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100 YEARS AGO March 15, 1915 BENTONVILLE — The March term of circuit court for Benton County began here this morning and it is generally conceded that if the cases against the officials of the defunct Bank of Rogers came to trial as scheduled the term will be one of the most important in the history of the county. Nearly all of the officers of this bank are under indictment, some on several charges, as a result of the failure in which the county lost more than $50,000.
50 YEARS AGO March 15, 1965 PINE BLUFF — A man armed with a double-barreled, sawed-off shotgun robbed a Mad Butcher supermarket here of about $5,000 Saturday night, according to Pine Bluff police. Officers said the man apparently entered the rear of the store about 8:30 and went into an office, where he forced a store employe to give him the money. Allen H. Bellamy Jr., owner of the Mad Butcher chain, said the money was in cash and checks and that the exact amount had not been determined.
25 YEARS AGO March 15, 1990 Little Rock city directors remained divided Wednesday over the selection of a site for a new park in west Little Rock. At the Board of Directors non-voting agenda session Wednesday, board members said they would be prepared to make a decision on a park site at their regular meeting Tuesday night. But, according to separate interviews later, there aren’t the needed four votes on the seven-member board for any one site.
10 YEARS AGO March 15, 2005 Superintendents of two Arkansas school districts on Monday canceled classes for three days after teachers discovered a note, apparently left during a weekend break-in, that said bombs could go off at both campuses sometime between Monday and Wednesday. A search of buildings at the Clinton School District in Van Buren County and the Nemo Vista School District in Conway County turned up no trace of a bomb. But the districts’ superintendents said they were closing the schools until Thursday to be on the safe side. “I had no choice,” Clinton Superintendent Curtis Turner Jr. said. “Student and staff safety is paramount. … I just can’t afford to take any chances.” About 8 a.m. Monday, teachers found a computer-generated note taped to a door in a building on the Nemo Vista campus in Center Ridge, where burglars had stolen some computers over the weekend, a Clinton Police Department investigator told the Associated Press.