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Here are the stories in the Wednesday, August 31, 2005 edition of Gurdon Times

Teen with alcohol could lose license
As of Aug. 13, any minor caught in possession of alcohol in Arkansas will have his or her driver's license suspended. Gurdon City Marshal Don Childres, said this law should discourage teenage drinking  to a point. "We will enforce this law and it may hel...
Young mountain lioness visits Lewie's Catfish
A 40-to 50-pound young lady Mountain Lioness was caught on video July 31 by Todd and Deann King, managers of Lewie's Catfish on Highway 67 South. The big female cat, estimated to be less than a year old and brown and yellow in color, came around the side ...
Centerpoint improves Gurdon lines
Centerpoint Energy workers were busy this past week finishing a line upgrade for Gurdon, going from cast iron natural gas pipes to plastic pipe and weld steel line. Phillip Giles, manager for Centerpoint, out of Arkadelphia, said the work on Second Street...
Forest Festival beauty queens prepare to pass on crowns
The most beautiful girls in Gurdon are about to come out of their summer hiding. The annual Forest Festival Beauty Pageant will be held at 7 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 24 in the high school cafetorium. Billy Wells, of Billy's Main Street Florist, and Elaine ...
Childres notes new things for festival
Rotarians will put on their annual pancake breakfast at the Forest Festival Saturday, Oct. 29, with early risers welcome to come on down to the Gurdon Senior Adult Center. This year's tickets will be $4 and an exact time will be announced later. Tambra Ch...
Derwin Lacy
OKOLONA  Today we have lost a kind and loving husband, father, grandfather, son, brother and great friend. We are saddened to see a longtime resident of Okolona leave us on Aug. 23, 2005. Derwin Thomas Lacy died in the Baptist Medical Center in Little Ro...
Augie Duncan
Mrs. Augie Lee Duncan Myers Douglas, resident of Wynne, Arkansas, departed this life on Friday, Aug. 19, 2005, at the Cross Ridge Community Hospital in Wynne. She was 80 years of age. Mrs. Douglas enjoyed fishing, gardening, sewing and picking blackberrie...

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