LITTLE ROCK — 100 YEARS AGO Sept. 20, 1912
The principals of the several white schools in Little Rock met with Superintendent R. C. Hall yesterday and arranged the details for the beginning of the manual training work of the grammar schools, Monday being the time set for the purpose. The pupils who will be taught are boys in the seventh and eighth grades and about one-half of the boys in the ninth grades. The pupils are required to attend the Manual Training Department one-fourth of a day each week. While the boys are being instructed at the Fort Steele school, the girls in the same grades will be taught sewing at their respective schools.
50 YEARS AGO Sept. 20, 1962 CONWAY - J. D. Smith, operator of Smith’s Grocery, in a residential area here, told police that somebody stole $81 from his store Tuesday and that the next morning the money was returned. Smith found $81 lying on the floor of his store when he went to investigate the slamming of the front door early yesterday. The money had been taken from a purse beneath a counter 24 hours earlier.
25 YEARS AGO Sept. 20, 1987
A groggy Tom the cat was reunited with his owner Saturday in Tucson, Ariz., after a plane flight from Little Rock. Tom, a yellow cat, was escorted by travel agent Diane Green on the American Airlines flight to Tucson. Tom’s owner, Lucille Benton, moved from North Little Rock about three months ago to Sierra Vista, Ariz. Tom remained in Arkansas, running away when movers began relocating his owner’s belongings. Personnel from the North Little Rock Animal Shelter and a local pet store began a search for Tom, and a neighbor found the cat on Labor Day.
10 YEARS AGO Sept. 20, 2002
Arkansans are more religious than residents of most other states, even though the state’s churches aren’t growing as quickly as the state’s population, according to a nationwide survey released today. About 57 percent of Arkansas’ 2.67 million residents practice a faith, much higher than the national average of 50 percent, according to a 584-page study by the Glenmary Research Center, a nonprofit religious group based in Cincinnati.
Arkansas, Pages 12 on 09/20/2012