THREE YEARS AGO
OCT. 13, 2016
Evergreen weather observer Betty Ellis reported no rain
between Oct. 3 and Oct. 9. She reported a high of 88 on Oct. 4 and a low of 54
on Oct. 9.
The Evergreen-Conecuh County Chamber of Commerce is calling
this past Saturday’s Conecuh Sausage Festival one of the most successful
Sausage Festivals in recent memory.
Evergreen Economic Development Director Bobby Skipper
announced on Tuesday that an estimated crowd of over 2,500 people attended
Saturday’s festival, which was held in downtown Evergreen from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
A total of 65 different vendors helped draw the crowd to the
festival, which also included 14 teams in this year’s BBQ Cook Off Contest.
Employees with the City of Evergreen participated in Alabama
Operation Lifesaver’s 40-City Anniversary Tour last Thursday by attending a
train safety program at the Old L&N Depot in downtown Evergreen. Speakers
at the event included Evergreen Mayor Pete Wolff, Allison Green with the Alabama
Department of Transportation, Operation Lifesaver Alabama Executive Director
Nancy Hudson and Stephen M. Curlee with CSX Railroad.
The Conecuh County 4-H Chick Chain Show was held Sat., Oct.
8, in downtown Evergreen during the Conecuh Sausage Festival. Connor Davis won
first place in showmanship, Grand Champion Pen, Reserve Champion Bird and first
place in the Buff Orpington class.
28 YEARS AGO
OCT. 10, 1991
Evergreen weather
observer Harry Ellis reported a trace of rain on Oct. 5. He reported a high of
87 on Oct. 4 and a low of 44 on Oct. 6.
Going… going… gone! Work crews attached a cable to the final
section of the roof of the old Pix Theatre last week. With a hard “tug,” the
roof and walls came tumbling down. The theatre building and adjacent buildings
are being torn down to make room for the new Bank of Evergreen complex.
Kimberli Griffin was named Conecuh County Young Woman of the
Year last week. She is pictured with Alana Brown, who was named first runner-up
during the competition. Miss Griffin, a senior at Sparta Academy, is the
daughter of Sawyer and Debra Griffin. Miss Brown, a senior at Hillcrest High
School, is the daughter of Cleveland and Sheila Brown.
Evergreen Mayor Lee Smith cuts the ribbon to the new B.C.
Moore & Sons building on McGehee Street. The grand opening of the building
was held last Thursday. The store’s manager, Ronald Poindexter, and his wife,
Jennifer, are also pictured.
Last week’s edition of The Evergreen Courant marked the
beginning of the 97th year of publication of the Conecuh
County-based operation as a weekly newspaper. The first edition of The Courant
hit the streets of Evergreen on Sept. 10, 1895.
53 YEARS AGO
OCT. 13, 1966
Ed E. Reid Trade School opens Monday: Wiley Salter,
Director, Ed E. Reid State Trade School, Evergreen, announced today that the
school will open Mon., Oct. 17. Registration will begin at 8 a.m. After
registration, there will be a period of orientation for the students.
Classes will begin Tuesday. Persons who are interested in
attending the trade school and have not previously made application may do so
anytime before classes begin.
Courses to be offered at the school are: Auto Body Repair,
Auto Mechanics, Business Education, Cosmetology, Mechanical Drafting,
Electricity, Electronics, Practical Nursing, Radio and Television Repair,
Refrigeration and Air Conditioning, and Welding.
County receives 28 of 30 vote machines: Voting machines will
be in use in Conecuh County at most voting places in the Nov. 8 general
election. This was assured when 28 of the machines were received Tuesday. Two
more are on the way and are to be here in plenty of time for the election.
This means that machines will be in use on Nov. 8 at all
county boxes but seven, and if you include the absentee box, eight. Paper
ballots will be used at these seven boxes, but the Board of Directors has
ordered another six machines so that in elections after this, machines will be
in use at all boxes except the absentee.
The Directors are now making plans to have the machines set
up at various places in the county for demonstration purposes. County voters
will be given an opportunity to try a “sample” vote prior to the election.
78 YEARS AGO
OCT. 9, 1941
Yankee Division Passes Through Here: Thousands of Yankees
from New England’s 43rd Infantry Division passed through Evergreen
early this week as the division’s huge motorized convoy headed back to Camp
Blanding, Fla. at the completion of the Louisiana maneuvers.
The New Englanders traveled back to Florida in a four-day
convoy which came to this community on Saturday, Sunday, Monday and Tuesday as
the men headed for Andalusia where the third night of their five-day trip was
spent at a bivouac area.
A total of 17,137 men drove through Evergreen during the
week and exchanged greetings with the residents as the Northern soldiers saw a
section of the South most of them have never seen before.
The 43rd Division is commanded by Major General
Morris B. Payne and consists of National Guardsmen and draftees from Maine,
Vermont, Connecticut and Rhode Island.
WALTER C. WELLS: Walter C. Wells, 24, formerly of Evergreen
and now a second lieutenant in the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve, recently
graduated from the platoon commander’s school at the Marine Barracks, Quantico,
Va., and has been assigned to active duty with the regular troops of the Marine
Corps.
Lt. Wells enlisted in the Corps as candidate for Reserve
Commission in November 1940 and was sent to Quantico to attend a special
four-month course designed to qualify candidates for commission upon
successfully passing the course.
Wells is the nephew of Mrs. E.E. Newton of this city.
128 YEARS AGO
OCT. 8, 1891
Information Wanted: The following
letter addressed to me as coroner of Conecuh County has been received.
STILLWATER, MINN.
Sept. 28, 1891
DEAR SIR: We have
just been informed of the death of our uncle, Benjamin Morgan of Alabama, who
died in 1885. If he died in your county, please let us know the manner of his
death, as business of importance is to be settled at once.
Yours truly,
CHARLES H. MORGAN
The name of
Benjamin Morgan is not on the register of deaths for Conecuh County, therefore
I am sure he did not die in Conecuh County.
Inquiry has also
been made through a German consul about the death of Louis Rudolph Goldbeck by
a railroad accident near Evergreen. A transcript from the register has been
forwarded, showing a man aged about 25 years was killed by a railroad accident
near Evergreen on Dec. 4, 1884. He was considered a tramp. His death was
reported by Mr. J.T. Amos, the railroad section master, who said it was
impossible to ascertain a name from anything on his person or otherwise. This
is the only instance that a death is recorded in the register with name and
other data unknown.
A.A. McKITTRICK,
M.D., Coroner, Conecuh County.
Mr. James A.
Stallworth has returned to the state university to pursue his law studies. He
will also set as private secretary to the president of the university. This is
a distinction awarded and a confidence reposed of which any young man may be
proud.
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