September 24, 1920: J.S. Lakes resigns from De Queen Waterworks

September 10, 1920: Mgr. Middleton opens De Queen Theatre

100 Years ago

September 3, 1920: Stick taken out of stove, burns down house

100 Years ago

August 20, 1920: Oil test wells being drilled

100 Years ago

August 13, 1920: De Queen to have a gravel plant

100 Years ago

August 6, 1920: Many ladies participate in voting

100 Years ago

July 30, 1920: Cantaloupes being shipped out of Horatio

100 Years ago

July 23, 1920: Danger at the K.C.S. tracks on Stilwell

100 Years ago

June 18, 1920: 28,000 Elberta peach trees sold locally

100 Years ago

June 4, 1920: Library Association appoints summer librarians

100 Years ago

May 28, 1920: De Queen’s Scarborough elected editor of Razorback

100 Years ago

May 21, 1920: League of Women Voters speaker at De Queen Theatre

100 Years ago

April 30, 1920: Arkansas Literacy and Athletic Association meets

100 Years ago

April 23, 1920: Waiters at Hotel Luton strike for better wages

100 Years ago

April 16, 1920: De Queen Hospital is open to the public

100 Years ago

April 9, 1920: Student essays bring in prize money

100 Years ago

April 2, 1920: Student essays bring in prize money

100 Years ago

March 26, 1920: Storm brings damage and injuries

100 Years ago

March 12, 1920: De Queen baseball team to return

100 years ago

March 5, 1920: New sanitarium ready for occupancy

100 Years ago

February 20, 1920: Bishop Brookes sells Buick dealership

100 Years ago

February 11, 1920: Curtis Jones speaks to chamber members

100 Years ago

February 6, 1920: New slogan for new chamber of commerce

100 Years ago

January 30, 1920: Planters Bank is organized in Lockesburg

100 Years ago

January 4, 1945: Fire destroys the Queen theatre equipment

75YEARS AGO

Dec. 26, 1949: County War and Rationing Board note changes

75 Years Ago 

Dec. 26, 1919: Call for the world’s end has no effect in De Queen

100 YEARS AGO

Dec. 2, 1919: Factory to be established near Sevier County Gin

100 YEARS AGO

Nov. 21, 1919: Thanks to the De Queen High School band

100 YEARS AGO

Nov. 4, 1919: Builder’s Supply Co. comes to De Queen

100 YEARS AGO

Oct. 31, 1919: Ginners are urged to save situation; don’t pick wet cotton

100 YEARS AGO

Oct. 31, 1919: Warm and rainy weather makes it look like spring

100 YEARS AGO

Oct. 10, 1919: County citizens inspire envy of neighbors

100 YEARS AGO

Oct. 3, 1919: Man critically wounded in Elk Hotel shooting

100 YEARS AGO

Sept. 19, 1919: Grand Theatre to be open to the public

100 YEARS AGO

Sept. 12, 1919: Bank of Horatio to construct new building

100 YEARS AGO

Sept. 5, 1919: State Baptists looking to raise $75,000,000 for missions

100 YEARS AGO

August 29, 1919: Downs suffers injury cranking engine at phone exchange

100 YEARS AGO

August 22, 1919: Homeowner offers $10 reward for arrest of thief

100 YEARS AGO

August 15, 1919: Family of D.C. Goff injured in car accident

100 YEARS AGO

August 8, 1919: Von Ferguson’s patent to earn him millions

100 YEARS AGO

August 1, 1919: Grand jury expected to return 85 indictments

100 YEARS AGO

July 4, 1919: Nine-room bungalow finished in De Queen

100 YEARS AGO

June 27, 1919: Telephone operator shot several times

100 YEARS AGO

June 15, 1944: New band director hired by district

100 YEARS AGO

June 6, 1919: Eleven tanks cars and a refrigerator car leave tracks

100 YEARS AGO

June 1, 1944: Canning kitchen to reopen in band building

100 YEARS AGO

May 23, 1919: Voters approve a 12-mill school tax

100 YEARS AGO

April 25, 1919: Company is testing to drill for oil in Lockesburg

100 YEARS AGO

April 18, 1919: Lockesburg boy killed by a bolt of lightning

100 YEARS AGO

April 11, 1919: Battle tank to vanquish the ‘Hun’ to be in De Queen

100 YEARS AGO