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| Grave of Thomas Bigby Green. |
The Monroe Journal newspaper in Monroeville, Ala., under the
direction of editor Q. Salter, likely published five editions 125 years ago
during the month of March 1892. Four of those issues, which were dated March
10, March 17, March 24 and March 31, can be found on microfilm at the Monroe
County Library in Monroeville, Ala. The March 3 edition is missing from the
library’s microfilm collection. What follows are a few news highlights from the
four editions that are available on microfilm there. Enjoy.
MARCH 10, 1892
Prof. Claude Hardy, principal of the Buena Vista High
School, one of the most flourishing institutions in the county, was circulating
among his Monroeville friends recently.
Mr. Horace R. Hood, editor of the Montgomery Evening
Journal, spent a couple of days among his many Monroeville friends this week.
He was accompanied by Masters Horace Jr. and Brame Hood.
Beginning with next August our mail facilities will be
greatly improved. We shall have daily mails to Evergreen on the L&N and
Suggsville on the M&B railroads, while the semi-weekly mail to Bell’s
Landing will be made a tri-weekly, and a new route probably established
connecting Mount Pleasant and intermediate offices with Monroeville, all the
other routes remaining the same.
Monroe Chapter No. 4 will hold a regular convocation in
Masonic Hall at Perdue Hill, Ala., April 8th, 1892, Friday night at
eight o’clock. Companions are requested to be present, as there will be some
important business. – Wm. J. McCants, Secretary.
BURNT CORN: Miss Bettie Kearley returned to her home at
Buena Vista last Sunday, having closed a three-month school at Glendale. We
regret to give her up, but hope she may visit us again.
Tekoa, Ala., March 5 – Machinery for two saw mills and one
gin passed not long since. The engine for the Bear Creek Mill is quite large,
weighing more than 10,000 pounds.
MARCH 17, 1892
Died – Monroe County suffers the loss of one of her best
citizens in the death of Mr. Thomas B. Green, which occurred at his home near
Burnt Corn on last Saturday morning after a brief illness.
Prof. Bassett organized a class in vocal music in
Monroeville Tuesday night, consisting of 20 or more pupils, to which several
additions have since been made. Prof. B’s methods of voice culture and
imparting instruction are upon strictly scientific principles. The class, we
understand, is making very good progress.
Mr. Samuel R. Thames, one of Perdue Hill’s enterprising
young merchants, was in town Monday.
Dr. J.L. Sowell of Perdue Hill was in Monroeville Monday.
Dr. Sowell is building up a fine practice in Perdue Hill and vicinity.
The Journal is delayed somewhat this week in order to
publish the full returns of the primary election. The count was not completed
until late Wednesday evening, and outlimited mechanical forces rendered it impossible
to set up the table and get to press on time Thursday. However, here we are,
slightly behind, but otherwise OK.
At Hillsboro, Texas, the headless body of a male child was
found in Haley lake. It is regarded as a brutal murder, but no clue as to the
murderer has developed.
MARCH 24, 1892
Col. S.J. Cumming of Birmingham was in Monroeville this week
on professional business. The metropolitan life of the Magic City evidently
agrees with the Colonel.
The frost and cold the past week did considerable damage to
gardens and young vegetation. The fruit prospect as to peaches is blighted, the
trees being in full bloom at the time of the freeze. Apples and pears, while
having sustained great injury, will not be a total loss. Corn suffered very
slight injury.
The primary election has come and gone and with it the
excitement incident to it, and everything has settled down into its accustomed
groove. The nominees are naturally jubilant, though not offensively so, while
the unsuccessful candidates accept their defeat like men. It is doubtful if a
campaign of equal warmth was ever passed through in the county and succeeded by
so few murmurings of discontent.
We understand that a surveying corps has been engaged for
several weeks past in making a resurvey of the route of the M.G.P.&P.S.
railroad from Pensacola to a point a few miles west of Monroeville; that the
corps has returned to Pensacola where grading of the road is shortly to be
commenced. We will state by way of parenthesis that this information is not official,
but given only as we heard it and may be taken for what it is worth.
For the past two weeks the Hotel Whitcomb at Evergreen has
been crowded with northern people and quite a number are boarding at private
houses, and the question of building another hotel larger than the Whitcomb is
being discussed.
MARCH 31, 2017
Mr. Henry Green of Burnt Corn recently graduated with honors
from the Mobile Medical College. Dr. Green is an intelligent young gentleman
and will prove a credit to the profession.
OBITUARY – Thos. B. Green, a charter member of Burnt Corn
Farmers’ Alliance, was born near Burnt Corn, Aug. 12, 1837, and died at his
home, March 12, 1892. He was an esteemed citizen, a member of the Methodist
church and a Mason. He leaves a large family, therefore, be it resolved by this
Alliance,
First, we cherish the memory of our brother and give the
sympathy due the bereaved ones.
Second, that a copy of this resolution be sent The Monroe
Journal with the request to publish and that it be spread on our minutes.
Burrel Shirley, M.M. Graham, Committee, March 19, 1892
Tekoa, Ala., March 26 – Chief Seymour, McLaughlin and others
from Pensacola have been encamped near this office for a week. They have been
straightening the old survey and putting down grading posts for the
M.G.P.&P.S. railroad. They left last Saturday for Pensacola to commence
construction. They said when they arrived in our community again the sound of
the engine would be heard in the land. We heard that they will not run the road
through Monroeville, but will carry it either down the Double Branches or
further west. We reluctantly accept this, as Monroeville is and will ever be a
very dear place to us and we wish nothing that will prove detrimental to it as
that would necessarily do.
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