MARCH 23, 2006
Excel has state’s ‘best-tasting’ water: People in Monroe
County won’t have to look far for a glass of Alabama’s best-tasting water.
According to the Alabama Rural Water Association, Alabama’s best-tasting
drinking water comes out of the kitchen faucets in Excel.
Water from the Excel Water System is the best-tasting water
in the state, according to a panel of taste testers, who drank samples of water
from systems throughout the state during the association’s 28th
Annual Technical Training Conference March 12-15 at the Mobile Convention
Center in Mobile.
Perfect game: Gorum throws no-hit, shut-out: Senior
right-hander Ryan Gorum became the first high-school pitcher in Monroe County
this season to toss a perfect game.
On Monday of last week, Gorum and the Blacksher defense did
not allow McIntosh to have a base runner in the five-inning game.
Gorum struck out 12 of the 15 batters he faced, and his
defense got the remaining three outs.
(Other top Blacksher players in that game included Stephen
Akins, Brandon Blanton, Joey Blanton, Colton Bowen, Cameron Cobb, Kenneth
Foxall, Heath Ikner, Rowdy Manning, Thunder McGhee, Austin Owens, Hunter Saucer
and John Russell Smith.)
Our Place to show ‘Capote’ movie starting March 31: Area moviegoers will get a new look at two of Monroeville’s most famous residents, Truman Capote and Harper Lee, during an exclusive local showing of the movie, “Capote,” at Our Place Teen Center in Monroeville. “Capote,” one of the most acclaimed films of the year, will be shown to local audiences beginning Fri., March 31, at 7 p.m., Teen Center Director Scott Allen said.
44 YEARS AGO
MARCH 26, 1981
Seven apply for school post: The Monroe County Board of
Education had seven applicants for the job of county schools superintendent
Wednesday, and tomorrow (Friday) is the cutoff date for applications.
Applications and resumes from five persons – Bobby G.
Grissette, Clayton C. Hale, J. Charles McNeil, Cornelia W. Sawyer and Terry
Wilkerson – had been received by the time of Friday’s called school board
meeting. Two more persons, James A. Anners and Richard O. Tatum, have since
applied to board chairman Edgar Melton of Excel.
At Friday’s meeting, the board accepted the resignation of
James R. Allen, who will leave the post of county schools superintendent
Tuesday to become president of Patrick Henry Junior College.
Area tournament champions: The Repton Bulldogs recently won the area basketball tournament championship, finishing with an outstanding 21-8 overall record. Players and coaches are Willie McMillian, Keith Gissendaner, Greg Simpson, Bruce Rudolph, Tommy Watson, Assistant Coach Ronnie Williams, Trey Wilson, Elmore Rudolph, Joe Watkins, Daryl Nettles, Robert McMillian and head coach Hugh Wilson.
Superintendent bill introduced: State Rep. Jimmy Warren of Castleberry Tuesday introduced a local bill in the Alabama Legislature which would allow Monroe countians to decide whether or not to elect the county superintendent of education. The bill, House Bill 764, will first be submitted to the Local Legislation Committee Wednesday and probably be reported out Thursday, Warren said. The county school superintendent is currently appointed by the five members of the Board of Education, who are elected.
69 YEARS AGO
MARCH 22, 1956
Heart Attack Fatal To Monroe Native: Funeral services for
Peter Vredenburgh III of Birmingham, prominent Monroe County native, were held
Wednesday at 2 p.m. from the Johnson-Rideout Funeral Home in Birmingham.
Mr. Vredenburgh, 52, wealthy businessman, died in Miami
Beach, Fla. Monday of a heart attack.
His wife, Dorothy, has been secretary of the Democratic
National Committee for the past 12 years.
The couple arrived in Miami Beach Friday after a trip to
Cuba. Mr. Vredenburgh was stricken at 1:30 a.m. Monday in his hotel room, and
when taken to a local hospital was pronounced dead on arrival.
Finlayson To Replace Hanks As Coach Here: Hubert Finlayson,
assistant coach at Monroe County High School for the past four years, will be
advanced to head coach and athletic director at the local school for the
1956-57 term.
He will replace W. LeVaughn Hanks, who resigned effective at
the end of the current school year to accept a position with University
Military School, Mobile.
Mr. Finlayson was coach at Beatrice High School for three
years prior to his coming to Monroeville.
Gail Brown, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Brown of Excel, has been named valedictorian of the graduating class of the Excel High School.
94 YEARS AGO
MARCH 26, 1931
Mr. Katz Building Two New Stores: Mr. M. Katz, one of our enterprising merchants, is now building two one-story brick buildings just south of his store on the square. These new buildings will face west. He informs us that one will be used by himself along with his large store, and the other will be for rent.
Great improvements are being made on and around the campus of the Excel High School under the supervision of Mr. S.T. Williamson. The Vocational Agriculture boys have worked faithfully to carry out their plans. The campus has been ploughed with a tractor and the walk and driveway leading up to the school have been completed. Grass will soon be planted and the new fence put up.
1930 COTTON CROP EXCEEDS THAT OF ’29: Tabulation of card reports by the Bureau of Census, Department of Commerce, Washington, shows that there were 30,270 bales of cotton, counting round as half bales, ginned and to be ginned in Monroe County from the crop of 1930, as compared with 22,244 bales from the crop of 1929.
WALL-STALLWORTH: Announcements are being received by friends of Mr. and Mrs. Stonewall Jackson Stallworth of the marriage on March 8 at Greenville, Ala. of their daughter, Miss Maysie Stallworth of Beatrice, and Mr. Conrad Wall of Forest Home, Ala.
The Hotel Giddens is not closed as some have understood and has not been closed since Mrs. Floyd left. It is under the management of Mrs. C.H. Blackwell until a project takes it over.
119 YEARS AGO
MARCH 22, 1906
Mr. Lonnie Sims began his duties on the Rural Free Delivery mail route with Jones Mill as distributing point, March 15, much to the satisfaction and convenience of the citizens.
Oyster Supper: The ladies of the Methodist church will serve oysters at the home of Mr. J.D. Rawls on Friday evening, April 6. Everybody invited.
The Jones Mill school closed with a well rendered program Friday night and Prof. L. B. Austin and assistant Miss Alice Deakins spared no efforts in drilling the pupils. They were well repaid for their efforts for praise was heard on all sides. The school house was crowded as the weather was charming for such an occasion. The program was short, also the pieces, some very comical, but all well spoken and entertaining.
The cool weather punctuated with frost and ice during the present week occasions much apprehension as to the safety of the fruit crop.
Hon. J.N. Miller was down from Camden last week. Col. Miller is being favorably mentioned in connection with congressional honors in the second district two years hence.
Capt. T.B. Nettles and family bade adieu to their hosts of Monroeville friends last week and departed for Portland where Capt. Nettles has embarked in the timber and lumber business.
Another rural free delivery mail route has been established in this county, designated as RFD No. 2. It runs from Snider on the Manistee & Repton Railroad and serves an extensive territory around Jones Mill. Several post offices in the neighborhood have been discontinued.
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