Cleburne County AlArchives News.....Newspaper Notices for OCT 1899 October 1899 ************************************************ 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 10, 2004, 7:54 pm The Cleburne New Era NEWSPAPER NOTICES FROM "THE CLEBURNE NEW ERA" for OCTOBER 1899 NEWSPAPER issue of Saturday, October 7, 1899 W.T. Couch, living four miles east of Heflin, had the misfortune to lose 4000 pounds of cotton seed by fire on Wednesday morning. A boy was smoking in the cotton house and dropped a lighted match. The loss is quite a heavy one to Mr. Couch. ___ Try a gallon of J.W. Norton's Cleburne County new sweet mash corn whiskey. It is for sale at Moore and Norton's at fifty cents a quart, two dollars a gallon. __ NEWSPAPER Issue of Saturday, October 21, 1899 The colored Baptist Association is in session in Heflin this week. A large number of delegates and visitors are in attendance. __ J. J. Bolt, a flagman on the Southern railway is off duty for a few days on account of an injury received some time ago. __ Dr. J.W. Kaylor of Beasons Mills who has been confined to his room with fever is improving slowly. __ On Wednesday last, Mr. W.B. Landers trapped a beaver down on the Tallapoosa River. It weighed 55 pounds and netted him about $10. for the flesh and fur. There is a colony of beavers down there and Mr. Landers informs us that they have destroyed over 30 bushels of corn of himself and Mr. A.H. Glasgow this year. ___ Mr. and Mrs. Gay of Boaz, were visiting the family of W.F. Stephenson in the city last week. __ NEWSPAPER Issue of Saturday, October 28, 1899 DIED - - Mr. David A. O'Keefe died at the home of his mother, Mrs. S.E. Bell, in Heflin, on Monday, October 23rd, of spinal meningitis. The deceased was born in Randolph County, Alabama on January 17, 1853 and went to Texas at the age of nineteen years and has resided in that State continuously since, his recent home being at Colorado City. About the first of the present month he arrived here on a visit to his mother and about two weeks ago was stricken with the malady of which he died. All was done to relieve his suffering and prolong his life that medical skill could suggest or loving hands administer but these means were all insufficient and in the prime of his manhood, this affectionate son and noble cherished brother yielded up his life. In his far off western home he had by diligence, industry and energy, built a handsome competency and came back here to minister to the comfort of his mother, out of his ample means, thus demonstrating his affection for her. He had never married and at the time of his death his bedside was surrounded by his mother and two brothers, C.A. and J.E. O'Keefe who had been summoned from their Texas home, and two of his sisters, besides other relatives and friends of the family. While he died far from his home, and except his own family, comparatively among strangers, yet as his body was borne from the church were the funeral services had been performed by Rev. R.B. Baird, to its last resting place in Heflin, Cemetery, it was followed by almost the entire population of the town and in each heart was tender sympathy with the sorrowing family in their great bereavement. ___ W. D. Hood of Hicks, spent last night in the city enroute to Edwardsville to attend the Baptist Association. __ The many friends of R.J. Teague will be pleased to learn that he is recovering from an attack of fever. __ CARD OF THANKS To the good people of Heflin: We desire to tender our sincere thanks for the great kindnesses shown to us and to our son and brother, D.A. O'Keefe in his last illness and for your kindly aid and sympathy in laying him to rest when death had claimed all that was mortal of him. We are thankful, while it was his lot to meet death far from his home and comparatively among strangers, that no aid or sympathy was withheld that your ready hands or warm hearts could give. We shall ever hold you in kindly remembrance and invoking for each and all of you heaven's choicest blessings, will ever remain, sincerely your friends, Mrs. S.E. Bell C.A. O'Keefe J.E. O'Keefe _____________ The residence of John F. Ross, who lives three miles south of town, was destroyed by fire on Wednesday morning about 5 o'clock. Mr. Ross and family were away from home at the time and two boys who are living with him had sat down to breakfast when they discovered the fire. It is supposed the house caught fire from the stove. Loss is about $600. with no insurance. ___ File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/cleburne/newspapers/gnw173newspape.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 5.0 Kb