100 years ago

May 22, 1914

• "The Arcade Boosters," an organization composed of occupants of the City Market and Arcade building and neighboring business men, was organized last night with 20 charter members. The slogan of the new organization is "The Center of Trade." The object will be to make the territory surrounding the arcade the business center of Little Rock. The market and arcade occupies the block from Sixth to Seventh and from Louisiana streets.

50 years ago

May 22, 1964

MORRILTON -- A contract is a contract, said landscaping contractor Johnie Jones of Morrilton about a lawn he sold two years ago on time payments. When the payments weren't met, he cut the sod into chunks and hauled the lawn away in his truck. The contract permitted repossession of the lawn, he said.

25 years ago

May 22, 1989

• ConAgra Inc. has outbid Tyson Foods Inc. for Holly Farms Corp., leading the Nebraska-based food processor and Memphis, Tenn., company into another merger agreement. ConAgra announced Sunday its new $74.81-per-share stock offer was made late Friday afternoon after ConAgra and rival bidder Tyson could not reach a settlement. Holly Farms' board of directors unanimously approved the new agreement. ConAgra bid $1.38 billion, topping Tyson's $1.15 billion offer. The deal is subject to stockholder approval. Tyson attorney James Blair, meanwhile, vowed Sunday that the Springdale-based poultry processor will still pursue a Holly Farms takeover. Tyson, the biggest poultry processor in the country and ConAgra, of Omaha, Neb., have battled to take over the $1.58 billion Holly Farms since November 1988.

10 years ago

May 22, 2004

• Two lady gorillas new to the Little Rock Zoo had their coming out party Friday, complete with formal, pink invitations and presents wrapped in pastel paper. Sekani, 13, and Catherine, 21, arrived in Little Rock last month from a zoo in Toronto. After a stay in an Ohio quarantine and a short adjustment period in Little Rock, the two primates had the animal kingdom's version of a red-carpet entrance Friday morning. Zookeepers welcomed the "gorilla girls" by adding a few feminine touches to the Great Ape exhibit, long a bachelor pad for Rocky, a male gorilla who died last year. On Friday, orange day lilies and wooden perches built in cool shaded areas awaited Sekani and Catherine, who were coaxed out of the shadows by a trail of fruit.

Metro on 05/22/2014