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100 YEARS AGO Nov. 25, 1917
FORT SMITH — J. H. Wright, defeated two weeks ago by Arch Monro for mayor, an office from which Wright was recently ousted following his conviction on a charge of having made a pre-election promise, filed suit in the Chancery Court late today for an injunction to prevent the city clerk from certifying Monro’s name as the nominee. The petition also seeks to prevent the election commissioners from placing Monro’s name on the ticket in the election to be held Tuesday. The plaintiff charges that Monro was illegally nominated by women’s votes. He charges that women are not entitled to vote in this or any other primary in this state.
50 YEARS AGO
Nov. 25, 1967
Four teen-aged boys have been arrested in connection with 14 burglaries in the last month, Police Chief R. E. Brians said Friday. The four boys — two 13, one 14 and one 15-year-old — probably will be turned over to Juvenile Court, Brians said. All of the burglaries were of business firms on the 9800 and 9900 blocks of West Markham Street. Brians said relatively small amounts of cash and merchandise were taken. Some of the firms were burglarized twice and the Ben Franklin Store at 9805 West Markham and the Bob Cox DX Service Station at 9901 West Markham were burglarized three times each.
25 YEARS AGO Nov. 25, 1992
BATESVILLE — Authorities set out Tuesday morning to arrest 128 people in a nine-county drug sweep that involved cases reaching back as far as 1990. The warrants included those for 61 people in Independence County; 20 in Cleburne County; 15 in Stone County; 12 in Fulton County; and 11 in Izard County. Those are counties within the 16th Judicial District Drug Task Force. Prosecuting Attorney Don McSpadden of Batesville said the drug sales to undercover officers and informants also led to the issuance of warrants for four people in Sharp County, three in Van Buren County, one in White County and one in Oregon County, Mo.
10 YEARS AGO
Nov. 25, 2007
EL DORADO — Now that the El Dorado Housing Authority has closed its offices in the Fairview Community Center at 901 E. First St., city officials are looking for alternative uses for the two-story building. The authority’s board of directors agreed Nov. 13 to close the First Street office, citing a lack of funding and no clear-cut goals, and move its operations to another location. Mayor Mike Dumas said last week that the authority is still moving some items from the city-owned building and he has not yet received the keys to the building.