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February 12, 2013 History Comments Off

February 19, 1943
The Lee school building was burned down early Monday morning between four and five o’clock.
Pvt. J.C. Kinsey was painfully and very seriously injured last Friday afternoon at Camp Butner, N.C. While taking a .30-caliber machine gun apart, a compressed spring flew out, striking him in the right eye.
All volunteer workers who can, please meet at the Madison High School Auditorium Friday afternoon at 5 o’clock to go through the procedure of point rationing.
A surplus Army egg-buying depot has been opened in the store buildings in back of John Henry Plant’s store, beginning this Saturday.

February 13, 1953
B.L. McLane was recently given a safe driving award by his employer, American Bakeries Company.
Members of St. Mary’s Episcopal enjoyed a parish supper last Thursday in the new Parish House.
Mrs. R.C. Horne was a visitor at White Springs Friday at the Stephen Foster Memorial.
More than two-and-a-half inches of rain fell here last Friday and Saturday night, bringing the rainfall for the first week in February up to more than that for the month of January.

February 15, 1963
The Madison Red Devil basketball team defeated Florida High Saturday night to become champions of the North Florida Conference.
Dr. and Mrs. T.H. Callahan had as weekend guests Mr. and Mrs. William Robison.
Bob and Beanie Searcy have sold the 40-acre farm of Mr. and Mrs. George T. Goodridge close to Driggers Crossing on Highway 6 to Mr. and Mrs. E.W. Dennis, Sr.
Miss Elizabeth Mays of Monticello is the guest this week of Mrs. Emy Howerton and Mr. C.B. Kelly.

February 16, 1973
Three inches of snow falls and blankets the ground in Madison County on Feb. 10, 1973.
The Madison High Cougars basketball team travels to Greenville to play the Pirates at 6:30 tonight.
Madison High School’s 1973 Betty Crocker Homemaker of Tomorrow is Rachel Ann Hughey.
Bright Side shampoo, 2 for $1 and Colgate Instate Shave, 2 for $1 at the Van H. Priest Company.

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February 7, 2013 History Comments Off

February 12, 1943
Prof. Carl E. Rude, principal of Madison High School, and the High School Athletic Association, generously donated to the Library Association $5.00, with the request that it be used for the purchase of new books or any other way that the Library Association sees fit.
Mrs. J.H. Sale of Cherry Lake brought to the newspaper last week a half dime minted in 1842.
Dr. E.D. Tharp spent the past 10 days as a business visitor to Defuniak Springs.
Col. C.B. Marshall was a visitor to the city last week, visiting his brother-in-law and sister, Dr. and Mrs. J.E. Ellis.

February 6. 1953
Prof. A.J. Hargrove is confined to his bed with illness this week.
The dental trailer from the State Board of Health stopped at the elementary school in Greenville. According to Dr. A.W. Peterson, dentist, 152 children had their teeth examined. This included in the first three grades.
Jimbo Bell is at home on a 35-day furlough. He has been stationed in Pensacola.
The District Seminar of the Methodist WSCS will be held in Monticello on Feb. 12.

February 8, 1963
The Florida Power Corporation in Madison County will have an outage of electricity Sunday, Feb. 10, between 2 and 4 p.m. for repairs to the sub-station.
Service will be interrupted to those Tri-County Electric Co-op members east of Madison, including the area around Pinetta, Lee and south of Lee, from 2-4 p.m., Sunday, Feb. 10.
Miss Toni Jean Wells of FSU was a visitor at her home here Sunday.
Alex H. Smith and sons, Jimmy and Zet, spent the weekend at their Fernandina Beach home.

February 9, 1973
Henry Fead is in the jailhouse on a murder charge and Emma Tucker, 19, is dead of a bullet to her brain as the result of a family squabble in Greenville Sunday.
Bob and Beanie Searcy spent an all-expenses paid weekend in Freeport in the Bahamas, guests of United Farm Agency. Mr. and Mrs. Searcy are members of the President’s Round Table, one of the top classifications of company salesmen.
Gay Swift, son of Mr. and Mrs. Red Swift, is being treated in the Key West Naval Hospital for a serious eye injury, caused when an electric drill struck him in the eye. He has lost virtually the entire sight of the eye, Mr. Swift reported. Young Swift will be given a medical discharge from the Coast Guard.
Two men, ages 20 and 22, were jailed and charged with murder in the shooting of Highway Patrol Trooper C.W. Parks, husband of the former Carolyn Davis of Madison. Parks was shot as he attempted to arrest the men in connection with the robbery of a Woodbine, Ga., loan office. He was left dead in the ditch alongside I-95. A passing motorist who witnessed the killing gave the alarm over the trooper’s radio and the two men were picked up shortly thereafter.

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January 30, 2013 Editorials, Letters To The Editor Comments Off

The old news in this feature in the Enterprise Recorder stirs memories, usually pleasing to recall. That was my anticipation as I read an item in the January 25, 2013 issue. The lead appeared routine: January 29,1943. Pvt William F. Brooks of Lovett finished training at Aerial Gunnery School and was given the rank of sergeant. From Lovett? THAT’S FRANK BROOKS! The good looking, blonde, blue-eyed neighbor . . just ahead of my sister’s class at Greenville High School, one of those older kids who awed us small fry. Frank Brooks brought home the reality of WWII.
The war in my childhood had been saving tin cans and aluminum gum wrappers, saving enough pennies to buy savings stamps for my filled book to get a war bond ($18 bond would grow to $25), seeing the rail cars full of pine stumps (pine tar for what?), doing without sugar and using white stuff for butter (color came later to margarine) — our every day overshadowed by knowing that one of us was on a Navy ship in the Pacific war zone. BUT FRANK WAS MISSING! FRANK WAS KILLED IN ACTION! Word filtered through my childhood fog that Frank was the gunner in that front bubble on a bomber that had been shot down. The Brooks family’s tragedy ratcheted up our anxiety although unaware of Midway and Coral Sea battles where the carrier Yorktown was sunk and my brother spent hours in the water before rescue. My cousin’s wounding in North Africa had been alarming, bearable because he would be back stateside. It was Frank Brooks who made even a little country kid comprehend how terrible war is.
Marianne Green

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January 28, 2013 History Comments Off

January 29, 1943
Pvt. William F. Brooks of Lovett received his diploma and silver wings at the Aerial Gunnery School at Tyndall Field Jan. 12, 1943. He was given the rating of a sergeant.
Col. J.B. McClure, prominent young attorney of this city, and member of the law firm of Davis, Davis and McClure, was notified on Monday by Gov. Spessard Holland of his appointment as county prosecuting attorney.
Joe Hughey, of the US Naval Training School, Memphis, Tenn,, arrived home Wednesday morning on a seven-day leave.
Mr. C.J. English of our Navy was visiting his little daughter, Margaret, over the weekend.

January 23, 1953
Mrs. E.L. Flowers, chairman of the Mothers’ March for Polio for Lee, announces plans for the Mothers’ March on Jan. 29, from 7-8 p.m. The workers will meet at Whitty’s Store at 6:30 p.m. to receive instructions. At 7 p.m., people will “Turn on their porch lights.”
Mrs. Stanton Pepera and daughter, Connie, spent last weekend in Marianna visiting relatives and friends.
The Green Bay Food Company of Live Oak will again contract cucumbers in Madison County, along with Suwannee and adjoining counties.
Warrant Officer Junior Grade Howell E. Drawdy, Jr. is returning from Korea to the United States under the Army’s rotation program.

January 25, 1963
Beverage department officers and members of the Madison and Brooks County sheriff’s departments last Friday night destroyed a huge still system about a half mile south of Lovett.
William Rocky Leggett, who recently broke out of jail here and was caught Jan. 11 in Defuniak Springs broke out again last Friday about 9:15. Leggett twisted up a blanket and used it to stand on while he manipulated an opening in the top of his cell and crawled through to freedom. His liberty was short-lived, however, as officers caught him about an hour and a half later within two blocks of the jail and put him back in.
The Band Booster Club met Monday night in the band room with a good attendance of members.
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Williams of Jacksonville came Thursday for a visit with his mother, Mrs. Ruby Williams.

January 26, 1973
Imported fire ants have been in Madison County for only three years but they are becoming more numerous and bothersome. They were first found near Greenville and that vicinity now has the worst infestation.
The North Florida Junior College Sentinels upset the University of Florida Baby Gators 108-90 in basketball action.
A total of 150 people employed at Scottish Inns plant in Greenville build motel room units.
The villagers in the suburbs spoke loudly and clearly Tuesday as they rejected overwhelmingly an invitation to be a part of the City of Madison. Those on the outside voted 346-62 in favor of staying on the outside. Those on the inside agreed grudgingly to let in the outsiders if they wanted to come, 292-256.

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August 18, 2011 History Comments Off

August 29, 1941

Mr. and Mrs. T.C. Wilson have returned to their home in Clearwater after a visit with Mr. and Mrs. J.R. Wilson.

Mr. Hunter Browning of this city and Rev. W.D. Keis of Greenville attended the American Legion district meeting held in Branford on Sunday.

We are having plenty of rain nowadays.

Mr. Curl Rude is attending summer school at the University of Florida.

August 24, 1951

Charles Gaskins, age six, son of Mr. and Mrs. Bullock Gaskins of Madison, was painfully and probably seriously injured when he exploded a dynamite cap in his hands about 4:30 p.m. Tuesday.

Ed Howard, age 77, is still picking cotton in Cherry Lake. Ed made $6 in two days.

Benjamin and Waring Wyche, Jr., sons of Mr. and Mrs. Waring Wyche, were among the 534 students who received degrees from the University of Florida on Saturday, Aug. 18.

Dan Walker, Jr. is visiting his aunt, Mrs. McKenzie, in Lurinburg, N.C.

August 25, 1961

Members of the Hanson Methodist Sunday School class were on the Circle 6 TV program on Monday, Aug. 26. Mrs. Carl Smith and Mrs. W.J. Bennett accompanied the following children to WCTV: Carlene Smith, Faye Young, Gayle and Dale Cason, Linda and Brenda Pickles, Carl Rushing, Barbara Jean Townsend, Evelyn and Jerry Harris, Pat Taylor, Rusty Newsome and Peggy Newsome.

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Moore returned Monday from Alabama, where he has been attending summer school.

Teachers at Lee Junior High for the 1961-62 school term are: 1st grade – Mrs. Mary Kent; 2nd grade, Mrs. Carolyn Rowe; 3rd grade – Mrs. Edith Stokes; 4th grade – Mrs. Cleo Hamrick; 5th grade – Mrs. Rita Phillips; 6th grade – Mrs. Ollie Kinsey. Junior high teachers are Mrs. Corine Henderson (English and Library); Mrs. Sue Quick (Social Studies and Physical Education); Mrs. Cordie Welch (Math); Mrs. Eda Bouland (Home Economics); Mr. Thomas L. Moore (Science and Physical Education); and Mr. Henry W. Reams (Vocational Agriculture).

Freddy Howard, son of Mr. and Mrs. Phil Howard, has enlisted in the Navy in the Nuclear Electronics program.

August 27, 1971

Mr. and Mrs. George Townsend of Pinetta announce the engagement of their daughter, Barbara Jean Townsend, to Thomas Frederick Greiner, son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Greiner of Cherry Lake and Kissimmee.

John M. Wynn, an instructor in English at Alexander City Junior College, has been named an outstanding Educator of America for 1971.

Airman Ronnie L. Moore, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Moore of Greenville, has completed basic training at Lackland Air Force Base, Texas.

Sgt. Wilbur A. Pulliam, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur A. Pulliam, has received the U.S. Air Force commendation medal for meritorious service in Vietnam.

 

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June 2, 2011 History Comments Off

June 6, 1941
Born to Mr. and Mrs. S. E. Miller Friday, May 30th, a fine 8 lb. baby girl. The little lady has been named Mary Virginia.
Mrs. Dock Hall surprised Mr. Hall Saturday night by inviting a few friends to have supper with them in honor of his birthday.
In our own country, Chief Justine Hughes of the Supreme Court has announced his retirement, effective July 1st.
Mrs. B. G. Waring entertained with an enjoyable picnic lunch Friday at her suburban home honoring Miss Vivian Lanier, popular bride-elect.
June 1, 1951
On Sunday, the six children of Mr. and Mrs. John P. Tomlinson were christened in St. Mary’s Episcopal church.
Governor Warren today signed into law a bill creating eight Congressional districts in Florida. The State gained two congressional districts on the basis of the 1950 Federal census.
Two Madison County bills were passed in the Legislature last week. One establishes a small claims court with jurisdiction up to $100 under the County Judge. The other relieves the Game and Fish Commission and the Board of County Commissioners of liability for any damage from increased water levels in Hickstown Marsh in the county.
Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Blanton of Greenville announce the birth of a son, May 27.

June 2, 1961
John Edward Fraleigh, BS, bus; Frances Stewart Copeland, BS ed; Edward Bailey Browning Jr. and William Langford Welch, BS, arts and science, are graduating from FSU Saturday, June 3rd.
Lynette Bishop of Greenville and Jackie Pepera of Madison have been selected to attend Girls’ State.
Lois Morgan, member of the Junior class of Greenville High School, has been awarded the Crisco trophy for outstanding work in home economics.
The Senate passed 34-1 bill to cut intangible tax on stock and bond holdings from 22 to 1.5 mills; bill returned to House to concur in amendment.

June 4, 1971
Pharmacist Wayne Williamson, Jesse Hutchinson and Steve Ryals caught about 35 pounds of bass in Lake Talquin a few days ago.
Mr. Luther Sullivan was Man of Honor for the 9th Annual Ebenezer Homecoming.
The Becky Robinson School of Dance presented “Showtime,” Thursday, May 27, 1971 in the Madison High School Auditorium at 8:30 p.m. L. D. Robinson, master ceremonies, and also Becky’s father, began by welcoming everyone to the show and introducing Becky.
Dannitte Mays, the fourth, was born last Thursday, May 27 at 5:19 in the Madison Hospital.

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