Sunday, December 17, 2017

Old newspaper excerpts from The Monroe Journal newspaper in Monroeville, Alabama

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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