Cleburne County AlArchives News.....Newspaper Notices for DECEMBER 1897 December 2 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 7, 2004, 7:38 pm The Cleburne New Era newspaper NEWSPAPER NOTICES FROM " THE CLEBURNE NEW ERA " for DECEMBER 1897 NEWSPAPER issue of Thursday, December 2, 1897 Rufus Singleton was shot by Jim Fletchie his brother-in-law last Saturday night. Fletchie had just bought a new pistol and they were examining it when it was accidentally discharged, the ball striking Singleton's foot. Dr. Thomason has dressed the wound and he is doing well. ___ The friends of Col. R.E. Merrill will regret to learn of his serious illness at his home in this city. Col.Merrill has been sick for several weeks and his condition is still unimproved. __ NEWSPAPER Issue of Thursday, December 9, 1897 J.C. Bean attended the Masonic Grand Lodge in Montgomery this week. __ DIED - - J.T. Lake, son of W.J. Lake of this city, died in Butte City,Montana yesterday (Thursday) from injuries received in a mine in that city. His remains will be shipped here for interment. __ NEWSPAPER Issue of Thursday, December 16, 1897 A large number of people from Edwardsville attended the burial of Col. R.E. Merrill here Tuesday. __ About fifty persons took the train at this place Wednesday night for the state of Texas where they will in the future reside. ___ Hubbard Bros. shipped 450 head of cattle to Texas last Saturday. They will make another large shipment about the first of January. ___ Dr. B. Dudley Williams of Oxford, former U.S. Commissioner to the Chippawa Indians in Minnesota, was a visitor to Heflin on Tuesday. ___ IN MEMORIAM of ROBERT EDWARD MERRILL On Sunday morning, December 12th, Robert Edward Merrill died at his home on Evans street, in this city, after a long illness of Hepatic Sclerosis. He was born in Carroll County, Georgia on the 5th day of January 1855. He married Miss Bettie Austin of Fayette county, Georgia on the 6th of December 1874. He was admitted to the bar at Fayetteville, GA about 1882 and moved to Edwardsville in this county in 1884; he has since resided in this and Randolph counties. About six years ago, feeling impressed with a sense of duty, he took ministerial orders in the Congregational church and entered upon the work of the ministry. For several years past he has been largely engaged in developing the mineral interests of this county. He was a member of Caldwell Lodge A.F. and A.M. in this city, and was buried in Heflin cemetery with masonic honors after a funeral service at the Methodist Church, conducted by Rev. W.P. Weston, attended by a large concourse of relatives and friends. As a husband and father he was ever kind, indulgent and affectionate; as a lawyer he was true to his clients and ever ready to defend the causes of the weak and oppressed against the strong oppressor; as an active agency in the upbuilding and development of the county's resources, he was energetic and diligent, much of the great enterprise begun within the past few years was due to his efforts. As a minister he was earnest, devout and untiring; and as a Mason, bright, true and exemplary. But because of the relentless hand of death, the husband and father has crossed the threshold of his earthly home the last time; the lawyer has appeared for his clients in early courts with his last appeal; as a developer he has left the field that he so oft explored, leaving whatever he has built for the good of those who shall reap his sowing; his voice as minister has sounded it's last warning to dying man; the true mason has left the mystic temple of earth to enter the mysterious temple above whose worshipful master is god. All of him that was mortal is past..... With those who are bereft we can only weep; being touched with their grief by our sympathies and say to the sad hearts of the bereaved wife and orphaned children, we would not bid you cease to weep, for how should hearts thus burdened with grief find a solace save in tears, but we would weep with you, for they comfort you most who weep with you in your hours of supreme distress...... ____ ALABAMA DAY Tuesday was Alabama's day, being the seventy-eighth anniversary of it's admission to the Union. The flag floated from all the public schools in commemoration of this event, which occurred on December 14, 1819. _____ NEWSPAPER Issue of Thursday, December 23, 1897 MARRIED - - On Thursday December 16th, Mr. J.S. Beam and Mrs. Mohon were married near Heflin. Mr. Beam is a good citizen and farmer of East Alabama and his wife is a nice enterprising woman. May they be blessed with happiness and prosperity. ___ DEATH OF JOSEPH T. LAKE Joseph T. Lake, son of W.J. and Rebecca Lake was born near Wedowee, Ala., the 11th day of August 1870. He died of typhoid fever and chronic bronchitis in Butte City, Montana on the 9th of December 1897, at the age of 27 years and 4 months. On Thursday the 9th of this month the home of W.J. Lake was greatly saddened by receiving a message that Joseph was dead. He left his home near Lineville about eight years ago and has since traveled in many states and also in Mexico and Central America and was to visit his dear ones at home in a short while. But alas, "god moves in a mysterious way his wonders to perform." Joseph did come home the 18th of December but not as he left, full of life, hope and ambition, but only a lifeless form of clay. In far away Montana his soul took its everlasting flight to try the realities of an unknown world. There was no mother there to soothe his brow, no sister with her tears, no father nor brothers to stand around his dying couch and receive his last farewell, but he was tenderly waited on by the kind sisters of mercy at the hospital where he breathed his last. His father and mother said he was a dutiful son and we say to them and the brothers and sisters not to weep for him, but strive to meet him in that beautiful home above where there will be no more sorrow nor parting. While in Sacramento, California, Joseph won the affections of a beautiful and interesting girl who was soon to have become his bride. If his death so far away could awaken the sympathies of even strangers, what must have been the agony for her, whose whole soul was occupied by his image. Let those tell who have had the portals of the tomb closed between them and the being they most loved on earth. But we say to her that some day she can meet him where earth can no more separate. Rev. John A. Scott conducted the funeral service on Sunday. The church was filled with friends of the deceased and the service was very impressive. All that was mortal of Joseph T. Lake was laid to rest in the Heflin cemetery, there to wait the coming of that great day when all the nations shall rise. W.U.A. ___ NEWSPAPER Issue of Thursday, December 30, 1897 Mr. and Mrs. Watt Swift of Texas are visitors at J. N. Swift's place. __ Mr. and Mrs. A.J. Simmons and family will go to reside at Whitesburg, Georgia. __ L.M. Powell and family will go to live at Austell, Georgia. __ File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/cleburne/newspapers/gnw165newspape.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 7.6 Kb