__Oct. 27, 1923__
• According to a letter received by Judge Deem from the Honorable L.M. Henson, who is in Jefferson City attending the constitutional convention, Governor Arthur M. Hyde and a party of his friends will be in Poplar Bluff. They are visiting the area and set to enjoy a fishing trip on the Black River.
Henson stated that Frank Middleton, a state fish and game commissioner, would be along at that time with his car, at which time he would release several game fish from the state hatchery into the Black River.
Several local men, including Deem, Dr. J.L. Lindsay, Henry Overfield and Grover Dalton, will hold a meeting to make preparations for the state executive’s visit. Boats will be secured for the party and preparations will be made for at least 25 persons, a dozen or so coming with the governor.
__Oct. 27, 1948__
• Sheriff Bill Brent had an unusually busy day.
The sheriff started a trip to Qulin while serving various court summons, writs and other legal documents. Before arriving in Qulin, he received information that a suspicious character was attempting to sell a 1946 model Pontiac car to Mrs. June Harpole, who resides three miles east of Qulin.
He contacted Mrs. Harpole and found out that the man had gone to Qulin. Brent continued to Qulin and located the man, G.L. Harper of Marshall, Arkansas. Brent said the man presented a title to the car and that while questioning him a fight broke out down the street.
Brent went to the fight and broke it up. He arrested Onie Scott and Elton Smith, both Qulin residents. He loaded the men into his car and started back to further question Harper, but Harper and the Pontiac had disappeared. Brent returned to Poplar Bluff with his two prisoners and took them before Judge F.M. Kinder in Magistrate Court.
Both men pleaded guilty to charges of fighting and assessed fines and costs amounting to $17.50 each.
Scott and Smith then returned to Qulin. Sometime later in the day, Brent received another call from Qulin and learned that another fight was in progress. Brent returned to find Scott and Smith once again engaged in an argument. The sheriff arrested both parties again and returned them to Poplar Bluff.
Meanwhile, Brent had the State Highway Patrol contact Arkansas and Oklahoma authorities about Harper and the Pontiac automobile. Information came back from Oklahoma that the 1946 Pontiac was stolen in Duncan, Oklahoma and Oklahoma state police named Harper as the suspect.
Sheriff Brent said that Harnett got another $17.50 fine and costs, Scott received 90 days in the county jail and Harper got away.
__Oct. 27, 1973__
• An elderly Wayne County man and his wife were bilked out of an estimated $500 by four men posing as Social Security representatives.
Wayne County Deputy Sheriff Cecil Robinson said that the men went to the home of Sam and Minnie Rowdyon Highway 67, about four miles south of Greenville.
Robinson said Rowdy, who is in poor health and walks on crutches, was told by the men that he needed to pay them $178 so that his pension would be raised.
A man with a scarred and pock-marked face claimed to be a doctor and a gray-haired man posed as a social security agent. Another had long hair and the fourth man was described as younger than the others and believed to be in his 20’s.