Cleburne County AlArchives News.....Newspaper Notices for APRIL 1897 April 1 1897 ************************************************ 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 October 6, 2004, 1:38 pm The Cleburne New Era newspaper NEWSPAPER NOTICES FROM "THE CLEBURNE NEW ERA" for APRIL 1897 NEWSPAPER Issue of Thursday, April 1, 1897 E.S. Howell, Albert Brown and Frank Wessinger are in Edwardville building a large dwelling for J.A. Burgess. __ Born to Mr. and Mrs. J.L. Yeatman last night, a 12 pound boy. Mother and babe doing well and John, well, he'll be all right in a few days. ___ LEGAL NOTICE State of Alabama, Cleburne County Equity Court at Edwardsville, Alabama Annie E. Ruffin s. Thomas Ruffin In this cause, it is made to appear to the clerk by affidavit of Annie Ruffin, that the defendant Thomas Ruffin is a non-resident of this state and that his place of residence is the State of Texas and further that in the belief of said affiant, the defendant Thomas Ruffin is over the age of 21 years. It is therefore ordered by the register that publication be made in the Cleburne New Era, a newspaper published in the county of Cleburne, state of Alabama, once a week for four consecutive weeks, requiring him the said Thomas Ruffin to answer or demur to the same within thirty days after the 22nd day of April 1897 and failing so to do, a decree pro confesso will be taken up against him in said cause. Done at this office in Edwardsville this 20th day of March 1897. J.H. Johnson, Clerk _______ NEWSPAPER Issue of Thursday, April 15, 1897 Rev. W.P. Weston filled his appointments at the M.E. Church last Sunday. __ The Cleburne County Singing Convention will be held at Bethlehem church three miles south of DeArmville on the Sunday in May and Saturday before. __ NEWSPAPER Issue of Thursday, April 22, 1897 DIED - - Tiney B. Smith, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joel Wade, was born March 8, 1876 and died February 11, 1897, age 20 years, 11 months and 3 days. She was married to Mr. M.A. Smith on November 10, 1895. She was sick but a few days, bore her affliction with christian fortitude and often expressed that she was ready and willing to die and leaves the brightest evidence of her future happiness. She also gave this evidence when she joined the Baptist church at Bethel in Clay County, Alabama in August 1889. It was the writer's happy privelege to baptize her and well do I remember her praise of god as she arose out of the water. It wa also my privelege to marry her to Mr. Smith and my sad duty to preach her funeral on the 12th., to a large crowd of people who assembled at the church. It is the general expression of the people, "that to know her was to love her." She leaves an aged father and mother, brothers and sisters, a loving companion and a host of friends to mourn her death. Oh how sad to give up our loved ones here below, yet as we say farewell on earth, god says, come up higher and rest for your labors till time shall be no more. So now we say farewell to Tiney Smith who has gone to the land of bliss; and I would say to the loved ones all, be prepared to meet her when you are called. Her Pastor, W.M. Garrett __________ LOCAL NEWS Jim Burgess, Hugh Merrill and Will Bridges of Edwardsville were visitors to Heflin on Wednesday. __ Mrs. Fowler and daughter Miss Modina of Troy, Mississippi visited the family of T.I. Landers in the city this week. __ Mrs. G.W. Thompson of Hood's Ala., is here at the bedside of her daughter, Mrs. E.R. Stephenson who has been very sick. __ D.W. Detrick, manager of the Copper Mines, has had a shed erected on the railway right of way in which copper ore will be stored. Mr. Detrick informed us that a regular train of wagons would be used in hauling ore when the mines are fully opened. ___ DIED - - Mrs. W.A. Montgomery died in Tuscumbia, Ala., yesterday morning. Mrs. Montgomery was the wife of Rev. W.A. Montgomery who was pastor of the Methodist Church at this place last year. The sympathy of the people of Heflin is given Rev. Montgomery in his sad bereavement. ____ File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/cleburne/newspapers/gnw158newspape.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 4.5 Kb