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| Ed E. Reid |
21 YEARS AGO
AUG. 10, 1995
Local weather observer Harry
Ellis reported .21 inches of rain on Aug. 2; 6.10 inches on Aug. 3; .16 inches
on Aug. 4; and 1.72 inches on Aug. 5. He reported a high of 91 degrees on Aug.
2 and lows of 70 on Aug. 1 and Aug. 2. Total rainfall for July 1995 was 4.96
inches.
The home of Donna and Dwight
Bennett on County Road 17 was one of several area homes damaged by the high
winds brought in by Hurricane Erin last Thursday. The home received only minor
damages luckily and no one in the house was injured.
These heavy front end loaders
from several Alabama National Guard Units stood by at Fort Dave Lewis National
Guard Armory last Thursday waiting for Hurricane Erin to hit the Gulf Coast.
The units went down for clean up efforts when the storm cleared out late
Thursday evening. The units standing by in Evergreen included members of the
167th Engineering Co. out of Demopolis, 168th Engineering
Co. out of Eutaw and the 1135th Services and Supply unit out of
Selma.
Edward Robinson, lead singer
for The Village People, was a big hit Saturday night during the Chamber of
Commerce’s Community Extravaganza at Reid State Auditorium. Edward, an employee
of Knud Nielsen Co., put on a great show, and we can’t wait to see what he will
do next year.
36 YEARS AGO
AUG. 14, 1980
Local weather observer Earl Windham reported no rain
between Aug. 4 and Aug. 10. He reported a high of 99 degrees on Aug. 7 and lows
of 68 on Aug. 4 and Aug. 5.
Admiral Jeremiah Denton of Mobile made a brief stop in
Evergreen early Monday morning. Car trouble had thrown him behind schedule and
forced the cancellation of a planned press conference. Denton did get a chance
to “politic” Sgt. James Powell of the Evergreen Police Department and ask for
his vote in his race for the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate in the
Primary Election of Sept. 2.
Castleberry seeks Commission post: Ray Castleberry, well
known Evergreen businessman, has qualified as a candidate for Chairman of the
Conecuh County Commission and will be the Republican nominee in the November
General Election.
Ray was born in Evergreen and is a lifetime resident of
Conecuh County. He grew up on a family farm six miles northwest of Castleberry
and played a large part in farming operations for several years prior to
attending college.
He is a graduate of Conecuh County High School,
Castleberry, Jefferson Davis State Junior College, Brewton, and the University
of South Alabama, Mobile. He has completed additional studies at the University
of Alabama in Birmingham School of Community and Allied Health Resources.
51 YEARS AGO
AUG. 12, 1965
Trade school named for late
Ed E. Reid: Evergreen’s new trade school has a name… it will be the Ed E. Reid
Trade & Vocational Technical School.
The school is named in honor
of the late Ed E. Reid, executive secretary of the Alabama League of
Municipalities for 30 years and an important figure in state and national
governmental and political circles. Reid died last month.
A resolution naming the
school for Reid was introduced in the State Legislature by Conecuh
Representative Wiley Salter and Rep. Rankin Fite of Marion County. It passed
unanimously last Friday.
Reid was born in Evergreen,
but grew up in Georgiana.
Miss Dorothy Robinson is congratulated
by Conecuh County Farm Bureau President William Ward after being named
Conecuh’s 1965 Maid of Cotton. Results of the contest, in which former National
Maid of Cotton Katy Sue Meredith of Andalusia was a judge, was announced at the
annual meeting of the Farm Bureau at the Courthouse Saturday morning.
Folks have all kinds of
hobbies but Robert Rigsby, Reuben Hyde and Jimmie Weaver have taken up one that
is not likely to catch on with the masses… they hunt and capture live
alligators. At least they hunted and captured the alligator you see below them.
The gator was eight feet long and weighed about 150 pounds and the boys got him
from the “Log Pond” on the Stowers Place after receiving permission from John
L. Robinson, operator of the plantation. The daring photographer took the
gator’s picture after he had a week to cool off in a pen at Game Warden W.A.
Thames’ house.
66 YEARS AGO
AUG. 10, 1950
Conecuh County’s first 1950
bale of cotton was ginned here Tuesday morning. The cotton was grown by Reuben
F. Hyde, who lives just out of the city limits on the Brooklyn Highway, and was
ginned by Evergreen Gin Co.
According to W.T. Chapman,
manager of the local gin, the bale weighed 661 pounds and graded middling,
one-inch staple.
A man lost his life in a
tragic accident here Wednesday morning about 9:30. The accident occurred on the
edge of town where the Owassa Road comes into Skinnerton Highway at Parmer’s
Station.
The dead man was Zion Miller,
age about 60.
The accident was investigated
by Cpl. Louie Phillips and Patrolman J.W. Kendricks of the Alabama Highway
Patrol, who gave this account. Miller was riding in the cab of a truck of the
Hamiter Lumber Co. The chain holding a load of lumber broke, and Miller jumped
from the cab and fell under the wheels of the truck. His skull was crushed. The
truck did not leave the highway, but the lumber was spilled over the steep
embankment.
According to Capt. O.T.
McDuff, officer in charge of the Evergreen District of the Alabama Highway
Patrol, Miller was the 11th traffic fatality in Conecuh County this
year as compared to only one in 1949. McDuff added that Miller was the ninth
person killed by traffic accidents within the vicinity of Evergreen.
81 YEARS AGO
AUG. 8, 1935
Ulay Pitts Held For Killing
Ben Smith: Ulay Pitts, young white man age about 21 years, is being held in the
county jail charged with the murder of Ben Smith, white man age about 59 years,
the shooting having occurred last Friday morning about eight o’clock near
Smith’s home.
It seems from the facts The
Courant has been able to gather that Pitts, who was a brother-in-law of
Smith’s, they having married sisters, was farming on Smith’s place. He and his
wife, according to the story told to officers, were passing Smith’s home that
morning and he called Smith and told him to figure up what he owed and he would
come back by shortly and settle with him. At this point, it seems that Smith
went out toward where Pitts and wife were and a fuss arose between them.
According to the story told by both Pitts and his wife, and corroborated by
Walt Jordan, another witness, Smith took after Pitts with a pair of knucks and
chased him up the road out of sight of the house and of Jordan and Mrs. Pitts.
What took place after that was not witnessed by anyone except Pitts himself. He
says that he fell down and when he regained his feet, Smith was so close upon
him that he had to shoot him to keep him off.
Four shots were fired with a
.32 caliber automatic, all of which took effect. The shot which resulted in
Smith’s death passed through the abdomen. The other three took effect in his
legs.
Mr. C.E. Mills, good farmer
living five miles south on Castleberry highway, ginned two bales of cotton at
the gin plant of the Evergreen Manufacturing Co. Tuesday of this week, being the
first of the 1935 season to be ginned here and so far as The Courant has
learned, the first to be ginned in Conecuh County.
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