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| Diane McWhorter |
16 YEARS AGO
APRIL 25, 2002
Stabler is named EMT of the Year: For rescuing a mother and
daughter from a flooded car in a torrential downpour, James Stabler was named
Emergency Medical Technician of the Year by members of Monroe County
Association of Volunteer Fire Departments Saturday night.
Helping others is nothing new for Stabler, who has been a
volunteer firefighter for 16 years.
Other firefighters honored during the banquet at the Monroe
County High School cafeteria were Excel’s Kevin Young, Rookie of the Year;
Uriah’s Robert Smith, Chief of the Year; Uriah’s Bill Bennett, Firefighter of
the Year; and Beatrice’s Jimmie Spann, who has been president of the
association for seven years, the Community Service Award.
MC Tigers sweep two from GHS: Monroe County High School
finished its regular season with a pair of wins over Gulf Shores High School
last Thursday, beating the Dolphins 10-0 and 7-4 during a doubleheader in
Monroeville.
MCHS finishes the regular season with a 22-13 record.
(Outstanding MCHS players in those games included John
Bohannon, Ben Busby, Travis Granberry, Daniel Harper, Brett Pate, Terrell
Richardson, Taylor Ryland and Matt Wright.)
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Diane McWhorter, a Birmingham
native, will be among the eight Alabama writers and 13 scholars scheduled to
attend the fifth annual Alabama Writers Symposium May 2-4 in Monroeville.
39 YEARS AGO
APRIL 26, 1979
Journal moves to new office: The Monroe Journal has moved
its office into a new building at 126 Hines St., across from Monroe County
Bank.
The old location was around the corner on South Mount
Pleasant Avenue, next to City Hall.
The Journal’s printing plant remains at the same Hines
Street location as before, next door to the new building.
J.U. Blacksher High School clinched its second consecutive
1A area championship in baseball last week.
The red hot Blacksher Bulldogs clinched their second
straight 1A crown Friday with a 22-6 win over the Excel Panthers in Excel.
The win gave Blacksher an area record of 10-0 with an
overall mark of 11-1. (Top Blacksher players that season included pitchers
Jimmy Pipkin and Kevin Barnes.)
High river water reaches homes: The Alabama River crested at
about 55.5 feet Sunday at Claiborne Lock and Dam, the river’s highest level
since reaching almost 59 feet in 1961.
Most of the Monroe County flood damage caused by the high
water is in the Maiben Lake and Eureka Landing areas, according to county
officials.
At least 12 cabins and mobile homes in the Maiben Lake and
Riverside Acres subdivisions north of the lock and dam suffered water damage,
according to Mike Colquett of Barnett Insurance Agency, who looked at buildings
in that area Monday.
Several homeowners at Eureka Landing will discover damage to
their buildings when the water goes down and they are able to reach them, said
Monroe County Deputy Sheriff Steve Griffis. The owners will not be able to
reach the homes for several days, he said.
64 YEARS AGO
APRIL 22, 1954
J.O. Hamner, a Winston County native, who was recently
elected vice-president of the Alabama Education Association for 1954-55, has
been named new principal for the Monroeville schools.
Statement of Mr. Hamner’s selection was made by H.G. Greer,
county education superintendent, following a recent meeting of the Monroe
County Board of Education.
Mr. Hamner will replace John Stewart, principal at the local
schools for the past two years, who is leaving at the end of the current school
term to accept the post of superintendent of city schools at Brewton.
The Frisco City Whippet baseball squad racked up a
resounding victory Monday afternoon by downing a Jackson nine, 11-7.
Neil Hamilton, hurler for the Whippets, struck out nine
Jackson swatters, while Boyles, Jackson pitcher, struck out six Frisco Citians.
(Other top Frisco City High School baseball players that
season included J.W. Bailey, Junior Dorough, Bevis Hayes, Steve King, Alfred
Pugh, Larue Rumbley, Jimmy Tatum and Bernie Williams. Jesse Howard was head
coach.)
Charles Wright, an eighth-grader at the Excel school, will
represent Monroe County in competing for honors at the statewide Spelling Bee
contest in Birmingham on Sat., May 1.
He was winner over 23 other contestants from Monroe’s
elementary and junior high schools in county eliminations held at Beatrice on
April 6. The county contest is part of a national event sponsored by
Scripps-Howard newspapers and by the Birmingham Post-Herald in Alabama.
89 YEARS AGO
APRIL 25, 1929
Rural Carrier Killed: G.W. Riley, carrier on one of the
Uriah rural mail routes, met with a fatal accident on Tuesday evening. He was
found in a dying condition on the roadside near the home of Mr. L.S. Lambert,
his car overturned. No one seems to have witnessed the accident.
OBITUARY MRS. JANIE S. COOK: On April the 14th,
1929, there passed from this world to its eternal abode the soul of Mrs. Janie
S. Cook, Perdue Hill, Ala. Thus ends the immediate family of Dr. and Mrs. L.R.
Moore, a once very prominent family of old Fort Claiborne, prominent in social,
political and religious life of the “Old City.”
Mr. James Cook was also a prominent young merchant at
Claiborne and in 1873 Brother Cook and Miss Moore were united in matrimony and
lived together happily ‘til his death just a few years ago at an advanced and
honored age.
Brother Cook served the whole of the Civil War, being a
member of the “Claiborne Guards,” under the lamented Capt. George Foster. He
was also a member of King Emanel’s army, and served faithfully and valiantly
for a number of years, serving as clerk of his church and also deacon.
Mrs. Cook was born Oct. the 9th 1849, hence had
lived beyond her allotted “three score years and ten.”
There will be a regular meeting of the Monroeville Chapter
No. 155, Order of the Eastern Star, Thursday evening, April 25th, at
eight o’clock. Candidate will be initiated.
Prof. and Mrs. H.G. Greer of Frisco City were visitors to
Monroeville Monday.
Dr. J.J. Dailey of Tunnel Springs was a business visitor to
the county capital.
139 YEARS AGO
APRIL 28, 1879
The spring fights opened Thursday last at a barroom in town.
A sewing machine man and a farmer were the hostile parties.
We had the pleasure last week of meeting in our village many
distinguished lawyers of this section, among whom we may mention, Col. Jno. Y.
Kilpatrick of Camden, a noble veteran of the “lost cause,” a fine orator, a
good lawyer and an accomplished gentleman and genial companion.
The medical association of Monroe met at Monroeville
Thursday last. They had a pleasant meeting and all the members were present,
with probably two exceptions.
NEW GOODS AND CHEAP GOODS FOR CASH! Just Arrived At T.A.
NETTLES, Long Street, Kempville, Ala. – Dry Goods & Groceries, WHISKIES,
Etc. – Has just returned from Mobile with a large and carefully selected stock
of Dry Goods, Groceries and everything usually kept in a Country Store WHICH
WILL BE SOLD AT PANIC PRICES! Remember the place – Long Street, Kempville, Ala.
THOS. A. NETTLES.
RETURNED TO CLAIBORNE AGAIN – Just arrived and opened a
popular CHEAP CASH STORE! With a large Stock of Goods, consisting of DRY GOODS,
GROCERIES, NOTIONS, PLANTATION SUPPLIES, ETC. Which will be sold as Low as the
Lowest! I DEFY COMPETITION! With “QUICK SALES and Small Profits” for my motto,
and a guarantee of Good Measure and Full Weights. I only ask a call and see for
yourselves. I invite all my friends and customers to give me a call. Come and
see and be convinced that I sell my goods as cheap as can be bought anywhere.
Highest prices paid for cotton, wool, hides and country produce. – I. COHN,
formerly of the firm of Cohn & Elkan, now keeping at Shiff’s old stand,
CLAIBORNE, ALABAMA.
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