1921: Monroe County Sheriff Roland Curry raided the home of Juan Menendez on County Road near the Cortez cigar factory in Key West and seized $2,500 worth of Cuban rum
Some of the richest farmland in America surrounds Eudora, the Chicot County town that was the subject of last Sunday s column. That column focused on the crime problems that likely will speed up population losses that have beset Eudora for the past 40 years. Dozens of small towns across the Arkansas Delta find themselves in the same boat.