Cleburne County AlArchives News.....Newspaper Notices for AUGUST 1902 August 20 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 29, 2004, 1:38 pm Cleburne New Era newspaper NEWSPAPER NOTICES FROM "THE CLEBURNE NEW ERA", Heflin, Cleburne County, Alabama for AUGUST 1902 NEWSPAPER Issue of Saturday, August 9, 1902 Born to Mr. and Mrs. E.S. Howell, yesterday, a girl. __ M.W. Upshaw has purchased of H.H. Stephens, a house and lot on Evans Street. Mr. Stephens will move back to Marshall County. __ DIED - - Mrs. E.D. Hurst died at the home of her son, Judge A.A. Hurst, last Friday at night at Edwardsville. She was 77 years old. The family have the sympathy of their friends in their sorrow. __ DIED - - Mrs. J.W. Hall of Arbcoochee was struck by lightening last Monday afternoon and instantly killed as she was standing in the doorway of her home. Mrs. Hall was a daughter of Mr. Watson of Oswalt, this county and was about 32 years old. She was married to John William Hall about ten years ago. Her husband and four children survive her, the youngest child is only a few months old. The family have the sympathy of the people of the county in their bereavement. __ The slayer of A.P. Taylor, formerly of Cleburne County, has been captured and placed behind bars of the county jail in Sevier County, Arkansas at DeQueen. ___ NEWSPAPER Issue of Saturday, August 16, 1902 Mr. James R. Moore, who lives on a fine and well tilled farm near Heflin is a candidate for the Senate. Mr. Moore is a native of Carroll County, Georgia but moved to Alabama in 1869 and located on the fine farm which he now own and so intelligently tills, three miles from Heflin. He is strictly a farmer and perhaps is as well acquainted with their particular legislative needs as any in northeastern Alabama having passed his entire life on the farm and acquainted himself with their every interest. He is a gentleman of fine physique and deportment and is possessed of an unusual amount of intelligence and useful information. He was been very successful in business affairs and this combination in men generally produces the wiest and most sagacious legislators. Anniston Hot Blast _____ W. U. Almon of this city was slightly injured in a wreck at Oxford last Sunday morning. __ T.I. Landers is now owner of the Central Hotel, having traded his property in East Heflin for it. __ Thos. Carruth came over from Epps., Miss., Wednesday and is greeted by his numerous friends. He will return next week. __ Mr. and Mrs. F.H. Osborn of Columbus, Ohio arrived in the city Tuesday evening. They will probably spend several months here with their mother, Mrs. J.C. Osborn. __ Cleburne County has, according to the census of 1900, 2,644 white males over the age of 21 years, of this number 1,939 have registered to vote, about 75 percent registered. _______ Mrs. W.M. Harris has been dangerously ill for several days this week but is now out of danger. Mrs. J.R. Moore continues to improve. Mrs. C.J. McCraven is confined to her bed with remittent fever. __ DIED - -Will Gann died Tuesday at Pencil, Clay County, from the effects of wounds received this week before in a runaway near the home of Mr. Steve Nixon, just across the Cleburne county line from Calhoun. Gann was returning to his home at the time of the runaway from Anniston. He was buried Wednesday at Delta with Masonic honors. Anniston Hot Blast _______ NEWSPAPER Issue of Saturday, August 23, 1902 NOTICE There was stolen from me on the 13th day of August a note given by Thos. J.Lovvorn on Dec 20, 1901 payable to the undersigned, for three hundred and fifty dollars, and all persons are warned against trading for same. Nancy Beam, Hightower, Ala ____ NEWSPAPER Issue of Saturday, August 30, 1902 Mrs. S.E. Bell and Mrs. Nusie McMurray and children have moved to Boaz, Ala. __ DIED - - Brant Stein, formerly of this county, was accidentally killed in Mexico this week. A telegram was received here Tuesday stating that he as seriously injured and another Wednesday stating that he had died. No particulars as to the accident were received. __ File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/cleburne/newspapers/gnw116newspape.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 4.6 Kb