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From Our Files 81 years ago "It was reported in Grove Hill this week that the Alabama Power Company had purchased the Thomasville light plant, and this report has since been confirmed by the citizens of the town. Citizens of Grove Hill are elated over the news, for they take it to mean only one thing- that the Alabama Power Company plans to ring one of its transmission lines through Clarke County...The citizens of Grove Hill should not to go sleep on the job but should set themselves to the task of ascertaining at once what steps are necessary to bring electric light and power to this town. Grove Hill is in greater need of such service than either Jackson or Thomasville for each of these towns already has a light plant...." A Kentucky descendent of the famous Whitfield family of Demopolis returned to the area armed with an old map that had been in the family for years and used it to locate and dig up between $13,500 and $200,000 in $20 gold pieces near the city. Gen. Nathan Whitfield was the builder of the antebellum home "Gaineswood" in Demopolis. The story was copied from the Selma Times-Journal. Grove Hill and Jackson citizens met in the courthouse in Grove Hill to discuss the possibility of a toll bridge across the Tombigbee River near Jackson. Two sides offered arguments: One that the group should wait until the next election and see if a "free" bridge might be forthcoming and the other argument was that a toll bridge should be built immediately. John S. Graham of Jackson advertised his recently printed Graham's History of Clarke County, Alabama for 50 cents per copy. Mail orders required 10 cents extra. "Lovely Barnes, local athlete, has been awarded the Porter Loving Cup at the University of Alabama as the best all-around athlete at the University. Lovely won national recognition as a member of the team which won the Southern Conference championship last fall, and which defeated the powerful University of Washington team at Pasadena on New Year's Day....His local admirers have followed his career with much interest since the days when he was a sensation on the high school eleven...."
June 3, 1926
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