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| Pinckney D. Bowles |
(This News Flashback Column was originally intended for Monday, but for whatever reason, I forgot to post it. Enjoy.)
46 YEARS AGO
AUG. 1, 1968
CAP Cadet William Hart, son
of Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd G. Hart, was selected for the International Air Cadet
Exchange to visit Canada for a period of approximately 21 days.
Col. Robert E. Key, a member
of the HHCo., 361st Civil Affairs Unit, Area “B,” Pensacola, has just completed
two weeks active duty at the University of West Florida in Pensacola, along
with 251 other officer and enlisted personnel.
Col. Key, an 18-year Army
Reserve veteran, spent his active duty in the Navy during World War II and is
presently assistant legal officer in the Pensacola Civil Affairs Unit. In
civilian life, Key is Circuit Judge, 35th Judicial Circuit of Alabama. He held
the Circuit Solicitor’s post from 1952-1965. He was born in Evergreen and
received his law degree from the University of Alabama.
A much needed “face lifting”
has been taking place at Evergreen High School this summer. The school plant is
getting a good general cleaning, painting and general fixing up thanks to Work
Study Program through the State Vocational Education Department. The program
totals $3,864 with $966 of that coming from local sources. Principal Roy Davis
said the program was made possible through an appropriation of $750 by the Evergreen
City Council, the remainder of the local funds coming from the school’s funds.
Seven vocational education students at EHS are working 40 hours a week for 12
weeks under the supervision of Davis and Dave Fleming, vo-ed instructor.
61 YEARS AGO
AUG. 6, 1953
Dell Brooks reports killing
of a big rattler last week up in Beat One of this county. The snake had 12
rattles.
Evergreen’s newest furniture
store, City Furniture Co., will hold its grand opening tomorrow (Friday)
morning. The store is located in the Binion Building recently vacated by Olen
Dept. Stores on West Front Street.
Two bales of 1953 cotton were
ginned in Conecuh County on Tuesday of this week.
Over in Repton, the Repton
Gin ginned a bale for Leon Jordan of Excel which weighed 611 pounds and was
sold for the premium price of 45 cents per pound.
The Evergreen Gin ginned a
bale for Brown Hawkins, farmer of the Fairview community. This bale weighed 385
pounds and graded middling one inch staple.
L.T. Rutland observed the
50th anniversary of the date he entered the hardware business Tuesday night.
Mr. Rutland entertained the owners and employees of Canterbury Hardware, Inc.
at a party at his home in honor of the occasion.
On Aug. 4, 1903, Mr. Rutland
entered the hardware business joining the Dunn Hardware Co. as a clerk. A few
years later, Mr. Rutland purchased an interest in the store and in 1917 he
bought the business and changed its name to Rutland Hardware Co. under which he
operated it until he sold the business several years ago to the present owners.
78 YEARS AGO
AUG. 4, 1938
News reached here last Monday
of the serious injury of Demond Matthews (of Brooklyn), which occurred Sunday
in an automobile accident near Minden, La. He had spent the past 10 months
working in the oil fields at Wink, Texas, and was returning home to resume his
studies at Troy Normal, having already completed three years there. He and
another young man were riding in the cab of a truck with the owner and had only
left Minden a short distance when in a blinding rain they struck the abutment
of a bridge, throwing both boys out and killing one instantly. Demond was
rushed to a hospital, with both legs broken and internal injuries. His
condition was serious and all efforts used for his recovery were without
effect. Pneumonia set up and resulted in his death. He died at 11 a.m. on
Thursday.
Voters of Evergreen Tuesday
approved a three mil tax levy for school purposes by a vote of more than three
to one. The total vote for the measure was 168 to 52 against.
Dr. E.A. Price, rabies
inspector for Conecuh County issues warning to all dog owners in this county
that they must have their animals vaccinated against rabies before Sept. 15.
Friends of little Lucile
Martin will be glad to know that she is recovering rapidly from a tonsil
operation Monday at Carter’s Hospital in Repton.
91 YEARS AGO
AUG. 1, 1923
Quite a number of Mt. Union’s citizens attended the
Sacred Harp singing at Welcome Sunday.
Attorney A.C. Lee was over from Monroeville Thursday
last.
A large panther, which is reported to have killed many
sheep and goats and attacked and almost killed a man, is reported in the
mountains of Jackson County near Scottsboro.
Confederate pensioners will be allotted $25 per month if
a bill that passed the House yesterday is adopted by the Senate, which seems
likely.
A nice building lot in Evergreen for sale or will
exchange for automobile in good condition.
Conecuh Masonic Conference at Repton: The annual meeting
of the Conecuh County Masonic Conference will be held at Repton on the second
Wednesday and Thursday, the 8th and 9th of August. The conference will convene
at nine o’clock a.m. on Wednesday, the 8th. J.L. Kelly, Secretary.
R.F. Hyde left Sunday for Birmingham where he will begin
work in the railroad shops.
G.O. Parmer and family returned last week to their home
in Port Arthur, Texas, after spending several weeks here with their parents,
Mr. and Mrs. G.T. Parmer at West Side. They made the trip from Texas in their
car.
106 YEARS AGO
AUG. 5, 1908
Boiler Explosion: As a result of the explosion of a
boiler in a saw mill owned by W.D. Johnson near Skinnerton, in the northwestern
portion of this county on last Friday morning two laborers, Fletcher Stallworth
and Sam Booker, are dead and two other laborers are in a critical condition
from the scalds which they sustained.
A meeting of the Board of Education of Conecuh County was
held Friday at the courthouse. The members present were Chairman Liner,
Secretary Harper and members Alexander, Newton and Jones.
Prof. W.W. Hall has resigned as president of the
Southwest Alabama Agricultural School and accepted the position of Vice
President of Cokers College for women of South Carolina.
Gen. P.D. Bowles has returned home from a visit to his
daughters in Tampa.
Notice: Mr. Courant Editor, Sir: There is a report
floating over the country that I caught Mr. G.G. Perdue in a steel trap by the
hand, stealing corn, through a crack in my corn crib. It is false and whoever
started it told a positive lie. A.E. Howard.
Mrs. J.M. Cobb arrived yesterday from Tampa and will
spend some time with her father, Gen. P.D. Bowles. She is accompanied by her
baby.
Dr. B.H. Crumpton was here Monday from Belleville. The
doctor was taken sick while en route to Brooklyn to fill his regular appointment
Sunday and was compelled to return home.
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