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| Dr. Lee Bidgood |
35 YEARS AGO
FEB. 21, 1985
Dr. Hanks named Frisco’s top citizen: Dr. B.L. Hanks
received the Outstanding Citizen of Frisco City Award during the Frisco City
Chamber of Commerce’s annual banquet last Thursday night in Frisco City Baptist
Church’s Family Activity Center.
Hanks, who was born in Frisco City in 1910 and graduated
from Frisco City High School, served in various cities as a streetcar inspector
from 1927 until 1939, when he decided to become a doctor. He received his
medical degree from Harvard College of Medicine in 1944.
MCHS attracts 74 prospects for spring football drills:
Monroe County High School football coach and athletic director Howard Busby was
impressed with the number of young men who turned out for the first day of
spring drills Wednesday of last week.
Busby and assistant coaches Mike Kimberl, Tommy Keeton and
Don Nelson began working with 74 prospective football players Wednesday of last
week.
(Those players included Jim Campbell, Willie Carmichael,
George Coker, Todd Hill, Steve Ramer, Donald Ray Tucker and Mark Williams.)
Chamber to get new home: A move to new headquarters was
provided for in the 1985 budget approved by the Monroeville Area Chamber of
Commerce’s board of directors in a special meeting Monday evening, according to
John Egolf, executive director.
The new office, the old John Causey law office at 137 South
Alabama Ave., provides more space and a meeting room, which is not available at
the present office in the old Monroe County Courthouse, said Egolf. The chamber
hopes to be in the new office by March 1.
60 YEARS AGO
FEB. 18, 1960
Final Hospital Plans Mapped At Meeting Of Doctors,
Architects: Five physicians who practice in Monroe County met with
representatives of a Montgomery architectural firm Tuesday night to map final
plans for Monroe County’s new Hill-Burton Act hospital.
Karl J. Lazenby of Monroeville, chairman, Monroe County
Hospital Board, said Wednesday the local doctors offered suggestions on basic
construction plans for the structure.
He stated the architects speculated work will begin on the
$544,500 facility on a 15-acre plot south of the city limits around the last of
June or the first of July.
Coach Jack Akins’ J.U. Blacksher High School Bulldog quintet
of Uriah is seeded first for the First District Class A basketball tournament
scheduled at Frisco City High School, Feb. 24-27. The Uriah cagers will be
seeking to retain the district title for a second year. (Players on Blacksher’s
team that year included Jerry Brown, Curtis Harris, Ronnie Ikner, Gerald
Johnson, Gary Newman, Doug Norris, Bill Solomon, Jerry Thomas, Willard Turk and
Burl Woods.)
New Rescue Squad Elects Officials: Officers for the new
Monroe County Rescue Squad were elected at an organizational meeting in Frisco
City recently.
President is Claud Wilkerson of Frisco City. Vice presidents
are Jewel King, Jesse McQueen, Wilbur Pickens and Ralph Manning.
Secretary-treasurer is George Burns.
85 YEARS AGO
FEB. 21, 1935
Dr. Bidgood Is Banquet Speaker: About 40 bankers from the
counties in Southwest Alabama, composing the fourth banking district, gathered
in Monroeville for the annual meeting on last Thursday evening. The meeting was
held in the form of a banquet at the American Legion club house, with the
business session immediately following the entertainment.
Dr. Lee Bidgood, Dean of the School of Commerce and Business
Administration of the University of Alabama, was the chief speaker of the
evening.
Rev. Bibb Mills, head of the Anti-Saloon League in Alabama,
spent several hours in Monroeville Saturday.
Young Violinist Appears In Recital Sunday: Miss Elizabeth
Feagin delighted a Monroeville audience on the evening of Feb. 17 with a violin
recital given at the Methodist Church under the auspices of the young women’s
circle of the Missionary Society.
The brilliant young artist was assisted by Messrs. Joe
Puckett, M.E. Skinner, C.O. Hundley and Byron Hendrix.
New Service Station To Open Soon: The new Cities Service
Station to be opened at an early date on the main highway in the Solomon old
stand offers everything in the way of first-class service any motorist could
wish for. This new station will specialize in gas, oil, washing, polishing,
greasing, tires, tubes and automobile accessories. Mr. Olin Moore will be the
manager of this station, and he promises the very best in a 24-hour service to
all people who drive automobiles.
Mr. Brent Metts, who has had a number of years experience as
a mechanic, will put new life into your motor when it goes wrong.
110 YEARS AGO
FEB. 17, 1910
Oscar Brantley Dead: The many friends of the family were
shocked and pained to learn of the death of Oscar Brantley, which occurred at
Auburn on Saturday last. The young man had been in school at the Alabama
Polytechnic Institute for some months past and was taken suddenly and violently
ill after engaging in a ball game, lingering about 10 days. The remains were
brought to Monroeville and interred in the family lot on Sunday.
Robert Stacey and J.F. Grimes of Manistee were in to see us
the first of the week. L.A. Hale, J.F. Grimes, Robert Stacey and J.W. Wilkinson
attended county court the first of the week.
A.M. English was up from Mt. Pleasant the first of the week.
Mr. English related to interested groups a thrilling account of a bear hunt in
which he participated a few weeks ago.
PERDUE HILL R.F.D. – W.B. Runyan and C.R. Burgoyne, who have
lately purchased the property of the Manistee Mill company, are beginning to
repair their plant and get the machinery into running condition.
Local physicians assure us that all danger of a further
outbreak of smallpox in Monroeville has now passed and there is no further
occasion for uneasiness on that account. As a result of this confidence,
business is picking up and merchants are feeling correspondingly cheerful. All
points of infection in the town have been thoroughly fumigated and otherwise
disinfected, so that those having occasion to visit Monroeville on business or
pleasure may do so without the slightest risk.
135 YEARS AGO
FEB. 16, 1885
Snow fell to the depth of about six inches last Thursday.
Skipper, the mail carrier from Bermuda to Claiborne, has had
some severe weather for carrying the mail.
Mr. F. Metts, while out hauling wood one day last week, had
the misfortune to break his wooden leg. He sustained no serious injury
excepting some inconvenience and loss of time.
Capt. W.S. Wiggins has secured the services of that rising
young carpenter, Mr. S.P. Lindsay of Buena Vista, to complete the repairs on
his store house.
Prof. G.L. Graham, our worthy schoolmaster, was compelled to
suspend teaching Thursday and Friday on account of the severe cold weather. The
Academy needs a new stove and should have one.
W.J. Gleaner, a practical and experienced sewing machine
builder and repairer of Chicago, spent several days in town last week at that
excellent hotel, the Jones White House. He was kept quite busy repairing.
Mr. R.P. Fay of Green Cove Springs passed through town last
week on his way to Mr. R. Maibin’s mill, where he will take charge of the
sawing department.
Rev. P.C. Morton, Presbyterian Evangelist, closed a very
interesting meeting at the Presbyterian church at Claiborne last Friday
evening. He went to Scotland from this place Saturday, where he will commence a
meeting to continue several days, and thence to River Ridge.
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