100 years ago
April 18, 1916:
SEVERAL GOOD SCORES MADE AT CLUB SHOOT YESTERDAY AFTERNOON
Only six of the membership of the Country Club were out yesterday afternoon for the weekly shoot, but some fairly good scores were made by those present. The scores for yesterday were as follows: H.S. Hughes- 45, W.H, Caven- 40, Tom Webber- 37, I.J. Kosminsky- 29, - Geo. Conway- 29, W.A. Arthur- 13.
April 19:
W.E. ORR WILL BECOME TERRITORIAL MANAGER FOR PIERCE COMPANY
Effective next Monday there will be a change of management in the local office of the Pierce Oil Corporation which has its station on East Broad Street. Under the recent order of change W.E. Orr, who has been filling the post of local manager will go on the road in charge of the district comprising the following cities: Texarkana, Ashdown, DeQueen, Foreman, Mena, Nashville, Hope and Fulton.
April 20:
HUSBAND IS FAMILY HEAD
The husband who may have had some doubt regarding his position in his home may take comfort for the supreme court holds him to be the head if the family "within reason," and to be so recognized by his wife. Furthermore, the duty of a wife to obey her husband still holds good, despite the agitations of those who object to such an old-fashioned doctrine. All this came straight from a justice in dismissing an action for separation in the Supreme Court when he delivered an extemporaneous opinion filled with advice of two young persons whose married life had not been just as happy as they would have liked. This may sound a little strange in these days of suffrage, feminism and woman's rights, but it is so, nevertheless.
April 21:
NINTH STREET BRIDGE FORMALLY ACCEPTED BY OFFICIALS OF CITY
With the formal approval of Mayor Sanderson and his associates on the board, Messrs, Beasley and McClain, the work of the Western Bridge company of Sherman, Texas, was completed yesterday on the new bridge erected on Ninth street near the waterworks pumping station. It was built at a cost of $800.
April 22:
CHIEF BRYAN SAYS ALL CIDER JOINTS CLOSE SUNDAY
Chief Bryan of the west side police has given an order that all the cider joints in his part of the city are to be closed on Sunday, and that the restriction is to go into effect immediately. He said yesterday that the fine for a violation of this law will be from $5 to $200.
April 23:
EASTER HAS ROLLED AROUND AGAIN
Another cycle from Easter to Easter has rolled around and this year finds the great festival day at one of the latest dates, April 23. It will not come this late again until 1943 when it will be on April 25, and will not fall late again until 2000 it will be April 23.
April 24:
WOMAN BADLY INJURED IN DESPERATE FIGHT BY POCKET KNIFE
Fighting with an enraged man in a house at the corner of Ninth and Wood streets at 11:30 o'clock last night, a woman by the name of Rachel Bryant narrowly escaped with her life. Half exhausted from the loss of blood, she finally tore loose from her assailant, jumped through a window and escaped to a neighbor's house, from which a call was made to the west side police. Hands and face were badly cut, the worst cut went from her nose all the way across her face.
50 years ago
April 18, 1966:
WHITE CRAPPIE RECORD IS SET
After a long period of waiting Arkansas now has a new white crappie record. The fish, caught by Kenneth Shepard of Benton, weighted three pounds, six ounces, and was taken on a minnow. The black crappie record was recently set at three pounds, 14 ounces.
April 19:
WRIGHT, BROWN TOP DRIVERS AT LOCAL SPEEDBOWL
Grady Wright of Hooks, and Danny Brown of Texarkana took top honors Friday night at the third race of the season at the Texarkana Speedbowl. Wright finished first in modified feature race with Ace Henigan of Marshall, Texas, running second. Ray Ingalls finished third, Eddie Robbins fourth and Hillard Strong fifth. Brown took first place in the feature stock car event with Odie Green crossing the finish line second. Finishing third was Larry Shumake.
April 20:
TC INSTRUCTORS SERVE AS JUDGES
Several Texarkana College Instructors served as judges for the interscholastic league speaking contest held recently in Atlanta, TX. Students representing six high schools participated in the contest. Texarkana College members judging the persuasive speaking, extempaneous speaking, debate, poetry reading, and prose reading were Mrs. Betty Carter, Miss Lois Gardner, Mrs. Mildred Parsons, J.E. Spencer, and R.G. Williams.
April 21:
TALENT TROPHY WINNER
Ray Edwards, director of the Miss Texarkana Pageant, presented a trophy for outstanding talent to Miss Kathie Jo Yocom Tuesday night. This is the first annual Jaycees Director's Trophy to be presented for outstanding talent in the Miss Texarkana Pageant. Miss Yocum, 17-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John W. Yocum, sang "Make Love To Me", "More" and "Frankie and Johnnie" for her talent competition. She was also named second runner up in the annual pageant. Miss Yocum was also notified this week that she had been awarded a $150 scholarship to Mr. Lynn's charm school in Shreveport.
April 22:
PATIENT STILL ALIVE AFTER ARTIFICIAL HEART INSTALLED
HOUSTON-Baylor burgeons boldly placed a new artificial heart inside a man's chest to rescue his own damaged heart and hoped the next dramatic hours my prove to be a breakthrough to save hundreds of thousands of lives. The plastic heart-the size of a grapefruit- is putting the 65-year-old man's heart on partial holiday. It's the first use of highly promising new design for artificial hearts. The artificial heart was installed on the left side of the patients own organ. "He certainly would not have survived without surgery," Dr. BeBakey told a subsequent news conference, "and his chances of survival with surgery were low." This is the first time such a device has been used in order in order to carry the patient through surgery and the postoperative period and relieve the load on the heart during that critical period and give the heart a chance to repair itself."
April 23:
HOUSE HEAVILY DAMAGED BY FIRE
Fire from a small living room heater damaged a frame house at 837 Laurel St. Fire stations kept the fire from spreading the other houses. The fire began shortly after 9 p.m., when the flexible gas line to a living room heater ruptured and the escaping gas ignited.
April 24:
TAGS KEEP TOYS SEPARATE
Dear Polly-My two little daughters have accumulated so many of those educational toys with lots of little colored parts. They could never seem to find all the parts for any one toy so to solve this difficulty I made drawstring bags out of old nylon curtains. They have French seams for extra strength and the children can see the toys through these easy-to-make bags. There is a separate bag for each toy and these can be put in the toy box or hooks.