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100 YEARS AGO

Aug. 13, 1920

CONWAY — Friday, September 3, will be a big day for farming in Faulkner county, when the fertilizer tests being conducted by A.G. Armstrong and Bob Martin at Martinville are checked. T.M. Williams, county agent, has arranged a partial program, which will include E.J. Bodman, chairman of the Profitable Farming Bureau of the Little Rock Chamber of Commerce, and Albert Sachs of the University of Arkansas faculty, as speakers.

50 YEARS AGO

Aug. 13, 1970

■ The Georgia-Pacific Corporation recently made a $5,000 contribution to the Arkansas Foundation of Associated Colleges. The member colleges of AFAC are Arkansas College at Batesville; the College of the Ozarks at Clarksville; Harding College at Searcy; Hendrix College at Conway; John Brown University at Siloam Springs; Ouachita Baptist University at Arkadelphia and Southern Baptist College at Walnut Ridge.

25 YEARS AGO

Aug. 13, 1995

■ Manila Police Chief Joe Cagle, accused of having dogs shot at the city pound, was arrested Friday on charges of cruelty to animals. Cagle is to appear in Manila Police Court at 6 p.m. Sept. 12 to be arraigned on three misdemeanor charges. Besides the cruelty to animals charge, which carries a maximum of a year in jail and a $1,000 fine, Cagle also is charged with impounding an animal without food and water and violating a Manila city ordinance that requires the city’s animal shelter to maintain records of when a dog is picked up and to maintain sanitary and humane conditions at the pound. “The dogs were not being taken care of properly,” said Ruth Scroggin of Jonesboro, an investigator for the Northeast Arkansas Humane Society.

10 YEARS AGO

Aug. 13, 2010

■ The preservation of a formerly private country-club golf course that Sherwood reopened as a public course in May has scored national recognition. The National Register of Historic Places has recognized the Sylvan Hills Country Club Golf Course, now The Greens at North Hills in Sherwood, for its local significance to the area’s development, it was announced Thursday. The Tyronza Commercial Historic District in Tyronza (Poinsett County) joined the golf course as the newest additions to the National Register of Historic Places, the country’s official list of historically significant properties. The Tyronza historic district on South Main Street features buildings associated with the founding of the Southern Tenant Farmers Union. The organization grew to a nationally influential group of more than 40,000 members and became a model for farmworkers, labor and grass-roots organizations influencing political change.