Roy HUNT was posting these on the Datto School Alumni site and graciously allowed me to repost them here. Thanks Roy!! >From the files of the Clay County Courier.................. 1933 A. H. Schweinegruber, owns a sow that may be a champion. The sow, a Duroc gilt, weighing 150 pounds, farrowed 26 pigs last Friday, the largest litter on record for this territory, and perhaps this state. Schweinegruber resides on his farm one-fourth mile south of Datto. 1933 Chicken thieves made a big haul near Palatka last Thursday night, taking 75 hens from two farmers' places. Forty hens were taken from the home of Ed Harpole and 35 from R. W. Brown who resides just across the road from Harpole. 1932 Graber's store is now open for business in their handsome new building on West Second Street, two doors south of The Corning Bank and Trust Co. All their stocks of merchandise were removed to the new Graber building on Wednesday of last week. The Graber building is one of the most attractive and modern business structures in northeast Arkansas and it's complete lines of merchandise carried offer the shopper advantages seldom found in a town this size. 1963 Fire destroyed the Clay County Courthouse at Corning in a spectacular Friday evening blaze, but valuable records preserved in the fireproof vaults came through relatively undamaged. The fire, discovered at approximately 5:15 p.m., was believed to have originated in the north section of the courthouse, near the license bureau. The flames quickly spread through out the building in a spectacular blaze which brought destruction to the building within a period of four hours. Firemen fought the blaze in sub-freezing weather but the seasoned wood in the building burned like tinder. Firemen, however, concentrated on the vaults to keep from destroying the records contained therein. 1967 The nation's third highest honor was conferred posthumously on Lonnie E. Parker for valor while serving his country in action in Vietnam. The Silver Star was presented to his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Parker, Success. 1955 Harry Eugene Lee, 17, son of Mrs. Emil Fear of Datto, died while swimming at 1:30 Sunday afternoon at Current River Beach. AND...........for a litle trivia about Corning................. "Who Put the HOP In Hop Alley?" The foundation for Hop Alley was laid following the disastrous blaze of November 21, 1906 which razed the two-story frame structure occupied by the J. O. Langdon Restaurant and wound up by razing the East side of the street to the I. M. Reed Blacksmith Shop at the Northeast corner of Second and Vine. Judge D. Hopson was the owner of the Langdon Building and announced that a double one-story brick would be built on the site the following Summer. The Judge was also the owner of the Barnett Brick, built in 1895, on First Street, so he opened a wooden sidewalk from the Southeast corner of the Barnett brick West to the Northwest corner of the proposed brick on Second Street. Corning was poorly drained in 1907, the ground was low, and the wooden walk floated after a rain, forcing a pedestrian to keep hopping to get from First to Second, or vice versa, with dry feet. Hop was also the first syllable in Hopson, so the new thoroughfare had two valid reasons for assuming the title, Hop Alley. ____________________________________________________________________________________ The fish are biting. Get more visitors on your site using Yahoo! Search Marketing. http://searchmarketing.yahoo.com/arp/sponsoredsearch_v2.php