Farming and Hunting

1956

County Agent Leonard Cobb the year’s watermelon outlook was dim as 10 percent more melons had been planted statewide. Cobb reported some 7,000 acres of melons were planted in Gilchrist County that year.

Trenton and Bell High School Bands were to give a concert in Trenton and a concert in Bell under the direction of H.E. Grant. The funds raised were to be used for uniforms and concert music. The admission was 50 cents at each concert.

1969

Two local deer hunters won first place in Deer Contests. Jimmy Summers of Trenton won the Antler Contest sponsored by the Levy County Wildlife and Conservation Club. C. D. Moore of Bell won the High Springs Herald’s Deer Hunters contest. Summers received a prize of $25 for his deer killed in Levy County and Moore received $40 for his prize 10 point buck taken in Gilchrist County.

In March of that year the safe stolen from the Coca-Cola Bottling Company in Trenton a week before was found. Sheriff Charlie Parrish said the safe was found near Joppa Baptist Church in Levy County in a wooded area. All the cash a total of $1,294.70 was taken according to Eudell Parrish the plant manager. The robbers had not been caught at that time.

• By Cindy Jo Ayers