Cleburne County AlArchives News.....Newspaper Notices for October 6-27 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, 1:39 pm The Cleburne New Era newspaper NEWSPAPER NOTICES FROM " THE CLEBURNE NEW ERA", Heflin, Cleburne County, Alabama for OCTOBER 1900 NEWSPAPER Issue of October 6, 1900 W.R. Bell, living at Belltown, three miles south of Heflin, had the misfortune to lose his dwelling by fire last Monday. Some of the household goods were saved. The loss is about five hundred dollars with no insurance. Mr. Bell had completed his dwelling this summer and the loss is a severe one. He will rebuild. __ NEWSPAPER Issue of Saturday, October 13, 1900 Mrs. Sallie Henry died at the home of her son W.J. Henry last Wednesday Oct 10th after an illness of five months. Mrs. Henry was born January 17, 1806 and was nearing the close of her 95th year. She joined the Primitive Baptist church more than 75 years ago and was an exemplary christian woman. Her remains were interred at Cane Creek church where her membership had been for more than half a century. Several children, beside a large number of friends and acquaintances mourn her loss. __ E.B. Moore came up from Blossburg last night and will spend some time with his family here. __ Mr. and Mrs. L.R. Wood of Exie, Cherokee County, are visiting their son Dr. W.A. Wood in the city. __ NEWSPAPER Issue of Saturday, October 20, 1900 Judge W.R. Hunnicutt, one of the founders of Heflin, died at his home in this city last night of uremic poison after an illness of only a few hours. He was taken sick Thursday but his family and friends thought it only a slight indisposition, but yesterday afternooon he was taken violently ill and when Dr. Simpson arrived he pronounced it a fatal illness. He lingered until about eleven o'clock and died. Judge Hunnicutt was born on the 11th day of January 1834. He was one of the most prominent men in the county, had served several years as probate judge of the county, had been until a few years ago engaged in mercantile business and had been mayor of Heflin. For many years he had been a member of the Methodist Episcopal church. He was well known by nearly all of the people of the county and had many hundreds of friends who will learn of his death with sorrow. He leaves a wife and seven children to mourn his death. The funeral service will be held at the Methodist church tomorrow conducted by Revs. W.P. Howell and J.M. Mason and the interment at the city cemetery at 1 o'clock. The Masons will have charge of the burial. __ J.F. Morgan spent Thursday in Anniston. J.A. Owens spent yesterday in Anniston. A number of Heflinites were shopping in Anniston this week. S.C. Zaner and W.J. Henry and the editor spent Tuesday in Anniston. __ Miss Eva Crawford of Rome, GA is visiting the family of B.F. Owens in the city. __ Bring your hides, tallow and beeswax to the Heflin Hardware store. Highest market paid. __ J.W. Asseltine of Fruithurst died suddenly in Birmingham last Sunday. His remains were brought home for interment. __ Mrs. J.A.W. McKee is confined to her bed with typhoid fever. She is recovering slowly and her friends wish for a speedy recovery. __ J.H. Treadaway who formerly lived near Beasons Mills, this county, died at his home in Tallapoosa Monday morning. He leaves a family. __ Miss Lorena Glasgow, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J.T. Glasgow of Belltown, has typhoid fever. She has been quite sick for ten days but is getting along nicely now. __ Robert Bedwell has gone to the Indian Territory to join his mother and brother who sent there some days ago. Mrs. Bedwell will return to Heflin about Christmas but the boys will remain there. __ Miss Fannie Almon has been elected teacher of the primary department of the Edwardsville school. Miss Fannie is an accomplished teacher and Prof. Midyett is fortunate in securing her services. __ NEWSPAPER Issue of Saturday, October 27, 1900 The Creek full-blood council has been joined by Choctaws, Chickasaws, Cherokees and Seminoles. They are armed with Winchesters. All declare to stand by the treaty of 1866 and will not take allotment of lands, says a Dennison, Tex. dispatch. __ ALABAMA GETS 200,000 ACRES Montgomery - Oct 25 - Secretary of State R.P. McDavid has just recovered for the State of Alabama 200,000 acres of land that have heretofore been considered a part of the State of Florida. The recovery is made by the moving of the southeastern point of the boundary of Alabama a mile down the Chattahoochee River. In 1824 a survey was made to fix the boundary of Alabama. This fixed the line as at present. In 1836 a new survey was made that moved the line a mile further south on the Chattahoochee. This new line ran over 100 miles wesward until it touched the old line in Escambia county. In this wedge are 200,000 acres of the best timber lands in the south. A low valuation of it places its worth at $500,000. and of this 4000 acres will enrich the public school system of Alabama. __ Cleburne County has decreased 12 in population since 1890. __ E.G. Robinson of Birmingham, visited his daughter, Mrs. D.D. Perryman in the city this week. __ Mr. and Mrs. W.A. Porter are at Childersburg at the beside of their daughter, Mrs. C.A. Bowen, who has intermittent fever. __ Mrs. J.C. Taylor has moved back to Heflin after an absence of one year and is occupying the old drug store temporarily. __ A.W. Singleton, who formerly lived near Chulafinnee in this county, died at his home near Choccolocco Thursday. He leaves a large family. __ More than one thousand persons attended the burial of Judge Hunnicutt here last Sunday thereby attesting the esteem in which he was held by the people of the county. Capt. W.P. Howell, his life long friend, will write an obituary notice which will appear in our next issue. __ Wm. Davis while working at Wash Cook's gin near Abernathy had his hand caught in the gin and severely cut. The attending physician thinks amputation is not necessary. __ File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/cleburne/newspapers/gnw107newspape.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 6.5 Kb