100 years ago
June 6, 1914
• Doc Brannon, who operates an umbrella mending and clock fixing establishment at Fifteenth and Main streets, in some inexplicable way fell into a well at the rear of W. H. Jarrett's grocery store, also at Fifteenth and Main at 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon. Someone seeing the unfortunate dive ran out on the street and yelled "Suicide! Help! Man drowning!" Patrolman Moore rushed to the old well, and, being unable to give the needed assistance, as Doc was 20 feet below, called Fire Company No. 2 to the scene. A ladder, on which the firemen descended to the rescue, was placed in the well, and after seizing Doc by the shoulders, the combined efforts of the firemen and Patrolman Moore were necessary to pull the pair to dry land. "Shay Misther, it was snarrow schape, whasn't it?" asked Brannon. "It sure was," replied Patrolman Moore, who arrested the umbrella and clock doctor, charged with being drunk and disorderly.
50 years ago
June 6, 1964
MORRILTON -- Gene Wirges, who accepted Sheriff Marlin Hawkins' challenge to debate "the true issues about Conway County," couldn't accept one of the ground rules Friday. Hawkins demanded that Wirges, ex-editor of the Morrilton Democrat, post $200,000 surety bond to guarantee the truth of any statement he might make. Wirges replied that he could not post the bond, and said that even if he did Hawkins might seize the money to satisfy libel judgments against him.
25 years ago
June 6, 1989
• Rep. Tommy Robinson, D-Ark., who said Monday "there's a good chance that I might" run for governor, offered to answer the question Gov. Bill Clinton recently dodged. "I have never taken drugs in the past. I'm not taking drugs now, nor will I ever take drugs in future," Robinson told about 20 members of Arkansas Peace Through Strength, although the question was not asked during the noon luncheon.
10 years ago
June 6, 2004
WASHINGTON -- As with infantry under attack, "Incoming!" might as well be the motto of Arkansans watching the presidential race this year. Every time they turn around, it seems, someone from either the Bush administration or presumptive Democratic nominee John Kerry's campaign heads toward the state. And with Arkansas pegged as a key presidential "battleground," the attention doesn't promise to let up anytime soon. In less than five months, President Bush has visited the state three times.
Metro on 06/06/2014