Wilcox County, Alabama News Flashback for June 23, 2021

U.S. Vice President William Rufus King

58 YEARS AGO
JUNE 27, 1963

New Zip Code Is Effective Monday, July 1: ZIP code, the Post Office Department’s new system of delivery, goes into effect nationally July 1, according to postmasters in the area.
Postmaster W.L. Albritton of Camden has announced that the five-digit ZIP code for Camden is 36726. Postmaster Ruby N. Bridges of Arlington lists the number for that post office is 36722. The ZIP code number for the Pine Hill post office is 36769, Mrs. Marie Nuss announced.
Postmaster Bessie N. Harris of Kimbrough has listed 36746 as the code for Kimbrough. Louise Agee, postmaster at Annemanie, has announced the Annemanie post office code number as 36721.
Postmaster M.M. Threadgill of Coy urges citizens in the Coy post office to use the correct code number 36435.

BUYS ANGUS: L.C. Albritton, Camden, recently purchased an Aberdeen-Angus bull from Fred Bain Henderson, Millers Ferry.

Mrs. C.D. Blakeney Named To Faculty: Mrs. Elizabeth D. Blakeney, who has been a member of the Pine Hill School faculty, has been employed as a teacher in the Wilcox County High School, it was announced today by Superintendent of Schools, Bill Jones.
Mrs. Blakeney, who has a Master’s degree in Science and Math, will teach science in the Wilcox school.

Jimmy Bonner of the University of Alabama spent the past weekend with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Robins Bonner.

85 YEARS AGO
JUNE 25, 1936

Prof. and Mrs. A.C. Moore of Atmore passed through enroute to Greensboro to see her mother, Mrs. Florence Goode Ratcliffe. Prof. Moore was principal of Wilcox County High School 1910 and 1911 and his wife was the lovely Miss Annie Ratcliffe of Gastonburg.

We welcome Mr. Luke McCorkle to Camden. He is now employed at Sellers Barber Shopp. He has been with The Albert Hotel Barber Shop for seven years. Call to see him, your business appreciated. – SELLERS BARBER SHOP, Camden, Ala.

Prof. H.W. Dark, who is getting his degree from Birmingham Southern and whose these is William R. King, was here Monday and Tuesday securing data.

Hon. Daniel Gullett Cook, our representative in legislature, has just returned from Cuba, where he went with the Press Association. He reports a fine trip, and he went to Matanzas, where Vice President Wm. R. King took the oath of office as Vice President by special act of Congress in 1853.

NOTICE – This is to certify that the school building at Lower Peach Tree, District No. 29, Wilcox County, Alabama, has been completed according to plans and specifications of the State Department of Education. – A.C. SPINKS, Contractor.

PAROLE NOTICE: Notice is hereby given that Johnnie Fails, who was sentenced in the Circuit Court of Wilcox County on June 21, 1935 to a term of 18 to 24 months for distilling, will make application for a parole.

111 YEARS AGO
JUNE 23, 1910

The business and editorial office of The Wilcox Progressive Era is now at the office of Mr. S.D. Bloch. We will be pleased to have our county and town friends call to see us on business and also to give us the county news.

The Grand Chancellor, Knights of Pythias, has appointed Col. Quarles of Selma as District G.L. Deputy for the district in which the Wilcox County Lodges has been merged. The same Grand Temple building committee has been retained.

Dale Lodge No. 25 at Camden has elected the following officers: J.C. Benson, Worshipful Master; W.B. Reynolds, Junior Warden; T.M. Baggett, Secretary; W.B. Jones, Junior Deacon; A.M. Jackson and P.M. Dannelly, Stewards; W.G. DeWitt, Tyler; I.B. Foster, Senior Warden; G.G. Newell, Treasurer; E.W. Berry, Senior Deacon; and Rev. S.G. Boyd, Chaplain.

Mr. C.B. Bryant of Canton Bend has sent to the Mobile Register sporting editor, a left forefoot of a graveyard rabbit, killed on a Friday night for good luck to the Mobile baseball team.

News reached us Monday evening of the death of Mr. John A. McArthur, which occurred at his home in the Grampion’s. Our sympathy goes out to his wife and two daughters in this sad hour of their deep bereavement.

Lamison: The comet has gone and the old earth still moves on. What will the next excitement be?

134 YEARS AGO
JUNE 22, 1887

After the exercises at the Institute Friday night quite a large crowd of young people repaired to the ball room of the Masonic Hall and enjoyed the fascination of the dance to a later hour. Many sweet young ladies in their handsome dresses graced the dance.

TOWN ORDINANCE: Be it ordained by the Intendant and Councilors of the town of Camden, that it shall be unlawful for any person to permit any hog or hogs to run at large within the incorporate limits of the town of Camden and any one violating this ordinance shall be fined not less than one dollar nor more then 10 dollars. – Sol. D. Block, Intendant.

Mrs. E.R. McDonald, wife of H.M. McDonald, died Thursday morning about 11 o’clock. She bore her sufferings with Christian fortitude. We sympathize with her bereaved family.

Rev. C.W. Hare, editor of the Home Ruler, arrived Friday night, and on account of his work on the Alabama Baptist, which he has leased and is now editing, he will discontinue the Home Ruler. Mr. Hare is a superior gentleman and an excellent editor.

A capitalist named Brown, from Kansas, visited Snow Hill last week, prospecting for a large tract of land.

170 YEARS AGO
JUNE 24, 1851
CAMDEN PHENIX

TO OUR PATRONS: Having undertaken the publication of the “ANTI-SECESSION BANNER,” for the Campaign, we are compelled to issue the Phenix only as an advertising sheet, in connection with the “Banner.” Believing that this change will be acceptable to the majority of our subscribers, we hope that the balance will bear with us for a time. Six numbers of the Campaign paper will be issued from this office, after which we will resume the regular form of our paper, with several improvements. We are endeavoring to make arrangements to procure aid in the Editorial department, and with a new suit of smaller type, we will commence our second volume on the first of December, with a surety of permanency in the publication of a Union paper in this county.
We must dispense with our usual matter of Miscellany, Anecdotes, Poetry, Agriculture, etc. until this important canvas is closed. The result of this campaign interests us all. We are to learn whether the disorganizers are to succeed in dismembering this “glorious Union” of States, or if we are still to enjoy peace, plenty and prosperity in a government the freest and happiest that God ever blessed.
The ladies (God bless them) who have heretofore hailed the appearance of the Phenix, expecting to find something interesting to them, will be more interested in the “Anti-Secession Banner,” for we know the prayers of their hearts are for the success of our cause, the triumph of law and liberty. They are our true patriots – lovers of their country (as well as their country’s sons), they are all for UNION – to a man!