18 YEARS AGO
AUG. 15, 2002
Ribbon cutting: City cleaners, located between Ivey Street
and Drewry Road on South Alabama Avenue in Monroeville, held its ribbon-cutting
ceremony Friday. The cleaners opened for business May 20. Attending the
ribbon-cutting ceremony were owners Scott and Linda Holmes, Monroeville Mayor
Anne Farish, Alabama Employment Service manager Ann Morgan, Sheryl Salter and
members of the Mockingbird Court.
Boone to speak Friday: Herman Boone, a former Virginia high
school football coach, will speak at a benefit banquet sponsored by the Monroe
County High School Tigers Touchdown Club tomorrow (Friday) in Monroeville at
6:30 p.m. He will also speak Saturday at MCHS’s football stadium at 9 a.m.
Tomorrow’s event will be held at the Monroeville Community House at Whitey Lee
Park.
Boone is known for his effort to bring two consolidated Virginia
high schools together to win a state championship in his first year as the
school’s head coach. His success was documented in the film, “Remember the
Titans.” His character in the movie was portrayed by actor Denzel Washington.
Governor appoints Leva to tourism board: Alabama Gov. Don
Siegelman appointed Monroe County businessman Roger Leva to represent Alabama’s
Hospitality Association on the Alabama Bureau of Tourism and Travel Advisory
Board July 8.
Leva, who is also the chairman of the Alabama Hospitality
Association’s board of directors, will finish his six-year term on the board
June 30, 2008.
43 YEARS AGO
AUG. 18, 1977
Old Scotland church gets historical marker: A plaque naming
Old Scotland Presbyterian Church as an historical site was placed on the church
at the annual homecoming services July 31.
The Presbyterian Historical Society last year named the
church an historical site and presented the plaque in recognition of that
honor.
Services began at 11 a.m., followed by dinner on the
grounds. Nearly 100 persons celebrated the 154th anniversary of the
church this year. The church, originally named Euphronia, was organized in 1823
on a high ridge parallel to the Alabama River.
Sam Hollingsworth, principal of Monroe County High School,
made his first hole-in-one Aug. 3 while golfing with Mr. and Mrs. George Jones
at Vanity Fair golf course. The hole-in-one came on the seventh green.
Pvt. John C. “Chip” Woods has completed 12 weeks of Marine
Corps training at Parris Island, S.C. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Ted Woods,
Spanish Fort, and the grandson of Mr. and Mrs. John N. Youngblood, Frisco City,
and Mrs. Lora Bell Williams, Little River. Woods is currently serving on
recruiting duty and will be in Fairhope for 30 days.
Crop-duster crashes: Jennings Carter of Monroeville, a
crop-duster pilot, was injured Monday afternoon when his plane crashed near
Mexia. Carter reportedly was dusting a field just before the crash occurred
about 6:30 p.m. on a dirt road in the Thompson subdivision. Carter was taken to
Monroe County Hospital for treatment of a laceration of the forehead and
possible back injuries, according to Barbara Mitchell of Larry’s Ambulance
Service.
68 YEARS AGO
AUG. 21, 1952
Monroe County’s 1952 “Maid of Cotton” will be crowned
tonight (Thursday) at a special musical program to be staged at the Monroeville
regional coliseum.
Twelve entrants have filled applications to enter the
contest. They are Misses Doris Williamson, Rose Marie Hines, Janice Dees,
Barbara Goddert, Joyce Morris, Katie Ruth Anderson, Annice Taylor, Carolyn
Hammac, Mary Ann Terry and Eunice Daniel, all of Monroeville; Miss Dorye Lyda
of Frisco City and Miss Arthurine Brantley of Excel.
This year’s winner will be crowned by the county 1951 “Maid
of Cotton,” Miss Florence Helton of Monroeville.
Football practice at four Monroe County schools – Monroe
County High, Frisco City High, Excel High and J.U. Blacksher High – will begin
Friday, while it is slated to start at Beatrice High School on Monday.
The Monroeville and Beatrice schools will have their initial
encounter of the season when they clash in Monroeville on Thursday night, Sept.
11.
The Uriah and Frisco City teams will continue the county’s
opening slate with a clash in Uriah on Friday night, Sept. 12. The first Excel
High School game is set for Sept. 28 against Frisco City in Frisco City.
Journal Owners Buy Jackson Newspaper: Jimmy Faulkner and
Bill Stewart, publishers of The Journal, this week purchased The South
Alabamian, weekly newspaper in Jackson, from Reginald D. Pearce, publisher. The
new owners assumed control of the paper Monday. Mr. Stewart will serve temporarily
as editor of the paper.
93 YEARS AGO
AUG. 18, 1927
KILLED IN CAVE-IN: A distressing accident occurred at a
gravel pit near Jones Mill on Tuesday resulting in the death of Mr. Vander
Smith and painful injuries to two other men.
The men were engaged in digging gravel used in surfacing the
state highway when the overhanging bank gave way crushing the unfortunate man
under many tons of earth. Two other men, whose names have not been learned,
were severely bruised in the same accident.
SHOT FROM AMBUSH: A man known as Major House was shot and
killed by some person unknown near Perdue Hill Tuesday evening. (House) was
returning to his home from Jones Mill where he had sold a bale of cotton. When
he reached a point a few miles from his home, he was fired upon by some person
in ambush, five buckshot taking effect in his head. Circumstances indicate that
a second charge was fired into his body as he lay prostrate in his wagon.
Sheriff Kilpatrick is following up certain clues in his possession and hopes to
identify the assassin.
Miss Jennie Faulk has returned from market where she
purchased her fall and winter stock of millinery, ladies ready-to-wear and
notions.
Pat Schneider killed a five-foot rattlesnake on Monday
afternoon. The snake was unusually large to have carried only eight rattles.
Dr. J.H. McCormick and Mr. George Potter of Mobile stopped
over in Monroeville Wednesday of last week en route to Herbert where the
Conecuh County Masonic Conference was held Thursday.
118 YEARS AGO
AUG. 21, 1902
LAW AND ORDER MEETING: Pursuant to the call published in a
recent issue of The Journal, a mass meeting of citizens was held in the
courthouse last Friday to consider the deplorable condition of lawlessness and
disorder existing in the county and to devise ways and means of bringing about
a better state of affairs. The meeting was fairly well attended, many of the
leading citizens of various neighborhoods being present, and the proceedings
were harmonious.
The meeting was called to order by Col. B.L. Hibbard, who
nominated Dr. J.T. Russell as chairman, and he was elected. F.W. Hare, Esq.,
and Mr. H.A. Hendrix were made secretaries.
MANISTEE: Another homicide committed. It is learned that Mr.
Will Colbert of Nero was cut to death a few days ago while trying to separate
two other parties while fighting. The man who did the cutting is unknown to the
writer but it is said that Colbert died instantly.
BEATRICE: Lightning struck the new residence of S.J.
Stallworth a few days ago, doing slight damage to the building and shocking one
of the workmen.
McWILLIAMS: I am sorry to say that Mr. Willard Till, who was
bitten by a mad dog about three months ago, was taken with hydrophobia last
Friday and died this morning about two o’clock.
Mr. J.H. Moore of Perdue Hill was (in Monroeville) last week
exhibiting some fine specimens of marble taken from his quarry on the Alabama
River. The marble is said to exist in almost inexhaustible quantities and his
friends hope that he may realize a fortune from it.
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