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100 YEARS AGO

July 27, 1920

FORT SMITH — Depositors of the defunct American National bank today received notices from the comptroller of currency that a final dividend has been declared and will be distributed at once. The dividend will be for 10 per cent.

50 YEARS AGO

July 27, 1970

JACKSONVILLE — Aaron Ross Taylor, 52, of 12 Military Road, Jacksonville, drowned Sunday afternoon in Taylor’s Pond in Lonoke County, the State Police said. The police said Taylor’s body was recovered by his son from the pond, which is located just east of the Jacksonville city limits on Sawmill Road.

25 YEARS AGO

July 27, 1995

BENTONVILLE — School officials are pitching the idea of merging Bentonville’s 42,000-volume public library with a new learning resource center at the local high school, and not everyone thinks it’s a good idea. The result would be a new $1 million Bentonville Public Library — a two-story structure with the first floor open to the public and the second floor for students and accessible only by an elevator from Bentonville High School. The structure would cost about three times the amount that Bentonville school Superintendent Lewis Holloway says is planned to be spent for the high school’s proposed learning resource center. The plan also would move the existing city library about a mile from its headquarters downtown to the high school campus on A Street.

10 YEARS AGO

July 27, 2010

JONESBORO — Craighead County officials agreed Monday to tearing down an 83-year-old wooden bridge rather than restoring it because it poses a safety hazard. The safety news quelled earlier objections from residents who wanted to preserve the historical span. More than 1,300 people signed a petition earlier this summer asking that either the railroad restore the bridge or the county take it over and make its own repairs. The bridge, which crosses over Burlington Northern Santa Fe railroad tracks southeast of Bono, was built in 1882 and replaced in 1927 after a fire. The bridge connects Craighead County Road 352 with Craighead County Road 353. Residents have used the 100-foot-long span as a short cut for years, but the county closed it after two cars plunged off the bridge in December. County Judge Dale Haas, several Quorum Court members and Steve Cline, who represented the group wanting to save the bridge, met Monday with railroad engineer Charlie Murphy. “The old bridge is not fit to stand,” Haas said. “I can’t see where it’s repairable.”