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100 YEARS AGO

May 25, 1915

BOONEVILLE — James McConnell, 60, who was on trial here today before the mayor, and who had been fined $ 500 and 30 days in jail on a charge of selling liquor, was shot in the face by City Marshal W. A. Grimes. The shot took effect in his left jaw, and plowing its way through his mouth, came out through his upper lip, inflicting a painful and ugly wound. Mr. McConnell and his son Jess were engaged in an altercation with City Attorney Arthur Cochran in front of the courthouse. It is said they were irate at the attorney over McConnell’s conviction.

50 YEARS AGO

May 25, 1965

Allied Telephone Company of Sheridan lost out in its attempt to connect automated long distance equipment of its own invention to the lines of Southwestern Bell Telephone Company in a 4- 3 decision handed down Monday by the state Supreme Court. The decision, by Justice Ed F. McFaddin, upheld an order of the state Public Service Commission which had ruled in favor of Southwestern Bell. Southwestern Bell had protested Allied’s proposal.

25 YEARS AGO

May 25, 1990

North Little Rock Mayor Patrick Henry Hays said Thursday he is stepping up the process of finding another piece of property the city can use for a yard- waste landfill. And the Metroplan subcommittee on solid waste that Hays chairs should release its report on a regional waste program within a month, Hays said. North Little Rock currently uses two landfills for city waste, one near the city airport for yard waste, the other at Brushy Island for other household garbage.

10 YEARS AGO

May 25, 2005

Until Tuesday afternoon, old couches, tires, a freezer, boxes of trash and piles of grass clippings littered a 10- acre midtown Little Rock site at University Avenue and Markham Street that was cleared in early 2004 to make way for a pedestrian friendly “lifestyle center.” Strode Property, the Dallas- based developer that designated the site for a 130,000- square- foot, open- air retail shopping center, is still working to land retail tenants and has not started construction on the project. In the meantime, the old lots have become a dumping ground. “There’s a sofa and an armchair and that insulation stuff on A, and a tire on B Street. The lots are growing up,” said Claire Burch, who lives at 5817 C St. “I don’t see anyone picking it up. [ The shopping center] was supposed to have been finished by now.”