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From Our Files 29 years ago Dana Becton of Grove Hill was awarded Marion Military Institute's Best All-Round College Athlete Medal during the school's annual sports banquet. Becton excelled in football and baseball at MMI in 1977 and 1978. He also won the Judge Irby Pope Medal for Sportsmanship, awarded by a vote of the student body. Wynn Morgan of Thomasville won the Judson College President's Athletic Award, presented to the athlete who exhibits the best dedication, enthusiasm and attitude necessary in competitive athletics. Auburn University football coach Doug Barfield, who grew up in Grove Hill, was the speaker for the banquet. Well-known Mississippi comedian Jerry Clower was scheduled to perform at Sage Auditorium May 18 as a benefit for the Grove Hill Lions Club. Proceeds would go to the Grove Hill Memorial Hospital Auxiliary's fund for doctors and to the family of Buster Fowler of Grove Hill to help with his medical expenses. Merchants Bank was paying 7.5 percent interest on six-year certificates with a minimum deposit of $1,000. You could buy 12 pieces of chicken, mashed potatoes, gravy, cole slaw and six rolls for $5.94 from Martin's Drive-In in Jackson and Grove Hill. "Feed a family of six for less than $1 per person," the ad stated. The U.S. Dept. of Commerce advertised for a U.S. Census Bureau Field Interviewer. The job paid $3.81 per hour plus 17 cents per mile car allowance. The interviewer would conduct field surveys in Clarke and Monroe Counties. May 11, 1978 67 years ago "In an election which brought out the largest vote ever cast in the county, Coma Garrett, Jr. was re-elected Probate Judge...More than 5,600 votes were cast, a record for modern day voting and probably a record for all time in the county. Judge Garrett led his opponent, R. R. Coleman, by an unofficial majority of 825 in a race which had kept the voters at fever heat for weeks and which many expected to be a nip and tuck affair." The unofficial tally gave Garrett 3,216 votes to Coleman's 2,391 votes. The next week the settlement of an election wager in Coffeeville on the probate judge's race was detailed. Mrs. Joe Johnson, a Garrett supporter, and Mrs. Slater Bell, a Coleman supporter, agreed that the one backing the losing candidate would give the other a ride in a wheelbarrow down the town's main street. And so on a Saturday Mrs. Johnson got her ride in a wheelbarrow "decorated with flowers and gay colored bunting" while the crowd cheered the scene with "cow bells and other noise-making devices." Voters had hardly gone to bed after the exciting election when they were aroused by the fire siren to the news that the J. R. Bell sawmill in Whatley was in flames. The fire destroyed the building that housed the two main boilers but did not spread to nearby stacks of lumber. The town's water well went out, leaving Grove Hill without water. It was discovered that mud had clogged the strainer in the well. Repairs took days and the water supply in the elevated tank (just recently torn down) ran out.
May 9, 1940
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