100 YEARS AGO, September 21, 1916
♦ Coach Dan Estes’ chances for a winning football machine are unusually good. Reporting for practice were “Sallow” Dodson, Sam Donnell, Orien Wray and Joe Day, Joe Brooks, the fighting center of several season, arrived last night and will start practicing this afternoon. Graydon Dodson, who tips the beam at nearly 200, is a likely contender for a line berth. Continue reading
Reprinted here by special permission of the author, Cindy Beckman, a retired Conway High School history teacher who writes local history.
This year the Conway Area Chamber of Commerce is celebrating its 125th anniversary. Originally established as The Conway Board of Trade in 1891, it mostly supported business in the early years. The first board president was Continue reading
We’re nearing fall and the 142-year-old Springfield-Des Arc bridge is still falling apart over Cadron Creek off Springfield Road north of Wooster on Faulkner County’s edge with Conway County.
The City of Conway has run into snags in its already-funded project to restore and move the bridge to Beaverfork Lake for walking/bicycling. Conway announced last week it learned it must Continue reading
Reprinted here by special permission of the author, Cindy Beckman, a retired Conway High School history teacher who writes local history.
This week, I would like to tell you a little bit about a project I have been working on for the past year. While gathering research for what I thought would be an article on Arch Ford, I discovered that Mr. Ford had deposited 75 scrapbooks with the UA Special Collections at Fayetteville. Once I went through the scrapbooks, I knew that it would take much more than an article to tell his story. Continue reading
Reprinted here by special permission of the author, Cindy Beckman, a retired Conway High School history teacher who writes local history.
In 1945, Kenneth Sullivan built a restaurant, Sullivan’s Ice Cream Parlor, on the northwest corner of Donaghey and Robinson. Patrons drove up to the south side of the building and a waitress would come out to the car to take their order for ice cream or sodas. Sullivan’s was also remembered for Continue reading