Tuesday, August 27, 2019

The Evergreen Courant's News Flashback for Aug. 27, 2019

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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