FOUR YEARS AGO
OCT. 2, 2014
Evergreen weather reporter Betty Ellis reported .01 inches
of rain on Sept. 22 and .01 inches of rain on Sept. 28. She reported a high of
82 degrees on Sept. 23 and lows of 58 degrees on Sept. 22, Sept. 23 and Sept.
24.
Kalesha
Rudolph was named Miss Homecoming during halftime at Hillcrest High School’s
homecoming football game Friday night at Brooks Memorial Stadium in Evergreen.
In the photo above, Hillcrest High School principal Rodney Drish crowns Rudolph
as last year’s Miss Homecoming, Tierra Meeks, presents Rudolph with a bouquet
of flowers. Rudolph was escorted by her uncle, Steve Rudolph.
Newspaper
marks 119th birthday: This week’s edition marks The Evergreen
Courant newspaper’s 119th birthday.
Since
1895, The Evergreen Courant has served the citizens of Evergreen and Conecuh
County, and its future looks as bright today as it did over a century ago.
G.W.
Salter founded The Courant and owned it until 1924 when he sold the newspaper
to a stock company. That company ran the newspaper until 1927 when it was sold
to Robert Gaston Bozeman Sr., the grandfather of current owner, publisher and
editor, Robert Bozeman III.
Essie
Taylor celebrated her 100th birthday on Thurs., Oct. 23, 2014 in
Omaha, Neb. She was born in the Nymph community, but her home is in Omaha now.
29 YEARS AGO
OCT. 5, 1989
James Russell Weaver, Sergeant First Class, U.S. Army
(Retired), 61, of Route C, Evergreen, died Fri., Sept. 29. He was a decorated
veteran of the Vietnam War.
SFC Weaver was awarded the Bronze Star for meritorious
service in Vietnam from 1970 to 1971. While in Vietnam, he served with the 1st
Signal Brigade as administrative NCO for the Southeast Asia-Telephone
Management Agency, Assistant Chief of Staff, Contract Management Office.
A native of Evergreen, SFC Weaver entered the U.S. Army
after graduating from Evergreen High School and served over 24 years before
retiring.
Burial was in the Old Town Cemetery with full military
honors.
Alabama Judges elect Judge Sue A. Bell: The Alabama Council
of Juvenile and Family Court Judges held its annual meeting in Montgomery last
week. Conecuh County District Judge Sue A. Bell was elected to the post of
second vice-president.
Judge Bell served last year as the Council’s treasurer. She
has also served on several committees all which have recommended important
changes in the juvenile justice system in Alabama.
Mrs. Blanche E. Stowers, 97, of Route E (Fairview),
Evergreen, died Tues., Oct. 3, at her home.
Mrs. Stowers was a widely known and much loved resident of
this city for nearly 50 years. She was the widow of the late E.B. Stowers,
prominent businessman and cattleman. Mrs. Stowers was a Paul Harris Fellow of
Rotary International, one of only a very few women ever so honored. She chaired
a group of ladies of the Evergreen United Methodist Church who served lunch to
the Evergreen Rotary Club for over 40 years.
54 YEARS AGO
OCT. 1, 1964
Bower Memorial will observe first anniversary: The Bower
Memorial Baptist Church will observe its first anniversary this Sunday. The
church is located on Pecan Street.
The Evergreen Baptist Church established a mission in June
1958, after a tent revival was held on the lot where the church now stands
under the leadership of the Rev. Sam Granade. Services were held in the M.V.
Bower home until April 5, 1959, when the first building was completed.
The church continued as a mission sponsored by the Evergreen
Baptist Church until it was constituted as Bower Memorial Baptist Church on
Oct. 6, 1963 with 92 charter members. The Rev. Joe B. Church served as first
pastor of the church and the present pastor is the Rev. R.L. Brown.
Judge William L. (Bill) Dickinson, Republican candidate for
Congress from the 2nd District, will be in Conecuh County today,
Friday and Saturday. He will carry his campaign into every part of the county
during these three days.
Today, Judge Dickinson will be in Evergreen, Brooklyn, Paul,
Cohassette, Shreve, Old Town and Ray’s Store. Friday morning he will be in Belleville,
Repton, Bermuda and Burnt Corn and that afternoon in Castleberry. Friday night
he will be in Repton at the Repton-Lyeffion football game.
Saturday morning, Dickinson will be campaigning in the
Lyeffion and Owassa areas. He will wind up with a speech Saturday morning at 11
o’clock in “No Man’s Land” in downtown Evergreen.
79 YEARS AGO
OCT. 5, 1939
1,500-Pound Hog To Be Shown At Conecuh County Fair: Manager
T.P. Littlejohn of the Conecuh County Fair announces that everything is set to
give the people of Conecuh County a real treat in the form of Farm Exhibition
and clean entertainment attractions at the Fair that will be held next week
beginning Tuesday night, Oct. 10.
Jolly Jumbo, the largest hog in the world, is coming to
Evergreen from Lincoln, Neb. this week. This hog is eight feet long and four
feet high and weighs better than 1,500 pounds.
Six free shows will be given each day. Among these shows is
the Great Ricardo, who performs at the top of a 70 ft. limber pole, High Wire
actors, Flying Trapeze artists, Juggling and balancing novelties, and High
Jumpers. The feature show will be Hood Rivers’ Harry Hillbilly show. Other
attractions are: Charlie Shills Monkey Show, Littlejohn’s Trip to Mars, the Fun
House, Sunker’s Side Show and Mickey Mouse.
There will be a total of seven rides including two ferris
wheels, Merry-Go-Round, Chair-o-Plane, Kitty Auto and Pony track.
There will be 30 concessions, various games and fun devices.
The fair opens promptly at five o’clock Tues., Oct. 10, and
will show Tuesday night and every afternoon and night during the week.
104 YEARS AGO
OCT. 7, 1914
Editor Abe Lehman, who has for many years successfully
conducted the Greenville Living Truth, has sold his paper to V.R. Thagard, who
has changed the name of the paper to the Greenville Ledger.
There were 5,691 bales of cotton ginned in this county up to
Sept. 25, compared with 4,924 at the same date last year.
Dr. Ely Bradley Dead: Dr. Ely Bradley, who died in a Mobile
infirmary Saturday and was buried at Belleville with Masonic honors Sunday, was
one of Conecuh County’s landmarks.
Dr. Bradley, who was upwards of 80 years old at the time of
his death, was reared in Conecuh County and received a finished education in
the North in his chosen profession and returned to his native home where he
gave his service in the practice of medicine from 1855 when he was the only
physician within a radius of many miles, until a few years ago, when old age
and declining health caused him to retire from active work.
He spent the last few years of his life with George M.
Baggett, his son-in-law, near Belleville, and in his death the community has
lost a friend who was ever ready and willing to give of his time and talent to
suffering humanity.
There was quite a crowd at the Arcade Theatre last Monday
night to see the “Fourth Adventure of Kathlyn.”
At the request of Prof. Blasingame, Rev. W.T. Ellisor will
preach at Methodist Church Sunday morning on education and Rev. J.G. Dickinson
will preach on the same subject at Baptist Church Sunday night. A full
attendance of our people is requested at both of these services in the interest
of education and our educational institutions.
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