20 YEARS AGO
MAY 11, 2000
Evergreen weather observer Harry
Ellis reported 0.08 inches of rain on May 5. He also reported highs of 89
degrees on May 6 and May 7 and a low of 51 on May 1.
Evergreen’s Relay for Life
this Friday: Conecuh County’s Relay for Life will be held this Friday night in
downtown Evergreen’s “No Man’s Land.” Everyone is invited to come out and enjoy
the fun, fellowship and entertainment Friday beginning at 6 p.m. Activities
will last throughout the night until 6 a.m. on Saturday morning.
Wreck claims life of Miss.
woman: A Gulfport, Miss. woman was killed Sunday morning when her vehicle left
Interstate 65 and struck a tree.
According to the Alabama
Department of Public Safety, Marsha Thompkins, 20, died as a result of her 2000
Chevrolet car leaving the southbound lane and crashing into a tree at 6:45 a.m.
The accident occurred five miles north of Evergreen.
The Flat Rock Community
Center hosted a special luncheon Monday to celebrate a recent grant awarded to
the center to fund improvements to the historic church, located on County Road
26.
According to board member
J.C. Padgett, the Flat Rock Chapel, originally a Reorganized Latter Day Saints
church, has gone through many changes since its establishment in the 1870s. The
church was acquired from the RLDS church in the late 1990s and subsequently
remodeled.
45 YEARS AGO
MAY 8, 1975
Local
weather reporter Earl Windham reported 0.6 inches of rain on April 30 and 0.6
inches on May 3. He reported a high of 83 on May 2 and a low of 56 on April 28.
Total rainfall in April 1975 was 16.7 inches.
Armed robbers hit bank at
Castleberry: Three armed men, all white, robbed the Union Bank of Castleberry
at noon Tuesday and got away with approximately $6,400, according to Sheriff
Edwin Booker. He said that his office was notified of the robbery, which occurred
moments earlier, at 12:59 p.m.
According to the sheriff, two
armed men with pistols entered the bank and robbed two women tellers at
gunpoint. A third man drove the get-away vehicle, a 1970 Ford pickup with
camper body.
The Louisville and Nashville
Railroad Depot in Evergreen, Conecuh County, has been added to the National
Register of Historic Places, the Alabama Historical Commission announced today.
The U.S. Postal Service today
announced a new plan to improve mail service to the SCF Evergreen mail
processing area.
Gene Hyde, Postmaster at
Evergreen, said outgoing mail originating in Evergreen and its 44 associate
offices, which has been sorted manually at Evergreen, would now be processed on
high speed equipment at Montgomery, effective Sat., May 10.
70 YEARS AGO
MAY 11, 1950
Firemen Studying First Aid
Course At School: Evergreen’s Volunteer Firemen are now studying first aid in
connection with their three-month training school. The course is being taught
by W.W. “Fink” Fussell, assistant fire chief of the Greenville Department. The
firemen began their classes in first aid this week and will continue them until
the course is completed.
OES MEETS MONDAY NIGHT –
Conecuh Chapter 217 OES will hold its regular meeting Monday night, May 15, at
7:30 p.m. in the Masonic Hall.
Members Added To Roll Of
Evergreen 160 Club: A number of new members enrolled in Evergreen’s “160 Club”
during the week, pushing the total nearer the 160 required to install Christmas
lights. Officials in charge of the enrollment of members state that since the
goal is so near reached the time for accepting members will be extended for a
few days, so you still have a chance to fork over your five bucks and help get
Evergreen out of the dark this Christmas.
REV. GEORGE CLEVE ELLIS:
Following a long illness, Rev. George Cleve Ellis, age 56, died at a Mobile
hospital Sunday night, where he had been confined for the past six months.
Rev. Ellis was a native of
Conecuh County and lived here his entire life. He entered the ministry of the
Baptist Church when a young man and preached in the rural churches of Conecuh,
Escambia and Monroe counties for some 30 years, or until his health forced him
to retire.
82 YEARS AGO
MAY 12, 1938
Paul Stephenson Draws Five
Years For Killing: A circuit court jury late Wednesday night returned a verdict
of guilty against Paul Stephenson, young white man living in Beat One, and
sentenced him to five years in the penitentiary. Stephenson together with his
father was charged with killing their neighbor, David Wallace, a number of
years ago.
Stephenson’s trial began
Tuesday and did not reach the jury until late Wednesday afternoon. He was
represented by the law firm of Hamilton and Jones of this city. The case of
Neil Stephenson will not be tried at this term of the court.
The case of Tom Howard,
charged with carnal knowledge, a capital offense, was taken up early Monday.
Through his attorney, R.H. Jones, Howard entered a plea of guilty and received
a sentence of 25 years.
Evergreen Included In Air Mail
Pick-Up Plan: Air mail pick-up service planned for Alabama May 15 has been
canceled on orders of the post office department, which asked concentration of
flights on May 19, the state aviation commission announced Wednesday.
Addition of three new cities to
be given pick-up service was announced. They are Thomasville, Evergreen and
Troy. The additions bring to 34 the number of points in which state aviators
will pick up air mail and fly it to regular airliner stops.
“Harllee Branch, second
assistant postmaster general, advised Wednesday the post office department
would concentrate on air mail pick-up service May 19, the 20th anniversary of
airmail inauguration, and refused to permit Alabama flights planned May 15,”
Asa Rountree, state airfield director, announced.
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