MAY 3, 2007
Evergreen weather reporter Harry Ellis reported .32 inches of rain on April 26. He also reported a high of 84 degrees on April 25 and April 29 and a low of 52 degrees on April 23 and April 27. Total rainfall for the month of April 2007 was 5.44 inches.
Sparta Academy held their annual Miss Alpha Pageant on Sat., April 14, 2007. Winners in the High School Division were Alex Ross, first place; Tanner King, Miss Alpha; and Morgan Harden, second place.
Reid State Technical College will hold commencement exercises on Fri., May 11, 2007 at 6 p.m. in the Wiley Salter Auditorium in Evergreen, Ala. Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court, Sue Bell Cobb, will be the commencement speaker.
Evergreen Medical Center sponsored their annual Health Fair Wednesday in the parking lot of the hospital. People came by throughout the day to take advantage of the free screenings and information provided during the event.
The 35th Judicial Circuit Drug Task Force executed a search warrant last Tuesday, April 24, at a residence on Magnolia Avenue and seized 29 grams of methamphetamine ice, one of the purest forms of methamphetamine. To qualify as ice, the meth must be at least 98 percent pure.
40 YEARS AGO
MAY 6, 1982
Evergreen weather observer Earl Windham reported .30 inches of rain on April 26, .03 on April 27 and .14 on April 30. He reported a high of 85 degrees on April 27 and a low of 51 on April 28. Total rainfall for the first four months of 1982 was 23.20 inches, slightly above normal.
Services are held for Owlen
Philyaw: Owlen Lee Philyaw, 62, of 209 West Front St., Evergreen, died early
Monday morning, May 3, at a local hospital after a long illness. He was a
member of a prominent, pioneer county family and much loved and respected by
all who knew him.
Mr. Philyaw, known by his
many friends as “Mr. Owlen,” was among the first of Conecuh County’s sons to go
into combat in World War II. He served with distinction and valor until
suffering grievous wounds in North Africa that disabled him for the rest of his
life. Among his decorations for his service to his country was the Purple Heart
Medal, awarded in recognition of his being wounded while engaged in armed
combat with the German Army.
He returned to his native
county after many, many months of treatment in U.S. Army medical hospitals and
began a new way of life. He was for a number of years one of this area’s finest
photographers, using the schooling he had received and various correspondence
courses to best take a photograph, develop it and make prints.
Mr. Philyaw had been
associated with The Evergreen Courant on a fulltime basis for a number of years
prior to his death. He headed up the photographic and offset divisions of The
Courant, as well as handling many other important functions.
65 YEARS AGO
MAY 2, 1957
Robert E. Binion of the Union Bank of Repton poses proudly with the Grand Champion of the Fat Calf Show held here Monday. The calf was shown by Edna Johnson and was purchased by the Union Bank at the premium price of 50 cents per pound.
Two Killed In Crash Here Last
Wednesday: Mrs. James Cannon of Pensacola was killed instantly, and her husband
died a few hours later from injuries received in a one car wreck two miles
north of Travis Bridge last Wednesday afternoon.
Their infant daughter was
injured also, receiving a broken leg in the crash.
According to Highway
Patrolmen Wallace Jackson and James Gardner, the car skidded about 434 feet on
the highway and another 250 feet after it left the road. One door was flung
another 50 feet.
The cause of the accident was
not known, but there was a hole in the left front tire, leading some to believe
the driver could have had a blowout.
SERVING IN KOREA: Army Sgt. First Class Claude H. Gladwell, 26, whose wife, Nell, and parents, Mr. and Mrs. Claude Gladwell, live on Rt. C, Evergreen, Ala., recently completed the 24th Infantry Division’s radiological monitoring course in Korea. Gladwell, an assistant operations sergeant in Headquarters Battery of division artillery, arrived overseas in February of this year from an assignment at Travis Air Force Base, Calif. He first entered the Army in 1951.
90 YEARS AGO
MAY 5, 1932
William Elliot Cook Answers
Final Summons: William Elliot Cook, age 64, well known and prominent citizen of
this county living eight miles northwest of Evergreen, died in Bryce Hospital
Thurs., April 28, at 10:30 a.m., following an illness which had afflicted him
for the past three years.
The body was brought here by
train No. 1 Friday and carried immediately to the home of the deceased. Funeral
services were held from Mt. Zion church, nearby the home, at four o’clock with
Rev. Van Landingham, pastor, officiating, assisted by Rev. J.L. Daniel of
Evergreen.
The deceased had lived in the
Mt. Zion community for the past 30 years. He was one of the leading citizens of
that community and a successful farmer and business man. He at various times
served his precinct as justice of peace, serving in all about 10 years. For
eight years, he was member of Conecuh County Board of Education and was always
interested in the educational welfare and progress of the county. He took an
active interest in all religious, civic and political affairs and was known to
be a man of courage and conviction.
He was a member of the Mt.
Zion Methodist Church and had long been recognized as an outstanding leader of
this church. He was an active, consecrated Christian, who delighted to serve
Him whom he had chosen to follow.
Mr. and Mrs. J.T. Amos attended a dinner given by the M&M Unit of the L&N Veterans Club at the Gay Teague Hotel Thurs., April 28, at 7:30 p.m. in honor of Thadeus Luther Rose of Georgiana, upon his retirement from an active service of 55 years.
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