Tuesday, March 12, 2019

100-year-old news highlights from The Evergreen Courant

Col. Hilary A. Herbert

What follows are 100-year-old news excerpts from the March 12, 1919 edition of The Evergreen Courant newspaper in Conecuh County, Ala.

Veterans to Meet: A meeting of Camp Capt. Wm. Lee will be held at the courthouse on April 1. A full attendance is desired as business of importance will come up for consideration. – J.T. Fincher, Commander.

Sunday’s Advertiser contained an excellent writeup of Evergreen and Conecuh County by Editor Sheehan, who, with Spang, the cartoonist, spent a couple of days here last week. And Spang furnished some amusing caricatures of some of our prominent citizens. The nice things Editor Sheehan said about Evergreen are duly appreciated by our people.

Col. Herbert Passes to His Final Reward: Col. Hilary A. Herbert died quite suddenly on Thursday last at Tampa, Fla., where he was spending the winter. He would have been 85 years old today had he lived.
His body was laid to rest in Montgomery on Sunday afternoon with military honors.
Col. Herbert was held in affectionate esteem throughout the state but perhaps nowhere with a higher degree than in his congressional district which he represented in Congress for a number of years. He also served one term as Secretary of the Navy during the last administration of President Cleveland.

Hugh Davis reached home last week from the military training camp near Boston. So rejoiced to welcome him home were his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J.T. Davis, that they killed the fatted gobbler, and not the fatted calf, to give their boy a feast. Doubtless no one can appreciate such manifestations of affection more than a soldier.

Commissioners court has passed an order prohibiting trucks, timber carts, wagons, etc., heavily loaded, from hauling over the roads within 48 hours after a heavy rain when the ground is soft. The greatest damage to roads results from heavy hauling during wet weather. We hope our commissioners will enforce this order strictly.

H.N. Webster yesterday received a message conveying the sad intelligence of the death of one of his brothers in France. He died of pneumonia, was the information. Mr. Webster has another brother who was several times wounded and also gassed and when last heard from was said to be in a critical condition.

Destructive Cyclone: A destructive cyclone did great damage in the vicinities of Brewton, Pollard and Flomaton on Wednesday last. No deaths resulted but the property damage was considerable. On the same day, but more than three hours later, a terrific cyclone struck the city of Eufaula and as a result four people were killed and a number injured. Among the killed was Dr. W.P. Dickinson, past of the Methodist church. It is said the property damage will amount to about one million dollars. Many business houses and other buildings were wrecked.

Castleberry Strawberry Crop Very Promising: Castleberry, March 9 – The strawberry crop here will begin moving within 10 days now in express shipments, and in car lots not later than April 1, if no freezes are had within this time. The acreage is somewhat increased this year, the crops have been well worked, with heavy fertilizing, and the prospects are for a “bumper” crop.
The car shipments began last year on March 20, but the crop is about 10 days late this year.

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