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From Our Files 100 years ago "Neal Caves, Dave Robinson, and John Dickinson were put in jail Sunday morning for striking the wife of Monroe Ezell on the head, inflicting considerable injury and pain. The jail is filling rapidly. Some are of opinions that a few hangings will be necessary to stop it." "A good attendance was here Monday- the last day of the year and the last day for collecting and assessing taxes, without cost." "The movement by a few lawyers for a new County Court, thereby creating new offices, seems to be very unpopular with the people. All the county officers, except one, have signed a petition against the proposed law, and deem it an unnecessary expense and burden to the tax payers of the county." Jan. 3, 1907 75 years ago Wilcox farmer R. E. Lambard advocated growing less cotton and more cattle. In a circular he wrote, "Practically every thoughtful person must agree that this section of the South should, in the future, grow more cattle and less cotton for the land's sake, and for a needed cash income.." He proposed a Feeder Calf Producers' Association that would sell calves to the corn belt feeders. "Such calves should easily bring fifty per cent more than if sold for beef direct from the pasture." County Agent C. L. Hollingsworth touched on the same issue in an adjacent column: "If we grow no cotton at all this year we will have 14,000,000 bales on hand next August. Why grow more cotton than the world can consume in two years?" He concluded: "The good farmer this year will keep his mind on the three B's of agriculture: bread, butter and breeches." Editor George Carleton editorialized on the new year: "The New Year has not been ushered in as auspiciously as many had hoped- cotton has done a nose dive and many of the leading stocks seem headed for new lows. But through it all a view of optimism persists and many of our best business men can see nothing but improved conditions in the near future...With such a state of uncertainty confronting us, there is little left for us to do but to sit steady in the boat and await a time with patience when the sun will once more smile through the clouds of adversity and depression...Let all of us so plan our new year's operations that each individual and each business will so far as possible be self-sustaining and independent...." Jan. 7, 1932 50 years ago Young hunters noted taking bucks included Sammy Wimberly of Grove Hill, Fletcher Overstreet Jr. of Alma and Johnnie Doggette of Grove Hill. Oil exploration in the county would be renewed in 1957, a story suggested.
Jan. 3, 1957
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