PIONEER CITIZENS
PARAGOULD , ARKANSAS
DECEMBER 24 , 1909
THE DAILY SOLIPHONE
TRANSCRIBED BY : TINA EASLEY
REVERTING TO THE EARLY HISTORY OF THE TOWN WE RECALL SUCH NAMES AS :
W.W. MERIWHETHER, C.D. PRUETT , W.H. SOLLIS , JOHN M. DAVIS , REV. J.C. RITTER ,
J.M. LANDRUM , B.C. GALLOP , JOE LYTLE , JNO. B. BOYKIN , DR. W.T. WITHERINGTON ,
CHRIS RITTER , ELI BRAY , J.A. DICKSON , R.H. GARDNER, DR. C. WALL , DR. T.H. WYSE ,
JUDGE L.L. MACK , H.W. GLASSCOCK , DR. HUNTER , F.M. TANSIL , DR. W.H. HICKS ,
J.T. HAMPTON , W.E. BAIRD , DAN SMITH , HARV RICHARDS , W.H. WYCOTT ,
DR. M.L. MERIWHETHER , DR. HAMMOND , HENRY HAMMOND , JOHN F. BRINKMAN ,
FRANK BITTICK , WILLIAM WARE , J.B. HOLMAN , JOHN O'STEEN , "FISHERMAN" WILSON ,
WILLIS PRUET , JOHN ODAM , MIKE WILKINS , DR. A.G. DICKSON ,
AND OTHERS THAT CANNOT NOW BE CALLED TO MIND . THESE
MEN WERE HERE EARLY IN THE EIGHTIES AND EITHER WITNESSES THE BIRTH OF THE TOWN
OR NURTURED IT IN ITS INFANCY. PERHAPS A BRIEF REFERENCE TO THESE DECEASED
PIONEERS OF THE CITY MIGHT BE INTERESTING TO THE NEW GENERATION THAT HAS COME UPON
THE STAGE OF ACTION AS WELL AS TO THOSE WHO WERE CONTEMPORANEOUS WITH THEM,
AS EACH DID HIS PART IN LAYING THE FOUNDATION OF THE FUTURE CITY , DESTINED BY
THE FATES TO BE THE QUEEN CITY OF CROWLEY'S RIDGE , AS IT IS OFTEN
BEEN CALLED .