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From Our Files 85 years ago "Both the Clarke County High School and the Grove Hill Grammar School opened this week with the largest enrollment in their history. The enrollment in the high school thus far is 107, which exceeds the total enrollment of any previous session. The same is true of the grammar school, the enrollment to date being 113." "I would like to trade cattle for a Ford car, 1920 or 1921 model. Must be in first class condition.-J. E. Parden, Opine, Ala." Clarke County Motor Co. advertised a Fordson tractor for $625. J. E. Stifflemire offered an account of "shrubbing down" the pasture of Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Wilson in the Popes Creek swamp, some 120 acres. "It took eight men about two weeks to flat weed this pasture. They killed seventy-five moccasins, eighteen rattle snakes, twenty-eight black snakes, sixteen pilots, five rat snakes and five water rattlers. Also ninety-seven rabbits and sixty-one wasp nests." Sept. 8, 1921
45 years ago Grove Hill school trustees levied a $10 per pupil supplementary fee to help pay for a variety of costs and offered that the schools could close if the fees aren't paid. Trustees included Chairman Wilson Norris, John E. Adams Jr. and Harvey H. Jackson. Coffeeville trustees levied a like fee there. Mrs. Lettie Coleman of Walker Springs advertised magazine sales. You could buy 65 weeks of the Saturday Evening Post for $4.95 and 20 months of Sports Afield for $2.98. "Call Jackson 6-3859." Sept. 7, 1961
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