating 
 
The Standard Blue Book of Arkansas 35 
 
 Agricultural Possibilities of Arkansas 
 
 BY L. A. MARKHAM 
 
 Commissioner of Agriculture, The Missouri Pacific Railway Co., 
 
 St. Louis Iron Mountain & Southern Railway Co. 
 
 Given a State whose soil is equal to that of any State in the Union, where the people are wide- 
 awake and progressive, where the educational system embraces and makes special provision for the rural 
 population, where climate is mild both in summer and winter, where land can be bought at low prices, 
 one so situated that markets for all products of the farm are easily accessible, and there you have an 
 ideal State for farming. 
 
 I am not especially acquainted with every nook and corner of the State, but if lands in other 
 parts of Arkansas are equal to those found along the lines of the Iron Mountain Railway, as I am sure 
 they are, all of these requirements are found. 
 
 It is indeed a surprise to one who has not given the problem much thought to find fertile lands 
 such as those found in this State offered at prices as low as those at which the farm lands of Arkansas 
 can be bought. However, the fact remains that land more fertile and more advantageously situated 
 as regards health and market facilities than those in other States can be bought at prices which in most 
 cases represent but a fraction of the real value. It is a common occurrence for farm land to be purchased 
 at a price so low that the first crop on them will pay the purchase price with interest and leave a large 
 net profit besides. Another advantage in this respect is the very low price at which the land can be 
 cleared. For the most part the woodlands are open and not filled with tangled underbrush. This enables 
 the owner to clear the land at prices ranging from $2 per acre up. 
 
 In the past Arkansas has not ranked very high as an agricultural State. This has been due to 
 a number of reasons, the principal ones of which have been poor methods in farming and the relatively 
 small area under cultivation. Of late these conditions are being changed. Lands are rapidly being 
 settled upon and methods are being improved. The average corn production for the entire South has been 
 about 20 bushels per acre, and this has been the average for Arkansas. Yet I am receiving reports 
 almost daily of average yields of 35 to 70 bushels per acre on large areas of land along the lines of the 
 Iron Mountain system, and a number of yields of from 135 to 140 bushels per acre have been gained. 
 There has been nothing miraculous in this large increase in yield. It has been due to the combination 
 of good soil, good climate and good methods, which always brings success to the agriculturist. The 
 first two can be found throughout the State of Arkansas, the last one must rest with the man who tries 
 to grasp the opportunity which the others offer. 
 
 Another great advantage which Arkansas has as an agricultural State is the long growing season. 
 Short mild winters and absence of summer drouths enable the farmer who will give proper attention to 
 crop rotation and culture to keep something growing on his land the entire year, thus largely increasing 
 his profits therefrom. 
 
 As a cotton State Arkansas ranks high, the gin receipts up to November 14 this year being 
 747,422 bales. It is estimated that the total crop for this year will be in the neighborhood of 800,000 
 bales. The soil of the greater part of the State is well adapted to the raising of this staple, and thousands 
 of acres which have never known the plow would grow it abundantly, but the era of diversified and in- 
 tensive farming has reached the State, and while cotton acreage will be increased and the yield per acre 
 enlarged. King Cotton no longer rules the destinies of the farmers of the State. Along with him reign 
 Corn, Alfalfa, Rice, Clover, Wheat, Oats, Fruits, Truck and many other farm products. 
 
The Standard Blue Book of Arkansas 37 
 
 The rice industry in Arkansas is comparatively new, and whereas prior to 1909 there was but 
 one rice mill in the State, there were builded during the year 1909 five new mills, each having a capacity 
 of 800 barrels. Since the close of the year 1909 several new mills have been builded and others are now 
 being proposed. In the eastern Arkansas district in 1907 there were 8,000 acres of rice grown. In 1909 
 there were in this district approximately 29,000 acres grown. Today the State ranks third among those 
 States where rice is given acreage. This is a very attractive crop to the business farmer. In it machinery 
 takes the place of hand labor and business management that of hard toil. Large areas of the State are 
 adapted to this crop, there being along the line of the Iron Mountain System twenty counties in which it 
 has been grown with success. 
 
 Those sections of the State where the land is hilly are especially adapted to fruit growing. From 
 many stations peaches, pears, plums, apples, cherries, berries, etc., are shipped in trainloads, and still the 
 industry is in its infancy, while the possibilities are so great that they cannot be estimated. Cheap lands, 
 good climate, the best of transportation facilities and nearness to markets where the demand is never 
 filled insure good returns. 
 
 Because of the early season, transportation facilities and nearness to the large cities, the truck 
 growing business is one that is rapidly growing. With the assistance of the railways, growers of canta- 
 loupes, watermelons, potatoes, tomatoes, onions, cabbage, etc., are organizing Truck Growers' Associa- 
 tions at many places in order to place this business on a commercial basis, by insuring good quality, 
 large shipments, quick delivery to large markets and profitable prices for the products. 
 
 The mild winters, which preclude the necessity for expensive buildings and give green feed the 
 year round, the growth of native grasses and adaptability of the soil to such crops as corn, alfalfa, clover, 
 cow peas, sorghum, etc., make this the ideal country for stock raising and dairying. Pork has been 
 produced by the Arkansas Experiment Station at as low a cost as H cents per pound, and other stock 
 can be grown as cheaply. The climate is conducive to the good health of all kinds of farm stock, and the 
 abundance of good water and good shade also help to make Arkansas a good location for the stockman. 
 
 On the whole there is no other State that will rank even with Arkansas in its agricultural possi- 
 bilities. In the past the State has been overlooked in the rush of settlers to new farming countries, and 
 the methods used by the farmers of Arkansas, like those of other Southern States, have not been the 
 best. For these reasons land values have remained low. But now the time has come when the people 
 of the State, aided by the railroads, are advertising its agricultural resources and farmers from other 
 States are coming in. For the most part these are men with practical experience in farm management 
 and who are handling their farm property as a business proposition. Farm practice throughout the 
 State is rapidly improving and land values increasing. These have led to the adoption of diversified 
 and intensive methods of work and the State of Arkansas is becoming one of the greatest of agricultural 
 States. 
 
 ^ 
 
 Arkansas' Name Indian in Origin 
 
 The name Arkansas (pronounced Arkansaw) was a nick-name or descriptive title given by 
 other Indians to the Quapaw, an Indian tribe found by the present explorers within the limits of the 
 present state. The descriptive appelation of the Quapaws means "Indians with their beautiful squaws." 
 About 1685 Frenchmen settled at Arkansas Post. 
 
 Arkansas formed part of the Louisiana Territory 'till 1812, and of Missouri Territory 'till 1819, 
 when it was organized as Arkansas Territory including Indian Territory. On June 15, 1836, it became 
 a State. 
 
The Standard Blue Book of Arkansas 39 
 
 Arkansas the Birthplace of Many Fine Apples 
 
 BY PROF. ERNEST WALKER 
 
 Of the University of Arkansas and Agricultural 
 
 Experimental Station 
 
 The "Wealthy," which is one of the best apples grown and especially well suited to the trying 
 conditions northwards, was originated by Peter M. Gideon. He sowed more than a bushel of apple 
 seeds at intervals and the "Wealthy" was finally obtained from among the thousands of seedlings as the 
 best and given the name by which it is now known throughout the land. 
 
 A former U. S. pomologist — Professor Van Deman — some years ago in an address remarked, in 
 somewhat of a joking vein, that "usually, or in most parts of the country, if a man were to sow a thousand 
 apple seeds and get one good seedling, or one variety, showing an advance over existing kinds, he would 
 consider himself the fortunate. But up there in the mountains of Arkansas, were a man to sow a thousand 
 apple seeds he would more than likely get nine hundred and ninety-nine good ones." "Northwest 
 Arkansas is the apple seedling ground for America." 
 
 Certain it is, a number of fine varieties have had their origin in Arkansas, and Prof. Van Deman's 
 compliment was by no means wholly pleasantry after all. Plants or trees brought from other parts of 
 the country into a region where the climate and soils are favorable tend to respond to the favorable 
 influences of their new environment. This response is not so marked in the tree itself, but shows in the 
 progeny when seeds are saved and sown. Of course many of the seedlings so grown are worthless and 
 not worth a name and dissemination. But some of them may show qualities which make them superior 
 to the parent variety or other known varieties of the particular class or type. Few have been the in- 
 stances where man has set out in an intelligent effort to produce a new variety of apple. Most of the 
 varieties in existence have originated as chance or "fence corner" seedlings, and the only credit the 
 discoverer deserved was in having the good sense to know a good thing when he saw it. In recent years 
 matters have changed somewhat. Some experiment stations are carrying on systematic work and studies 
 with the view of originating new or improved varieties of apples as well as of other fruits. 
 
 It is not necessary to plant out all seedlings to determine their merits. Promising seedlings bear, 
 while still small, almost unmistakable signs of their future excellence. In comparison with their fellow 
 seedlings they early show the "thoroughbred" signs in the form of smoothness of bark, freedom from all 
 signs of thorns, long internodes, fine large leaves (digestive and breathing apparatus). It may not be 
 necessary to set out in the orchard even these promising seedlings. Scions may be taken from them and 
 "top worked" in the limbs of bearing trees. So treated, a seedling may be caused to show the character 
 of its fruit and its merits, to some extent, in three years. 
 
 One of our fruit growers, in calling attention to a number of varieties of apples originating in 
 Arkansas, in an article published in a local paper, stated that with such opportunities for the origination 
 of new varieties of fruits someone properly equipped educationally and by natural tastes for the work 
 should devote his time to the production of new varieties. In Arkansas he would have a field and oppor- 
 tunities unexcelled anywhere in the world. 
 
 T. V. Munson, a nurseryman of Denison, Texas, by his efforts continued through a number of 
 years, has originated a large number of varieties of grapes, some of which are of the superlative quality. 
 His name is familiar in the scientific and horticultural world in all lands and will last as long as men 
 grow grapes for wine for the table. This noted man has on a few occasions honored the Arkansas State 
 Horticultural Society by attending its meetings and addressing the Society. 
 
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 The only man in the State so far as known to the writer at the present time who is devoting 
 intelligent effort to the production of new varieties of fruits is Prof. Joseph Bachman, of Altus, who 
 for some years while growing grapes commercially has devoted a part of his time to carefully considered 
 experiments in cross pollination. He is the originator of two varieties of great merit, one among the 
 earliest of grapes, the other among the earliest — "Sunrise" and "Starka Star." He at present has some 
 undisseminated seedlings of great promise, a black, a white and a red, or, as he naively expressed it in 
 a letter to the writer, "the red, white and blue." Another grape of the highest quality, possessing also 
 resistant qualities to insect and fungus attack it is said, for which the public is indebted to Prof. Bachman, 
 is "Banner," a splendid red variety with the quality of "Delaware." 
 
 Whether it be the growing commercially of existing varieties of fruit adapted to our soils and 
 climate or theproductionof superior merit, few even in our own State are yet thoroughly awake to the vast 
 possibilities of fruit growing on the slopes and tops of the Ozark hills, where the climate in Arkansas not 
 only favors fruit, but is as near ideal for people as it is possible to find on the American continent. Our 
 soils and climate are especially suited to apples, peaches, strawberries and cantaloupes. Irish and sweet 
 potatoes, to mention vegetables, also find here the most congenial conditions. All these things are 
 receiving attention in a large commercial way, by which I mean they are grown in carload quantities for 
 shipment to markets in other States. From fifty to three and four hundred cars are shipped from a 
 number of points annually. A full crop of peaches at the present time for the State would amount to 
 about 2,500 to 3,000 carloads. Winter apples would amount to about 9,000 to 10,000 carloads of 160 
 barrels or 400 bushels each. The shipments of strawberries to northern markets approximate 1 ,000 
 carloads annually. Potatoes and muskmelons are grown in similarly large quantities. 
 
 Northwest Arkansas, chiefly Benton and Washington Counties, have more bearing apple trees 
 to the "square inch" than any equal areas in the world. Were all our growers following the best methods 
 it would be easily possible to produce five or even ten apples where we are now producing one for market. 
 This point has been proved by experimental tests made a few years since and on a commercial scale by 
 the horticulturists of the Arkansas Experiment Station. Too many of our growers are primarily farmers. 
 Fruit growing is too often a mere side line. Such men will turn away from the apple crop, worth with 
 proper care from $100 to $400 or $500 an acre, leaving the orchard to the mercy of bugs and 
 fungus pests in order to "get in" a corn crop worth, it may be, as grown by this particular individual, from 
 $10 to $20 an acre. We need more men from the cities and elsewhere with business training, 
 alertness and energy to take hold of orcharding and become leaders in their communities in the methods 
 of modern commercial horticulture. Our best and most successful apple growers at the present time in 
 Arkansas are what I sometimes call "reformed business men." Some of these men are owners of paying 
 orchards on land which they bought for forty dollars an acre a few years ago, but for which, planted in 
 well-cared-for orchards, they have during the past year or two refused offers of $250 and $300 an 
 acre. 
 
The Standard Blue Book of Arkansas 43 
 
 The Public Schools of Arkansas 
 
 By RAY GILL 
 
 That Arkansas is indeed the land of promise and progress is shown as plainly in the development 
 of her public schools as in her commercial growth. 
 
 During the decade just passed Arkansas has easily outstripped all her sister States in public 
 school progress, a statement not lightly made, and one that is most significant to those who are looking 
 toward this State of genial clime, fertile soil and natural resources — unmeasured in quantity and un- 
 numbered in variety — as their future home. What can be added to this one statement in summing up 
 the sterling character and public spirit of our citizenship? 
 
 The public school system of Arkansas covers every nook and corner of the State and reaches in 
 unbroken line from the rural school with graded course of study of 6, 1 82 in number to its 283 high schools, 
 four district agricultural schools, State normal and State university, with law and medical departments, 
 college of agriculture and experimental stations. 
 
 The amount raised last year for public schools alone, aside from all appropriations for colleges, 
 normals, agricultural schools and institutions for defectives, was $4,530,131.91, or $17.75 for each child 
 in attendance. The public school buildings are valued at $7,000,000 and increasing at the rate of 
 more than a million dollars for each biennial term. The 9,522 teachers employed last year drew an average 
 monthly salary of $60. 
 
 The entire school system has been built up within the last thirty-five years — since 1 875. During 
 the last ten years the growth of the public school system in Arkansas has been marvelous, and the biennial 
 term just closed exceeded all others. 
 
 During the last few years the university has been greatly broadened in its scope, the State normal 
 established, four agricultural high schools created by the State, compulsory attendance laws enacted, 
 county superintendence accepted, the State school tax raised from two to three mills and the local tax 
 from a maximum of five to seven mills by Constitutional amendment. 
 
 In addition to the common schools for negro children the State maintains the branch normal 
 school at Pine Bluff, and there are six recognized colored colleges and academies in the State. 
 
 The State has an almost complete collateral school system, above the common school course, in 
 the parochial and private educational institutions of which there are 14 colleges, 26 academies and 18 
 commercial schools. 
 
 Under the direction of Honorable Geo. B. Cook, the present State Superintendent, one of the 
 best known and most capable educators of the South, the public schools have been given great impetus. 
 By the organization of School Community Associations and the Education Commission for Arkansas, 
 Superintendent Cook has formulated far-reaching movements that are already being made manifest in 
 legislation to place our schools fundamentally right and to awaken intelligent school interest. The 
 increased common schooling actually given the school children in Arkansas last year, more than the year 
 before, amounted to 3,045,000 school days; in other words, the three million days' schooling, the increase 
 for one year, is equivalent to the full common school course for 4,408 children. This is the actual increase 
 in the amount of schooling given during the year ending June 30, 1910, over the total amount for the 
 year previous, and is indicative of the general progress of Arkansas in public schools as in industrial and 
 commercial growth. 
 
The Standard Blue Book of Arkansas 45 
 
 Osteopathy 
 
 By DR. C. A. DODSON 
 
 Since no work setting forth the various attractions and advantages of Arkansas would be complete 
 without calling attention to the natural and artificial conditions which are so conducive to health and 
 consequent happiness in this State, as a representative of the Arkansas Osteopathic Association I have 
 been called upon to prepare an article on Osteopathy. 
 
 The State of Arkansas has an active Osteopathic Association, with Dr. A. W. Berrow, of Hot 
 Springs, President, and Dr. LilHian Mohler, of Pine Bluff, Secretary. The Association meets annually 
 in Little Rock for the purpose of discussing matters of professional interest. The Legislature in 1903 
 passed an act legalizing the practice of osteopathy in Arkansas, and created a Board of Osteopathic 
 Examiners. The Board holds examinations in Little Rock twice per year of the applicants for license 
 to practice in this State. Dr. C. A. Dodson, of Little Rock, is President of the Board and Dr. A. A. 
 Kaiser, of Lonoke, Secretary. 
 
 Despite the almost unanimous antagonism of the medical profession, osteopathy, which professes 
 to treat the gravest diseases without the use of drugs, has spread throughout the civilized world. In an 
 obscure town in Missouri, under the law governing the incorporation of scientific institutions, the first 
 osteopathic college, "to reform medicine and surgery and improve the practice of obstetrics," was char- 
 tered on May 10, 1892, and the first class graduated in March, 1894. 
 
 Dr. A. T. Still, the founder of Osteopathy, was forty-six years old, in 1874, when he began the 
 researches which made him famous, and Kirksville the Mecca of a powerful organization of practitioners. 
 He had served for years as a regular physician and as a surgeon in the Civil War. About this time he 
 lost three children with the disease known as cerebro spinal meningitis. Personal sorrow lends a mighty 
 incentive to human thought and Dr. Andrew Still became a philosopher. He reasoned that the human 
 body, so perfectly made and capable of performing so many wonderful things, must also have within 
 itself the power to combat disease. The skeleton and human body were studied with an aim hitherto 
 unknown. He saw that obstructions to the nerves and vessels caused abnormal conditions and that 
 disease could be cured by removing these obstructions. This did not come by the dream of a night, but 
 by many years of patient study. The growth of this science has been phenomenal. At the present time 
 there are eight strong schools, with 2,000 students and over 5,000 active practitioners scattered over the 
 whole civilized world. The first osteopath in Arkansas located at Pine Bluff about twelve years ago. 
 Since then all the leading cities of this State have one or more practitioners of this drugless method of 
 healing, which has been legalized by the Legislatures of over forty States. 
 
 Nearly all disease is due to the malworking of some organ or set of organs, and this in turn is 
 caused by interference with the blood or lymph, or nerve supply, brought about by some structural 
 derangement. In other words, healthy bodily function is always dependent on the normal condition 
 of the body's mechanism. 
 
 The human body contains all the remedial agents necessary for the maintenance of health, and 
 these curative fluids are distributed when and where needed, except when such distribution is interfered 
 with by structural disorder. To effect cures therefore it is necessary to merely restore the structural 
 harmony so that the inherent healing power of Nature may regain control, making the administration of 
 drugs unnecessary. 
 
The Standard Blue Book of Arkansas 
 
 47 
 
 Osteopaths employ largely mechanical means, consisting of manipulations. The method of 
 treatment depends entirely upon the location and the nature of the cause. They seek the abnormal 
 conditions and remove the cause—this may be a misplaced or maladjusted bone, a contracted muscle 
 a shortened or stretched ligament or tendon. They use the proper osteopathic manipulation for the 
 relaxation of tissues, the adjustment of parts, the stimulation or quieting muscles or nerves and the 
 liberation of blood currents, thereby allowing a free circulation and innervation to the affected parts. 
 The rubbing and patting of the masseur is not osteopathy. This science does not embrace massage 
 and the masseurs do not employ a single principle of osteopathy. Neither is this practice to be classed 
 as Christian Science, magnetic healing or any other form of faith cure. Its results depend upon the 
 intelligent, scientific application of principle by manipulation and not upon the influence brought to 
 bear upon the mind by suggestion. 
 
 During treatment the patient is placed upon a treating table or stool. Only superfluous acces- 
 sories of dress are removed, and the practitioner, by his intimate knowledge of the human structure 
 notes any departure from the normal condition and by intelligent adjustive processes, based upon 
 mechanical and physiological laws, attempts to overcome the perversion. To the osteopath, disease means 
 interference with the vital forces, and the restoration to health is simply the removal of the interference. 
 
 Osteopaths use no drugs except as antidotes in cases of poisoning, antiseptics and anaesthetics, 
 and salves and lotions in skin troubles. The necessity of surgery in extreme cases is recognized, and both 
 major and minor surgery are taught as a part of the regular course They do not believe that the knife 
 should be resorted to indiscriminately or hastily, but only after other means have been exhausted. 
 
 This article is not written for an advertisement, but only to give you some idea of the practice 
 in which the members of the Arkansas Osteopathic Association are engaged, a system of healing which 
 has restored thousands of otherwise hopeless invalids to health and happiness. 
 
 1 Dr. W. H. Marshal, Little Rock. 
 
 2 Dr. C. B. Rosson, Little Rock. 
 
 3 Dr. R. M. Mitchell, Texarkana. 
 
 4 Dr. A. T. McMillan. Little Rock. 
 
 5 Dr. .4Iex Westbrook, Little Rock. 
 
 ti C C. Leinly, Hot Springs. 
 
 7 Dr. A. W. Berrow. Hot Springs. 
 
 S Dr. Jennie Mitchell. Texarkana. 
 
 9 Dr. C. A. Dodson. Little Rock. 
 
 10 Dr. .1. Falkner. Texarkana. 
 
 11 Dr. O. K. Hooper, Hot Spring! 
 
 12 Herbert M. Beck, Fort Smith. 
 
 13 Henry Weimer, Hot .Springs. 
 
 14 Fred Meyer, Hot Springs. 
 13 Capt. A. F. B. Oden. 
 
The Standard Blue Book of Arkansas 49 
 
 Little Rock Dental Society 
 
 By J. W. BARNETT. Secretary 
 
 This Society is composed of all the ethical dentists of Little Rock, who, as a whole, rank high 
 in their profession. They are an able body of men — it has been their sole aim to elevate their profession 
 and to give the public the best service, not only in extracting and filhng teeth as the "bushwacker" did 
 a few years ago, but to teach the people the importance of oral hygiene and oral surgery. 
 
 The time is passing away rapidly for the "old quack" dentist, because the people of Arkansas 
 are demanding better work. The good dentists have worked hard trying to teach the people more and 
 more dental education. 
 
 There is a movement now being made to introduce dental examinations in our public schools, so 
 these little children with filthy mouths, decayed teeth and adenoids can be properly cared for. We say 
 this with some regret that our city schools are behind on dental education for the child, for we dare say 
 ninety per cent, have diseased oral cavities. In view of these appalling conditions, it seems that public 
 sentiment ought to be aroused to the urgent need of examining the mouth and teeth of the children in 
 our public schools. 
 
 The vital importance of this step cannot be overestimated to safeguard the future health of the 
 young generation; no single one is quite so effective as an examination of the mouth and teeth. Both 
 literally and figuratively the mouth is the gateway to health and comfort, not only for the time being, 
 but for all times. 
 
 In almost all children's mouths we find decay, and in a great per cent, we find malnutrition, 
 directly due to their inability to chew their food, which, of course, makes proper digestion impossible; 
 such children are always easy victims to many serious infections. 
 
 With germs and putrid matter always present in the cavities of their teeth they are always liable 
 to diseases, such as diphtheria, tonsilitis, tuberculosis and general poisoning of the system. 
 
 The mental and physical efficiency of school children can be greatly aided by the proper care of 
 the mouth and teeth. But with brains and skill of all the dentists of Little Rock these conditions in our 
 schools cannot be overcome without the co-operation of the parents. A mother should teach her child 
 to wash its mouth, have the mouth and teeth clean, always be ready to cope with the dentist. 
 
 We long to see the day when a school child can show the teacher an appointment card from the 
 dentist and get excused any hour of the day. When people realize that dental education is for their 
 own good and that of their children, that they may develop into strong, robust human beings, then the 
 dental profession will have recognition that it has never had before. 
 
 Dentistry in Arkansas needs system and organization. Class it to itself, keep striving to push 
 onward, prove to the people that they need us, we are essential to their future health and welfare and that 
 of their posterity. Our progress has been the result of thought, effort and time spent in some direction 
 by earnest men, hence we are gaining prestige. 
 
 With a large number of good, reputable, well educated dentists we see no reason why Arkansas 
 should not rank with any State in dental and oral surgery. It will always be the desire of the members 
 of the Little Rock Dental Society to boost this grand State in every way, more especially in Dentistry. 
 
 Present Officers 
 
 Dr. W. H. MARSHALL, Pres. 
 Dr. T. M. MILAM, Vice-Pres. 
 Dr. J. W. BARNETT, Secy and Treas. 
 
The Standard Blue Book of Arkansas 
 
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 mk^mMm 
 
 
 1 Dr. A. E. Sweatland, Little Rock. 
 
 2 Dr. C. P. Meriwether, Little Rocli. 
 
 3 Dr. J. C. Cunningham, Little Rock. 
 
 4 Dr. A. G. McGill, Little Rock. 
 
 5 Dr. H. H. Neihuss, Little Rock. 
 
 6 Dr. W. C. Green, Little Rock. 
 
 7 Dr. E. N. Davis, Little Rock. 
 
 8 Dr. W. S. May, Little Rock. 
 
 9 Dr. W. G. Choate, Hot Springs, 
 
 10 Dr. Thos. B. Rider. Hot Springs. 
 
 11 Dr. Thos. E. Holland, Hot .Springs. 
 
 12 Dr. W. T. Wootcn, Hot Springs. 
 
 13 Dr. J. E. T. Holiman, Little Rock. 
 
 14 Dr. Morris Hale, Hot .Springs. 
 
 15 Dr. V. H. Hallman, Hot Springs. 
 
 1 Mrs. H. M. Beck, Fort Smith. 4 Dorothy Woodson Beck, Ft. Smith. 
 
 2 Miss Emma Dengler, Hot Springs. 5 Mrs. Doll Flecnor, Hot Springs. 
 
 3 Mrs. M. G. Caldwell, Texarkana, 6 Mrs. Z. H. Gaither, Texarkaua, 
 
 7 Mrs. R. Fishhack, Hot Springs, 
 
The Standard Blue Book of Arkansas 53 
 
 Little Rock, xVrkansas 
 
 By GEO. R. BROWN, Secretary 
 
 The proposition of placing before the pubHc the true status of Little Rock would require more 
 space than your valuable publication could spare. Therefore I will briefly direct attention to the fact that 
 for many years, on account of the Indian Territory being closed to settlers and eastern Arkansas, a great 
 area of which was overflowed land, it was almost impossible for this State to secure immigration. It was 
 largely inaccessible and had but few railroads. This condition caused Little Rock for many years to 
 remain a mere village. However, with Oklahoma established as a State and eastern Arkansas developed, 
 the whole State has taken a bound forward and Little Rock is growing and developing as are few cities 
 in the country. Occupying as it does a commanding position in the geographical center of the State, its 
 recent growth is not surprising. Combined with Argenta on the north side of the river, according to 
 the United States census of 1910, it has a population of 57,079, a percentage increase of 47.5, as compared 
 with 38,307 for 1900, which was a percentage increase of 48.1. 
 
 With natural gas under contract to be delivered here March 1st, 1911, Little Rock will become a 
 great industrial center in addition to its present advantages as the metropolis, commercial, banking and 
 insurance center of the State as it is. At present there are upwards of 100 industries in Little Rock, in- 
 cluding the railroad shops, with an annual payroll of 36 of them alone aggregating $5,369,460. The 
 postofiice receipts last year were $220,260.86, a tremendous growth over the year preceding. Little Rock 
 is pre-eminently a cotton market, and largely through the efforts of the Board of Trade has advanced 
 from seventh to third place as an interior cotton market, and last year the receipts were 271 ,756 bales of 
 cotton, the average price of which was lot's cents per pound, bringing to Little Rock in cash $12,1 14,490. 
 
 The magnitude of the commerce of Little Rock is well illustrated by the annual statement of 
 the Board of Trade, which shows that the merchants of the city received during the year 47,939 carloads 
 of goods and shipped out 39,774 carloads, making a total traffic of 87,713 carloads. All this is in addition 
 to cotton, cotton seed oil and cotton seed products. 
 
 The clearings of the Little Rock banks last year aggregated $86,772,372, being a gain of 
 more than $16,000,000 over the preceding year, and during the same period there were 3i441 
 recorded real estate transfers for an aggregate consideration of $4,217,030. 
 
 The Board of Trade has a corps of very strong and active committees, one of which is in charge 
 of the annual excursion and another looking after the wholesale trade and paying the transportation of 
 all visiting merchants who buy $500 worth of goods, a grain committee with a daily call board market, and 
 the Board of Trade also publishes a daily "Bulletin" containing commercial gossip, market reports, etc. 
 
 The new buildings erected during the past year cost upwards of $2,000,000 and includes a new Union 
 Station and a convention hall in connection with the Hotel Marion, one of the finest hotels in the U. S. 
 
 Little Rock is located from 287 to 490 feet above tidewater, and the tax rate is $2.70. It has 
 railroad transportation by three trunk lines and one independent road, in addition to river navigation, 
 while its street railway service is recognized as one of the best in the United States. 
 
 The enrollment in the public schools is about 7,000 and there are 1 7 buildings, with the salary of 
 teachers aggregating $1 10,000 per year. 
 
 The area of the city in square miles is 1 1 .45, and many of the streets are paved and numerous 
 paving contracts have recently been awarded. The city is well sewered, and the total number of miles 
 of streets is 192. The aggregate commerce last year was $1 1 5,000,000. 
 
 There are 5 cotton compresses, 1 8 banks and trust companies, 6 cotton seed oil mills, 35 newspapers 
 and periodicals, 2 telegraph systems, a church membership of 23,200 with avaluationof church property of 
 $ 1 ,400,000, 2 lighting systems, 2 express companies, a public library, and nearly all of the State institutions. 
 
The Standard Blue Book of Arkansas 
 
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 Gleason European Hofel, Little Rook, Arkansas 
 
 T. P. Murrey, Proprietor 
 
 Best Moderate Priced Hotel in 
 the City 
 
 Intorit>r view of W. E. Bells* JeM-elry Store. Little Rook. Arkansas 
 
 The largest and most Complete of its kind in the Southwest 
 
The Standard Blue Book of Arkansas 
 
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 A Group of Arkansas' Representative Men 
 
 1 H. P. Rodgers, Little Rock. 
 
 2 S. R. Thomas. Little Rock. 
 
 3 R. L. Mills, Little Rock. 
 
 4 W. L. Tedford, Little Rock. 
 
 o Eugene D. Bracey, Little Rock. 
 
 f. .J. W. Love, Little Rock. 
 7 W. N. Adams, .\rkadelphia. 
 S H. A. Wiiitington, Hot .Springs. 
 
 (Deceased) 
 
 9 Senator Hamp Williams, Hot Spr. 
 
 10 F. K. Cramer, Little Rock. 
 
 11 Jas. P. See, Little Rock. 
 
 12 F. B. T. HolliMibcrK, Little Rock. 
 
 13 J. F. Houck, Little Rock. 
 
 14 J. H. Parkin, Little Rock. 
 
 15 W. E. Bell, Little Rock. 
 
 ICndl*' Guraee 
 
 Crenshaw-Mills Auto I.,ivery Co. 
 
 1 1 IJ Main Street 
 
 Little Kock, Arkansas 
 
The Standard Blue Book of Arkansas 
 Men Prominent in the Public Eve 
 
 59 
 
 1 Harry M. Ramey. Little Rock. 
 
 2 J. Walter Gillette. Fort Smith. 
 
 3 Geo. R. Brown, Little Rock. 
 
 4 J. G. Hollenbeck, Little Rock. 
 
 5 M. G. Caldwell, Texarkana. 
 
 6 J. B. Wood, Little Rock. 
 
 7 Tom J. Pettit, Hot .Springs. 
 
 8 J. J. Ball, Little Rock. 
 
 9 Roger Young. Little Rock. 
 
 10 G. W. Pardee. Little Rock. 
 
 11 S. C. -Alexander, Pine Bluff. 
 
 12 .1. S. McConnell. Hot Springs 
 
 13 J. R. Frazier, Little Rock. 
 
 14 Calvin T. Gotham. Hot Spr. 
 13 E. T. Reaves, Little Rock. 
 
 16 .Judge .\. Curl. Hot Springs. 23 G. \. Callahan, Hot Springs, 
 
 17 .Judge C. T. Todd, Texarkana. 24 H. S.Hartzog, .\rkadelphia. 
 
 IS Frank S. Quinn, Texarkana. 
 19 Jo Johnson, Fort Smith. 
 
 20 L W. Lakenan, Hot Springs. 
 
 21 n. J. Harker, Little Rock. 
 
 22 Wm. Dill, Little Rock. 
 
 2.") Geo. T. .Schmelzel, Hot Spr. 
 20 J. B. Sandetur, Little Rock. 
 
 27 G. G. Pope, Texarkana. 
 
 28 A. B. Gerlach, .\rgenta. 
 
 29 Dr. B. H. Merchant. Little R. 
 
 30 Lyman S. Roach, Texarkana. 
 
The Standard Blue Book of Arkansas 
 
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 Social D i re c t o ry 
 
 Little Rock, Arkansas 
 
 Abeles, Mr. and Mrs. Chas. T.. 1423 Louisiana St. 
 Adams, Mr. and Mrs. Jno. A., 614 Rector Ave. 
 Alexander, Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Kerr, Ark. 
 Allsopp, Mr. and Mrs. F. W.. 600 Gaines St. 
 Armistead. Mr. and Mrs. H. M.. 1508 Gaines St. 
 Bateman. Mr. and Mrs. H. C., 400 Chester St. 
 Beach, Mr. and Mrs. E. C., 1709 Gaines St. 
 Beal, Mr. and Mrs. J. T.. 1400 Spring St. 
 Bennett, Mr. and Mrs. H. M., 822 Louisiana St. 
 Bentley, Dr. Carl, Mann Bldg. 
 Blass, Mr. and Mrs. Gus, 818 Scott St. 
 Bond, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. C, 215 E. 16th St. 
 Brown. Mr. and Mrs, Geo. R., 704 Water St. 
 Bunch, Mr. and Mrs. T. H., 523 Poplar St. 
 Bunch, Mr. and Mrs. T. H., 300 Broadway. 
 Butler, Mr, and Mrs. C. M., 414 Scott St. 
 Campbell, Mr. and Mrs. G. H., 229 Gazette Bldg. 
 Campbell, Mr. and Mrs. J. H., 303 E. 15th St. 
 Campbell, Mr. and Mrs. R. D., Reigler Bldg. 
 Cantrell, Mr. and Mrs. D. H.. 619 Scott St. 
 Cherry, Mr. and Mrs. L. W.. 700 Rock St. 
 Churchill, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel, 800 W. 2nd St. 
 Clarkson. Mr. and Mrs. R. T.. Avondalc Apts. 
 Coates, Mr. and Mrs. J. E., 1818 Broadway. 
 Cochran, Mr. and Mrs. H. K., 320 W. 18th St. 
 Cockrill, Mr. and Mrs, Ashley, 1907 Broadway, 
 Cockrill, Mrs. S. R., 911 Scott St. 
 Cohen, Mr. and Mrs. Morris, 1001 W. 2nd St. 
 Cordell, Mr. Geo. T.. 215 W. Markham St. 
 Cotnam, Mr. and Mrs. T. T., 1515 Cumberland St. 
 Crawford, Mr. and Mrs. P. W.. Jr.. 912 Cumberland St. 
 Dancy. Mr. and Mrs. F. M., State Natn'l Bnk. Bldg. 
 Darragh, Mr. and Mrs. T. J., 1002 McGowan St. 
 Davis, Mr. and Mrs. S. P., 216 Southern Trust Bldg. 
 Deane, Mr. and Mrs. G, A. A.. 1522 Arch St. 
 Deats, Mr. and Mrs. 0. G., 1202 Center St. 
 Dibbrell, Mr. and Mrs. Ed. R.. 1012 W. 2nd St. 
 Dibbrell, Dr, and Mrs. Jas. L.. 1400 Spring St. 
 Dibbrell, Dr. and Mrs. Jno. R., 909 Main St. 
 Dibbrell, Dr. and Mrs. Jno. R., 1203 Scott St. 
 Dickinson, Mr. and Mrs. R. K., 501-152 Main St. 
 Dickinson, Mr. and Mrs. W. W.. 1608 Battery Place. 
 Dooley. Judge and Mrs. P. C. 1208 Louisiana St. 
 Doyle. Mr. and Mrs. T. N., 2023 Broadway, 
 Doyle, Mr. and Mrs. W. N.. 215 E. 5th St. 
 Eberts. Mr. and Mrs. H. F. H., 1702 Spring St. 
 England. Mr. and Mrs. J. E., Sr., 809 Rock St. 
 England, Mr. and Mrs. J. E.. Jr.. 815 Rock St. 
 England, Mr, and Mrs. Lloyd. 1510 Broadway. 
 England, Mr. and Mrs. Shelby, 1915 Broadway. 
 Fee, Mr. and Mrs. F. F.. 1900 Broadway. 
 Ferguson, Mr. and Mrs. C. E., 1515 Spring St. 
 Ferguson, Mr. and Mrs. W. B., 808 Battery Place. 
 Fletcher, Mr. and Mrs, F. M., 1708 Louisiana St. 
 Fones, Mr, and Mrs. D. G., 902 W. 2nd St. 
 Fordyce, Mrs. J. R.. 21 15 Broadway. 
 Foster. Mr. and Mrs. H. H., 2122 Broadway. 
 Fowler, Mr. and Mrs. A. S.. 2122 Louisiana St. 
 Frank, Mr. and Mrs. A.. 1009 W. 2nd St. 
 
 Franklin, Mr. and Mrs. J. P., 906 W, 6th St, 
 Franklin. Mr. and Mrs. Sam, 807 W. 5th St. 
 French, Dr. and Mrs. M. L., 1700 Broadway. 
 Cans, Mr, and Mrs, Felix, 621 W. 4th St. 
 Cans, Mr. and Mrs. G. M.. 920 W. 3rd St. 
 Cans, Mr, and Mrs. Sol. 1010 W. 2nd St. 
 Gates. Mr. and Mrs. D. A., 201 1 Broadway. 
 Gates. Mr. and Mrs. Howard. 816 W. 4th St. 
 Gay, Mr. and Mrs. T. J., 804 E. 9th St. 
 Gibb. Mr. and Mrs. F. W., 18th and Arch Sts. 
 Gibson, Dr. and Mrs. L. P., 17-19 Mann Bldg. 
 Goldwaithe. Mr. and Mrs. C. D., 1603 Arch St. 
 Goodwin, Dr. and Mrs. Wm., 1203 Scott St. 
 Green, Mr. and Mrs. B. W., 309 W. 2nd St. 
 Green, Dr. and Mrs, W. E., 1 1 14 W. 5th St. 
 Hancock, Dr. and Mrs. J. E.. 1806 Gaines St. 
 Harnwell, Mr. and Mrs. C. P., 917 W. 2nd St. 
 Harris. Mr. and Mrs. Marvin, 1853 Gaines St. 
 Harte, Mr, and Mrs. J. C, 191 1 Wolfe St. 
 Hatfield, Mr, and Mrs. F. C, 332 Gazette Bldg. 
 Heiman, Mr. and Mrs. Max. 1 100 Scott St. 
 Hempstead. Mr. and Mrs. Fay, 807 E. 9th St. 
 Hicks, Mr, and Mrs. Jno. T., 600 Rock St. 
 Hollenbeck. Mr. and Mrs. J. G.. 1867 Arch St, 
 Holmes, Mrs. F. V., 621 W. 3rd St. 
 Horrocks, Mr. and Mrs. R. P., 1503 Spring St. 
 Hotze, Mr. and Mrs. F., 
 Hughes, Dr. and Mrs. W. B., 202 Center St. 
 Hutton, Mr. and Mrs. W. G.. 
 Jacobson, Mr, and Mrs. Chas.. 
 Jarrell, Mr, and Mrs. J. T.. 1710 Arch St. 
 Johnson, Mr, and Mrs, B. F„ 507 E. 7th St. 
 Jones, Mr. and Mrs. C. 814 Scott St. 
 Jones, Mr. and Mrs. D. W., 100 Louisiana St. 
 Jordan, Dr, and Mrs. J. D., 
 Joyce, Mr. and Mrs. Jas. E.. 806 W. 2nd St. 
 Kahn. Mr. and Mrs. Herman. 422 W. 18th St. 
 Kavanaugh, Mr. and Mrs. C. C, 1904 Arch St, 
 Keats, Mr, and Mrs. Jas., 421 W. 5th St. 
 Kempner. Mr. and Mrs. Ike, 420 Main St. 
 Kidd. Mr and Mrs. B. P.. 1518 Battery St. 
 Kimball. Judge and Mrs. E. W., 1310 Scott St. 
 Kinsworthy, Mr. and Mrs. E. B.. 1321 Scott St. 
 Kirby, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. F., 718 W. 2nd St. 
 Knox, Mr, and Mrs. S. D., 1216 W. 3rd St. 
 Lafterty, Mr. and Mrs. Jno., 209 W, 10th St. 
 Laflerty, Mr. and Mrs. Thos.. 1624 Broadway. 
 Lasker, Mr, and Mrs. Harry. 707 W. 5th St. 
 Lasker, Mr, and Mrs. Henry, 1012 Cumberland St. 
 Laske^, Mr, and Mrs. Arch. 2805 State St. 
 Lawson, Mr. and Mrs. Jas., 914 W. 21st St. 
 Leigh, Mr. and Mrs. Henry, 802 Scott St. 
 Leigh. Mr. and Mrs. J. G.. 209 E. 15th St. 
 Leigh. Mr. and Mrs. L. B.. 1500 Cumberland St. 
 Leiper. Mr. and Mrs. G. A.. 1 603 Broadway. 
 Lenon, Mr. and Mrs. W. E.. 2005 W. 16th St. 
 Lincoln. Mr. and Mrs. C. J.. 301 E. 7th St. 
 Longley, Mr, and Mrs. F. T., 2415 Gaines St. 
 
The Standard Blue Book of Arkansas 
 
 63 
 
 Social Directory 
 
 Little Rock, Arkansas 
 
 (Continued.) 
 
 Loughborough, Mr. and Mrs. J. F., Palm St. and Pulaski 
 
 Heights. 
 Lyon, Mr. and Mrs. G. H., 1710 Center St. 
 Martineau. Mr. and Mrs. J. E., 2423 Gaines St. 
 Mast, Mr. and Mrs. J. W., 1313 Main St. 
 Matthews, Mr. and Mrs. Justin, 2007 Broadway. 
 McClerkin, Mr. and Mrs. F. W.. 1615 Battery Place. 
 McClure, Mr. and Mrs. Jno., 321 E. 3rd St. 
 McGehee. Mr. and Mrs. A., 1315 Scott St. 
 McGehee, Mr. and Mrs. A., Jr. 
 McNair, Mr, and Mrs. R. H., 102 Louisiana St. 
 Miller, Mrs. J. B., 409 E. 15th St. 
 Moore, Mr. and Mrs. Jno. M., 1604 Center St. 
 Morrison, Mr. and Mrs. H. W., 1221 Louisiana St. 
 Myers, Mr. and Mrs. H. H.. 16th and Summit Sts. 
 Neimeyer, Mr. and Mrs. F., 1514 Schiller St. 
 Newham, Mr. and Mrs. C. C. 1 122 Cross St. 
 Ogden, Dr. and Mrs. M. D., 201 Gaines St. 
 Pace, Mr. and Mrs. Frank. 1423 Broadway. 
 Parker, Mr, and Mrs. Rich, 1215 E. 8th St. 
 Paschal, Mrs, Jas„ 1523 Booker St. 
 Peay. Mr. and Mrs. Gordon, 722 W, 2nd St. 
 Pemberton. Mr. and Mrs. Jno., Scotts, Ark. 
 Pfeifer. Mr. and Mrs. A. H., 604 W. 3rd St. 
 Pfeifer, Mr. and Mrs, Lee, 519 W. 3rd St. 
 Plunkett, Mr. and Mrs. W. A.. 1803 Broadway. 
 Polk. Mr. and Mrs. R. W., 1833 Broadway. 
 Pratt, Mr. and Mrs. C. A.. 814 W. 2nd St. 
 Pugh. Mr. and Mrs. Geo. B., 1904 Arch St, 
 Ratcliff, Mr. and Mrs. W. C, 1004 Scott St. 
 Read, Mr. and Mrs. A, C. 1609 Broadway, 
 Reaves, Mr. and Mrs. E. T.. 2624 Gaines St. 
 Reaves, Mr. and Mrs. W. L., 1853 Arch St. 
 Redding, Mr, and Mrs, S, B., 1716 Gaines St, 
 Reichart, Mr. and Mrs. W. F., 1201 Welch St. 
 Reid, Mr. and Mrs. C. P., Colonial Flats. 
 Reyburn, Mr. and Mrs. Sam, 2200 Arch St. 
 Ringlehaupt, Mr. and Mrs. M. J.. 1415 Louisiana St. 
 Robinson, Dr. and Mrs. 0. P.. 823 Scott St. 
 Rogers, Mr. and Mrs. D. J., 524 W. 15th St. 
 Rogers. Mr. and Mrs. G. W., 505 E. 15th St. 
 Roots. Mr. and Mrs. P. K., 1018 Scott St. 
 Roe. Mr. and Mrs. Geo. B., 516 W. 16th St, 
 Rose, Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Rose-Lyon Hardware Co. 
 Rose, Judge and Mrs. U. M., 620 W. 3rd St. 
 Rosenbaum, Mr. and Mrs. C. E. 2400 Louisiana St. 
 Royston, Mr. and Mrs. W. A., 312 E. 5th St. 
 
 Runyan. Dr. J. P. and Mrs., 19th and Schiller Sts. 
 
 Russell, Mr. and Mrs. D. B.. 514 E. 8th St, 
 
 Scott, Mr, and Mrs. Conway, Scotts, Ark, 
 
 Shannon, Mr, and Mrs. T. S., 1515 Gaines St. 
 
 Sheppard, Dr, and Mrs. J. P., 26th and Jones Sts. 
 
 Shinault, Dr, and Mrs, C, R., 423 E. 5th St. 
 
 Sims, Mr. and Mrs. Tom, 1900 Arch St. 
 
 Sims, Mr. and Mrs, T. A.. 101 W. 24th St. 
 
 Smith, Mr. and Mrs. A. L.. 21 10 Broadway. 
 
 Smith, Mr. and Mrs. Guy, 613 W. 16th St. 
 
 Smith, Mr. and Mrs. J. R., 812 Louisiana St. 
 
 Smith. Mr. and Mrs. W. B., 423 E. 5th St. 
 
 Southall, Mrs. A.. 512E. 5thSt. 
 
 Southall, Mrs, J, H., 804 W. 3rd St. 
 
 Speed, Mr. and Mrs. J. S.. 1605 Arch St. 
 
 Stifft, Mr, and Mrs. Chas. S., 1302 Scott St. 
 
 Strawn, Mr. and Mrs. J. W., 1017 E. 8th St. 
 
 Sugarman, Mr, and Mrs. Victor, 1 1th and McGowan Sts. 
 
 Taylor, Mrs, C. W., 605 W. 3rd St. 
 
 Terry, Mr, and Mrs. D. D., 22 Moore and Turner Bldg. 
 
 Terry, Mr. and Mrs. W. L., 15th and Scott Sts, 
 
 Tharp, Mr. and Mrs. W. J., 103 E. 24th St. 
 
 Thompson. Mr. and Mrs. E. G.. 1702 Gaines St. 
 
 Thompson, Mr. and Mrs. J. D., 1315 W. Markham St. 
 
 Tracy, Mr. and Mrs. F. D., St. Clair Apartments. 
 
 Treiber, Judge and Mrs, Jacob, 923 W. 2nd St. 
 
 Urquhart. Mr. and Mrs. E., 1617 Center St. 
 
 Valentine, Mr. and Mrs. M., Galloway, Ark. 
 
 Van Etten, Mr. and Mrs. J. A., 800 Broadway. 
 
 Vaughan, Dr, and Mrs. Milton, 2201 Broadway. 
 
 Vinson. Mr. and Mrs. J. R., 19th and Arch Sts. 
 
 Vinsonhaler, Dr, and Mrs, F„ 500 E. 9th St. 
 
 Voss, Mr. and Mrs. Carl, 2200 High St, 
 
 Watkins, Dr. and Mrs. Anderson, 1 322 Park Ave. 
 
 Watkins, Mrs. C, 13E, 5th St. 
 
 Waters, Mr, C. P., 115 Louisiana St. Ave, 
 
 Whipple, Mr, and Mrs. D., 23rd and Gaines Sts. 
 
 Whipple. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. G., 415 Scott St. 
 
 Williams Mrs. J. E., 1512 Gaines St. 
 
 Williamson. Mr. and Mrs. R. W., 122 Scott St. 
 
 Wilson, Mr. and Mrs. Homer, Markham and Louisiana Sts. 
 
 Woodruff, Mr. and Mrs. W. E., 419 E, 5th St. 
 
 Worthen, Mr. and Mrs. Geo, G., 714 W, 2nd St. 
 
 Worthen, Mr. and Mrs. W. B., 704 W. 2nd St, 
 
 Wright, Mr. and Mrs. M., 518 E. 7th St, 
 
 Young, Mr. and Mrs. J. R., 1817 Broadway, 
 
 Zimmerman, Mr. and Mrs. J. F., 501 E. 16th St. 
 
The Standard Blue Book of Arkansas 
 
 65 
 
 Helena, Arkansas 
 
 Main Business Avenue, Helena, Arkansas 
 
 Helena is the county seat of Phillips County, located on the eastern border of the State of 
 Arkansas, between St. Francis River on the north, the great Mississippi on the east and the White on 
 the west. The territory of the St. Francis and White furnish great quantities of timber, while the Missis- 
 sippi is the equalizer of freights, the combination of the three streams placing Helena in a logical position 
 as the manufacturing metropolis of eastern Arkansas in the heart of this great timber belt. 
 
 Helena's manufacturing population is largely composed of Northern people. Her manufacturing 
 institutions are in the hands of men from other States who have been attracted here by the great possi- 
 bilities offered by her vast tracts of timber, and they have reaped a golden harvest. Their coming 
 attracted others and now Helena presents a very busy aspect, having some sixty industries of diversified 
 nature, employing 4,000 happy, contented people. 
 
 As a residence city Helena is attractive. It is not in all respects a typical Southern city — it has 
 the quaintness, romantic and picturesque features combined with that colonial chivalry and hospitality 
 that is traditional, yet it has all the energy, hustle and progress of any Northern city. Population — Helena 
 and West Helena, 16,562. 
 
 No more healthful place can be found on this continent. The basis of all good health is good air 
 and good water, and no better of either can be found than here. The water supply comes from artesian 
 wells, which furnish the city with cold soft water of a quality perfect both for domestic and manufacturing 
 purposes. People who come to Helena and regard the laws of health and Nature need not fear any severe 
 illness. Records for past three years show that the death rate for the city to be but three to the thousand 
 of white population. 
 
The Standard Blue Book of Arkansas 
 
 67 
 
 Helena contains many beautiful homes and many attractive streets. Its location is unique, 
 nestling at the foot of the famous Crowley's Ridge; its homes are built from the flat lands, back upon 
 the sloping ridge, and here, opening to view only as you come upon them, will be found the pretty pic- 
 turesque homes with well kept lawns and flower gardens, unfolding like a panoramic scene of fairyland, 
 the atmosphere redolent with the perfume of the magnolia and the Southern rose. 
 
 The growth of Helena in every way in the past few years has been rapid. Not on the boom town 
 order, however, but a growth that is enduring and permanent. Probably no city of the South of like 
 population can show as many homes owned by the people living in them. People come to Helena to 
 stay, and building is active in all sections of the city. 
 
 West Helena, a suburban town, has sprung up during the past two years, and where in 1908 
 bloomed and blossomed a plantation of cotton there are now over 500 modern, pretty homes of the bun- 
 galow type, making an ideal home spot for the many laborers employed in our factories, several of which 
 are located in this district. Ah interurban street car line has been established, giving a fifteen-minute 
 
 Solmoii Building. Helena, .Arkansas 
 
 service to Midland Heights and West Helena additions. Along this line are located also a beautiful 
 Country Club home, golf grounds that would put a sparkle of delight in the eye of President Taft, and 
 adjoining is the Amusement Park and Summer Theatre, ball and Fair Association grounds and race track, 
 giving to our people all the up-to-date amusements and, with our river boat excursions, all the pleasures 
 to be afforded by any city. 
 
 Helena's various departments of business are filled with men of marked ability. Merchants, 
 manufacturers, bankers and professional men are all fully abreast with the times and no city enjoys a 
 more united body of citizens, all working for a greater Helena. The city is well governed, is supplied 
 with all the conveniences and luxuries of a modern, up-to-date city. It is well lighted, both by electricity 
 and gas. Its sewer system is pronounced by experts to be one of the best in the country. Helena receives 
 annually about 250,000 bales of cotton, and in addition to that feature of commerce her saw mills, oil 
 mills and wood working plants contribute a large volume of business. Freight rates in and out of Helena 
 
The Standard Blue Book of Arkansas 
 
 69 
 
 are very low, thus constituting her a distributing point for the entire surrounding country. Liberal 
 provisions are made for schools of high standard. Churches are maintained by all denominations, and 
 a handsome public library, established and maintained by the ladies of the city, provides for the wants 
 of the reading public. Helena is proud of her business, her people and her homes, and invites you to 
 come, be one of us and enjoy it with us. 
 
 Helena as a manufacturing city is of recent origin. Situated in the garden spot of the State, 
 with a perfect climate, alluvial and rolling uplands, the most productive river bottom lands to be found — 
 all tended to agricultural pursuits, and farming was the thing. The community was an agricultural one, 
 the surroundings were agricultural, and not until it became burdensome to clear up the lands and burn 
 the timber did the idea occur of turning the vast quantities of timber to some use and profit, nor did manu- 
 facturing enter into the commercial life. With the scarcity of timber in all other sections of the country the 
 great tracts here began to attract attention, and Northern manufacturers who were quick to see the possi- 
 bilities began to buy up the timber. Helena awoke to the fact that Nature has destined this place for an 
 important manufacturing and distributing point. Timber to the right of us; timber to the left of us; timber 
 behind us, and the great Mississippi in front of us. What more could Nature do? It simply remained 
 for Helena to let the world know what was here in store. This has been done so effectively that many 
 investigated the proclaimed advantages, found them to be underestimated by the local people and that 
 other business might be prosecuted with profit; they didn't hesitate to erect plants here and become a 
 part of our social, industrial and commercial life. The United States industrial census for 1910 will show 
 that Helena has about 60 manufacturing concerns of diversified nature, not counting those outside the 
 city limits, employing some 4,000 happy, contented people, who receive in wages annually more than 
 $3,000,000. The largest of our manufacturing concerns are those engaged in woodworking lines, this 
 being due to the unquestioned fact that there is more standing timber accessible to this point than any 
 other one point in the United States. 
 
 While the conditions ^^^a^H^^^^ are more favorable to wood- 
 
 working plants here, still x^t^^^P^^^^I^^ there is opportunity and 
 
 room for many others. 
 
 First class help is ,^^^^^^B ^^^^1^ h^re in abundance for any 
 
 kind of employment. 
 
 This an ideal 1^^^^^^^ "^k^" V^^^^^l^ point for any industry em- 
 
 ploying female help. There J^^^V V^^^^^Hl '^ ^'^ abundance of it at 
 
 present unemployed, await- /j^^^V \ ^^^^H| ing the opportunity to be- 
 
 come wage earners. 
 
 At present most of 
 unemployed, and the open 
 earners, however, are con- 
 happy in their home life 
 struggle for an existence ex- 
 congested cities. Living here 
 pensive; the man of thrift 
 spot, his own Jersey cow 
 Southern delicacy — fresh 
 
 the wage earners here are 
 shop policy prevails. Wage 
 tented with their conditions, 
 and free from the heat and 
 perienced in the large, over- 
 for the wage earner is not ex- 
 can have his own garden 
 and live on that traditional 
 chickens three times a day. 
 
 MASTEK JAMES PEEI.EH SULLIN'AN 
 
 Mascot of Th4' Blue Book 
 
 Little Koc^k, Ark. 
 
The Standard Blue Book of Arkansas 
 
 71 
 
 Pine Bluff, Arkansas 
 
 FACTS ARE BETTER THAN FICTION 
 
 By J. L. CALDWELL 
 Secretary Board of Trade 
 
 Pine Bluff was incorporated as a city in 1 885, with a population of a little over 3,000. The census 
 of 1 900 gave a population of 1 1 ,900. Polk's Southern Directory Company estimates the population of 
 1910 as 27,555. 
 
 It is located 107 miles above the mouth of the Arkansas River, 155 miles southwest of Memphis, 
 by rail, and is 200 feet above the sea. The mean annual temperature is 63 degrees Fahrenheit, the 
 average rainfall for ten years 53.18 inches. The death rate is 1 1 to 1,000. 
 
 Being the gateway between the delta of the Arkansas River and the hill country extending west- 
 ward to Oklahoma, it is surrounded by a territory containing every kind of soil and capable of producing 
 almost everything worn or eaten by man. 
 
 The Citizens Bunk Riiilding, Pine Bluff. Arkansas 
 
 Besides river transportation to Memphis, Pine Bluff has the service of five different railroads 
 and has subscribed $250,000 for the early construction of three other lines. Turnpike roads radiating 
 in different directions make suburban life pleasant and all kinds of farming operations profitable. 
 
 Pine Bluff has 27 churches, 8 public school buildings and a high school erected at a cost of $105,000. 
 The State Branch Normal School is located here, the St. Joseph's Academy, and several private schools, 
 including business college, music schools, etc. 
 
 There are three well equipped hospitals, equipped with modern appliances sufficient not only 
 for the city but the needs of the surrounding country and towns. 
 
 A large Y.M.C.A. building is equipped with baths, swimming pool, library of 3,000 volumes and 
 claims to be one of the largest associations in the country. 
 
 There are repre:entative lodges of all the benevolent orders, the Elks having an exceedingly 
 handsome home and theatre. 
 
 There is a local post of 220 Arkansas Travelers. 
 
 The hotels are provided with hot and cold running water, baths, room phones and electric elevators. 
 
The Standard Blue Book of Arkansas 73 
 
 The public utilities of Pine Bluff embrace a water system having 32 miles of mains, discharging 
 pure, soft water from semi-artesian wells 825 feet deep, producing 7,200,000 gallons daily. There are 
 3 fire stations and 312 fire hydrants, securing cheap insurance. 
 
 The city has I O5 miles of electric street railway, 46 miles of sanitary sewers, concrete sidewalks 
 increasing in mileage so rapidly they cannot be counted, lOJ miles of paved streets, paved with creosoted 
 blocks, vitrified brick, etc. 
 
 There are two telephone and two telegraph services in operation, also two electric light and power 
 plants, thus securing competitive service. 
 
 Oil and gas have been found within ten miles of the city and three separate companies are now 
 boring wells for their development. A contract has also been made for the introduction of natural gas 
 from the Caddo field at a cost to the consumer of not exceeding 25 cents per thousand. 
 
 Pine Bluff paid last year more than $7,000,000 for cotton and cotton seed, having two compresses 
 for the former and three mills for the latter. 
 
 Her freight tonnage exceeded 1,000,000 tons, her express 13,000,000 lbs., her lumber 136,000 tons. 
 
 There are located here two lumber companies worth over $4,000,000, sash and door factories, 
 furniture and box factories, heading and stave factories, foundries and machine shops, grain and com- 
 mission houses, mill and elevator, wholesale groceries, produce and fruit companies, canning factory, 
 sanitary milk plant and such other lines of business as are demanded by this growing community. There 
 being no city of importance within many miles to the south and west. Pine Bluff enjoys a lucrative trade 
 in the wholesale as well as retail business along all lines. 
 
 The rapid development of the rice industry within the immediate neighborhood has called atten- 
 tion to Pine Bluff as the logical point for the extensive milling of rice and the manufacture of rice straw 
 into boards and paper. The Board of Trade has committees at work along both lines of development. 
 
 There are magnificent opportunities at Pine Bluff for homeseekers. The lands and market are 
 here for small farmers, truck gardeners, egg and poultry farms, small fruit and dairy farms, the culture 
 of grain and grasses. The soil is richer than Egypt and more varied than the land of milk and honey. 
 
 There is raw material and abundant market for wood pulp mill, soap factory, show cases, wagons, 
 farming implements, barrels, sand brick, iron bedsteads, hose, overalls, pants, stoves and everything 
 which uses cotton or pine, gum, oak, hickory or ash wood. 
 
 The banking facilities of Pine Bluff are superb. The manager of the clearing house furnishes 
 the following financial statistics : 
 
 Capital stock of banks $ 975,000.00 
 
 Surplus and undivided profits 389,418.51 
 
 Deposits 3,706,143.90 
 
 Total resources and liabilities $5,530,577.41 
 
 The rate of taxation in Pine Bluff and Jefferson County, of which it is the county seat, is 27 mills 
 on 50 per centum of assessed valuation as equalized. 
 
 The number of acres of land taxed for 1909 was 51 1,500 
 
 Value, as equalized, in city $4,949,290.00 
 
 Value, as equalized, in county 3,081 ,220.00 
 
 Total taxed realty $8,030,5lb.00 
 
 Value of personal property $ 6,264,300.00 
 
 Value of real and personal 14,294,810.00 
 
 Total amount of taxes collected $360,400.48 
 
The Standard Blue Book of Arkansas 75 
 
 Hope, Arkansas 
 
 By Hope Progressive League 
 
 Hope, Arkansas, is located near the center of Hempstead County, in the southwestern part of 
 the State. It is the largest town in the county, and controls a large trade territory. 
 
 Hope has an estimated population of 6,000 as hospitable, law-abiding, intelligent people as the 
 sun shines upon, and they bid good people, no matter where they come from, a most hearty welcome. 
 The war is over, so far as Hope is concerned. 
 
 Our shipping facilities are unexcelled, being located on the main line of the St. Louis, Iron Mountain 
 & Southern Railway, direct between St. Louis and Texas, besides, we are the terminus of three other 
 lines, viz.: The A.& L., leading northwest; the Frisco, leading west into Oklahoma, and the L.& A., 
 leading south through Louisiana. This gives us direct connections with all leading jobbing centers. 
 
 We have first class school buildings, with all modern facilities, 17 high class teachers, under the 
 direct supervision of a wide-awake, highly educated superintendent of schools. A modern $10,000.00 
 building has just been completed by Catholic Sisters, in which they are conducting a private non-sectarian 
 school known as St. Rose Academy. Our church buildings are modern and commodious and every 
 denomination is represented with good organizations. 
 
 We have an average of two hundred and thirty days per annum with no frost. Average annual 
 rainfall is 50 inches, nicely distributed. May is the wettest month; October the dryest. Average date of 
 killing frost in autumn is November 8; inspring, March 19. average annual temperature, 63.1 degrees, or 
 about the same as Fresno, California. Average temperature, spring, 63.5 degrees; summer, 79.3 degrees; 
 autumn, 64.2 degrees; winter, 45.3 degrees. 
 
 The lands around Hope are rich, productive and can be bought for $10.00 to $50.00 per acre. 
 They produce five to seven cuttings of alfalfa per year, good corn, grains, vegetables, all kinds of melons 
 and fruits, even to figs. The present main money crop is cotton. Hope's famous long staple, yielding 500 
 pounds of ginned cotton per acre, has an established reputation in the Liverpool market and is bringing 
 25 cents the pound. Only about one-third of our good lands are under cultivation. 
 
 Hope and its territory is blessed with plenty of pure freestone water, easily secured from wells; 
 besides, has a number of very fine natural springs. Consequently, the health of our community is 
 exceptionally good and our death rate is very low indeed. 
 
 Hope owns its fine electric light plant and water works, the latter supplied with pure artesian 
 water, and has a complete modern sewerage system. Natural gas pipe lines, now being laid from the 
 Louisiana gas fields, will give us cheap natural gas early in 191 1. Street car lines will soon be built. 
 The city owns a fine forty acre natural park, with first class race track. There is good fishing in streams 
 and lakes, and hunting in our game preserves. Hope has four good banks, a large cotton compress, 
 large cotton seed oil mill and refinery, good ice plant, $60,000.00 federal building and city free delivery 
 authorized. Has a number of woodworking plants, such as heading factory, hickory handle factory, 
 metal frame screen factory, spoke factory, box factory, a number of pine and hardwood mills, large brick 
 works, etc. 
 
 Hope has an abundance of cheap available timber in pine, oak, gum, cottonwood, hickory, 
 cypress, elm, etc. We therefore have some excellent openings and most favorable propositions to make 
 manufacturing plants of all kinds using timber, cotton and cotton products as raw material. 
 
 Our fine, high quality cottons and cheap fuel make excellent openings for cotton mills and textile 
 factories of all kinds. 
 
 Substantial propositions will receive prompt and favorable action. 
 
The Standard Blue Book of Arkansas 
 
 77 
 
 St. Rose Acadieniy 
 
 Hope, Arkansas 
 
 This institution is under the supervision of the Sisters of St. Rose, an order of teachers who make 
 the instruction of youth their hfe work. 
 
 The plan of education, embracing as it does, the harmonious development of the moral, intellectual 
 and physical faculties, is practical, solid and refined. The training given to the disposition and char- 
 acter is designed to fit students to take their place in society with honor to their families, credit to 
 themselves, and benefit to their fellow creatures. As the charm of good-breeding is the result of habits 
 formed in youth, the Sisters, at all times, are careful to instill into the minds of their charges, the great 
 guiding principles of honor and rectitude, and to strenuously discountenance any breaches against 
 cultured deportment. Good carriage, elegance of bearing and manner are insisted upon. 
 
 The Academy occupies one of the finest and most elevated sites in the City of Hope. The large, 
 well-shaded grounds afford excellent opportunity for out-door sports. The buildings are new and 
 completely furnished with modern conveniences. The spacious halls and well ventilated rooms were 
 designed especially to promote the comfort and happiness of the students. An abundance of whole- 
 some well cooked food is provided. 
 
 The discipline, while firm, is not severe. Persuasion, not force, is the medium of control. The 
 delightful influence of a genial homelike atmosphere that pervades the institution is soon felt 
 and appreciated by the students. Terms reasonable. 
 
The Standard Blue Book of Arkansas 79 
 
 Go-Operative Efforts That Count 
 
 Fort Smith Light & Traction Company 
 Helping to Build Fort Smith 
 
 Standing at the head of Fort Smith's varied enterprises is the Fort Smith Light & Traction Co., 
 a corporation that has done more in the upbuilding of greater Fort Smith than any other one concern. 
 Not only is the Fort Smith Light & Traction Co. the city's most progressive and up-to-date enterprise, 
 but it is the largest. In fact the company has a greater valuation than any similar concern in the entire 
 South in a city the size of Fort Smith. 
 
 The following brief facts are convincing arguments as to the above statements: 
 
 The total valuation of the company is $2,250,000. 
 
 The Traction Company is operating street cars over 25 miles of well constructed tracks. 
 
 The number of cars now in use is 45. These cars are modern and up-to-date, operated on a fast 
 schedule to all parts of the business and residence districts, kept in a sanitary condition and many are 
 equipped with emergency air-brakes and other appliances for the rapid transit and safety of passengers. 
 
 The average passengers carried daily is 13,000. The company employs 350 people and the 
 monthly payroll of the Fort Smith Light & Traction Co. is $18,000. 
 
 In addition to operating the excellent street railway system, the company supplies electricity 
 for light and power, controls the city's gas supply from the local natural gas fields, owns and operates 
 Electric Park, the most beautiful spot in Arkansas, operates a large stone quarry and rock crusher and 
 is interested in many other enterprises. 
 
 Unlike many large corporations owning public utilities in other cities, there have always been 
 the most harmonious relations between the city of Fort Smith and the Fort Smith Light & Traction Co. 
 This friendly relation has been brought about by the "square deal" the city has received at the hands of 
 the company. J. Walter Gillette, the local general manager, is among the city's most progressive business 
 men. He keeps abreast of the times and sees that the city is well served by the company. It may truth- 
 fully be said that the Fort Smith Light & Traction Co. leads in the progressive movements coming 
 before the citizens daily. The corporation lends its moral and financial support to all public affairs 
 for the upbuilding of the city. It seems to be the general policy of the company to meet every proposi- 
 tion square in the face and advance more than half-way in any undertaking for the good of the city. 
 
 The company has laid its plans well for the present and is caring for the future. That a great 
 future for the city is anticipated by the management is evident from the monster power plant that has 
 been erected. The generating station of the company is the finest equipped of any city the size of Fort 
 Smith in the Southwest. The principal building of the plant is a structure 1 1 5 by 115, the main engine 
 room containing the following equipment: One 2,250 H.P. Cross-Compound, one 1,200 H.P. simple 
 Allis-Chalmers engine, one 800 and one 500 H.P. Tandem-compound Fulton, and one 350 H.P. simple 
 Russell engine. These are connected with numerous dynamos and power generators. The following 
 new equipment is now being added: One 400 H.P. compound engine and two 225 H.P. Southwork 
 engines. The exciting equipment of the plant consists of four modern motors, connecting with several 
 machines. The furnaces are equipped for both gas and oil. 
 
 The total output of the plant is 550,000 K.W.H., of which approximately 200,000 K.W.H. is 
 in alternating current. 
 
 The plant is controlled by H. M. Byllesby & Co., of Chicago. Its officers are A. S. Huey, Presi- 
 dent; H. M. Byllesby, Vice-President; James Brizzolara, Secretary; and J. Walter Gillette, Treasurer 
 and General Manager. 
 
The Standard Blue Book of Arkansas 
 
 81 
 
 f4?i»::;5^:^ m),^..-:^ 
 
 iJM 
 
 Scenes taken from Beautifnl Electric Park. For* Smith, Arkansas, owned and opernled l>y the 
 I'\>rt Sniitli LiiJht jind Traction Company. 
 
 (1) C'asin<»-Dance Hall and Refresiinient Parlors. 
 
 (2) The Anditorium, the largest and nioHt expensive summer theatre in the Southwest. 
 
 (3) Round Stand and Japanese Cafe. 
 
 J. Walter Gillette. General Mtfr. Fort Smith Liiiht and Traction Compan:; 
 
The Standard Blue Book of Arkansas 
 
 83 
 
 Social Directory 
 
 of 
 
 Fort Smith, Arkansas 
 
 Albers, Mr. and Mrs. H. K.. 900 N. 12th St. 
 Albright. Mr. and Mrs. E. E.. 508 Lexington Ave. 
 Alexander, Mr. and Mrs. F. M.. 221 N. 18th St. 
 Alexander, Mrs. J. H.. 416 Lexington Ave. 
 Allen, Dr. and Mrs. W. H. 
 Altman, Mr. and Mrs. J. M„ 714 N. 6th St. 
 Apple, Mr. and Mrs. I., 607 N. 6th St. 
 Atkinson. Mr. and Mrs. B., Free Ferry Rd. 
 Ayers, Mr. and Mrs. Jnc. 800 N. 12th St. 
 Bache, Mr. and Mrs. F., 21 1 N. 17th St. 
 Bailey, Mr. and Mrs. J. M.". 1402 Dodson Ave. 
 Ball, Mr. and Mrs. P. A., 135 N. 17th St. 
 Barkdull, Mr. and Mrs. L. P., 415 S. 19th St. 
 Barnes, Mrs. Jas. K., 515 N. 6th St. 
 Barnes, Mrs. T.H., 518 N. 15th St. 
 Beck, Mr. and Mrs. H. M.. 720 N. 5th St. 
 Bedwell, Mr. and Mrs. E. D.. 214 N. 15th St. 
 Berry, Mr. and Mrs. Artie, 703 N. 6th St. 
 Black, Mr. and Mrs. E., 1406 Dodson Ave. 
 Boles. Mr. and Mrs. Thos., 1223 N. G St. 
 Bollinger, Mr. and Mrs. R. C. .1 108 N. D St. 
 Boone, Mr. and Mrs. T. W. M., Little Rock Ave. 
 Bourland, Mr. and Mrs. F., Sr., 405 N. 16th St. 
 Bourland, Mr. and Mrs. F., Jr.. 509 S. th St. 
 Bourland, Judge and Mrs. J. V., 822 N. 14th St, 
 Boyer, Mr. and Mrs. H. B., 1639 Grand Ave. 
 Breckenridge, Mr. and Mrs. C. R.. 504 N. 16th Si. 
 Buckley, Dr. and Mrs. J. H.. 415 N. 13th St. 
 Burke, Mr. and Mrs. M. C., 1 18 N. 18th St. 
 Campbell, Mr. and Mrs. R. W.. Oakland Place. 
 Carnall. Mr. and Mrs. W., 71 1 N. A St. 
 Carter, Mr. and Mrs. C. B., 1200 N. 13th St. 
 Cate, Dr. and Mrs. W. T., 1 1 15 N. H St. 
 Crane, Mr. and Mrs. B. D.. 31 1 N. 8th St. 
 Cravens, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. M., 1405 N. B St. 
 Cravens, Mr. and Mrs. R. R., 1317 N. D St. 
 Cravens, Mr. and Mrs. Jerry, 1 106 N. 14th St. 
 Davis, Mr. and Mrs. Tom, 423 N. 7th St. 
 Dorente, Dr. and Mrs. D. R. 
 Dowd, Mr. and Mrs. A., 1323 N. D St. 
 Eads, Mr. and Mrs. C. B., 309 N. 16th St. 
 Eberle, Dr. and Mrs. J. G.. 1203 N. 14th St. 
 Echols, Mr. and Mrs. Will. 123 N. 15th St. 
 Edrington. Mr. and Mrs. J. L.. 507 N. 14th St. 
 Falconer, Mr. and Mrs. W. A.. 823 N. 13th St. 
 Ferguson, Mr. and Mrs. A. L.. 21 1 N. 14th St. 
 Fitzhugh. Mr. and Mrs. H. L, 1 100 N. 14th St. 
 Foltz, Dr. and Mrs. J. A.. 1 1 16 N. 13th St. 
 Foster, Dr. and Mrs. J. H.. 500 N. 18th St. 
 Gannaway, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. R.. Free Ferry Rd. 
 Gardner, Mr. and Mrs. J. C. 708 N. 18th St. 
 Garrison, Mr. and Mrs. N. I.. 815 N. 14th St. 
 Gibson, Rev. and Mrs. F. F.. 410 N. 13th St. 
 Handlin, Mr. and Mrs. F.. 423 N. 15th St. 
 Harris, Mr. and Mrs. R. P.. 101 N. 19th St. 
 Harp, Mr. and Mrs. J. A.. 2204 Grand Ave. 
 Harper, Mr. and Mrs. W. 400 N. 7th St. 
 Hicks, Dr. and Mrs. R. A.. S. 25th and Little Rock. 
 Hill. Mr, and Mrs. J. M., 1012 N. 12th St. 
 Hmch, Mr. and Mrs. H.. 315 S. 13th St. 
 Hoffman, Mr. and Mrs. Claude, 523 N. 13th St. 
 
 Hoffman, Mr. and Mrs. Bert, 620 N. 14th St. 
 
 Holt, Dr. and Mrs. Chas., 200 Goldman Hotel. 
 
 Hon, Judge and Mrs. Daniel, 662 N. 19th St. 
 
 Howell, Mr. and Mrs. J. W.. Little Rock and Greenwood. 
 
 Hunt, Dr. and Mrs. Clarence, 1109 N. D St. 
 
 Hunt, Mr. and Mrs. H. J., 822 N. 6th St. 
 
 Hurley. Mr. and Mrs. W. H.. 823 S. 12th St. 
 
 Irving. Dr. and Mrs. A. W., 820', Garrison Ave. 
 
 Jewett, Mr. and Mrs. C. J., 710 N. 12th St. 
 
 Johnson, Dr. and Mrs. I. N., 720 N. 18th St. 
 
 Johnson, Mr. and Mrs. T. H. R., 605 N. B St. 
 
 Johnson, Mr. and Mrs. W. A.. 500 N. 15th St. 
 
 Johnson. Mr. and Mrs. W. H., 805 N, 12th St. 
 
 Johnson, Mr and Mrs. W. J.. 623 N. 6th St. 
 
 Johnston. Mr. and Mrs. F B., 615 N. 6th St. 
 
 Johnston, Mr. and Mrs. Roy, 71 1 N. 6th St. 
 
 Kelley, Mr. and Mrs. H. E., 809 N. 6th St. 
 
 Kerwin. Mr. and Mrs. Jno., 414 N, 16th St. 
 
 Kimpel, Mr. and Mrs. B. D., 8 and 9 Elks' Bldg. 
 
 King, Dr. and Mrs. H. C. 723 N, 6th St. 
 
 King, Dr. and Mrs. J. M., 901 S. 12th St. 
 
 Klein. Mr. and Mrs. F. J.. 220 May Ave. 
 
 Kuykendall. Mr. and Mrs. J. W., 717 N. 18th St. 
 
 Land, Mr and Mrs, W. R., 1023 N, 14th St. 
 
 Langston, Mr. and Mrs. J. M.. 402 May Ave. 
 
 Laster. Mr. and Mrs. F., 815 N. 13th St. 
 
 Laws. Dr. and Mrs. C. E., 501 N. 15th St. 
 
 Laws. Dr. and Mrs. J. T., 2325 Catholic Ave. 
 
 Lee, Mr. and Mrs. A. G.. 310 S. 17th St. 
 
 Lick. Mr. and Mrs. C. A , 400 N. th St. 
 
 Lillard, Mr. and Mrs. W. H., Elks' Bldg. 
 
 Looney, Dr. and Mrs. J. J. W., 2305 Grand Ave. 
 
 Lowrey, Mr. and Mrs. I. S., 1 100 S. 13th St. 
 
 Luce, Mr. and Mrs. Will. 714 N. C St. 
 
 Ludeau, Dr. and Mrs. J. E.. Fort Smith Hospital. 
 
 Lyman, Mr. and Mrs. G. H., 316 N. 6th St. 
 
 Marks, Mr. and Mrs. A.. 912 N. 14th St. 
 
 Marshall, Mr. and Mrs. J. E.. Cliff Drive 
 
 Marshall, Mr. and Mrs. Will, Greenwood Ave. 
 
 Martin. Mr. and Mrs. W. K., 1014 N. 12th St. 
 
 Martin. Mr. and Mrs. W. R.. Free Ferry Rd. 
 
 Mayes, Mr. and Mrs. J. E., 722 N. 18th St. 
 
 McCorkle. Mr. and Mrs. W. B., 1 123 N. 15th St. 
 
 McCurtain, Mr. and Mrs. D. C. 508 S. 12th St. 
 
 McDonough, Mr. and Mrs. J. B., Free Ferry Rd. 
 
 McGinty, Dr. and Mrs. Jno., 410 N. 7th St. 
 
 McLeod, Mr. and Mrs. A., 912 N. 13th St. 
 
 McCloud, Mr. and Mrs. Sam. 123 N. 19th St. 
 
 McShane. Mr. and Mrs. P. E.. 519 S. 18th St. 
 
 Mechem, Mr. and Mrs. H. C, 1 122 N. 13th St. 
 
 Mcchem, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph. 121 N. 14th St. 
 
 Mechem, Mr. and Mrs. Edwin. 2323 Tillis Ave. 
 
 Meek, Mr. and Mrs. Robt., 505 N. 16th St. 
 
 Miles, Mr. and Mrs. L. P.. 722 N. 13th St. 
 
 Miles. Mr. and Mrs. Vincent, 1020 N. 14th St. 
 
 Miller, Mr. and Mrs. J. G.. 403 N. 7th St. 
 
 Montague, Mr. and Mrs. R. R., 1 121 N. 14th St. 
 
 Morton, Mr. and Mrs. J. W., 1214 N. D St. 
 
 Moulton, Dr. and Mrs. H.. 905 N. 12th St. 
 
 Mowen, Mr. and Mrs. C. D., 123 N. 14th St. 
 
The Standard Blue Book of Arkansas 
 
 85 
 
 Social Directory 
 
 of 
 
 Fort Smith, 
 
 (Conlini 
 
 Mowen. Mr. and Mrs. J. A., 323 N. th St. 
 Murphy, Mr. and Mrs. W. J.. 923 N. 13th St. 
 Murray, Rev. and Mrs. G. M.. 219 N. 6th St. 
 Murta, Mr. and Mrs. C. J., 322 N. 6th St. 
 Neal, Dr. and Mrs. W. J., 1723 Grand Ave. 
 Neal, Prof. G.M., 515 N. 1 3th St. 
 Ney, Mr. and Mrs. R., 923 N. 6th St. 
 Oglesby, Mr. and Mrs. I. D., 323 N. 6th St. 
 Packard, Mr. and Mrs. G. €., 207 S. 25th St. 
 Pantet, Mr. and Mrs. A. A., 1420 S. 6th St. 
 Parker, Mr. and Mrs. J. J., 620 Dodson Ave. 
 Paul, Mr. and Mrs. F. L, 1302 N. C St. 
 Pierce, Mr. and Mrs. J. C, 205 N. 17th St. 
 Powell, Judge and Mrs. R. T., 1 1 16 N. 12th St. 
 
 221 May Ave. 
 
 . 514 N. 21st St. 
 
 ,, Free Ferry Rd. 
 
 G., Elks' Bldg. 
 
 , 109N. 16th St. 
 
 406 N. 16th St. 
 
 213 N. 16th St. 
 
 T., 2701 May Ave. 
 
 ,920N. 12th St. 
 
 Price, Mr. and Mrs. T. C 
 
 Prycr, Mr. and Mrs. T. B. 
 
 Quaile, Mr. and Mrs. Wm 
 
 Ragland, Dr. and Mrs. A. 
 
 Read, Mr. and Mrs. H. C. 
 
 Read, Mr. and Mrs. F. S., 
 
 Read, Mr. and Mrs. J. F.. 
 
 Reddick, Mr. and Mrs. T. 
 
 Reed. Mr. and Mrs. T. N. 
 
 Reynolds, Mr, and Mrs, C. F., 1 14 N. 14th St. 
 
 Reynolds, Mr. and Mrs. Dick, 401 Lexington Ave. 
 
 Reynolds, Mr. and Mrs. F. T.. 210 Lexington Ave. 
 
 Roberts. Judce and Mrs. J. H.. 1002 N. 12th St. 
 
 Robertson, Mr. and Mrs. Scott, Free Ferry Rd. 
 
 Rogers, Mr. and Mrs. H. F., Little Rock Rd. 
 
 Ross, Dr. and Mrs. Chas. 
 
 Sails, Mr. and Mrs. H. B., 720 N. 7th St. 
 
 Sengel, Mr. and Mrs. Geo., 313 N. 10th St. 
 
 Shaw, Mr. and Mrs. Till, 502 S. 19th St. 
 
 Shotwell, Mr. and Mrs. R. A.. 602 N. 16th St. 
 
 Smart, Mr. and Mrs. C. S., 917 N. 12th St. 
 
 Smith, Dr. amd Mrs. G. W., 2600 Park Ave. 
 
 Spaulding, Mr. and Mrs. H. G. 
 
 Smith, Mr. and Mrs. J. P., 805 N. 12th St. 
 
 Smith, Mr. and Mrs. T. J., 120 N. 16th St. 
 
 Southard. Dr. and Mrs. J. D., 214 N, 6th St. 
 
 Sparks, Mr. and Mrs. G. P. 
 
 Sparks, Mr. and Mrs. J. M., 201 N. 14th St. 
 
 Speer, Mr. and Mrs. C. E.. 221 N. 17th St. 
 
 Speer, Mr. and Mrs. Dave, 1 1 19 N. 5th St. 
 
 Arkansas 
 
 led I 
 
 Speer, Mr, and Mrs. H. C., 1 12 N. 17th St. 
 
 Speer. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph, 1 1 18 N. 14th St. 
 
 Sternberg, Dr. and Mrs. J. M. 
 
 Stevenson, Mr. and Mrs. E. H., 200 N. 16th St. 
 
 Taylor, Dr. and Mrs. J. M., 308 N. 18th St. 
 
 Tenny. Mr. and Mrs. J. M.. 817'. Garrison Ave. 
 
 Theurer, Mr. and Mrs. M., 315 N. 6th S . 
 
 Thibaut, Mrs, Kate, Rector Place. 
 
 Thienes, Mr. and Mrs, P.. 1 11 N. 12th St. 
 
 Thomas, Mr, and Mrs. I. D., 816 S, 24th St, 
 
 Thompson, Mr. and Mrs. Claude. 231 1 N. 1st St. 
 
 Thurman, Mr. and Mrs. Ned, 723 N. 13th St. 
 
 Tillis, Mr. and Mrs. Geo.. 321 N. 7th St. 
 
 Trusty, Prof, and Mrs. T. A., Van Buren Rd. 
 
 Utley, Mr. and Mrs. R. L., 501 S. 19th St. 
 
 Vaile, Mr. and Mrs. Jno., 301 N. 14th St. 
 
 Van Sickel, Mr. and Mrs. Chas.. 2719 Kinkead Ave. 
 
 Vick, Mr. and Mrs. R. E., 713 N. 13th St. 
 
 Wallace. Dr. and Mrs. J. M. Wallace. 1700 N. 1st St. 
 
 Ward, Mr. and Mrs. Frank, N. 22nd St. and Little Rock. 
 
 Ward, Mr. and Mrs. J. N., 323 N. 19th St. 
 
 Warner, Mr. and Mrs. Chas., 509 N. 15th St. 
 
 Weinstein. Mr. and Mrs. L., 31 1 N. 8th St. 
 
 Wenderoth, Mr, and Mrs. F., 1021 N. 13th St. 
 
 Whybark, Mr. and Mrs. W. M., 202 May Ave. 
 
 Williams, Mr. and Mrs. Alf., 122 N. 15th St. 
 
 Williams, Mr. and Mrs. B., 309 N. 7th St. 
 
 Williams, Mr. and Mrs. C, 1024 N. 14th St. 
 
 Williams, Mr. and Mrs. G. T., 31 1 N. 16th St. 
 
 Williams, Mr. and Mrs. J. B., Free Ferry Rd. 
 
 Winchester, Mr. and Mrs. T. P., 1 18 N. 19th St. 
 
 Witherspoon. Mr. and Mrs. Jno.. 923 N. 12th St. 
 
 Wood, Dr. and Mrs. Clark. 423 S. 13th St. 
 
 Woods. Mr. and Mrs. Z. A., 315 N. 8th St. 
 
 Worthington, Mr. and Mrs. J. L, 1 100 N. 15th St. 
 
 Wortz. Mr. and Mrs. C. H., 61 1 N. 14th St. 
 
 Wright, Mr. and Mrs. T. J., 922 N. 13th St. 
 
 Wyatt, Mr. and Mrs. R. B., 901 N. 13th St. 
 
 Yantis, Mr. and Mrs. A. B., 315 Lecta Ave. 
 
 Youmans, Mr. and Mrs. F. A., 403 May Ave. 
 
 Youmans, Mr. and Mrs. Geo. F., 41 1 S. 18th St. 
 
 Young. Mr. and Mrs. W. D., 1522 Little Rock Rd. 
 
 Young, Mr, and Mrs. D. J.. 1010 Emma Ave. 
 
 Texarkana, Arkansas -Texas 
 
 This City is the gateway between the States of Texas and Arkansas, and is situated on the line of these two States, its 
 joint population, according to the census of 1910 is 15,445 which shows an increase in ten years of 53 per cent. It is 
 estimated that there is now more than one million dollars worth of improvements being made. The city is rapidly improv- 
 ing in every direction; it is well and handsomely constructed in brick and stone, and its appearance is that of thrift and 
 enterprise. The city can be easily reached from every direction, having railroad facilities unsurpassed, there being nine of 
 the leading railroad systems of the United States running into Texarkana daily — thirty-nine passenger trains and over eighty 
 freight trains. The city has a fine waterworks system, fifteen miles of street railway track, twenty-five miles of concrete 
 sidewalk, fifteen miles of gravel and brick street pavements, splendid banking facilities, two daily papers, fifteen school build- 
 ings (sixty-seven teachers with some four thousand pupils), good hotels, boarding houses, ice factories and cold storage 
 plant, and surrounded by a magnificent and ideal agricultural and truck farming country. These lands, whose fertility is 
 unsurpassed, can be purchased at from $5.00 to $50.00 per acre, and especial inducements are offered to the farmer and 
 factories. Natural gas is abundant giving the city an enviable position as to its future for manufacturing enterprises of 
 any kind. This gas is furnished very cheap to the consumer by The Texarkana Gas and Electric Co. and through its ef- 
 fort and enterprise is doing much to build up the city under the able management of Mr. W. L. Wood, Jr., who is considered 
 to be one of the wide awake men in this portion of the State. 
 
The Standard Blue Book of Arkansas 87 
 
 The Four States Life Insurance Company 
 
 of Texarkana, Arkansas 
 CAPITAL STOCK $300,000.00 
 
 Life, Health and Accident Insurance 
 
 Incorporated on August 6, 1910, the Four States Life Insurance Company commenced 
 actual business during the early part of 1911 and entered a field of commercial activity 
 in the State of Arkansas distinctly its own. The incorporators of the Company 
 were M. G. Caldwell, Rollin W. Rodgers and Dr. R. L. Grant, three well known and re- 
 liable Texarkana business men. 
 
 The first old line Company to be organized in the state, The Four States Life 
 occupies a pre-eminent fxosition in the field of insurance, and by reason of its well founded 
 and conservative organization is destined to become a great power for good in the develop- 
 ment of the Southwest, and in ''The Awakening of Arkansas," The Four States 
 Life Insurance Company will be found in the forefront of every movement that has for 
 its object the furtherance of the State's best interests. 
 
 The organizers of the Four States Life Insurance Company are among the most 
 representative and influential business men of Texarkana. The president, Mr. M. G. 
 Caldwell, is an old line life insurance man of many years experience and unquestioned 
 ability and integrity, and with such a man as he at the head of the institution, it is cer- 
 tain that its affairs will be administered in an able and conservative manner. 
 
 The incorporators have associated with them as directors and stockholders some of 
 the best people of Southwest Arkansas, Northeast Texas and North Louisiana. The 
 wealth and influence of the shareholders combining to insure the success of the organiza- 
 tion, makes absolutely certain an old line life insurance company that will in the near 
 future, mean to Arkansas what the Prudential, New York Life and other companies have 
 meant in the development of the commercial and industrial enterprises of the East. 
 
 The business policy of The Four States Life Insurance Company will always be con- 
 servative, thereby insuring protection of its stockholders and outstanding insurance, but 
 on the other hand it will be progressive to a degree as concerns the material development 
 of the great natural resources of Arkansas. This factor entered largely into the purpose 
 of the organizers. Being men of established reputation and long experience in the insur- 
 ance field and recognizing the great opportunity for an insurance organization of this 
 character, the organizers of The Four States Life saw beyond the vale of mere finan- 
 cial possibilities and builded an institution that in the years to come will wield its in- 
 fluence as a magic wand over the undeveloped and incomparable possibilities of Imperial 
 Arkansas. 
 
 A feature worthy of more than passing notice in the organization of The Four States 
 Life Insurance Company is the provision made for a surplus of $225,000 for the protec- 
 tion of policy holders and shareholders. 
 
 This is a state institution and one in which every man, woman and child should feel 
 a direct ownership and look upon with the utmost degree of state pride. It is your Com- 
 pany and with its home office located at the Gateway of the State, it stands a Gibraltar 
 of protection, not only to the commercial and industrial interests of the State, but to the 
 helpless and defenseless loved ones of those whose activities in the material upbuilding 
 of the commonwealth have been forever stilled by the hand of death. 
 
 The Company is ready and will gladly furnish any information desired concerning 
 its basis of organization, features of its policies, rates for protection and in short, any- 
 thing that will better acquaint the people of Arkansas with the only old line insurance 
 Company ever organized within this State. A postal addressed to the home office at 
 Texarkana will bring any information desired. 
 
The Standard Blue Book of Arkansas 89 
 
 Arkadelj^liia, Arkansas 
 
 Arkadelphia is the agricultural, commercial, religious, educational center of Southwest Arkansas. 
 
 Clark County, of which Arkadelphia is the seat and principal town, is especially well provided 
 for in the matter of rich bottom land, and because of the fertility of this region the county is agriculturally 
 one of the most important in the State. Under the old system of farming the principal crops were 
 cotton and corn, but with the introduction of new methods— due largely to the establishment at Arka- 
 delphia of a United States Government agricultural experiment station — the farmers have learned the 
 value of crop diversification and there is now added to the list grains, grasses, potatoes, sugar-cane, 
 garden vegetables and fruits of all kinds. 
 
 Hogs remain fat all winter on the mast gathered from the timbered ranges. Every farmer has 
 a few swine, and good profit is to be made by marketing the young pigs at the fancy prices offered for 
 them in the nearby cities, where meats of all kinds are always in demand. The acorn-fed hogs, finished 
 up on grain, make bacon of good quality, and there is no cheaper way of producing pork. 
 
 Arkadelphia is one of the prettiest of Arkansas cities as well as one of its chief industrial and 
 educational centers. 
 
 Clark County, one of the oldest and one of the largest counties in the State, may well be called 
 the "Little Arkansas." No county in the State can claim a greater diversity of products than can Clark 
 County. In the fertile valleys of the Terre Noir, the Ouachita and the Caddo and numerous other streams 
 are found the finest corn and cotton lands in the world. Also on these lands are giant oaks of many 
 varieties. These lands when uncultivated make excellent pasture lands, being covered with all kinds 
 of fine grass, including switch cane, where cattle and horses may keep fat all winter without any protection 
 whatever. Clark County contains a great part of the famous Black Ridge — a great body of deep, black 
 land not subject to overflow — where almost any kind of products may be raised, but where alfalfa and 
 red clover are now about to reign supreme. Clark County, according to the geological report of the 
 State, is the heart of the great peach belt of the South. No finer fruit can be raised anywhere than is 
 raised in Clark County. Clark County is supplying Hot Springs with the greater part of her produce. 
 In all parts of the county are splendid truck lands. Clark County is a paradise for stock. Here are great 
 open ranges for cattle, horses and hogs, with water, grass, shade and cane in abundance. Her streams 
 are full of fish, her woods are full of game and her fields are heavily fruited. If ever there was a place 
 where a family could live happily that place is Clark County. 
 
 We have located at Arkadelphia the largest flour mill in the State and one of the largest in the 
 United States. This plant, which started in a small way about ten years ago with $25,000.00 capital 
 stock and a capacity of 100 barrels of flour and meal per day, has a capacity of 1,000 barrels of flour and 
 meal and 20 cars of feed per day, with an elevator capacity of 250,000 bushels bulk grain and storage 
 capacity of 100 cars of sacked grain and product, and has an annual business of over $2,000,000.00. 
 
 The main building of this plant is a large five story, reinforced, concrete fireproof structure with 
 all fireproof devices, including automatic closing fire doors and wire glass windows, double stand pipe 
 and hose on every floor, as well as concrete stairways and roof. The machinery in this plant is all of 
 the latest improved type. 
 
 The power plant is also of fireproof construction, and has a capacity of 700 H.P. 
 
 The elevator is thoroughly modern and is practically fireproof, and is driven by an electric motor. 
 The current for driving this plant is generated in their own power plant. 
 
 The products of this plant are sold in twenty different States and several foreign countries. 
 
 With the best mill in the southwestern portion of the United States, the best wheat that money 
 
 can buy and the .,, , r i o • 
 
 Heart or the Ciram, 
 
 Plus the art of the Brain," 
 
 the products of this great plant are helping to put Arkansas to the front. 
 For further information see our advertising section. 
 
The Standard Blue Book of Arkansas — Advertising Section 
 
 91 
 
 USE OUR FLOUR 
 
 It's Better 
 
 »? 
 
 fl Because: — It is made from the finest selected 
 pure soft Avheat, by millers having t\v'enty years 
 experience milling espec;ially for Southern trade, 
 in our naodern thousand barrel mill. 
 
 ffl Because : — This mill has just been put in op- 
 eration and contains all the latest improvetl 
 machinery, ^vhile most flour offered in Arkansas 
 is made in mills from five to fifteen years old, 
 and the improvements in modern flour milling 
 machinery has been marvelous the past few^ 
 years. 
 
 ffl Because: — It is t'vv^enty-five per cent finer than 
 we could possibly make in our old mill, ^vhich 
 was less than ten years old. 
 
 Arkadelpliia Milling Company 
 
 "The Heart of the Grain, Plus the Art of the Brain" 
 
 Arkadelphia, Arkansas 
 
The Standard Blue Book of Arkansas — Advertising Section 93 
 
 An Unsurpassed Service 
 
 TO ALL, POINTS 
 
 North - South - East -West 
 
 Trains equipped with Pullman Sleepers 
 of the Latest Design. Modern Coaches 
 and Chair Cars, Mammoth Engines and 
 
 The Most Excellent Dining Gar Service 
 
 Meals a la Carte 
 
 All This is Found On the Trains of the 
 
 Iron rVlounlein Route 
 
 Through Service From LITTLE ROCK To 
 
 Chicago, Dallas, San Antonio, 
 
 St. Louis, Fort Worth, Mexico City, 
 
 Memphis, Los Angeles, Austin, 
 
 Fort Smith, El Paso, Houston, 
 
 Kansas City, New Orleans, Galveston 
 
 Superb Service to the 
 
 Hot Springs of Arkansas 
 
 ^iiiSmiii4t^ America's Natural Sanitarium 
 
 and Most Famous Resort 
 
 MISSOURI 
 
 PACIFIC 
 
 IRON 
 
 MOUNTAIN 
 
 Full particulars from any representative, or address: 
 
 J. G. Hollenbeck 
 
 Assistant General Passenger A^ent 
 
 Little Bock 
 
The Standard Blue Book of Arkansas — Advertising Section 
 
 95 
 
 MOODY HOTEL 
 
 AND BATH HOUSE 
 
 N. M. MOODY, Proprietor and Owner 
 
 J. L. WKILLE. Manager 
 
 120 Outside Guest 
 Rooms, with hot and 
 cold running water, 
 telephone, box springs 
 on beds, clothes closet 
 in every room. OThe 
 Hotel is 55 feet higher 
 than any Hotel in Hot 
 Springs. 
 
 HOT SPRINGS, ARKANSAS 
 
The Standard Blue Book of Arkansas — Advertising Section 
 
 97 
 
 Ouachita College, Arkadelphia, Arkansas 
 
 Some Condeused Facts. 
 
 Established 1886. Steady growth. Graduates succeed. Know College by fruits. Ouachita no longer an experiment. 
 Will do for your child what it has done for many distinguished graduates. 
 
 Scope and Character of Work. 
 
 High Standards. Three years Bachelor of Literature course. Four years Bachelor of Arts course. Five years 
 Master of Arts course. Just added strong course leading to degree Bachelor Music. Entrance requirements raised to 14 
 units. The leading subjects in which we give instruction are Greek, Latin, French, German, Philosophy, Ethics, Pedagogy, 
 Mathematics, History, English, Literature. Bible, Geology, Chemistry, Botany, Anthropology. Physics, Art, Expression, 
 Piano, Violin, Pipe Organ, Stenography, Bookkeeping, Commercial Law and Military Science and Tactics, 
 
 Conservatory of Music aud Fine Arts. 
 
 Conservatory of unsurpassed excellence. Two male teachers. Six ladies. All specialists. Best American and 
 European training. Pipe organ. Thirty pianos. Art Studio. Voice teacher. Violin teacher. Students win in inter- 
 collegiate contests. Frequent recitals. Demand for musicians trained at Ouachita. Superb Expression Department. 
 
 The Place and Surroundings. 
 
 Arkadelphia beautifuf hill country, singularly free from maliria of swamp sections, and typhoid and pneumonia of 
 higher sections. Saloons and low resorts prohibited by law and sentiment. The very place for your sons and daughters. 
 
 Expenses. 
 
 Literary tuition fifty dollars a year. Specialties fifty each. Board, lodging, lights, heat and laundry only one 
 hundred and fifty dollars a year. Rates for boys boarding vary in homes. 
 
 Special Attractions. 
 
 Brass band. Orchestra. Quartette, Chorus, Football, Basebill, Track Athletics. Athletic coach. Y. M. C. A., 
 Y. W. C. A., Baraca Class, Ministerial Association. Volunteer Mission Band. Library of 7,000 volumes. Eighty 
 magazines come monthly to reading room. 
 
 Discipline. 
 
 College large enough for strong literary societies and athletic organizations, and small enough for teachers to give 
 individual attention to physicial, mental and moral needs of students. Just the right size for best educational results. 
 We prepare students to make a life and a living. We try to give the best possible education at the least possible cost. 
 
 Addres!i« HENRY S. HARTZOG, President, Arkadelphia, Arkansas 
 
 Drink Monntain Valley Water 
 
 Remembtir it is a good waler and ffood water can be drunk under any and all circumslances. But bear what olbers say. In a word Mountain Valley 
 Water cleanses the system, prevents sicltness and cures diseases by ridding the blood u[ poisonous products through a healthy increased physiological 
 action o( the kidneys. For inlormalion regarding the Springs and Hotel, write to JNO. W CAMPBELL, 316 Central Avenue, HOT SPRINGS, ARKANSAS. 
 
The Standard Blue Book of Arkansas — Advertising Section 
 
 99 
 
 Milwaukee Hotel 
 
 J. p. HICKKY, Proprietor 
 
 R. Fishback, Proprietor 
 
 ('('iilrally Uirated. I''i r s t (Mass and 
 strictly motlern in every department 
 iiiul <n>ndiirted on American PI a n. 
 
 K lee trie Klovntor 
 Steam Heat, Hot 
 and C o 1 d \Va t e r 
 in Kvery Hdoui 
 
 ('oy,y, (Mimfortable, reasonable in price, 
 
 fire proof iind homelike. In the hejirt 
 
 of (Im- Imsiness distritit, a^vay from tin- 
 
 noise and dust. 
 
 Opposite Federal Hospital 
 and Bath House Row 
 
 Hot Spriniis, Arkansas 
 
 James G. Tuttle. Manager 
 
 The Hotel Putnam 
 
 Hot Springs, Arkansas 
 
 Just Rebuilt, Remodeled and Re- ■ 
 furnished. American Plan. All Modern I 
 Conveniences. Steam Heat, Stationary I 
 Wash Stands in Kvery Room. Hot [ 
 and Cold Running Water. Electric 
 Li(ihts. Call Bells. Ni^ht and Day Serv- 
 ice, Good Ventilation. All Ontsicle 
 Rooms 
 
 Rates: $8.50. S 10.50. 
 $12.50 and $15.00 
 
 One Block to Bath Houses. One-Half 
 Block to Postoffice and Auditorium 
 Theatre, One-Halt Block to Rock Isbind 
 Depot. Centrally I-.t>cated in the lousi- 
 ness part of City. Si»ecial Rates t«» 
 Kamilies 
 
 Telephone 629 
 
The Standard Blue Book of Arkansas — Advertising Section 
 
 101 
 
 ,). A. TOWNSEND. Proprietor 
 
 Telephone 1151 
 
 New Townsend Hotel 
 
 American and European 
 
 Now Biiiltline of Brick nncl Stone 
 
 just (roiiiplotcd. Thoroughly 
 
 modern. Klectric Lights 
 
 Steam Heat, Hot 
 
 and 
 
 Gold Water 
 
 in 
 
 Every Room 
 
 Centrally located. within two 
 
 blocks of Bath-House 
 
 J"?ow, Post<iffice 
 
 Banks and 
 
 IJepots 
 
 Moderate Rates 
 
 1I1-1L'(» C;hapel Street 
 
 Hot Springs, Arkansas 
 
 Hotel Pullman 
 
 J Jos Longinotti. Proprietor 
 
 Hot Springs, Arkansas 
 
 The Gem 
 Valley 
 
 of the 
 
 Situated in (he 
 heart of the citv and 
 the ONLY 'first- 
 class hotel directly 
 opposite the U. S. 
 Government Res- 
 ervation, Prom e- 
 n a d e, and Bath 
 House RoNv. 
 
 Th€i Pullman of- 
 fers the best ac- 
 comodations at the 
 hcwest rates of any 
 first-class hotel in 
 the city , and solicits 
 your inspection he- 
 fore locating per- 
 manently. 
 
 Ame r i c a n plan; 
 rates per day $2.00 
 up; M'eek S2.50 up. 
 
The Standard Blue Book of Arkansas — Advertising Section 
 
 103 
 
 "The House of Quality" 
 
 Tlie Marquette Hotel 
 
 Hot Springs, Ark. 
 
 Up -To -Date 
 Service 
 
 Tom J. Pettit, Proprietor 
 1^'oriiiorly Proprietor of W'averly Iliitel 
 
 European 
 
 Large Sample 
 Room 
 
 Has Telephones and Hot and Gold Running Water in All 
 Rooms, also Rooms wdth Baths and Toilets 
 
 Rates Sl.OO Per Day and Up 
 One Ulock from all Depots 
 Porters Meet All Trains 
 
 The only Hotel in the City having Sample Room on ;^roimd floor 
 
 Jas. S. McGounell 
 
 Lawyer 
 
 803 12 Central Avenue Hot SprinRs. Ark. 
 
 Both Phones 982 
 
 823 State Street 
 
 Osteopathic Health Home 
 
 Dr. R. M. Mitchell and 
 
 Dr. Jennie C. Mitchell, Props. 
 
 Texarkana, Arkansas 
 
 Full Stock Supplies and Accessories 
 
 Tedford Auto Go. 
 
 Telephone i)."}l 
 
 iiti7 Main St. Little Rock, Ark. 
 
 The Blake JeM^elry Company 
 
 Leading •TeM'elers 
 
 One of the Largest and Oldest Je^velry Houses in 
 the State 
 
 Hot Springs, Ark. 
 
 Dr. J. Falkner 
 
 Osteopath 
 
 404-40.'- JO(i 
 Banl( Building 
 
 Texarkana 
 ^Vrkansas-Texas 
 
 Old Phone 6 
 
 Residence Y. M. C. A. 
 
 Dr. C. A. Dodson 
 
 Osteopathic Physician 
 
 State National 
 Bank Building 
 
 Little Rock, Ark. 
 
 The Craighead Laundry 
 
 Plu.ni- ST 
 
 Hot Springs, Arkansas 
 
 We Wash Everything but the Baby 
 
The Standard Blue Book of Arkansas— Advertising Section 105 
 
 J. H. Beits, President S. R. Oslesby, Vice-President Stiinrt Wilson, Cashier 
 
 J. H. MoColliini, Vice-President 
 
 The Hope National Bank of Hope, Arkansas 
 
 The Ouly Natioual Bauk in the County 
 
 Capital Paid in ... . $r>(),(MU).()() 
 
 Stockholders Liability . . ;'><», 000. (M) 
 
 Surplus and I*r«>t'its . . . 20.00(».00 
 
 Total Protection to Depositors S120,000.00 
 
 This alone is the Largest Financial Protection Offered to Depositors by any Hank in Hope, or Hempstead 
 
 C'oiiiity, Arkansas. 
 
 Your account is solicited. Correspondence cordially invited on any matter relative t() Hope or Hempstead 
 
 County. Arkansas. Interest at 4 per cent on certificates tti depi>sit. 
 
 In connectiim M'ith the above bank, and >vith the same 
 
 Officers and Stockholders 
 
 is <)perated 
 
 The Hope Savings Bank and Trnst Company 
 
 The Only Exclusive Savings Bauk in the County 
 
 Capital Paid in ... . !i>2.'i.5()().(M) 
 
 Surplus and Profits ... (>,.''jU().()(» 
 
 Total Protection to Depositors S30,000.00 
 
 This Makes a To<at of S 150.000.00 Protection to Depositors Under One Management. Interest at 4 per 
 (•out, piiid seiui-HRiuiiilIy on aci-uuiits of Sl.tK) or n»or<'. 
 
 Specially Reserved Space 
 
 At Request of 
 
 A. H. WILLIAMS 
 
 of Hot Springs, Arkansas 
 Proprietor 
 
 Hotel Jefferson The Sumpter House 
 
 709 Alalvern Ave. Cor. Exchange and Court Sts. 
 
The Standard Blue Book of Arkansas — Advertising Section 
 
 107 
 
 Miirphine and DriiR Habit C-arcd for 
 and Treated 
 
 Experienced and ]\ilu edited Nurses 
 in Attendance 
 
 Crystal Street Hosi^ital 
 
 H. A. Maynard. Siipt. 
 
 Telephone 1555 
 No. 1 Civstal St. 
 
 Kqiiippetl with Operating Kooni and Alodern 
 Appliances, not only ff>r the Surgical Patient 
 but a Home for the Invalid and Rheumatic. 
 
 Hot Springs, Ark. 
 
 Duffie's 
 
 The Store Where 
 
 $$$ 
 
 Count 
 
 Hot Springs Leading Store' 
 
 The Only Complete Dress Goods and Silk Department in the City. 
 
 Complete Line of Men's and Boys' Furnishing Goods. 
 
 Sell Everything that Women and Children Wear. 
 
 We Sell More Boys' Clothing 
 than All Hot Springs. 
 
 Ph one 62 
 
 812-814 Central Avenne 
 
 The New^ Magnolia 
 
 Miss Emma E. )3Iount 
 
 Nice 
 Quiet 
 Cool and 
 Pleasant 
 
 No Drummers take Bus, on Car Line 
 Rates SS.OO to S12.00 Per Week 
 
 Phone 163S 
 615 Park Ave. 
 
 Hot Springs. Ark. 
 
 Babcock's Dancing 
 Academy 
 
 Lessons in Class and in Private 
 
 Dances: Monday, Wednesday and 
 
 Friday Nijjhts 
 
 Waltz and Two-Step 
 Reverse Guaranteed 
 in Six Lessons 
 
 Strangers and Visitors are Welcome 
 
 Old City 
 Hall Bldd. 
 
 Hot Springs, Ark. 
 
The Standard Blue Book of Arkansas — Advertising Section 109 
 
 Arkansas Guaranty Title and Trust Co. 
 
 Makes Farm Loans iVuStraCterS Guarantees Titles 
 
 Central Office, Little Rock, Arkansas 
 
 ^ Branch offices in Pine Bluff, Fort Smith, Texarkana, Newport. Batesville and other important 
 centers in Counties of Arkansas. 
 
 ^ We have co-operative understandings with up-to-date Abstracters in Counties where we do not 
 own plants. 
 
 ^ Our ownership of plants, and co-operative understandings enable us to give you the best possible 
 service in any County in Arkansas for a reasonable fee. 
 
 f With One Hundred and Fifty Thousand Dollars as a basis for making and selling Farm Loans 
 in Arkansas, our Farm Land and Loan Department will be the means of bringing many Thousands 
 of Dollars from the loan investors in the North and East to Arkansas. 
 
 ^ Our Tax Payin;^ Department will give special service to non-resident landowners in the way of 
 attending to the assessing and paying of taxes from year to year. We represent a large number of 
 resident and non-resident landowners, and are therefore in a position to give you the best of service 
 at the least cost. 
 
 ^ We make a specialty of abstracting and guaranteeing the title to large tracts of land in any 
 part of the State. 
 
 ^ Your business respectfully solicited and satisfactory work guaranteed. 
 
 J. F. BLACK P. W. PATTERSON PDTNAM DICKINSON 
 
 President V-President Secretary 
 
 The 
 Texarkana Trust Company 
 
 Capital $200,000.00 
 
 Bankers, Brokers 
 
 and 
 
 Real Estate Dealers 
 We Deal in Stocks, Bonds and Investments 
 
 We handle all classes of Real Estate, City 
 
 and Suburban Property, Farm 
 
 Lands, Timber Lands 
 
 Mineral Lands 
 
 and Oil 
 
 Lands 
 
The Standard Blue Book of Arkansas — Advertising Section 
 
 11 
 
 SICK MAN 
 
 WOMAN 
 
 No matter w^here you live or who says you cannot be cured, we ^vill 
 
 ^ive a Binding Bank Guarantee 
 
 Lopez Specific (fo'^m^pound) 
 
 The Great Hot Springs Remt^dy 
 
 Will cure or materially benefit any case of Blood or Skin Disease, Scrofula, Catarrh, 
 
 Rheumatism, Malaria, Constipation, I^iver, Kidney, Stomach or Female Troubles, General 
 
 Decline, Etc., in 3(t Days (or Cost Nothing). A bottle should be in every home, a child can 
 
 take LOPEZ safely. Full information and Booklet Free. Write — 
 
 Lopez Remedy Company, Room ~, Hot Springs, Arkansas 
 
 Wichita, Kansas or Mt. Clemens, Michigan 
 
 Allin Machine Works 
 
 Engines, Boilers, Pumps 
 Injectors, Steam Gauges 
 
 Iklachine Shop and Oeneral Kepairs 
 
 Agents For 
 
 Overland Automobiles, Auto 
 Supplies and Repairs 
 
 Pontotoc 
 
 and Missouri Sts 
 
 Helena, Arkansas 
 
 Lensing Millinery Go. 
 
 Exclusive Styles in 
 
 Millinery, Fancy Notions, Ladies' Muslin 
 
 Under\vear, Hosiery, Handkerchiefs 
 
 and Aprons 
 
 Old Phone -2058 
 701 Main Street 
 
 Send us your Mail Orders 
 
 Little Rock, Ark. 
 
 Gerlach Realty Go. 
 
 ** The Square Dealers 
 
 Notaries Public 
 
 We deal in City and Country Property. Collect Rents 
 
 and Write Insurance. Let us have your 
 
 Business, we M^ill Give You a 
 
 Square Deal 
 
 Argenta 
 
 Arkansas 
 
 WE SELL 
 
 Hardwood Timber Lands 
 
 and 
 
 Farni Lands 
 
 Kelley & Allen 
 
 Helena, Arkansas 
 
The Standard Blue Book of Arkansas — Advertising Section 
 
 113 
 
 Headquarters for Coniinercial Travelers 
 Phone in each room 
 
 The 
 
 Merchants 
 
 Hotel 
 
 J- R. Fraziei' 
 
 J*roprietor 
 
 Little Rock, Ark. 
 
 RE YOU Absolutely sure about 
 the safety of your investment? 
 It is better to have one of our 
 ("ertificates of Deposit clra\vinf5 
 .'} or 4 per cent interest than to 
 be ^vorryin^ over unprofitabh* 
 investments represented to you as yielding 
 large returns. Wc issue Certficates of De- 
 posit in amounts of SlO.OOand upward, and 
 pay 3 per cent interest on (i month Certifi- 
 cates and 4 per cent on 12 month (\»rtifi- 
 cates, the safety of which cannot be doubted. 
 We conduct a general banking business, 
 and accounts of individuals, firms, corjiora- 
 tions and banks are solicited on terms con- 
 sistent with sound and legitimate banking. 
 Collections are given special attention. 
 We also issue letters of credit and drafts 
 available in all parts of the World. 
 
 The Citizens Bank 
 
 Capital S300,000. Surplus $75,000 
 
 Pine Bluff, Ark. 
 
 The Topping House 
 
 Mrs. tj. S. Toppin;^, 
 
 Pr«)prietri'ss 
 
 Private Board 
 
 One B! 
 
 oc 
 
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 rom 
 
 Pi 
 
 rk 
 
 Hot 
 
 el B 
 
 ath 
 
 House 
 
 Room 
 
 W 
 
 ith 
 
 Hoard, 
 
 .1>;j 
 
 .00 
 
 Per 
 
 W 
 
 eek 
 
 pp 
 
 Home 
 
 C. 
 
 lok 
 
 "S- 
 
 P 
 
 riv 
 
 ite 
 
 and 
 
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 >nu» 
 
 like 
 
 A Good Table 
 Our Specialty 
 
 111 Grove St. Near Park Hotel 
 
The Standard Blue Book of Arkansas — Advertising Section 
 
 115 
 
 
 A Good Assortment of 
 
 Goo. T. Schnielzel 
 
 Antique Je^velry 
 
 Electrical Engineer 
 
 
 ^^ft 
 
 
 Contractor 
 
 1 
 
 ^bIh 
 
 
 For Anything 
 
 ^ 
 
 ^^Hli^^^ 
 
 i 
 
 Electrical 
 
 m 
 
 ^^H 
 
 m 
 
 25 Years practical 
 
 ^B ^^ 
 
 ^^ 
 
 experience in the 
 Electrical Field 
 
 Cut Glass, Hand Paintod China. Silver and Platod 
 Ware. Diamonds. Watches and Jewelry at 
 
 Phone Connections 
 
 Hareains in l^iuM'deenied Pled(J<'s 
 Expert Watch and Jewelry Repairing 
 
 
 Money Advanced on Articles of Value 
 
 619 Central Avenue 
 
 Wm. E. Bell 
 
 Hot Springs, . . Arkansas 
 
 117-119 E. Marklinm St. Hot Springs, Ark. 
 
 WE KNOW HOW 
 
 You Should Have 
 
 Simon Mendel 
 
 Hot Springs Au- 
 
 
 K I R K - 
 
 thority on 
 
 Ladies' 
 
 A 
 
 Wearing 
 
 TAILOR 
 
 Ai^i^arel 
 
 Make Your Clothes. Ladies 
 
 t|? 
 
 Tailoring in Connection 
 
 230 Orange Street 
 
 
 H'2li Central Avenue 
 
 Phone 735 424 Central Avenue 
 
 Hot Springs, .... Arkansas 
 
 Hot S p ri n ^ s , Arkansas 
 
The Standard Blue Book of Arkansas — Advertising Section 
 
 117 
 
 Harris 
 i^oto^rafer 
 
 Maker of 
 
 Fine 
 
 Portraits 
 
 Kodaks— Films— Kodak Finishing 
 
 Children's Fotografs a Specialty 
 
 Remeniber M'e have the conven- 
 ience of a ground floor studio. 
 Cloudy days as good as 
 sunshine for 
 sittings 
 
 Little Rock 
 Phone 600 Main Arkansas 
 
 J. H. Martin Arms 
 Gonij)any 
 
 Wholesale and Retail 
 
 Sporting Goods, Guns, Ammuni- 
 tion, Bicycles and 
 Fishing Tackle 
 
 Our store has the Enviable Repatatioa of furnishiiij^ 
 the Very Best Grades of Athletic Supplies, sainrd only 
 by jSivin(l our nistomcrs full value for their money. 
 Then our prices are always riftht and as low as 
 good quality ^vill permit. <.>nr connection with (In- 
 his^est and best factories as their sole represen- 
 tatives guarantees to you Honest Goods at Honest 
 Prices and Qaick Delivery. 
 
 Reach, Spalding and Victor 
 
 The Standard Brands of Athletic 
 Goods of the World 
 
 Foot Ball. Base Ball. Lawn Tennis, Boxing. Gym- 
 nasium and Golf Supplies of Every Description. 
 
 We make special prices to the heads of Athletic 
 
 Departments in all colleges and schools. 
 
 Call and see us. Write us. 
 
 607 Main St. Little Rock, Ark. 
 
 Des Moines 
 
 Tiife Insurance 
 
 GomiDany 
 
 Up-to-Date Policies 
 
 M. T.Welch 
 
 Tailor 
 and 
 
 Draper 
 
 Fashionable Clothes 
 .$2.5.00 and Up 
 
 Fifth and Main, Little Rock, Ark. 
 
 Non - Pa rt i c i pating 
 Liberal Contracts 
 to Live Agents 
 
 Wood & Wood 
 
 Little Rock, Ark. 
 
 Mann^ers for Arkansas and Mississippi 
 
The Standard Blue Book of Arkansas — Advertising Section 
 
 119 
 
 W. K. Ford, 
 
 A. M. Am. Soc. Civ. En^s. 
 
 D. A. MacCrea, 
 
 A. M. Am. Soc. C'lv. Kn^s. 
 
 F,^ „ J| C)_ l^M .^ — » d^ — Plans. Specifications, 
 
 Ord «: MaCLirea superintendence 
 
 ConHiiltiiifi and Sxipervising 
 
 Civil Engineers 
 
 Phone 1749 
 
 Rooms .TiS & .*i:ii) -ri 1 A 1 
 
 Gazette Building J-.ittle Kock, Ark. 
 
 Railways. Ijeveos, Road Im- 
 provement, Paving, Servers, 
 Water Works, Irrigation 
 
 Inspection and Reports Made 
 
 W. W, Dickinson, Pres. 
 
 J. W. Dickinson, Jr., \'ire-Pres. 
 
 C. K. Taylor, Sec'y & Treas. 
 
 ARKANSAS BRICK & MANUFACTURING CO. 
 and BIG ROCK STONE & CONSTRUCTION CO. 
 
 Manufacturers of BuiltlinfJ and Paving Brick and Crushed Stone. Dealers in Portland 
 , Cement, I^ime, Plaster and Sand. 
 
 Office 111 Center Street. LITTLE ROCK, ARKANSAS 
 
 J. B. Ssndefur, Prest. Geo. Muswiclc. Sec'y and Treas. 
 
 E. 5. Oliver. Vice-Pres. 
 
 Business Established 187S 
 
 The Sandefur- Julian 
 Gonipany 
 
 Wholesale Liquors, Cigars 
 and Tobaccos 
 
 Distributors of T. W. Samuels Sour Mash 
 Bourbon Whiskev 
 
 
 
 
 
 Our policy is to please, to provide our 
 customers with all the leading brands 
 of Whiskeys, Wines and Cordials at 
 the price they ou^ht to pay. 
 
 "We are the People." 
 
 Our mail order department invites cor- 
 respondence from out of town cus- 
 tomers. 
 
 Little Rock. Arkansas 
 
 F, F. Kitchens, Ex. Tax Collector Amos Jarman, Tax Colleclor 
 
 Presidenl SecretaryTreasurer 
 
 Phillips County Real 
 Estate Company 
 
 Room 406 Solomon UId)|. 
 
 Helena, Ark. 
 
 Invest in Arkansas Timber 
 
 and Farm Lands Safer than 
 
 Government Bonds. 
 
 We have the most attractive propositions 
 
 listed with us in the most fertile 
 
 County in the State 
 
 These lands are bordei'ed by the 
 
 Mississippi River, and of 
 
 easy access to 
 
 Railroad 
 
 We invite correspondence 
 
 HOTEL MAIN 
 
 Rooms w^ith Bath 
 
 Steam Heat, Phone 
 
 and Elevator Service 
 
 European Plan r^ . „ . 
 
 -C^ Centrallv J.,o 
 
 Roj^ers Young 
 Alanager 
 
 cated 
 
 Main and Markham Sts. 
 Rates Reasonable 
 
 Will Appreciate 
 Vour Patronage 
 
 Little Rock, Arkansas 
 
The Standard Blue Book of Arkansas — Advertising Section 
 
 121 
 
 Parkin - Longley Go. 
 
 All Typovriters, Office 
 Supplies and Furniture 
 
 Phono lO.i.j 
 206 I^ouisiana Streot J>ittle Kock, Ark. 
 
 W. R. Cr.wford Wm. McRoberls W. H. Dwieains 
 
 President Vice-President Sec'y and Treas. 
 
 The Crawford Paint Sc Paper Go. 
 
 (Incorporaledj 
 
 Wholesale and Retail 
 
 Mantels, Tiles, Grates 
 Wall Paper, Paints 
 Glass 
 
 Tilt' Floors 
 a Specialty 
 
 Little Rock, Ark. 
 
 , W. Love, Mer. 
 
 Old Phonf. .'WilT 
 
 John Deere Plo^\" Go. 
 
 Kiiriii Alacliincry, Vohiclos, Waj^ons 
 Buggies, n a rn o s s , Automobiles 
 
 118-120 K. Markhain St. 
 
 I.ittlo Kork, Ark. 
 
 Witt cS: Seibert 
 
 Architects 
 Texarkana, - - Arkansas 
 
 H. J. Hark or 
 
 Architect 
 
 Nos. ro2-;? 
 
 Stnte Niitional Bnnk 
 Phono 84<i 
 
 Little Rock, Ark. 
 
 Tlieo. M. Sanders 
 
 Architect 
 
 7()!)-710 
 Southorn Trust Kuildiiiil J>ittle Rock, Ark. 
 
 J. J. Ball 
 
 Railroad Contractor 
 
 Dojilor ill Kot^U, (iravol and Sand 
 
 Offioo: Rooms 4ir>.416 
 Southorn Trust Bld^. 
 
 Little Rock, Ark. 
 
 Garr - Burdette Golle^e and Gonservatory of Music, 
 
 Art and Expression — 
 
 An Ideal Home and School for danghters ONLY — 
 Regular College C't>urse, leading to dej^ree. l^nitiiie 
 in its appointments and furnishings. "The C'ollege 
 Heantiful," select and limited in niindior. The 
 building is a MONITMKXT to the memory of Mrs. 
 C'. A. C^arr, planned by her for those who desire (he best in 
 student Ufe, who appreciate a beautifnl and cnltured home, re- 
 fined associations and the upbuilding of Christian character. 
 
 Sherman, Texas 
 
The Standard Blue Book of Arkansas — Advertising Section 
 
 123 
 
 Standard Woolen 
 G o ni p a n y 
 
 Fashionable Tailors 
 
 $15.00 
 
 SUITS OR 
 OVERCOATS 
 
 Made to Measure 
 
 106 West Markham Street 
 Liittle Rock, . . Arkansas 
 
 Visit 
 
 The Fashion 
 
 Correct Dress 
 For Women 
 
 622 Main 
 
 In their New Store. The Only Exclusive 
 
 Ladies' Ready-to-Wear Store 
 
 in Little Rock 
 
 The handsomest Store of this 
 kind in the South 
 
 Popular Prices 
 
 Old Phone 1473 
 
 Little Rock, Ark. 
 
 The House That 
 
 Quality 
 
 Built 
 
 ^\'e Ciirry the Mimt C'ttinpletc Kinc of 
 
 Carpets, Furniture and Draperies to be 
 
 found anv^vhe^e in the South 
 
 If you Nvill \vrit<' or cull to sco us. «•«.' \\-ill prov 
 
 that we can save you money in the 
 
 furnishing of your liome 
 
 Phc 
 
 The Arkansas Carpet & Furniture Go. 
 
 Sixth and Main Hi. 
 
 Little Rock, Arkansas 
 Open an Account with us today 
 
 MoCrary Hotel 
 Hot Springs, Arkansas 
 
 This heaxitii'nlly lorjitcd hotel occupies oik 
 the most (Ml mm an (line and desirable situations 
 the city. It is opposite the I'^astman Hot<*l iind 
 Ariuy and Navy Hospital. Only one-half hloc^k fr 
 Hath Mouse Row and one block from th<' l>iisin 
 (tenter and all places of aniuseinent and city atti 
 tions. It is supplied with steam heat and jill imitl 
 improvements, nicely furnished, and luis jiUv. 
 borne an unquestionable reputation in all respe 
 Rates, on the Americjm plan, S7.50 per week and 
 European, S2.50per M'eek and up. 
 
 McCrary & Gates. Managers 
 
 the 
 
 :-.|s. 
 up: 
 
The Standard Blue Book of Arkansas — Advertising Section 
 
 125 
 
 Pictures. Frames and Art Novelties Mantels. Tiles. Grates and Builders' Suppl' 
 
 Olmstead & Company, inc. 
 
 •Jobbers in Wall Paper, Paints, \'^arnishcs 
 Brushes and Glass 
 
 F. H. Olmstead 
 
 Preaident and Treasurer 
 
 Hot Springs, Arkansas 
 
 803 Centriil AviMiii. 
 306 Valley Street 
 
 Rales : Americsn, $1.50 Balhs Exira 
 
 NcM' Southern Hotel 
 
 John Ward. Proprietor 
 
 Texarkana, Arkansas 
 
 Phone 425 A. F. B. Oden, Massenr 
 
 Graduale of Medico-Gymnastic lostitute. Golheoberg, Sweden 
 
 Seven Years at Army and Navy Hospital. 
 
 Lady Assistant 
 
 Office 211 Dugan-Stuart BIdg. 
 
 Hot Sprint^s. Ark. 
 
 Dr. A. W. Berrow 
 
 Osteopath* Physician and Suri^eon 
 
 President Slate Osteopathic Ass n Treasurer Osteopathic Board 
 
 Member Slate and National Eclectic Medical Ass'a 
 
 Member National Osteopathic Ass □ 
 
 600 Central Ave.. Eddy BIdg. 
 
 Hot Springs. Ark. 
 
 Residence: Old Phone 3318 Office: Old Phone 4014 
 Office Hours: 9 to 12. 2 to o 
 
 Dr. W. S. May 
 
 EYE. EAR. NOSE AND THKOAT 
 
 Room.s 14 and 15 t •, , i t^ i * i 
 
 Masonic Temple l^ittle Kock, Ark. 
 
 Dr. J. W. Barnett 
 Dentist 
 
 .■510-511 
 
 State Nafl Bank Bldg. 
 
 Phone 26G1 
 
 V Little Rock, Ark. 
 
 Dr. Alex. Westbrook 
 Dentist 
 
 Phone 1883 
 
 State National Bank Bldf^. r-iii t» i « ■ 
 
 Fourth Floor. Room 422 Little Kock, Ark. 
 
 Telephone 463 
 
 901 Central Avenue 
 
 H. McCafferty 
 
 Undertaker 
 
 Hot Springs, Ark. 
 
 Office Hours : 
 
 9:00 to 12:00 
 2:00 to 5:00 
 
 Dr. W. G. Ghoate 
 
 Venereal Diseases a Specialty 
 
 Kempner Building 
 
 Hot Springs, Ark. 
 
 Gliris Led-widge's 
 
 Undertaking Parlors 
 
 Proprietor St. Louis Stables 
 
 202-204 Central Avenue 
 
 Hot Springs, Ark. 
 
 Henry P. Hopkins 
 
 D. M. Pixlcy 
 
 Hopkins & Pixley 
 
 Dentists 
 
 Matthe>\'s Building 
 O 1 d I'hone 3149 
 New Phone 1050 
 
 Ar^enta, Ark. 
 
 High Class 
 Portraiture 
 Exclu.sively 
 
 xm- /-» f* r\i 
 
 i All Car 
 M Lines 
 
 Old Phone 
 1193 
 
 €j\\M 
 
 flfJl 
 
 /^J^JKJ \ Door 
 
 Studio 120i 
 
 Main St. 
 
 Photographer 
 
 Little Rock, Ark. 
 
 1223 Wolfe St. 
 
 Phone Kiil 
 
 Little Rock Sanitarium 
 
 PhysiolotSicjil Therjipoutic^s. inrltidinc 
 
 Hydrotherapy. Klectrit^ity, Massafte, Ktc. 
 
 S<^ieutifically P]mpIoyed 
 
 Dr. W. C. Green, Supt. Little Rock, Ark. 
 
 Established 187.'5 
 
 229-231 Kim Street 
 22S-2;iO-2.32 Paiifio Avenue 
 
 L. Graddock & Company 
 
 Wholesale and Retail Liquors 
 
 Dallas, Texas 
 
The Standard Blue Book of Arkansas — Advertising Section 127 
 
 This Space 
 Especially Reserved and Contracted for 
 
 By 
 
 The Texarkana Gas & Electric Go. 
 
 of Texarkana, Arkansas 
 
 W. L. Wood, Jr., Mgr. 
 
«W 28 1911 
 
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