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| Alabama Gov. Benjamin M. Miller |
15 YEARS AGO
MARCH 17, 2005
Gov. Riley to speak at chamber banquet: Gov. Bob Riley will
be the keynote speaker for the Monroeville Area Chamber of Commerce’s annual
membership dinner meeting March 28 at the Monroeville Community House.
Other speakers for the evening will include Monroeville
Mayor Anne Farish, Monroe County Commission President Otha Lee Biggs, 2004
Chamber of Commerce President Tom Lomenick and First Vice President Bill Lamar.
Panthers maul opponents: Excel’s baseball team outscored
three opponents, 47-8, last week, improving the Panthers’ overall record to 8-0
and their 2A Area 2 record to 2-0.
Excel started last week’s run with a 17-3 win over county
rival J.U. Blacksher at Uriah Tuesday. The Panthers followed with a 17-2 win
over county rival J.F. Shields last Thursday in Beatrice. And last Friday, the
Panthers got their most important win of the week, a 13-3 decision over Area 2
rival Flomaton in Excel.
(Top players for Excel in those games included Brian Barlow,
Patrick Bowen, Neal Butler, Josh House, Seth Mack, Josh Morgan, Justin
Ridgeway, Justin Whatley and Blake White.)
50th anniversary: J.W. and Willean Sales of
Monroeville celebrated their 50th anniversary Jan. 9 with a dinner
at the Vanity Fair Golf & Tennis Club, hosted by their children. The
couple’s grandchildren serenaded them with songs. They were married Jan. 9,
1955 in First Baptist Church in Gulfport, Miss. They have four children and 15
grandchildren.
40 YEARS AGO
MARCH 20, 1980
To perform Tuesday: Performing at the Monroeville Chamber of
Commerce banquet Tuesday will be David Garrard, a magician from Louisville, Ky.
The chamber’s steak banquet will cost $10 per person and will be held at 7 p.m.
at the Vanity Fair community house. Garrard is a magician and illusionist who
has performed across the Southeast in malls and at conventions and banquets.
Pugh to be honored Tuesday: Keith Pugh, University of
Alabama wide receiver, will be honored by the Conecuh County Chapter of the
University of Alabama Alumni Association when “Keith Pugh Day” is held Tuesday
of next week in Evergreen.
Pugh, who played his high school football at Monroe Academy,
was instrumental in the Tide’s national championship season in 1979, leading
“Bear” Bryant’s team in receiving despite missing several games due to an
injury.
The day honoring the Evergreen native will conclude with a
dinner at the Evergreen Holiday Inn at 7:30 that evening with Bryant as the
guest speaker.
Bus strike is settled: Trailways bus services to Monroeville
will resume tonight (Thursday), following a nearly five-month-long strike.
Havard Dulaney, vice president of Colonial Trailways in
Mobile, reported this week that the bus drivers’ strike was settled Friday.
Colonial Trailways service to Monroeville resume tonight
when a southbound bus en route to Mobile is scheduled to arrive at 8:10. The
Colonial Trailways strike, which began Nov. 3 of last year, affected freight,
charter and passenger service.
65 YEARS AGO
MARCH 17, 1955
Rattlesnake Swallows Rabbit: Warm spring weather has
apparently brought some of the county’s larger rattlesnake clan out of
hibernation and increased their appetites. The five-foot, eight-inch rattler
shown above contained the small rabbit also pictured when killed by four Excel
High School students on the Old Stage Road at the Monroe-Conecuh County
boundary. The snake had 14 rattlers and a button. The lads who brought the
sizeable reptile specimen to his final end shortly after his rabbit feast are
Sonny Baas, Carl Jordan, William White and Charles Lowery.
BHS Eagle Hopefuls Learn Fundamentals: Fundamentals,
including blocking and tackling and ball handling, have been the order of the
day during spring pigskin drills at Beatrice High School, according to Coach
James Pace.
Thirteen lettermen were listed by Coach Pace as returning
for potential action with the 1955 BHS Eagle eleven.
(Those returning lettermen included center Carl Brantley, tackle
Charles Davis, tackle Jimmy Turberville, halfback Albert Robinson, halfback
Ollie Tatum, quarterback Jim Bigger, quarterback Maxie Luker, guard Billy
Morgan, end Johnny Adams, end Al Middleton, tackle Arnold McPherson and tackle
Dale Wiggins.)
Shrine Club Holds Banquet, Dance: “Ladies Night” of the South
Alabama Shrine Club was observed here Monday night with a dinner at the Hi-Ho
Restaurant followed by a dance at the Community House. Around 30 Shriners and
their wives from Monroe, Escambia and Conecuh counties were present for the
festivities. The program was presided over by the club president, J.P. Turpin
of Peterman.
90 YEARS AGO
MARCH 20, 1930
Judge Miller To Speak Here March 26: Judge B.M. Miller of
Camden, Alabama, one of the leading candidates for governor of Alabama, will
speak at the courthouse at 10 o’clock a.m. on March 26, 1930.
Judge Miller is not only a resident of our sister county of
Wilcox, but several years ago he practiced his profession rather extensively in
Monroe County and is well known to most of our older citizenship.
He was a circuit judge for a long number of years after
which he served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama.
GEORGE TOM BURT: Purnell community lost an old-time citizen
Thursday, March 13, 1930 in the passing of George Tom Burt. He was buried at
the Purnell Methodist cemetery.
Mr. Burt was born April 3, 1856 near Belleville. Mr. Burt
was a farmer and a storekeeper most of his life. He was a Mason for many years
and has been a member of the Purnell Methodist Church since its founding in
1913.
AROUND TOWN: See Mr. Lucian Jones if you are interested in
golf. He will give you a few particulars. We hope to have a real golf course
here if enough people are interested in it.
WELL CONTRACT LET: The Layne-Central company has been
awarded a contract to drill an 18-inch well at Monroeville, J.D. Noland, local
manager, announced Friday. The Alabama Water Service Co., which awarded the
contract, is spending approximately $30,000 in improving the water facilities
at Monroeville.
115 YEARS AGO
MARCH 16, 1905
Dr. D.R. Nettles was over from Peterman Tuesday evening
attending a meeting of the Royal Arch Chapter.
PINEVILLE: Somewhere in the small hours of last night, we
were awakened by a noise which was very different from the exquisite melody of
a guitar, to which we had been listening just at nightfall. At first, we did
not know what it was. The reassurance came – the sound, which had become like
distant thunder, was interrupted by a fierce, wild cry, accompanied by numerous
loud thumps and bumps, proclaiming that two specimens of the feline family were
in mortal combat.
NATCHEZ: A new public road has been cut commencing here and
terminating at Beatrice. May it, in time, become one of the county’s favorite
drives, affording pleasure to the pleasure seekers and saving much of
blacksmith bills and frequent buggy buying.
Oyster Supper: An oyster supper will be given at the home of
Mr. S.R. Kelly on Friday evening, March 17, for the benefit of the Woodlawn
Methodist Church. The public is cordially invited.
GLENDALE: Mr. B.F. Daugette and Mrs. C.E. Shofner have
recently had their houses ornamented with lightning rods.
BUENA VISTA: We regret to say that Mr. Abe Giddings, who is
assistant carpenter with his brother, Pinkney, on our church, had a fall of 18
feet from the building, dislocating his collarbone, cutting his wrist and
bruising his body generally. He received immediate attention from our excellent
physician, Dr. Hestle, but will not be able to resume work for several weeks.
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