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From Our Files 97 years ago "News was brought here this week by people coming to court of a severe cyclone which struck the western part of the county Saturday. The cyclone was traveling in a northeasternly direction, striking the county near Coffeeville and being last heard of near Thomasville. It blew Mr. J. C. Ott's house off the blocks and moved it 12 or 15 feet...Mr. Bob Ott's home was blown down and burned. Both Center Point and Oak Grove churches were blown down...The last reported damage of the storm was near Thomasville where it blew down some houses on the places of Messrs. Oscar Cassity and George Dunning...No lives are reported lost." "The Grove Hill team took sweet revenge on their Jackson brothers Saturday when, after riding 17 miles in the rain they took the second game played by the two teams this season, by a score of 4 to 2. The game was fast and snappy and few errors were made by either side, the fielding of the Grove Hill team being especially clean...Batteries were Hanks and White for Jackson; Tompkins and Carleton for Grove Hill." April 21, 1910 60 years ago "Floyd Garrick, game warden for the Scotch Lumber Company, recently caught three men from Hollandale, Miss., hunting on the company's Silver Creek preserve. One is reputed to be president of a bank, one a cashier, and the third a former resident of this county. These facts failed to impress Garrick, however, when it was disclosed that they were hunting without state licenses and without permits. County Game Warden Coble Stanley was called into the case and the men were arraigned before Justice Hollis Kennedy. The men were released upon paying fines of $119.19." "Warren Motors of Jackson, authorized dealers for the Jeep car, are right now stressing the importance of the car as a necessary bit of farming equipment." Editor George Carleton, an avid turkey hunter and outdoorsman observed in an editorial note: "Now that the turkey season is ended we can turn to other things, such as running a newspaper, for example, or catching up with some needed sleep, or puttering about the yard and lawn, or locating some likely looking worm beds." "The Democrat received a birth announcement this week in the 'New Model' style which is so popular or late, but when we read 'designer and chief engineer unknown,' we decided for our own protection to leave the announcement out." April 17, 1947 33 years ago The Grove Hill Merchants Association named committees for the rest of 1974. Chairmen were: Advertising, Jackie Duke, Duke's Department Store; Welcoming committee, Sybil Deavers, Deavers Restaurant; Promotions, Oscola Skipper, Town N Country Men's Shop; Budgeting and Finance, Dale Harris, City Drugs; Special Events, Don Wright, Farm Bureau; Christmas Promotions, Nell Bradford, Grove Hill Texaco; Christmas Parade, Madge Becton. General chairman of the association was John Reid, Reid's Pharmacy. Retiring teachers honored by the Clarke County Educators Association were Etrua Nichols, John Wilson and Sarah Ambrose. Cattle prices at the Clarke County Stockyards ranged from a low of .2850 cents a pound to a high of .51 cents a pound. The average appeared to be around .40 cents per pound.
April 18, 1974
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