OCT. 20, 1988
Frisco City makes big plans for 100th birthday
festivities: Saturday will bring the culmination of months of work by Frisco
City residents to prepare for a once-in-a-lifetime event – their town’s 100th
birthday.
Centennial festivities began Sunday when the event was
recognized in church services, and today (Thursday), everyone is invited to
bring a chair or blanket at 7:30 p.m. and watch a family movie in drive-in
style at Frisco City High School.
Saturday will bring most of the festivities, aired live by
WYNI and WMFC radio stations. Saturday’s activities are expected to draw a
sizeable crowd, said Dot Sims, centennial chairwoman appointed by the Frisco
City Chamber of Commerce.
Shields rolls over Southern Normal 61-0: J.F. Shields High
School, overflowing with homecoming enthusiasm, blasted Southern Normal 61-0
Friday in Beatrice.
Seniors Sebastian Lett, Tyrone Spencer and Jeff Montgomery
all exceeded 100 yards rushing, as the Panthers’ offense churned up 531 yards
on the ground. Brian Stallworth paced Shields’ defense with 16 tackles and two
fumble recoveries.
(Other top Shields players in that game included Calvin
Lett, Dwayne McWilliams, Keith Montgomery and Marlon Roberts. John Wiley was
head coach.)
Taking oath: Probate Judge Otha Lee Biggs swears in members of the Excel Town Council Oct. 3 at the town hall, as Mayor James Murphy looks on. Council members are David Cole, Carol Casey (the only new member), Leon Black and Kenneth Blanton. Councilman Jack Boothe was absent.
58 YEARS AGO
OCT. 17, 1963
Elderly Man Killed As Car Is Hit By Train Friday: George W.
Thomas of Belleville was killed instantly Thursday afternoon at 2:05 when his
car collided with a railroad train at a crossing at Drewry on Monroe County
Highway 20.
The 80-year-old man was an employee of Unity Burial and Life
Insurance in Monroeville. He was alone in the car at the time, according to the
police, and the radio in the automobile was playing after the car had been
thrown from the track into a field nearby. It was thought the driver did not
hear the oncoming train due to the radio.
Tigers Defeat Excel 42-19 In Game Friday Night: A good crowd
was on hand to see the MCHS Tigers defeat the Excel Panthers 42-19 in a game
played in Excel last Friday night.
Ray Owens was outstanding in the MCHS backfield, Don Cox and
Greg Szpak in the line – Cox on offense opened holes on two of the Tiger
touchdowns. Szpak was in on most of the tackles made by Monroeville.
(Other top MCHS players in that game were Bobby Colquett, Louie
Hayles, Tim Jones, Tommy McMillon, Richard Otterberg, Coy Tatum, Seth Watkins
and Eugene Wilson. Top players for Excel included Bo Bo Godwin and Wayne
Wright.)
Capt. Willie B. Odom Is Pilot Instructor: Capt. Willie B.
Odom of Goodway has graduated from the U.S. Air Force pilot instructor course
at Randolf Air Force Base, Texas.
Capt. Odom, a rated Air Force pilot, was trained to teach
student pilots to fly jet trainer aircraft. The captain is being reassigned to
Craig Air Force Base for duty.
83 YEARS AGO
OCT. 20, 1938
Senator Bankhead To Address Farmers Here Friday, Oct. 21:
Senator John H. Bankhead will speak to the farmers of this and adjoining
counties in the courthouse in Monroeville on Friday morning at 10 o’clock.
Senator Bankhead has made an outstanding fight for the
farmers of the South, and all farmers in this section of the state should make
a special effort to hear him Friday.
Monroeville Defeats Excel, Score 37 to 0: Displaying
football power seldom seen on high school gridirons, the Monroe County High
team ran rough-shod on the scrappy Excel High School team last Friday night on
the local gridiron by a score of 37 to 0.
The Monroeville team has not lost a game so far this season,
and their game with Jackson this week in Jackson should be a game of games, as
Jackson always has a great football team. Those who can should go to Jackson
and root for the local boys.
13 Bales Cotton Destroyed By Fire: The entire crop of
cotton, 13 bales in all, including the seed from the lint and farm implements,
belonging to Mr. Joe Morris, who lives near Excel, were completely destroyed by
fire last Sunday night.
The fire was discovered about nine o’clock, and all efforts
to extinguish the flames failed. The cotton, cottonseed and implements were
stored in an old tenant house. Mr. Morris estimates his loss at about $1,000.
Mesdames Doy McCall and Carl E. Brown entertained the bridal party of the McCall-Maxwell wedding at a buffet supper Monday evening before the rehearsal, at the home of Mrs. McCall. Misses Sara Ann McCall and Anne Hines assisted in serving sandwiches and individual white-iced cakes embossed in green with the bride’s monogram.
109 YEARS AGO
OCT. 17, 1912
Material for the erection of the new brick cotton warehouse is being placed on the ground and contractor W.E. Ward will rush the building to completion as rapidly as possible.
W.E. BROUGHTON: On Aug. 21, 1912, Bro. W.E. Broughton, then
of Perdue Hill, now of Heaven, was called upon to leave his community, his
church and his family and enter upon his eternal rest with the saved.
On Jan. 11, 1888, he was happily married to Miss Emma Agee,
a member of one of the most prominent families of Monroe County.
He was raised to the sublime degree of Master Mason by
Claiborne Lodge No. 3 and worked efficiently wherever called upon to serve.
The Lyon Pharmacy has received a fresh shipment of Whitman’s famous candies for which they are exclusive agents in this territory. You could not make your best girl a more acceptable present.
Mr. W.C. Andress and Miss Hope Lazenby were quietly married on Tuesday evening, Oct. 15, at the home of the bride’s parents, Rev. D.F. Ellisor officiating. The bride is one of Monroeville’s truest, sweetest young women, possessing many charms of person and character. Mr. Andress is an estimable young man and has fine business qualifications, and is to be congratulated upon winning so fair a lady for his life companion.
MANISTEE: Our town looks very much demolished, nearly all the houses having been torn down and removed within the last few days. The post office here is now being served from Perdue Hill via the rural delivery man.
133 YEARS AGO
OCT. 19, 1888
Capt. W.S. Wiggins has a very interesting little museum composed of specimens of native minerals, Indian arrowheads and trinkets and a variety of other curiosities, which is the result of years of careful collection, and which he guards with jealous care. He has been frequently solicited to donate his collection to various institutions, and only recently by the President of Howard College, but has always declined to do so, reserving it, as he stated to us, for a gift to our own Monroeville College, which he regards as do many others, as a not improbably future possibility.
Three additions to the local patronage of the Academy were received Monday. The attendance is now something over 40, and a majority of the students are young men and young ladies. This impresses us being a remarkably good showing for a school not yet two months old. New students and rumors of new students are being constantly received.
The latest information from Mt. Pleasant states that Mr. T.D. Hestle, who has been suffering for some time from injuries received in the deplorable affair of recent occurrence in that community, has recovered sufficiently to visit his plantation on horseback.
CLAIBORNE: Mr. W.M. Jones is here collecting for the Davis Clock Co.
Mr. J.M. Rohbock, representing Messrs. Eichold & Quarles of Mobile, was in town this week.
Mr. W.S. Moore left Sunday on the Steamer Nettie for Mobile.
No comments:
Post a Comment