Showing posts with label De Queen. Show all posts
Showing posts with label De Queen. Show all posts

Ben Lomond Happenings

 


Daily Arkansas Gazette 
Tue, 6/12/1906
Burglars at Ben Lomond 
Ben Lomond, June 11- Burglars entered the store of BW Fawcett and dynamited the safe.  An envelope containing several notes was the principal loss.  A small amount of money was also taken, how much is not known. 

Daily Arkansas Gazette
10/3/1907
Ben Lomond- Sawmill burned- W.A. Carrol lost his saw mill plant, together with six thousand feet of lumber, by fire at Mill's Ferry near Ben Lomond, recently. The property was uninsured. 

Daily Arkansas Gazette
11/10/1920 
Embezzler Gets Year 
Former Postmaster at Ben Lomond Sentenced in Federal Court. 
Special to the Gazette
Texarkana, Nov 9
In the federal court on the Arkansas side today, former Postmaster Brown at Ben Lomond, Arkansas, was convicted on a charge of embezzling post office funds and sentenced to one year in the penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas.  The case had been pending for more than a year. 

Daily Arkansas Gazette 
2/24/1907
Ben Lomond- Bank Opens
The bank at Ben Lomond opened its doors a few days ago, with Cortez Brewer, formerly of Murfreesboro, as cashier.  The president of the bank is W.C. Mize, and J.M. Sutton is vice president. 

Daily Arkansas Gazette
4/24/1910
Ben Lomond, The citizens of Ben Lomond, Sevier County, at a mass meeting Thursday night subscribed $15,000 to be donated to the first railroad that builds to that town. 
The desire of the people of Ben Lomond is to have railroad connection with De Queen, the county seat of Sevier County, from which several roads are now being projected.  Another meeting will be held Wednesday night, at which is is thought some definite propositions will be submitted and considered.