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100 YEARS AGO

Sept. 25, 1915

PARAGOULD — Local cotton buyers today engaged in keen competition for cotton brought to Paragould and as a result the price was run to a figure much higher than the market quotations. One bale sold at 12 1-2 cents, while many loads brought as high as 12 cents. Cotton seed is also up, selling here today at $22 per ton, against $18 last week.

50 YEARS AGO

Sept. 25, 1965

FORREST CITY — City police in this Mississippi River Delta city are having a hard time keeping an accurate count of Negro demonstrators jailed at the Forrest City Civic Center. One policeman said Friday night that “I don’t think anybody knows how many are in jail. They are arrested and released on bond so fast that it is hard to keep up with them. It seems like some are getting released all the time.” More than 300 arrests have been made since last week when 198 demonstrators marched in protest of what they termed poor conditions at the Negro Lincoln High School here.

25 YEARS AGO

Sept. 25, 1990

Negotiations to settle part of the Arkla-Arkoma case have ended. Public hearings on the matter resume today after a threeday recess. Lawyers involved declined to discuss whether a settlement was reached, but one appears likely. It may involve a refund for ratepayers. “I don’t have anything to report,” a spokesman for Arkla, Skip Rutherford, said Monday. “I’m going to have to say I don’t have any comment and I don’t think you’re going to get any from anyone else,” said Gilbert L. Glover, chief counsel for the state Public Service Commission.

10 YEARS AGO

Sept. 25, 2005

The suspect in a Thursday afternoon robbery of a west Little Rock bank branch turned up in a Little Rock hospital with a gunshot wound to the face, police said Friday. A police spokesman said the parents of Cameron Kamrantathan took the 25-year-old to Baptist Medical Center in Little Rock about 5:15 p.m. Thursday, a little more than two hours after the robbery in which the suspect and a security guard exchanged shots. Kamrantathan had suffered a single gunshot wound to the chin, Little Rock police spokesman Sgt. Terry Hastings said Friday. “We have a guard on him at the hospital and have a warrant for aggravated robbery, which we will serve when he is released,” Hastings said.