RECOLLECTIONS
50 Years Ago Pea Ridge Graphic Vol. 3 No. 30 Thursday, July 25, 1968
Unfortunately, the nice tradition concerning the naming of Pea Ridge streets seems to have been broken. The policy for naming Pea Ridge streets was set up about nine years ago, with the original ones named by a committee composed of members of the Pea Ridge Extension Homemakers Club and a representative of the City Council, with Garfield historian Alvin Seamster acting as advisor. Since that time, all north-south streets were to be named for federal officers who fought in the Battle of Pea Ridge, while all east-west streets were to bear the names of Confederate officers of the same battle. This made the city of Pea
Ridge unique in that the North and the South still meet at every corner.
40 Years Ago Pea Ridge Graphic-Scene Vol. 13 No. 30 Wednesday, July 26, 1978
In local police news, a 14-year old juvenile was charged with shoplifting at White’s Auto Saturday, July 22, and a Bentonville woman was charged with a 1975 violation of the hot check law in Pea Ridge on Friday, July 21. The number of cases in Pea Ridge City Court has increased dramatically in the past month. Approximately 50 cases have been heard in city court each week for the past three weeks. Most of the cases are driving violations. Earlier this year the average weekly caseload was about five to 10 cases. City Court is held at City Hall on Monday afternoons with City Judge Daniel McConnell presiding.
30 Years Ago The TIMES of Northeast Benton County Vol. 23 No. 30 Thursday, July 28, 1988
There’s a new real estate sign hanging in Pea Ridge. It belongs to Curtis Snow of Pea Ridge who said he eventually plans to make Snow Realty a fulltime operation. Snow’s office will be quartered at Bill ’n Dub’s Furniture Ranch on Curtis Street. Snow likes the potential for the real estate business in northeast Benton County. Snow is the son of Bill Snow, one of the furniture store’s owners.
June Easley of Pea Ridge said she is not one to enter contests regularly. She did enter one, though, and it won for her a $1,000 grand prize. During the winter, Mrs. Easley said, she “sent in 10 IGA fruit cocktail labels for a $2 rebate. The rebate form was also an entry for a sweepstakes conducted by the company that canned the fruit — Tri-Valley Growers in California.” In May, she said, she received a letter stating that she was the grand prize winner in the IGA $1,000 Case Giveaway Sweepstakes.
20 Years Ago The TIMES of Northeast Benton County Vol. 33 No. 30 Thursday, July 30, 1998
The Pea Ridge City Council heard a report at its July 21 meeting on a retirement plan for city police. Alderman Jim Dawson explained that LOPFI (Local Police and Fire Retirement System) is the plan used in most cities in Arkansas for police and firemen. Coverage is transferable, and it would be an added amenity to someone moving into the area from another city, he said. Dawson explained that it is difficult to attract competent, experienced police officers without some kind of retirement plan, LOPFI especially, because it is so widely utilized. Pea Ridge officers, at present, have no retirement plan available to them.
10 Years Ago The TIMES of Northeast Benton County Vol. 43 No. 30 Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Work continues by community and state leaders to bring medical care to town. This week marks the final week of service by the Pea Ridge Medical Clinic, owned, and now closed, by Mercy Health, who announced earlier this month it would close the Pea Ridge office. Mayor Jackie Crabtree said, “We’ve had some feedback, mostly frustration. We’re still optimistic about finding someone to call Pea Ridge home.” Crabtree said he realized it’s a business decision that if a business, even if it’s a physician’s office or hospital, doesn’t make money, it can’t stay open. Although there are no decisions at this time, community leaders are working diligently to find a solution.