100-year-old news highlights from The Evergreen Courant

What follows are 100-year-old news excerpts from the Nov. 6, 1918 edition of The Evergreen Courant newspaper in Conecuh County, Ala.

The “daylight saving” plan which came to an end on Oct. 27 is reported to have saved 1,250,000 tons of coal for the nation, besides enabling a lot more of work to be done. It puts an hour more of work in the morning when people are fresh and vigorous, and it gives them an additional hour in the afternoon for recreation.

Mrs. S.P. Wigley arrived in the city from Brewton Thursday afternoon to join her husband, who is employed on The Courant’s force.

Manning Tatum of Skinnerton and Earnest Frazier of Castleberry are reported in recent casualty lists as wounded in action on the Eurpoean battle fronts.

Relatives in this county yesterday received advices of the death of Arthur Hines at a hospital in England on Oct. 9. Deceased was a son of Mr. and Mrs. F.P. Hines, formerly of Belleville, now of Montgomery. It is learned that he died of pneumonia.

Neal Dunn, son of J.W. Dunn, was severely injured on Monday morning when the oil truck which he was driving was demolished by a freight train at the Gantt mill crossing. The truck was the property of R.B. Lee, who handles the Standard Oil Co.’s business here. Young Dunn is said to be suffering considerable pain.

The exhaustion of the supply of asafetida in Evergreen drug stores cannot be taken as proof that our people are in the least superstitious, but that they have faith in an old remedy as a preventative of infection: Folks disdain superstition, but it was a curious if not significant fact that we’re out of asafetida pretty soon after the influenza epidemic started. But some folks cannot get out of the habit of wearing a little bag of asafetida and camphor around their necks especially when contagions are about – and some even wear steel rings on their forefinger to cure rheumatism. Superstitious! Certainly not. An ounce of prevention, etc.

Notice To The Public: The proclamation heretofore issued prohibiting the holding of public meetings and schools and the dispensing of soft drinks in the town of Evergreen during the prevailing epidemic of influenza is revoked, effective Sun., Nov. 10, as to public meetings, and Monday following as to soft drinks and schools, the danger of infection apparently having passed. – W.B. Ivey, Mayor.

New Photograph Gallery At White House Hotel: Pictures at $1.50 to $15 the dozen. You can have sittings made on both fair and cloudy weather. I also make picture frames. Here for short time only. – J.F. Hart, Photographer, Evergreen, Ala.

Mr. and Mrs. J.T. Williams have advised us that their son, Clyde Williams, has recently been assigned to service at the aviation camp at Rich Field, Waco, Texas, which means that he is now a birdman.

The Courant learns that Dr. Stacey of Midway has been seriously ill for several days past and is yet in a critical condition. Like all physicians throughout the country, he ministered to influenza patients and he contracted the malady himself and later developed pneumonia. We trust he will soon be restored to his accustomed good health.

County Commissioner T.M. Salter received information a few days ago that his son, Dr. C.L. Salter, has been seriously ill with pneumonia at Camp Hancock, Ga., where he has been on duty for some time in the base hospital.