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100 YEARS AGO May 18, 1917

CLARENDON — No doubt is felt by officers here that Henry Fowler, special deputy sheriff, was killed last Saturday along the lower reaches of the White river, as was related by 14-year-old Julia Brown, who Monday morning told of witnessing his death at the hands of Frank E. Dickens, her abductor. At dusk tonight a party of men, accompanied by the girl, who had spent the last two days making a trip of more than 100 miles on the river, looking for Fowler’s body, returned.

50 YEARS AGO May 18, 1967

Chancellor Murray O. Reed heard testimony Wednesday in a lawsuit over whether $47,402 can be collected on a $700,000 promissory note with an unusual escalation clause based on the government’s cost of living index, since the note was paid off 24 years before its maturity date. The note was executed as part of the sale of 9,500 acres of farm and timber land in Jefferson County in February 1964 by the late Ed. I. McKinley Jr. and his wife, Mrs. Georgea Black McKinley.

25 YEARS AGO May 18, 1992

FORT SMITH — Engineering consultants are negotiating with city leaders to study Fort Smith’s water supplies, including a proposed expansion of soon-to-be-completed Lee Creek reservoir, according to Dennis Hunt, assistant city administrator. A proposal for the study will be considered by the city Board of Directors later this month. The study also would consider alternative water sources for the city and better management of existing water supplies.

10 YEARS AGO May 18, 2007

A man can be required to pay child support even though a paternity test subsequent to the divorce found he’s not the father, the state Supreme Court ruled Thursday. In the 5-2 decision, the court said that an Arkansas statute that allows a court to relieve a man of child-support obligations if a test finds he isn’t the father applies only to paternity cases, not divorce cases. Chief Justice Jim Hannah wrote the decision and was joined in the majority by Justices Paul Danielson, Tom Glaze, Jim Gunter and Annabelle Clinton Imber. Justices Robert L. Brown and Don Corbin dissented. According to the opinion, in July 1997 Kevin Martin and Lisa Pierce divorced after nine years of marriage. Under the divorce agreement, Martin, was to pay child support for two children, called C.M. and M.M. in the opinion.