25 Years Ago

The Easley Progress

Wednesday, Dec. 5, 1984

• The City of Easley set a public hearing for a Community Block Grant it had applied for to make improvements in the Alice Mill area.

• Hundreds attended the Esley Christmas parade.

• Vandals caused $2,000 worth of damage to Smithfields Country Club.

• The Piedmont Municipal Power Agency took steps toward becoming co-owners of Unit 2 of the Catawba Nuclear Plant.

• Rhonda Harrison was crowned Miss EHS.

• Jack Byrd was appointed director of business and properties for the School District of Pickens County.

• Beverly Hills Cop and The Terminator were playing at the Colony. Easley Cinemas featured City Heat, starring Burt Reynolds and Clint Eastwood.

• Barefoot in the Park was playing at the Easley Community Theater.

• Tim Peot of Easley received Eagle Scout honors.

• Obituaries were printed for Robert Lake Jameson, Frank Ashmore Robinson, James Lee Dobson, Thelmas Lowe Cooper, Woodrow S. Limbaugh, Caroline Furman Hamilton, Jenkins Lineberger Richardson, Alice Black Williams, Luther Jackson Wade, Bertie Aiken Stansell, Janette Seagel Newsonm, Frank Isaac Jefferson, Annie Mozel Davis Mitchell, Jesse LaFayette McCombs, Dorothy Mooneyham Wilson, Bessie Marie Gilstrap Kay, Lloyd Bennett Smith and Lillie Laura Morgan.

• Wedding announcements were printed for:

— Norma Katheryn Truesdale to John William Jenkinson Jr.;

— Margaret Rebecca McDonald to Thomas Weyland Barnhill Jr.; and

— Laura DeAnn Dcobe to Walter Keith Reeves.

• Mr. and Mrs. Cleo Rampey celebrated their 50th anniversary.

• Birthdays celebrated included Toni Amanda Norris 3, Tiffany Marie Hickey 4, Margaret Olivia Ellenburg 1 and Donna Marie Redding 12.

• Gary Ward was called to be minister of youth at Easley First Baptist Church.

50 Years Ago

The Easley Progress

Wednesday, Dec. 2, 1959

• Bids for the demolition of the Pickens County Courthouse were set to be opened that week. The courthouse had been built in 1890.

• Recent births included Karen Julliette Wood, Randal Dale Waters, Cynthia Joy Garrett, Barry Eugene Adcox and Barbara Gay Corbin.

• Betty Sue Brown was crowned Dacusville Miss Hi Miss.

• Liberty defeated Easley 13-6 in a Thanksgiving day high school football game.

• Obituaries were printed for Dell Devote Day, Sarah Lanning, Wolfe, William Henry Carter, William Edward Gantt, Howard Sivert, Georgia Bell Murphy Cely, Arminda Boyd McFadden and Catherine Elizabeth Copeland.

• Roberta Ellen Smith was engaged to Lt. Jack Edward Raven.

• Mr. and Mrs. William Harvey Welborn celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary.

• Ruth Ann Rose wed Fred Harold Dalton Jr.

75 Years Ago

The Easley Progress

Thursday, Dec. 6, 1934

• Peggie Ann Stansell, 3, died at a Greenville hospital.

• Northside Elementary was presenting the play, “The Kidnapping of Santa.”

• From The Progress editorial page: “If Both Have Failed, Then What? — A year ago the prohabition amendment was repealed and the majority of the country returned to legalized sale of liquor. The leaders of the dry forces of the country now declare that after a year’s trial, that legalizd sale of whiskey has been proven to be a complete failure. Drunkeness and crime, they claim, have both largely increased, and on the the account of the sale of whiskey and beer. They claim that promises that have been made have been broken, and that the country today is as it was in the days of the open saloon. That the bootlegger is flourishing as in the days of yore; and in fact that the country is in a bad fix and steadily getting worse, all on account of the sale of whiskey. In fact, that the legalized sale of alcoholic drinks is a complete failure.”