100 years ago
Aug. 13, 1914
• Yesterday the resorts of the Argenta restricted district were ordered closed by September 1 by Sheriff W. G. Hutton, who said Mayor W. P. Faucette had promised to co-operate with him in seeing that the houses were kept closed. "The traffic in the restricted district of Argenta must cease by September 1." This was the substance of the ultimatum given yesterday afternoon to the proprietresses of the Argenta resorts when more than a score of habitués of the Argenta tenderloin, white and black, were fined $10 and costs in the Little Rock justice of the peace courts.
50 years ago
Aug. 13, 1964
CONWAY -- Mrs. Jewell Crow was dismissed Wednesday as deputy Faulkner County clerk by O. P. (Jack) Ward as a result of a political conflict. Mrs. Crow had been in the office 30 years. She was a deputy to five clerks and held the office in her own name from 1950 to 1960. Ward said he dismissed Mrs. Crow because "she supported my opponent" for county judge in the July 28 primary." Ward lost to T. D. (Tom) Reedy, the incumbent judge. "When I came to work Wednesday morning," Mrs. Crow said, "he (Ward) handed me my check and told me to take a vacation until the first of the year." Mrs. Crow supported L. J. Merritt in his successful race for county clerk in the runoff primary this week, and she is expected to return to the office as his deputy in January. Mrs. Crow said she voted for Ward in his race for county judge, but Ward said this didn't offset the hundreds of others she influenced to vote for Reedy.
25 years ago
Aug. 13, 1989
• Cellular telephones, a yuppie status symbol of the 1980s, have hit it big with state constitutional officers, but so far the Department of Computer Services has kept them out of state-owned cars. All but two constitutional officers are now equipped with cellular phones. All but one of the phones were purchased with state funds for about $2,000 each.
10 years ago
Aug. 13, 2004
HOT SPRINGS -- Several people in a crowd of county officials on Thursday urged Attorney General Mike Beebe to run for governor. They couldn't get him to commit to that, but did hear his views on several issues, including public school administration, property taxes and charitable bingo. Beebe said his supporters could keep planning for a gubernatorial run, but if he spoke about it, it would cause his office to be "looked at with jaundiced eye."
Metro on 08/13/2014