100 years ago
Oct. 3, 1914
ARKADELPHIA -- If scores of letters from practically every county in the state to the Arkadelphia Milling Company relative to seed wheat is indicative of the growth of a new agricultural industry in Arkansas, the farmers of this state are going to solve the cotton question in the next year. This mill for the past six weeks has advertised in the Arkansas Gazette the best seed wheat for sale at cost to the farmer. Scores have taken advantage of the offer and hundreds of bushels of wheat are being shipped for planting.
50 years ago
Oct. 3, 1964
• Stephens Inc., a Little Rock investment firm, informed North Little Rock Mayor W.F. Laman Friday that they would not act as fiscal agents for the $1 million water bond issue proposed recently by the water commission. The statement was issued in a letter as an answer to the commission's request Monday that T.J. Raney and Sons, a Little Rock firm, be appointed as fiscal agents for the proposed bond issue.
25 years ago
Oct. 3, 1989
BRYANT -- The Bryant School Board will ask the Legislature to adopt a standard grading scale for all Arkansas school districts. The board also voted to change Bryant's grading scale, lowering the requirement for an A to 93 percent, after Spadoni presented figures showing a Bryant student could expect a lower grade point average than students in other districts who scored the same on standardized tests. "A Bryant student getting 94 percent on his work will get a B while some students getting 90 percent in other districts are getting A's," Dan Spadoni, Bryant High School principal, said in a presentation to the board Monday.
10 years ago
Oct. 3, 2004
FAYETTEVILLE -- University of Arkansas students and administrators have taken extra pains this semester to help reverse an anemic voter turnout among young adults. Campus groups such as the Associated Student Government, Young Democrats, College Republicans, Asian Legal Society, Black Law Students Association, Student Bar Association, a political science honor society and Greek groups have sponsored voter registration drives during political debates, speeches and barbeques. Though a deadline to register to vote in the Nov. 2 general election is Monday, the students won't be finished.
Metro on 10/03/2014