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Cleburne New Era newspaper
NEWSPAPER  NOTICES FROM "THE CLEBURNE NEW ERA ",  Heflin, Cleburne County, 

Alabama for

DECEMBER 1902



NEWSPAPER Issue of Saturday, December 6, 1902



Rev. Joseph Jones, brother of Sam Jones, died at Cartersville, GA on Thursday 

of paralysis of the heart.

Rev. Jones was a Baptist minister.

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Mr. James M. McBurnett of Wedowee, Ala, has recently secured under option, 

10,000 acres of kaolin and mica lands in north Randolph County, in the 

civinity of the Pinetucky gold mines. The kaolin has been pronounced a very 

fine quality, being throughly adapted for the manufacture of the finest ware 

and vitrified and fire proof brick and  various other purposes.  Mr. McBurnett 

reports that the kaolin is no doubt inexhaustable and will warrant the 

building of a railroad.  Anniston Hot Blast

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NEWSPAPER Issue of Saturday, December 13, 1902



ZANER GETS 20 MONTHS, CHARGED WITH MURDER OF HIS BROTHER



The Zaner murder trial was brought in a verdict this morning.  The jury has 

been out since Wednesday night.

The verdict returned for S.C. Zaner  was 20 months in the penitentiary.  It 

was learned that nine members of the jury were in favor of returning a verdict 

of guilty as charged in the indictment and that three were for acquittal.  

S.C. Zaner and son, Elma, were charged with the murder of Bailey Zaner, a 

brother of S.C. Zaner, in Heflin, in March, this year. A preliminary trial was 

held at Edwardsville in April and the prisoners were remanded to jail without 

bail. The cases were set for trial at the July term of the court but was 

continued and Judge Burton called a special term of the county court to try 

these cases and the Campbell case.  The case of Elma Zaner was continued by 

consent, to the January term of Court.

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Dr. A.W. Ligon and Miss Myra Gunnels of Oxford were married in Montgomery on 

Wednesday.  Dr. Ligon has a number of friends in this city  who congratulate 

him.

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John H. Mason and family left Heflin  this morning for Mt. Pleasant, Texas 

where they will make their future home.  The best wishes of numerous friends 

accompany them to their new home.

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