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| Judge John Hearst Miller |
JAN. 10, 1957
No New Wilcox Polio Cases In 1956: Alabama reported 103
cases of polio during 1956, the State Health Department announced this week, 60
of the cases were paralytic.
The Department added that there were 185 cases in 1955 and 370
in 1954. None of the 1956 cases occurred in Wilcox County.
Tigers In Thomaston Invitational Match: The Camden cagers
join Suttle, Greensboro, Orrville, Linden and the host team Thomaston in the
Thomaston Invitational Tournament on Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights, Jan.
10, Jan. 11 and Jan. 12.
Drawings were held in Thomaston Monday night with Suttle and
Greensboro drawing the number one and two spots in that order and a bye in the
first round of play. Orrville and Thomaston were matched in the first game of
the tourney at seven o’clock tonight (Thursday) and Linden will meet the Tigers
in the second game at 8:15.
The two losing teams Friday night will play the consolation
game Saturday night at 7:30 and the championship game is to get underway at 8:45
p.m.
John Harvell Granted Scholarship Loan: Dr. Ralph B.
Draughon, president of the Alabama Polytechnic Institute, announces that John
J. Harvell, Camden, and Max F. Scott, Clanton, have been granted loans from the
J.W. Chappel Loan Fund.
Harvell, a senior in agriculture, will receive grants during
the winter and spring quarters.
A former member of the Progressive Era staff, John J. is the
son of Mr. and Mrs. L.E. Harvell of Rt. 1, Camden.
78 YEARS AGO
JAN.13, 1944
An Eighth AAF Composite Station, Northern Ireland – In the relentless war on German targets, air bases and military installations, men who fly in the Eighth AAF have the backing of efficient ground crews, without whom the Army could not function. Among these is Cpl. Franklin B. Melton, 19, of Pine Apple, Ala., who is a technical supply clerk. He has been in the Army 11 months and prior to that was shipping clerk at the Mobile, Ala. Air Depot. He is a graduate of Moore Academy and has a brother, John, serving in the U.S. Marines.
COMMISSIONERS COURT: The regular monthly meeting of the Commissioners Court of Wilcox County was held in Camden on Mon., Jan. 10, with Judge C.H. Albritton, Chairman, presiding, and Messrs. K.E. Agee, C.E. Powell, H.L. Kennedy and S.P. Dale, commissioners, present.
FORMER UNIVERSITY PRESIDENT’S SON DIES: Richard Channing
Jones, youngest son of General Richard Channing Jones, former president of the
University of Alabama, died Dec. 17, at his home in Camden, Ala.
Mr. Jones graduated with highest honors from the University
during his father’s administration. His death comes as a shock to his cousins,
Mrs. Jack Montgomery and Miss Katie Belle Harrison, and numerous friends in
Tuscaloosa. – Tuscaloosa News
John Daniel was recently commissioned a 2nd Lt. in the U.S. Air Corp. Lt. Daniel received his training at Valdosta, Ga.
89 YEARS AGO
JAN. 12, 1933
STUMP BLOWING DEMONSTRATION: On Saturday morning Jan. 14 at 10 a.m. there will be given a stump blasting demonstration in L.Y. Sadler’s field just out of Camden, below the school. We expect to blow a few feet of ditch also. This will furnish some excitement and also be a fine demonstration on getting rid of stumps.
Confederate Pensions: The Confederate Pensions warrants due Jan. 1, 1933 are ready for distribution. – Very respectfully, J.M. McLeod, Judge of Probate, Wilcox County, Ala.
CHILDHOOD MEMORIES OF PROMINENT CITIZENS OF HALF A CENTURY AND MORE AGO – Nathaniel Jameson: Nat. Jameson was a small man with sandy colored hair and a dark red skin. He had a peculiar and fine voice for a man. He called himself a farmer but was ready for any small job that he could get. He was a clever genial sort of man who had no enmity for his fellow man in his makeup but always felt just a little too bad to put forth much effort in his work. He married a granddaughter of Squire Williamson and lived at the old home (now the Jenkins home) for many years and until he left here and moved to Ferry Pass, Fla., where he died. – “SIXTY”
NOTICE: This is to notify the public that I have cut the prices of haircuts to 25 cents and shaves to 15 cents. Thanking you for your past patronage and soliciting a continuance of your future patronage. – W.J. DUMAS, Camden, Ala.
103 YEARS AGO
JAN. 9, 1919
GINNERS REPORT: There were 14,436 bales of cotton, counting round as half bales, ginned in Wilcox County from the crop of 1918 prior to Dec. 13, 1918, as compared with 7,544 bales ginned to Dec. 13, 1917.
Death of Judge Miller Shock To Many Friends: John Hearst
Miller, judge of the Tenth Judicial Circuit Court (Jefferson County), died
yesterday morning at three o’clock of pneumonia after an illness of about two
weeks. With him at the time of his death were his brother, Judge B.M. Miller of
Camden, Wilcox County, and his twin sister, S.C.
Judge Miller was born at Oak Hill, Wilcox County, Aug. 11,
1858, attended the academic schools of that county, graduating from Erskine
College, South Carolina, receiving the honorary degree of doctor of laws from
that institution June 6, 1916; took post graduate courses at the University of
Virginia and John Hopkins, and in September 1888 was admitted to the bar of
Jefferson County, practicing his profession here from then until his elevation
to the bench.
A message was received late Wednesday afternoon stating that John Y. Kilpatrick, formerly of Camden, but now located at Akron, Ohio, was dead. The news was a shock to his many friends here who had not learned of his illness.
Lt. Peyton Burford, who has received his honorable discharge from U.S. service at Camp McClellan, is at home with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W.P. Burford on Clifton Avenue.
116 YEARS AGO
JAN. 11, 1906
Dale Lodge No. 25, Free and Accepted Masons, received a request from Robert Patton Chapter, Daughters of the Confederacy, asking for assistance to buy and save from desecration the Confederate Graveyard at Johnson’s Island, Ohio, where 206 brave American Confederate soldiers and freemasons are buried. Many of our Wilcox County heroes were imprisoned there during the war and perhaps some of them have their eternal home there. The lodge unanimously voted an appropriation to honor the last resting place of our soldiers at Johnson’s Island.
Ginner’s report Tuesday, Jan. 9, shows 9,721 bales. It is not probable that the 1905 crop will go above 10 million bales. There will be some 15-cent cotton before many moons. So mote it be.
Mr. J. Paul Jones and bride from Oklahoma City arrived in Camden on Saturday night last. They were received with a brass band at the depot, and in vehicles especially prepared they were driven through the town amid the ringing of bells and other demonstrations of welcome by their waiting friends. Mr. Jones has been absent some time practicing his chosen profession, “the law” in Oklahoma City,” and his homecoming with his bride will be a season of enjoyment to their relatives, friends, as well as to themselves.
Mr. L.L. Pritchett of the Camden Hardware Co. and Mr. Fleetwood Neville spent in Neenah last Sunday.
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