21 YEARS AGO
MAY 14, 1998
Ribbon cutting set: The Monroe County Health Department will
hold a ribbon cutting ceremony at its new offices on Agricultural Drive in
Monroeville at 2 p.m. Thursday, May 28. After the ribbon cutting, the Health
Department will hold an open house. The public is invited to tour the
department’s new offices between 3 and 4 p.m. that day.
MA makes AISA state tourney: Monroe Academy’s Lady
Volunteers capped off the school’s best ever softball season Saturday with a
third place finish in the Alabama Independent School Association’s 2A state
tournament at Lagoon Park in Montgomery.
“I’m very proud of the season the girls had,” said MA coach
Don Smith, who led the team to a 24-11 overall record and the West Area 1
regular season and tournament championships.
(Players on MA softball team that season included Jennifer
Johnson, Taryn Kilpatrick, Elizabeth Lane, Tabitha McKenzie, Jamie Norris,
Courtney Robertson, Lori Sellers, Krista Smith, Tiffany Stokes and Amy
Yelverton.)
Cotton Patch Festival Saturday: This Saturday, the Uriah
Arts Council will host its Fifth Annual Uriah Cotton Patch Festival. This year
the council will give an original handmade quilt and print by Jack Deloney
titled “Saturday Morning.” The festivities will be capped off that night with
“An Evening with Uriah’s History,” at 7 p.m. at the Fire Station. Local
panelists will discuss Uriah’s early history and the J.U. Blacksher Drama Class
will present an original play about Uriah’s history.
46 YEARS AGO
MAY 10, 1973
National register lists courthouse: The old Monroe County
Courthouse was added to the National Register of Historic Places by the
Interior Department in Washington Wednesday.
Congressman Jack Edwards made the announcement from his
Washington office, pointing out that inclusion on the register is a
prerequisite for application for certain federal restoration funds.
State Reps. Maston Mims and Jimmy Warren announced last week
that the old courthouse had been nominated for inclusion in the national
register.
With 10-1 record, MCHS Tigers end
season: The Monroe County High Tigers ended their season with two big wins over
W.S. Neal and Repton by scores of 12-0 and 16-1.
These two wins
brought their record to 10-1, with the one defeat being dealt to the Tigers by
Robertsdale in the state playoffs.
(Top players for
MCHS that season included Mike Cobb, Terry Coleman and Reid Nettles.)
Megargel and Excel areas hit by twister: A tornado swept
through the Megargel and Excel communities Tuesday morning between 7:30 and 8
and left devastation in the hundreds of thousands of dollars in property damage
and two injured, one seriously.
Mr. and Mrs. J.G. (Babe) Kennedy were admitted to the Monroe
County Hospital, where Mrs. Kennedy’s condition was termed critical Tuesday.
The Kennedy’s mobile home, located on their farm and pecan
grove in Megargel, was completely demolished. Mrs. Kennedy was blown from the
trailer and rescue workers found her pinned under limbs of a pecan tree that
had blown down.
71 YEARS AGO
MAY 13, 1948
Funeral services for A.G. Owens, 38,
deputy sheriff of Monroe County, were conducted from Owens’ Chapel near Bermuda
at 10:30 Friday morning with the Rev. Clark Headley and the Rev. A.L. Higdon
officiating.
A deputy sheriff
for the past 18 months and a former town marshal for Monroeville, Mr. Owens
suffered a heart attack approximately two weeks ago and died at Repton Hospital
last Thursday in the early morning hours. He spent four years in service during
the last war and had resided in Monroeville for the past two years.
Officials of the
W.D. Owens Construction Co. of Clearwater, Fla., which recently was awarded a
contract to extend the municipal water system here a distance of some eight
miles, have indicated they will begin work on the project about May 25, members
of the Monroeville Water Board said Wednesday.
L.L. Dees,
secretary of the board, said the company has declared it will start the work as
soon as a contract now being fulfilled at Jackson is completed. He said the
Chicago Bridge & Iron Co., which has the contract to construct a
150,000-gallon water tank here, will begin its work later but in sufficient
time to have the job completed when the additional water mains are installed.
Monroe County High
School seniors will present their class play, “Campus Quarantine,” in the local
high school auditorium tomorrow (Friday) night at eight o’clock.
The cast will
include Joyce Nicholas, Mary Kay Jernigan, Jo Ann Jackson, Mary Louise Taylor,
Jean Morris Feagin, Dorothy Ann Crutchfield, Tommy Watson, Thomas Andress, Bob
Ryland, John Skipper Jr., Julius Farish III and Neal Terry.
96 YEARS AGO
MAY 10, 1923
DR. HARPER INJURED IN AUTO ACCIDENT:
Dr. G.H. Harper is suffering from broken ribs and other injuries as the result
of an automobile accident which occurred Tuesday night. While returning from a
professional call in the Manistee neighborhood, he observed another car
approaching and in attempting to pass in the narrow roadway his car struck a
tree or some other object and was badly damaged. Dr. Harper is resting as
comfortably as could be expected under the circumstances but will be confined
to his room for several days.
GRADUATES OF THE
BEATRICE HIGH SCHOOL: The following received diplomas at the recent closing of
the Beatrice High School: Rebecca Sanders, Sarah Andress, Olive Adams, Mazie
Stallworth, Annie Mae Fountain, Myrtle Fountain, Lola Foxworth, Riley Foxworth,
Tom Robbins Harper.
Deputies who were
guarding a dipping vat killed one man and seriously wounded three others who
attempted to dynamite a vat in Escambia County Sunday night. One of the men
confessed that the party had been hired by prominent citizens of the community
to destroy dipping vats.
The Monroeville Ice
& Power Co. drew its first cast of ice on Monday, the first ice ever produced
by artificial process in the history of Monroeville. The incident was hailed as
quite an event in local annals.
The process
employed in the manufacture is known as the Carbondale Low Pressure type,
utilizing raw water and dispensing altogether with steam or vapor employed in
the older methods.
126 YEARS AGO
MAY 11, 1893
Mr. Jas. Jenkins, deputy sheriff of
Wilcox County, was in town this week. He returned with Phoebus Lewis, wanted in
that county for robbery, in custody.
MASONIC – Monroe
Chapter No. 4 will hold a convocation in Masonic Hall, Perdue Hill, Ala., on
Thursday morning, May 25, 1893 at 10 o’clock a.m. There will be work, such as
conferring degrees, electing officers for the ensuring year, paying dues, etc.
Companions are all specially asked to be on hand. – W.J. McCants, Secretary.
Commissioners Court
convened Monday with the full board in attendance. The usual business was
transacted.
A delightful basket
picnic, given for the benefit of the pupils of Miss Imie Russell’s school, was
enjoyed by the little folks and some of the larger as well, at Mineral Springs
near Dr. Russell’s last Saturday.
Dr. Clarence E.
Bizzell, son of Mr. J.I. Bizzell, late of Pineapple, now of Selma, was in town
Saturday to go before the County Medical Board. Dr. B. is a graduate of
Vanderbilt University of the Class of 1893, and a very bright and promising
young man. He will locate at Bursonville, this county.
Commissioner Shomo
reports heavy rains and a big river at Mount Pleasant. He says the farmers were
about through planting and had good stands of both corn and cotton when rains
set in. Many of the river plantations are submerged and it will be impossible
for more than a small percent of the cotton acreage to be replanted on account
of the scarcity of seed. The cotton crop all along the river will be greatly
reduced, even if no other calamity befalls later on.
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