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From Our Files 115 years ago "Mr. Jeff D. Carter, of Marengo county, gets one thousand dollars from the United States for killing Rube Burrow. Paid out of the post office department." Burrow was a wanted outlaw who was killed on the streets of Linden. "Rev. S. A. Adams, was, last Sunday, called again to the pastorate of the Grove Hill Baptist church. This will make his fourth term." "Nealton Academy is advertised in this paper. It is located in a high, healthful section, with good water and a peaceful, religious community. The teacher, Mr. E. Stewart Pugh, is well qualified for his position and is an excellent, religious young man. The school ought to succeed and doubtless will." Sept. 17, 1891
55 years ago Miss Madge Tompkins of Thomasville was selected Clarke County's Queen of Cotton in the annual pageant held at the Vanity Fair Community House in Jackson. Grove Hill telephone customers were informed that they must now call by "number" and not by "name," using the new telephone directories. If they didn't know a person's telephone number they were instructed to call "Information." "Work has started on the Sunday School annex to the Grove Hill Baptist Church...The annex joins the main building at the northeast corner of the latter..." Stewart Buick in Jackson offered a new Buick Special coupe for $2,035.31. "Newspaper reporters covering proceedings in the State Legislature voted Hon. D. C. Mathews the best orator in the House of Representatives. This is the second time a Clarke representative has been accorded this honor, Hon. J. F. Gillis having won the distinction at a previous session. Sept. 13, 1951
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