Please see Chief Graham or SPC Steve Fryer to purchase a ticket. $35 Boston Butt or $25 Rib Slab on October 28. Pick Up Location: The Ponderosa, 1532 County Road 53, Clayton. For more information, please contact Barbour County High School at 334-7753545.
People are wanting to know when the time “falls back.” Daylight Saving Time will end on Sunday, November 5, at 2:00 in the morning. While there’s been some movement to discontinue the biannual time change, the time change is still in effect. We may have more light in the morning time but it will get darker earlier in the afternoons. All we can do is to adjust the best we can!
“I want to bring change to the people’s lives here. I want to give them health care they can’t afford anywhere else to get.” Ursula Wilson, who is board certified in family practice, said at the ribbon cutting of the newly remodeled Clio Health Clinic, LLC.
October has always been my very favorite month of the year. That beautiful month seems to be our reward for enduring the pitiless heat of the Alabama summer.
75 YEARS AGO OCTOBER 15, 1948 Several new members were initiated into the Clayton Future Homemakers of America Wednesday morning at the Vocational Home Economics building. Those receiving chapter pins were Ima Jo Green, Camilla Green, Annie Mae Dykes, Libby Bowden, Bertha Ray Boyd, Mary Evelyn Smoot, Patricia Harrison, Jacqueline Tew, Willette Sharp, Sara Lee McNalley, Carolyn Cook and Jessie Cook.
We have written several articles on the historic Rosenwald Schools. The one in Clayton on Martin Luther King Avenue is in need of renovations and the one in Midway is being converted into a community center and a place for other activities.
Toney Jones, a resident of Eufaula, along with Dr. John Waldrop, a Georgia doctor, turned themselves in to authorities in Atlanta after being indicted for smuggling taxidermied birds and eggs into the United States.
A trespasser at Ventress Correctional Facility in Clayton attempted to get contraband inside the state prison facility on Tuesday, October 10. The attempt made by Antares Neyan Banks was unsuccessful when he was arrested by the Alabama Department of Corrections Law Enforcement Services Division.
An investigation has begun on the death of a Midway man who had been reported missing last week. Eddie Lee Thomas, 77, had been to a car show in Springhill in Barbour County on Saturday, October 7.