LITTLE ROCK — 40 years ago

Pea Ridge School announced it would again publish an annual (yearbook). The total price was $4, with the down payment of $1.50 to be paid when the books were ordered and the remainder when they were delivered in April.

In a letter from R. Alva Greene of the California College of Medicine in Irvine, Calif., the beginnings of football in Pea Ridge were retraced to 1914 when Professor Sellers became principal of the high school. The letter mentioned mowing the field with a horse-drawn mower and word of the football team in Pea Ridge traveling to Rogers by letter.

An ad in the classified section asked that whoever had Webb’s Feed Store Sub Soiler please return it because they needed it desperately.

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30 years ago

Lynn Galyen and John Phillips announced the purchase and sale of the Phillips Food Center. Galyen, purchaser with Ray Gerard, said the new name would be Pea Ridge Food Store.

Galyen and Gerard were co-owners of Hart’s Family Center in Eureka Springs.

Pea Ridge artists Mary Hunt and Maxine Lee were among the early registrants to exhibit their work at the upcoming Share Fair at Pea Ridge City Park. There was no admission charge for exhibitors or visitors.

After four minutes into the football game between Pea Ridge and Prairie Grove, it was obvious Pea Ridge would suffer their third defeat that season.

The final score was 34-0.

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20 years ago

Angela Martin’s apple pie won the blue ribbon in the 1990 Benton County Fair.

Martin, 13, daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. Dan L. Martin of Pea Ridge, started bakingpies when she was 8.

Pea Ridge school superintendent Marvin Higginbottom said a fifth kindergarten class that year would require the use of facilities at one of the nearby churches. A fifth class would be added if enrollment continued to increase.

Pea Ridge City Council passed ordinance 166, enforcing residents to clean up their property of things such as junk cars, piled up trash and anything unsightly.

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10 years ago

Billy Clark and Terry Anderson faced each other in a run-off election for Pea Ridge School Board. Clark received 110 votes and Anderson received 83.

Three new businesses were operating in Pea Ridge: Eiko Sheppard reopened her Chinese, Japanese and American cuisine restaurant, R&R Tire reopened after a temporary shut down and Dave Rader opened his business, D&J Traditional Archery, west of Easley’s Ace Hardware in Pea Ridge.

Garfield Elementary, completed in 1941, was featured as the smallest school in the Rogers School District, with only one classroom for each grade kindergarten through fifth.

When more space was needed, a long-abandoned building behind the school was renovated by a group of private citizens and dedicated to the school district.

Church, Pages 2 on 09/22/2010