Nevada County Picayune and Gurdon Times Newspaper Archive

Here are the stories in the Wednesday, October 1, 2003 edition of Nevada County Picayune

Donald Collier

Mr. Donald Collier, 63, of Hope, died Wednesday, September 24, 2003, in Medical Park Hospital. He was born October 30, 2003, in Hempstead County, to Royce and Annie Mae Arnold Collier. He was owner/operator of Collier Excavating and Collier Trucking of Ho...

Mary Spires

Mrs. Mary Estelle Burkett Spires, 90, of Prescott, died Thursday, September 25, 2003, at Hillcrest Care and Rehab in Prescott. She was born September 7, 1913, in Caney, to Robert Wayne and Nora Velma Carter Burkett. She was a member of the Central Baptist...

James Hastings

Mr. James Harvey Hastings, 83, of Texarkana, Texas, died Friday, September 26, 2003, at Wadley Regional Medical Center. He was born on October 25, 1919, in Laneburg to John and Liddie McCollugh Hastings. He was a former truck driver with Day and Zimmerman...

Jesse Phelps

Mrs. Jesse Gatlin Phelps, 79, of Prescott, passed away in a Hope hospital after a lengthy illness, on Saturday, September 27, 2003. She was born in El Dorado on February 4, 1924, to Elijah and Claudia P. Murphy Gatlin. She was a nurse's aide. She was a l...

Mason Huffman

Mason Wade Huffman, infant, was born and passed away on Thursday, September 25, 2003, in Magnolia. Survivors include: his parents, Mistie and Michael Huffman of Delight; maternal grandparents, Phillip and Rebecca Holley of Prescott; paternal grandparents,...

Tax sought for city street repair; ordinances contain sunset clause

Prescott's City Council was unable to take action on a trio of ordinances for a sales tax to repair the city's streets. The council met in special session following a public hearing Thursday, Sept. 25. However, James Cox, Howard Austin and Susie Meeks wer...

Uniform issue passes at Nevada

Students at Nevada School will be dressing the same for the 2004-2005 school year. This is because voters in the Nevada district approved going to school uniforms for next year at the September school election. Nevada Superintendent Rick McAfee said the ...

Tempers flare at Emmet council meeting; question raised over firemens pension

Emmet's City Council meeting degenerated into an argument between Mayor Dale Booker and Councilman Johnny Clary. The meeting, however, didn't start out in such a manner. It began with Booker saying he had applied for a $1,000 grant from the Arkansas Fores...