24 YEARS AGO
SEPT. 12, 1996
Evergreen weather observer
Harry Ellis reported 0.05 inches of rain on Sept. 2, 0.80 inches on Sept. 4, a
trace of rain on Sept. 5 and 0.23 inches on Sept. 6. He reported a high of 90 degrees
on Sept. 8 and lows of 67 on Sept. 4 and Sept. 5.
The 16th Annual
Conecuh Heritage Festival, sponsored by the Conecuh Heritage Committee and the
Evergreen-Conecuh Chamber of Commerce will be held Sat., Oct. 19, in downtown
Evergreen from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Opening ceremonies will begin
at 9 a.m. The winners of the 1996 Miss Heritage Pageant will be presented at
this time.
Activities for the day
include arts and crafts, food booths, live entertainment and children’s
activities.
Runoff election is next
Tuesday for District One: Only part of the citizens of Evergreen will return to
the polls next Tuesday for the runoff election. All races but one were decided
in the election held in August.
Residents of Evergreen who
are in District 1 will vote in the race between incumbent Councilman Jerry
Caylor and Evergreen businessman Homer Chavers.
Polls will again be open from
8 a.m. to 6 p.m. and everyone in District 1 is encouraged to get out and vote.
Residents who live on Lee
Street and on out County Road 42 are being detoured as of Wednesday morning at
7 a.m. The county closed the road so this bridge can be replaced. The
replacement of the bridge should take between 30 to 45 working days.
50 YEARS AGO
SEPT. 10, 1970
Samuel Sapp holds this
monster rattlesnake which his wife killed early Thursday morning in their yard.
The rattler had 13 rattles and a button and was well over five-feet long.
The Fall Term of Circuit
Court for Conecuh County will open here Monday morning at nine o’clock with
Circuit Judge Robert E.L. Key presiding. Trial of civil cases will be held with
cases set each day through Thursday. There are 13 cases on the docket.
Judge Key will also empanel
the Grand Jury Monday morning. District Attorney Ted Pearson of Monroeville and
County Solicitor Henry J. Kinzer will assist the jury in its deliberations.
Circuit Clerk Leon A. Salter
released the following docket, listing cases as set by days with plaintiff and
attorney listed in that order…
Jerry Sasser is improving
after accident: Jerry Sasser, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ray Sasser, is reported
improving after suffering critical injuries in a freak accident on Sept. 1. He
is tentatively scheduled for surgery Friday at this time, according to his
father.
Jerry was working for his
father at the Lone Star Service Station when the accident occurred. He was
changing a tire and as he put air into it, the bead separated and the tire blew
out. The rim was thrown into the air, striking Jerry in the foreheard.
His father said that he
talked to Mrs. Sasser around 9:30 Tuesday night and at that time Jerry was
feeling much better. In fact he had been allowed to sit up.
69 YEARS AGO
SEPT. 13, 1951
The schools of Evergreen will
open with appropriate exercises Friday morning. W.P. McMillan, principal,
announces that the Evergreen City School will open with a program in the
auditorium at 8:30 Friday morning. An enrollment of around 300 is expected.
Evergreen High School will
also hold its opening Friday morning. Principal Jack Finklea expects a record
enrollment of nearly 500.
With the completion on Sept.
7 of Joe F. Walters Contracting Company’s contract for the surfacing of the
Belleville to Castleberry road, there was added 10 more miles of all weather
roads to this county’s Farm to Market System.
Road mileage in Conecuh
County totals 805 miles, 165 miles of which are paved. There are 124 miles of
state and 681 miles of county roads.
LECTURE: H.L. Blount will
lecture on the subject, “Evolution and the Bible,” Sun., Sept. 16 at 401
Magnolia Ave. Everyone welcome.
George Hendricks Jr., student
at Auburn, spent his vacation at home.
Cpl. Temple Millsap was
appointed a supervisor last week, the only noncommissioned officer ever
appointed to this place at Keesler Air Force Base.
Pfc. Harold Crawford, the son
of Mr. and Mrs. A.J. Crawford of Evergreen, who was stationed in Ft. Jackson,
S.C. with the 31st Infantry Division has been shipped to Korea.
75 YEARS AGO
SEPT. 13, 1945
John Thomas Gaillard Passes On Friday: Evergreen
suffered a great loss on last Friday in the passing of John Tom Gaillard, which
occurred at his home on Bruner Avenue, after a few days illness. Mr. Gaillard
was city clerk, an office he filled most efficiently, always ready to help,
listen and furnish help. He was a courteous gentleman.
He was born in Camden Sept. 15, 1878 and it was with
no small degree of modesty, he always spoke with deep affection of his old
home, Camden, Wilcox County. He was proud of his lineage. His parents were the
Richebourge Gaillards. He father was a graduate of law, from Yale, and his
mother was Annie Caldwell, of distinguished South Carolina families.
He served as Cadet in the Spanish American War, and as
First Lieutenant in World War I. It was a source of great regret that he could
not serve in World War II.
John Hunter Thornley Is New City Clerk: John Hunter
Thornley, well known and popular young man of Evergreen, was elected by a
unanimous vote of the City Council Monday as city clerk of Evergreen to fill
the vacancy caused by the death last week of J.T. Gaillard. Mr. Thornley
assumed the duties of his office Tuesday morning. He has held a position with
the post office here for the past several months. Prior to this, he was chief
clerk at the War Ration Board. For a number of years, he held a responsible
position with the AAA here.
84 YEARS AGO
SEPT. 10, 1936
Willie J. Simpson, age about
30 years, was instantly killed at 10 o’clock Saturday morning when for some
reason or other he stuck his head under the automatic press at the gin of the
Evergreen Manufacturing Co. The press caught his head and literally crushed it,
causing instant death. Witnesses state that he never moved after he was struck.
According to reports, just
before the fatal accident occurred a fire had broken out at the gin caused by a
match which had been left in the cotton being ginned. However, the blaze had
been extinguished before the accident. It is thought that Simpson was looking
into the press to see if all the fire was out. He had climbed up the walls of
the press and turned back a screen door which is there to protect employees of
the gin from the press head. Some fellow workers warned him of the danger and
it is said that he jumped clear of it the first time it came down but the next time
it caught him.
All arrangements have been
completed in preparation for the opening of the schools of the county on
Tuesday of next week, according to an announcement given The Courant by
Supt.-elect H.D. Weathers, who will become superintendent Sept. 14, succeeding
Prof. M.A. Hanks, who will assume duties as principal of the Evergreen High
School next Monday.
Richard Brassell, eldest son
of Mrs. Carnella Brassell of this city, was awarded the scholarship made
possible by the late Maj. W.O. Parmer, native of Butler County, but who was a
resident of Nashville at the time of his death
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