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| Grave of John Hill in Evergreen, Ala. |
68 YEARS AGO
DEC. 15, 1949
SPECIAL MASONIC MEETING: There will be a special meeting
of Greening Lodge A.F&M. tomorrow (Friday) night at 7:00 in the Masonic
Hall. Work will be done on the F.C. degree. All Masons are urged to attend.
County Votes In Favor of Hospital Tax By Overwhelming
Margin Tuesday: Conecuh County voters stated clearly and emphatically that they
wanted a hospital when they went to the polls Tuesday. An incomplete and
unofficial report from 29 of the 35 boxes in the county reveals a county of 940
in favor, 150 against the special four-mil property levy for the purpose of
building and operating a hospital.
Voters in the city of Evergreen piled up a tremendous
vote in favor of the local tax bill. Only 11 voters marked against the bill
while 399 were in favor in the two town boxes.
A number of rural boxes voted 100 percent for the bill,
proving that the sentiment was county-wide. The boxes in Repton and Castleberry
went against the bill, but not by as big margins as was feared by the
supporters of the bill.
O.E.S. WILL MEET MONDAY: Conecuh Chapter No. 217 O.E.S.
will hold its regular meeting Monday night, Dec. 19, at 7:00 in the Lodge Hall.
A Christmas party will make up the program. Each person is to bring a gift, the
cost of which is not to exceed 50 cents.
James J. Lee Jr., who has been stationed at Fort Dix,
N.J., has been honorably discharged from the Army and is at home for the
present.
83 YEARS AGO
DEC. 20, 1934
Castleberry Awards Waterworks
Contract: Castleberry, Ala., Dec. 29 – Contracts for the construction of a
waterworks distribution system and the drilling of an artesian well were let by
the Castleberry town council here Friday.
The well will be drilled by
the Gray Artesian Well Co. of Pensacola, Fla. for $1,716.
American Legion Post
Organized At Castleberry: Castleberry, Dec. 19 – An American Legion post has
been organized here with 16 members and a charter is expected to arrive within
the next few days. The local unit will be known as Denly Daw, Post No. 95, in
honor of a resident of this section who was killed in action at Chateau Thiery
in France during the World War.
Charter members are: C.J.
Reed, J.E. Skinner, Roy Lee, C.E. Robinson, W.E. Pate, Albert Griffin, J.W.
Yancey, W.G. Maiden, R.D. Wright, L.J. Green, C.A. Poole, T.A.T. Baggett, W.H.
Waren, Howard Waren, Arthur Monk and Barney H. (Hub) Baggett.
Drilling Machinery For Oil
Well Being Placed: During the past week, several loads of heavy machinery to be
used in the drilling of a deep test well for oil and gas have been carried to
the site of the well located approximately 11 miles southeast of Evergreen on
lands belonging to T.R. Miller Mill Co., according to Mr. Ray L. Estabrook,
geologist and geophysicist who has spent the past several years making surveys
in this section.
98 YEARS AGO
DEC. 17, 1919
Daniel A. Baker of Troy,
Ala., Supervisor of the Census for this Congressional District, desires to
receive applications from persons to act as enumerators to take the census. The
enumeration will commence Jan. 2 but application should be made at once.
An oyster supper would be
given at Old Town School Friday night, Dec. 19, for the benefit of the school.
Mrs. Bozeman left on Sunday
last for Pike Road to reside with relatives.
Attorney E.C. Page is in
Montgomery this week having business before the supreme court.
The Monroe Journal tells of a
farmer over in Monroe who made 630 gallons of cane syrup on one acre of ground
this season. At the prevailing price for syrup the product of this acre would
amount to $787.50.
L.A. McGraw is now associated
with the People Shoe Shop and will specialize in repairing automobile tops and
upholstery.
A.A. Williams says he expects
to plant 400 acres in cotton next year on his extensive farm near Atmore.
Buford Powell has been
confined to his room with sickness for several days, but is reported much
better.
Rev. E.C. Moore and family
left yesterday for their new change in Mobile. They have made a host of friends
here who regret they were assigned to another field of labor.
113 YEARS AGO
DEC. 21, 1904
The U.D.C. Chapter located at
Evergreen will award to all eligible Confederate veterans Crosses of Honor on
June 3, 1905. Those veterans desiring such will please notify the Chapter at
once. – Mrs. E.B. Donald, Cor. Sec’y of Falkner Chapter.
There will be a meeting of
Camp Capt. Wm. Lee in circuit court room at 11 a.m. on Jan. 7, 1905 for the
purpose of electing officers and for the payment of annual dues. – P.M. Bruner,
Com’der.
Death of John Hill: After an
illness of nearly four months, this good man passed peacefully to rest at his
home in this city on last Thursday morning about six o’clock. Mr. Hill was
taken sick on Sept. 6 with a malady which at once baffled the skill of
physicians.
Mr. Hill was born Dec. 25,
1825, lacking only 10 days of begin 80 years old. He had resided in Wilcox,
Clarke and Mobile counties and had been a citizen of Evergreen for upwards of
20 years, and had many times served the town as one of its councilmen, a
position he held up to the time of his death.
The funeral took place on
Friday morning from the late residence of the deceased, being conducted by the
Masonic fraternity of which he had for many years been a member.
A Christmas program will be
rendered by the Orphanage school assisted by some of the musicians from the
different churches on Monday night, Dec. 26, at seven o’clock in the chapel of
the S.W.A.A. school.
127 YEARS AGO
DEC. 18, 1890
THE STAR
Last Tuesday night a neighbor
of Mr. John Cunningham from near Burnt Corn came to Evergreen and announced
that someone had attempted to burn the Cunningham gin. The fire was discovered
in time to prevent damage.
Disastrous – We refer to the
fire at Jayvilla by which Mr. Robson is made a much poorer man than he was last
Monday. A match was in the cotton and the friction of the gin saws ignited it,
and the result was the burning of six bales of cotton, 200 bushels cotton seed,
three gins, a grist mill and the gin house. The fire occurred last Tuesday.
Mrs. T.C. Millsap has moved
to town and occupies the Riley cottage on Main street.
Mrs. Chas. Robbins of the
Brewton Standard Gauge was visiting friends in Evergreen Sunday. The Gauge is a
potent factor in the advancement of Brewton’s interests.
During the past week, Mr.
D.C. Corbitt of Grand Rapids, Mich. has been in Evergreen on a prospecting
tour. This gentleman was scarcely a year since one of the leading lawyers of
the above city. He recently abandoned the law practice, came south and will
settle in this section. He has been all over the Union and says this is the
most delightful country he has ever found. Mr. Corbitt is interested in the
company or corporation that purchased the Wilcock’s interest at Peach Bottom,
above Gravella.
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