Compiled by Ben Robinson

75 Years Ago

The Easley Progress

July 12, 1934

• Cleo Finley announced he would seek the office of Pickens County Sheriff.

• The new Easley athletic field was nearing completion just in time for football season. The field was named, “Hagood Park.”

• The Lyric Theater featured, “It Happened One Night,” starring Claudette Cobert and Clark Gable.

• Ted Mauldin and T.C. Hawkins joined the race for county commissioner.

• Weddings announced included Eva Lucille Abercombie to Charles Hugh Acker; Nathalie Jones to Herbert McDaonald; Edith Grigsby Lowery to Dawson Clement Shelton and Beula Powell to Fred Parker.

50 Years Ago

The Easley Progress

July 8, 1959

• Easley police were investigating a double slaying. Andrew Adams, 38, apparently shot his wife, Leon Lesley Adams, then turned his double-barreled shotgun on himself.

• Easley First Baptist was set to vote on $200,000 in new building plans, including a new education building, some remodeling of other facilities, and air conditioning.

• Four teenagers sought in connection with a weekend breakin at the Pumpkintown Store, were caught in Indiana.

• The owners of Golfland and the Easley Drive-In were arrested for opening on Sunday, violating the state’s “blue laws.”

• Recent births reported at Easley Baptist Hospital included: Michael LeRoy Mathis, Billy Mack Hameline, Connie Marie Smith, Robert Lewis Lollis, Karen Elizabeth Hunter, Carol Sue Popham, Phillip Vernon McWhorter, Charles Donald Harvin, Anita Carol Dickard, Stephen Ray Morton, Stephen Lamar Barrett, Sylvia Lynn Galloway, Terra Parisi Thomas, Cynthia Lynn Cater, Cynthia Lynn Loftis, Daniel Watson Barden, Phillip Randell Searcy, Vera Susan Cantrell, Syerry Lyn Gibson, Vickie Elaine Nealey, Jennifer Carol Moore, Rona Dwight Perkins, John Curtis Limbaugh, Ruth Ann Lyle, Phil Scott Sargeant and Johnny Eugene Adams.

• “The Ten Commandments” staring Charlton Heston, was showing at the Easley Drive-In.

• The Colony Theater featured Marilyn Monroe, Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis in “Some Like It Hot.”

• Obituaries were printed for Ruth Alexander Stone, Gertie Watt Stewart, Naomi Peden and Alice Henderson Largent.

• Nancy Elaine Merck married James Lloyd Smith.

• Engagements were announced for Ann Evans Argo to Edward Lorraine Sanders and Elaine Louise Murrell to George W. Teat.

25 Years Ago

The Easley Progress

July 11, 1984

• The local Jaycees organizations considered the reprecusions of a ruling in Minnesota requiring Jaycee clubs to allow female membership.

• Miss Liberty Elizabeth Hayes was second runner-up in the Miss South Carolina Pageant. Vickie Renee Harrell, who represented the University of South Carolina in the pageant, was the winner.

• Leslie Hill was crowned Miss Fourth of July at Easley’s annual Independence Day celebration.

• Obituaries were printed for Mattie I, Evatt, Mary Massey McKinney, Edgar Harbin, Montez Henderson, Lola Pearl Watson, Spc. 4 Scott Howe, Henty M. Howland, Lillian L. Morgan, Connie Freeman, Hunt, Norma Stephens Finley, Sarah Gable Davis, Willina Lonnie Gailey, Dena M. Bryant, Ralph Thomas, Teven M. Bryant, Luther Cobb and Theodore B. Todd.

Wedding announcements were printed for Dorothy Lynn Childers to Kenny Alfred Phillips, Robin Denise Breazeale to Christopher Scott Bridges, and Priscella Betty Ramey to Terry Joel Harrison.

• Mr. and Mrs. Edward Price Bryan Jr. celebrated their 50th anniversary

• Birthdays celebrated included Antwan Maurice White 3, Tiffany Ann Roach 8, Deborah Ann Kelley 2, and Rodney Keith Johnson 9.

• Births announced included Kellie Marie Reeves, Brandi Leigh Buckner, Tara Lynn Williams, Johnathan Caleb Davis and Sherry Lynn Ellenburg.