10 Years Ago: Watermelon Jubilee organizers are pleased with this year’s turnout…Tommy Ryan Jr. followed in the footsteps of his father, grandfather and uncle with a win in the Greenville Country Club’s championship tourney…six-year-old Reagan Dobbs enjoyed some fruit of the vine at this year’s Jubilee…Monica Charmane Lewis will wed Jason Andre Johnson on Sept. 2…Judy Smith, a teacher at Greenville Middle School, attended the Delta Kappa Gamma Society International Convention in Toronto…campers participating in the Butler County Forestry Planning Committee youth camp included Jacob Newton, Jason McCann, Lakien Croley, Tara Gibson, Tabitha Mock, among others…Lindsay Johnson, the granddaughter of Nelda and Joe Sanders of Greenville, was selected as Shelby County…Greenville Parks & Recreation will sponsor the United Fund Hoopfest 2000 in September…Auburn University awarded degrees to Ginger G. Hallmar, Christopher Bentley, Daniel Butts, Shannon L. Piggott, Mary S. Salter, and David B. Walker…

25 Years Ago: Mr. James Martin Herbert celebrated his 97th birthday…elected Life Underwriter Association officers were Ed Sims, Paul Stafford, Ronnie Paulk, and Herb Dean…Summer quarter graduates at Troy State were Cynthia Shirley Bentley and Rebecca Lyn Terry…James A. Moorer was among 34 recruits graduated to the rank of Alabama State Trooper in a ceremony…Greenville Animal Control officer M.C. Rowell uses a special stick to secure some of the animals he picks up…Vince Womack of Greenville is performing this summer as a member of Disneyland’s All-American College Marching Band…the county has seen a positive gain in finances since voters approved a referendum in March 1984 making Butler County a “wet” county…Ernestine Haynes has been chosen the Holiday Inn’s Employee of the Month…first place winners for the women’s softball league was the Chicken Shack: Sherry Henderson, Debra Waller, Jennifer Peterson, Patty Cates, Christy Hicks, Michelle Myrick, Anna Keeney, ‘Mama’ Liz Keeney, Jessica Davis, Jean Sims, Sue Hall and Judy Milton…members of the Greenville Academy cheerleading squad are Sabrina Touchtone, Pam Stinson, Kelli King, and Michelle Herring, among others…

50 Years Ago: Awarded W.O. Parmer scholarships were Phillip Marshall, Ronald Pete Green, Danny Posey, among others…R.C. Parrish will head-up the United Fund for Greenville…Drs. Robert Bedsole and L. Don Snellgrove attended the Alabama Optometric Association Public Relations Round-Table last Saturday…the Ed Jones family has become ardent watchers of outer space and the satellites therein…an impressive baptismal service was conducted last Sunday in the garden of the home of Rev. and Mrs. C.A. Eiland on Leysath Street…Ernest Borgnine in Pay or Die! at the Ritz…Mrs. Cornelius Mason, mother of Gloria Hancock, was supervisor of the Graduate Hall at the University of Alabama, when Nell Harper Lee lived there as a student…GHS majorettes interrupted their practice long enough to initiate Kay Shirley, who made the mistake of letting them know it was her 16th birthday…