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100 YEARS AGO Aug. 31, 1917
Nona Lee, aged 17, employed at the Imperial laundry, suddenly decided while at work yesterday that she would become the bride of R. W. Mosely, aged 43. So she left the laundry without waiting to get her hat and accompanied her fiance to the courthouse where they secured the marriage license. It is said that both Mosely and the girl said she was 18. They were married at once by Justice Emanuel Stern, the bride still being hatless. Then they disappeared and have not been seen since.
50 YEARS AGO Aug. 31, 1967
HOT SPRINGS — DeVere Dierks Jr., of Hot Springs, executive vice president of Dierks Forest Inc., was killed late Tuesday night in a two-car collision near Hot Springs. Five other persons were injured, one seriously, in the crash on Highway 7 about 2½ miles south of the city limits. Dierks, 38, had picked up his daughter, Jan, 15, and two of her friends at a dance and was taking them home, officers said. State Trooper George Riggs said a car driven by Miss Betty Bowen, 21, of Hot Springs, apparently failed to make a curve and crossed the center line into the path of Dierks’ car.
25 YEARS AGO Aug. 31, 1992
Robert McCathern said the more he works with gang members and troubled youth, the more he realizes that a “kid is just a kid.” As manager for New Futures For Little Rock’s Youth Initiative Project, McCathern’s duties include being a consultant on youth gangs and violence. He said the best way to deal with troubled youth is not by putting more beds at detention centers, but by finding constructive activities for children. He said he believes gang-related violence, which often involves weapons, is not the fault of the child but of an adult society that allows for that kind of behavior.
10 YEARS AGO Aug. 31, 2007
A Newport funeral home director was formally charged with two counts of criminal solicitation to commit capital murder in Woodruff County District Court on Thursday after police claimed he tried to hire undercover agents to kill the Newport mayor and police chief earlier this month. Lawrence Tolerson, 61, remains in the Woodruff County jail with bail set at $500,000 by District Judge John D. Eldridge III of Augusta. Tolerson, the director of Tolerson & Sons Funeral Home in Newport, is accused of plotting to kill the two men, and police say he offered state police agents $10,000 for each slaying during a meeting Aug. 15 at a residence in Augusta.