Down Memory Lane

1950 WETUMKA GAZETTE C. of C. Opens New Year With a Bang; Plans Made The Wetumka Chamber of Commerce held its first meeting of the new year Monday at 7:30 p.m. in the C. of C.office on West Broad - way.

By C. A. McWilliams This week a miracle, by the name of Billy Joe Johnson, returned home to Wetumka. Ninety-one days ago, he was more nearly out of this world than in it.

1955 WETUMKA GAZETTECunningham, Massey To Seek OfficeTwo Announce For Council In Wards 2 and 4Two new candidates announced this week for councilman posts, subject to the city election March 15 th .Bill Cunningham, owner of the B and D Butane Company in Wetumka let it be known that he would be a...

Joins Father In Heading Masonic OrderIma Jean Brock became the second member of her family to assume a high Masonic office when she was installed Tuesday night as Worthy Matron of the Order of Eastern star, a sister organization of the Masonic Lodge.Her father, Haskell Brock, was installed last...

Wetumka Memory Lane 1962

“GRANDMA” PILOTS THE SHIP ALONE ON “HER” FIRST FIGHT Large Crowd Aghast as “She” Takes Off, Leaving Pilot on Ground; Hoax Proves to Be Headliner Attraction at Wetumka Field Day—Dedication by Bill Tucker A crowd, estimated at 3,500 persons, attending Wetumka’s air show Sunday afternoon, gasped...

CITY WILL OBSERVE ARMISTICE DAY MONDAY Stores, Public Offices Close: Parade at 10:00 Bugle strains of 6 a.m. reveille will awaken the city on the 22nd anniversary of the end of World War No. I and a dance in Civic Center will close the city’s Armistice Day observance tomorrow evening.

First off, I had a happy birthday. Had a call from my longtime friend Leo (Meatball) King, had a call from Joyce McCosar, even had one from Mary Lois Criswell. She was wanting to know when Dr. Tom’s birthday was. I told her she had already missed it, but she put it on her calendar for next year.