Cleburne County AlArchives News.....Newspaper Notices for August 4-25, 1900 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/al/alfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Candace Gravelle tealtree@comcast.net September 22, 2004, 12:02 am The Cleburne New Era newspaper NEWSPAPER NOTICES FROM "THE CLEBURNE NEW ERA", Heflin, Cleburne County, Alabama for AUGUST 1900 NEWSPAPER Issue of Saturday, August 4, 1900 Letter to the Editor from Chulafinnee Dear Editor, I desire to give you a few items from this part of the county. Crops have come out considerably for the last three weeks, although they will be short, especially the corn crop. I believe cotton will be very good and if we can get a good price for it this fall and have no other disaster I think we will come out all right notwithstanding the gloom and despair we witnessed the early part of the year from rain. We ought to be content, we have good water, plenty to eat, chickens, melons, peaches and other fruits. Let me tell you, Mr. Editor, last Monday was the day the Democratic nominees had agreed to visit us and old Chulafinnee came to the front and did the right thing. Early in the morning the people begun to come from all directions, in wagons, hacks, buggies, horse back and afoot, and by ten o'clock our town was full of folks. Well the speaking was a grand success. I have heard of churches setting a time for revival, I have seen great church revivals, but I never before saw such a great political revival, men rose from their seats, approached some of our nominees, took them by the hand and pledged themselves and their influence for the success of the democratic party next Monday. I have written more than I expected, so I will close by saying "look out for the largest democratic majority from Chulafinnee next Monday you have seen for several years". Signed, Democrat ___ NEWPAPER Issue of Saturday, August 11, 1900 Plenty of apples and peaches are offered for sale on our streets daily. __ Mr. and Mrs. I.E. Hubbard visited Mrs. Hubbard's mother, Mrs. Jane Bean at Hicks this week. __ Mr. and Mrs. J.R. Robison of Carrollton visited the family of M.D. Robison in the city this week. __ Mrs. P.K. Thompson and children of Venus, Texas, visited her sister, Mrs. E.R. Stephenson in the city this week. __ S.C. Zaner has the finest new ground corn in the county. Many stalks are more than 15 feet and many of them have two ears to the stalk. __ NEWSPAPER Issue of Saturday, August 18, 1900 W.J. Fowler, a prominent merchant, ginner and saw millman, near Hightower in this county, had a saw mill, grist mill and ginnery destroyed by fire Thursday night this week. The fire was discovered about twelve o'clock and had gained too much headway when discovered to be controlled. About $100 worth of bagging and ties which he had recently purchased were in the gin house and burned. The total loss amounts to about $4000. No insurance. This is quite a severe loss to Mr. Fowler as he had lately invested quite a sum in improved machinery. How the fire originated is unknown. Mr. Fowler has many friends who will learn of his serious loss with deep regret. ___ NEWSPAPER Issue of Saturday, August 25, 1900 News reached Heflin this afternoon that Col. G.C. Ellis dropped dead at Edwardsville at 12:15 this afternoon. Col. Ellis spent Thursday night in Heflin on his way to Edwardsville to attend circuit court which convenes there Monday. Col. Ellis had been in feeble health for several months and his death was not unexpected. He was about 75 years old. He has attended every session of circuit court held in this county since it's organization. He was known to every man in this county and all will learn of his death with regret. His home was Jacksonville and his remains will be carried there for interment. __ Ransome Wiggins, seventeen year old son of J.M. Wiggins, living near Heflin, had the misfortune to cut his leg with an axe yesterday while hewing timber. His axe handle struck his leg just beside the knee cap. About one and one quarter inches of bone was cut from the knee joint and the gash was a severe one. Dr. T.L. Thomason dressed the cut and the young man is doing nicely today. __ Simmons and Bagwell have moved their saw mill to Davisville and will begin sawing next week. __ T.I. Landers and family have returned from a visit to relatives in Clay and Randolph counties. __ S.B. and H.O. Gaston have recently placed saw mill machinery near Bell Town and have begun sawing lumber. __ Mrs. D.C. Wright and children of DeArmanville, visited the family of her brother, Oco DeArman in the city this week. __ File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/cleburne/newspapers/gnw105newspape.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 5.0 Kb