Looking Back

75 YEARS AGO MAY 23, 1947 Four residents of Barbour County will be candidates for degrees from the Alabama Polytechnic Institute at the end of spring quarter. Graduation exercises will be held in Auburn on June 5.

75 YEARS AGO MAY 16, 1947 Miss Betty Harrison represented the Third District in the Birmingham-News-Age-Herald oratorical contest held in Birmingham on May 9th. The subject for the speeches was “The Kind of Education I Want in High School and After.” The contestants were guests of the Birmingham News at the Redmont Hotel.

75 YEARS AGO MAY 9, 1947 On Friday, May 2, the Clayton nine defeated Bakerhill by a margin of seven to four. Lefty “Stackpole” Barnes, Clayton pitcher, yielded only three hits, striking out 13 of the opponent’s men.

75 YEARS AGO MAY 2, 1947 Robertson School will have their graduation exercises Friday night, May 2, at 7:30 p.m. Those who will graduate are Truitt Greene, Lucy Margaret Taylor, Creassie Mae Strickland, Grace Dykes, Ila Pearl Dykes and Lavern Greene.

75 YEARS AGO APRIL 26, 1947 Mrs. Tom Parish presented her music pupils in recital Friday evening, April 18, in her home on Eufaula Avenue.

75 YEARS AGO APRIL 18, 1947 Ex-Gov. Chauncey Sparks made presentation of prizes to youngsters who exhibited their stock at the Barbour County Fat Calf Show, which was sponsored this year by the Eufaula Chamber of Commerce.

75 YEARS AGO MARCH 28, 1947 John Knox Winn, 34-year-old attorney and war veteran, has been appointed confidential assistant to S. Flootwood Carnley, State Director of Industrial Relations.

75 YEARS AGO MARCH 14, 1947 The Girl Scouts, Boy Scouts and their Counselors were entertained with a Chicken in the Rough supper at the home of Mr. and Mrs.

75 YEARS AGO MARCH 14, 1941 The Barbour County 1947 Basketball Tournament got underway in Louisville last Friday, March 7, at 1:00 p.m., when the Louisville B Team handed the Clio Bees a shellacking. The Louisville and Clio A Teams tangled at 2:00 p.m.

50 YEARS AGO FEBRUARY 10, 1972 Larry Dykes of Louisville was winner of the State 4-H Club Tractor Driving Contest. He was presented a plaque by Bill Mayfield, Specialist in Agricultural Engineering of Auburn University, at the Annual Farmer’s Day held in Clayton at the Armory last Friday.