Nevada County Picayune and Gurdon Times Newspaper Archive

Here are the stories in the Wednesday, September 13, 2000 edition of Nevada County Picayune

Two Motorcyle Accidents Injures Two Within Two Hours

MOTORCYCLE ACCIDENTS - Prescott Police Assistant Chief Jim Stuart takes information from two witnesses after the first of two accidents involving the same motorcycle less than two hours apart. The accidents occurred Monday, September 11, at 6:30 p.m. o...

Prescott High School Homecoming Is Friday

Prescott High School homecoming is Friday night against Gurdon. Game time is 7:30.

Vesta Roberson Malcom

Vesta Roberson Malcom, 88, of Okolona died Saturday, September 2, 2000, at her home. Mrs. Malcom was born February 13, 1912, in Okolona, the daughter of the late Jesse and Eula Tarpley Roberson. She was retired from Hollywood Vasserette in Arkadelphia. ...

Carlos Antonio 'Chubby' Haynie

Carlos Antonio Chubby' Haynie, 21, died Monday, September 4, 2000, in an automobile accident near Prescott. Mr. Haynie was born October 28, 1978, to Lillie Cunningham and Carson Haynie Jr. in Prescott. He joined Church of the Living God while very youn...

Charlotte Estelle Yancey

Charlotte Estelle Yancey, 91, of Prescott died Saturday, September 9, 2000. Mrs. Yancey was married to the late Clifton Thomas Yancey, who preceded her in death in November 1970. She was a member of First Baptist Church of Prescott and Beech Street Bapt...

Lee Eunice Cole

Lee Eunice Cole, 85, died Friday, September 1, 2000, at Beverly Health and Rehab in Prescott. Mrs. Cole was born September 12, 1914, in Nevada County to the late Lillie Fischer and Charlie Alexander. She married the late John B. Cole and to this union t...

Magical Moments Planned For Count Fair

There will be plenty of magical moments during the 2000 Nevada County Fair. This year's fair, a week-long affair, will be from Sept. 16-24, opening with a horse show Saturday at 10 a.m. The horse show will be followed by the Lil Britches Rodeo at 6 p.m....

Li'l Britches Rodeo Opens Fair Saturday

The Li'l Britches rodeo will be held Saturday, September 16, at 6 p.m. at the Nevada County Fairgrounds. Admission will be $3 for adults and $2 for children 12 and under. Events during the rodeo include calf flag race, six and under and seven to 12; boy...

Rosston Water Supply In Good Shape

Rosston has a new city secretary. In its regular monthly meeting Thursday, Sept. 7, the Rosston City Council unanimously voted to hire Taun'a Budd to replace Brenda Drake, who tendered her resignation at the August meeting to take a job in Minneapolis, ...

SW District Fair And Rodeo Slated For Sept. 26-30

Some of the top rodeo hands in the nation are expected to show up at the Southwest Arkansas District Livestock Show and Rodeo. This year's festivities are a bit earlier than in years past as the SWAR Livestock Show and Rodeo runs from Sept. 26-30, in Ho...

What's Happenin'

A famous Rabbi once said that people have two powers in their control, the power to create  that is to make something out of nothing  and the power to destroy  that is to make nothing out of something. I believe that the same two powers reside in each...

PHS Website Recognized

The Prescott High School website has been named to the best site showcase for the month of August, back to school 2000 and the month of September by My School Online. The site had been generating nearly 3,000 hits a month since a counter was installed i...

Living Well with the Carrie Connection

I hope each of you have picked up your copy of this year's Nevada County Fair catalog by now and have spent a little time reviewing the schedule and entry categories. (If you do not have a catalog, you can pick up a copy at either of the local banks, the...

Farm & Home News

Not only is the dry weather having an affect on lawns, it is also affecting landscape ornamentals and trees. Most woody shrubs usually take the heat and drought fairly well. However, this year has been really hard on them. When watering these landscape...

Wolf Trax

Booster Club News The Prescott Booster Club has been and will continue feeding the senior high football squad and coaches each Friday at the elementary cafeteria at 4:00 p.m. in the Curley Wolf Cafi. A lot of work goes into these healthy meals and a lot ...

Wedding Is October 21

Kassandra Leigh Thurman of Siloam Springs is pleased to announce the engagement and approaching marriage of her mother, Kimberly Dianne Rodgers, to Robert Wayne Crowder of Fayetteville. The bride-elect is the daughter of Norman and June Rodgers of Siloa...

Golden Anniversary Celebration Planned

The Bolls children and grandchildren are hosting an open house and party to celebrate 50 years of marriage for their parents, Joe and Liz Bolls, on Saturday, September 16, from 2:00 to 4:30 p.m. in the afternoon. Joseph H. and Elizabeth Harley Bolls wer...

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

A representative of the Texarkana Social Security office will be in Prescott at the courthouse September 28. Supplemental Security Income pays monthly checks to people who are aged, disabled or blind and who do not own much or have much income. SSI is n...

Concert Held By Pocket Full Of Rocks

You may have wondered what all the noise around town was about last Saturday night around 8:00. East Elm Street between Second and Third experienced a revelation  dancing in the streets. First Presbyterian Church hosted an open air Christian rock conce...

Fair Hill EHC

The Fair Hills Extension Homemakers Club met at the home of Glenda Stuart for its August meeting with nine members present. Lenora McWilliams read the club collect. Joyce Tyree gave the minutes from the previous month and the treasurer's report. The ins...

College News - Andy Almand

Andy Almand of Prescott has been elected vice president external of the Henderson State University Student Government Association (SGA) for the new school year. Throughout the 2000-01 school year Henderson State University Student Government Association...

School Menus: September 18-22

Menus for the area schools for the week of September 18-22 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 Sc...

Bobcats Bite Curley Wolves, 45-20

When you bleed all you got you can't bleed anymore. The Curley Wolves gave it all they had, but it wasn't enough to win Friday night against the Hope Bobcats. The final score was 45-20. Prescott just doesn't have the depth or the talent to go up agains...

Macedonia Food Bank Now Open

The food bank at Macedonia Baptist Church will be open from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. the third Monday of each month. For the month of September the third Monday will be September 18. The food bank is open to all who have a genuine need to supplement the famil...

Brotherton Captures Super Pro At Prescott Raceway

Mena's Greg Brotherton captured the Super Pro division at the Prescott Raceway Saturday, Sept. 2. His dial in time was 4.96, while his estimated time was actually 4.99. The reaction time was 0.535, while Brotherton reached 132 miles per hour. Second we...

Moms In Touch To Meet

The vision of Moms In Touch International is to have an MIT group for every school in the United States and around the world by year 2003. The group has been active in Prescott the last three years. The local group meets on Tuesdays at 1:45 p.m. at Firs...

Wiley Joins Jazz Group At UCA

Cameron Wiley, a 2000 honor graduate of Prescott High School, now a first semester freshman at the University of Central Arkansas in Conway (UCA), has been chosen as a member of the UCA first band jazz ensemble. This ensemble will accompany the legendary...

Redland News

Don't ever say I didn't warn you, but you better be thinking about getting your electric blanket ready. Billie Ann and L.C. Gass from Chicksha, Okla., spent several days with her mother, Allene Taylor. Darren and Kristi Neal honored their two-year-old ...

Oak Grove News

A reunion of the Quarles Johnson, Leaks and Burnell families was held September 1-3. It started at the Johnson home and went to Quarles and Marsh homes and ended up at Mt. Vernon AME homecoming. There were a lot of people and some I did not know. They w...

Rosston News

We were happy to have Ted Morman join the church last Sunday and was baptized in the morning services this past Sunday. His mother and her husband of Pine Bluff came for the service and also Grandma Dougan and Aunt Cathy. Miranda Jackson also united with...

Caney News

Wallace McBride is still having problems after heart surgery. Last week he also developed staff infection. Celia Karmel visited here with relatives last week. While she was here she and her sons, Kevin and his family of Corinth, Texas, and Keith of Litt...

Bluff City News

We are enjoying the cooler weather, but we are in need of more rainfall. Last winter brought a record snow storm, and this summer has been one of record heat. We have also had record gasoline prices. I think we have broken enough records. It's time to ge...

Hillcrest News

Last week's news: Janet Beaver from Camden spent Monday with her mother, Minnie Moore. Marie McMoster and daughter Joyce from Okolona visited her brother, Buck Huskey, Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. Durwin Ursery from Camden visited his Aunt Ada Haynie Sunday....

Boughton News

The House-Cagle and Brown family reunion will be Sunday, September 17, at the VFW building in Prescott. There will be potluck lunch at the noon hour. Friends are invited and relatives are urged to attend. Everett and Mary Orren picked up Barbara Norris...

Bodcaw News

Cooler weather is nice and we got a little sprinkle. Jewell, Mary, Michael Poindexter and Haden, also Paul, Susie and Andrew Poindexter went to Mississippi to a taekwondo tournament Saturday. Haden got a first and second place trophy. Andrew got two fi...