74 HISTORY OF THE WHEEL AND ALLIANCE. 



R. H. Morehead was again retained as Secretary of the 

 State Wheel. 



MEETING AT LITTLE ROCK. 



The sixth annual meeting of the State Wheel of 

 Arkansas was held in the Hall of the House of Represen- 

 tatives, in the city of Little Rock, beginning on the 25th 

 day of July, 1888. This was, perhaps, the largest and 

 most interesting meeting of the kind ever held in the 

 State. Over one hundred delegates were present, and, 

 although in the midst of a hotly contested political cam- 

 paign, the best of feeling and general harmony prevailed. 



At this meeting nearly every county in the State was 

 represented. Charters had been granted to 1,947 subor- 

 dinate Wheels. L. P. Featherston was re-elected Presi- 

 dent and the irrepressible Col. Morehead was again re- 

 tained as Secretary. W. H. Quayle was elected Treasurer. 

 The meeting was one grand success, and the delegates 

 left with high hopes for the future of the Order. It had 

 grown from the little band of seven who had met at the 

 McBee School-house to a meeting of delegates, in the Hall 

 of Representatives, representing 75,000 Wheelers in the 

 State, and comparing in point of intellect with any body 

 of like numbers that ever met in the capitol of the State. 

 Well might we be proud of our noble Order. 



MEETING AT HOT SPRINGS. 



The seventh annual meeting of the State Wheel of Ar- 

 kansas was held at Hot Springs on the 24th, 25th, 26th 

 and 27th of July, 1889. The action of the Meridian 

 meeting, consolidating the Wheel and Alliance was in- 

 dorsed, and the Constitution ratified. Preparations were 

 made to establish a State Exchange, and much other im- 

 portant business was accomplished. John P. Russ was 

 elected President of the State Union, and R. H. Morehead 



