100 years ago
July 16, 1919
POPLAR BLUFF -- C. A. Murphy, an elderly farmer residing in the southern part of this county was shot and seriously injured yesterday by Sam Brown, a farmer neighbor. It is said that the shooting is the result of standing feud. The trouble arose when chickens belonging to Murphy were allowed to run at large and get into the wheat field of Brown. It is said that Murphy agreed to keep the chickens out of his neighbor's field and that he was chasing them out of the field at the time of the shooting.
50 years ago
July 16, 1969
• The Hotel Marion parking garage, the two-story brick building on West Markham Street at Center Street, is being torn down. It is across Markham from the Marion and the Old State House. Robert M. Eubanks, Jr., manager of the Marion, said the land would be used for surface parking for a while, and that it was not known what eventually would be done with the property. The garage was built around 1927, and it was used for a time as headquarters for a taxicab company, Eubanks said. The Marion bought it in the 1940s, and has used it ever since. It would hold about 160 cars.
25 years ago
July 16, 1994
• Greyhound, whose blue and white motor coaches have rolled across Arkansas' highways and byways for decades, is shrinking from a nationwide carrier to a smaller, short-route, low-fare regional operator. The company will concentrate on trips of 100 to 400 miles, primarily in the Southeast, Northeast, Midwest and Southern California, spokesman Liz Hale Dunn of Dallas-based Greyhound Lines Inc. said Friday. "We haven't finalized our plans, and I don't know how this is going to affect Arkansas," she said, "but the South and Southeast are very strong markets for us. "I do know we have increased the number of express runs between Dallas and Houston, and New York and Boston, for example," Dunn added.
10 years ago
July 16, 2009
• Pulaski County sheriff's deputies are looking for a driver who ran his vehicle into the front door of a Shell gas station about 2:40 a.m. Wednesday. The driver, a young, slender white man, was caught on videotape backing a maroon Mercury Marquis into the door of the station at 111 W. Dixon Road, said John Rehrauer, spokesman for the sheriff's office. The man then ran inside the store, took some cigarettes and left, Rehrauer said. The amount of cigarettes taken and their value was unknown Wednesday night.
Metro on 07/16/2019