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100 YEARS AGO

Nov. 4, 1915

BENTONVILLE — One of the largest crowds ever assembled in Bentonville was here today for the second day of the Benton county fair. Regular trains and the Bentonville and Rogers interurban have brought large crowds. Hundreds of automobiles are here from all northwestern Arkansas, and from many Missouri and Oklahoma points. The weather is perfect and the flying exhibitions are proving a leading feature.

50 YEARS AGO

Nov. 4, 1965

The Arkansas Supreme Court was told yesterday that any person facing a jail sentence deserves counsel, court appointed or otherwise. John W. Walker, Little Rock, presented this argument in the case of Robert Winters, a Negro, serving time on the Pulaski County penal farm for conviction in Little Rock Municipal Court on a morals charge involving a white woman. Winters was given 30 days and fined $ 254. He has finished his 30 days but is serving out the fine.

25 YEARS AGO

Nov. 4, 1990

MARKED TREE — This small northeast Arkansas town renamed its annual fall fest the “fault” festival this weekend, but several residents said the play on words was no laughing matter. And they were dissatisfied with the celebration’s “Quake, Rattle and Roll” theme. Dr. Iben Browning, a psychologist from New Mexico, has predicted a temblor will strike along the New Madrid Fault, which runs through Marked Tree, around Dec. 3 — a month from Saturday. “That’s all they talk about,” Tammy Smith, 30, of Marked Tree, who ran a game booth at the festival, said of the potential earthquake. “The children are scared to death.”

10 YEARS AGO

Nov. 4, 2005

A Little Rock man who stabbed his “drinking buddy” in an attack that prosecutors say nearly killed the victim walked out of the Pulaski County Courthouse on Thursday after jurors told the judge they wanted him fined rather than sent to prison. Circuit Judge John Langston imposed a $ 15,000 fine on Timothy Lee Wheeler at the recommendation of the jury, which had considered punishment for nearly two hours. The nine men and three women halted their deliberations twice, once to tell the judge they couldn’t decide on a punishment for the 40- year- old man and once to ask what would happen if they recommended a fine.