Cleburne County AlArchives News.....Newspaper Notices for APRIL & MAY 1904 April 1904 ************************************************ 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 11, 2004, 1:56 pm The Cleburne New Era NEWSPAPER NOTICES FROM "THE CLEBURNE NEW ERA" for APRIL and MAY 1904 (Note: Many missing newspaper issues on the microfilm roll for April and May 1904) NEWSPAPER Issue of April 2, 1904 MARRIED - - Mr. S.H. Dunston and Miss Mary Floyd Haughton of Jasper, Ala., were married Wednesday evening March 30th. Mr. Dunston is a former Heflin boy and has numerous friends here who offer congratulations. ___ CAPTURED DISTILLERY W.W. Battle, deputy revenue collector, captured a 92 gallon still Monday morning about half a mile from town. It was located in the cellar of a house occupied by a colored man named Oscar McLucas, better known as Long Boy. ___ MARRIED - - Rev. S.B. Williams, a pastor of the Methodist Church at Wedowee, was married at Boaz yesterday to Miss Lee Holder, a lady of the siminary at that place and Mrs. and Mrs. Williams are now visiting in the city. ___ With the opening of the spring the boys begin to talk of organizing a baseball club and some speak of a croquet club while the thoughts of older ones turn to dominoes and checkers. ___ A law suit for damages is occupying the attention of the city court today. It was filed by Mr. Buttram of Cleburne County and against the Atlanta and Birmingham Railway company. Mr. Buttram alleges that he was forced to pay fare when he had a ticket and was afterward ejected from the train. He asks for $3000. The case will take the greater part of the day. ___ IN MEMORIAM OF MRS. J. F. COX Mrs. Petie A. Cox died January 6, 1904. She was the daughter of M.D. and Nancy Whitman and was born in this county on November 17, 1874. In March 1890 she was united in marriage to J.F. Cox who together with six children, is left to mourn her death. Mrs. Cox was a loving wife, a kind and affectionate mother, a good neighbor and true friend. Fully conscious of approaching death she called her husband and little ones around her and spoke words of comfort to them, told them that she was soon to cross the River of Death, to her home on the other side, and asked them to so live that they when the cares and toils of life were done, would join her there. She has passed from earth to a home on high and while no more will her kind ministrations to husband and children be known again in this world her good influences will be felt while life shall last. May the lord be merciful to the bereaved husband and father and bless the motherless little ones. M.G. ___ ABEL Community News A three year old child of Jacob Young, col., who lives on B.L. Adams place, was badly scalded this week by overturning a bucket of hot water on himself. __ T.J. Dulin is talking of taking his little son Guy to a specialist to have his eyes treated. __ Ed Nixon has announced himself a candidate for matrimony, and was down at Flat Rock canvassing Saturday night and Sunday. He declines to state whether he secured "pledges". __ J.M. Duffey's mare was severely cut by running into a barbed wire fence last week. __ J.H. Shaw is putting in some good machinery, a mill and gin, near his place. We wish him success. __ NEWSPAPER Issue of Saturday, April 9, 1904 DIED - - Charlie Banks, a negro youth of this city, was struck by the local freight train at Fruithurst on Monday and died from the injuries on Tuesday. He was standing on the side track while a car was being switched and in getting out the way of the car he stepped over on the main line and a backing train struck him. ___ DIED - - Mrs. Allen Dill was killed and her two children were injured in a wreck at Temple, GA last Monday. A through freight train ran into the caboose of the local freight demolishing it and several cars. The track was blocked for several hours, the evening passenger trains going around by Rome. __ DIED - - The 15 month old baby of Jas. M. Evans died Sunday morning after a lingering illness. The mother of the little one died only a short time ago. The remains of the little one were buried at Evans Chapel. ___ J. B. CHAMBERS KILLED IN WRECK ON SOUTHERN RAILWAY LAST FRIDAY John B. Chambers of this city, supervisor of this division of the Southern Railway, was fatally injured in a wreck on the Southern at Weems last Friday afternoon and died Saturday morning at St. Vincents Hospital in Birmingham where he had been taken for medical attention. Mr. Chambers was reared in this community and lived here until a few years ago when he accepted a position with the Southern Railway at Anniston and on his promotion to the supervisors position several months ago, he returned to Heflin to reside. He was universally esteemed by the people of Heflin and his sorrowing family have the sympathy of all of our people. His remains were laid to rest in the Heflin cemetery Sunday afternoon, the ceremonies being conducted by the Odd Fellows, of which Order he was a true member. ___ NEWSPAPER issue of Saturday, May 21, 1904 WOUNDS PROVE FATAL About two weeks ago near Chocolocco, W.T. Owens and his neighbor Tom Cobb had a difficulty about a land line and in the fight Owens cut Cobb. Cobb died from the wounds on Thursday. Both were prominent farmers in the community. Owens was arrested, charged with murder and lodged in jail at Anniston. __ File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/cleburne/newspapers/gnw179newspape.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 5.9 Kb