Cleburne County AlArchives News.....Newspaper articles for MAY 21st to MAY 28th 1925 May 1925 ************************************************ 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 20, 2004, 5:53 pm The Cleburne News NEWSPAPER NOTICES FROM "THE CLEBURNE NEWS" for MAY 21st 1925 to MAY 28th, 1925 NEWSPAPER Issue of Thursday, May 21, 1925 TWO INJURED WHEN AUTO TURNS OVER NEAR TALLAPOOSA Loren Casey, age 16 was perhaps fatally injured, and George Robinson of Edwardsville was seriously hurt when the touring car in which they were riding mounted a high bank, careened and turned over with the two men underneath, at the western limits of Tallapoosa late Sunday afternoon. Two girls who had attended the convention at Breman had just alighted from the car and witnessed the accident. Haralson County Tribune. _____ O.W. SHEPARD KILLED IN MONROE, LA., AUTO ACCIDENT O.W. (Pomp) Shepard, brother of Mrs. Alex Rowell, of Heflin, and a son of the late Dr. O.W. Shepard, died in a Monroe, Louisiana hospital from injuries received in an automobile accident near Sterlington, LA., on Monday night of last week. The first message to Mrs. Rowell merely stated that her brother had met with a serious accident of the nature of which was not given until the following letter was received, being sent at the wounded man's request to his sister, as follows: Riverside Sanitarium Monroe, LA., May 14, 1925 Dear Mrs. Rowell, I am anaesthetist at Riverside Sanitarium and a member of O.E.S., and as a request of your brother I am writing you because he felt as if he was dangerously ill and would not recover and asked me to write you of his misfortune. He was in an automobile accident on Monday and received a fatal injury of kidney which caused hemorrhage and he expired at 12 o'clock, May 13th, 1925. Every service was rendered him to secure his recovery, but nothing could be done. Sincerely, Miss Viola Henley, Registered Nurse Another account of the accident was taken from the News Star, published in Monroe, LA., as follows: O.W. Shepard, age about 60 years, died at 10 a.m. today at Riverside sanitarium as the immediate consequence of an automobile accident late Monday night near Sterlington. So far as know he has no relatives except two sisters in Alabama. The local police are endeavoring to get in touch with them and the body is being held pending further instructions from the family, at the Peters' morgue. Shepard is said to have been driving a car near Sterlington, in some way had a collision with a truck, sustained serious internal injuries and was brought to this city by the man who is alleged to have been driving the truck which figured in the crash. The name of this man is not known at the Riverside sanitarium, where Shepard was taken. The patient became rapidly worse and death resulted this morning. The names of the two sisters, the only relatives the man had, according to his statement just before his death are Mrs. Alex Rowell and Mrs. Tom Howell ( Mrs. L.T. Bobo) both of Heflin, Ala., the former home of Mr. Shepard. Up to a late hour this afternoon no answer had been received in response to the wire sent to Alabama by the local police department. No report of the accident was made to the police station here. The deceased is survived by two sisters; Mrs. Alex Rowell of Heflin and Mrs. L.T. Bobo of Parkins, Ark. __________ A BAD SPILL While enroute on Sunday to Fruithurst, Mr. D.E. Cheuvront, wife and daughter and Christine Gibbs met with what might have been serious accident when their coupe turned over about two miles this side of Edwardsville. It seems Mrs. Cheuvront was driving and owing to the crowded condition of car lost control and the thing went wild, plunging into an embankment, then careened and turned over catching Mr. Cheuvront's right arm under top and was released only after the others had escaped through a window and pried up the car top. Mr. Cheuvront sustained two dislocated fingers and many bruises while the others escaped without injury. ____ GRAVE YARD WORKING On Saturday before the fifth Sunday in May the grave yard at the Blake Cemetery will be cleaned and on Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock will have service and decorate the graves. Come on Saturday and help make the graveyard cleaning a success. W.H. Sears _____ FOR SALE - - 6 room house, two fire places, 3 varandas, good garden, fine orchard, woodhouse, 5 acres land, pasture and running water, near highway, convenient to churches and school. Call on Floyd Coggin, Heflin. ____ NOTICE - - Any person cutting timber or wood on my land in Beat 7 near Pine Grove church will be prosecuted. W.J. Bell ____ FRUITHURST Community News Mr. and Mrs. Emory Moore and little daughter were in town on Saturday. __ Mrs. August Johnson and daughter of Atlanta spent Wednesday here. __ Ivan Chandler was in town on Friday. ___ LOCAL NEWS Mrs. Lane is disposing of her household effects and will sell at a great sacrifice many useful articles. You are invited to call at the Schafner home. ___ Billie Davis and Frank Weathers, both of Gadsden were in Heflin on Friday. __ Mr. and Mrs. W.A. Myers attended the singing at Macedonia on Sunday. __ Dr. and Mrs. Frank Wood visited relatives in Roanoke on Saturday returning home Sunday evening. __ Mr. J.C. Crews, Misses Grace Stephens and May Glasgow attended the Owens - Tolleson wedding at Hartselle on Sunday. __ NOTICE OF PUBLICATION The undersigned, G.B. Kilgore, who was convicted in the circuit court of Cleburne county, Alabama on March 23, 1925 on the charge of violating the prohibition laws, and sentenced to the penitentiary, will make application to the board of pardon and the Governor of Alabama for parole. G.B. Kilgore ______ PIN HOOK News R.E. Pesnell and children made a trip to Piedmont on Saturday. __ J.E. Grimes and son David have purchased a new Ford. __ BORN - - to Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Brown on the 3rd, a baby girl whose name is Dorthy Fay. ___ Mrs. Margaret Kinney was the guest of Miss Mamie Pesnell on Saturday afternoon. __ Miss Ola Holt of Cedartown and Mrs. Roxie Floyd of Piedmont spent last week with their mother, Mrs. Ella Palmer. ____ MARRIED - - A simple but sweet wedding was solemnized at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Jesse R. Tolleson of Hartselle, Ala., at seven o'clock Sunday morning, May 17th, when their attractive daughter, Miss Mamye Tolleson became the bride of Mr. William Frank Owens of Heflin. Rev. G.C. Walker, pastor of the First Baptist Church officiated. The bride was attended by her sister Clyde; the groom had as his best man his cousin Dr. W.A. Neal Jr. of Oxford, Ala. _____ NEWSPAPER Issue of Thursday, May 28th, 1925 JUDGE BABER WRITES LETTER FROM TEXAS Burkburnett, Texas, May 22nd Cleburne News: I promised a few lines to some of your readers when I reached Texas and looked around. Myself, my wife and Mrs. Mollie Burguess and Mrs. Cobb of Tallapoosa, left Heflin Saturday morning at 2 o'clock for Witchita, Texas, a railroad point 10 miles from where E.D. Owen and his wife, our daughter, reside and arrived Sunday at 1:30 p.m. We found four cars in waiting, our daughter and sons and Henry Carroll. We quickly made the 10 miles over the cement road most all the way. We found all well. Having plenty of rain, too wet to plow until Mnday of this week. Enoch Owen will get his corn crop laid by today, whichis from hip to shoulder high over the 45 acres. Too much rain has caused many farmers to plant their cotton the second time. I am watching Enoch farm today, six mules drawing two row planter putting down cotton seed with a Fordson tractor and double disc in the lead; and two boys with cultivators making the last stretch along corn rows half a mile long; another boy mounted on a slide, to which blades that run under just the surface, clipping everything it touches. A tractor and 12 mules all at work, with Enoch and boys to carry water. All plowing is done with the driver mounted on a spring seat. I am sitting in the yard now and looking out over this level land half mile in one direction and a mile in another and can see these teams the entire day as they move along the long corn and cotton rows. This farm lies three miles east of Burkburnett, the great oil town. Derricks almost as thick as pine trees with pumping stations running day and night. The farms on the Oklahoma side of Red River are just as nice as those on the Texas side, which are cut up into quarter sections, making the farms smaller. Along every section line there is a public road and a house on each corner. I am sitting in the fork of a each tree on Fletcher Baber's farm among nice red fruit just beginning to ripen. On this farm the other day a rain fall of more than 20 inches fell, breaking across these half rows. Wheat is no good this year; oats are fine. I ahve not reached Jas. Hale's settlement yet; hope to do so on tomorrow and will write again in a week or so. D.S. Baber ____________ LOCAL NEWS Mrs. E.C. Kirk of Roanoke, Ala., is visiting her parents, Dr. and Mrs. F.R. Wood here this week. ___ Mr. and Mrs. Paul Robinson and little daughter Vivian are spending several days with Mrs. Robinson's father, C.F. Dodson. ____ There will be a memorial service at Oak Hill the second Sunday in June, in memory of Mrs. Martha Flemons. The public is invited. ____ I.N. Crumpton was here from Birmingham this week. ___ The prohibition element of this county have learned with much regret that B.H. Crumpton, Federal Prohibition Officer, has been ordered to and transferred to Gadsden the first of June. Mr. Crumpton has been holding this position for some time and has made an efficient officer, winning the respect of both the prohibitionist and the moonshiners. It has been said that the moonshiners have more respect and greater fear for him than for any raiding officer that has ever raided in this county......Mr. Crumpton was born and reared in this county and he knows them and they know him. HIs life has been such as to command respect at all times. ______ File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/cleburne/newspapers/gnw208newspape.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 10.6 Kb