To bring logs to the railroad run by Dierks Lumber Company in the early 1920s, mule-drawn wagons emerge from the forest near Umpire, Arkansas, carrying newly-cut trees. (Photograph courtesy of Don Manning of Umpire)
In the first automobile in Magnolia, Arkansas, on November 20, 1910, the groom, Burkett Daniels, and the bride, Lessie Henry, who are in the rear seat, have just been married. Up front, on the left, is Duke Emerson, owner of the 1910 Cadillac, and on the right is Buck McKissick. Standing are Floy Warren and Callye Daniels. In the backgound is the First Baptist parsonage, home of Brother Scarbrough who wed the couple. (Photograph courtesy of Lessie Daniels)
From the 1925 school annual is this photograph of students working their
way through Magnolia Agricultural and Mechanical College by milking cows.
Muleriders was the name of the school's athletic teams who had to
ride mules five miles to the nearest railway station to travel to games.
The names of the milking students are not known. An accompanying text in
the annual explains: "It has been the policy of the College to lend
deserving boys and girls one or two cows from the dairy herd, so long as
these lasted, and to permit other students to bring profitable cows and
milk them at the dairy barn. Each cow is charged with the feed she consumes
and the profit goes to the boy or girl who milks her. Most of these boys
and girls have been making their board the past year by so doing. Considerable
fortitude and energy are required to enable a young man or a young lady
to go to the dairy barn three times a day and milk a cow; however, that
kind of a boy or girl will succeed in educating himself or herself and will
develop into the men and women who prosper in this world." (Photograph
from the 1925 Mulerider
annual).
Ox-teams stand beside the "Dinky Tram" near Frostville Sawmill in Lafayette county, Arkansas, in 1905. At right is W. D. Bruton. (Photograph courtesy of Wanda Bruton Sheffield)
In 1915 in Horatio, Arkansas, Postmaster Lovin Greer and his clerk, Jewell Everett Shull, also his niece, open the post office for business. (Photograph courtesy of Mrs. Louise Thompson)
At the railroad depot in De Queen, Arkansas, in 1904, are, from left to right : Henry Jacks, T. H. Wimpee, Ben Smith, and an unknown individual. The names of the call boys are also unknown. (Photograph courtesy of Mrs. Willie Miller)
A Rawleigh Products wagon and a salesman, Cummings Byers, stop near Shover Springs, Hempstead county, Arkansas, in the early 1920s. Rawleigh salemen went door-to-door in rural America in the early 20th century peddling their wares to farmers and their wives. (Photograph courtesy of Ellen Byers Smith)
This school picture was taken at Mineola school, Howard county, Arkansas, in 1914. Those identified are, back row, left to right : Teacher - Charles Garrison, Clarence McMellon, Holder Watkins, Everett Ralls, Otis Chambers, Preston Watkins, Charles McMellon, Fed Garrison, Jewell Garrison, Amy Davis, and Vesta Watkins. Front row , left to right : Berdie Ford, Eletha Ralls, Minerva Kemp, Tressie Davis, Ocie Sirmon, Mabel Watkins, and Leetus Tipton. Others are unidentified (Photograph courtesy of Mrs. Zelpha Allison of Umpire, Arkansas)
This school picture was taken at the Rough Edge school in Howard county, Arkansas, in 1909. Those identified are, top row, left to right : Ethel Pinkerton, Carrie Davis, Lillie Pinkerton, Robert Beane-teacher, Clarence Hart, Homer Davis, Harvey Austin, Dee Seales; Middle row, left to right : Frona Seales, Beulah Pinkerton, Emma Austin, Versa Pinkerton, Lula Bolland, Ted Bolland, Jeff Walters, ? Austin, and Tyndal Walters. Bottom row, left to right : Eunice Davis, Frona Wakley, Syble Davis, Lee Hart Kennedy, Anis Pinkerton, Myrtle Bolland, Pattie Hobson, Elsie Davis, Ellis Bolland, ? Whisenhunt, Grady Pinkerton, John Hobson, and Edison Davis. (Photograph courtesy of Mrs. Zelpha Allison of Umpire, Arkansas)
On August 2, 1908, at Lewisville, Arkansas, a young man takes two young women for a buggy ride. From left : Lucy A. Jones, Will J. Ward, and Mattie Thatcher (Mashaw). (Photograph courtesy of Ruby Mae Ward Colten)
This scene is at Broad and State Line Avenue just after the turn of the century on the border where Texas and Arkansas meet in Texarkana. (Photograph courtesy of Wilbur Smith of Texarkana, Texas)
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