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| Grave of Julia A. Thomas at Mt. Union. |
What follows are 100-year-old news excerpts from the March 5, 1919
edition of The Evergreen Courant newspaper in Conecuh County, Ala.
Miss Ruby Kendall, one of Evergreen’s choice girls, is now
in Coblenz, Germany. She is with the American Expeditionary Forces and seems to
be going on to Berlin.
Memorial Service: A goodly number of the friends of the late
Rev. George E. Mize assembled at the Baptist Church on Sunday night last to pay
tribute to his memory. The music furnished by the choir, appropriate to the
occasion, consisted of songs of which deceased was specially fond. Dr.
Dickinson presided. Rev. D.W. Haskew spoke of Mr. Mize as a man, Rev. Kempton
as a friend and Dr. Dickinson as a minister.
Dr. J.R. Brooks spent last week in Detroit, Mich. He was
accompanied on the trip by C.S. Rabb.
Dr. B.F. Riley came down from Birmingham on Saturday last
for a visit with his brothers, W.G. and R.I. Riley, going from here to Monroe
County to see Capt. T.M. Riley.
The Burgamy community is taking on new life. They now have a
good school and one of the best buildings in the county. They are going to
repaint in the spring. Walter Lee is a builder.
W.T. Sheehan, editor of the Advertiser, and Mr. Spangler,
better known as “Spang,” cartoonist for the same paper, are distinguished
visitors to Evergreen today. These gentlemen are always cordially welcomed to
Evergreen. While here, they are guests of C.P. Deming and Mayor Ivey.
L.D. King reports that the rains and bad roads of the winter
have almost blacked his shipment of lumber. The bad roads have also greatly reduced
the output of the Jackson Lumber Co.
Miss Julian Thomas died near Herbert on the 26th
of February and was buried at Mt. Union on last Thursday. She was a woman of
unusual ability and numbered here friends by the scores.
Judge Gamble came down yesterday from Greenville to draw the
jury for the spring term of the circuit court, returning home in the afternoon.
Dr. Dickinson is presenting the claims of Evergreen to
retain the Baptists Orphanage to the Baptists of Alabama in a masterly way. He
is using they Alabama Baptist to get his claims before the folks, and his
arguments can not be refuted.
The famous “Rainbow Division,” now in Germany, will set sail
for America and home on April 15, according to official announcement. A strong
effort is being made to get the war department to permit the Alabama boys to be
mustered out of service at Montgomery and this in all likelihood will be done.
It is also planned to have a large delegation of Alabamians to meet our boys in
New York when they arrive.
Mr. Hatfield, who recently removed from Montgomery County
and purchased a farm three miles from town on the Brooklyn road, has a large
acreage planted to early peas. We need more such farmers as our newcomer from
Montgomery County. The Courant hopes his bank account may not cease to grow.
Mr. J.C. Cheney left on Friday last for New Orleans where
she will spend a month with her sister.
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