100 years ago
Sept. 21, 1919
HOT SPRINGS -- Hot Springs has been given credit for many miraculous cures, but today the first evidence was obtained that the hot waters are an aid to Dan Cupid. Henry T. Morris, aged 84, of Yonkers, N.Y., and Mrs. Andie Sherman, aged 60, of New York, applied for and received a marriage license. The "youthful" bridegroom said he came here six weeks ago suffering from rheumatism and, believing he had made his last trip, he had no thought of matrimony, but a course of the famous baths had so invigorated and instilled into him "the fire of perpetual youth," as he expressed it, that he had telegraphed to his sweetheart of many years to come to Hot Springs and be married. The ceremony probably will be performed on the eve of their departure from the city, within a day or two.
50 years ago
Sept. 21, 1969
FORREST CITY -- Police Chief Marvin Gunn said Saturday that he already was doing all he can do to insure that reporters can cover the Forrest City racial crisis in safety. The main problem, Gunn said, is that his small force cannot watch the entire city. He said it would help if the news media notify him when they send someone on assignment in Forrest City. "I would be glad to put a patrol car in the vicinity if they would let me know where they are going," Gunn said. Gunn was contacted after Sigma Delta Chi, the society of journalists, adopted a resolution Friday night calling for a Justice Department investigation into attacks on news media personnel here. Some of those attacked have said police officers stood by while they were being molested.
25 years ago
Sept. 21, 1994
DERMOTT -- Two inmates were stabbed to death and a third was critically wounded by an inmate using a homemade knife Tuesday morning at the state Department of Correction's Delta Regional Unit near Dermott. Anthony J. Monts, 32, and James Jerry, 36, were pronounced dead at the scene, while Rusty Cook, 26, suffered multiple wounds and was described by Correction Department medical personnel as being in critical condition late Tuesday. "They were all stabbed in the torso and the neck," department spokesman Alan Ables said. The incident raised the number of stabbings in state prisons this year to at least 12, and Monts and Jerry became the second and third to die of their wounds.
10 years ago
Sept. 21, 2009
FAYETTEVILLE -- A national recession has made once-predictable voter behavior unpredictable, forcing leaders of two Northwest Arkansas school districts to retool facilities plans to build the public appeal necessary for bond issue approval. Last week's record-breaking turnout in the Fayetteville school election brought the defeat of a proposed 4.9-mill tax increase to fund construction of a high school. The Fayetteville School Board now plans to revisit the design, location and size of the building in hopes of drafting a plan that will allow for a successful second millage campaign.
Metro on 09/21/2019