Nevada County Picayune and Gurdon Times Newspaper Archive

Here are the stories in the Wednesday, October 4, 2000 edition of Nevada County Picayune

4-Year Old Killed In House Fire

FATAL FIRE  A house fire on West Greenlawn Monday claimed the life of a four-year-old boy and injured his mother. The fire was reported around 11 a.m. with two trucks from the Prescott Fire Department responding, along with the Nevada County Amb...

Curley Wolves Falter At Nashville

COREY SMITH of Nashville catches a pass from quarterback Brian Pope against Prescott. The pass was good for 26 yards and a first down even though he was taken down immediately by a Curley Wolf.

Douglas Byron Waters

Douglas Byron Waters, 81, of Hope died Monday, September 25, 2000. Mr. Waters was born November 29, 1918, in Rosston to Willard Owen and Alta Lee Warmack Waters. He was retired from the Arkansas Highway Department and he was a retired U.S. Army Lt. Colo...

John Tate

John Tate, 89, of Waldo died Monday, September 25, 2000, at Meadowbrook Lodge in Magnolia. Mr. Tate was born February 27, 1911, in Clark County. He was a retired sawmill maintenance worker and he was a Baptist. Survivors include his wife, Minnie Rogers...

Customers Are Needed For Prescott Project

Customers are needed for the Prescott Rural Water System. The deadline for singing up early is Oct. 15, according to Prescott-Nevada County Economic Development Office Executive Director Jon Chadwell. To keep the price down for those on the system, he ...

Rosston Council Nixes Bids For New Fire Station

In mid-September the Rosston City Council hired Morton Building Co. of Magnolia to build the city's new fire station. However, when Don Morton, owner of Morton Building, was asked to show his license and an engineers stamp before beginning the project, ...

Questions Raised Over Candidate's Home

Accusations have been made as to the residency of State Representative candidate Tommy Roebuck. According to Arkadelphia real estate broker Bud Reeder, Roebuck lives in Hot Springs. Roebuck, though, says his legal residency is in Arkadelphia at 1038 Pin...

Former Legislator, Attorney Chuck Honey Dies

Prominent Prescott attorney Chuck Honey died Thursday in a Little Rock hospital. Honey came from humble beginnings and early on showed the determination which would get him into and through law school. He worked hard all his life, including being janito...

Real And Personal Taxes Due October 10

Tuesday, October 10, is the deadline to pay 1999 real and personal property taxes in Arkansas. Property taxes are used primarily to fund local school districts, but also to support operation of county programs and services such as libraries, roads and p...

Bodcaw Sets Festival For Saturday

The first annual Bodcaw Festival, sponsored by the Bodcaw Volunteer Fire Department, will be held Saturday, October 7, starting at 3 p.m. in downtown Bodcaw. The festival is to raise funds for the Bodcaw Volunteer Fire Department to buy the new pumper t...

Jobless Rate Drops

Nevada County's unemployment rate dropped significantly from July to August, according to information from the Arkansas Employment Security Division. The July figure showed the jobless rate to be 5.4 percent, while August had a solid decline to 4.5 perc...

Into The Void with John Miller

Come in, sit down and shut up. Class is once again in session at the School of Hard Knocks and take plenty of notes, because there will be a test immediately following today's lecture. In the movie, A Few Good Men, Tom Cruise berates Jack Nicholson, say...

Hollis, Beebe Wedding Is October 21

Mrs. Janelle Kaufman and Mr. Sidney Hollis announce the upcoming marriage of their daughter, Jennifer Denise Hollis, to Kyle Brent Beebe, the son of Mrs. Karen Morrow and Mr. Tom Beebe all of Hope. The bride-elect is the granddaughter of Mrs. Barbara Ho...

Marlars Celebrate Anniversary

T. A. and Jessie Marlar of Willisville will celebrate their 57th wedding anniversary on October 9. They were married in Prescott October 9, 1943. Mr. Marlar is retired from the Arkansas Highway Police. He also served as chief deputy sheriff of Nevada C...

Craft Bazaar Planned

If you have a special craft and are looking for a way to make a little extra holiday spending money the Artesian Arts League is looking for you. The league will hold its second annual fall/Christmas craft bazaar on Saturday, October 21, at the First Ba...

Here & There . . . News That Matters To Nevada County

The Laneburg School reunion will be held October 7 at 3 p.m. in Fair Park Coliseum in Hope. For more information call Joe Bolls at 870-887-6168 or Mary Ellis at 887-3491 The McRae Middle School PTP is offering various items for sale this year to fund...

Yound Attends AAFP Meeting

Dr. Michael D. Young of Prescott recently attended the 52nd annual Scientific Assembly of the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP). The meeting was held September 20-24 in Dallas, Texas. More than 5,000 physicians from across the country attended...

Poster Contests Being Sponsored By Farm Bureau

The Nevada County Farm Bureau is sponsoring two different poster contests this year, one for poultry and another for rice. The theme for the posters entered in the contest should be production, marketing, utilization, nutrition or other related topics i...

College News - Allison Young

Allison Young was recently honored as the outstanding student at the Department of English and Foreign Languages of Southern Arkansas University at Magnolia. Young is the daughter of Kenneth and Sherry Young of Rosston and a 1996 graduate of Nevada High...

Scrappers Too Much For Curley Wolves

Numbers matter to a lot of people, and rightly so in some cases. It was no surprise to most, then, that Nashville would outnumber the Curley Wolves when it comes to the counting heads on the roster. The Wolves knew. They also knew before they went to Na...

School Menus: October 9-13

Menus for the area schools for the week of October 9-10 are as follows. All meals are served with milk. They are also subject to change. Breakfast in Prescott Schools is served from 8:00 to 8:30 and lunch is served between 11:30 and 12:00. Prescott Schoo...

Stephens Family Reunion Held

Descendants of John Page Stephens (1817-1895) gathered for a family reunion at the Western Sizzlin Restaurant in Hope Sunday, September 3. Among those in attendance were: Ethelene Gray and Diana Goldberg of Malvern; Stephen Gray and Karen, Joe and Lace...

Quarles, Johnson, Leake and Burnell Familes Hold Reunion

September 1, 2 and 3 the second annual Quarles, Johnson, Leake and Burnell reunion was hosted by Johnnie Quarles Marsh, Vester Johnson Todd and Margie Johnson. Friday night was hospitality and get-reacquainted night. Along with the Southern hospitality ...

Hillcrest News

J.E. Dillard, Margaret Rhodes and Cedelia Burke from Rosston spent Tuesday with Mr. and Mrs. Louie Dillard. Jo DeWoody from Gurdon spent Monday with her Aunt Lillian Terrel. George Ann Britt from Okolona visited Delsie Britt Tuesday. George Cornelius ...

Oak Grove News

Oak Grove Baptist Church had its annual choir and usher day Sunday, October 1. Oak Grove does not have a pastor. They are really carrying on without a shepherd. Rev. Gary Madison brought the morning message. His text was Is there an answer to God?' He i...

Bodcaw News

Bodcaw Fall Festival in downtown Bodcaw is Sat., Oct. 7, at 3 p.m. The purpose is to help the Bodcaw fire department buy a new pumper truck. Food will include chili, hot dogs, hamburgers, chips, deserts and drinks. The cost is $5 for adults and $2.50 for...

Bluff City News

A new month has arrived. It is one of my favorite times of the year. The only unpleasant thing I can think of about the month of October is that it's time to pay property taxes again. Hunters have begun to move back into these parts, building and repair...

Rosston News

Congratulations to Andy and Meranda Jackson. They have a new baby girl born Wednesday at Wadley Hospital in Texarkana. They named her Macy Renee. Lewis and Cindy Jackson are the happy grandparents and Margaret Jackson is the great grandmother. Sympathy ...

Boughton News

We are having ideal fall weather and enjoying it. We were sorry to hear of the death of Dorothy (Orr) Brown. Her funeral was Tuesday at Sterling Funeral Home in Baytown, Texas. Ashley Beck and Alex Ridgell spent the weekend with Papaw Herbie Ridgell. ...

Caney News

Bro. Junior and Ann Loe, Louise and Marcia Rhodes and Christie and Jake Gourley attended the Rhodes reunion at Cale Saturday. Junior and Ann Loe visited Pocket and Nez Callicott Saturday afternoon. Certain members from Morris Baptist Church attended re...

Fair Hill News

I hope we are only gonna have a few days of this hot evenings. I was fixin' to get out our winter things, but it looks and feels like that project is on hold. Micheal Shears and friend was down over the weekend visiting with Thomas and Ruby Fontaine. Wh...

Oleta W. McRae

Oleta W. McRae, 82, of Prescott died Wednesday, September 27, 2000. Mrs. McRae was born July 28, 1918. She was an active member of Prescott society. She was a diligent supporter of Girl Scouts, garden club, bridge club, band boosters, local schools serv...

Walter C. Harris

Walter C. Harris, 66, of Prescott died Saturday, September 30, 2000, at Baptist Medical Center in Arkadelphia. Mr. Harris was born December 16, 1933, in Nevada County to Fred Watson and Teena Alma Armstrong Harris. He was a carpenter and a farmer and a ...

Eugene 'Joe' Ledbetter

Ellis Eugene Joe' Ledbetter, 74, passed from this life on Friday, September 29, 2000, at his home in Prescott. Mr. Ledbetter was a member of Westside Church of Christ. He was a retired forklift driver with Potlatch and he was honorably discharged from ...

Charles L. 'Chuck' Honey

Charles L. Chuck' Honey, 62, of Prescott, a lawyer and former state legislator, passed away Thursday, September 28, 2000, at Baptist Medical Center in Little Rock after a lengthy illness. Mr. Honey was born August 10, 1938, in Nevada County to Leroy an...