March 2022

The largest financial crash that ever took place in Corning, if fact the largest in Northeast Arkansas, occurred Tuesday when the Corning Mercantile CO., by its proprietor, Dr. Jas. G. Dickson, made an assignment of property including three stocks of merchandise, two cotton gins and all other property, two stores and one gin being located in this city, and the other store and gin being located at and near Reyno for benefit of creditors, mostly in St. Louis and Memphis. In the assignment papers, filed in the Chancery Clerk’s office here Tuesday, the liabilities are put at $36,000. As will be observed to our Professional Card Column, J.L. Taylor and J.N. Moore, two of Corning’s most brilliant and wide-awake young lawyers, have formed a partnership. The store building owned by J.W. Harb, and lately occupied by Harb Bros., is now being filled with a stock of general merchandise by J.M. Hawks, the Reyno merchant, who has done a large mercantile and cotton business in Reyno for several years. Mr. Hawks has been a resident of Corning the past years or two, having bought a fine home for himself and his family in the Matthews Addition. We understand he will discontinue his store at Reyno and open up a large scale business in Corning. He also managed cotton plantations near Corning. The business men and citizens of Corning secured the services of Ex-Representative C.R. Beloate, who left Wednesday night to go before the General Assembly, now in session at Little Rock to help procure the passage of a bill to make Corning a regular stopping point for the fast mail trains and a flag station for the night cannon ball trains. At a meeting of members of the M.E. Church, South, on Sunday, February 10, 1901, the following was adopted: “That the newspapers of the city be requested to publish the law against selling goods on Sunday, and that we request all keepers of stores, shops and other places where goods, wares or merchandise are sold, to obey the law, and that if voluntary compliance is not given to this request, then we demand that our officers see that the law is enforced. We also request of our Mayor and Justices of the Peace that they issue a proclamation declaring their intention to enforce the law against all violations of the law. J.M. Talkington, Pastor.

Think a moment about the last time you were kind to someone. Not nice, but kind. There’s a difference. We often say to children, “Be nice” in their interactions with others. Kindness requires more from us than just being nice. Some people use the word, “nice” and “kind” interchangeably, but they are not the same. Kindness is a behavior and demands a greater level of compassion than being nice. It requires empathy paired with intention. Being nice is a demeanor and doesn’t require much effort. One of the basic and much needed behaviors that we need to impart on our youth is how to be kind.

Well, I’ve been to the rag basket workshop. Plus that, I learned the basics of making a rag basket and even wallowed out most of one at the workshop.