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| Grave of Horace Hood in Montgomery, Ala. |
18 YEARS AGO
JAN. 13, 2000
Bringing in the new millennium: Shanaya Aryon Grace naps
between visits with her mother, Shenill Wiggins of Evergreen. Grace was the
first baby born at Monroe County Hospital in the new millennium. The
five-pound, four-ounce little girl was delivered at 6:21 p.m. Tuesday of last
week.
Seventh-ranked Monroe County High School’s varsity boys
cruised to another tournament championship last week when they walked away from
J.F. Shields in Beatrice with the first place trophy.
Tournament most valuable player Tekoya Barnett scored 31
Friday to key a first-round 71-63 victory over Calhoun, then got 16 points in
Saturday’s 70-56 win over Shields in the finals in Beatrice.
(Other players on MCHS’s team that year included Trent
Eager, Terrell Gibbs, Justin Hawarah, Byron Hollinger, Curt Hutcherson, Jeffrey
Lett, Aquanta Parker, Sanchez White and Justin Williams. Willie White was head
coach.)
A new subdivision, Sundance Acres, is scheduled to spring up
outside Excel city limits along County Road 35, Tabernacle Road, but its
developer, Les Prouty, said he needs some help from the council.
The new subdivision lies outside Excel Water System’s
pipelines. In order to provide potential clients with water, Prouty wants to
run water lines from the town to the subdivision.
Mayor James Murphy said he had no problem with the
subdivision hooking up to the system and the town would give Prouty the same
treatment as other customers.
43 YEARS AGO
JAN. 9, 1975
Sheriff-elect hires new deputy, says Ikner, Royster to stay
on: Clarence E. Snow Jr., now a constable at Uriah, has been hired as a deputy
to Sheriff-elect Lenwood Sager.
Snow will begin work as one of three full-time deputies when
Sager takes office Jan. 20, Sager said this week.
Alvin Royster and Larry Ikner, deputies to retiring Sheriff
Carl Watson, will remain, keeping the number of deputies the same as it is now,
the sheriff-elect added.
Two juniors and one senior from Coach Lee Holladay’s Excel High
School Panthers were chosen for the Montgomery Advertiser Class A all-state
football team.
Senior Rex McCants and juniors Rhett Barnes and Jeff Flowers
were chosen to the 22-man squad.
The Excel Panthers went through the season undefeated with a
10-0 record but ended the season tied in the area with Lyeffion High, which won
the state playoff berth when a tie-breaking procedure went into effect.
Monroeville policeman Walter Williams has been promoted from
patrolman to corporal in the first of several promotions planned in the next
few weeks, Police Chief Charles Colbert announced Tuesday.
Colbert, whom the mayor and city council promoted from
acting sergeant to chief on Dec. 10, said he will propose other promotions to
the council soon in an effort to establish the police department’s organization
early in the calendar year.
Colbert said Williams has been made commander of the 3 p.m.
to midnight shift. Acting Sergeant Woodrow Ikner, who has been shift commander,
will continue on that shift but probably will have investigative duties after
he returns from a current six-week police course at Faulkner Junior College in
Bay Minette.
68 YEARS AGO
JAN. 12, 1950
George Finklea and Robert Lambert of Monroeville this week
purchased the Williams Café in Monroeville for an undisclosed sum.
The men assumed active management of the restaurant
Wednesday.
The new owners announced that no changes in operation of the
restaurant would be made at present. However, the name will be changed shortly,
they stated.
Beatrice, after dropping a 28-21 decision to J.U. Blacksher
last Friday night, came back to wallop Camden, 41-19, Tuesday night and gain
revenge for an earlier setback. The Blacksher game was played at Uriah, the
Camden tilt at Beatrice.
The Blacksher cagers grabbed an early lead in the
low-scoring Friday night contest, and managed to hang on to it all the way.
Uriah forward Bobby Grisette paced the scorers for the night with eight points.
Trailing him in the point-making department was guard Charles McPherson for Beatrice
with seven markers.
(Other players on Beatrice’s team that year included Arthur
Robinson and Dale Brown. Sam Morris was head coach.)
New officers of the Frisco City Chamber of Commerce were
formally installed Monday night at the fifth annual dinner of the group at the
Frisco City school cafeteria.
J.O. Hendrix, who served as chairman of the group last year,
was installed as president, Wiley P. Long as vice-president, and Stanley
Johnson as secretary-treasurer.
Installation ceremonies were conducted by G.S. Williams,
former president of the organization.
93 YEARS AGO
JAN. 8, 1925
Col. Horace Hood, former editor of The Monroe Journal, and
later editor of the Montgomery Daily Journal, died at his home in Montgomery on
Dec. 30, at the age of 72 years.
Mr. Hood had been engaged in newspaper work practically all
his life until two years ago when failing health made it necessary for him to
relinquish the pen.
He came to Monroeville as a young man, reviving the
publication of The Monroe Journal which had been suspended for a few months,
and soon built up a wide circulation. When the Montgomery Daily Dispatch was
established in 1885, he was offered and accepted a position on the editorial
staff.
JONES MILL TO HAVE NEW RAILROAD: Work was begun this week on
preparing right-of-way for a branch of the L&N Railroad to connect directly
with the town of Jones Mill. The branch will be constructed from the present
Manistee branch which touches Excel and Monroeville, leaving said branch near
Snider and terminating in the center of the town of Jones Mill where a freight
depot will be constructed. Only freight service will be maintained over said
road. There is no demand for passenger service as this matter is amply taken
care of by three daily buses to and from Atmore.
The Monroeville Ice and Power Co. is putting in a third deep
well at their plant to meet the increasing demand for water supply. Drilling
has been completed and a seemingly inexhaustible reservoir of water tapped. All
that now remains to be done is to place the pipes in position and harness the
pump.
118 YEARS AGO
JAN. 11, 1900
Mr. Jemison Thompson, The Journal’s expert compositor, is
engaged this week in a “tussle” with measles. At last report from the arena,
“Jem” had the best of the bout. Meanwhile, “we” hold the fort at the printery.
“Judge” N.C. Thames and Mr. C.P. Dawson of Claiborne were at
the county capital Saturday. Mr. Thames has been recently appointed a Notary
Public with ex-officio powers of Justice of the Peace for Beat 2 by the
governor, and was here to file his official bond which is one of the strongest
of the kind on record in the county.
Mr. Ed. V. O’Connor, the genial representative of the Mobile
Register, was in Monroe last week in the interest of that sterling paper. We
are pleased to know that he added many new subscribers to both the daily and
weekly Register.
Mr. H.J. Coxwell, Perdue Hill’s boss gardener, sends The
Journal fine specimens of Fall turnips which are appreciated.
Mr. Harvey Stacey has returned from Reagan, Texas, where he
spent the holidays with his daughter, Mrs. Hetherington. He will now actively
push his campaign for Commissioner.
Mr. W.R. Maxwell of Natchez was a pleasant caller at The
Journal office Saturday. Mr. Maxwell is a pronounced Morgan man and is strongly
desirous that Monroe stand by the Senator in 1900 as in years past.
BEATRICE: This town is growing very rapidly; at least 20 new
houses have already gone up; the streets are beautifully laid out.
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