Cleburne County AlArchives News.....Newspaper Notices for APRIL 1908 April 1908 ************************************************ 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 17, 2004, 10:01 pm The Cleburne New Era NEWSPAPER NOTICES FROM "THE CLEBURNE NEW ERA", Heflin, Cleburne County, Alabama for APRIL 1908 NEWSPAPER issue of Saturday, April 4, 1908 A SHOOTING Last Wednesday evening at Borden Springs, a litle station on the Southern Railway in the northern part of this county, a shooting took place, supposedly between Frank Goodman and Dutch Wheeler as a result of which Goodman was killed outright and Wheeler was seriously wounded. It is reported that Wheeler and Goodman had been under the influence of whiskey during the day and were together shortly before the shooting occurred. Jack Goodman was arrested on the charge of being an accesory and stood preliminary trial on Thursday. There being no evidence pointing to his guilt, he was acquitted. The trouble is supposed to have grown out of reports that had been afloat in the community concerning Wheeler and some of Goodman's people. _______ LOCAL & PERSONAL News Mrs. E.W. Fisher has taken up permanent residence at Pinetucky. __ B.H. Turner was in Carrollton on Sunday, whiling away a few hours with friends and loved ones. __ Miss Virgie Owen of Edwardsville was visiting Mrs. L.D. Reid a day or two this week. __ Misses Rosa and Blanche Brown of Atlanta visited Mr. and Mrs. J.E. Brown of this place on Saturday. __ J. Turley of south Cleburne was in the city on Tuesday and paid up his subscription to the New Era. __ LETTER FROM S.R. CARRUTH, of MEMPHIS, TEXAS To Editor of the New Era, For several months, my kinsman, Judge A.E. Carruth, has been sending me your valuable paper. Besides himself, I know of no one in the county and do not remember to have seen many Cleburne county people, yet I enjoy reading it. It comes from the land of my birth as I see in it the family names made familiar by the conversation of my parents during my childhood. My father, Sidney M. Carruth, had something to do with the organization of that county but I think left the next year. And while the fumes of the civil war still lingered in its dense forests, I was eight years old then but in the pine woods, by the old clay hills near Cane Creek, I had completed the longest period of residence under one roof that I was ever to enjoy in the home of my father. He was broken up during the war, a feeble man and not a very good farmer or stock man. It was on trading that he must principally depend for a living and for gain. His means were limited so the home had to go as readily as the horses and cattle when there was a demand for it; there often was. These shifting scenes on the then frontier of Texas where the Indians made occasional raids for several years, and otherwise made exciting frontier experiences which are not without their charm. I fondly remember the several homes of my boyhood, all of which hold some pleasant recollections as well as some traces of struggle and privation, but each of which contributed something to the moderate prosperity of my parents. Yet amid it all I treasure a strange fondness for the old home of earliest recollections and intend to some day visit it. I even feel a peculiar confidence in Cleburne county people , for often when in need of a man for work, my mind has turned to it. Just last fall I thought of placing an ad in your paper for one and wrote Judge Carruth about it. I now contemplate a trade which it made, will call for a man three hundred miles from where I live. In this event I have in mind to seek him through the columns of your paper. This sort of sentiment I am sure is largely fancy; yet I believe it is born of our better nature and is akin to the quality that places the confidence in a relative though we may not know him. Just why this may attach to a section of country as well to blood one cannot well see. Yet I have noticed that it is with others. This panhandle state where I now live is much newer, and it just in the period of transition from a ranch to a farming country. The Swift packing people and other large syndicates are fast buying up the big ranches and cutting them into farming tracts. Swift paid near one million dolars for the Shoe Bar Ranch near this place last year. This is a fine farming country but the land is more advertised and is higher in the older sections of the state. Only a few years and the ranches of Texas will have past out entirely and it will be only stock farming. This is really better after all. S.R. Carruth ______ NOTICE TO NON-RESIDENTS of ALABAMA State of Alabama, Cleburne County Attachment Wyatt J. Green and S.J. Gay, individuals doing business under the firm name and style of Green & Gay, Plaintiffs vs. J.J. Bachus, Defendant Whereas, Wyatt J. Green and S.J. Gay, individuals doing business under the firm name of Green & Gay, Plaintiffs in said cause, have obtained an attachment out of this Court issued the 29th day of Feb. 1908, against the estate of said defendant, J.J. Bachus, which attachment has been executed by serving W.E. Pate and Sam Wallace with a Sheriff's Writ of Garnishment, and whereas it appears that the said J.J. Bachus, defendant, resides out of the state of Alabama. Now, therefore the said J.J. Bachus wherever he may reside, is notified of the levy and pendency of said Attachment. Witness my hand this 2nd day of April 1908. Joe M. Evans. ______ HUBBARDVILLE News News is scarce in this community in the springtime. Farmers are all busy as the bees which are gathering the first honey from the fruit trees. The musical "Gee Haw' of the men behind the plow, the singing of the birds, the perfume of the newly born blossoms make me feel like I would like to be a poet. _____ MOORETOWN News Farmers in this section are making good use of the fine weather, preparing for another crop. Measles at this place have played out. Mr. W.C. Whiten and Mr.A.C. Jones went to Bell Mills Saturday night to their regular meeting of the Odd Fellows. ________ LETTER FROM MINNIE HAMMONS of IREDELL, TEXAS Mrs. Emmie Allen died March 24, 1908 at the home of G.W. Chaffin while paying them a visit. She was taken sick very shortly after arriving and lived only eleven days. She leaves a husband and four children and a host of friends to mourn the loss of the deceased. She was laid to rest in the Iredell cemetery by the side of her loving sister, who was laid to rest two years ago. Oh, what a meeting that was to meet her loving mother, sister and brother who had gone on before. Will give full details in the next issue of your paper. Minnie Hammons ________ BELL MILLS News We have been having a little sickness in our community. Walter J. Bell has been down about a week with a cold. Mrs. York is still on the sick list. Mrs. J.A. Brown visited J.A. Champion last Sunday. Mrs. V.A. Cook is visiting her daughter, Mrs. Welcome Brown. Mr. A.C. Thomason has been on the sick list. Miss Nettie Barker is at school at Jacksonville. ________ NEWSPAPER Issue of Saturday, April 11, 1908 LOCAL & PERSONAL News J.A. Owens left Monday night for Oklahoma City. __ W.U. Almon was attending to business in Tallapoosa on Saturday. __ J.S. Robertson of Muscadine called and subscribed for the New Era on Tuesday. __ Mrs. Mary Hamond of DeArmanville was a pleasant caller at our office on Tuesday. __ The news reached Heflin on Tuesday of the death of the son of Noah Sox of Edwardsville. __ Miss Scenda Smith of Tallapoosa visited her brother R.A. Smith the latter part of last week. __ The Great Southern Mica Company Mills have been shut down some time for repairs but the necessary changes have been made and are now running in full blast. __ NOTICE - - I have a thorough bred Jersey Bull, well kept. His services can be had for one dollar, cash in advance and if the results are not satisfactory your money will be refunded. J.W. Norton, Heflin, Ala. ___ FRUITHURST News Ray Johnson, who has been spending the winter with his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. W.A. Maust, returned to his home in Canton, Minn., Monday morning. He came here for his health and returned much improved. Miss Gay Wilder visited her folks here Saturday and Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Carnes are visiting family in Temple, GA. Mrs. Pearson was a Tallapoosa visitor on Saturday. ______ BELL MILLS News Mr. V.A. Cook is on the sick list this week. Mrs. York is not improving much, as she is very old. Mr. J.A. Chaffin and family visited Mr. W.M. Barr on Saturday. ___________ IN MEMORIAM OF MRS. EMMA ALLEN Mrs. Emma Allen, the wife of W.P. Allen, was called away from this world on March 24th. Mrs. Allen joined the Baptist church at Liberty Hill, Ala., in her 14th year and lived a true christian until god called her forever to live in peace. She left four loving children and a husband and a host of friends to mourn her loss. Mr. and Mrs. Allen were visiting their brother and sister, Mr. and Mrs. G.W. Chaffin at Iredell, Texas, at the time of her sickness. She only suffered eleven days with the deathly pains. She told her husband when she left home that she would never go back. The words he spoke to her was "we will not go." She told him the children wanted to go so bad they would go; she would only be closer to the cemetery and in two or three hours after they arrived she died. She was laid to rest in the Iredell cemetery. The services were conducted by Rev. Jas. Dean on the 25th. She was in her right mind until the last moment. She said she was prepared and willing to go. May the blessed saviour be with her family and friends and help them to bear their troubles and meet her in that happy home where there will be no more goodbyes. She was a loving mother to her children and a kind neighbor and they miss her sweet voice so much. Her loving voice is now stilled and in that home is a vacant place that can never be filled. But she is gone forever to dwell with the angels and loved ones and I hope we will all meet her in heaven where there are no more sad departures. Jason Chaffin, Iredell, Texas _______ IN MEMORIAM of MRS. JOHN NOLIN Sister Nolin was 70 years old when she died. She joined the Missionary Baptist Church in 1861. She was baptized by brother Harvey at Forben Church, Forben, GA. She was happily married to brother John Nolin in April 1865. They lived a happy christian life together till she died the first day of February 1908. She lived a devoted wife and mother. She leaves seven children and a husband and a host of grandchildren to mourn her death. As a woman sister Nolin was upright with her neighbors and friends. As a wife and mother she was kind, indulgent, affectionate and faithful. She is in her lone and narrow to await the resurrection. Faithful did she bear the cross while living; and now since her spirit has gone to the relams of eternal, I feel sure she wears the crown. We feel sure that she has left a legacy behind of character, of pity, of influence, which will live on until times last thunder shakes the world and even on through the cycles of unending years. May the grace of god abound to her dear ones left behind and may they not mourn as those who have no hope. It will not be long until the reunion will come when they meet her again. It will be in the land where sickness, sorrow, bereavement and separation is no more. A few more rolling years at mast will land our souls on canaan's coast, then we all may meet her again. G.W. Coley, H.J. Whitman, G.D. Hanson, Committee _______ NEWSPAPER Issue of Saturday, April 18, 1908 LOCAL & PERSONAL News M.W. Turner and daughter, Miss Alice of Hopewell were in town visiting on Monday. __ J.A. Owens and Fred Osborn returned Monday from Oklahoma City where they had been several days on business. __ News from "The Rockies" (location not given, assume it is in Cleburne County, Alabama) Health is generally good among our people once more. Mr. James Fordham and wife visited Mr. Ben Crumpton on Sunday. Bob Hilley was visiting his sister, Mrs. Mattie Kaylor on Saturday and Sunday. Mr. A.H. Glasgow was in our community last week and met a host of friends. __________ NEWSPAPER Issue of Saturday, April 25, 1908 LOCAL & PERSONAL News Heflin and Tallapoosa ball teams will cross bats on Saturday. __ "Uncle" Z.H.J. Benefield of Hopewell was in Heflin on Saturday. __ Miss Bessie Morgan is visiting relatives in Atlanta this week. __ J.E. Thomason of Ranburne was in Heflin a day or two this week. __ Mrs. H.D. Landers of Newell, who was visiting her sons Dave and Jeff Landers last week, returned home on Sunday. __ FROM CORRESPONDENT UNCLE REUBIN of MUSCADINE I am still living and mightly glad of it, for one can't fully appreciate the many blessings and privileges we enjoy until overtaken by disease and misfortune as was I when I was so sorely afflicted with grippe and drowned with settlement remedies. I shall long remember my recent illness, the torture and unpleasant experiences which fell to my lot, then, and hereafter I am going to be a little more careful as to how I get sick. My old woman has been fattening me up for the past few weeks getting me in condition to make a crop this spring. I am mending up right along and have already begun some work on the farm. I have the hillside piece broke and the black bottom all shrubbed and am going to break it on Monday. I know how to farm and no man can beat me managing farm work when I become interested in it. Though I always dread spring time to come for I know what it means for a farmer. Farm work is real nice and pleasant when one ejoys being our doors and acting int he capacity of their own boss but the longer I live, the less I like to work. I enjoy sitting around telling my neighbors how I uses to hustle on the farm when I was young. But of course I do all this for effect to cause my neighbors who have not known me long. And especially the boys to imagine that i fthey don't work hard and utilize their time that they will never amount to anything. I wish somebody would whisper a few words of counsel in the ear of my bloomin school teacher for he is a lazy cuss when it comes to doing things. He enjoys a warm fire more than anyone I ever knew. But you just get him started out to doing anything if you can. I have known him to crough up in the corner beside old Ring for hours at a time and half freeze waiting for the old woman to bring some wood and get the fire going. Oh, he is a caution, and in fact, one who has never had experience with a school teacher can't begin to imagine what a nuisance they are to anybody who has always been used to everybody around doing their own part. Of course he pays board but yet I think these boarding folks should do a little gratis bcause they are making big money easy and really they draw a pension and we poor tax payers have to foot the bill. Your Uncle Reubin is getting highly in favor of reform anyhow. We have too many good jobs dished out to lazy educated people that is too sorry to get out and make their living by the sweat of the brow, according to the mandates of the good book, and here is one who is opposed to upholding such charcters in such wrongs that are being practiced by the people from Pier Pont, Morgan Stripe down to the humblest citizen in the whole land. Guess I had better close out this letter for I have written all I think about just now and will write to my fellow citizens again soon. Uncle Reubin. ______________ FRUITHURST News T.M. Little of Waycross, GA was in town last week. __ Capt. Kennedy is living in the Sinclair house until his wife comes. He is a new comer here and seems well pleased. ___ Mr. Nath Herod had the misfortune to have his hand badly scalded by steam at the mill Friday. __ Eugene Blackmarr and wife of Tallapoosa are visiting their parents. __ File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/cleburne/newspapers/gnw262newspape.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 16.5 Kb