Reunion set for Beaty Community

— The Beaty community reunion will be held Saturday, May 26, at the Beaty Schoolhouse starting at 5 p.m. for an evening of visiting and reminiscing.

According to Berl Dean Harris and Dwayne Craig, who are organizing the event, everyone, especially former residents of Beaty, areinvited to attend. Please bring lawn chairs.

The food and drinks will be furnished, but Berl Dean said that some “good old homemade desserts will really finish off the meal.”

Beaty was an early-day community which had a school, Masonic Lodge hall, hotel, stores and was a stop on the Arkansas & Oklahoma Railroad that went from Rogers, through Gravette, Southwest City, and into Oklahoma.

News, Pages 2 on 05/09/2012