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| 1922 Packard Twin-Six. |
16 YEARS AGO
AUG. 21, 2003
Evergreen weather observer Harry Ellis reported 0.06 inches
of rain on Aug. 18 and 0.22 inches on Aug. 20. He reported a high of 92 degrees
on Aug. 18 and a low of 62 on Aug. 22.
Dr. Mark Roberts would like to invite everyone to the open
house and ribbon-cutting ceremonies of his new office building located at 106
Edwina St., just across from the hospital. Open house is scheduled for Thurs.,
Sept. 4, 1997 from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Evergreen and Conecuh County were sent reeling over the past
weekend when three people were brutally murdered over a two-day period. One man
(Lorenzo Lee Wright) has been arrested and charged with two of the murders. The
other murder is still under investigation by the Evergreen Police Department,
District Attorney’s Office and the Alabama Bureau of Investigations.
Sometime between late Friday afternoon and Saturday morning,
James “Buddy” Stallworth, 67, of the Fairview community was murdered in his
home. His body was discovered in the kitchen of his home by his cook at
approximately 6:10 p.m.
After the investigation was just getting started, a 911 call
received at approximately 3:45 a.m. Monday morning to a fight on Walter
Williams Lane. When officers arrived on the scene, they found Richard “Ricky”
Stallworth, 32, stabbed to death in his residence. They also discovered the
body of his wife, Kertina Stallworth, 24, approximately 100 yards up the
driveway stabbed to death.
47 YEARS AGO
AUG. 24, 1972
Jim Oliver of Castleberry leans on his first bale of the
1972 cotton crop which he brought to the Belleville Gin on Saturday. So far as
The Courant can determine this was the first bale to be ginned in Conecuh
County. Whit Burt is manager of the gin and the bale was ginned by Percy
Baggett, ginner. Net weight of the bale was 440 pounds while the seed weighed
690. The bale will be auctioned off at two o’clock Saturday afternoon at the
L&N Depot in Evergreen.
County schools open Sept. 1, schedule given: Students in
Conecuh County schools will begin the 1972-73 term on Fri., Sept. 1, according
to a schedule for the school year released today by Harvey G. Pate,
superintendent of education.
Teachers will report to their individual schools for
in-service education on Mon., Aug. 28. They will work in the individual schools
Monday and Tuesday and will report to the Repton School for countywide
in-service Wednesday and Thursday, Aug. 30-31. Business institute will be held
at 1 p.m. Thurs., Aug. 31.
Sparta Academy classes begin next Wednesday: Headmaster
Richard Brown announced today that Sparta Academy will begin the fall term on
Wed, Aug. 30. Students are to report at 8 a.m. He said that Mon., Sept. 4,
Labor Day, will be a holiday for the private. School.
72 YEARS AGO
AUG. 28, 1947
In the limestone region of Southern Conecuh County is
located Turk’s Cave, which winds through several miles of an ancient stream
bed. It has never been completely explored and may well be Alabama’s largest
natural cave. More than a century ago, Joseph Hare and his band of highwaymen
used the cave as their rendezvous and even today legends in Conecuh County have
it that Hare and his men hid a fortune in gold there a few days before they
were massacred by Indians.
Friends of Robert Gaston Bozeman Jr. will be pleased to
learn that he is doing nicely after undergoing an appendectomy at Carter’s
Hospital in Repton last week.
Mrs. F.L. Cardwell, who was bitten on the ankle by a
rattlesnake Saturday afternoon, is reported to be fast recovering.
Old School Age Law Still In Effect: Superintendent of
Schools, Harvey G. Pate, wishes to remind all patrons of Conecuh County schools
that the old law, providing that children may enter schools in the fall if they
will reach their sixth birthday before Oct. 1, still remains in effect.
The present legislature passed an act providing for the
admission of children who will reach their sixth birthday on or before Jan. 15.
This new law was held invalid by the Attorney General in a recent ruling. Since
the Attorney General’s decision is legally binding, the Board of Education has
made its plans to operate under the old law. All parents asking for entrance
for beginners are requested to show proof of birth date of the children.
All schools in Conecuh County will open on Sept. 8, 1947.
97 YEARS AGO
AUG. 23, 1922
Leon F. Dickerson – Licensed Embalmer with Dunn Hardware Co.
– Night Phone 62.
Walter Lee Jr. killed a large rattlesnake a few days ago
near his father’s plantation. It was about five feet long but had only seven
rattles. Quite a number of rattlers have been killed on the Lee farm this
season, several of them being much larger than the one referred to above.
State Secondary Agricultural School – Evergreen, Ala. –
Offers courses preparatory to college entrance. Special courses to Vocational
Agriculture, Vocational Home Economics, Manual Training, Piano, Voice and
Expression. Athletics encouraged. Two Literary Societies. Farm and Laboratory
are run in connection with the school. Board may be obtained at reasonable rates.
Splendid faculty of college graduates. Next Session Begins Sept. 11. For
boarding accommodations or other information, address F.H. Chappelle, M.A.,
Principal.
Oscar Riley came down from Greenville last week in his
handsome new Packard and spent several days with his sisters, Mrs. Craig and
Miss Gussie Riley.
The fruit orchards planted out last season in this section
by a number of farmers have put on wonderful growth and look healthy and
thrifty. This has inspired a number of other farmers to determine to plant
orchards this coming season. No fruit seems to sell to as good advantage as
peaches and pecans, and we cannot see any reason why every farm home should not
be supplied with all kinds of fruit.
122 YEARS AGO
AUG. 27, 1897
MASONIC: Greening Lodge No. 53, A.F.&A.M., meets third
Friday night in each month. Visiting members welcomed. – H.A. Shields,
Worshipful Master; Wm. H. Hawkins, Secretary.
Knights of Honor, Evergreen Lodge No. 3263, K. of H., meets
first and third Monday nights in each month. Visiting members welcomed. – Wm.
H. Hawkins, Dictator; D.C. Sawyer, Reporter.
Wild Bros. – This is the name of a new firm who are now
engaged in opening up a magnificent line of furniture and hardware in the
McCreary building. They will carry everything usually kept in a first-class
hardware and furniture store and will sell cheap for cash. Mr. Walter Wild, one
of the firm, has been with Mr. C.B. Savage for a long time and will now be
pleased to see his many friends at his store.
The Musicale: The musicale at the opera house last Friday
evening as announced was a decided success and a treat to all lovers of music.
The attendance was not large owing to the rains and the muddy streets, but all
who went felt amply paid for their trip. A splendid program had been arranged
and was carried out to the delight of all present.
We regret that our limited space precludes a longer account
of this splendid musical performance.
The money realized was donated to the Baptist Orphanage.
Red Level: We have in our midst one of the oldest men in
Conecuh County, Mr. Porterfield, who was 98 years old in August. We hope he
will live to see many more.
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