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100 YEARS AGO Jan. 25, 1920

BENTONVILLE — W.A. O’Leary of the O’Leary Produce Company of Little Rock has sold the Summit fruit farm, near Bentonville, to T.J. Ieichman of Wichita Falls, Tex., for $47,000. The farm has been managed the past year by J.F. Nicholson, formerly agriculturist of the Arkansas Profitable Farming Bureau of the Little Rock Board of Commerce.

50 YEARS AGO Jan. 25, 1970

SHERIDAN — Sheridan Church of Christ officials voted last week to sell their former church building to the Grant County Chamber of Commerce for use as a public museum. Included in the museum displays will be a collection gathered last year by history students of Elwin Goolsby and added to during the town’s centennial celebration last year. The items are now housed in a three-room building at Sheridan High School.

25 YEARS AGO Jan. 25, 1995

Added jail space, a new youth curfew and beefed up enforcement efforts all combined to cut into major crimes reported to Little Rock police in 1994. The city showed declines in crimes ranging from murder and rape to auto theft and larceny last year, according to police data released Tuesday. Police said no single factor could explain the 4.72 percent decline in major crimes. The department handled 26,905 serious offenses last year, compared with 28,238 in 1993. Violent crimes led the decline. The total number of murders, rapes, robberies and aggravated assaults last year fell 9.07 percent, from 5,884 to 5,350, police statistics show. Little Rock police also reported fewer property crimes last year.

10 YEARS AGO Jan. 25, 2010

FORT SMITH — Two men have been granted another chance to try to raise funds needed to transform a crumbling north Fort Smith church into a haven for underprivileged students. Monte Wilson and Scott Hathaway of Fort Smith have been trying for two years to raise the $1.2 million they estimate is needed to renovate the vacant Mallalieu United Methodist Church at North Ninth and H streets. So far, Wilson said, they have commitments for about $300,000, much of it in inkind donations for engineering and architectural work. The effort began in February 2008, when city directors accepted a proposal by the two men to buy the church from the city on the condition they could raise the money by the end of that July.