Cleburne County AlArchives News.....Newspaper Notices for MARCH & APRIL 1896 March 13 1896 ************************************************ 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 30, 2004, 1:28 am The Cleburne New Era newspaper NEWSPAPER NOTICES FROM "THE CLEBURNE NEW ERA" for MARCH and APRIL 1896 NEWSPAPER Issue of Thursday, March 12, 1896 LOCAL NEWS Mrs. Exa White, nee Ligon, of Birmingham, is visiting her father, B.J.Ligon this week. __ John T. West has moved from this place to near Cedartown, GA where he will engage in farming. __ EDWARDSVILLE Community News On Saturday of last week, Levi Fuller was arraigned for murder. He is charged with killing young Henry at Fruithurst last October. He pleaded not guilty. A special jury was drawn and the trial of the case was set for Wednesday. Among the jurors drawn were three negroes. This is the first and only a time a negro was ever drawn as a juror in this county. None of the negroes were impanelled in the case. ___ NEWSPAPER Issue of Thursday, March 19, 1896 LOCAL NEWS Editor J.L. Yeatman has moved his family to Edwardsville. __ Silas Stewart of Trickem and Sm.M. Hayes of Stonehill gave us a call Thursday night. __ A.C. Sorrell of Chulafinnee was in town this week. __ Deputy Sheriff Traylor, of Randolph County, passed through the city Wednesday, from Edwardsville, with a prisoner who was captured in this place last week by Marshall Carruth. __ Mr. William Bachus who lived in Shinbone valley on the northern border of Clay county, who owned a grist mill there, was grinding stock feed last Monday when something went wrong with the water gate. When he went down to adjust it he was caught in the gearing of the rapidly revolving machine and was torn to pieces. Death was instantaneous. The deceased was about thirty years old and a son of Mr. Western Bachus, a prominent citizen of this county. __ NEWSPAPER Issue of April 2, 1896 CHULAFINNEE Community News Messrs. Treadwell, Johnson and Caldwell from Opelika and Curtis Sorrell of this place, went to Clay County on a revenue raid last week and we are sorry to state had some serious trouble. They were after some illicit distillers, they had with them a negro driver who they left with the team. He decided to join the raiders and left his team. In going to them he was mistaken for a moonshiner by Mr. Sorrell and shot by him. The negro died in about six hours. He said before he died that Mr. Sorrell was not to blame. He was from Alexander City. __ LOCAL NEWS W.J. Snow has accepted a position as assistant bookkeeper in the office of the Unites States Car Co. at Anniston. __ NEWSPAPER Issue of Thursday, April 9, 1896 LOCAL NEWS Rev. Harvey Howle of Delta, Clay County, spent last Saturday and Sunday with his daughter, Mrs. Eli Landers in town. __ Miss Nobia Wharton who has been visiting the family of Dr. W. A. Wood of this city, returned to her home in Choccolocco Monday. __ Mrs. W.A. Montgomery is visiting her daughter in Talladega this week, and will visit relatives in Arkansas before returning to Heflin. She willl be gone several weeks. __ J.H. Crumpton and F.T. Otwell, two up-to-date farmers, wre callers to our office Monday night. Mr. Crumpton is our authorized agent in Trickem. __ The Cleburne County singing convention will meet at Cedar Creek the first Saturday in May. All day singing on Sunday following. __ Mr. Jack Daniel and Miss Ida Waddle were married at the home of the bride's father, Mr. John Waddle, near town last Sunday. __ Uncle Wash Nunnelly and wife, who have been visiting relatives in Alabama for the past year, boarded the train here last Tuesday evening for their home in DeLeon, Texas. Mr. Nunnelly was formerly a resident of this county for many years prior to making his home in the Lone Star State and was one of our best farmers and highly respected citizens. __ W.F. Henry, superintendant of the Heflin Gold Mining Co's work at Arbacoochee, went to Chattanooga Saturday and returned yesterday afternoon. He informed an Era reporter that work down at the mines is progressing nicely and that a stronger force of hands would be soon put on and the work pushed more rapidly. Greater developments may be looked for in the Arbacoochee gold fields this year that has ever been witnessed in a like period of time. __ NEWSPAPER Issue of Thursday, April 16, 1896 TRICKEM Community News W.V. Crumpton is up again after a weeks tussle with measles. W.F. McKleroy's family are also recovering. __ G.W. Batchelor talks of visiting the Lone Star State in the near future. __ CHULAFINNEE Community News A.C. Sorrell, accompanied by his mother, have gone to Chambers county on business. __ Mr. and Mrs. Higginbotham are visiting relatives and friends in this area. __ LOCAL NEWS Miss Fannie Striplin of Oaklone is visiting her Aunt, Mrs. W.A. Hubbard in town this week. __ J.N. Swift will move his family to Syllacauga next week. He has leased the large ginnery at that place and will make his future home there. __ Mr. N.B. DeArman of DeArmanville, accompanied by his brother Mr. Jasper DeArman of Texas, visited his son, Oco DeArman in this place this week. __ George W. Batchelor, a practical and prosperous farmer of Trickem, gave us a call Wednesday. He informs us he will visit Texas this summer and if he likes the country will move there this fall. __ Coon Mohon claims to be the champion fisherman of Heflin. He says he caught 111 one evening last week. Coon atributes all his luck to the naming of his hook. We promised not to tell the young lady's name as he feared the other young ladies would become jealous. __ Miss Lillie O'Kelley, teacher of music in the college at Bremen, GA, spent last Saturday and Sunday in Heflin with her sister, Mrs. Will Worley. __ NEWSPAPER Issue of Thursday, April 23, 1896 For the occasion of the 6th Annual Reunion of the United Confederate Veterans, which occurs at Richmond, VA JUne 30th to July 2, 1896, Southern Railway will sell tickets to Richmond, VA and return for a very low rate. __ For the occasion of the Southern Baptist Convention, which will convene at Chattanooga, Tenn., May 8 -14, the Southern Railway will sell tickets to Chattanooga and return at rate of one limited firsclass fare for the round trip. __ CHULAFINNEE Community News Newt Ross spent Sunday in our little burg. Ask him who likes to ride in a boat on the mill pond. __ Mr. and Mrs. McLeroy of Cedartown, GA are visiting Dr. J.W. Sorrell's family in Chulafinnee this week. __ W.R. Young is in Trickem Valley this week. __ LOCAL NEWS Dr. H. Martin, once a citizen of this place but now of Mt. Zion, GA, is spending a few days here this week. __ E.M. Jenkins and family of Woodlawn, who have been visiting his father Mr. Rolley Jenkins, returned home Wednesday morning. __ U.S. Deputy Marshall J.W. Daniel of Grayton, ws in town Wednesday. Mr. Daniel was until recently, a citizen of this county. __ George W. Batchelor and L.A. McKleroy, two farmers of Trickem, were in town Tuesday. __ Mrs. Sallie Henry, of near Heflin, is visiting her son, W.J. Henry in town this week. Mrs. Henry has recently celebrated her 90th birthday and is yet as hale as a woman of 60, being able to cut and make her own clothing and to cook. she has been living at her present home, four miles east of Heflin for sixty years. __ NEWSPAPER issue of Thursday, April 30, 1896 LOCAL NEWS Miss Pearl Clifton of Wedowee is visiting the family of J.M. McLeroy in town this week. __ Mr. Glenn Morris of Upshaw, Winston County, visited his nephew Mr. G.G. Morris in town this week. __ S.L. Hamilton, a prominent and prosperous merchant of Bremen, GA is visiting J.C. Lane and family in town this week. __ Mr. and Mrs. J.W. Kitchens have gone to Rockdale to visit the family of his father. They will also visit relatives in Clay county before returning home. They will be gone several weeks. __ WILDWOOD Community News Mrs. Emma Craft and Mrs. Alpheus Huddleston are very wick. We hope they will soon be restored to good health. __ Married at Union Hill church, Sunday the 19th inst., Mr. Boze Mize and Miss ELizabeth Craft, Rev. T.M. Linley performing the ceremony. __ File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/cleburne/newspapers/gnw148newspape.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 8.7 Kb