Jitney is an old term for taxis. I know because my great-grandmother never called a cab or a taxi--always a jitney. -----Original Message----- From: Fran Warren [mailto:alverson@valuelinx.net] Sent: Monday, October 20, 2003 10:56 AM To: ARKANSAS-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [ARKANSAS] What were Jitney Cars??? Does anyone know what a Jitney was? I've noticed a lot of news items about them in the 1914 and 1915 newspapers July 30, 1915 Van Buren Press-Argus JITNEY LINE TO SHIBLEY AND ALMA Some of the former Jitney Owners have established a line of jitneys between Fort Smith and Alma and are being very liberally patronized. The cars are making three round trips daily, having a regular schedule. During the busy fruit season that is now on, there will be much use of Jitneys between Van Buren and Alma, and especially between Van Buren and Shibley where the Van Buren Fruit Growers' Union is loading peaches. Fran Alverson Warren e-mail: alverson@valuelinx.net 479-369-2703 http://www.crawfordcountyarkansas.net/ ==== ARKANSAS Mailing List ==== Check out other genealogy resources on the net at John Fuller's most helpful site http://www.rootsweb.com/~jfuller/gen_mail.html ============================== To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237