Cleburne County AlArchives News.....Newspaper Notices for SEPTEMBER 1907 September 1907 ************************************************ 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 9, 2004, 9:54 pm The Cleburne New Era NEWSPAPER NOTICES FROM "THE CLEBURNE NEW ERA", Heflin, Cleburne County, Alabama for SEPTEMBER 1907 NEWSPAPER issue of Saturday, September 7, 1907 PROPERTY FOR SALE Fruit farm, 42 acres, Cleburne county, Alabama; from Edwardsville 12 miles, Fruithurst 6 miles, Muscadine 4 miles in Ala; and from Tallapoosa GA, 4 1/2 miles. Fenced and crossed; all in cultivation but four acres in woods; pasture; about 7 acres in vineyard, trellised, about 2000 fruit trees, mostly apple, some pear, peach, plum, quince and cherry, also berries. Large barn costing $1000; comfortable house of three rooms and attic, and other buildings; good well at house; branch in pasture. I live on the property and it is clear. Raised and sold from farm year of 1903, apples, pears, etc., berries and vegetables, $315.; grapes $160., butter $112.; calves, $26., hogs $ 47.; poultry $38., besides corn, hay and roughness, meat, fruit, vegetables for own use. I would like to sell or exhange, I will try to meet any reasonable offer. Chas. A. Pierce, R.F.D. No. 2., Muscadine, Alabama. ________ UNITED STATES MARSHALL SALE By virtue of an execution/order issued out of the United States Circuit Court for the Eastern Division of the Northern District of Alabama and to me directed, where I am commanded to make the amount of a certain judgment recently obtained against W.R. Terrill, J.T. Chandler, George Morris and G.W. Terrill, and in favor of the United States of America, out of the good, chattels, lands and tenements of the said W.R. Terrill, J.T. Chandler, George Morris and G.W. Terrill: I have levied on the following property to wit: The west half of the northeast quarter and the northeast quarter of the northwest quarter of section 30, township 15 south, of range 12 east in Cleburne county, Alabama, also the following personal property: One dark iron gray mule named Grady; one black mare mule named Beck; one small black mule named Wheeler; one top buggy, one set single buggy harness; one 2 horse wagon; one 25 horse power traction engine and boiler; one DeLoach SawMill. Therefore, according to said command, I shall expose for sale at public auction, all the right, title and interest of the above named W.R. Terrill, J.T. Chandler, George W. Morris and G.W. Terrill in and to the above described property on Monday the 30th day of September 1907, during the legal hours of sale at the court house door in Heflin, Cleburne county, Alabama. Dated in Anniston, Ala., this 30th day of August 1907. P.M. Long, U.S. Marshall by B.H. Hill, Deputy. _________ LOCAL & PERSONAL News P.C. Jones, a good substantial citizen of Fruithurst was in Heflin this week. __ W.T. McWhorter was a visitor to the city this week. __ Mrs. M.E. Tumlin is visiting in Weaver, Ala., this week. __ County Surveyor, Geo. O. Jones of Shoal Creek was in town this week. __ Mr. and Mrs. W.D. Carreker and children of Flovilla, GA were visiting friends in Heflin Tuesday and Wednesday. __ Mr. S.A. Hubbard and family of Columbia, South Carolina is expected Saturday to visit his father, Mr. W.A. Hubbard. ___ J.W. Motes of Fruithurst paid the New Era a pleasant call and paid a dollar on his subscription Tuesday. __ The Confederate Veterans will have a basket dinner at Heflin early in October. Full plans will be published in this paper next issue. ___ The Confederate Veterans who draw pensions and who are over 80 years old can hereafter draw one hundred dollars a year by making proof to the probate judge of their age. ___ Mrs. J.R. Little and children Perryman and Elizabeth are spending the heating season at the old Perryman home in Rockdale in Randolph county. Mrs. Little writes that she is enjoying every minute of the time; old friends of her girlhood, old scenes, old memories, mingled with the new conditions make a pleasant blending. Mrs. Little will return to Heflin she writes when the frost comes. ___ Letter to the Editor, from J.V. Barker - - - Dear Editor, On my way back from the Sunday School Convention, I killed the largest snake known to be killed in recent years in the county. It was a rattle snake with 13 rattles. It was crossing the public road about 3/4 of a mile south of Arbacoochee when I killed it. J.V. Barker, Bell Mills, Ala. ____ Mr. Chivers Woodruff, Louis Wilson, Ben Sawyer and W.T. Edmondson Jr. of Anniston, whose quartette singing is a great pleasure to music lovers, delighted a company of such devotees on Monday evening when they were the guests of Mrs. W.T. Edmondson at the Heflin House. ____ NEWSPAPER ISSUE of Saturday, September 14, 1907 LOCAL & PERSONAL News David Knight of Edwardsville was in Heflin this week. __ Miss Maude Harris is visiting relatives in Birmingham this week. __ J.W. Striplan and family of Albertville returned home Tuesday after a few days visit to Heflin. __ Mrs. Lula B. Owen was here this week looking after the sale of the property of her children for whom she is guardian. Her sister, Mrs. A.C. Burgess was also here. ___ Mr. E.W. Fisher goes to Birmingham this evening to buy a 50 horse power boiler and a 40 horse power engine for the new Mica Mill. He just received a letter from Hubert H. Ward of Cofalt, Canada and while he thinks Canada a great country for the investor it does not compare with Alabama for natural resources. ___ W.L. Brooks, after a months vacation, is again at his post ready for another years work with Brooks Drug. Co. He has been with relatives and friends in Texas and has visited quite a number of points in the Indian Territory and Oklahoma. He reports quite a pleasant trip. He was royally entertained by Mrs. J.L. Simpson at her home at Houston Heights, Texas, who is a fromer citizen of Heflin and whom many of our readers know personally. ___ Z.J. Robertson of Fruithurst was in the city this week. __ Mrs. H.A. McMurray returned this week from Randolph county where she has been for several days the guest of relatives. ___ Elmer Hubbard has accepted a position with the Coca Cola company at Talladega. ___ IRON CITY News Mrs. Julia Davis, wife of the late John F. Davis, after several weeks illness, died Monday morning and will be buried today, Sept 11th at Davisville cemetery. Mrs. Davis was in her 77th year. W.H. Davis of Lawton, Oklahoma, Mrs. J.C. McDaniel of Jackson, Miss., and Mrs. W.J. Scott of Piedmont are all here to attend the burial. Her children were all present except G.W. Davis and Mrs. Milam. ____ Grant Brock of Tallapoosa, GA is here to attend the funeral of his aunt, Mrs. Davis. _____ Miss Annie Canada, who has been visiting relatives and friends here and at Coldwater, left Sunday night for her home in Tallapoosa, GA. ____ PARDON APPLICATION Notice is hereby given that the undersigned, convicted in the county court of Cleburne county, Alabama of murder in the second degree and now serving a sentence of thirty years in the state penitentiary will make application to Governor B.B. Comer for executive clemency. Levi J. Fuller ________ SHERIFF's SALE By virtue of an execution and order of sale issued out of the Circuit Court of Cleburne county, Alabama and to me directed, whereby I am commanded to make the amount of a certain judgment recently obtained against L.R. Bell in favor of J.G. Jones out of the goods, chattels, lands and tenements of the said L.R. Bell. I am commanded to sell the following property to wit: The entire interest of L.R. Bell in and to the east half of section twenty-seven, township sixteen, of range eleven, known as Jas. H. Bell estate, lands i ncluding homestead set off to Sarah E. Bell, wife of the said Jas. H. Bell, deceased, bounded as follows: On the west by lands of J.A. Brown and P.C. Bell, on the south by lands of J.F. Fordham, on the north by lands of Hattie Bell and lands known as J.D. Walker lands, and on the esat by lands of J.F. Fordham and Hattie Bell, said lands lying and being near Bell Mills in Cleburne county, Alabama. Therefore according tosaid command, I shall expose for sale at public auction, all the right, title and interest of the above named L.R. Bell in and to the above described property on Monday the 14th of Oct 1907 during the legal hours of sale at the court house door at Heflin in Cleburne county, Alabama. Dated this 12th day of September 1907. A. Rowell, Sheriff of Cleburne County, Alabama. ______ NEWSPAPER Issue of Saturday, September 21, 1907 LOCAL & PERSONAL News G.W. Gay and G. Gay were visitors to the New Era office Wednesday enroute from Anniston to their home. ____ W.Z. Brown of Bell Mills was in town Wednesday witha bale of cotton. __ Mr. and Mrs. E.T. Black and B. Owens are at Kemps Creek to attend the bedside of Rev. F.A. Owen who is quite sick. ___ Mr. and Mrs. J.D. Pepper of New Mexico visited H.B. Jenkins last week. Also visiting was Mr. and Mrs. G.B. Jenkins of Tuscumbia. ___ A.J. Haley and J.F. Morgan attended the Cleburne Baptist Association at Hopewell yesterday. __ John Robison of Seddon was in Heflin this week the guest of Mrs. J.D. Bowdon. Mr. Robison is a relative of the editor. ___ NEWSPAPER Issue of Friday, September 28, 1907 J.M. BOMAN DEAD J.M. Boman of Muscadine died Tuesday after an illness of about 30 days of typhoid fever and was laid to rest Wednesday in the family grave yard within two hundred yards of where he was born fifty-nine years ago. Bro. Boman was a Methodist preacher and had been a circuit rider for 35 years. At the time of his death he was an itinerant preacher. He was a Mason and was loved and honored by that order as was proven by the number who took part in the burial ceremonies. The deceased leaves a devoted wife lingering on the bed with the same disease. Bro. Boman was concious to the last; after giving instructions as to where he wanted his wife to live, and how he wanted to be buried and that he wanted Bro. J.D. Johnson to conduct his funeral service; he then turned his eyes towards the bed where his companion lay and whispered the last good bye, then asked his nephew Bro. Hamp Barnes to cross his hands, then he said, "it is all over, all is well, blessed are they that die in the Lord." A.H. 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