39 YEARS AGO
NOV. 25, 1976
Evergreen weather reporter
Earl Windham reported .25 inches of rain on Nov. 16, .12 inches on Nov. 17, .04
inches on Nov. 19, .43 inches on Nov. 20 and .05 inches on Nov. 21. He reported
a high temperature of 68 degrees on No. 18 and a low of 30 on Nov. 19.
The Evergreen Rotary Club
will hold its annual Charity Ball on Saturday evening, Dec. 11, at Ft. Dave
Lewis National Guard Armory from 8:30 to 12:30. The Lucky Boreland Orchestra of
Montgomery will play for the dance. Dress will be semi-formal.
A man has been arrested and
charged for the attempted robbery of a service station in Castleberry and the
shooting of the station owner.
Rochelle Walker Jr. was
arrested by Conecuh County Sheriff’s Investigator Leroy Ferrell on Nov. 20.
Walker is alleged to have attempted to rob Arthur Wilson’s Service Station.
During the attempt, Wilson was shot twice, in the shoulder and elbow, but
neither wound was serious.
Sheriff Edwin Booker said
that Wilson identified Walker as the man who shot him and attempted the
robbery. Walker was also charged with forgery.
The sheriff said that after a
preliminary hearing Monday, bond was set at $9,000, pending action by the grand
jury.
54 YEARS AGO
NOV. 23, 1961
Picket Is Struck, Booker Charged: Ivey T. Booker,
Chairman of Conecuh County Board of Directors, is charged with assault and
battery in a warrant signed by Clinton Brown.
Booker allegedly attacked
Brown with a battery cable while Brown was on the picket line at Southern Coach
and Body Co., Inc. Thursday morning, Nov. 16. The incident occurred after
Booker found a quantity of nails in the drive at his residence early that same
day.
A spokesman for Brown said
his injuries were severe on the back and head.
$1,300 AWARDS OFFERED:
Sheriff James Brock said today that the award money leading to information on
recent violence has climbed to $900 on the bombing and $400 on the paint
remover throwing.
The $900 will go to any
person who will release information leading to the arrest and conviction of the
person or persons responsible for the bombing of Ivey Chevrolet Co. on Oct. 23.
Any person releasing information leading to the arrest and conviction of the
person or person responsible for the throwing of paint removing substances on
automobiles recently will be awarded $400.
SERVES ON ANTIETAM: William
C. Braxton Jr., chief storekeeper, USN, son of Mr. and Mrs. William C. Braxton
Sr. of Rt. 1, Owassa, is serving aboard the anti-submarine warfare support
aircraft carrier USS Antietam, operating out of Pensacola, Fla.
He reenlisted for six years
Oct. 13. Before entering the Navy in November 1945, Braxton attended Evergreen
High School in Evergreen.
Plans are complete for what
bids to be the “best yet” annual Conecuh County Christmas Carnival here next
Wednesday, according to general chairman, Lawton Kamplain of the sponsoring
Evergreen Chamber of Commerce.
Several thousand people from
over the area are expected to be in Evergreen at 3:30 to witness the parade and
welcome Santa Claus. Featured in the parade, in addition to Santa, will be the
eight lovely young ladies who are competing to be Queen Joy and Princess Merry
and reign over the carnival and holiday season.
69 YEARS AGO
NOV. 28, 1946
Attending the John Rountree
funeral last week was a cousin, Jim Atwell of Panama City, Fla., who had last
seen the Rountree family October 1891, when he and his brother John Atwell
walked over 100 miles from Houston County to Mt. Union in 3-1/2 days.
William Stanley Howell Sr.:
W.S. Howell passed away at his home, 10:30 p.m., Nov. 20, following a long
illness. He was born in Patsburg, Ala., Oct. 18, 1893, and there he spent his
earliest years. After returning home from service in World War I, he moved from
Andalusia to his permanent home near Castleberry.
He was a member of the
Masonic lodge at Castleberry and at the time of his death he held the highest
office in the lodge.
Masonic services were held at
the grave. Interment was made in Hamden Ridge cemetery with Cope Funeral Home
in charge.
Pall bearers were all members
of the Masonic Lodge and included R.A. Henderson, B.F. Barlow, C.S. Stacey,
W.C. Booker, Wilbur Pierce and Ernest Brewton.
Mrs. S.P. Shoemaker attended
a banquet on Nov. 19 at the Blue Moon Inn in Montgomery, honoring the Grand
Officers of the Grand Chapter, O.E.S., State of Alabama. After the banquet,
they were entertained at a party at the Jefferson Davis Hotel.
Ceylon P. Strong was elected
chairman of the board of directors of the recently organized Hospital
Association of Conecuh County at a meeting of the directors representing the
several beats of the county, which was held at the S.S. building of the M.E.
Church Friday night, Nov. 22.
84 YEARS AGO
NOV. 26, 1931
City Celebrates Thanksgiving
Day: All business places in Evergreen are closed today in observance of
Thanksgiving Day, as is the custom here each year. Both schools are closed
today and tomorrow, giving pupils and teachers two holidays. Most of the
teachers who live elsewhere are taking advantage of the holidays to visit their
homes for the weekend. All schools of the county are observing the two days as
holidays also.
Union Thanksgiving services
were held at the Baptist Church at 6:30 this morning, the sermon being
delivered by Dr. J.G. Dickinson.
Conecuh Co. Teacher Dies At
Ft. Deposit: Miss Marie Barganier, a teacher in Conecuh, died Nov. 20 at her
home in Fort Deposit. She had taught very successfully for three years in this
county and began the term at Green Street for this year, but was forced to
resign because of ill health.
Camden, Ala., Nov. 23 – Soil
which he trod in his boyhood days, youth and business career, tonight shrouds
the body of Judge Patrick McArthur Dannelly, 60, who died in a Montgomery
hospital Sunday night of injuries suffered in an automobile accident about 10
miles out from the Capital City on the Mobile Road Thursday night.
Since early Sunday night, the
town of Camden has been wearing an aspect of mourning. Every man, woman and
child in the town knew and admired their probate judge and his sudden death
came as a distinct shock not only to Camden, but to every town and hamlet in
Wilcox County.
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