Cleburne County AlArchives News.....Newspaper notices for DECEMBER 1907 December 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 12, 2004, 5:28 pm The Cleburne New Era NEWSPAPER NOTICES FROM "THE CLEBURNE NEW ERA", Heflin, Cleburne County, Alabama for DECEMBER 1907 NEWSPAPER Issue of Saturday, December 7, 1907 LOCAL & PERSONAL News LETTER FROM L.M. AMOS, FROM CHINA SPRINGS, TEXAS Nov. 29th Editor of the New Era, As I don't often see a letter from Texas in your paper I will write a few lines. Well, we are having some good old rainy weather now and law how the mud does stick. I like to see anyone when they first come from the old country here and get out to walking in the mud, they make me think of a cat walking with a paper tied onto its feet, make a few steps and pick up a foot and look at it. And the mud gets so bad some times that a team can't hardly pull an empty wagon. But it isn't muddy in dry weather and then we don't think anything about putting on five and six bales of cotton on one wagon and going to town between 12 and 15 miles and then get back home before night. Well, crops were short in this part of the country this year. A one man's crop runs from 8 to 15 bales of cotton. I made 12 bales, just 30 bales less than I made last year and about the same amount of land. But I think 12 is better than 3 or 4 and I am still here. I am glad to know that whiskey is going out of Alabama; it is a pity but what it has been. I think Texas will go dry soon and that is not all, I believe the time is coming and is not long off when every good citizen will rise up and say that whiskey shall be no more in our land. And then we will be made to wonder why we did not do this in years gone by and save so many homes from being blighted by the curse of it. L.M. Amos _______ NEWSPAPER Issue of Saturday, December 14, 1907 LOCAL & PERSONAL News Davis Pearce has moved into the Thrower residence on the corner of Almon and Bedwell streets. __ Misses Mattie and Grace Williamson of Oxford were visiting their grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. E.T. Black last week. ___ Miss Claudine Downs of Bowdon, GA is spending a few days with her sister, Mrs. J.M. Evans. __ Mrs. Nannie Chaney who has been quite ill at Woodlawn for some time is reported no better. __ W.A. Haley is at Woodlawn this week at the bedside of his sister, Mrs. Chaney who is very low with typhoid fever. ___ Archie McEachern who has been in the employe of the Great Southern Mica Co. has resigned his position in order to take a better paying one in Orlando, Florida. Archie has many friends in Heflin who regret his departure but we hope Archie will do well and come back to see us. ___ SKELETON FOUND Tuesday afternoon while out hunting on Ross Mountain, a distance of about four miles from Heflin, two negro boys came across a skeleton of a human body which was near a spring on a trail cutthing through a near way from one turn of the road to another. The flesh being completely decomposed and gone, there was no clue to identification other than clothes found at the place. From information obtained it was thought probable that the skeleton was the remains of the son of Mrs. H.L. Asseltine of Fruithurst and she was immediately wired. When she arrived she and others at once recognized the clothes, a knife and other articles found as being that of her son, who about nine months ago mysteriously disappeared from the Southern Mica Mines at Pinetucky. It was supposed he was on his way home and died of heart failure as it is said he was subject to spells with his heart. _______ CONCORD News M.W. Turner made a business trip to Atlanta on Tuesday. __ Bud Lambert of Bowdon, GA was visiting here Sunday. __ Miss Pearl Gentry is visiting in Hopewell this week. __ NEWSPAPER Issue of Saturday, December 21, 1907 LOCAL & PERSONAL News J.J. and J.T. Turner of Hopewell were on the streets of Heflin on Tuesday. __ J.S. Bean left this morning for Haleyville, Ala., where he will in the future reside. __ H.S. Mayfield, a prominent citizen of Fruithurst was a Heflin visitor on Tuesday. __ J.W. Pounds of Abernathy attended court this week. __ Laborn Holmes and family have moved to Heflin. __ Mrs. J.H. Chaney, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A.J. Haley, died in Avondale last Friday of typhoid fever. The remains were brought to Heflin for interment. Rev. G.B. Boman conducted the funeral services. The pall bearers were J.A. Owens, A.D. Carruth, H.A. McMurray, J.T. Black, W. Collins, W.O. Black, W.B. Merrill, L.E. Adams. ____ Archie McEachern informs us that he is delighted with his new home in Orlando, Fla. We are not surprized that he is, for that is a beautiful country, a perfect fairly land, blooming forth in all its granduer and beauty beneath a semi-tropical sun where one would almost swelter during the summer months were it not for the cooling sea breeze that continuously blows and serves to make that county a delightful one, in which to live both summer and winter. ____ NEWSPAPER Issue of Saturday, December 28, 1907 CORINTH News We had two weddings last second Sunday; Mr. Owen Blake and Miss Idex Rogers; Mr. Willie Craft and MIss Carrie Lindsey. We wish them a long and happy life. __ J.O. Currie and family left for New Mexico last Monday. __ Tom Morrison gave a candy breaking Saturday night. The attendants reported an enjoyable time. __ PROBATE COURT SALE Under and by virtue of an order and decree of the Hon. A.E. Carruth, Judge of Probate of Cleburne county, Alabama, made and entered on the 13th day of December 1907, I, W.W. Falkner, administrator of the estate of J.C. Hayes, deceased, will sell at public outcry to the highest bidder for cash, at 12 o'clock noon, on the 28th day of December 1907, at the residence of W.W. Falkner, the following described property to wit: 2000 lbs. corn, more or less in the shuck; 1800 lbs. cotton seed, more or less; 160 lbs. seed cotton, more or less; 260 bundles fodder, more or less; 3 gallons sorghum, more or less. W.W. Falkner, Administrator. _____ TRIBUTE OF RESPECT The 18th day of last March, Ray Hubbs, the son of Mrs. Hattie L. Asseltine, started from the Great Southern Mica Co.'s mine where he had been working near Pinetucky, to come home, or rather to walk to Heflin, a distance of about 20 miles, where he expected to take the train about 10 o'clock for home. He started with only a cup of coffee, saying that he would "get a lunch in Heflin and eat breakfast at home". His mother knew nothing of his coming home as he had said in his last letter to her that he might come home before he went to work again or he might not, and she never found out that he was gone from the mines until more than two weeks had lapsed. When she learned that he had left the mines she immediately instituted a search and making inquiries, but of no avail and she never was able to locate him further than a half mile from the mine. A great many people said "oh he has just went off boy fashion" and had just failed to write and that she would soon hear from him but his mother never believed it, as he had never been away from home more than ten days or two weeks at a time without hearing from him. She has always felt that he was dead somewhere. On the 10th of December two colored boys ran across his bones, overcoat, grip, bottle of gold, which he had carried with him 2 or more years by which the remains were identified as those of Ray Hubbs. All that was left of Ray was brought hime and buried Thursday. When within about five miles of Heflin evidently he started through a trailway which is nearer than the road, and died of heart failure as he was subject to bad spells with his heart. A box of heart pills which he was accustomed to carrying was found near the body with two moulded tablets in it. He was not investigating a gold mine for his mother nor was he found near one, and the statement in two Birmingham papers stating that his father committed suicide is utterly false as his father died a natural death and no member of his father or mother's family ever committed suicide. He was found within about 200 yards of a public road and about 30 or 40 feet from a trail that led by a spring that evidently he attempted to reach. There are no indications of foul play; as anyone that might have murdered him would surely have robbed him and certainly would have tried to conceal the body, which was not done. His purse was found where the body had lain containing $1.30 in silver and one or two paper bills were found so rotton that the denomination of which could not be identified. In his overcoat pocket was part of an option paper which his mother had printed and sent to him and this was so badly faded that it could not be read. Ray was a good boy. I have known him for the past 11 years. He was always kind, accomodating, always minding his own business. I understand that all the boys at Pinetucky where he worked that that there was never another boy like Ray. Let his ashes rest in peace. He would have been 29 years of age five days after he died. There is a land of pure delight above and blessed are those that love god and keep his commandments... A friend. ________ LOCAL & PERSONAL News Fletcher Jacobs of Hopewell was a Heflin visitor the first of the week. __ Alwyn Atkins returned Friday night from Chattanooga where he has been in college. __ T.J. Prestridge of Abernathy was in the city the first of the week and paid us a pleasant call and subscribed for the New Era. ___ The jury in the Forney Hilton case found a verdict of guilty of murder in the second degree and he was sentenced to ten years in the penitentiary. __ Elbert Harrison of Boaz was visiting in the city Thursday. __ Miss Ella Rutenburg who has been teaching at Pleasant Grove church returned Saturday to spend the holidays at home. __ Russell Bean returned Friday night from Auburn to spend christmas at home. Russell tells some amusing stories of college life at Auburn. __ Jessie Robertson of Lecta we are informed will move to Heflin the first of January and will occupy the Houston residence. __ Uncle Wash Cook of Lecta was in town Saturday. __ File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/cleburne/newspapers/gnw257newspape.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 10.7 Kb