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| Judge Leon C. McCord |
FEB. 5, 2009
Beatrice hires new police chief: The Town of Beatrice has a
new police chief in the form of Tom Boatwright, who works full time as
administrator at the Monroe County Detention Facility and lives near Beatrice
at the Pine Orchard community.
The town’s council agreed Monday night to hire Boatwright,
who said he will continue to work at the MCDF, and appointed him as chief. Boatwright
worked part time as a patrol officer in Beatrice under former chief Ray Norris,
who was the town’s first police chief and left the town after a year.
Monroe County Sheriff Tom Tate said Boatwright has been with
his office for 19 years and the town made a good choice.
Lady Panthers purr-fect! – Perfect seasons are almost
unheard of in high school basketball because each team plays so many games, but
J.F. Shields’ Lady Panthers have beat the odds and recorded an unblemished 24-0
record this season.
Along with being undefeated in regular-season play, the No.
5-ranked Panthers are 6-0 in the Class 1A, Area 2 standings this year. They
have won eight of the last nine regular-season area championships under coach
Herbert Blackmon.
(Players on Shields’ team that season included Carneshia
Huff, Mariah Jones, Latresha Lymon, April Montgomery, Kelsey Murphy, JaPlesha
Primm and Tyika Robinson.)
Doctors’ Clinic opens new office: A ribbon-cutting ceremony was held Tuesday morning at Doctors’ Clinic on Highway 136 across the street from Wright’s Auto Sales. The Clinic moved from its former location on Whetstone Street where a new Walgreen’s store is to be constructed.
39 YEARS AGO
FEB. 2, 1984
Board accepts bid on library building: Renovation of the old
LaSalle Hotel & Restaurant to make it the new Monroe County Library is
expected to begin within the next two weeks.
Library Board members Friday accepted a bid of $166,344 for
the job from Abernathy Structures & Improvements of Monroeville.
The bid, plus two alternate add-on proposals from the same
bidder, was received during a board meeting Friday afternoon on the front
doorsteps of the old hotel.
The Frisco City Whippets defeated Excel’s Panthers 93-57
Friday in Frisco to win their only battle of the week.
Senior wingmen Charlie Bryant and Perry Williams scored 27
points each to lead the Whippets. Excel had three players in double figures.
Ernest Millender led the way with 17 points, Michael McMillian added 15 and
Vincent Lambert scored 14. McMillian led the Panther rebounders with 13.
Glenn’s daughter visits: Lyn Glenn Freedman, the daughter of
Democratic presidential hopeful John Glenn, stopped briefly in Monroeville
yesterday, greeting the lunchtime crowd at a local restaurant like a longtime
friend of the family.
Mrs. Freedman said her father, an Ohio senator, considers
Alabama an important part of the presidential campaign and wants the South as a
whole to help him obtain the Democratic nomination.
According to Mrs. Freedman, sweeping the South in the
primaries is one of the Glenn campaign goals. They hope to “hold their own” in
several early primaries in the North.
65 YEARS AGO
FEB. 5, 1959
LOST CHILD FOUND: Some excitement was caused in (Mexia) on Sunday afternoon when the three-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Willard Taylor, together with the family dog, wandered away from home and became lost. An intensive search participated in by practically the entire community failed to locate the child, who was accidentally found several hours later by some children playing a short distance to the rear of the Carroll Nettles place, about two and a half miles away. It is not known how the child made his way through the dense woods or crossed a swift-flowing branch, which it was necessary to do in order to reach the spot where he was found wet, cold and crying.
Monroe County Cagers Lead All-Conference Tournament
Selections: Monroe County basketball teams, walking away with all top honors at
the recent Pine Belt Conference tournament in Grove Hill, placed nine players
on the 12-man All-Conference team picked by coaches.
The Conference champs, the J.U. Blacksher High School
Bulldogs of Uriah, had three men in the group: Curtis Harris, Jackie
Weatherford and Jerry Thomas.
(Other Monroe County players on the All-Conference team were
Jim Lazenby and Charles Pridgeon of Monroe County High School, Rennie Byrd and
Billy Pugh of Frisco City High School and James S. Hines and Donald Brown of
Beatrice High School.)
Hospital On County Commission Agenda: Consideration of a proposed Hill-Burton Act hospital for Monroe County is likely at the regular meeting next Tuesday of the Monroe County Board of Commissioners. Probate Judge E.T. Millsap indicated here Wednesday some decision from the Commission will probably be announced following that time.
90 YEARS AGO
FEB. 1, 1934
MILLSAP WILL MANAGE LEON McCORD CAMPAIGN: Judge Leon McCord, candidate for Governor of Alabama, announced Monday that Senator E.T. Millsap of Monroeville would act as chairman of his committee on organization. Millsap represents Baldwin, Escambia and Monroe Counties in the state senate.
Free Picture Show Will Be Shown In County: A free talking picture, “50 Years of Progress,” was shown at the high school auditorium on Wednesday afternoon, Jan. 31, at 2:30 o’clock and at Tunnel Springs that evening at seven o’clock. The picture depicts the progress made in the electrical field during the past one-half century. The same picture will be shown at the following places and times on Thursday and Friday of this week: at Peterman, Thurs., Feb. 1, seven o’clock at Baptist church; at Beatrice on Friday, Feb. 2, at 7 p.m. at the high school auditorium.
BOWDEN FOR SHERIFF: In today’s Journal will be found the announcement of Mr. John L. Bowden for the office of Sheriff of Monroe County. Mr. Bowden is not a new and untried aspirant for office, having held the office for one term heretofore and in which position he made a record of which both he and his friends have just reason to be proud. It is upon this record he bases his claim for consideration at this time.
Simmons-Betts: Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Simmons announce the marriage of their daughter, Berniece, to Mr. John Lee Betts.
115 YEARS AGO
FEB. 4, 1909
L.D. Hestle, the genial postmaster and lumber manufacturer, was down from Chestnut Tuesday on business.
Charlie Broughton, who has been with The Journal for several months past, left us Monday to enter the Monroe Institute.
J.U. Blacksher of Maros was a visitor to the city Friday, accompanied by Mrs. Blacksher and their little son. Mr. Blacksher’s company owns the finest and largest body of timbered lands in the county.
There was quite a sudden change in the weather last Friday evening, and for three days thereafter we felt the first real breath of winter experienced this season. High winds prevailed for about 24 hours and the temperature fell to about 20 degrees. Ice and bursted water pipes were plentiful.
Dirt Broken for Bank Building: Dirt was broken Monday
morning for the Monroe County Bank’s new building and excavations are now being
made for the walls both for the bank and for the store building for Capt. W.S.
Wiggins Sr., which will adjoin. The work is under the superintendence of Mr.
Jesse Carter of Pine Apple.
The bank building will be 25x50 feet, two stories high,
pressed brick and plate glass front. The second story will be finished into a
hall and probably occupied by the local Masonic Lodge. The store building will
be 25x70 feet, two stories also. The ground floor will be occupied by Hixon
Brothers. The second floor will be converted into offices.
The old wooden building formerly occupied by the bank site
is being removed to the vacant corner lot on the south side of the street.
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