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| Gov. John M. Patterson |
SEVEN YEAR AGO
APRIL 15, 2010
The 24th annual Castleberry Strawberry Festival
will be held this Saturday in downtown Castleberry.
Entertainment will begin at 9:15 a.m. and will include
Angela Bethune from Castleberry and The Twin Creek Cloggers from Brewton.
(Other entertainers that year included Perfect Image of
Mobile, Touch of Grey of Bay Minette and Carl Tillery of Evergreen.)
Evergreen weather observer Harry Ellis reported .36
inches of rain on April 8. He reported a high of 87 degrees on April 5 and lows
of 43 degrees on April 8, April 9 and April 10.
Greathouse Floors held their official ribbon cutting last
week in their new location next to BB&T bank. Pictured are Tommy Lawson,
Pete Wolff III, Sam Skipper, Pat Greathouse, Glen Greathouse, Jerri Greathouse,
Chamber President Clint Hyde, Shanna Anderson, Kristie Solar and Stacie Hughes.
Lillie Fluker, library clerk at the Evergreen Public
Library, is shown in the new children’s wing at the library recently. The new wing
has plenty of room for all of the children’s programs, including the Summer
Reading Program.
The Evergreen Volunteer Fire Department responded to aid
Brownville-Owassa Fire Department in a house fire on County Road 22 last Friday
morning. The house was heavily damaged but the firemen quickly contained the
fire.
32 YEARS AGO
APRIL 18, 1985
The 40th Annual
Conecuh County 4H and FFA Steer Show will be held Monday morning at nine
o’clock at the Evergreen Cooperative Stockyard Livestock Arena.
The show is sponsored by the
Conecuh County Steer Show Committee and State Department of Agriculture and
Industries in cooperation with the Extension Service of Auburn University and
the Dept. of Vocational Agriculture and Conecuh County United Fund.
Stan Windham, assistant
county agent, is show chairman and co-chairman is Donnie Goneke, Vo-Ag teacher
at Lyeffion. Ringmaster is Ronnie Shaver. Greg Davis, president of the Conecuh
County Cattlemen’s Association, will be master of ceremonies.
Council OK’s contract for
Shipp Street extension: The Evergreen City Council held its regular meeting
Tuesday night with all members present.
A contract was awarded to
R.E. Grills Construction Co. for the construction of the Shipp Street
Extension. The bid on the project was $203,857. The money for this project will
come from a block grant.
Evergreen weather observer
Earl Windham reported no rain between April 7 and April 13. He reported a high
of 82 on April 8 and a low of 39 on April 10.
Mayor Emory Folmar of
Montgomery was the guest speaker at the Evergreen Kiwanis Club Ladies Night
Banquet held last Thursday night at the Holiday Inn.
57 YEARS AGO
APRIL 28, 1960
Mr. and Mrs. Pace Bozeman announce the birth of a son,
Pace Wells Jr., on April 14, 1960 at the Conecuh County Hospital.
Kiwanis To Meet In Masonic Temple: The Evergreen Kiwanis
Club will meet in the dining hall of the new Masonic Temple Thurs., April 26,
at 6 p.m. and every Thursday night thereafter.
Heretofore the club held their meetings in the cafeteria
of the Evergreen High School. Kiwanis president, Howard Fore, extends a hearty
welcome to all those in Conecuh County and Evergreen to come to the meeting and
apply for membership.
Everette Price Wins Third Place In Contest: Everette
Price, son of Dr. and Mrs. E.A. Price of Evergreen, placed third in the state
finals of the Birmingham News Oratorical Contest. The finals were held in
Birmingham Friday night. He was accompanied to Birmingham by Joe Talmadge of
the Evergreen High School faculty who helped him with his preparation for the
contest.
Huge paving program of city streets approved: One of the
most extensive paving programs in the city’s history is to get underway this
summer. It will result in the paving of more than 14-1/2 miles of roads.
Governor John Patterson and Highway Director Sam
Engelhardt announced today that the major road and street paving project had
been approved.
State Senator Bob Kendall, Rep. Wiley Salter and Mayor
Zell Murphy after conferring with the highway director were told by Engelhardt
that these major improvements would be started this summer.
82 YEARS AGO
APRIL 18, 1935
Rabid Dogs Cause Fear Among
Citizens: During the past week, the discovery of a number of rabid dogs in
Evergreen and vicinity has caused much apprehension among citizens and has
caused city and county officials to put on a special drive to have all dogs
vaccinated or confined.
According to Dr. E.L. Kelly,
health officer, four positive cases of rabies among dogs have been found, three
of these positive cases were found by laboratory tests at the State Health
Department after heads of the dogs had been sent in for examination.
Dr. Kelly reports that four
persons have been bitten by these rabid dogs and four others otherwise exposed.
Strawberries Moving At Slow
Pace: Castleberry, April 17 – Carlot shipments of strawberries from
Castleberry, which began April 5, has been going along at a steady but slow
pace.
Through Tues., April 16, only
15 cars had gone north. The major reason for the slow movement is generally
ascribed to the heavy rains and cold weather.
Burglar Attempts To Get In
Davis Store: An attempt was made by a burglar or burglars to gain entrance to
the store of Davis Grocery Co. on Tuesday night of this week. Upon arriving at
the store early Wednesday morning, Mr. Davis discovered that the lock on the
front door had been tampered with. He also discovered that the burglar had
tried to gain entrance at a rear door which opened into a passage to Robinson’s
Garage.
132 YEARS AGO
APRIL 16, 1885
THE CONECUH-ESCAMBIA STAR
A Search for Treasure
Supposed to be Concealed in Evergreen: Last Sunday morning Mr. J.F. Irwin, a
well known citizen of Evergreen, was informed that a mysterious hole had been
dug on his premises just outside the corporate limits of Evergreen. After
hearing this intelligence, Mr. Irwin accompanied by some friends, went at once
to the place where the excavation had been made and found in the oat field,
near the railroad track, a hole that had been freshly dug which was about three
feet deep and somewhat circular in shape and about four feet in diameter.
When Mr. Irwin first saw the
fresh dirt around the excavation he discovered the imprint in the same of a
lady’s shoe, about number 3 or 2-1/2 in size. There was also a gentleman’s boot
or shoe track in the same freshly excavated earth. Inquiry on the part of Mr.
Irwin failed to elicit anything beyond the fact that sometime during Friday
night or Saturday a colored woman saw a strange, young-looking white woman and
man, also unknown to her, in the neighborhood of the place where the digging
was done. All else connected with the affair is a profound mystery.
Speaking to Mr. Irwin on the
subject he stated that sometime during or about last Christmas, while he was
absent from home, some persons came to his house on two consecutive occasions
and examined his premises thoroughly and asked if the place was for sale. Those
of his family and servants who were at home at the time told the visitors that
the proprietor was in Evergreen where they could see him, but he never received
any personal applications to sell from the persons who had visited and so
thoroughly examined his place in his absence.
As had already been said, no
one knows why the hole was made, and no definite conclusion on the subject has
been reached; yet it is nevertheless the opinion of nearly all who have viewed
the excavation that it was made by someone who was searching for buried
treasure of some kind that had been deposited there many years ago, and at a
time when the stump beside which the digging was done was part of a tree that
then helped to constitute a primeval forest.
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