Friends forwarded this magnificent picture of mothers and babies.  They don't know, unless the Sleuths can find answers, who most of the folks are. Identified on the back row from left are Florence and Lee Biggs, Freda and Burney Lightle, Rosamond and Joe Yingling, unidentified, and then Lucy and Mary Ann Morris.  In the middle of the front row Tom Headlee and his mother.  Interesting things are the shoe styles.  Three of the front moms have almost identical shoes. Also interesting is how healthy and hefty those babies were!  And how happy all the mothers appear.  Tell us who the others are if you know. 05/03/2011

It gets to be shocking.  Drive by and notice the building is either gone or half way down.  That's the way it was with me on Main Street.  The old International Shoe Factory building is a goner.  I did another double-take because it was already half gone.  I snapped pictures.   The International Shoe Factory was one of the first factories in Searcy Arkansas.  After World War II Searcy leaders got the Searcians to agree to raise $100,000 to erect a building to house the factory.  The International Shoe Company would least the building for five years with a 30 year renewal option.  Approximately 450 people were to be employed in the factory.  Dr. Raymond Muncy's history of Searcy Arkansas, written in 1976 gives the background of the factory, which I'll let you read at your will.  I got th... 10/18/2009

Several years  ago my husband's mother was shopping in a flea market or a discount store and saw a lot of cheaply framed photos of people and things.  She did a double take when she saw this picture. She bought copies for all of her children.  I treasure it. It was a copy of a photograph of her husband's father when he was a young man.....with his 6 brothers!  They were lined up on this board for a posed photograph and they were all so handsome. They were all dressed basically alike also, just as young people today dress.   So if Searcy Arkansas folks are looking at this you're seeing the Duncan brothers, with my hasband Rodger's grandfather in the center. 03/04/2009

This old photo shows a lot of men and boys (Where are the ladies?) dressed in their Sunday (probably) fine suits and one man is pushing the other in a wheel barrow.  I like the way they are all dressed the same, just as we dress alike today and this was around 1900. The White County Historical Society has this to say about the picture. Election Bet. Missouri and North Arkansas Railroad conductor Ed Ferrell cashes in on an election bet in this downtown Searcy scene c1900. Ferrell is the passenger in what appears to be the payoff of an election wager. The power unit is Claude King who operated a dray service in Searcy and was a member of the town's brass band. The wheelbarrow is the type used by the Henry Wrape Co. at their plant which was owned by Searcy Flooring & Lumber Co. The indivi... 01/09/2009