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25 YEARS AGO
MARCH 11, 1993
Annual steer show: Sometimes it’s hard to keep a 1,000-pound
steer in check as Leigh Farrish shows during a break at Tuesday’s annual Monroe
County 4-H/FFA Steer Show. Her steer was a show winner in the lightweight
class. This year’s grand champion steer was owned and shown by Krista Smith of
Uriah, who also won the junior showmanship and best average daily weight gain
awards and the top two spots in the heavyweight class.
Whippets pound Raiders 72-45: Frisco City High School
pounded Houston Academy 72-45 in Frisco Tuesday of last week to earn a berth in
the 1A state tournament.
Frisco’s victory in the sub-state finals left the
fourth-ranked Whippets 18-4 on the season and sealed up a spot in the state
tournament that will start today (Thursday) at the University of Alabama in
Tuscaloosa.
Coach Curtis Harris and his Whippets will begin play at 9
a.m. today in Memorial Coliseum against defending 1A champion Notasulga High
School.
(Top players on Frisco City’s team that year included Chan
Adams, Adrian Bullard, Derrick Crayton, Tony Gibbs, Marando Lambert, Shannon
Richardson, A.J. White and Eric Williams.)
Cobb honored for service: Ralph Cobb, 82, of Monroeville was
honored Feb. 23 at the Monroeville Masonic Lodge for 50 years of service as a
Mason.
At the ceremony, Cobb was given the Alabama Award of Gold or
Masonic Service Emblem, by M.E. “Cotton” Leachman, past Grand Master of Masons
for Alabama. Bill Atwood, lecturer of the 31st Masonic District,
assisted Leachman in the ceremony.
50 YEARS AGO
MARCH 14, 1968
Judy Huggins, Excel, walked away with Grand Champion honors
at the annual 4-H Club Fat Calf Show and Sale Wed., March 13. The sale, held at
the Monroe Livestock Market, Inc., was one of the largest in the history of the
4-H project.
A countywide football jamboree will be held in Monroeville
Fri., March 22, at 7:30 p.m., Ronald Dees, coach at Monroe County High School,
announced this week.
The jamboree, first of its kind to be held in the county,
will see each of the four teams – Monroeville, Frisco City, Uriah and Excel –
opposing each of the other teams for an eight-minute period.
Heretofore, the teams have been participating in regional
jamborees which involved out-of-county teams, but this year, for the first
time, only county teams will participate, Mr. Dees said.
PFC Joe Kidd Gets Viet Nam Assignment – Pleiku, Vietnam
(AHTNC) – Army Private First Class Joe W. Kidd, 24, son of Mr. and Mrs. Cooper
Kidd, Rt. 1, Monroeville, was assigned as a rifleman in Co. C, 1st
Battalion of the 4th Infantry Division’s 12th Infantry
near Pleiku, Vietnam, Feb. 19.
These are the members of Boy Scout Troop 225 of Excel,
organized in late November 1967 by the Excel Quarterback Club. (Those scouts
included Danny Brittingham, Mike McQueen, Rick Casey, Charlie Wiggins, John
Lyles, John Wayne Chavis, Mike Casey, Jimmy Rigsby, Robert Lyles, Tim Casey,
Dennis Mixon, John Hendrix, Stanley Lyles, Lloyd Hoskins, Wayne Stacey, Kenny
Black, James Black and Jerry Phillips. Rhett Barnes was scoutmaster and Lee
Holladay was assistant scoutmaster.)
75 YEARS AGO
MARCH 11, 1943
A meeting of the Chamber of Commerce will be held at the
City Hotel on Monday night for the purpose of electing officers for the next
year. Supper will be served, each member paying for his own plate.
First Sergeant Floyd B. Turberville has been chosen to
attend the Infantry Course, Officers Candidate School, at Fort Benning, Ga.
First Sgt. Turberville is a member of Headquarters Co., 81st Armored
Medical Battalion, commanded by Lt. Col. Sanford W. French III. He is the son
of Mr. and Mrs. Mattie Turberville of Route 1, Uriah.
George Thomas Jones, student at the University of Alabama,
has been spending several days here with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Lucian
Jones.
CLOSED SEASON FOR ALL GAME FISH: The season for catching
game fish will be closed from March 15 to April 15. All fishermen should bear
this in mind and govern themselves accordingly.
The many friends in Monroe County of Mr. Finklea Nettles of
Peterman are glad to learn that he has been commissioned a lieutenant in the
Coast Artillery and has been transferred from Fort McPherson, Atlanta to Camp
Stewart at Hinesville, Ga.
Clayborne Hightower of the U.S. Navy, who left last fall for
induction into the Navy, now stationed in San Francisco, is on furlough and is
the guest of his family. He will leave Thursday to return to his Naval duties.
100 YEARS AGO
MARCH 7, 1918
The following is a list of those who entrained for Camp Gordon,
Chamblee, Ga., March 2: John D. Dennis, Andy Lester Bayles, Louis Fred Green,
Grover C. Tuberville, Louis S. Ruffin, Joseph Watson, Drewry Jackson Forte,
Julius Flowers, Charley D. Merriweather, Albert Wright, Elmore Perry Grant,
John L. Sullivan Murphy, Howard Adison, George Albert Shipp and Willie Lee
Moore.
Wanted – Ox teams will contract hauling timber, have long
time proposition that is good, write or telephone. Fred D. Snoddy, Atmore, Ala.
NOTICE: I am authorized to announce that the regular spring
term of the Circuit Court for this county has been postponed to the second
Monday in June, on account of light dockets and inconvenience to the farmers at
this particular season of the year, who are behind with farm work, due to
recent bad weather. – John M. Coxwell, Clerk.
Mr. M. Katz is erecting a new dwelling in Monvil Park.
Workmen are making rapid progress on the handsome dwelling
being erected by Mr. L. W. Locklin in the eastern part of town.
Col. R.P. Purefoy purchased a Buick “four” last week and he
and Mrs. Purefoy left Saturday for a visit with relatives in Andalusia.
The Journal is requested to announce the unveiling of the
monument of R.L. Wiggins at Old Salem church on Sun., March 17, at two o’clock.
The following camps are requested to send representatives: Monroeville,
Peterman, Franklin, Blacksher, Local, Jones Mill and Repton.
139 YEARS AGO
MARCH 10, 1879
Competitive Declamation at the Academy: We are requested to
remind our readers that Friday night, next, is the time set for the above
mentioned exercise. Messrs. D.L. Neville, Esq., H.B. Hood, Esq., T.S. Wiggins,
Esq. have been invited to act as committee of award.
Having returned from Mississippi and reopened a store at
Claiborne, Mr. I. Cohn publishes a card in The Journal this week to his old
patrons and friends, to which we call the special attention of the reader.
Capt. Woodward, who is widely and favorably known in Monroe,
has recently been visited with a serious domestic bereavement: his excellent
lady having passed the portals of that mystic gate, which separates the known
from the unknow world – she died on Monday last. We extend to the Captain our
sincere sympathy in his affliction.
CHOICE LIQUORS – Always Kept at the BAR-ROOM – of D.W.
Rankin, Proprietor, Perdue Hill, Ala. – And the public delighting in light and
pleasant beverages should not fail to call round when they visit the Hill.
TIMES ARE HARD, that’s a fixed fact, but this being true
doesn’t prevent you from patronizing the now well-established SILVERSMITH SHOP
of J.M. Lowry at Perdue Hill, who is prepared to repair watches, clocks,
jewelry, etc. at LOWEST POSSIBLE CASH PRICES on the very shortest possible
notice. All repairing, of whatever character, receives my personal attention.
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