ONE YEAR AGO, AUG. 26, 2021
As the COVID-19 mutant variant Delta continues its march through our country and Putnam County, the Putnam County Charter School System (PCCSS) is holding the line on the mask mandate implemented for the school system at the start of the new school year and for good reason. With 99 percent of students participating in in-person education, the number of COVID cases was about the same in 2021 as it was in 2020.
FIVE YEARS AGO, AUG. 24, 2017
Eatonton Fire Department Chief Eugene Hubert took his camper to Murphy, N.C. and left it there a month ago to stake his claim on the right spot to see the Aug.
21, 2017, solar eclipse in its totality. Not since 1979 has a total eclipse been visible in the contiguous United States, according to NASA. A total eclipse is when the moon passes between the sun and Earth and blocks all or part of the sun and the sun’s tenuous atmosphere.
25 YEARS AGO, AUG. 28, 1997
Putnam County voters will go to the polls Sept. 16 to decide if an additional one percent sales tax will be the rule here. The difference this time is the added tax would go to help fund the county schools instead of funding the county treasury as in the past.
50 YEARS AGO, AUG. 24, 1972
When there is a big job to be done, usually there’s someone from Eatonton to do it. Such is the case up in Jasper, where there is not one but two former Eatonton residents – Pat Harrison and Mrs. Eliza Cagle. They are veteran staff members of the rapidly expanding Pickens Area Vocational Technical School.
75 YEARS AGO, AUG. 28, 1947
Entering 45 out of the hundred-odd animals in the Fifth Parish Jersey Show at Milledgeville last Friday, Putnam herdsmen won a distinguished array of awards which have been displayed during the past week in Jarmulowsky’s window. Representatives of the Putnam 4-H clubs, the FFA organization and adult dairymen entered stock in the show, and all won prizes.
100 YEARS AGO, AUG. 25, 1922
The hog sale put on by County Farm Demonstrator Roy Rogers last week proved a success in every possible way. There were 87 hogs brought in and every buyer and the graders stated several times they were the prettiest lot, as a whole, that they had ever seen at such a sale. Seventy-five graded No. 1 and 11 graded No. 2, there being only one below that grade, and this one solely because it was a 500 lb. sow that had been a brood sow and was doomed by the grading rules, regardless of the fact she was a beautiful animal.