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3rd District Agricultural School, Magnolia,
Arkansas
Magnolia High School
Columbia County in 1882 was organized out of territory cut
from the five surrounding counties. And "Columbia," as
fair as the Goddess for whom she was named, has steadily
developed into a wealthy, prosperous county, filled with law
abiding, industrious, religious and liberty loving citizenship.
Lying along the southern border of Arkansas and bordering on
Louisiana, Columbia is blessed with a most remarkable climate -
enjoying, the year 'round, an abundance of God's life giving
sunshine, for which this Southland is noted, and bathed with a
mild and pleasant breeze from the Southwest, which seldom
permits the temperature to pass to either extreme.
Poultry Plant and Dairy Barn
The city of Magnolia has a modern Light and Power Plant, an
ice factory and water works. The cut will show the new high
school building which is the pride of all citizens educationally
inclined, and which has met with admiration from all who have
seen it. The grammar school building has recently been remodeled
and the addition of a modern gymnasium made, all of which equips
the city with most excellent educational advantages. The court
house, situated in the center of the public square at Magnolia,
surrounded by beautiful Magnolia trees and a well kept
courtyard, never fails to attract visitors by its beautiful
style of architecture.
The soil is a of a nature that naturally makes good roads the
greater portion of the year, and while but a few miles of model
road have been attempted as yet, most of the citizenship is
clamoring for better roads and no doubt the county will have a
network of improved roads in the near future.
Various orders have their lodges and buildings, with a large and
active membership. The American Legion, which has just been
organized and named "Columbia Post," has elected the following
officers: Lieut. Joe L. Davis, chairman; Captain J.M. Kelso,
vice-chairman; Captain Cross Dudney, secretary; Gladney Jean,
treasurer; Sergt. R.L. Brewster, historian; Sergt. Dee Waller,
master at arms, and Sergt. Clarence Crumpler, chaplain, who
served patriotically in the late war.
Of the prospective enterprises of Columbia county today, the oil
business is causing more activity than anything else. No oil
well has ever been sunk in the county, but at this time the
South Arkansas Oil and Gas Co, organized at Emerson, Ark., with
several business men of Magnolia interested, is boring one well,
has two other derricks completed with very encouraging
indications of finding an oil field. It seems from can be
gathered from oil experts that Columbia county is very favorably
located, lying directly north of the rich Homer Oil field, and
in a northeasterly direction from other oil fields in Louisiana
and Texas.
(The contributions of the Columbia Cotton Oil Co., the Magnolia
Compress Co., the Farmers Bank and Trust Co., the Peoples Bank,
J.W. Barrow, J.L. and D.M. Davis, A.D. Pope, C.W. McKay, Longine,
Goode, and Lyle, made this presentation of Columbia county
possible and we feel that the citizenship of the county owe them
thanks.)
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