J. W. BIARD J. W. Biard, who is conducting a dry cleaning establishment in Fort Smith, where he has carried on business since 1905, was born in Paris, Texas, in 1885, and there spent the period of his boyhood and youth, acquiring his education in the schools of that city. He started out to earn his living as a cowboy on the ranches of Texas and was thus employed in his later teens. He next became identified with a dry goods company at Paris, Texas, and worked in that way until he reached the age of twenty, when he left the Lone Star state to come to Arkansas. He was first employed in singing illustrated songs for the Fort Smith Traction Company of this city. Subsequently he was identified ,with R. C. Ballinger, a piano merchant of Fort Smith and also with the Bijou Theatre. In 1905 he established a pressing business, at which time his equipment consisted of an ironing board and two irons. Today he owns and occupies a large building on North Sixth street and operates two trucks in collection and delivery of the suits which he presses and cleans. He is enjoying a fine business as a. dry cleaner and dyer; his trade having reached most gratifying proportions. Associated with Mr. Biard in his work at all times has been his wife, Mrs. Lillie Grace (Sickles) Biard, a daughter of C. E. Sickles of Fort Smith. They have put forth a most earnest effort to please their patrons and their excellent work and reliable business methods have constituted the foundation upon which success has been built. Both Mr. and Mrs. Biard are much interested in the welfare of the city and contribute to every plan and measure for the general good. Mr. Biard belongs to various organizations, including the Masonic fraternity, the Woodmen of the World, the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks, the Lions Club and the Credit Men’s Association. In these connections are indicated the rules which govern his conduct and shape his relations with his fellowmen. He is a man of business capability, of sterling personal worth and of progressive citizenship and by reason of these qualities he well deserves mention in the history of his adopted state.