The Way it Was

100 years ago

County officials getting ready to move

The various county officials are making preparations to begin moving next week.

Sheriff Moore and Circuit Clerk Huff will move to the Armory on south Main Street, while the other officials will move to the Simon buildings and the Robinson building.

Recorder Ewing will be the "aristocrat" as he will occupy the entire Robinson building, because of the fact that all the County records will be placed in that building, it being the corner building with back, side and front entrance.

The records will be safe in this building. In case a fire should start in the block all the records could be easily moved in time to prevent either destruction or injury.

50 years ago

African-American bus boycotter arrested

MONTGOMERY, Ala., -- The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., a African-American minister whose home was bombed while he was actively leading the African-American bus boycott in Montgomery, was arrested today for boycotting.

The 27-year-old pastor of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in downtown Montgomery, was among those indicted by a grand jury Tuesday on charges of violating Alabama's anti-boycott law.

King's indictment was kept secret under Alabama law until he was arrested.

He returned today from a series of speaking engagements in Tennessee and Sheriff Mac Butler said he surrendered voluntarily. He was released on a $300 bond.