100 years ago
Oct. 26, 1918
HOXIE -- United States Commissioner E.P. Mathes of Jonesboro, assisted by Special Agents Cadwaller and Wilkerson of the Missouri Pacific and Bob Rice, local officer, this morning boarded Missouri Pacific passenger trains No. 5 and No. 17, south bound, in search of bootleggers. They arrested one white man, six negro men and three negro women, all of whom had suitcases and grips filled with liquor, totaling 250 bottles. They will be taken to Jonesboro to await action of the federal court. One negress had a garment made like a slipover with pockets both back and front, all of which were filled with bottled goods weighing about 100 pounds. Most of the arrested ones said the liquor was intended to prevent the influenza.
50 years ago
Oct. 26, 1968
• The Republican mayoral candidate, W.D. Todd, Friday answered Mayor Laman's charge that he was a "red-necked segregationist" by accusing the mayor of being a segregationist himself. "I'm not a segregationist or an integrationist," Todd said, "but I'm more of an integrationist than he is." The mayor had attacked the GOP candidates during a political rally Wednesday night. James J. Kelly, who is opposing the Democratic incumbent city clerk, Mrs. Jackie Neil, issued a prepared statement saying that the mayor lied.
25 years ago
Oct. 26, 1993
BETHEL HEIGHTS -- First Rome, now Bethel Heights. This Benton County town of only 294 people has seemingly experienced more internal bickering than Julius Caesar's turbulent empire. But instead of saying, "Et tu, Brute," Mayor Gary Howard might want to say, "Et tu, mother?" Howard's mother, Pearl Ford, has helped circulate a petition to dissolve the city. And if that sounds like a scene from a television sitcom, Hollywood writers should know what events preceded it. Last week, for instance, Howard had to call a special meeting of the City Council to gain approval for the purchase of a $29 roll of postage stamps, in accordance with an earlier edict to not spend without prior approval.
10 years ago
Oct. 26, 2008
• A former Hall High School basketball star who in December spoke of turning his life around after a stint in prison is now accused of being part of a multistate fraud ring that sells credit-card numbers stolen from restaurant patrons. James Edmond "Jimmy" Hinton, 40, of Little Rock potentially faces indictment by a federal grand jury when the panel meets during the first week of November. On Oct. 10, he and two other people were accused in a federal complaint of participating in a fraud conspiracy.
Metro on 10/26/2018