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| Congressman Terry Everett |
14 YEARS AGO
MARCH 27, 2003
Evergreen weather observer Harry Ellis reported .56
inches of rain on March 17 and .07 inches on March 18. He reported a high of 84
degrees on March 19 and a low of 44 on March 23.
Kiwanis Club President Patricia Flower welcomed Johnny
Mack Grace to this past Tuesday’s club meeting. Grace was the guest speaker and
is a Vietnam veteran. He told the club about his time in Vietnam and how he was
injured.
More than 200 Alabama farmers attended the annual
Washington, D.C. Legislative Trip March 17-18 sponsored by the Alabama Farmers
Federation. While in Washington, Federation members met with Secretary of
Agriculture Ann Veneman as well as congressman and senators from Alabama.
Pictured are Congressman Terry Everett, Melinda Dunn and Federation
Secretary/Treasurer Steve Dunn of Conecuh County.
Sgt. Oranda Fair deployed to Kuwait: Sgt. Oranda “Bear”
Fair, Headquarters 52nd Ordnance Group (EOD), Ft. McPherson, Ga.,
has been deployed to Kuwait to an undisclosed location.
He graduated from Hillcrest High School in 1993 and
joined the United States Army. He is the son of Diane and Willie J. Fair, both
of Evergreen.
Lori Ellis placed a yellow ribbon on the fence downtown
to honor her son, Spec. Justin Ellis, who is currently awaiting deployment at
Fort Benning, Ga. to go fight in the Gulf War. Her husband, Mike, served in the
first Gulf War in 1991.
39 YEARS AGO
MARCH 30, 1978
Evergreen weather observer
Earl Windham reported .03 inches of rain on March 22. He also reported a high
of 80 degrees on March 24 and lows of 36 on March 20 and March 26.
Nine criminal cases are set
Spring Docket: There are nine cases set on the Criminal Docket for the Spring
Term of Circuit Court of Conecuh County, according to Circuit Clerk Jean Ralls.
All of the cases are set for Monday.
History is probably being
made as no jurors are being called for duty for the term of criminal court.
Attorneys for all of the defendants have indicated that all of their clients
will enter pleas of guilty Monday.
Albert Daryl Harper of
Evergreen has been named to the Dean’s List at Emmanuel College, Franklin
Springs, Ga., for the winter quarter.
March of Dimes Super Walk ’78
set Saturday: Several hundred Conecuh Countians, mostly students in county
schools, will take part in Super Walk 78 this Saturday to raise funds for the
March of Dimes. These funds will be used in the National Foundation’s fight
against birth defects.
The walkers are to meet at
Fort Dave Lewis National Guard Armory at eight o’clock Saturday morning. After
final instructions are given, the walkers are to get underway as near nine
o’clock as possible.
The walk begins and ends at
the Armory and covers 12 miles. Lunch will be served at the Armory at the
conclusion of the walk. Awards and prizes will also be given to the walkers at
that time.
64 YEARS AGO
MARCH 26, 1953
Evergreen City Clerk John Hunter Thornley has tendered
his resignation to the City Council and Mayor Vernon B. Millsap and the
resignation has been accepted. Mr. Thornley will serve on in the post of city
clerk until sometime in April in order that the city officials may have
adequate time to employ his successor.
Mr. Thornley became city clerk in September of 1945 and
has served continuously in that post since then.
L&N Discontinues Trains No. 7 and 8: As of today
(Thurs., March 26), Louisville and Nashville Railroad Co. will discontinue
Montgomery and New Orleans trains 7 and 8. Both of these trains were “locals”
and have been handling the mail service for all the local stops between
Montgomery and New Orleans. Discontinuance of these trains will greatly affect
and handicap the local mail service especially the incoming southbound mail.
ARRIVES IN GERMANY: With the 43rd Infantry
Division in Germany – Sgt. First Class James W. Tolbert, whose wife, Charlotte,
lives on Route 2, McKenzie, Ala., recently arrived in Germany and is serving
with the 43rd Infantry Division.
The 43rd, now stationed in southern Germany,
is undergoing constant field training as part of the North Atlantic Treaty
Organization Army.
SFC Tolbert is serving with Co. B of the 143rd
Tank Battalion. Before reentering the Army in March 1949, Tolbert was a farmer.
His father, James A. Tolbert, lives on Route 1, McKenzie.
89 YEARS AGO
MARCH 29, 1928
Mr. T.S. Hagood, widely known
and greatly beloved citizen of this county, died at his home five miles east of
Evergreen Tuesday afternoon at the ripe old age of 81 years.
At an early age, he was
called into service in the Confederate army, where he served faithfully during
the war. For a period, he was held as a prisoner in Chicago.
Funeral services were held
from the Baptist church at three o’clock Wednesday afternoon, with a large
concourse of relatives and friends present. Dr. J.G. Dickinson, his pastor,
assisted by Dr. W.M. Cox, pastor of the Methodist church, conducted the
services, after which interment was made in the old cemetery.
Mr. and Mrs. L.L. Booker, who
live near Herbert, are the proud parents of a set of triplets which were born
to them March 12. The babies are all girls and weighed when born 2-1/2, 2-3/4
and three pounds respectively. This is such an unusual occurrence in this
vicinity that it has attracted considerable attention. Not a few people have
made visits to the home to see the triplets. This is perhaps the first set of
white triplets on record in Conecuh County.
Miss Ethel Raye, Principal of
the Burnt Corn School, left for her home in Garland last Thursday afternoon.
She will return in a few weeks when the measles epidemic is over, to finish out
the school term.
114 YEARS AGO
MARCH 25, 1903
Butler County is to have a
new courthouse. The Greenville Advocate says that the contract has been let and
the old building is now being torn down.
The annual reunion of
Confederate veterans will be held in New Orleans May 19-21.
W.S. Oliver, a prominent
merchant, and also Mayor of Repton, was here Monday on business.
W.D. Goodson shipped the
first strawberries of the season yesterday. They went to Nashville.
Luman Savage Jr. will leave
about April 1 for Poughkeepsie, N.Y., where he will take a course in
bookkeeping. He will go by ocean steamship from Savannah. He will be absent
several months.
Pettus Day returned last week
from Nashville, where he has been attending medical lectures in Vanderbilt
University. He will spend the vacation at home.
Poles are being put up for a
telephone line from Mt. Union and Herbert to Evergreen and these two little
towns will in a short while have telephone connection with the outside world.
The new line will be
connected with the local exchange here. It is to be hoped that the citizens of
Brooklyn will at once build a line from that place to Evergreen. This done,
nearly all the principal communities in the county will be connected by
telephone or telegraph with Evergreen.
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