Other Days: Feb. 22, 2023

95 YEARS AGO FEBRUARY 23, 1928 Free agricultural moving picture shows are being shown at different points in Cleveland County. Bert England, owner of the local Ford agency, announces that his company will be known as the Bert England Motor Company, instead of England Motor Company. A second carload of Chevrolet cars to be received in Rison within a month was unloaded here Monday morning by the Rector Chevrolet Company, local dealers. Work of clearing away the ruins of the big store building of the E.R. Buster Mercantile Company at Kingsland, which was destroyed by fire recently, began Monday under the direction of Sid Knickerbocker. The Rison Lions Club will supervise the raising of necessary funds to carry on the town's 1928 anti-mosquito campaign. 90 YEARS AGO FEBRUARY 22, 1933 Cleveland County's annual basketball tournament will be held at the Rison gymnasium Friday and Saturday of next week. Winning teams will receive trophy cups if admission fees or gate receipts are sufficient to cover expenses of such trophies. 80 YEARS AGO FEBRUARY 24, 1943 James Thomasson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Guy D. Thomasson of near Rison, is reported as a prisoner of the Japs. Start registration for Ration Book No. 2 for foods. Two grain bins are erected at the rear of the court square here by the Commodity Credit Corporation and will be used to store different seeds issued to farmers by the Agricultural Adjustment Administration. Each of the structures have a capacity of 1,180 bushels. Anthony Lumber Company of Kingsland closes a deal for pine timber on the Merle Ranch, south of Rison, at a reported price of $45,000. The Kellogg Company, hardwood manufacturers of Monroe, Louisiana, recently purchased the entire Merle Ranch tract of approximately 1,900 acres, with its heavy growth of pine and hardwood, at a cost of $130,000. Cutting the hardwoo...