100-year-old news highlights from The Evergreen Courant

Grave of Andrew Jay Burt at Belleville, Ala.

What follows are 100-year-old news excerpts from the Oct. 30, 1918 edition of The Evergreen Courant newspaper in Conecuh County, Ala.

In a note to the editor, Mrs. L. Cantrel of Palatka, Fla. states that she is just in receipt of a telegram announcing that her brother, Edwin B. James, had been wounded in action “degree undetermined.”

Special Notice: Our gins will be kept running all next week up to Saturday night Nov. 9. After that date, we will gin only on Thursday and Friday during the remainder of the month. – Union Seed and Fertilizer Co.

Another Solider Boy Goes to Final Reward: Andrew Jay Burt, son of Mr. and Mrs. Rufus Burt, died at Camp Mills, N.Y. last week. His body was shipped here on Friday and conveyed to Belleville for interment. He was 22 years old and has been in the Army two years. He went from Camp Jackson, S.C. to Camp Mills to embark for overseas service when he fell a victim to influenza. The family have the sympathy of many friends.

Brooklyn Citizen Passes Away: Henderson Brewer, a well known and highly esteemed citizen of Brooklyn, died on Sunday night from the effects of influenza. Deceased is survived by his wife and several children who are sympathized with by many friends.

NOTICE: Appointment to a free scholarship in the school of medicine of the University of Alabama will be awarded by the Commissioners Court of Conecuh County Nov. 4, 1918 to the applicant applying and qualifying for the same. – S.P. Dunn, Judge of Probate.

Wheatley Johnston: Our hearts have been made sad many times in the past few weeks. We have heard and read of friends dying with the influenza, but none so sad and unexpected as that of our beloved friend, Wheatley Johnston, the pang of our sorrow was deep from the fact that our close associations with him in business, we became very much attached to him and admired the true manly qualities that made him the high type of young man he was. Reliable and trustworthy, putting his best thought and effort in every transaction. We missed him when he left for Army training camp, but thought some day to have him with us again, that hope is gone. Now that he has passed over the river into the great beyond, we want to be remembered among the many friends who mourn his loss. We deeply sympathize with his grief-stricken parents and wish that we could say something to help them bear their grief and sorrow, all that we can do is to remind them of the “hope beyond the grave” and that some day they will see their dear boy again. – James K. Kyser, “Short” Millsap

Mrs. J.B. Murphy of DeFuniak Springs, Fla. is visiting her sister, Mrs. J.C. Lundy.

J.H. Witherington is spending a few days with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J.E. Witherington at China. He has been demonstration agent for Etowah County for some time past but has recently been transferred to Dothan.