The Way it Was

100 years ago

An injunction against hunters

C.H. Hill, by attorneys Scott & Bowker, has filed a petition in Circuit Clerks Huff's office asking Judge Thurman to issue an injunction restraining M. Gummerson, B.J. Means, Charles Mills, E. Atkens, Walter Haire, Willard Gosnell, William Houston, John Doe, Richard Roe and others from hunting upon the tract of land known as the Cresap Ranch. There has been much litigation over the Cresap Ranch but this injunction proceedings "takes the cake." The petition makes the startling allegation that the defendants frighten the ducks and other wild game from the ranch, but make no charge that they kill game. To accuse a hunter of frightening game is more serious blow to his feelings than a charge of wholesale slaughter.

50 years ago

Lay cornerstone at Bronaugh School

About 500 adults, school children and builders were present for the cornerstone laying ceremony of the new Bronaugh School, which is nearly completed, Friday afternoon:

The building, which will house many new additions in the way of classrooms and laboratories, should be ready for occupancy next fall according to school superintendent Floyd A. Townsend.

The cornerstone laying ceremony was open with musical numbers by the Bronaugh High School band and chorus under the direction of Mrs. Hannah Wolfe. The prayer was offered by Mrs. Dorothy Burningham, minister of the Moundville and Bronaugh Methodist Churches.