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100 YEARS AGO Aug. 28, 1918
One of the largest negro religious gatherings ever held in Little Rock will meet Wednesday, September 4, when the National Negro Baptist convention gathers at Liberty Hall in its thirty-eighth annual session. The Rev. J.P. Robinson, pastor of the First Negro Baptist church and chairman of the local Entertainment committee, says that arrangements have been made to care for 10,000 delegates and visitors. The sessions will be held in Liberty Hall, and a special meeting for women will be held daily in the First Negro Baptist church. A pre-convention meeting will be held at Liberty Hall Sunday. “Black Billy Sunday” will make the principal address and a chorus of 500 voices will give a program of plantation melodies, and religious and patriotic selections. Seats will be reserved for white people.
50 YEARS AGO Aug. 28, 1968
FORREST CITY — Herbert Franklin Garrett, 33, of Colt (St. Francis County) was shot to death Monday after an argument over the death of Garrett’s dog, the St. Francis County sheriff’s office said. Officers said Garrett went to the home of Theatrice Ishman of Colt and accused Ishman’s brother, Arthur Lee Stegall, of killing one of Garrett’s dogs several days ago. Stegall denied the accusation and started walking toward the house when Garrett pulled out a .22-caliber revolver, the sheriff’s office said. Ishman, who was in a bedroom of the house, fired at Garrett through an open window with a .22-caliber rifle, officers quoted witnesses as saying, The bullet struck Garrett in the eye.
25 YEARS AGO Aug. 28, 1993
BATESVILLE — Chancery Judge John Norman Harkey of Batesville is not backing down on his Aug. 1 promise to jail people not paying child support. He has ordered seven more men to jail in the past two weeks, bringing the total to 15 this month, Kristi McGee, a state Child Support Unit Investigator at Batesville, said Friday. No women have been jailed for nonsupport so far. Harkey, 60, began hearing child-support cases this month and has put 2,308 people on notice of possible jail sentences if they do not pay up.
10 YEARS AGO Aug. 28, 2008
PINE BLUFF — Authorities responding to a house fire early Wednesday found an elderly couple dead from unrelated trauma and the couple’s car missing, police said. Police identified the victims as Cleophus Boyd, 79, and his wife, Minnie Boyd, 76. Police were searching Wednesday for a blue, four-door 1990 Oldsmobile Delta 88 with a handicap license plate, number 195070. The vehicle was missing from the couple’s home at East 32nd Avenue and South Pennsylvania Street. Pine Bluff Police Chief John Howell said police have initiated a homicide investigation but had no suspects by 5 p.m. Wednesday.