50 Years Ago
The Easley Progress
Wednesday, May 24, 1961
— Pickens County voters passed a retain Superintendent of Schools as an elected office.
— Work began on the first portion of the Easley-Clemson Highway (U.S. 123).
— Douglas Terry, a 14-Year -old Piedmont boy, was killed in a water skiing accident.
— Obituaries were printed for Clarence E. Williams, Hugh Garvin Sims, Rugus Guyton Owen, Jinnie Marie Ives and Andrew Wade Medlin.
— Margaret Emma Allsep was engaged to John Frank Blackstone.
75 Years Ago
The Easley Progress
Thursday, May 28, 1936
— U.S. Rep. John C. Taylor announce his plans to seek re-election.
— The Easley High School Class of 1936 had 72 candidates for graduation.
— The state was prepared to release 100,000 rainbow trout in various bodies of water in Pickens County.
— Lucille Priscilla Hamilton was engaged to Harold Eugene Armstead.
— Cora Lee Godfrey married Gwin A. Perry.
— Curtis Elliott Bagwell was born.
— Dr. J.L Bolt came to the Easley Progress offices with a four-legged chicken that hatched at his home.
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