View of Main Street looking north from Gregg Building, Jonesboro,
Arkansas. The citizens of this thriving county take
pleasure in referring to it as the best county in Arkansas, and for
proof of the statement point out Jonesboro as the best town in the
state. Many other reasons are given, it being located in a
very fertile section, where a great variety of crops are grown and
where returns from the soil are very satisfactory. Where the
climate contributes to general health. Where all living
conditions, both in the country and the towns are ideal. Where
good churches and schools serve all generations of the excellent
citizenship. Where every boosts. Where you want to stay
after you get here. Where everybody is satisfied.
Jonesboro is the county seat of Craighead county and the business
center of Northeast Arkansas. It is located on Crowley's
Ridge. To the east lies the celebrated St. Francis Valley, and
to the west the Cache river bottom and the West Prairie rice belt.
Due to its location, passenger service and shipping facilities,
Jonesboro is the logical market and distributing point for this
territory. Also it is headquarters for 122 commercial
travelers. Climate
Our pleasant
climate is due to a mean annual temperature of 61 degrees, with no
extremes of heat or cold. Grazing seasons long, winters short.
Annual rainfall 49 inches.
City Schools and
Churches Jonesboro is noted for efficient public
schools, each of the six wards having a modern brick building.
It also has a new High School building, a well graded Catholic
school, a business college, and a State agricultural school.
A magnificent Y.M.C.A. with library, swimming pool and gymnasium, is
located on Main street. The Baptists have completed a $100,000
church, and other leading denominations have large congregations and
commodious buildings of worship, which include, Methodist, Catholic,
Episcopal, Presbyterian, Christian, and Christian Science. Plans are
being made to erect new Methodist and Christian churches.
Some of Our Commercial Concerns
Four of the
handsomest banks in the State with total resources of $7,000,000 and
deposits of over $5,000,000.
Roberts Cotton Oil
Company, which concern handles over 20,000 tons of cotton seed a
season. Joneboro Compress Company, with a capacity
of 40,000 bales a season.
Two live daily
newspapers, Huber Manufacturing Company, Pierce Williams Basket
Factory, Keller and Tamm Stave Company, American Handle Company,
Jonesboro Roller Mill Company, Portia Lumber Company, Barton Lumber
& Brick Company, E.C. Stuck & Sons Lumber & Brick Company, Jonesboro
Machine Company, Z.T. Matthews & Son Gin Factory, Farmers' Mill &
Gin Company, Jonesboro Ice Company, A.B. Jones Wholesale Grocery
Company, Coca Cola Bottling Company, Preston Hatcher Fruit Company,
Wegman Mason Lumber Company, J.H. Snyder Medicine Company.
A new wholesale grocery company is to be opened up within the next
few weeks - Wimberly Grocery Company. Also a new furniture
company, Skelton Orbison Furniture Company.
New
$500,000 Baptist College to be built.
New $150,000
Hotel to be built. Jonesboro Ice Company to put up
new building. New Ice Cream Factory to be erected.
New $250,000 Courthouse also.
Farm Home of W.B. Broom, Craighead County Farmer
Transportation Facilities
The Jonesboro-Nettleton
manufacturing district is served by four railroads, Frisco,
Missouri-Pacific, Cotton Belt, and J.L.C. & E. Seven main and
branch lines radiate from this district. Total miles of
railroad within a 50-mile radius of Jonesboro, 625.
Craighead County Community Work
Red Cross - The
Northeast Arkansas Chapter of the Red Cross placed a public health
nurse in Craighead county November 10 for community public health
work. Y.M.C.A. Work - Craighead county organized
for County Y.M.C.A. work in March of 1919. A county secretary
was called in May. The county secretary gives his time to
organizing groups of boys and young men with the four-fold program
of training, physical, social, mental and religious training of
leaders; conducting county older boy conferences; county
conventions; father and son meetings; educational trips; promoting
play days and festivals; first aid work; vocational educational help
for boys; high school Find Yourself campaigns; sex education;
education in rural life; work with returned soldiers; various lines
of cooperative effort with churches.
Poland China
Herd of Harry Carr, Pig Club boy of Craighead County, started on
$25.00 borrowed, four years ago, now has an $1,800 herd. |
