Other days

100 YEARS AGO

Dec. 3, 1914

Many strange things have happened in Argenta recently, such as herds of cattle endeavoring to find pasture on Main street, the Pulaski hotel being mistaken for a German fort and being fired on twice by a drunken man, but the latest on the docket was the appearance of a blind mule trying to gain entrance to half a dozen stores yesterday afternoon.

50 YEARS AGO

Dec. 3, 1964

HOT SPRINGS — Municipal Judge Robert Ridgeway explained his plans for a juvenile jury to the Garland County Community Council at a meeting Tuesday. He commented that the incidence of juvenile delinquency in Garland County was so low that both he and County Judge Lon Warnecke have decided to confine their experiment with the proposed juvenile jury to traffic violations.

25 YEARS AGO

Dec. 3, 1989

POCAHONTAS — Students here are learning Spanish a new way — by video. They still have the traditional language class but six students in the second-year class return daily to Dolores Magee’s classroom for an extra hour to make videos for their partner school in Gruver, Texas. The Gruver students are from homes where Spanish is the primary language and everything done on video is in Spanish. The result is exposure to more realistic use of the language rather than the strained and sterile textbook version, Magee said. Magee said students enjoy making the videos, stopping and starting over to correct errors. “It’s just like a bloopers and blunders on TV,” she said.

10 YEARS AGO

Dec. 3, 2004

CONWAY — Streets in downtown Conway are in for a face-lift thanks to the $621,000 Congress has agreed to give the city as part of a spending bill that awaits the president’s approval. This money will come on top of $270,000 approved for the city last year, Jamie Gates, assistant to Mayor Tab Townsell, said Thursday. The city plans to use the money over the next two years, first to complete improvements along a stretch of Front Street that runs alongside the city’s main post office. After completing that work, the city will make improvements on another area, most likely busy Oak Street, which runs through downtown and passes by retail outlets ranging from antique and clothing stores to a bookstore and a knitting shop.