LAST YEAR, OCT. 9, 2025
Destiny Waller, daughter of Taylor Waller and Sheena Harrison, was named Friday night as Putnam County High School’s 2025-26 Homecoming Queen.
FIVE YEARS AGO, OCT. 7, 2021
When senior quarterback Gerald Kilgore took the victory formation snap on Oglethorpe County High’s Patriot Field Friday, the Putnam County High football squad saw a final score – 54-13 – more like its early-season form. Kilgore accounted for six touchdowns – split between rushing and receiving – to help keep the War Eagles of head coach Shaun Pope unbeaten at 6-0, 3-0 in Region 4-AA.
10 YEARS AGO, OCT. 6, 2016
The Putnam County War Eagle football team won its first game of the season against the Oglethorpe County Patriots this past Friday in Lexington with a score of 42-10. Putnam County (1-5,1-1) rose from a string of defeats and finally broke its losing streak. Everyone was going crazy with joy; well, except for the Patriots.
25 YEARS AGO, OCT. 11, 2001
The old Eatonton jail is making slow progress in the quest for preservation as it is the recipient of two grants totaling more than $25,00. The old jail, built in 1938 on Marion Street, could be used as a record vault for the county if refurbished. It is not on the National Register of Historic Places, but it is in the historic district.
50 YEARS AGO, OCT. 7, 1976
R. G. “Ronnie” Culver assumed duties as chief of the Eatonton-Putnam Fire Department last Friday, replacing Fred Winslette, who has served in that position for the past five years. Winslette had been a member of the volunteer fire department here for 30 years and five months and has also been a member of Eatonton City Council.
75 YEARS AGO, OCT. 11, 1951
Lt. Robert Porter, member of the Army Reserves and for six years the Putnam County Soil Conservationist, has been ordered to report to active duty Oct. 18. He will report to the 822 Tank Battalion at Camp Polk, Louisiana, where he will undergo training. Serving with the Army’s tank corps will be nothing new for Porter. In World War II, he fought through three of the bitterest campaigns in Europe under the command of the late General Patton.
100 YEARS AGO, OCT. 8, 1926
Accounts appearing in the daily newspapers from all of the counties in Middle Georgia indicate the 1926 cotton crop will be materially larger than it has been in any year since the beginning of the period of boll weevil infestation.