RECOLLECTIONS
50 Years Ago Pea Ridge Graphic Vol. 5 No. 9 Thursday, Feb. 26, 1970
Charolais is the breed chosen by Harry Buttram of Avoca and his sons, Dale Buttram of Rogers and Ray Buttram of Lincoln, Neb. It all started about 10 years ago, the elder Buttram said, when Dale obtained two purebred Charolais, a heifer and a male.
Here in the hills of Arkansas, while wide icicles still hang on the north bluffs and before spring plowing starts, the native, with his grubbing hoe in hand, begins his first harvest of the year — the digging of sassafras roots for the making of tea, wrote Billie Jines.
40 Years Ago Pea Ridge Graphic-Scene Vol. 15 No. 9 Wednesday, Feb. 27, 1980
Pea Ridge District 109 Board of Education renewed the contract for district superintendent Roy Roe for one year, raised meal prices, cut certificated personnel salaries this year and approved a policy on the use of school buildings and facilities.
Gary L. Blackburn, formerly postmaster at Avoca, has been appointed to the position of postmaster at Garfield effective Feb. 23.
The request that property recently purchased by First Federal Savings and Loan Association of Rogers in Pea Ridge be rezoned from agricultural to commercial was approved by the Pea Ridge Planning Commission Thursday night. Members of the commission present were Haryle Greene, chairman; Charles Hazelton, Dennis Turner and Don Haller and
Ron David, city inspector. John Lasater, previously employed by the Bank of Pea Ridge, was announced as the manager for the new bank.
30 Years Ago The TIMES of Northeast Benton County Vol. 25 No. 9 Thursday, March 1, 1990
Alderman Joe Hart investigated what it would take to reduce the fire protection rating in Pea Ridge from a Classification 8 to a 7.
Elementary School principal Paul Terry presented a first-place check for $75 to Mindi Wilson for selling 504 bars of candy in the PTA fundraiser. He presented a $50 check for second place to Laura Voytek, for selling 161 bars.
20 Years Ago The TIMES of Northeast Benton County Vol. 35 No. 9 Wednesday, March 1, 2000
To celebrate his sixth anniversary, Wayne Nix, owner of the Cannonball Cafe and Dinner Club in Battlefield Center, will offer special prices over the weekend. The restaurant was opened in March 1994.
Stanley and Dorothy Williams were Beta Alpha’s Valentine Sweetheart and Beau for the year and were crowned at a party held in Grandma’s Cafe.
PRHS Band students who auditioned for the All-Star Honor Band in Charleston, Ark., were Stefanie Harris, Amanda Burdette, Amy Bruce, Toni Tallman and Joseph Ragland.
10 Years Ago The TIMES of Northeast Benton County Vol. 45 No. 9 Wednesday, March 3, 2010
Scenes of the grueling two-day Battle of Pea Ridge are reenacted and narrated in a video while blue and red lights appear to move along an interactive map showing visitors where the Union and Confederate armies trod in the chilling days of March 7-8, 1862. The new exhibits are designed to help visitors understand what it may have been like to look out a window to see soldiers marching across the field where livestock roamed and into the fences area where crops grew and into a home where a family had lived.