100 years ago
Oct. 14, 1920
• The Musical Coterie opened its twenty-eighth annual season last night in the Coterie rooms at the First Christian church, Tenth and Louisiana streets, under the most favorable auspices, with the announcement of 68 new members. The program, an excellent one, was rendered exclusively by out-of-town talent and a reception to the artists followed the completion of the program. Mrs. R. A. Tate, president, opened the meeting and introduced Governor Charles H. Brough, who, in a felicitous address, displayed a remarkable familiarity with the great masters of music.
50 years ago
Oct. 14, 1970
• Seventeen men, including several prominent businessmen and a turkey trapper for the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission, were found guilty Tuesday by a federal District Court jury of hunting doves in a baited field September 1. Judge J. Smith Henley fined each man $350 and said he agreed with the verdict. Nearly all of the defendants live at Memphis or West Memphis. They and another man who has not yet been tried were apprehended by federal game management agents and state wildlife officers on a Mississippi River island 30 miles south of West Memphis.
25 years ago
Oct. 14, 1995
• A Sherwood police investigation into how emergency dispatchers handled a Sept. 26 fire concluded last week with no employees being disciplined. Sylvan Hills Volunteer Fire Department Capt. Sean Mahanay's Sherwood home was extensively damaged in the blaze. Mahanay said he tried several minutes to contact dispatchers through his fire radio but was told the radio had been turned down. In a statement issued last week by the Sherwood Police Department, Lt. Ed Michalek said the department is installing a new 800-megahertz radio system and the new and old systems must be wired together, which causes problems.
10 years ago
Oct. 14, 2010
• Citing the public displeasure of a Little Rock city director at information she insisted was withheld from her, a Little Rock Municipal Airport Commission committee voted Wednesday to postpone deciding whether to award a California company a contract to help manage a $53 million terminal expansion project. Members of the commission's Lease/Consultant Selection Committee said at the committee's public meeting at Little Rock National Airport, Adams Field, that City Director Joan Adcock was unaware of how airport officials chose Parsons Transportation Services as the finalist for the professional services contract.