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JAN. 21, 2016
Hillcrest High School’s
marching band was one of the many highlights of Monday afternoon’s Dr. Martin
Luther King Jr. Day parade in downtown Evergreen. The parade featured over 50 entries,
representing local churches, civic organizations, public officials and clubs.
Evergreen city officials and
members of the Evergreen-Conecuh County Chamber of Commerce held a
ribbon-cutting ceremony last Thursday morning to welcome the new Zaxby’s
restaurant to Evergreen. The new restaurant is located in the new Liberty Hill
Development off Exit 96 and is open seven days a week from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m.
A number of public officials,
civic leaders and members of the Evergreen-Conecuh County Chamber of Commerce
took part in a ribbon-cutting ceremony Friday morning during the grand opening
of the new Johnson & Son Appliance and Service business at 532 West Front
St. in Evergreen.
Alumni invited to ASCC event:
Alumni of Alabama Southern Community College living in Conecuh County are
invited to attend the college’s 50th Anniversary Homecoming Alumni
Award Reception and other events set for tomorrow (Friday) and Saturday.
The reception for past
graduates of the college, which was formerly known as Patrick Henry State
Junior, will be held tomorrow at the Vanity Fair Golf & Tennis Club in
Monroeville.
29 YEARS AGO
JAN. 17, 1991
Weather observer Harry Ellis
reported 0.15 inches of rain on Jan. 7, 0.02 inches on Jan. 8, 0.03 inches on
Jan. 9, 1.48 inches on Jan. 10 and 0.10 inches on Jan. 11. He reported highs of
66 degrees on Jan. 7 and Jan. 11 and a low of 25 on Jan. 13.
Conecuh’s Stacey Sims in
Montgomery all week: Conecuh County’s 1991 Young Woman of the Year, Miss Stacey
Sims, has been in Montgomery all week preparing for the 34th Annual
Alabama Young Woman of the Year Program.
Stacey will perform her
creative and performing arts routine at the Friday evening preliminary on Jan.
18, beginning at 7:30 p.m. She will be featured in her poise and composure and
physical fitness routines on Saturday afternoon, Jan. 19, at 1:30 p.m. Final
competitions will be Saturday evening, Jan. 19, at 7:30 p.m. All performances
will be held at the Montgomery Civic Center.
U.S. Senator Richard Shelby
will be the featured speaker at the Evergreen-Conecuh County Chamber of
Commerce’s annual Promotion Membership Banquet on Friday night, Jan. 25, at
seven o’clock at the Quality Inn.
President Willene Whatley and
other Chamber officials are elated that one of the state’s top elected
officials has agreed to address the meeting.
Conecuh County Sheriff Edwin
L. Booker was administered the oath of office for his fifth term Monday
afternoon by his brother, Probate Judge Rogene Booker.
54 YEARS AGO
JAN. 13, 1966
Johnson earns combat badge: Pfc. Calvin S. Johnson, whose
wife, Shirley, lives on Route 2, Box 79, Evergreen, Ala., was awarded the
Army’s Combat Infantryman Badge, Dec. 28, for serving in combat with the 1st
Cavalry Division (Airmobile) in Vietnam.
Johnson, a 19-year-old machine-gunner, has been with the
division since its arrival in South Vietnam’s central highlands last September.
Johnson, son of Mr. and Mrs. James E. Johnson, Range, is
a 1964 graduate of Repton High School.
RESOLUTION: Whereas, the Supreme Grand Master of the
Universe in his providence has removed from our fellowship from labor to
refreshment our beloved and co-laborer, Brother James Aubrey (Jim) Hassell, who
departed this life Nov. 22, 1965. Be it therefore resolved by Dean Lodge No.
112 F&AM in communication duly assembled:
That by Brother Hassell’s passing, Dean Lodge has lost an
honored and valuable member, the state a good, upright citizen, and his family
a devoted, loving husband and father;
That we extend to his bereaved loved ones our sincere
sympathy in this sad hour of sore affliction, and commend them to the Infinite
Father who looks down with compassion on the widow and children in their hour
of desolation;
That a copy of these resolutions be spread upon the
permanent minutes of Dean Lodge, that a copy be sent to the family of the
deceased brother, and that a copy be sent to The Evergreen Courant for
publication. – Robert V. McLendon, Tom M. Kendall, J.F. Clements.
79 YEARS AGO
JAN. 16, 1941
Conecuh Will Inaugurate First
Woman Probate Judge: Conecuh County will inaugurate a new probate judge Mon.,
Jan. 20, when Mrs. Edna N. Dunn succeeds Judge L.W. Price. This inauguration is
unusual in that it marks the first time that a woman has ever filled that
office in Conecuh, in fact, there is only one other county in the state which
has a woman serving in that capacity, Washington County.
Mrs. Dunn states that Lloyd
G. Hart, a young Evergreen attorney, will take over the duties of chief clerk
at the time she is inducted into office.
ORMAN BOWER: Orman Bower, age
68, lieutenant U.S. Army, retired, died at the Veterans Hospital in Biloxi,
Miss., Mon., Jan. 13, after a short illness.
Lt. Bower was born in Troy,
Ala. He enlisted in the U.S. Army at an early age, and was retired several
years ago with the rank of first lieutenant. During the years he spent in the
army, he saw service in many lands. He was a Spanish-American War veteran, a
World War I veteran, and served with the American forces sent to China to quell
the Boxer Rebellion.
Besides his brother, M.V.
Bower, Evergreen, with whom he had made his home for the past 12 years, he is
survived by three other brothers: Tom Bower, Evergreen; Henry, Troy; St. Clair,
Leesburg, Fla., and one sister, Mrs. Carrie B. Young, Montgomery.
Interment was in Magnolia
Cemetery, Evergreen, with Wild Brothers in charge.
104 YEARS AGO
JAN.
13, 1916
THE CONECUH
RECORD
Killed As He Holds His Baby: Castleberry - Wade
Longmyer was shot and instantly killed at his home six miles from Castleberry.
Willis Johnson is held for the crime. When shot Longmyer held one of his babies
in his arms, the child’s leg being broken by one of the shots that killed the
father.
Thermometer went down to 20
during the cold snap.
Wednesday, Jan. 10, the
birthday of that celebrated soldier and model Christian gentleman, Robert E.
Lee, was observed as a holiday in Alabama.
The special train bearing the
Southeastern Kansas Boosters will reach Evergreen at 2:32 p.m. Jan. 25 and will
stop 30 minutes. They will be met by a delegation of our businessmen.
An inmate died a few nights
ago in the county bastille.
Dr. Ellison’s pulpit was
filled last Sunday by Rev. O.F. Welch of Prattville, representing the
superannuated preachers’ fund. At the close of his sermon, in response to an
earnest appeal for offerings to this worthy cause, the sum of $58 was realized,
several big-hearted laymen heading the list with liberal contributions. Such
examples of Christian giving characterize the membership of each of our
churches.
A former citizen of
Evergreen, W.L. Carter of Eufaula, is visiting his brothers, A.R. and G.M.
Carter.
129 YEARS AGO
JAN. 15, 1891
THE EVERGREEN STAR
The remains of Mr. William
Holloman were interred here (Gravella) on the 23rd of December.
Reports say he was accidentally killed while performing railroad labor at some
point in Florida.
Northern tourists are coming
in to Evergreen by every train.
Rev. J.E. Massey of Richmond,
Va., we learn, will occupy the pulpit of the Baptist church next Sunday. Mr.
Massey is said to be a very able minister.
Sheriff McCreary brought
William Wicks back from the coal mines Monday. Wicks has just served out a term
and is brought back to answer the charge of setting fire to the jail.
We greatly sympathize with
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Wilson of Brooklyn, in the loss of their only child, an
infant eight months old. They brought the remains to Evergreen last Monday and
interred them in Pensacola Tuesday.
There will be services in the
new Baptist church at Castleberry next Sunday afternoon. The chapel is not
completed yet, but it is expected that services will be held in it once a month
hereafter. Any one who will pay for a window or a pew, will confer a great
favor and aid in a good cause. – JNO. W. STEWART, Missionary Pastor.
Mrs. F.L. Hickox has returned
from her sojourn in Connecticut. This will be gratifying news to her many
Evergreen friends.
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