MARCH 19, 2015
Evergreen weather observer Betty Ellis reported .01 inches of rain on March 9, .01 inches on March 10, .01 inches on March 11 and .13 inches on March 13. She reported a high of 79 degrees on March 15 and a low of 52 on March 15.
City passes first social media policy: During a special
called meeting Wednesday night of last week at Evergreen City Hall, the
Evergreen City Council voted to pass the city’s first ever social media policy,
which sets down the rules for how city employees can use popular social media
policy, which sets down the rules for how city employees can use popular social
media programs like Facebook and Twitter.
Discussion about a proposed social media policy first reared
its head in December when the council unanimously agreed that the city needs to
have a social media policy in place. During a meeting on Dec. 16, the council
voted unanimously to have a social media policy for all city employees drafted
immediately.
Coleton Padgett won the Reserve Champion Heifer Award during the 70th Annual Conecuh County Steer & Heifer Show Feb. 23 at Breaking Ridge Farms in Evergreen.
The members of the “Biggest Losers in Conecuh County” celebrated their six-year anniversary Monday morning at Carver Recreation Center in Evergreen.
29 YEARS AGO
MARCH 19, 1992
Local weather observer Harry Ellis reported .65 inches of rain on March 9 and .35 inches on March 10. He reported a high of 81 degrees on March 9 and lows of 29 on March 10 and March 11.
The 47th Annual Conecuh County 4-H and FFA Steer
Show will be held Mon., March 23, 1992 at the Evergreen Cooperative Stockyard
Livestock Arena.
The exhibitors of steers will be Michael Lambert, Vanessa
Stuart, Courtney Cook, Jeff Myers, Jonathan Jernigan, Shannon Pugh, Will Cook,
Wendy Stacey, Shannon Ballard, Chip Stacey, Britt Ward, Amy Ballard and
Jennifer Pettis.
Kellie Coker, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Stan Coker of Evergreen, was named Junior Miss Alpha 1992 at the annual Miss Alpha Pageant held March 5 at Sparta Academy. Kellie is the granddaughter of Mrs. Sarah Coker of Evergreen and is in the seventh grade.
Journalism professor Ed Williams, Conecuh County native, has
been named Outstanding Faculty Member of the Year in the Auburn University
College of Liberal Arts.
Williams was recognized at the Student Government
Association’s annual Honors Day Banquet recently.
A 1971 graduate of Evergreen High School, Williams is the
son of Mr. and Mrs. Edsel Williams of Owassa. He attended Jefferson Davis State
Junior College inn Brewton from 1971-72 and received his B.S. and M.A. degrees
at the University of Alabama.
35 YEARS AGO
MARCH 20, 1986
Earl Windham reports 1.97 inches of rain on March 13 and 2.15 inches on March 14.
Mrs. Lila Salter celebrates her 103rd birthday today, March 20. She is the mother of 13 children, 10 of whom are living, and has 90 grandchildren, 192 great-grandchildren and 106 great-great-grandchildren. She lives with her daughter, Jane Grace, at 111 North Jordan St., Evergreen, and has one living sister, Mrs. Willie D. Dailey of Green Street. Neighbors and friends are welcome to come by between 2 p.m. and 6 p.m. today.
The 41st Annual Conecuh County 4-H and FFA Steer Show will be held here Monday morning at nine o’clock at the Evergreen Cooperative Stockyard Livestock Arena. There will be 55 exhibitors of steers and heifers.
A private dining room at the Evergreen Holiday Inn was dedicated as the ‘Henry Sessions Room’ last Thursday morning. Shown at the dedication are Judge of Probate Frank Salter, Commission Chairman David Burt, Mayor Pat Poole, Innkeeper Gerold Galloway, Mrs. Henry (Sue) Sessions, John Henry Sessions (grandson of the late Henry Sessions), Mrs. Louise Kendall, Mrs. John Crum (Sheila) Sessions and John Crum Sessions, son of the late Henry Sessions. Galloway said the room was named in memory of the late Mayor Sessions because he was instrumental in the Holiday Inn locating here and in recognition of his unstinting service to the people of Evergreen.
59 YEARS AGO
MARCH 15, 1962
Flames Destroy Small Plane Here: A single engine private
plane was destroyed by fire Tuesday at Middleton Field shortly after its pilot
landed to check a sputtering engine.
Alabama Highway Patrol Cpl. B.J. Gatlin said pilot of the
plane was Carl T. (Shorty) Carden, 44-year-old employee of Wright Contracting
Co., Columbus, Ga.
Carden, a Brewton resident, was burned on the hands when he
attempted to check the engine on a taxi strip off the main landing lane. He did
not require hospital care.
Cpl. Gatlin said Carden told him he had been flying over a
section of pavement under construction on new interstate Highway 65 between
Georgiana and Greenville.
Carden said the motor was sounding funny and when he got out
to check it after landing, the engine caught fire. The plane, valued at $2,500,
was destroyed.
Carden walked to Alabama Highway 84, hitchhiked a ride home
and returned to the airstrip in his own car. The patrol said the plane was
owned by Carden who was alone in the plane at the time of the trouble.
Joe B. Nix Jr., Evergreen attorney and States Rights leader,
is seeking re-election to the State Democratic Executive Committee from the 2nd
Congressional District. He is opposed for his place on the committee by Jack
Hines, Brewton businessman.
Nix won election to the committee in 1958, and is now
offering for a second term.
72 YEARS AGO
MARCH 17, 1949
Elbert J. Hoomes, who went on trial here last Thursday
charged with the murder of his son-in-law, Joe Greer, was found not guilty by
the petit jury which tried him.
This was the third time Hoomes had been tried since the
killing took place on the streets of Brewton late in 1944. He was first tried
in Brewton and found guilty but this verdict was set aside by Judge J.W. Hare,
who also granted a change of venue. The case was tried here in November 1947
and at that time Hoomes was found guilty and given a sentence of 20 years. He
took an appeal and the supreme court reversed and remanded the case.
Reuben Lee Ball is lodged in the county jail charged with
murder. He is charged with killing R.C. Stallworth, laborer for the L&N.
The shooting took place about 4:30 Saturday afternoon in the quarters back of
Evergreen Curb Market. It is said that Ball was drinking and that there was
very little said by either of them prior to the shooting. A shotgun was used.
Stallworth died about the time he arrived at Carter Hospital in Repton.
Hall left town and went down about Century, Fla., where he
got in a difficulty down there that night. He was arrested and carried to
Pensacola. Officers there notified the Sheriff’s office here and he was brought
here Monday P.M. Sara Thomas, friend of Ball, is also lodged in jail on a
charge of accessory after fact, having assisted him in getting out of
Evergreen.
The fourth annual Fat Calf Show of the Conecuh County 4-H, FFA and FHA Clubs will be held in Evergreen Monday, April 19.
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