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The Cleburne New Era
NEWSPAPER NOTICES FROM "THE CLEBURNE NEW ERA" for  FEBRUARY 1904

NEWSPAPER issue of February  6, 1904

Robert Heflin, a negro, who works for W.O. Broyles, was thrown from a horse 
yesterday morning and had his leg broken.
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Mayor Kitchens is confined to his room by an attack of measles. The families 
of W.M.Harris  and C.  Mims are recovering from measles.
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Frank F. Taylor and W.B. Merrill were recently granted a franchise for the 
construction of a water and electric light plant here. Today they are on 
Tallapoosa river near Heflin looking for a site for the plant.
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SON OF WILLIAM BABER ACCIDENTALLY KILLED BY SON OF MAJOR HAMRICK

The twelve year old son of William Baber of near Edwardsville was accidentally 
shot by a son of Major Hamrick at Baber's saw mill yesterday. The boy lived 
only a short time after receiving the shot. The particulars of the accident 
could not be learned.
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ELI  W. LANDERS, CANDIDATE FOR PROBATE JUDGE IN ELECTION

The subject of this sketch was born on a farm in Randolph County, Alabama on 
November 4, 1861.  He worked on his fathers farm and attended the country 
schools until 1884 when he entered the high school at Troy, Miss.  Attending 
there one year he returned to Alabama and began teaching in public schools.  
At intervals he attended the school at Wedowee, Ala.  For a period of six 
years he farmed and taught, at the same time having an interest in a small 
mercantile business near where he lived.  In 1892 he moved to Heflin and 
entered the mercantile business exclusively. From the very start he met with 
success.  Being a man of the very best business qualifications, honest, 
attentive, courteous, always ready to accomodate everyone, he made friends 
that brought him his share of the trade at Heflin and surrounding counties.  
Today he stands as one of the successful merchants and cotton buyers of East 
Alabama.

Mr. Landers has always been fully identified with Heflin and Cleburne County.  
He has served on the town council and been mayor one term.  He has been on the 
school board for six years and one of the very first promoters of the building 
of Ross Collegiate Institute, an institution which is fast gaining a 
reputation far and wide. He gave liberally of his money and time in building 
that magnificant structure which is the pride of Heflin and Cleburne County.

Mr. Landers has been a lifelong democrat, taking an active interest in all 
things which he thought best for the people. He has before been a candidate 
for the office to which he aspires and is therefore not wholly unknown to 
people.  Mr. Landers is a man friendly to the common people, kind to the very 
highest degree.  He is a true gentleman and if elected to the office of 
probate judge the people will have a man in whom they can trust. He will 
always accomodate no matter how exalted his position might be. His office will 
be a place where the people will get justice and all records will be kept in 
the most accurate form.   A citizen.
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NEWSPAPER Issue of Saturday, February 13, 1904

PRELIMINARY TRIAL HELD

Paul Hamrick is on trial at Edwardsville before Justices Cole and Owen charged 
with killing Leander Baber. The report that the New Era got of the killing is 
that the boys were playing at a slide on a steep hillside, the Hamrick boy who 
is 15 years old, picked up a double barrelled shot gun and snapped it at 
several boys, the gun being unloaded, the them  loaded the gun and while Baber 
was playing, he shot him, the load entering the stomach.  He died in a few 
minutes from the wound.  He was nine years old.  In the New Era last week it 
was reported that the killing was accidental, but a warrant was sworn out and 
the boy is being tried for murder.
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NEWSPAPER issue of Saturday, February 20, 1904

Col. W.B. Merrill and Miss Lila Jones were married at Edwardsville on 
Wednesday evening. The New Era extends congratulations.
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