40 YEARS AGO
SEPT. 2, 1976
Local weather observer Earl
Windham reported .04 inches of rain on Aug. 25, .18 inches of rain on Aug. 26
and .02 inches of rain on Aug. 27. He reported a high of 94 degrees on Aug. 29
and a low of 62 on Aug. 24.
Terry G. Davis, a recent
Alabama State University graduate, has been appointed to serve as Legal
Research Analyst for the Department of Court Management, Alabama Supreme Court.
Appointed by Chief Justice
Howell T. Heflin, Davis is the first black to work in an administrative
capacity for the Alabama Supreme Court. He performs duties for the Chief
Justice, the Permanent Study Commission on the Alabama Judicial System and
serves as a Legal Research Analyst for the Department of Court Management.
Davis, a native of Evergreen,
is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Matthew Davis of Evergreen.
Butler County Judge of
Probate Steindorff reports that Taft Skipper, president of the Hank Williams
Memorial Association has made a request that the county road leading from I-65
to its intersection with Alabama 106 at Hanks’ Store be named the Hank Williams
Memorial Drive. This is to be done in memory of the singer, who was born in the
Mount Olive community.
Judge Steindorff read a
resolution to this effect that would be presented to the State Highway
Department seeking to make this possible.
Commissioner Sellers made a
motion that the court submit the request and the motion was seconded by Wood
with all members voting in favor.
55 YEARS AGO
SEPT. 7, 1961
C.W. Claybrook, principal of
Evergreen High School for the past 10 years, has accepted the principalship of
the Luverne Schools in Crenshaw County. Both the elementary and the high school
will be under Claybrook’s supervision.
Mr. and Mrs. Claybrook were
employed by the Crenshaw County Board of Education before coming to Conecuh
County. He served as principal of Dozier High for four years.
School bells buzzing, bus
horns honking, parents pleading, teachers patiently teaching and students – ? –
is a brief gist of the story beginning one week from today across Conecuh
County. Schools will open Sept. 14.
Guy S. Kelly, Superintendent
of Education, announced today the teacher placements for the coming school
term.
Kelly said all new
appointments will be teaching in their major field. He also stated that all
Conecuh’s high school teachers now hold at least a bachelor’s degree.
Civitan Organizes With 29
Members: Ralph Crysell was elected president of the newly organized Evergreen
Civitan Club Tuesday night.
Other officers are Wayne
Hutcheson, vice president; Murray Johnson, secretary and treasurer; Tulley
Coleman, chaplain; and Samuel Gaines, sergeant at arms. The directors are D.E.
Bowers, W.C. Boswell, Eugene Darby, James Fendley and Earl Windham.
Charter night is set for
Sat., Sept. 30, at 8 p.m.
70 YEARS AGO
SEPT. 5, 1946
Evergreen schools will open
for the 1946-47 session Monday morning, Sept. 9, according to announcements
made this week by the principals.
The Evergreen High School
will hold its opening program beginning at 8:30 a.m., according to Prof. J.
Clifford Harper, principal. Parents and others are invited and urged to attend
the opening. Mr. Harper assures that they will be through in plenty of time to
attend the opening program at the Evergreen City School which begins at 9:15
a.m.
Prof. W.P. McMillan,
principal of the City School, asks that all children who are enrolling in the
first grade for the first time bring along their birth certificates. Pupils
must be six years old prior to Oct. 1 in order to enter school.
Former County Agent Dies At
Selma Monday: Numerous friends here and elsewhere in the county were grieved to
hear of the death of Val T. (Valentine Taylor) Ivey, former county agent, here which occurred at a
Selma hospital Monday morning at an early hour.
The annual teachers institute
will be held at the City School Saturday beginning at 9 a.m., according to an
announcement made by County Superintendent Harvey G. Pate this week. Mr. Pate
also stated that teachers had been secured for all of the schools of the county
and that everything was in readiness for the opening of school Monday morning,
Sept. 9.
85 YEARS AGO
SEPT. 3, 1931
The State Secondary Agricultural School and the Evergreen
City School begin their 1931-32 session Monday morning at nine o’clock with a
joint program which will be held at the City School auditorium.
The program will consist of several musical numbers by
members of the music faculty of the schools and talks and announcements by
Prof. Paul Fisher and Prof. W.P. McMillan, principals of the two schools.
State Air Tour Includes Evergreen – Birmingham, Ala.,
Sept. 3 – A survey of landing field facilities throughout the state is being
made by W.L. Wilkinson, director of the state air tour to be held in September,
to determine what towns and cities may be considered as stops on the tour.
Mr. Wilkinson, who left Birmingham Monday, expects to
visit every town and city of any size in Alabama during the week. After his
return, he will decide on a tentative route and then a pathfinding plane will be
sent over the course to check flying time and other details.
Approximately 20 planes will form the tour fleet and
these will include a flight of five military ships and a nationally known trio
of stunt fliers with planes especially designed for that purpose. An air circus
with acrobatic and formation flying and parachutes will be given in each town
visited.
Towns being checked by Mr. Wilkinson this week include…
Monroeville… Flomaton, Brewton, Andalusia… Greenville, Evergreen… Columbus,
Ga., Panama City, Fla. and Meridian, Miss.
115 YEARS AGO
SEPT. 5, 1901
Evergreen received her first
bale of new cotton of this season on the 23rd inst. It was grown by
Mr. John S. Johnston of Callihan beat, and sold to Mr. Chas. B. Savage, one of
our leading merchants and cotton buyers, for 7.61 cents per pound. The bale
weighed 577 pounds. Mr. Johnston has brought to this market the first bale of
cotton of the season for the past three years, and Mr. Savage has purchased
each bale at a good price.
THE FIRE: About midnight
Saturday night fire was discovered in the storehouse building of Mr. L.W.
Savage. The alarm was followed by the prompt attendance of the young men of the
town, the water plugs were opened, hose attached and in a very short time two
steady streams of water were turned on the fire. It was a fierce flame fed by
inflammable material inside the building; but energetic and steady effort soon
checked it.
The damage to Mr. Savage’s
building is considerable, and the large stock of goods was wrecked between the
flames and the flooding.
That the fire was incendiary
is hardly a matter of doubt. It began in the northeast corner of the building,
in the heavy grocery department on the lower floor. This part of the store is
seldom visited after sunset. There had been no fire in or about it. The back
door had been opened from the inside. The supposition is that some thief had
concealed himself in the storeroom until the attendants had all gone, and after
the robbery, set fire to cover up traces and escape in the excitement.
We would respectfully suggest
to the town the organization and equipment of a hook and ladder company and a
hose company with a hose carriage. Inducement for fire service might be made by
exemption from street tax.
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