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| Charles L. Scott |
MAY 4, 1944
Mrs. Kate Beck received notice from the War Department
Friday morning that her son, S-Sgt. Robert B. Beck, is missing in action over
Germany since April 11. S-Sgt. Beck was a turret gunner on a B-17 based in
England. He held the air medal and had seen service in the European war
theatres for some time past, having been abroad since October 1943.
He was 25 years of age and was well known in Selma, where he
was reared. Enlisting here as a volunteer, he was sent for training to Denver,
Colo., and Hollinger, Texas, in gunnery. – Selma Times-Journal.
Mr. J.A. Bridges, who was recently appointed County Engineer for Wilcox County, was joined here this week by Mrs. Bridges and her mother, Mrs. Mittie I. Walker. We wish to extend them a cordial welcome to Camden and Wilcox County.
Miss Mary Liddell, having completed her secretarial course, is enjoying a visit to friends in Knoxville, Tenn. From there, she will go to Gatlinburg – a resort “In the Smokies.” At the end of the week, she will return to Birmingham, where she assumes the duties of Secretary for Mr. Hugh Morrow, Sr. President of Sloss-Sheffield Steel & Iron Co.
PINE APPLE: John Edgar Melton, U.S. Navy, left Tuesday, April 26, for his assignment at Willamsburg, Va. Lt. and Mrs. Warren J. Williamson spent a few minutes with relatives and friends here Friday enroute to his assignment at Lincoln Air Base, Lincoln, Nebraska.
90 YEARS AGO
MAY 5, 1932
Baseball: Camden defeated a mixed team of Coy and Camden boys last Friday 6-3. Some of Coy’s players did not arrive so their team was finished out with Camden boys. Camden will play Carlowville at Carlowville Friday afternoon. Camden Junior boys are expecting to arrange a game with McWilliams.
CHILDHOOD MEMORIES OF PROMINENT CITIZENS OF HALF A CENTURY AND MORE AGO – WILLIAM T. MAYO: “Billie” Mayo or the “King of Frog Level” was the town butcher here for many long years. He was of immense size, standing about six feet three or four inches in height and was broad in proportion, but had no fat and was all bone and sinew and muscle. As we remember him, he had the largest bones of any man we ever knew. He always had a meat market for certain days of the week as in those days there was no refrigeration and the meat could not be kept very long. We well remember whole deer hanging up in his market in the fall and winter season. For a long time he kept his market in an old building that stood in part of the old Liddell mill lot and then again in a small house that stood where the Red Star Grocery store has its warehouse. “Uncle Billie” had many peculiarities and his set ways and contrariness was very predominant. He always wore brogan shoes as long as he lived and had to have them made to order not only on account of his size, but because he had to have straights as he called them. This meant that there was no right or left shoe but both the same. He never wore a sock in his life and each night when he took off his shoes, he would swap them so that he would put the one he had worn on his right foot one day on the left the next.
101 YEARS AGO
MAY 5, 1921
The Spring term of the Circuit Court will begin next Monday and probably will continue for two weeks. Judge Hobbs of Selma will preside. Sheriff McLean has put the courtroom and grounds in tip top order. New benches for court visitors and after court for the convenience of the Loafer’s Club are under the oaks to accommodate our county people.
The Bloch Wilcox Hotel at Camden is prepared to entertain county visitors attending our circuit court term. Nice clean beds, screened rooms, a splendid food table and courteous attention await our guests. A special and low rate is offered to jurors.
Camden and Oak Hill played baseball Wed., April 27, at Camden. The game was very interesting as it was a tie for four innings, after which the game was in Camden’s favor. The score was 12 to 6.
Arlington and Thomasville Split Double Header: The Arlington and Thomasville baseball nines played a double header at Kimbrough last Friday, Thomasville winning the first game, 4-2, and Arlington winning the second, 5-3. Battery for Arlington’s first game: G. Kennedy and C. Kennedy; Thomasville, Green and Gillis. Second game, Arlington, G. Kennedy and Lowery; Thomasville, Green, Gillis and Gillis, Rayburn.
115 YEARS AGO
MAY 2, 1907
Memorial Day Services: Memorial Day was appropriately observed in Camden last Friday and despite the threatening weather, a large crowd was in attendance, many being some distance back in the country. The exercises were conducted in the Episcopal church, and the building was filled to its utmost capacity. After the services at the church, the large audience went to the cemetery, where floral tributes were laid by loving hands on the graves of the fallen heroes of 1861-1865.
Miss Bonnie Pear Watts, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. D.P. Watts, has just closed a successful term of school at Caledonia and is on a visit to relatives here, Mrs. E.O. Rentz and Mrs. C.A. Turner.
Mayor Caldwell has fitted up and furnished his office on the second story of the dispensary building, where the board of aldermen will also hold their meetings. Mr. Cardwell invited his friends to call on him at the above place.
Messrs. W.R. Alford, Jas. Dickinson, Joseph Foster and Dr. T.W. Jones returned Saturday from Hot Spring, Arkansas, where they have been for the past three weeks enjoying the benefits of the baths. All are apparently greatly benefited by their stay at the springs.
Much replanting of cotton will have to be done in this county. It is estimated that at least half of the crop will have to be planted over. From all information that can be obtained, there will probably be a scarcity of cotton seed in this section.
The case of M.F. Jackson against the Louisville & Nashville Railroad for damages was the only case tried Tuesday. The damages claimed was for the loss of freight and the jury rendered a verdict for the full amount sued for, $26.88.
128 YEARS AGO
MAY 9, 1894
Maj. Charles L. Scott is a candidate for the legislature in Monroe County. He openly espouses the cause of Senator Morgan. Many old friends in Wilcox, his old home, wish him success.
The school boys are counting the days to the end of school. Only three weeks now.
As we got to press, the sad tidings come to us that Dr. Jno. C. Jones died at Tilden, Dallas County, yesterday afternoon. He was the third son of Col. E.N. Jones of this place and had been practicing his profession at Tilden only a short time. We will have a more extended notice next week.
The young people of Canton Bend have a dancing class that meets once a week at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Steele and practice the mysteries of the waltz, the polka, the lancers, etc. Last Friday night, the editor accompanied Julius Alford and Braxton Bragg out there. He went not as a participant, because he can’t dance, but to keep his two young friends out of mischief, a purpose, be it said, in which he made a lamentable failure. However, he spent a pleasant evening and is glad he went.
Dr. Will Cobb, son of Mr. Marion Cobb of Canton Bend, Clarke County, for the practice of his profession. Dr. Cobb is a recent graduate of Vanderbilt University and an intellectual and common sense young man. The people among who he has cast his lot are to be congratulated. They have a good man.
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