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| Old L&N Depot in Evergreen, Ala. |
NOV. 19, 1992
Evergreen weather reporter Harry Ellis reported .25 of an inch of rain on Nov. 10, .88 on Nov. 11 and 1.75 on Nov. 12. He reported a high of 72 degrees on Nov. 12 and lows of 37 on Nov. 14-15.
A Castleberry man escaped serious injury last Wednesday when
his vehicle was struck by a south-bound train in downtown Evergreen.
According to Evergreen Police Department Patrolman Foy Ray,
a 1985 Chevrolet Cavalier, driven by 23-year-old Leroy Andrews, edged in front
of the CSX train at approximately 11:22 a.m.
Patrolman Ray said Mr. Andrews’ vehicle was hit on the
passenger side as it began crossing the tracks closest to the Old Evergreen
Depot toward West Front Street.
Angela Michelle Pate was named Conecuh County’s 1993 Young
Woman of the Year at Wiley Salter Auditorium on the campus of Ed Reid State
Technical College last Saturday night.
Michelle succeeds Kimberli Griffin as the county’s
representative for the Young Woman of the Year competition.
Members of the Conecuh County Board of Education were given the oath of office by Conecuh County Probate Judge Rogene Booker last Monday night. Pictured are Jean Harter, Willene Whatley, David Cook, Robert J. Floyd, Johnny F. Atkins and Judge Booker. Mr. Floyd was later selected as the board’s chairman. He replaces Mr. Cook, who was named vice-chairman.
36 YEARS AGO
NOV. 21, 1985
Evergreen’s Christmas parade will be held this Sat., Nov.
23, at 3 p.m.
This year’s parade promises to be one of the best yet. This
year’s parade will feature bands from Southern Normal, Conecuh County High
School and Evergreen High School. There will also be a division for horses as
well as many floats and cars. There will be something for everyone.
The City of Evergreen hosted a welcome to Evergreen supper
Friday night at Giuseppi’s honoring Chemi Linz Corporation of Austria which
will begin construction of a $10 million manufacturing facility here early next
year. Chemi Linz officials present were Anthony Baker, project manager, and Dr.
Peter Woisetschlager, plant consultant.
City officials present included Mayor Pat Poole and
Councilmen Aubrey Padgett, Jones Sasser, T.L. Sims and John Claiborne, City
Clerk Miller Sellers, City Attorney Tommy Chapman and Chief of Police James
Powell.
The TG&Y Family Center in Evergreen will hold a grand
re-opening today after extensive remodeling. A ribbon-cutting ceremony will be
held at nine o’clock this morning and the store is celebrating with a big,
three-day grand re-opening sale today, Friday and Saturday with many prizes to
be given away and bargains throughout the store.
TG&Y opened its local center on June 8, 1978 and has
served the people of this area continuously since that time.
65 YEARS AGO
NOV. 15, 1956
The Evergreen Garment Co. will go back into operation on
Monday or Tuesday of next week,” Vernon Millsap, vice president and manager,
said today.
Fire raged through the company’s building on Pecan Street
Saturday night, Nov. 3, causing a loss of about $300,000.
We are actually already in production,” he said, “with
cutting operations being performed at the Steven-Robert Corporation. Sewing
operations will begin on a partial basis at the new location in the Recreation
Center early next week, and by the following week we hope to be in full
operation, with everyone back on the job.
At a recent meeting of the Evergreen Kiwanis Club, T.O. Langham, popular local businessman, was elected president, and will take office in January. Other officers chosen were Dr. John Crook, vice president; Ivey Booker, secretary; and John Gibson, treasurer.
Jay Villa Plantation of Evergreen has placed one horned
Hereford bull and one polled Hereford bull on performance test at the North
Auburn Beef Cattle Research Unit of the API Agricultural Experiment Station.
The animals are included among 55 bulls on a 140-day test to
determine weight-gaining abilities. The performance program will be climaxed
next spring with a field day and sale of bulls calved between Sept. 1, 1955 and
Feb. 29, 1956.
75 YEARS AGO
NOV. 21, 1946
Pvt. L.C. Worrell Jr. left Monday for New Jersey to be shipped overseas soon.
Expenditures to Conecuh County’s unemployed last month and in the preceding month were as follows: To veterans in October, $6,700; to veterans in September, $10,862; to civilians in October, $2,286; to civilians in September, $1,874.
Carmon L. Padgett, farmer living in the Mt. Union community, enjoys the distinction of being the first farmer in the county to pay for his farm under the tenant purchase plan of the Farm Security Administration with profits from his farming operations, and the very remarkable thing is he paid for his farm, together with many improvements in the short period of six and one half years.
Alabama’s cotton crop was estimated at 780,000 bales by the Alabama Cooperative Crop Reporting Service as of Nov. 1. This is 16 percent less than 1945 production and 23 percent below the 10-year, 1935-44, average.
There were 3,526 bales of cotton, counting round as half bales, ginned in Conecuh County, from the crop of 1946 prior to Nov. 1, 1946 as compared with 5,558 bales ginned to Nov. 1, 1945.
83 YEARS AGO
NOV. 17, 1938
VIADUCT WILL BE DECORATED DURING CHRISTMAS SEASON – Tree
Will Be Placed At The Head Of The Bridge: Evergreen citizens and visitors who
pass this way during the Christmas holidays will have a rare treat in store for
them if present plans materialize. Plans are underway to decorate the huge
viaduct with pretty lights and ornaments in keeping with the holiday spirt. The
viaduct, itself a thing of beauty, enhanced with the beauty of these lights and
other decorations should present a gorgeous scene.
Supt. of Lights Fred M. Wright has already bought the
materials and they are here. Sometime early in December they will be installed
and it is hoped to have them up and ready by Dec. 10 to 15. The Evergreen
Garden Club will put up and decorate a Christmas tree at the entrance to the
bridge next to the business section. In addition, it is hoped that all business
houses will arrange their windows and fronts in holiday decorations. With
everyone cooperating, Evergreen can perhaps be made the most outstanding
beautiful city in this section of the country this Christmas.
Boy Scout Bulletin: The regular weekly scout meeting was held Monday night. “Assembly” was blown by “Sonny” Price. The scouts who had paid their monthly dues answered roll call “sheep” while the boys who had not answered “goat.” Points were given on the contest for writing the 12 Scout Laws backward. We enjoyed a talk given by George Smith, a colored World War veteran. The speech was about his “oversea experiences.” The meeting was closed with “Taps.” – Louis Murphy, Reporter.
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