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100 YEARS AGO Sept. 5, 1918
PARAGOULD — Trennie Smith, who in the spring of 1917 received much newspaper publicity on account of her disappearance from the home of W. M. Burroughs of the Marmaduke neighborhood, is again in the limelight. Last summer she left the home of Mr. Burroughs, as a result of which two sons of Burroughs, Daniel and Clint, were arrested on the charge of murder. Search for the girl continued for several days, Constable Presson finally located her a few miles from Marmaduke, where she had been working as a boy, having had her hair cut short and donned men’s clothing. Yesterday morning Chief of Police Norman arrested her in this city and placed her in jail. She was again attired in men’s apparel. She was married last spring to Roy Yergain and since then has been living with her husband at Cardwell. She stated she was on her way to St. Louis to visit her mother. She is being held in jail awaiting an explanation from her husband.
50 YEARS AGO Sept. 5, 1968
CLEVELAND, O. — The family of Mrs. Barbara Smith, 25, of Walnut Ridge, Ark., a victim of a truck accident, gave permission Wednesday to doctors at the Cleveland Clinic to transplant her heart and kidneys in three other persons. The recipient of the heart was Dellett H. Lawson, 50, an Akron, O., trucking company employe. The three recipients were reported in satisfactory condition. Clinic officials said Mrs. Smith, a divorcee, was injured when a tractor-trailer truck in which she was riding overturned. The truck bound for Toronto, Canada, was driven by James Welch, 27, of Houston, Tex., who was injured. Mrs. Smith was taken at first to St. Vincent Charity Hospital here. After her parents gave permission for her heart to be used in the operation, she was transferred to the clinic. She died Wednesday. This is the first heart transplant attempt at the clinic. It was the 40th heart transplant in the world since the first was done in South Africa last year.
25 YEARS AGO Sept. 5, 1993
If trends continue, some Arkansans can expect to find water increasingly expensive and in increasingly short supply. If demands on the ground water supply continue to increase in the next 30 years, consumers in Union and Columbia counties may be forced to seek other sources, said Todd Fugitt, a geologist for the Arkansas Soil and Water Conservation Commission. State officials are considering a range of remedies that could include allocation of water as early as 1996 if the situation becomes critical. In all, 27 counties face potential supply problems as the water level drops in the Sparta Aquifer, an underground sand formation into which wells are drilled.
10 YEARS AGO Sept. 5, 2008
Parking around War Memorial Stadium for fans attending the University of Arkansas football game Saturday will be close to business as usual despite four days of heavy rains that soaked the golf course used to park most vehicles. Some low-lying areas of War Memorial Golf Course will be roped off and unavailable for parking, but course manager Bob Baker estimated that amounted to be less than 10 percent of the fairways available for parking. The Razorbacks will play the Warhawks of the University of Louisiana at Monroe. Baker acknowledged that the course was still soaked Thursday.