May 2022

At an early hour yesterday morning supposedly professional cracksmen used nitro glycerine and blew the doors off the iron safe in the post office securing about $400 in money and stamps belonging to the office and $480 belonging to Postmaster Dudgeon. The safe blowers broke open the iron doors with a crowbar. They overlooked a package of over $100 which was in a desk above the safe, and also left the registered mail on hand, which was in the safe.

Who could have imagined back in 1906 that the foundation would be laid for a little alley-way between two streets in a small northeast Arkansas town that would become a beloved landmark for generations of Corning residents? A place so nondescript in appearance, yet so unique and special that war time soldiers and hometown people living far from home would fondly dream of this shortcut between Front and Second Streets. It’s as if Hop Alley casted a spell over those who walked the strip of covered concrete beckoning for them to return to a simpler time when a café hamburger and bottled sodie were the best thing since sliced bread. Ask any old-timer who did business there, met their spouse walking the alley, had their picture taken, or played billiards at the pool hall, walking Hop Alley was an experience they haven’t forgotten. Back in the day, young people would often walk from First to Second street pausing midway to yell an Indian yell and hear their own voice echo just as in childhood. Ask anyone 60 and over about Hop Alley and watch the recognition spread across their face in a fond smile.

I’ve got it figured out... We need women justices of the peace. Women, by nature, are organizers and eventually wind up completing whatever they set out to do. They may get a little pushy at times, but the fact remains, Women can, and do, get things done. Women are also notoriously qualified when it comes to money management.

LITTLE ROCK – Last year the legislature enacted a series of new election laws, and four of them were challenged in court by plaintiffs who argued that they restricted voting rights. In March the four new laws were stricken by a circuit judge after a trial of four days.