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| Alabama Gov. James 'Big Jim' Folsom |
38 YEARS AGO
DEC. 20, 1979
Herbert Bean of Monroeville, Monroe County Bank loan officer
and former supervisor of the Monroe County Farmers Home Administration, was
named Man of the Year Thursday night by the Monroeville Kiwanis Club.
Don House of Uriah was selected as Farmer of the Year.
The 1979 winners of the annual awards were presented with
plaques and certificates during the club’s annual Christmas Ladies’ Night, held
at the Vanity Fair Golf and Tennis Club.
Albert Nettles Sr. chaired the Man of the Year committee,
and Bean headed the Farmer committee.
Dees named PHJC coach: Ronnie Dees of Monroeville was named
baseball coach and director of continuing education for Patrick Henry State
Junior College Tuesday night.
Dees has been a teacher and head baseball coach for Monroe
County High School for 8-1/2 years, during which time he lost only nine regular
season games. He will begin his new position at PHJC in January.
Dees began his coaching career in 1957 at Cecilia, La., High
School, where he was assistant football coach and B-team basketball coach.
Finishing touch: A state Highway Department worker paints
stripes on the new extension of East Claiborne Street to the Highway 21 Bypass.
Striping is one of the last details needed before the road can be officially
opened. Monroeville Public Works Superintendent Lyle Salter said last week the
street lacked only traffic signs and a triangle separating the lanes. The
street is unofficially open to traffic already.
53 YEARS AGO
DEC. 17, 1964
Jim Brown Named Night Marshal: Jim Brown has taken over as
temporary night marshal in Monroeville after the resignation of John Byron
Carter, Mayor W.H. Hines announced this week.
Mayor Hines said Mr. Carter had been with the city as night
marshal for about 14 months. A replacement is expected to be named by the city
council soon.
Tigers Chalk Up Wins 2 And 3: The Monroe County High School
Tigers claimed victories number two and three last week with wins over Excel
and Uriah.
Last Tuesday night, the Excel Panthers played a slow done
game but still came out on the short end of the score 28 to 20.
In Friday night’s action against the Uriah Bulldogs, the
Tigers broke open a close game in the third period with 17 big points while
limiting the Bulldogs to just three.
(Top players at MCHS included Mike Segers, Bobby Colquette
and Terry Salter. Top Blacksher players included Larry Harris and Jim Lambert.
Top Excel players included Anners.)
Excel, Beatrice High Girls Join Competition For Junior Miss
Title: A total of 14 high school girls are now seeking the Junior Miss title in
Monroe County with four entering the contest this week.
Those entering this week are Sandra Gail Petty, Excel High;
Jackie Coleman, Excel High; Linda Myrle Harris, Beatrice High; and Kaye Frances
Coleman, Excel High.
Deadline for entering is Jan. 15, Mickey Kennedy, chairman
of the contest, said last week.
68 YEARS AGO
DEC. 15, 1949
Gov. James Folsom will speak in the courtroom of the Court
House here Monday morning at 10:30 o’clock. He will be accompanied by cabinet
officers who will hold a meeting here.
Frisco City’s Whippets, after dropping their initial
encounter to Greenville, 30-22, last Friday night, came back to edge Excel,
29-27, in a thriller Tuesday night.
In the Excel contest, forward I.D. Byrd dropped through 11
points to lead his team to the win. However, Excel forward Curtis Jordan took
game scoring honors in this contest, swishing 16 points through the nets.
(Other top players at Frisco City included Will Ed Baas,
Garland Byrd, T.J. King, Charlie Pugh, Hybart Sawyer. Other top Excel players
included Nelson Moseley.)
Monroeville, Camden Road Given Official OK: Federal
engineers inspected the paving work on the road from Monroeville to Camden
Tuesday and gave it their official approval, Probate Judge E.T. Millsap
announced.
In addition, the Judge also announced that work on the road
from Excel to Hall’s Crossroads began Monday. A “farm to market” project, plans
call for approximately three and one-half miles of paving work to be done on
the road, the Judge stated.
The Monroeville bus station is scheduled to formally move
into its new location at the intersection of Claiborne and Cherry streets,
Tuesday.
Appropriate ceremonies have been planned, and the
transportation committee of the local Chamber of Commerce reported this week
that several speakers had been obtained for the occasion.
83 YEARS AGO
DEC. 20, 1934
ANOTHER VETERAN ANSWERS LAST CALL: Capt. J.L. Marshall,
92-year-old veteran of the War Between the States, died early Friday morning at
the home of his daughter, Mrs. T.C. Marriott, near Uriah. Mr. Marshall had made
his home in Monroeville for a number of years, and was unusually active for a
man who had lived to see so many more than his three score years and 10 pass
by.
John Lee Marshall was born July 5, 1842 at Perdue Hill in
Monroe County. While at student at the University of Alabama, he enlisted in
the southern army at the outbreak of the war, and served faithfully throughout
the war period.
Funeral services were held at 11 o’clock Saturday morning
from the Monroeville Presbyterian Church with the Rev. Wallace of Marion
officiating, and the body was taken to Perdue Hill for interment in McConnico
Cemetery.
Uriah Boy Gets All District Mention: Coaches from the
counties of Mobile, Washington, Choctaw, Clarke, Baldwin, Escambia and Monroe
recently selected an all-district football team.
This mythical team was composed of stars on the teams from
the various schools in this district.
Only one boy from Monroe County, Waters, who played on the
Uriah football squad, was included in the list, receiving honorable mention.
Judge M.M. Fountain returned the latter part of the week
from a hunting trip in Baldwin County exhibiting a 400-pound bear, which he
says was just one of the two bagged by his party. The party were guests of
Warren Gause of Stockton and were hunting in the Bear Creek Section near the
forks of the river.
98 YEARS AGO
DEC. 18, 1919
Death of Capt. Thos. S. Wiggins: Capt. Thos. S. Wiggins died
at his home in Monroeville on Tuesday night, Dec. 16, after an illness of
several weeks, aged 82 years.
Captain Wiggins was a native of Monroe County and was for
many years a prominent member of the local bar.
He was a Confederate veteran, a zealous Christian and loyal
Mason, identified with every moral and civic interest of the community.
Interment will be made at Scotland cemetery.
Monroe County Boy To Captain 1920 U. of A. Football Team:
Ralph Jones of Jones Mill was elected captain of the 1920 University of Alabama
football squad last week at a banquet given in honor of the team at the
McLester Hotel in Tuscaloosa.
In the eyes of the student body, this is the highest honor
anyone can attain while a student at the U. of A. Jones has played on the
Alabama team for three years and was selected by four authorities for the “all
southern” team this year.
Mexboro, located on the G.F.&A. Railroad, is growing
into a thriving village. It will soon have two well-stocked mercantile
establishments while a number of new dwellings have been lately built and
others are in prospect. The town is backed up by a prosperous farming section
and new enterprises will develop as the need for them arises.
Messrs. Claude Kilpatrick and B.L. Hendrix are erecting a
commodious store building at Mexboro and will open a stock of general
merchandise as soon as the building is ready for occupancy.
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