AUG. 18, 1955
First ’55 Bale Brings 56c Pound: Wilcox County’s first bale of cotton of the current season was sold at auction Saturday afternoon, the purchaser being Matthews Hardware Co. of Camden, at 56 cents a pound. The bale was brought in Thurs., Aug. 4, by Martin Dees of Bellview, and ginned by Peoples Gin Co. with a weight of 547 pounds.
Health Officer Urges Second Polio Shots: Dr. E.L. McIntosh,
County Health Officer, today urged all children to get their second polio shot
before the start of school.
Dr. McIntosh stated that 1,002 second vaccine shots have been
given, but there are still 760 more children to reach. Dr. McIntosh says that
they are using Eli Lilly vaccine with the same lot number as was used to give
the first shot in April.
Gullate Speaker Kiwanis Club: Winston Gullate, the man who
beat Sweet out of last place in the governor’s race, will entertain the Camden
Kiwanis Club Friday, Aug. 19, at 12 noon at the Bus station. Along with Mr.
Gullate will be memory expert J.H. Robertson, Professor of Economics at Auburn,
and Neil Lancaster, Area Manager for Southern Institute, sponsor of the Dale
Carnegie Course in Human relations and Effective conversation.
Robertson will show how to obtain the largest asset a person
can possess, remembering names and faces; and Lancaster will tell a little
about human relations, how to increase income, how to stop worrying and start
living, and how to make your home life happier. All interested in an hour’s entertainment,
education and taking the Dale Carnegie Course are cordially invited.
79 YEARS AGO
AUG. 20, 1942
MISSIONARY EXCHANGED BY JAPANESE: Miss Reba Stewart,
well-known in Camden, who has been a missionary to China, is reported to be on
the way home. Miss Stewart has recently been in Harbin, Manchuke. According to
reports received in this country, she was sent by the Japanese to Darien,
Manchuke. From there, she was to have sailed on June 20 for Laurence Marques,
Mozambique in Portugese East Africa. The trip from Darien is supposed to have
taken 60 days. At Laurence Marques, she will be exchanged, along with other
American citizens from the Orient, for Japanese from the United States. Japanese
in the United States sailed some time ago for Laurence Marques on the
Gripsholm. The Gripsholm will bring the exchanged Americans home.
Little is known about Miss Stewart’s experiences. Some Americans
have suffered many indignities while prisoners of the Japanese. They have been
herded in concentration camps, starved and abused. Others have fared better.
Miss Stewart will no doubt have a thrilling story to tell of her experience
when she returns.
Miss Stewart will be remembered as the sister of Mrs.
Carlotta Tait, who formerly taught in Camden schools and for some years made
her home in Rock West.
Mrs. Lounette Steed has returned from Birmingham where she attended the wedding of her nephew Ensign John Tuckee Jr. of Pearl Harbor and Miss Mary Elizabeth Trilick of Birmingham.
92 YEARS AGO
AUG. 15, 1929
The many friends of Dr. Sam J. Albritton will be interested to know of his marriage on Monday in McMinnville, Tenn. to Miss Martha Little. The Progressive Era extends cordial congratulations and good wishes. The newlyweds arrived in Camden on Wednesday for a visit to Dr. Albritton’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. G.L. Albritton.
We are glad to see Mr. W.F. McWilliams, our genial tax collector, out again after several days illness.
Miss Myrtle Odom, who has been attending Teachers College at Livingston, is visiting relatives here.
While returning from Mobile, Mr. and Mrs. A.C. Cook and lovely daughter, Millie Crum, accompanied by Miss Anna Tait, met with an auto accident at Atmore. No one was seriously injured.
Mr. and Mrs. A.G. Simmons are receiving congratulations upon the arrival of a fine baby boy.
LIONS CLUB: The regular monthly meeting of the Camden Lions Club was held Friday, Aug. 9, with Lion J. Bruce Henderson presiding. The club was fortunate to have at this meeting Mr. Roy Crow of the Alabama State Industrial Board, who made a most interesting talk on the plans of this Board, other members of the Board will visit Camden later.
Miss Cammie Jones left Tuesday for Auburn, where she will visit her sister, Miss Lillian, for about two weeks before commencing her kindergarten work at Girard.
105 YEARS AGO
AUG. 17, 1916
Love Spurned Doctor, 60, Slays Girl, 14, and Then Takes Own
Life: Selma, Ala., Aug. 9 – Miss Leta Patrick, pretty 14-year-old Wilcox County
girl, was slain by Dr. Charles Davis, aged 60, who immediately committed
suicide, according to news received here late yesterday.
The girl gave her life as the price of rejected love. She
spurned the doctor’s offer of marriage and he shot her twice, one of the
bullets penetrating her thigh as she ran, according to reports received here.
Immediately after the killing, Davis’ body was placed in a
rude pine casket by the enraged people of the Lamison section and buried
without ceremony within a short distance of the scene, where he took his own
life.
Davis is said to have been paying the girl attention ever
since she was a wee bit of a tot. He has a family living near Devil in Choctaw
County, but had lived in this section intermittently several years.
According to advices received here, he made a definite
proposal of marriage to the girl yesterday but was refused. Funeral services
were held late yesterday afternoon for the girl, and the body was laid to rest
near Lamison.
The shots which killed Miss Patrick were heard by other
members of the household and her sister, rushing to the younger girl’s aid, was
struck and slightly wounded by one of the bullets.
Miss Patrick was the daughter of W.T. Patrick, a wealthy
farmer.
The High School and Camden Grammar School will open on Tues., Sept. 5.
118 YEARS AGO
AUG. 20, 1903
Mr. W.W. Robinson at our Masonic Conference last week represented Howard Lodge No. 69 of Mobile, Ala., of which he is a member, we have known Bill for years on the Alabama River as carpenter on the Burke and Nettie Quill and was glad to meet him out on land, and he certainly enjoyed himself. Bill is a big-hearted, good-natured Englishman, who tells many marvelous yarns about his own country, and he never fails to say something good about the South generally, and Alabama in particular. We hope to see him again in Camden some day.
Mr. Angus McDowell left last week for Salt Lake City, Utah to identify Mr. Fox, who killed Mr. T.L. Stewart in this county a few weeks since.
Miss Carrie Lee Steele, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Steele of Mobile, came up on the Nettie Quill to spend some days with the Misses Maughan in Rock West. It goes without saying that she will have a good time as she has gone to the right place for it. There are no better nor more hospitable people on earth than the Maughan family.
Levi Allen desires to say to the public that he is a practical brick worker and can turn out work with neatness and dispatch and solicits patronage of this and adjoining counties.
Chief Ray, formerly of Shawnee, but now of Mobile, paid this office a visit and renewed his subscription. The old man looked hale and hearty as of yore, long may he live and prosper.
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