Just inside the front east door of the double entrance to Wayne’s Confectionary was a small 6 x 8 wooden framed blackboard mounted on the wall. It was perhaps one of the most important scoreboards in Warren’s history. A community scoreboard if there ever was one. I know all you children of electronics, computers, cell…
After last week’s Pastime about the weekly “punch card” drawing at the Mad Butcher, several readers asked me about a forerunner of the 1930s and 1940s called: “Bank Night.” The Bank Night promotion was a unique and loyalty driven jackpot conceived and run by the Wharton family – the owners of the motion picture theaters…
Harley Garrison has reached 1000 books in our 1000 Books Before Kindergarten! Awesome job Harley!!! For more information about this program, contact the Library at 870-226-2536 or come by 115 West Cypress St. in Warren.
Long before the lure and dreams of the Arkansas Scholarship Lottery, there was the Saturday punch-card drawing at the Mad Butcher. Now that was a prize everyone wanted their mom, dad, grandmother or granddad to win. Cash, when you are a kid, cash was some great prize. On top of winning the cash prize, the…
By MAYLON T. RICE Special to the Saline River Chronicle It is August. The longest month of the year which is a prequel to the shortest part of the year. The tomatoes are all picked. Most of the hay is out of the field and on the farm. Football and band practices have yet to…