Cleburne County AlArchives News.....Newspaper Notices for DECEMBER 1906 December 1906 ************************************************ 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 December 2, 2004, 10:15 pm The Cleburne New Era NEWSPAPER NOTICES FROM "THE CLEBURNE NEW ERA" for DECEMBER 1906 NEWSPAPER Issue of Saturday, December 1, 1906 AUCTION SALE - - Auction Sale of 1,000 acres farm lands in Carroll and Haralson county, Georgia and in Cleburne county, Alabama. Also entire town site of Hopewell, Alabama consisting of Hotel, Store, Houses and Lots, vacant lots and small farms. Sale at Hopewell, Dec 12th. Easy terms. Write for map and full particulars. Vanderbilt Timber, Mining and Southwestern Railway Company, Hopewell, Ala. ________ PERSONAL & LOCAL News W.A. Haley of Boaz spent Thursday with his parents Mr. and Mrs. A. Haley. __ E.E. Lee of Corinth was in the city of business on Monday. __ S.F. Benefield and A.R. Mills of near Hopewell were in town this week. __ I.N. Mitnick of Muscadine was in Heflin on Tuesday. __ Mrs. Hubert Cochran spent Wednesday in Atlanta with friends. __ Rev. J.L. Freeman and wife, who was formerly Mrs. Judge Baber, are in this county visiting their old friends and relatives and native land. They were both born and reared in Cleburne county and have many friends in this section of the state. Mr. Freeman has been in itinerate preacher for more than forty years and nothwithstanding his advanced age he has the appearance of a man not over fifty; is in fine health and apparently gives promise of yet many years of service for the master. May he live long to serve his people in the future as in the past. Bro. Freeman as our people call him, is one of God's noble creations and a man in whom the New Era has implicit confidence, he being one among the first ministers we ever heard preach the gospel. He and Mrs. Freeman attended the M.E. Church quarterly conference which was held in this city last Saturday and Sunday. Bro. Freeman preached one of his characteristic sermons Sunday at eleven on the subject of "the elevation fo the standard of christianity." He made a few preliminary remarks to the sermon in which he told of his ministerial work and of their pleasant home in the far west, and among other things told how they had enjoyed their visit, how they had visited their old homesteads and familiar scenes, shaking the hands of kindred and scattering flowers on the graves of their dead. To meet and grasp the hand of Mrs. Freeman, who has known us from infancy, and to hear her familiar voice is to recall the reminiscences of the past, an early childhood fraught with many pleasant memories. She has seemed like a mother to us, having heard us "say our prayer" many a time. Her boys have seemed like brothers to us, we have ramped over hill and dale, weeks, months and years together, singing and playing which were characteristic of the contented heart and mind. Two of her children have passed to the great beyond while the other one is in Canada and her home is now on the line of Oklahoma and New Mexico. The sad time of their visit will be when they turn their faces homeward and say good bye. __________ Clinton Vaughan has built a neat cottage on his grounds on Oxford street in west Heflin. We learn that it will be occupied by Mr. J.M. Brown. __ On last Monday evening, quite a number of Heflin's young people accepted an invitation from Mr. and Mrs. W.O. Black to on on a regular antebellum "possum hunt". The home of Mr. and Mrs. Black being the place of rendezvous, a jolly crowd gathered at the appointed hour and being accomodated by the soft rays of the full orbed moon, started in quest of the huntsman's luscious prize, the possum, under the experience direction and fearless leadership of "Lisha" Jenkins, assited by his blooded dog "Nap." After reaching the woods it was only a few minutes until Nap had one "treed." The black gum was soon felled by the heroic efforts of Marvin Owens and Alph Turner, but smiling Mr. Possum was not to be found. Lisha diagnozed the case and decided that Nap never noticed which way the possum was going and had treed where the possum dined. Nap tried the other end of the trail and soon had Mr. Possum correctly located and he was soon making googoo eyes through a hole in Lisha's toe-sack. By this time the weaker in spirit and body turned their steps homeward and the stronger kept the merry chase until another possum was soon snugly resting in Lisha's sack. About the time the sun was shedding its effulgent rays over the rock-ribbed eyes of the little mikado's empire the jolly ramblers stopped their pilgrimage and bent their steps homeward, stopping long enough on the return to serenade a midnight couple with the rendition of an old time chivalric love ditty. _______ NEWSPAPER Issue of Saturday, December 8, 1906 IRON CITY News Mrs. H.E. Canada of Tallapoosa, GA visited friends and relatives here last week. __ Mrs. M.C. Reaves is visiting relatives at Brookwood. __ PERSONAL & LOCAL News Rucker Moore who has been quite ill for a few weeks is able to be out. __ W.A. Haley who was in the mercantile business at Boaz has sold his business there and returned to Heflin. __ A.L. Black spent four days of this week in Montgomery attending the annual session of the Alabama Masonic fraternity. __ J.M. Brown and family who have lived in our city about a year, moved to Gadsden on Monday where he has work. __ Col. J.B. Stephens and family are expected to move from Edwardsville to this city today. __ Lon Kent of Wedowee was in Heflin this week. He was just from Atlanta with a car load of horses and mules which were driven to Wedowee on Thursday. __ J.O. Boman, son of our Rev. G. B. Boman, spent Tuesday in the city, leaving in the afternoon for his home in Fruithurst. Mr. Boman severed his connection with the Rockmart, GA Courier some weeks ago and has just returned from a visit to relatives in Florida. He expects to attend school this winter. __ W.A. Hubbard returned this week from a visit to his mother at Albertville. He attended the North Alabama Conference which convened in Gadsden last week. __ Mrs. S.J. Monkus returned Monday from a several days visit to Bremen, GA. __ W.B. Landers and family removed this week to Gray, Miss., where they will make their future home. __ Jeff Howle and family left Cleburne this week for Hinze, Miss., where they go to make their future home. We regret to lose Mr. Howle who is a good man and citizen. Success to him. __ NEWSPAPER Issue of Saturday, December 15, 1906 CHULAFINNEE News Dr. Wilson Ligon, aged 77 years, accidentally fell and broke his right leg on Tuesday, November 27th. His son, Arthur Ligon of Oxford, was immediately sent for. With the aid of Dr. Williams of Oxford the leg was reset but owing to the Dr. Ligon's age and feebleness it as impossible for him to recover. After six days of hard suffering he passed away Sunday evening at 10 o'clock. He was buried in the family cemetery Tuesday morning, December 4th. We extend our sympathy to the bereaved family. ___ Mrs. Jessie Harris, daughter of Dr. Ligon, deceased, is spending some time with relatives near here. __ H.N. Wright has returned from a short trip to Mississippi. __ PERSONAL & LOCAL News W.G. Milligan has purchased the Eli Landers residence. __ Mrs. L.H. Jackson of Edwardsville spent last Sabbath in the city the guest of her daughter, Mrs. L.E. Adams. __ Dr. W.M. Ligon, one of the most prominent citizens of Cleburne county died, he having lived here when the area where he lives was a part of Randolph county. Generous to a fault, kind to those with whom he came in contact, a friend to the friendless. He reached the ripe old age of 77 years and was killed in an accident, falling over a chair and breaking his thigh. He died on December 7, 1906. He was a member of the M.E. Church, south; he loved his people, he loved his church and better than all, he loved his god. To those who mourn for him, only wait, to whose who wait, to whom he has so oft ministered, we may well say "we will meet again." He was buried at the family burying ground at Chulafinnee. His funeral was conducted in the Chulafinnee church and the entire population of the surrounding county was present to witness the last sad service over a noble man. _____ A regular meeting of Heflin Chapter No. 33, Order of the Eastern Star will beheld in the Masonic Hall, Tuesday the 18th inst. at 2 o'clock. Members are requested to be present. _____ NOTICE - - is hereby given that a Bill will be introducted in the Legislature of Alabama at its next session to change the boundry line between Calhoun county and Cleburne county, so as to take the following territory from Calhoun county, viz: Sections four, nine, sixteen, twenty one, twenty eight and thirty three in township fourteen south of range ten east and annex the said territory to Cleburne county; and to take from Cleburne County the following territory and to annex the said territory to Calhoun county, viz: Sections one, two, three, ten, eleven and twelve in township seventeen south of range eight east. John M. Snow, G.W. Eichelberger. _________ NEWSPAPER issue of Saturday, December 22, 1906 PERSONAL & LOCAL News W.L. Tolleson of Barnes, Miss., is here visiting his parents, Wm. Tolleson. __ Miss Hattie Kennedy of Atlanta is in the city the guest of Mrs. Jas. M. Evans. __ We have been informed that M.F. Evans has gone to Canada on a short visit. __ E.R. Stephenson and little daughter Ruth of Talladega, spent Sunday in the city with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W.F. Stephenson. __ Mancil Smith of Delta was in Heflin on Wednesday. __ Norman Satterwhite who has been attending the Sixth District Agricultural school at Hamilton, passed through the city Tuesday enroute to his home at Wedowee to spend Christmas. __ Dr. J.D. Duke and family left yesterday for Arkansas to spend Christmas with the former's mother. Dr. Duke will go on out to points in Texas and Oklahoma. 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