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FIVE YEARS AGO
MAY 5, 2011
Apache helicopter pilot killed: A Dutch instructor pilot was
killed when his Apache helicopter collided with a steel cable over the Alabama
River at Packer’s Bend that guides the ferry there.
The accident happened around noon Thurs., April 28.
Capt. Richard van de Perre was piloting the helicopter when
it apparently collided head-on with a steel cable stretched across the river at
an estimated 50-60 foot height that helps guide the Davis Ferry, operated by
the Monroe County Commission, as it crosses the river. The cable shattered the
cockpit windshield and apparently killed van de Perre instantly.
Excel’s Lady Panthers closed out regular season play Tuesday
of last week in Excel with a 5-2 loss to Thomasville’s Lady Tigers.
(Courtney Addison) pitched five innings against Thomasville
and allowed five runs, two earned, on five hits and two walks while striking
out two. (Kayla) Jordan relieved her in
the sixth and shutout the Lady Tigers.
(Other standout softball players on Excel’s team that year
included Morgan Agerton, Lauren Anderson, Amy Hudson, Claire Jordan and Hunter
Silcox.)
Prior to the first performance of the “To Kill a
Mockingbird” play in Monroeville last Thursday, Georgia-Pacific officials
announced the company will donate $150,000 to construct an amphitheater on the
grounds of the Old Monroe County Courthouse.
20 YEARS AGO
MAY 2, 1996
The Monroe Journal has been sold: Ownership of The Monroe
Journal has changed, and the new owners pledge to continue the newspaper’s
tradition of outstanding community journalism.
New owners are Kermit P. “Bo” Bolton and Jodie Bolton of
Flomaton and Journal editor Marilyn Handley. The sale was announced Tuesday by
former publisher Steve Stewart.
The Stewart family sold The Journal to the Boltons. Ms.
Handley purchased a minority of the newspaper’s stock from the Boltons, Bo
Bolton said Tuesday.
Monroe Academy wrapped up its non-conference schedule
Wednesday of last week at Escambia Academy at Canoe, beating the Cougars, 13-6.
Keith Gohagin, a senior center fielder, went four-for-four
at the plate, slapping two doubles.
(Other players on MA’s baseball team that season included Trey
Andrews, Travis Black, Justin Brown, Bud Hare, Ashley Hayward, Rob Hudson, Jake
McCall. Joey Cameron was MA’s head baseball coach.)
“Circumstantial Evidence,” a book about a Monroeville murder
case published in 1995, has been chosen as the 16th annual Robert F.
Kennedy Book Award Winner. Its author, Pete Earley, will receive the award from
Mrs. Robert F. Kennedy today (Thursday) at a ceremony held by the Freedom Forum
in Washington, D.C.
The book details events surrounding the 1986 murder of
Monroeville co-ed Ronda Morrison and the subsequent arrest, trial, conviction,
sentencing and release of her accused killer, Walter “Johnny D” McMillan, who
was released from Alabama’s death row in 1993.
23 YEARS AGO
MAY 27, 1993
Larry Woolfolk was named principal of J.F. Shields High
School in Beatrice when the Monroe County Board of Education held a called
meeting yesterday (Wednesday).
Woolfolk, 38, is currently the Shields assistant principal
as well as a physical education teacher and junior varsity and varsity
basketball coach.
Woolfolk will replace William Andrews, who is retiring June
30 after 26 years as principal of the school, which has about 345 students in
grades 7-12.
Faulkner signs Howard: Jeff Howard, a 6-foot-1 standout
pitcher at Monroe County High School for the last four years, has signed a
baseball scholarship with Faulkner State Junior College in Bay Minette.
Howard completed his senior season with an .080 earned-run
average, a 10-2 pitching record, 108 strikeouts, seven home runs and a .385
batting average. The highly sought-after left-hander led MCHS to the semifinals
of the 5A state baseball playoffs, where the team suffered a pair of losses to
state champion Daphne High School.
Packer’s Bend ferry needs repairing: The ferry serving
Packer’s Bend has been declared unsafe for use and needs to be repaired or
replaced, the Monroe County Commission was told Tuesday.
County Engineer Robert English said the ferry was brought in
for a routine maintenance inspection about two weeks ago, and it was discovered
that the bottom was rotting. The ferry will be out of service until the problem
is solved.
English estimated the monthly traffic on the ferry, which
operates eight hours a day Monday through Friday, at 300 trips per month.
24 YEARS AGO
MAY 14, 1992
Area residents will be able to take a close-up look at the
new $700-million Alabama Pine Pulp Co. (APP) mill at Claiborne during its
grand-opening celebration tomorrow (Friday).
On Friday, entertainment by school bands will begin at 11
a.m. Alabama Gov. Guy Hunt is expected to speak at the noon ceremony, which
will also include comments by other government officials and George Landegger,
chairman of Parsons & Whittemore Inc. of New York, the first that
constructed the mill and owns and operates it.
The site for the new mill was dedicated in October 1989, and
the first pulp was produced on Dec. 7, 1991.
Matthew “Matt” Redditt of Uriah has been named honorary king
of the fifth annual Shrine Classic All-Star High School Football Game to be
played June 20 in Mobile.
Redditt, the 12-year-old son of Wayne and Laura Redditt,
will sit on this year’s throne along with honorary queen Courtney Harris, a
five-year-old from Mobile.
Matt, a sixth-grader at J.U. Blacksher High School at Uriah,
is currently playing outfield and first base for the Uriah Braves Little League
Baseball team in the South Monroe Little League.
Chad Sessions, son of Mr. and Mrs. Winston Sessions of
Monroeville, has been chosen for the Southern Pine Electric Cooperative’s 1992
Washington Youth Tour Program.
Sessions is a junior at Monroe Academy. He and Ellie
Robbins, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. William Robbins, will receive a one-week,
expense paid tour of the nation’s capital. Miss Robbins is a junior at
Hillcrest High School.
34 YEARS AGO
MAY 20, 1982
Quiet on set! As a New Orleans camera crew waits, “That’s
Incredible” producer Mark Grossen gives instructions to boat drivers Sunday at
Haines Island Park. The network television program, which highlights the
unusual, is doing a segment about Yancey Smith, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Alvin
Smith of Frisco City. Yancie, 13, participated in beauty pageants and is said
to be both the youngest drag boat racer in the country and the only female to
race drag boats.
Excel award winners: The Excel High School Quarterback Club
held its annual sports banquet Saturday in the school’s cafeteria. Awards were
given for the top 1981-82 baseball and basketball athletes. The winners and
their awards were: best defensive baseball players, Tom Reed and Hagen Lambert;
best baseball batting average, Mark Crutchfield; Roy Stacey 100-Percenter
Award, Billy House; most runs batted in, Pat Downs; best field goal shooting
and rebounding averages in basketball, Robert Costic, and best free
throw-shooting average, Earl Hollinger.
Repton cross-burning being investigated: The Conecuh County
Sheriff’s Department is investigating a cross-burning last week on the lawn in
front of Repton High School.
Deputy Sheriff James Lambert said Repton principal David
Johnson reported the cross-burning in front of the school sign when he
discovered it at the beginning of school Wednesday of last week.
The cross was burned sometime late Tuesday or early
Wednesday, Lambert said, and although the incident appeared to be a prank, it
is under investigation.
35 YEARS AGO
MAY 7, 1981
A local bill providing for a referendum to determine if
Monroe County citizens want to elect their superintendent of schools was
scheduled to pass the state Senate yesterday (Wednesday) afternoon, according
to State Senator Reo Kirkland of Brewton.
The bill last month passed the House of Representatives,
where it was introduced by Rep. Jimmy Warren of Castleberry.
After the bill is passed and signed by the governor, the
question of whether the school superintendent should be changed to an elected
position will be put before county voters at the next general, special or
county-wide election.
A dramatic win riding on the strength of two Burke Chance
home runs put the Monroe County High School Tigers in the semi-finals for the
Alabama High School Athletic Association’s 3A baseball crown.
Chance’s second home run of the game Saturday, a solo shot
to left field with one out in the top of the ninth inning, gave the Tigers a
heart-stopping comeback win over the Charles Henderson High School Trojans in
Troy. Chance had tied the game at 5-5 in the top of the seventh inning with a
lead off home run for the Tigers.
(Other standout MCHS players in that game included Billy
Bowen, Tony Feaster, Von Ham, Toddy Hamilton, Kelvin Lett, John McCarthy and
Keith Nettles. Howard Busby was MCHS’s head baseball coach.)
The Louisville & Nashville Railroad has announced plans
to abandon within three years a 16-mile spur running from Camden to Nadawah,
according to reports from the Washington Bureau of The Montgomery Advertiser.
Nadawah, located near the Wilcox County line, is a small
community in the eastern tip of Monroe County.
38 YEARS AGO
MAY 25, 1978
Clearing the way: These bulldozers are clearing the land for
the construction of a Monroeville city recreational park in Clausell, which is
expected to be completed and ready for use by the end of the summer, according
to city Public Works Superintendent Lyle Salter. Clearing began the first of
this month and has been hampered only slightly by rainy weather.
Coach Bill McPherson of Frisco City High School presents
V.P. “Junie” Burns with a plaque holding the names of Frisco City football
players who have received the school’s most valuable player award named in his
honor. Burns, a former Frisco City athlete, played college ball at Auburn
University, where he was selected to the Coaches’ All-SEC team. He coached
rather than accept offers to play pro football, carrying his team to a state
championship. During World War II, he was wounded in the Normandy Invasion and
has numerous medals. Each year the recipient of the award receives a trophy and
his name is added to the plaque.
Senator won’t seek re-election: Reversing himself, state
senator Maston Mims of Uriah this week announced that he would not seek
re-election.
Mims, a first-term senator who is chairman of the Senate
Agriculture Committee, last fall became the first person to announce intention
to run in the Sept. 5 Democratic primary for his District 31 seat. But this
week, Mims said “new opportunities” had surfaced “which conflict with (Mims’)
running for the state Senate in this year’s election.”
40 YEARS AGO
MAY 13, 1976
Dr. Elijah Williams of Evergreen, pastor of Bethel Baptist
Church in Clausell, drowned last Thursday morning while fishing in a private
pond near Evergreen, according to the Conecuh County Sheriff’s Department.
Williams, 68, was pronounced dead by the coroner after his
body was recovered from the pond by the Conecuh County and Bermuda rescue
squads. Law enforcement officials said the boat from which Williams was fishing
apparently capsized.
Patrick Henry fourth in state, best finish in school
history: The Patrick Henry Junior College Patriots competed in the Alabama
Junior College Athletic Association state baseball playoffs for the first time
this past week and were defeated by both Calhoun and Chattahoochee Valley at
Faulkner State in Bay Minette Wed., May 5.
The Patriots lost the opening game, 10-5, after giving up a
three-run lead to the Warhawks of Calhoun in the fifth inning. They lost 6-4 in
the second game that afternoon to Chattahoochee Valley of Phenix City.
(Players on Patrick Henry’s team that season included Johnny
Bartlett, Buddy Black, Al Carr, Nicky Cofield, Eddie Crockett, Jerry Ferrell,
Robert Fischer, Wayne Griffith, Tim Pullen, Larry Snowden and Greg Wright. John
Lampkin was head coach.)
The Monroeville Fire Department, the Peterman Fire
Department and the Bermuda Fire Department were among six departments called to
Evergreen last Thursday night to aid firemen there who were extinguishing a
large fire in the downtown area.
49 YEARS AGO
MAY 18, 1967
WHAT IS THIS CRITTER? – Leon Godwin of Mexia said he didn’t
know what “this critter was” when he got into his car last Thursday night at
his home and saw it in the driveway. Mr. Godwin said whatever it was, he
decided to run it over with his car. After killing it, he discovered it was an
armadillo, very rare for this part of the country. But there must be some kind
of an invasion of them though because Fielder Reed of Mobile killed one at the
home of Mrs. Mamie Lynam’s at Excel over the weekend.
Monroe County High dropped the third and final game of the
Pine Belt Conference playoffs to Jackson High Tuesday for the PBC baseball
championship.
Monroeville lost the first game last Thursday, 3-1, at
Jackson, came back with a 2-1 verdict here Friday and then lost the deciding
game, 11-2.
(Players on MCHS’s team that season included Pete Black,
Gary Downs, Rusty Pitts and John Williams.)
Murder Charge Brings 20-Year Prison Term: Lieutenant
McMillian, 33-year-old Monroeville man, was sentenced to 20 years in prison on
a second-degree murder charge by a Monroe County Circuit jury Monday afternoon.
McMillian had been charged with first-degree murder in
connection with the fatal shooting of Mildred Dale, who was killed June 19,
1966 in a café near Monroeville.
The jury, composed of 11 women and one man, deliberated
about 45 minutes before returning the guilty verdict on the reduced charge.
50 YEARS AGO
MAY 5, 1966
State Jaycee Officer: Joe McKissick, a member of the
Monroeville Jaycees, was elected state vice-president of the Jaycees at a
district Jaycee meeting in Citronelle last Saturday night. He will serve a
one-year term. As a vice-president of the state organization, Mr. McKissick
will represent the six clubs in the district at all state meetings, will
preside over district meetings, etc.
The Frisco City Whippets won one game and lost one last week
and with two more games left on the schedule show a 4-4 record for the year.
The Whippets dropped a 5-1 decision to Monroeville Monday
but came back with a 10-1 win over Beatrice Friday.
Monroeville picked up its five runs on only three hits off
loser Jim Kelly. Winning pitcher Gary Downs allowed five hits with Frisco
getting its lone run in the sixth inning.
Kelly came back Friday to record the win over Beatrice on a
two-hitter. Fred Till took the loss for Beatrice.
A flying club was organized in Uriah last Thursday night.
The men named the organization “The Flying Six.”
Les Hayles, president of the club, stated that the purpose
of the club was for them to have mutual ownership in a plane and to learn to
operate a plane on an economical basis.
C.E. Snow Jr., financial chairman and secretary, said the
club plans to expand its membership at a later date.
Charter members of the club are Randolph Lambert, Alvin
Smith, Mr. Snow, Lloyd (Whitey) Chunn and Mr. Hayles.
53 YEARS AGO
MAY 23, 1963
Graduation Plans Listed For Schools Throughout Area:
Graduation exercises are scheduled at area schools during the following week
when 146 Monroe County students and 25 Repton seniors will receive diplomas.
All baccalaureate sermons are planned for Sun., May 26, with
commencement programs in Monroe County set for Monday night, May 27, and Fri.,
May 31, in Repton.
The Monroe County High School Tigers captured the Pine Belt
Conference crown last Friday with a 5-2 victory of the Millry Wildcats.
Monroeville’s finals record was 10-3 overall and 8-2 in conference.
(Players on MCHS’s team that season included Freddie Biggs,
Gary Downs, Louie Hayles, Tim Jones, Tommy McMillon, Richard Otterberg, Ray
Owens, Lloyd Sturdivant, Billy Taylor, Seth Watkins, Jimmy Wible and John
Williams. Ronald Dees was head coach.)
UNUSUAL CATCH – Eddie Phillippi, eight-year-old resident of
Peterman, caught the three and one-fourth pound eel pictured above. The eel
measured 31 inches and was caught at Hardee’s pond near Beatrice.
Meeting Held Monday To Promote Jr. College: A group of
businessmen and representatives from civic and study clubs met with Rep. Ralph
Jones Monday afternoon at the Hi-Ho Restaurant to formulate plans for locating
a state-supported junior college in Monroe County.
A delegation of Monroe County residents plans to meet with
Gov. George Wallace and State Superintendent of Education Austin Meadows in
Montgomery Wednesday, May 29, to discuss the county as a location for a
college.
55 YEARS AGO
MAY 11, 1961
Nell Harper Lee, author of “To Kill a Mockingbird,” received
the Literary Award at a banquet meeting of the Alabama Library Association held
in Tuscaloosa April 13-14. The 57th annual convention was held in
the Hotel Stafford when the theme for this year’s convention was “The Rising
South,” which took up where our Civil War Centennial Commemoration left off.
At the annual banquet, John Hyatt, director of the Anniston
Public Library and Chairman of the Literary Award Committee, presented the1960
award to Nell Harper Lee. Miss Lee, in turn, presented the award money to the
Monroe County Library for the purchase of books.
Uriah Man Member Of Recovery Crew For Alan Shepard: Participating
in recovery operations for Navy Commander Alan Shepard, first U.S. astronaut,
was the destroyer USS Decatur.
Serving aboard the destroyer was Travis O. Jaye,
commissary-man second class, USN, son of Mr. and Mrs. Amos Jaye of Route 1,
Uriah, Ala.
A resolution congratulating Miss Nelle Harper Lee of
Monroeville for her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel was passed by one branch of
the Legislature Tuesday.
Passing the resolution paying tribute to Miss Lee for the
recognition given “To Kill a Mockingbird” was a breeze for the House of
Representatives, but Sen. E.O. Eddins of Marengo County objected to immediate
consideration in the Senate, and it went to the Rules Committee there. Senator
Eddins said he thought it should be studied before being voted on.
64 YEARS AGO
MAY 15, 1952
Little River State Forest is set to open Friday, May 16.
The state forest, located on Highway 11 between Atmore and
Uriah is open to the public year round; however, the bath house, concession and
swimming facilities will be in operation only during May, June, July and
August.
State Forester J.M. Stauffer says the recreational area on
Little River State Forest is being operated primarily for teenagers and that no
profits are being realized by the state.
The Monroeville entry in the Dixie Amateur League picked up
their first and second victories in league play as they rebounded from their
previous defeat to Atmore with a 19-3 decision over the Escambia Countians in
Atmore Thursday night and a 7-6 victory over the Jay nine Sunday afternoon.
Lefthander Tunney Cardwell proved of value to the local
squad as he went the route in both contests showing a lot of action to his new
batterymate, Marion Watson, who made his debut in a Monroeville uniform,
banging out a two-run triple and a double in the Atmore tilt.
(Other players on Monroeville’s team included Clenner,
Finlayson, Hanks, Bob Riley, Joe Tucker and Watkins.)
A list of six promotions for enlisted personnel in
Monroeville’s Battery D of the 108th AAA National Guard Battalion
were released this week.
Promoted from corporal to sergeant were James B. Barnes,
Jessie Brooks and Andrew H. Welch. Elevated from private, first class, to
corporal were Glenn H. Bayles, James D. Brown, George Klepac Jr. and Joseph H.
Wood. All promotions were effective as of May 1.
65 YEARS AGO
MAY 3, 1951
Monroe County authorities were using bloodhounds early this
morning (Thursday) in an attempt to track down two fugitives who escaped from
the county jail at approximately 10:30 Wednesday night.
The two escapees are Tom Bailey and Henry Jones, both in
jail on an indictment of second degree burglary.
Sheriff Nicholas said that this was the first escape to
occur in more than eight years.
Monroeville, with two league games under its belt against
potent Pensacola and Atmore, take on the other two “toughies” in the league
this week, playing host to strong Selma tonight (Thursday) and journeying to
Thomasville for the tilt Sunday afternoon.
Manager LeVaughn Hanks has announced that Edward Coniff,
brilliant Mobile athlete who hurled for the Galveston, Texas professional team
last summer, has joined the club and will be available for the duty on an
average of once a week.
(Other Monroeville players that season included William
Bayles, Cannon, Tunney Cardwell, Finlayson, Johnson, McKelvery, O’Keffe, Riley,
Stephens, Tucker, Watkins, Buck Weaver.)
John Hill, editor of The Frisco City Sun since its
establishment last June and assistant editor of The Monroe Journal, has
resigned his position with the two papers effective at the end of this week. He
will assume the duties of public relations representative of the Alabama
Electric Cooperative in Andalusia next Monday.
He will be succeeded on the Sun and Journal staff by Riley
N. Kelly of Excel.
Principals of Monroe County’s five high schools and one
junior high school have been re-elected by the Monroe County Board of Education
to return for the 1951-52 school terms, and all have indicated that they will
return.
These principals include the following: Monroeville Schools
– R.H. Vickery; Frisco City Schools – B.E. Lee; Beatrice Schools, John Harbour;
Excel Schools – John Baggett; Uriah Schools – John Sawyer; Goodway (junior
high) – C.E. Arnold.
68 YEARS AGO
MAY 27, 1948
Funeral Conducted For Slaying Victim: Funeral services for
Leonard Howard Jordan, 25, of Monroeville were conducted Friday afternoon from
the Assembly of God Church in Excel with the Rev. A.L. Shell officiating.
Mr. Jordan died Thursday morning about 1:15 as the result of
knife wounds suffered the previous night in an altercation at a Little River
fishing camp near Chrysler. Four youths, all residents of McCullough and
vicinity, have been jailed at Bay Minette in connection with the slaying.
Mr. Jordan died approximately 40 minutes after being stabbed
five times about midnight last Wednesday. His death occurred at Repton
Hospital.
Monroe County voters will go to the polls again next Tuesday
but this time there will be only one local candidate on the ballot.
He is John M. Coxwell of Monroeville, county solicitor, who
is seeking one of the two positions as delegate from the First District to the
Democratic National Convention this summer. He is opposed by three Mobilians.
Work of marking the streets of Monroeville was well under
way this week and Mayor Charles Cole said it will continue until all streets on
which persons are now residing are properly marked.
The work is the outgrowth of efforts of the town to obtain
free mail delivery within its corporate limits. The Post Office Department has
refused to consider such delivery until streets have been named and marked and
houses numbered.
70 YEARS AGO
MAY 9, 1946
An unusually heavy vote was cast in the county primary
election on Tuesday.
In the race for sheriff, E.E. Nicholas won over his
opponent, J.L. Bowden.
In the race for representative, W.W. Garrett and W.E. Deer
will enter the second primary with O.O. McGinty running third, according to
incomplete returns.
Melton Linam defeated C.C. Ward and G.E. Lambert for
Commissioner in District One.
In District Three, E.M. Deer is said to have received a
majority over his opponents, J.L. Dees and Victor Salter.
Twenty-six graduates of the Monroe County High School will receive
diplomas at exercises to be held Tuesday night, May 21.
Following is the list: Emma Lou Agee, Evelyn Fay Andress,
William Sam Bowden, Ouida Inez Byrd, Betty Hixon Chambers, Mabrey Thomas
Easley, A.D. Dickson, Jean Farish, Thelma Louise Hall, Edith Grey Hightower,
Saranne Hundley, Sue Millsap Jones, Patsy Estelle Lazenby, William Sadler
McGraw, Ethel McKinley, Jacqueline Jean Pickett, Thomas Edward Riley, Julia
Frances Ryland, Nancy Elizabeth Sheffield, Spurgeon D. Terry Jr., Owen Locke
Lear Thompson, Margaret Katherine Thompson, Margaret Elizabeth Watson, Alice
Jeannette Wiggins, Lonnie J. Wiggins Jr. and Debe Catherine Williams.
Building On Square Being Dressed Up: The post office is
being treated to a new coat of paint and other minor repairs are being made.
Painters are dressing up the front and applying a new coat
of paint to the interior of the V.J. Elmore Store.
79 YEARS AGO
MAY 20, 1937
Funeral Services Are Held For Alvin Rhoad: Funeral services
were held Tuesday morning for Mr. Alvin Rhoad of Buena Vista, whose body was
found in Flat Creek, near Corduroy on Monday morning.
Mr. Rhoad left home Saturday to go fishing and when he
failed to return home, a search of the swamp was made and he was found in a
deep hole in the creek. He had evidently slipped from a high bank into the
water and in an effort to swim out, was caught by some of the hooks which he
had set.
Interment was made in the cemetery at Buena Vista.
A large crowd attended the graduation exercises of the
eighth grade of Goodway School, held in the school auditorium.
The program was as follows: Salutatory, Cleveland Jones;
Class Will, Burnett Lane; Class Prophecy, Hazel Booker; Valedictory, Evelyn
White; Graduation Address, Rev. Cameron; Presentation of Diplomas; Class Song,
Graduating Class.
The members of the eighth-grade class are: Burnett Lane,
Luvern Coker, Evelyn White, Vera Nell Morris, Iva Wiggins, Mary Spears, Doris
Matheny, Cleveland Jones and Hazel Booker.
Funds For Rural Lines Released: The Rural Electrification
Administration has advised that contract for the construction of distribution
lines in Monroe County has been approved. The transmission line will be
extended from Baldwin into the southwest corner of this county and serve homes
between Uriah and the Alabama River.
83 YEARS AGO
MAY 25, 1933
Typhoid Fever In Monroeville: The Health Officer, Dr. T.E.
Tucker, reports that there are two cases of Typhoid fever in Monroeville, a
colored woman and a white man. He also reports clinics are being conducted in
several places in the county each week, including Fountain, Monroe Station,
Mineola School, A.E. Tucker’s place and Mexia. These clinics are conducted on
Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Fridays. On other days, vaccine can be secured at the
office.
The Monroeville baseball team played Frisco City on the local
diamond last Thursday afternoon with Monroeville winning the game by a 10-5
score. A return game was played on the Frisco City diamond on Friday afternoon
with Monroeville again victorious by a 9-8 score.
On Sunday afternoon Monroeville played Chapman at that
place, losing the game by 8 to 7 in 11 innings.
Chapman will meet Monroeville this Thursday afternoon on the
local diamond. A hotly contested game is anticipated.
A grandstand has recently been completed at the Monroeville
diamond and comfortable seats have been installed.
Mr. J.C. Hudson is building a swimming pool and fish pond on
Hudson branch about one-half mile east of the courthouse. Workmen have been
engaged about a week cutting the foundation ditch for the dam and spillway.
According to the survey made by an engineer, the several springs at the head of
the branch will afford a pond covering about two acres, the deepest point being
about seven to eight feet.
85 YEARS AGO
MAY 14, 1931
The graduating exercises of the Frisco City High School were
held in the high school auditorium before an audience of 400. The address was
given by C.C. Sanders of Judson College.
Mr. Sanders brought a very interesting message to the class
and to the people. He chose as his subject, “Success.”
A number of other special features were included on the
program. The diplomas were presented to the class of five girls and 12 boys by
County Superintendent H.G. Greer. Mr. Greer was former principal of this high
school. The high school band contributed several selections to the program.
Baseball Game, Girls Vs. Married Men – June 4th:
There will be a ball game at the high school ball park in Monroeville on
Thursday afternoon, June 4, with the girls playing the married men. The game is
sponsored by the Monroeville Chapter of the Order of the Eastern Star. Those
who saw a game of this type last fall at the local diamond will not want to
miss this game. The girls are out to whip the men’s team for they received the
low end of the score at the last game.
Commencement Exercises M.C.H.S. Begin May 18: The
commencement exercises of the Monroe County High School will begin on Monday
evening, May 18, with a recital by the members of Miss Juliette Hardy’s music
class. On the following Wednesday evening, Mr. John C. Williams will present
the band in a concert.
The Junior-Senior play, “Broken Dishes,” will be presented
at the school auditorium on Fri., May 22. The cast includes Alice Stallworth,
Jack Bowden, Mildred Farish, Jas. A. York, William Barnett, Merwin York, Albert
Nettles and Winston Burns. The play is a comedy hinging around a henpecked
husband who drinks something from a jug and then trouble begins.
94 YEARS AGO
MAY 18, 1922
Some of our merchants have begun to observe the six o’clock
closing rule which usually prevails during the summer months.
Rev. A.E. Shafer delivered the commencement sermon of the
Repton school Wednesday evening.
Judge Fountain and Dr. S.J. Yarbrough of Monroeville and Dr.
D.R. Nettles of Peterman attended the Shriners ceremonial in Mobile last week.
Harry Kearley sustained a very painful injury when a cut-off
saw mangled one of his fingers while at work at the Hudson-Rikard mill last
Thursday.
Mr. A.L. Slaughter of Lower Peach Tree was among Monroeville
friends Tuesday. Mr. Slaughter stated that work is progressing steadily on the
oil well at Lower Peach Tree. The well is now more than 2,200 feet in depth and
promoters of the enterprise have an abiding confidence in the ultimate
development of a producing well.
The Moulton-Blacksher Orchard company at Uriah shipped on
Tuesday the first car lot of snap beans that has ever gone out of the county.
The company has 75 acres in beans and shipments during the season are expected
to aggregate 25 cars. Should this experiment prove satisfactory from a
financial standpoint the acreage devoted to this crop will be materially
increased next season.
CASH OR CREDIT – BUENA VISTA, ALA. – BEATRICE, ALA. – Buy –
Sell – Trade – General Merchandise, Buggies, Wagons, Saddles, Coffins, Etc.,
Mules, Horses, Cattle – J.J. FINKLEA & SON
COMMENCEMENT PROGRAM, BEATRICE HIGH SCHOOL: Wed., 8 p.m.,
Graduation exercises.
(Compiled by Lee Peacock of Excel from archived editions
of The Monroe Journal at the Monroe County Library in Monroeville.)
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