Hatchet-Wielding Saloon Smasher Visited, Stayed in Arkansas

A woman infamous for using a hatchet to smash up saloons nationwide visited Arkansas in 1904, then temporarily settled in Eureka Springs.

Carrie Nation and students stand outside "Hatchet Hall," 1910.

Carry Moore, later Carrie Nation, was born Nov. 25, 1846, in Kentucky. She married Charles Gloyd, an abusive alcoholic in 1867. The pair divorced after about a year, and she married David Nation in 1874. Her new husband also seemed fond of alcohol.

Nation became a member of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union, an organization partially devoted to ending the consumption of alcohol in America. Nation and her husband often quarreled.

In 1901, he divorced her by citing “neglect of duty.” It seemed her temperance work kept her on the lecture circuit too much. Nation decided lecturing alone was not enough, and after a time of prayer, she said she had a vision from God to adopt a more militant tactic. Nation began going into saloons and smashing furniture, beer kegs and whiskey bottles with a hatchet while singing hymns and declaring God’s judgment against alcohol. She became a nationally recognized temperance figure.

After a couple of years, and a few stays in jail for disturbing the peace, Nation’s saloon smashing days were largely over. She traveled throughout the Midwest lecturing audiences about temperance and encouraging them to take action against the sale and consumption of alcohol. She hoped her lectures inspired others to take part in her crusade. She carried a trunk of souvenir hatchets to sell to her audiences. 

Her lecture tours brought her to Arkansas in 1904. When she arrived in Mena, a growing mob greeted her with alternating jeers and cheers. As she traveled, Nation often stopped in front of saloons to lecture to bar patrons. During an Arkansas tour in 1906, Nation stopped in Little Rock and made a point to stand in front of the Hamel Saloon. She shook her fist and shouted, “Get out of there, you are all going to the devil!” She demanded Little Rock’s officials shut down the saloons. “I don’t want to find this same condition when I come back,” Nation said.

Nation went to Hot Springs where she started a fight with a pool-hall owner, which led to her being jailed for assaulting a police officer.

Years later, Nation decided she liked Arkansas. She took the large sum of money she made from selling souvenir hatchets and bought a farm in Eureka Springs in 1909. She seemed content to settle down and raise pigs, chickens and apples. Nation started the National College of Eureka Springs in 1910 to train temperance workers and speakers.

But, her time in Eureka Springs was short. She collapsed Jan. 13, 1911 in Eureka Springs, and her friends took her to a hospital in Kansas City, Missouri. After a short stay in Kansas City, Nation settled in Leavenworth, Kansas, where she died June 9, 1911. 

Her home on 35 Steele St. in Eureka Springs still stands. Locals refer to the house as “Hatchet Hall” because of its connection to Nation. A spring named after Nation is located nearby.

Information about Nation and other important historical figures connected to Arkansas is available at the Arkansas State Archives at 1 Capitol Mall, suite 215, or online at http://archives.arkansas.gov.

Wednesday’s Wonderful Collection - Little Rock Central High School "Tigers" athletic photographs

Preceded by Sherman, Scott Street, and Peabody schools, Little Rock High School opened at Fourteenth and Cumberland Streets, Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1905. In 1927, the school moved to the current building at Fourteenth and Park streets. It was renamed Little Rock Central High School in 1955.

The school’s stadium, Quigley Park, which opened in 1936, was named for Earl Quigley. He was a coach for the Tigers from 1914 to 1935. Before War Memorial Stadium was built in 1948, Quigley was used by college and university football teams including the Arkansas Razorbacks. According to the Little Rock School District, “It was not unusual for the Tigers to draw larger crowds to Quigley Stadium than the Razorbacks.”

This collection consists of the 117 athletic photographs of Little Rock High School (later Little Rock Central High School) for the years 1915-1954. A later photograph of the 1967-1968 basketball team is also included. Teams photographed include football, basketball, baseball, and track. The teams were often state champions. Harris and Shrader, popular Little Rock photographers of this time period, photographed many of the teams. More recent photographs were done by Associated Photographers. Besides showing their work, the collection provides a visual record of male students who were involved in sports during these years as well as the uniforms worn.

·         1. 1915: Football team, (first row) Murray, Harris, [unidentified]; (second row) Marshall, [unidentified], [unidentified], [unidentified], [unidentified], Isgrig, Manning; (third row) [unidentified], [unidentified], [unidentified], [unidentified], [unidentified], [unidentified], [unidentified], [unidentified], [unidentified], [unidentified] (Box 1)

·         2. 1915: Basketball team, (first row) Truthman, Pfaff (captain), Workman, Throgmorton; (second row) Milliken, Whitten, Haley; (third row) Fillers (coach), Hanley (faculty manager) (Box 1)

·         3. 1916: Football team (Box 1)

·         4. 1916: Basketball team, (first row) C. McCarron, Rudisill, DeMent; (second row) V. McCarron, Pfaff, Sloan (captain), Milliken, Powell; (third row) Stevenson (student manager), Fitsgibbons, Pipkin (coach), Coleman, Quigley (coach), photo by Shrader (Box 1)

·         5. 1917: Football team, state champions (Box 1)

·         6. 1917: Basketball team, state champions, (first row) A. Smith, Rudisill, McCarron; (second row) Halton, Mitchell, DeMent (captain), Craig, Bratton; (third row) Quigley (coach), Smith, B. Powell, Pipkins (coach), M. Powell, H. Powell, Stevenson (student manager) (Box 1)

·         7. 1917: Baseball team (Box 1)

·         8. 1917-1918: Basketball team state champions, (first row) Craig, DeMent, Powell (captain), Mitchell, Ball; (second row) Gay, Adams, Smith, McCarron, Isgrig, Alley, Quigley (coach). G-25, W-24, L-1, Pct.-.960 (Box 1)

·         9. 1918: Football team (Box 1)

·         10. 1918-1919: Basketball team (Box 1)

·         11. 1919: Football team, state champions (Box 1)

·         12. 1919: Track team, photo by Shrader (Box 1)

·         13. 1919: Baseball team state champions, G-14, W-14, L-0, Pct.-1000 (Box 1)

·         14. 1919-1920: Basketball team, state champions, photo by Shrader (Box 1)

·         15. 1920: Football team (Box 3)

·         16. 1920: Track team (Box 1)

·         17. 1920: Baseball team, state champions, G-35, W-34, L-1, Pct.-.971 (Box 1)

·         18. 1921: Track team, state champions, (first row) Allen, Riffel, Sprick, Peay, Watson, Bale, Glover, McNair; (second row) Smith, D. Hardeman, Harper, Tatum, Nickelson (captain), Bomar, McGarry, Fulmer, Brown; (third row) Feild (student manager), Felix, Tator, Bright, Wycott, Kirkwood, Brown, Dempsey, Pipkin (coach), 42 points (Box 3)

·         19. 1921: Baseball team, state champions, (first row) Guidice, Garauflo, Sadler, Allen, Spatz; (second row) Nesser (mascot), Biggadike, Faulkner, Arendt, Harper (captain), Little, Felix, Mashburn, Barbee (mascot); (third row) Feild (student manager), Coleman, Taylor, Bright, Wycott, Patterson, Presley, Quigley (coach), G-43, W-37, L-6, Pct.-.860 (Box 3)

·         20. 1921-1922: Basketball team, G-33, W-29, L-4, Pct.-.889 (Box 1)

·         21. 1922: Track team, state champions, (first row) Counts, Burns, Cohn, Hopson, Atkinson, Horton, Reynolds, Moult, Powers, Karcher, Allen, D. Braddock; (second row) E. Cone, Eberle, McNair, Metrailer, Fulmer, Bagley, Coleman, Watson, Felix, Read, Sprick, J. Smith, Bale, Saifer, Grimmett, Hollowell, McLennon; (third row) Feild (student manager), J. Braddock, Youngblood, Bomar, McGarry, Hampton, Wycoff, Bright, Kirkwood (captain), Hogshead, Brown, Nickelson, Pipkin (coach); (fourth row) A. T. McMillan, Fish, M. Smith, Sanders, Gilliland, Halliburton, R. Smith, Bridges, Naylor, Pauli, Wade, 42 points (Box 3)

·         22. 1922: Baseball team, state champions, (first row) Garauflo, Spatz, Sadler, R. Jones; (second row) Dempsey, Hendricks, Cockrill, Lewis, Coleman, N. Jones, Guidice; (third row) Feild (student manager), Rogers, Felix, Wycoff (captain), Bright, Kirkwood, Nickelson, Quigley (coach), G-27, W-24, L-3, Pct.-.889 (Box 3)

·         23. 1923: Track team, (first row) Critz, J. Smith, Healy, Stout, B. Allen, Campbell, Bale, Howard, Griffee, Karcher, Slagle, M. Smith, Horton, Curtis; (second row) J. Allen, Knowlton, Greer, Eberle, Hollowell, B. Johnston, Geister, Rozzell, Ray, Moult, Powers, Counts, Dobbyns, M. Wright; (third row) Greenwood, Spricks, O. Johnston, Brasher, Metrailer, Hendricks, Coleman, Mitchell, Boren, Shillcutt, Martin, Vogel, Mathis, Welsh, Medlock, Bliss, Moser, Reynolds, C. Reid; (fourth row) Pipkin (coach), Felix (captain), Hodges, Whalen, Tinney, Brown, Halliburton, Harrington, Parker, Kirkwood, Hampton, Adams, M. Johnston, Read, Youngblood, Quigley (athletic director), photo by Shrader (Box 3)

·         24. 1923: Baseball team, (first row) Haustein, Howard, Healy; (second row) Woodie, Diehl, Clark, Felix (captain), Coleman, Guidice; (third row) Quigley (coach), Baker, Fulmer, Parker, Kirkwood, Brasher, Hendricks, G-16, W-9, L-7, Pct.-.562, photo by Shrader (Box 3)

·         25. 1923-1924: Basketball team, (first row) Hathaway, Speaker; (second row) Haustein, Thompson, Howard, Avinger (captain), Shaw, Smith, Hollowell; (third row) Quigley (coach), McClaren, Whitten, Bradley, Johnston, Brice, Adkins, photo by Shrader (Box 3)

·         26. 1924: Track team, Southwestern Interscholastic Conference champions, (first row) C. Miller, Greer, Powers, M. Miller, Shaw, Youngblood (captain), Billingsley, Warner, Karcher, Eberle, Patton; (second row) Mitchell (student manager), Metrailer, Streepy, Johnston, Greshem, Hampton, Avinger, Holt, Boren, Jarrett, Hendricks, Pipkin (coach), photo by Shrader (Box 3)

·         27. 1924: Baseball team, state champions, (first row) Tate, Loyd, Rogers; (second row) Burket, Howard, Plummer, Hendricks (captain), Jones, Shaw, Haustein; (third row) Lipe, Whitten, Baker, Parker, Fulmer, Speaker, Griffin, Quigley (coach), G-30, W-21, L-9, Pct.-.700 (Box 3)

·         28. 1924-1925: Basketball team, district champions, (first row) Van Frank, Snow; (second row) Brinkley, Dollins, Howard, Masters, Shaw; (third row) Quigley (coach), Smith, Clark, Bradley, Whitten, Graydon, Geister (student manager), Felton (student manager), G-30, W-16, L-14, Pct.-.534, photo by Shrader (Box 3)

·         29. 1925: Football team, (first row) Patton, Hooper, Shaw, Scott, Haustein, Miller, Hurley, Poppenheimer, Estrada, Parks, Brinkley, Bennett; (second row) J. Smith (student manager), Clark, Hudson, McWilliams, Lackey, Snodgrass, Heath, Gunn, Snow, Carruth, Wage, Coonley, Masters, H. Smith, Reid, McCowan, Felton (student manager); (third row) Ivy (assistant coach), Bledsoe, Faisst, Whitten, Rowland, Van Frank, Neblett, Holt, Lipe, Williams, Butler, Graydon, Autry (student manager), Quigley (coach), photo by Shrader (Box 3)

·         30. 1926: Football team, (first row) Jackson (advertising manager), Bennett, Buchanan, Biddle, Wanger, Gebelin, C. LaForge, Staples, Estrada, R. LaForge, Brinkley; (second row) Hodges (student manager), Avinger, Warner, Tubbs, Smith, McLeod, Barnard, Stalnaker, Harris, M. Whitten (captain), Shaw (captain), E. Clark, R. Whitten, Heath, Scott, McCowan, Snow, 0. Clark, Parks, Campbell (student manager); (third row) Bigbee (faculty manager), Ivy (assistant coach), Wage, Satterwhite, Gunn, Rowland, Bradley, Hawn, Holt, A. Avinger, Van Frank, Grimmett, Hall, Coonley, Graydon, Quigley (head coach), Smith (student manager), photo by Harris (Box 3)

·         31. 1926: Track team, state champions, (first row) Thompson, R. Patton, Shaw, H. Patton, Rozzell, LaForge, Warner, Billingsley, Cox, Wanger, Miller, Simms, D. Graydon; (second row) Quigley (coach), Ivy (assistant coach), Faisst, Coonley, Brown, Dunkin, Holt, Van Frank, Grendt, Byrn, Davis (student manager), Smith (student manager), 47 points, photo by Shrader (Box 3)

·         32. 1926: Baseball team, state champions, (first row) Brinkley, Reed, Martin, McBride (mascot); (second row) Shaw (captain), Lee, Heath, Plummer, Poppenheimer, G. Graydon; (third row) Quigley (coach), Ivy (assistant coach), Whitten, Holt, Van Frank, D. Graydon, Davis (student manager), Smith (student manager), G-15, W-14, L-1, Pct.-.934, photo by Harris (Box 3)

·         33. 1927: Football team, (first row) R. LaForge, Brinkley, Buchanan, Wanger, Barnard, Parks, Hooper, Bennett; (second row) Biddle, Hayes, C. LaForge, Tubbs, Satterwhite, C. Avinger, Graydon, Neblett (captain), Fulton, Heath, Early, Neatherly, Bailey, Staples, Estrada; (third row)Quigley (coach), Scott (assistant coach), Treischman, Castleberry, Herbert, Lipe, A. Avinger, Lancaster, Hawn, Henn, Lusby, Williams, Grimmett, Stalnaker, Berry (assistant coach), Stebbins (advertising manager), photo by Harris (Box 3)

·         34. 1927: Track team, state champions, (first row) Sprick, Bennett, Buchanan, Park, G. Graydon, C. LaForge, Woodie, Shewmaker, Patton, R. Laforge, Wanger, Brinkley, Holloman; (second row) Ivy (assistant coach), Barnes (assistant coach), D. Graydon, McLeod, Hall, Holt, Dunkum, Grendt, Coonley, Roberts, Tubbs, Quigley (coach), 59 points, photo by Shrader (Box 3)

·         35. 1927: Track team, state champions, 59 points, photo by Shrader (Box 1)

·         36. 1928: Football team, (first row) Hooper, H. Stafford, Bennett, T. Keith, Harlan, Bowen, Parks, [unidentified], LaForge, Staples, R. Keith, Buchanan, L. McLain, Anderson, N. Stafford, (Davy), (Wescot); (second row) Johns (trainers), Withee, Tubbs, Whitley, Spears, Early, C. Avinger, McLeod, Satterwhite, Stalnaker, H. Hall, May, Rey, Brice, Stewart, T. Hall, Biddle, Haynes, Miles (student manager); (third row) Quigley (coach), Bigbee (faculty Manager), Berry (assistant coach), Perdue (assistant coach), Lipe, Lusby, Smith, Elliott, Lancaster, Neblett, C. Williams, McConnell, A. Avinger, [?]rry, Davidson, Hefington (student manager), Gladden (advertising manager), photo by Harris (Box 3)

·         37. 1928: Basketball team (Box 1)

·         38. 1928: Track team, state champions (Box 1)

·         39. 1929: Football team, photo by Harris (Box 3)

·         40. 1929: Basketball team, state champions, photo by Shrader (Box 1)

·         41. 1929: Track team, state champions (Box 1)

·         42. 1929: Track team, state champions (Box 1)

·         43. 1930: Football team, photo by Harris (Box 3)

·         44. 1930: Track team, state champions, photo by Shrader (Box 1)

·         45. 1930: Track team, state champions, photo by Shrader (Box 1)

·         46. 1931: Football team, photo by Shrader (Box 3)

·         47. 1931: Basketball team, photo by Shrader (Box 1)

·         48. 1931: Track team, state champions, photo by Shrader (Box 1)

·         49. 1931: Track team, state champions, photo by Shrader (Box 1)

·         50. 1932: Football team, photo by Shrader (Box 3)

·         51. 1932: Track team, state champions, photo by Harris (Box 2)

·         52. 1933: Basketball team, photo by Harris (Box 2)

·         53. 1933: Track team, state champions, (first row) Gamblin (mascot), Sanders, [unidentified], Gordon, Ellington, Futrell, Wilson, Galloway, Phillips, Lusby; (second row) R. Medlock, Rayburn Medlock, Johnson, Driver, Russell, Presley, Donaldson, Hawkins, Cartwright, Cuist, Hudson, Morris; (third row) Quigley (coach), Berry (assistant coach), Lowrey, Sumlin, Smith, Thorpe, Frick, Watson, Robbins, McMurry, Riley (trainer), Barnes, photo by Shrader (Box 3)

·         54. 1933: Track team, state champions, photo by Shrader (Box 2)

·         55. 1934: Football team, photo by Harris (Box 3)

·         56. 1934: Track team, state champions, photo by Harris (Box 2)

·         57. 1934: Track team, state champions, photo by Harris (Box 2)

·         58. 1935: Basketball team (Box 2)

·         59. 1935: Track team,state champions, photo by Shrader (Box 2)

·         60. 1935: Track team, state champions, photo by Shrader (Box 2)

·         61. 1935: Track team, state champions, photo by Harris (Box 3)

·         62. 1936: Basketball team, photo by Harris (Box 2)

·         63. 1936: Track team, state champions, photo by Harris (Box 3)

·         64. 1936: Track team, state champions, photo by Harris (Box 3)

·         65. 1937: Football team, photo by Shrader (Box 3)

·         66. 1937: Basketball team (Box 2)

·         67. 1937: Track team, state champions, photo by Shrader (Box 3)

·         68. 1937: Track team, state champions, photo by Shrader (Box 3)

·         69. 1938: Football team, state and conference champions, photo by Harris (Box 3)

·         70. 1938: Football team, state champions, Maack, Edwards, Gardiol, Hinton, Russell, Kopert, Ambort, Carter, Hughes, T. Spaulding, Atkinson, White, Smith, Green, Walter, B. Spaulding, Freeland, Clyde Van Sickle, Nickel, Homer Berry, Brown, Rolph, Crowson, Baer, Mize, Donaldson, Moore, Bernard, Thomas, photo by Fausett Hogue (Box 2)

·         71. 1938: Basketball team, photo by Harris (Box 2)

·         72. 1939: Football team, photo by Shrader (Box 3)

·         73. 1939: Basketball team, conference champions, photo by Shrader. (Box 2)

·         74. 1939: Track team, state champions, photo by Harris. (Box 3)

·         75. 1939: Track team, state champions, photo by Shrader. (Box 3)

·         76. 1939: Track team, state champions, photo by Shrader (Box 3)

·         77. 1940: Football team, photo by Shrader (Box 3)

·         78. 1940: Basketball team, photo by Harris (Box 2)

·         79. 1940: Track team, state champions, photo by Shrader (Box 3)

·         80. 1941: Football team, photo by Shrader (Box 3)

·         81. 1941: Track team, state champions, photo by Shrader (Box 3)

·         82. 1942: Football team (Box 3)

·         83. 1942: Track team, state champions, photo by Shrader (Box 3)

·         84. 1943: Football team (Box 3)

·         85. 1943: Track team, photo by Shrader (Box 3)

·         86. 1945: Football team, photo by Shrader (Box 3)

·         87. 1947: Football team, state and district champions (Box 3)

·         88. 1948: Football team, Arkansas AAA champions, photo by Associated Photographers (Box 3)

·         89. 1948: Basketball team (Box 3)

·         90. 1948: Track team (Box 3)

·         91. 1948: Track team, Arkansas AAA champions, photo by Associated Photographers (Box 3)

·         92. 1948: Track team, Arkansas AAA champions, photo by Associated Photographers (Box 3)

·         93. 1949: Football team, Big Six champions (Box 3)

·         94. 1949: Basketball team, photo by Associated Photographers (Box 3)

·         95. 1950: Basketball team, photo by Associated Photographers (Box 3)

·         96. 1950: Track team, photo by Associated Photographers (Box 3)

·         97. 1950: Track team, photo by Associated Photographers (Box 3)

·         98. 1951: Track team, Big Six champions (Box 3)

·         99. 1952: Basketball team (Box 3)

·         100. 1952: Basketball team, Big 7 champions (Box 3)

·         101. 1952: Track team, Big Six champions (Box 3)

·         102. 1952: Track team, Big Six champions (Box 3)

·         103. 1953: Track team, Big 7 champions (Box 3)

·         104. 1953: Track team, Big 7 champions (Box 3)

·         105. 1954: Basketball team, Big 7 champions (Box 3)

·         106. 1954: Track team, Big 7 champions (Box 3)

·         107. 1954: Track team, Big 7 champions (Box 3)

·         108. 1967-1968: Basketball team (Box 3)

·         109. Undated: Football team (Box 3)

·         110. Undated: Football team (Box 3)

·         111. Undated: Basketball team, photo by Harris (Box 3)

·         112. Undated: Basketball team, photo by Harris (Box 2)

·         113. Undated: Basketball team (Box 2)

·         114. Undated: Track team (Box 2)

·         115. Undated: Track team (Box 2)

·         116. Undated: Track team, pole vaulter (Box 2)

·         117. Undated: Track team, pole vaulter (Box 2)

·         118. Undated: Baseball team (Box 2)