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| Dr. Albert Grayson Simmons |
18 YEARS AGO
AUG. 9, 2001
Opening soon: Roger Leva, co-owner of Knights Inn at Ollie,
plans to open a Holiday Inn Express at Ollie sometime in mid-September. The
Holiday Inn Express is currently under construction behind Knights Inn near the
intersection of U.S. Highway 84 and Alabama Highway 21 at Ollie.
Dr. Jack Whetstone of Monroeville
and his son, Dr. Brice Whetstone of Mobile, captured first place in the annual
Lucian Jones Member-Guest Golf Tournament at the Vanity Fair Golf & Tennis
Club in Monroeville last weekend.
The Whetstone
father-son team pulled the most points to win the handicap event that featured
a tournament-high 69 teams.
David McAbee of
Monroeville and Kevin McAbee of Tuscaloosa were the Low Gross champs.
First place in contest: Jerry Daniel of Monroeville won
first place in Dobro in the 22nd annual Rotary Club Southwest
Fiddlers Convention held July 21 in Atmore. More than 1,000 people attended. An
American-created instrument, a Dobro is a type of acoustic steel guitar with an
aluminum resonator used in country and blues music. Daniel, a blues musician,
has recorded two CDs.
County hospital dedicates new wing: Monroe County Hospital
dedicated its new $5.5-million addition to the hospital with a ribbon-cutting
ceremony Friday morning, ending a year of construction at the Monroeville
hospital.
“This new wing that we are opening today is just another
step your hospital is making to continue to provide quality medical care,” Dr.
Grayson Simmons, chairman of the MCH board of directors, said Friday.
43 YEARS AGO
AUG. 12, 1976
Hornady, Talley elected mayors: Monroeville City Councilman
B.C. Hornady was narrowly elected mayor over incumbent W.H. (Jack) Hines in
Tuesday’s city election.
Meanwhile, Frisco City voters were electing Gary Talley
their new mayor, and Repton Mayor Eddie Rogers was thrown into a runoff for
re-election against Councilman George Armstrong.
In Excel, which did not have a contest for mayor, Lawrence
Mason and incumbent Robert Lee were elected councilmen.
At Alabama banquet: Alabama alumni
and friends gathered Thursday night for their annual banquet at the Tally Ho.
Guests for the banquet were several University of Alabama football players and
Coach Bobby Marks. The group was shown a film of Sugar Bowl highlights. Guests
at the banquet shown above are Keith Pugh and K.J. Lazenby, both graduates of
Monroe Academy and members of the Alabama football team, Coach Marks and Woody
Buchanan, also a member of the team.
Airman Mitch D. Stuckey, son of Mrs. Carolyn L. Stuckey of
Monroeville, has graduated at Lackland Air Force Base, Texas from the U.S. Air
Force technical training course for security police specialists.
Stuckey, now trained in security and law enforcement, is
being assigned to Minot AFB, North Dakota, for duty with a unit of the
Strategic Air Command. Stuckey is a 1975 graduate of Monroe Academy.
68 YEARS AGO
AUG. 9, 1951
County’s First Bale Of Cotton Is
Ginned: Report of Monroe County’s first bale of cotton ginned this year was
received at The Journal this week.
It was picked this
year on the farm of Albert Burroughs of Perdue Hill and was ginned Thurs., Aug.
2, at W.E. Deer’s gin.
The bale received a
middling grade and sold for 45 cents per pound.
Goodway Cavalryman
Receives Purple Heart For Korean Action: A Goodway Army man has been awarded
the Purple Hear medal in Korea.
The decoration was
conferred on Cpl. William R. Norris, son of William M. Norris of Goodway, for
wounds received in action near Kryomyong-ni on July 7.
Norris is in the 1st
Cavalry Division’s 5th Cavalry Regiment, the colorful infantry force
that made history with the October capture of North Korea’s capital city of
Pyongyang.
Peterman Slates Incorporation Vote: An application has been filed
and approved for an election to incorporate the town of Peterman, Probate Judge
E.T. Millsap announced this week.
The election has been set for Sept. 4 and will be held at
the packing shed of John C. Moseley within the prescribed election hours, Judge
Millsap stated.
All persons are qualified to vote who reside within the
limits of the proposed territory to be included in the municipal corporation,
he said.
Judge Millsap stated a plat showing the limits of the
proposed size of the town is on file in his office in the courthouse and may be
examined by anyone who is interested.
93 YEARS AGO
AUG. 12, 1926
The auditorium annex to the Monroe
County High School is nearing completion and will be ready for use by the time
of the fall opening of the school.
HOMICIDE AT
VREDENBURGH: In a difficulty between William Pelham and Herbert Oliver,
employees of the Vredenburgh Saw Mill company, Saturday evening, Pelham stabbed
Oliver with a knife, inflicting injuries which resulted in the death of the
latter within a few minutes.
Pelham was arrested
and is now in jail, and will be given a preliminary hearing today (Thursday).
CHARLESTON BANNED:
The department of health has issued orders forbidding the dancing of the
Charleston in public dance halls. The ground taken is that it constitutes such
violent exercise that it is apt to cause heart failure.
The department
order adds that the dance is ugly and ungraceful, that it consists of
controlling and the loosening of the joints, which are prejudicial to health and
that it is antagonistic to all artistic appearances.
The department’s
control is only over dance halls where admission is charged. It has, however,
appealed to cafes and organizers of private balls to abandon the Charleston for
the foregoing reasons.
Miss Lucile Betts
of Burnt Corn will be first assistant to the principal of the Belleville Junior
High School next session.
Miss Snowdrop
Nettles of Peterman spent the weekend with Miss Sarah Ratcliffe.
Dr. G.W. Gaillard
of Perdue Hill was circulating among Monroeville friends Friday.
118 YEARS AGO
AUG. 15, 1901
Alabama’s first bale of cotton of
the new crop was received at Mobile on Mon., Aug. 12. It was raised on the
plantation of T.B. Farish & Co. of Nellie, Wilcox County. The first bale
last year was received from Dallas County on Aug. 13.
Dr. C.E. Bizzelle
went to Pine Apple Saturday to be present at a meeting of R.E. Lee Lodge, A.F.
& A.M. He reports a pleasant occasion, three candidates being raised to the
sublime degree.
Apropos of the
recent hot weather, a tradition of an old tribe of Indians concerning a drought
that visited portions of Alabama and Mississippi about 200 years ago is
recalled. Claiborne’s “History of Mississippi” says not a drop of rain fell in
these sections for three years. The Noxabee and Tombigbee rivers dried up;
forest trees perished; the elk and buffalo, then numerous, migrated west of the
Mississippi and never afterwards returned. Toward the close of the third year
it began to rain ad continued for two months.
No new cases of
scarlet fever have been reported in this vicinity during the past 10 days, and
it is hoped that the disease has run its course.
TOWN ELECTION:
Notice is hereby given that a special election will be held on Mon., Aug. 19,
1901 for mayor and five councilmen of the town of Monroeville. – S.W.
Yarbrough, Mayor.
Mr. Robert Smith
was over from Carlisle Monday and dropped into our sanctum. He is just
recovering from an attack of scarlet fever.
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