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43 YEARS AGO
MAY 17, 1973
This Duroc was grand champion
of the 10th annual Conecuh County FFA and 4-H Boys Barrow Show held
Monday at Conecuh Cooperative Stockyard. The champion was owned by Scott
Matthews of the Evergreen FFA who could not show the barrow because of a broken
leg. Danny Harper accepts the award for Scott from Marin Johnston, president of
the Evergreen Kiwanis Club, show sponsors. Moor-man Feed Co. bought the champ
for 60.5 cents per pound.
Sheriff warns of cattle
rustlers: Sheriff James (Shorty) Brock today warned county cattle owners to be
on the alert for rustlers. He said that several head of cattle have been stolen
in the county recently.
Leon Ridgeway, 56, a native
of Conecuh County, died on May 10 in a Fairhope hospital. He was a veteran of
World War II and a Past Master of the Spanish Fort Masonic Lodge. Funeral
services were held May 12 at the Fairhope Chapel of the Bayview Funeral Home
and burial was in Repton Cemetery.
Another oil well is being
drilled near Range. Amereda-Hess Oil Co. has a permit to drill to 12,500 feet
in a test well on the Jackson land in Section 13, Township North, Range 8 East.
Delta Drilling Co. is drilling the well.
Work began on the well on May
7 and as of Tuesday afternoon the drillers were below 6,250 feet, according to
M.L. Bergman of Monroe Realty Co., Monroeville.
58 YEARS AGO
MAY 15, 1958
The schedule of graduation exercises for the Evergreen
High School is announced today by Principal C.W. Claybrook.
Graduation exercises will be held Friday evening, May 23,
at eight o’clock in Memorial Gymnasium.
William Guthrie Jones, age 72, longtime resident of this
city and much beloved citizen, passed away at his home early Thursday morning,
May 8, following a lingering illness of many months.
In 1915 he opened a barber shop in Evergreen and
continued its operation for 43 years, having sold it only a few weeks before
his death. He was a member of the Greening Masonic Lodge No. 53 and served as
its secretary for about 12 years.
Interment was in Magnolia Cemetery.
William Harris Williamson, age 74, widely known and much
esteemed citizen of Evergreen, passed away at the local hospital Monday
morning, May 12, following an illness of several weeks.
He moved to Evergreen 24 years ago to accept a position
with the Evergreen Motor Car Co., a position he held for 12 years. For the past
12 years, he served on the City police force until his retirement the first of
October.
For the past 43 years, he had been a member of the Farrar
Masonic Lodge No. 8 in Birmingham and was a 32nd degree Mason.
Interment was in Magnolia Cemetery.
Joe B. Nix Jr., Evergreen attorney, is one of 10
candidates in the second primary seeking the five places left on the State
Democratic Executive Committee from the Second District. Mr. Nix led the ticket
in Conecuh County.
73 YEARS AGO
MAY 20, 1943
The big War Bond and Stamp celebration which was staged
here last Saturday attracted one of the largest crowds that has been seen here
in many a day. The event, which was sponsored by the ladies of the county, was
not only an impressive one but successful as well. Full reports have not been
received from all sections of the county, but it is known that more than
$35,000 in bonds and stamps were sold. The county’s quota for this month is
$28,200, thus this figure has already been far exceeded.
After graduating recently from the officer candidate
school at Fort Sill, Okla., Winton D. McIntyre of Evergreen, Ala. was
commissioned a second lieutenant in the field artillery. He was assigned to
Camp Gruber, Okla.
Covington Farmers Held As Saboteurs: Arrested on charges of
sabotage, two Covington County farmers were in custody Tuesday pending
arraignment before the U.S. commissioner in Montgomery, according to D.K.
Brown, special agent in charge of the Birmingham Field Division, FBI.
Willard Powell and R.A. “Ab” Roberts were charged with
the instigation of 14 forest fires on the property of the Jackson Lumber Co. at
Lockhart, between February 1942 and February 1943.
The 14 fires did an estimated damage of $25,000, and by
federal code, the firing of merchantable timber in wartime is sabotage.
88 YEARS AGO
MAY 17, 1928
BATTLE OF BURNT CORN MAY BE
COMMEMORATED: Washington, May 12 – A proposal to authorize the erection of a
monument to commemorate the battle of Burnt Corn, Ala., was made today in a
bill introduced by Rep. McDuffie, Democrat.
The monument would be
stationed near Burnt Corn, Ala., on the site of the first battle of the Creek
War in July 1813 between pioneer settlers of Alabama and Creek Indians.
The graduation exercises (at
the State Secondary Agricultural School) will be on Friday night, May 25, and
the address will be delivered by Dr. Jno. W. Abercrombie, assistant state
superintendent, formerly state superintendent.
On Monday morning, May 21, at
10 o’clock the closing exercises of the City School will be held.
All of these programs will be
given in the City School auditorium and the public is cordially invited to
attend.
J.W. Camp, well known farmer
and sign painter living in the West Side community near here, was seriously
injured early Friday morning when the Ford car in which he was riding was
struck by a southbound freight at the crossing near the Evergreen gin and
demolished. Mr. Camp was on his way to Evergreen at the time and evidently did
not see the train at all. The car was caught up by the train engine and carried
about 200 yards before getting loose, and rolling into a ravine. A negro man
named George Robinson was riding in the car with Mr. Camp when the accident
occurred and received several severe bruises but no broken bones.
Rabid Dog Attacks West Side
Citizens: A half grown collie dog, which later proved to be rabid, attacked and
bit W.T. Chapman and Dewey Parmer of the West Side community Saturday morning.
Mr. Chapman was bitten in the leg and Mr. Parmer in the hand. They succeeded in
capturing it and carried it to Montgomery alive Saturday afternoon, where
examination was made which revealed that it was suffering from rabies. A dog
belonging to Mr. J.F. Salter was also bitten.
Messrs. Chapman and Parmer
and Miss Julia Salter, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J.F. Salter, are now taking
treatment. Miss Salter was not bitten, but it developed that she had handled
the dog at his father’s which was attacked and it was found that she had some
broken places in the skin on her hands.
103 YEARS AGO
MAY 15, 1913
Up to Friday of last week,
150 carloads of strawberries had been shipped from Castleberry.
A musical treat is in store
for those who attend the Orpheus club entertainment this evening.
W.K. Horton gets from 16 to
18 gallons of milk per day from five cows. It pays to keep only the best grade
of stock.
Doctor Rubach satisfies his
epicurean taste occasionally by going out and bagging ‘a mess’ of frogs. No,
the writer didn’t accept the genial doctor’s invitation to join him at supper,
as we draw the line at frogs. Ugh!
Now is the time to invest
in Conecuh County lands. It is rapidly increasing in value.
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