EIGHT YEARS AGOMARCH 3, 2011
Weather observer Harry Ellis
reported .35 inches of rain on Feb. 24. He reported a
high of 80 degrees on Feb. 26 and a low of 45 on Feb. 25.
Kelly Goneke of Skinnerton and Ali Congdon of Bermuda
took home top honors at the 66th Annual Conecuh County Steer and
Heifer Show.
The show was held Monday at Breaking Ridge Farms in
Evergreen.
Members of the Conecuh County Forestry Planning
Council helped the Alabama Forestry Commission distribute free trees in
recognition of Arbor Week Wednesday of last week in Evergreen. During the
event, an apple tree was planted at T.L. Sims Memorial Park, which is on the
grounds of the Old Evergreen City School, the future home of the Conecuh County
Cultural Center (CCCC). Pictured at the tree planting are Evergreen Mayor Pete
Wolff; Conecuh County Soil and Water Conservation District representative and
Evergreen Garden Club President, Bridget Cain; CCCC representative Harriet
Hyde; Alabama Cooperative Extension System representative Emily Brogden; and
Ryan Holland with the Alabama Forestry Commission.
Harriett Hyde was named the Evergreen-Conecuh County
Chamber of Commerce’s Business Person of the Year at the annual membership
Thursday night. New Chamber President Bob Humphrey presented Hyde with her
award.
33 YEARS AGO
MARCH 6, 1986
Weather observer Earl Windham
reported no rain between Feb. 23 and March 1. He reported a high of 75 degrees
on Feb. 27 and a low of 25 on March 1.
Meredith
Matthews was named Miss Alpha 1986 at Sparta Academy’s annual Miss Alpha
Pageant held Friday night in the school gymnatorium. Abigail Maddox was chosen
first alternate and Angelia Sellers second alternate. (Other finalists included
Lynn Williams, Jill Jeffcoat, Tracy Holmes and Baby Girl Floyd.)
In recognition
of Arbor Week, Feb. 17-21, 1986, Mayor Pat Poole planted a tree for the City of
Evergreen. Observing this are Stan Franklin and Victor Howell, members of the
Conecuh County Forestry Committee.
Mack Williams
and son Marc are now partners. Mack began his career with State Farm Insurance
Companies over 25 years ago, when Marc was a first grader at Evergreen City
School. Marc was appointed an agent by State Farm effective Jan. 1, 1978 and
served in Andalusia for eight years. About a year ago, Mack and Marc decided
that by joining together, they could provide better service for their clients
in Evergreen and the surrounding area. They have remodeled the office located
at 302 Perryman St. and have added a computer system to improve the efficiency
of the operation. Marc joined his dad in the Evergreen office in January.
58 YEARS AGO
MARCH 2, 1961
Bowles Chapter UDC
Reactivates: After a lapse of some years (no one seems to know just how many),
the P.D. Bowles Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy is active
again. Re-activation coincides with the observance of the War Between the
States Centennial in Conecuh.
The last known chapter
officers presided as the chapter was reactivated on Feb. 24.
The Bowles Chapter was named
in honor of Capt. P.D. Bowles who commanded the Conecuh Guard when it left April
24, 1861 for the Virginia front. Before the war’s end, it was General Bowles,
but he always preferred the title “Colonel,” which was in keeping with the
time-honored title accorded his profession as an attorney at law.
The history of the Bowles
Chapter is incomplete, but records at the courthouse indicate that it was in
existence as early as 1903 and probably earlier.
Estimates made this week by
the Conecuh County Board of Directors and County Engineer Marion Wilkins showed
damages amounting to $61,000 on county roads and bridges in the county
resulting from reaching higher than the 1929 flood level.
The damages consisted of 20
bridges washed out, road surfaces washed off, washouts in the roads and some
sections that will have to be completely reconstructed.
Wilkins said the damages were
primarily within the Murder Creek water shed area. He said flood levels have
moved higher than the big flood of 1929. Murder Creek went two feet over the
bridge on the Loree Road, 18 inches over the Burnt Corn Bridge and it covered
the highway in low areas at Castleberry.
83 YEARS AGO
MARCH 5, 1936
MASONS
CHANGE MEET DAYS: Announcement is made by J.R. Simmons, clerk, that the regular
meeting dates of Greening Lodge No. 53, A.F.&A.M., have been changed from
the second and fourth Thursday nights to the second and fourth Friday nights of
each month.
Gaston
Durham and Curt DuBose are in the county jail, charged with petty larceny, in
connection with the theft of an axe, truck binders and other county property
from the bridge being constructed across Bull Slough, near Paul. Other arrests
in connection with thefts at the bridge are contemplated.
Local
Man Killed When Truck Crashes: Arthur T. Brantley Sr. was killed instantly and
his son, Arthur Jr., was critically injured about 9:30 o’clock Tuesday night
when the truck they were driving, for a load of fertilizer, overturned on the
highway about 20 miles north of Pensacola.
According to best information obtainable, Mr. Brantley
was driving south and in swerving his truck to pass a car parked on the highway
without lights, sideswiped a third car, the truck overturning.
The victims were carried to the Pensacola Hospital,
where Mr. Brantley was pronounced dead.
David
Fair will probably lose the sight of one eye, and two others are suffering from
acid burns, suffered when Novella Davis is alleged to have thrown lye water at
Aline Peterson Saturday afternoon. The fracas is understood to be the result of
a feud of long standing between the two women.
108 YEARS AGO
MARCH 1, 1911
Capt.
Bruner Elected Major: An order was issued by Adjutant General J.B. Scully
Friday declaring that Capt. P.M. Bruner of Evergreen, Co. K, 1st
Infantry, was elected Major in the recent election held in that regiment. Capt.
Bruner was ordered before the board of examiners of the 1st
Regiment, and upon the recommendation of the board, his commission will be
issued.
An election will be held in Co. K to fill the vacancy
caused by the promotion of Capt. Bruner.
In accordance with requirements of the Dick law, physical
examinations are now required of every applicant for a commission, and
enlistment in the Alabama National Guard, and every enlisted man must be
examined and passed upon by a surgeon as to his physical qualifications.
Mrs. I.M. Sanders of Brooklyn
last week sent us a freak hen egg. On it were the distinct outlines of a hand
with index finger pointing to the tip. The egg is perfect in shape.
The many friends of Hon. S.P.
Dunn sincerely sympathize with him in the death of his venerable father, which
occurred on Monday morning last at his home, Scotland. Deceased was about 82
years of age.
Ralph McCreary left on Sunday
for Troy to accept a position in a mercantile house in that city.
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