This picture taken somewhere around 1930, is of Boy Scout Troop 50 from the Easley Mill area. Front row: Arthur Mullinax, Randel Putnam, unknown, unknown; second row: Alfred Waldrop, Fred Owens, Ned Owens, unknown, Tick Waldrop; third row: Bill Owens, Rudy Jones, Junior Hendrix, Sydney Waldrop, Donald Noblitt; Back row: Leon Owens, Bob Turpin, Ike Cannon, Elbert Waldrop (Assistant scout leader) and Jesse D. Searcy (Scout master). If you can fill in any of the “unknowns,” send your information to brobinson@theeasleyprogress.com
The Easley Progress
Thursday, Nov. 15, 1934
• Easley defeated Walhalla 19-0.
• The Lyric Theatre was playing “Peck’s Bad Boy” starring young Jackie Cooper.
• Luther Brooks, 52, died at the Six Mile Hospital.
• A three-act comedy, “looking lovely,” was presented at Glenwood School.
50 Years Ago
The Easley Progress
Wednesday, Nov. 11, 1959
• Pickens County’s three (at the time) winners o fthe Congressional Medal of Honor were saluted at the annual Veterans Day Ceremony.
• Walt Day and Wallace Ferguson joined the Easley Police Department.
• Birth announcements included Janice Lee Nix, Chales Anthony Nichols, Sherry Elizabeth Duncan, Angela Dion Trotter and Jack Clyde Elgin.
• Nancy Nicholson was crowned Easley High School’s Homecoming Queen.
• Allan Lindsay and Ray Duncan earned their Eagle Scout badges.
• Easley defeated Hillcres 31-13. Other scores included Liberty 20, Abbeville 6; Pickens 7, Chapman 6; Daniel 67, Walhalla 0; Boiling Springs 34, Dacusville 0; and Taylors 46, Wren 6.
• Liberty was set to play Taylors in Easley in the semi-finals for the Upstate Single A Championship.
• Coach Bill Carr was presented a new 1960 station wagon by a group of Green Wave supporters.
• Sara Lou Kelley was crowned Daniel Homecoming Queen by team captain Walter Cox.
• Wedding announcements included:
— Bertha Imogene Price to Charles Hugh Acker Jr.
— Francis Elizabeth Everhart to Edwin Parker McCravy;
— Martha Jane Wilson to John Randall Godfrey.
• Anne Marie Ragsdale was engaged to Charles Owen Dondas.
• Obituaries were printed for Alice Williams Carmen, Kate Jones Finley, Della Rickey Ellis and Edward F. Seaborn.
• Superlatives for the Liberty High School senior class included Most Intellectual — Jim Beeson and Mariam Mullinax; Best Looking — Doyle Roper and Nancy Hunt; and Most Popular — Sandra Grogan and Tommy Freeman.
25 Years Ago
The Easley Progress
Wednesday, Nov. 14, 1984
• NCR laid off 70 employees. About 90 more layoffs were expected by April.
• J.C. Penney’s opened a catalogue center in Town ‘n Country Plaza.
• Obituaries were printed for Lonnie Leon Bagwell, Wade “Red” Finley, Frances Jones Turner, Helen Beatrice Smith, Maggie May Morgan Allen, Dennis Ray Lackey, Mary Wehner Spiers, Helen Reeves Kincaid, Martha Emma Parrott Kelley, Emma Holden Allen, Mary Ada Dillard bryson, Howard Griffin, E. Clyde Looper and Billy Andrew Gillespie.
• Secondary Road 143 near Eastatoe was named after the late Roy F. Jones.
• York defeated Wren 14-0 in the first round of the state AAA playoffs.
• Birth announcements were printed for Grahma Michael Adcox and Eric Arthur Walker.
• Sara Ann Moore was wed to James Earl Lusk.
• Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Morgan celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary.
• Birthday announcements were printed for Amanda Jean Bush 1, Dawn Nicole Tompkins 4 and Felicia Elaine Ferguson 7.
• Engagement announcements were printed for
— Sherry Melissa Grant to Michael Israel Alexander; and
— Cynthia Fay Fennell to James Michael Guest.
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