Cleburne County AlArchives News.....Newspaper notices for May 3-31, 1902 ************************************************ 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 23, 2004, 10:49 am The Cleburne New Era newspaper NEWSPAPER NOTICES FROM "THE CLEBURNE NEW ERA", Heflin, Cleburne County, Alabama for MAY 1902 NEWSPAPER issue of Saturday, May 3, 1902 Dr. W.O. Jenkins was seriously injured last Sunday while returning from Cedar Creek church. He preached at Cedar Creek at 11 o'clock and was returning home in the afternoon and when near town was run into by a team driven by John Ross. The Doctor's buggy was demolished and he was seriously hurt, his collar bone broken and he was injured internally. The rope working the brakes on the wagon broke and Mr. Ross was unable to stop the team. The accident is deeply deplored. Dr. Jenkins is improving and it is thought he will recover. __ NEWSPAPER Issue of Saturday, May 10, 1902 Mr. and Mrs. J.M. Atkins left Heflin Tuesday for Fort Worth Texas to visit Mr. O'Keefe a brother of Mrs. Atkins, who is very ill. They will visit other relatives in the state and will be absent about a month. __ County commissioner D.M. Kaylor returned from Texas last night. He attended the reunion and then visited friends in different sections of the state. He says the corn crop there is fine but that the hot dry winds of a few weeks ago injured the cotton considerably, in some sections had to be replanted. He thinks Texas a great State for farming but he prefers Alabama. __ NEWSPAPER Issue of Saturday, May 17, 1902 LEGAL NOTICE - ORDER OF PUBLICATION State of Alabama, Cleburne County County Court of Cleburne County in Equity, January Term 1902 J.A. Crumbly, Complaintant vs. Emily Crumbly, Defendant In this cause, it is made to appear to the Clerk by the affidavit of J.B. Merrill, one of the complaintant's attorneys, that the defendant Emily Crumbly is a non-resident of the State of Alabama, and the exact place of her residence is unknown to affiant and further that in the belief of said affiant, the defendant, Emily Crumbly is over the age of twenty-one years. It is therefore ordered by the Clerk that publication be made in the Cleburne New Era, a newspaper published in the town of Heflin, County of Cleburne, State of Alabama, once a wek for four consecutive weeks, requiring the said Emily Crumbly, defendant above named, to plead, answer or demur to the bill of complaint in this cause by the 17th day of June 1902, ir in thirty days thereafter, a decree pro confesso may be taken against her. Done at office in Edwardsville this 15th day of May 1902. M.B. Reese, Clerk ___ Mayor and Mrs. I.E. Hubbard returned from Texas last night after spending a month there visiting relatives. __ Mrs. J.C. Taylor is very ill of pneumonia at her home on Bedwell street. Her many friends trust she will recover quickly. __ Mrs. J.R. Moore who has been in Atlanta for treatment for several weeks has greatly improved in health and came home Thursday. Mrs. D.W. Vaughan of this city who also went there for treatment is improving but is not yet able to be brought home. __ Mrs. D.P. Roberts of Oak Level, this county, was killed near Carrollton, GA, last Friday. She was enroute to visit relatives near Carrollton and when near the railroad the horse became frightened at a train. Mrs. Roberts had gotten out and was standing just behind the buggy when the horse began bucking, she was knocked down and trampled upon by the horse, receiving injuries from which she died in a few minutes. The family of the deceased have the sympathy of the people in their bereavement. __ NEWSPAPER Issue of May 31, 1902 Every parent in Heflin is relieved now that the annual picnic is over. Every boy and girl in Heflin associates a picnic with a bateau, a big pond of water and just a little diving adventure. Heflin is not exactly an island but she has water near on all sides and why not have a lake where some of our mud holes now stand and stop this clamor and chasing over the hills and rocks far away each year for a picnic. We could have pretty boats and picnics whenever we wanted them. I don't know just what it would take to do all this but it would add much to the beauty and advantages of Heflin. The first commencement in the new college has just closed and marks an era in Heflin's history. The first mile stone has been passed successfully. The students showed great progress in the various department. There will be diplomas issued from this college another year and some of the Heflin pupils and possibly others from the surrounding country may be so fortunate as to receive them. Our school is well graded and now the children can very easily know where they are at. With the possiblities now before the people of Heflin no school in East Alabama could boast of better advantages. With Dr. Eldridge as president and Prof. Riddle as vice and the other departments well supplied Heflin will have a secure foundation for genuine educational advancement. We have had a good years work, a good commencement. There are many odd things in the past, some in the present. We has quite a number of visitors at the commencement, among them some very old people, all glad of our bright prospects for an educational center for this section. One old man told of the hard struggle for advancement 60 years ago. He said he boarded 10 miles from home and went to the nearest school to his home, walking home on Friday evenings. The house was built by the farmers of the little neighborhood of split logs, by this method the logs could be carried on the shoulders by the men. The benches were made of split logs with auger holes in which were driven billets of wood for legs; the floor was of dirt, no windows, a stick and dirt chimney; but the young ideas germinated and took form, even in these dull surroundings. "Ah", he said, "time brings many changes along most every line". There are quicker routes to all goals, but it takes work and energy after all. You find many who do not advance even with all modern systems. Every child should read the story of Helen Keller, written by her own little hands, directed by her own thoughts. The story is now running in the Home Journal. If the children are too small or too indolent to read it the parents should read it to them. She is a world wide wonder. She is an Alabamian, her home being in Tuscumbia and she has written beautifully of this home. ______ File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/cleburne/newspapers/gnw113newspape.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 6.9 Kb