Cleburne County AlArchives News.....Newspaper Abstracts for AUGUST 1924 August 1924 ************************************************ 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 February 18, 2005, 12:16 am The Cleburne News NEWSPAPER ABSTRACTS FROM "THE CLEBURNE NEWS", Heflin, Cleburne County, Alabama for AUGUST 1924 NEWSPAPER Issue of Thursday, August 7, 1924 LOCAL News Rev. Pink Price, an old Cleburne county boy who is now living in Oklahoma, will preach at Arbacoochee on Saturday and Sunday, August 9th and 10th, and his messages are being anticipated with much interest by many people. J.A. Loveless, a leader in the Arbacoochee community, extends an invitation to the public to attend the services. ___ EDWARDSVILLE News Miss Odessa McEachern left Saturday for a visit to relatives in Leoma, Tenn. __ Mrs. Chester Burgess of Birmingham is visiting her mother Mrs. N.A. Sox. __ H.E. Johnson has returned from a visit to Mississippi and Tennessee. __ Mrs. W.W. Pirkle of Leoma, Tenn., is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jim Johnson. __ Miss Maudie Harper of Heflin is visiting her sister Mrs. Ellen Bennett. __ The friends of Mrs. Henry McEachern will be sorry to know she is very ill at her home. __ Mrs. E.R. Butler and daughter Ethel left Tuesday for Chattanooga to make their home there. __ Miss Hessie Bennett of Blue Mountain is visiting her sister Mrs. Gaston Owen. __ Ralph Burgess of Chattanooga is visiting his parents. __ Mr. and Mrs. Fred Osborn and children have returned to their home here after an automobile trip covering a month or more, the family going to the old home of the former in Ohio for a visit to relatives. __ Mr. and Mrs. R.L. Crumpton of Macon, GA were the guests of relatives here during the weekend. __ DR. JIM LIGON KILLED IN CAR WRECK ON HILLABEE ROAD SATURDAY NIGHT Dr. James H. Ligon, one of the widely known physicians and for many years a leading citizen of Cleburne county, met death in a violent form near the Cleburne and Calhoun county lines Saturday night when his Dodge roadster skidded on an approach to a new bridge over Hillabee creek near one of the Patton-Taylor turpentine camps. Dr. Ligon, in company with a young man named Dick Knight, was enroute to his home near Chulafinnee after a business trip to Anniston and Oxford, the physician being caught underneath the car when it overturned in the ditch below, the news of his tragic death spreading rapidly and causing profound sorrow wherever he was known. The body of the Cleburne physican was extricated from the wreck by employees at the turpentine camp, the man who was with him having succeeded in extricating himself from the wreck and giving the alarm. The body was carried back to Anniston, prepared for burial and later carried to the home of his brother, Dr. Arthur W. Ligon at Oxford. Dr. Ligon was 59 years of age and had lived practically all of his life in this county. He enjoyed a wide acquaintance and extensive practice in the lower part of the county and was an extensive land owner. He was a bachelor and lived at the old home place. About a year ago, Pat Ayers, a leading citizen of the same community was killed in a wreck of the same car that Dr. Ligon was driving when he met his own death, the car having overturned near the home of the two men. Knight, also, was a passenger at the time. Funeral services for Dr. Ligon were held at his home Monday afternoon by Dr. J.C. Francis of this city, the services being held in the front yard of the home in order that all of the 1,000 or more people present might hear the funeral sermon. The body was interred in the family burying ground near the home. It became known after Dr. Ligon's death that he had a premonition of the approach of death. In a conversation with a close friend less than two weeks ago, he described his feeling, and in doing so quoted the words of christ, "suffer the little children to come unto me", saying that in connection that he would be ready to answer the summons when it came. A sad feature of the physician's death was that the end came to him just two days after he had celebrated his 59th birthday, his brother and three sisters and other relatives and close friends spending the day last Thursday with him at the ancestral home. Dr. Ligon had been practicing in this county ever since his graduation and he occupied a place in the community life of the southern part of the county that will be hard to fill. His father began the practice of medicine in the same locality 68 years ago, both of the sons becoming physicians. One brother, Dr. A.W. Ligon of Oxford and three sisters, Mrs. C.A. Armentrout of Oxford, Miss Maggie Ligon of Chulafinnee and Mrs. George T. Harris, wife of the Methodist presiding elder of this district are the survivors. ______ HAMMOND'S ILLNESS SHORT After suffering intense pain for several days, Mr. W.L. Hammond of Waco, died at his home in that city on Sunday afternoon about six o'clock. Mr. Hammond, who was a constable in Waco district, was on Monday of last week appointed by Sheriff Richards as one of the helpers during court. Tuesday afternoon of the same week, Mr. Hammond was taken violently ill and carried home where doctors pronounced his trouble as being appendicitis. An operation was performed but he continued to sink and died Sunday afternoon. Mr. Hammond was well known and well liked. He was a member of the I.O.O.F. He leaves a wife and several children to mourn his death. ____ FRUITHURST News J. Ernest Carlson of Jacksonville, Fla., arrived Saturday night to spend a few days with home folks. __ Mr. and Mrs. Earl J. Grant and son Earl Jr. have returned to their home in Birmingham. __ Miss Katherine Fowler has returned home after an extended visit to relatives in Tallapoosa. Miss Elizabeth Fowler returned to her home in Tallapoosa Sunday night. ___ MOUNTAIN CODE CARRIED BILL COLE TO REDEEM A PROMISE MADE TO COURT The code of honor by which the mountain distiller lives and acts was demonstrated in Heflin last week when Bill Cole of Oak Level, passed through town enroute to Anniston to begin serving the six months' jail sentence for illicit distilling, that sentence having been imposed by Federal Judge Henry D. Clayton at the spring term of the federal district court in Anniston. Giving his promise last spring to the federal court officials to report at the county jail on August 1st to begin his sentence, Bill Cole worked daily at his farm in the mountains to make his crop, lay by a sufficient store for his family to enjoy during his absence of six long months, and while in Heflin last Friday he stated that only an unavoidable accident could keep him from keeping his promise made to the court officers last spring. Cole was convicted at the last term of the court and an amendment to the court order was made to permit him to lay by his crop and get everything in shape for his long absence from home. If he is compelled to serve the full six months in jail it will be February 1st before he passes through Heflin going homeward again, but there will be rejoicing of the real kind when the news goes forth that Bill Cole is back at home in his chosen part of the county. _____ LOCAL News Mr. and Mrs. W.J. Henry, one day last week had the pleasure of entertaining a party of their relatives from different sections of the state, the visit being intensely enjoyed by all concerned. The visitors were Ira Wright and daughter, Miss Grace Wright of Moulton; Dock Wright of Cullman; and Bartow Wright of Lincoln. ____ Mr. and Mrs. W.J. Bell of Atlanta have returned home after spending several days among relatives and friends in Cleburne county. __ FOR SALE - - One horse, 10 years old, weighs 900 pounds; works good anywhere. Call on or write Cecil Norton, Bell Mills, Ala. ____ Grady W. Cook of Bell Mills was in Heflin Monday enroute to his lumber camp in Talladega County. __ J.C. McCoy of Jackson County, Oklahoma, who is visiting his father "Uncle" Jim McCoy of Fruithurst, was in Heflin on Monday meeting old friends. Mr. McCoy reports fine crops in Jackson and adjoining Oklahoma counties. ___ Mr. and Mrs. W.G. Dewberry of Border Land, West Virginia are visiting relatives and friends in Heflin and Cleburne county. ___ PINHOOK News Mrs. Minnie Pesnell and children and Mrs. Rosa Parker and children spent Sunday afternoon with Mrs. Margaret Kinney. ___ Mr. and Mrs. Tom Kinney spent Saturday night with Mrs. Sarah Dunn. __ NEWSPAPER Issue of Thursday, August 14, 1924 FAMILY REUNION HELD SUNDAY AT JACKSON HOME One of the most enjoyable family reunions held in the eastern Alabama and western Georgia sections occurred Sunday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. T.J. Jackson, two miles east of Bowdon. Mr. and Mrs. Jack J. Wager, daughter and son-in-law of the Georgia people; Mr. and Mrs. Roy Entrekin of Birmingham and Mr. and Mrs. Clellon Wager of Heflin motored to that place for the occasion. Relatives from many points assembled at the Jackson home on Saturday and Sunday, it being estimated that 68 or more relatives and neighbors spent the day at the reunion. The visitors for the annual reunion event entered into the celebration with an enthusiasm typical of the old south, the noon meal taking the shape of a before the war feast still so enjoyable in this section. For many years, the children, grandchildren and other relatives of Mr. and Mrs. Jackson have gathered at the old home during the month of August to spend a day in happy reminiscences of a happy past and to honor the aged pair who have journeyed hand in hand to this post in their useful lives. All of the relatives who attended the reunion provided baskets of dinner and when the noon hour came three large tables were placed in the front yard of the home and on which the bounteous repast was spread. The relatvies spent more than an hour in this way and late in the afternoon many of them began the journey toward their respective homes after spending what they declared to have been one of the most happy occasions enjoyed at that spot. Among those who gathered for the reunion were the Heflin and Birmingham people already mentioned; Mrs. M.J. Adams of Bowdon; Curtis Walker, J.J. Walker, A.T. Jackson and family, Hugh Jackson and family, MIss Luna Cook of Carrollton; B. Jackson and family, Miss Hilder Moore of Cedartown; Housan Jackson, Little Lane and family, Centralhatchee; Mr. and Mrs. W.J. Yeater, Mr. and Mrs. Jim Yeager, Miss Ethel and Eugene Yeager of Lowell, GA; Mrs. L.E. Witt, Jacksonville, Fla.; Mr. and Mrs. W.O. Jackson, Joe Walker, Mr and Mrs. J.D. Hyatt, Mrs. Cleo Higgins, W.O. Barrow and family of Bowdon. ____ J. Morrison, manager of the Heflin Telephone Exchange, who was stricken several weeks ago was reported on Wednesday afternoon to be critically ill at St. Luke's hospital in Anniston. ____ CELEBRATES BIRTHDAY Mrs. Sarah Pruitt, formerly of this county, but who is now living in Clay County, celebrated her 95th birthday on Sunday, a large number of relatives and friends assembling at her home for the event. Mrs. Pruitt is well preserved despite her extreme age. She was first married to W.A. Howle and is the mother of W.H. Howle of Venus, Texas, who is a former Cleburne county man. ______ LEBANON News Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Holland of Akron, Ohio visited Mr. and Mrs. S.K. Clayton last week. __ A crowd of young people enjoyed a watermelon cutting at C.W. Dryden's on Sunday afternoon. __ FRUITHURST News Miss Mayne Mitchell of Tallapoosa was the Sunday guest of her sister Mrs. Margaret Fowler. __ MRS. AUSTIN BURIED Mrs. John Austin, who died suddenly at her home at Fruithurst on Saturday, was buried Sunday at the St. Michael Church, the service being conducted by Rev. A.T. Warmack. Mrs. Austin is survived by her husband and three small children. She had not been well for some time before her death. ____ S.T. Maner and R.A. Grizzard, two of the best known automobile mechanics in Heflin or vicinity, have opened up a new garage in the brick building just south of the Central Hotel and are serving owners of cars. Mr. Maner was connected with the Heflin Motor Co. for about two years and has recently been working in Atlanta where he secured valuable and helpful experience. Mr. Maner opened up his new place last Monday and already has secured a large number of jobs. ____ LOCAL NEWS B.H. Turner, a former citizen of Heflin who is now living in Birmingham, spent several days among his old home friends last week. __ Mrs. Minnie Beason and Master Frank Beason spent Saturday and Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Roy Turner at their home in Hubbardville, returning home Monday. __ Mrs. T.A. Hamlin of Ashland is spending the week here with her sister Mrs. M.A. Vickers. ___ J.R. Richardson and daughter Miss Gladys, W.F. Lasseter and daughter Miss Ruth, of Whitesburg, GA were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. W.L. Lasseter of Beat 10 last week. Miss Lois Lasseter accompanied the Georgia people home and will spend some time visiting in Carroll County. ___ Mr. and Mrs. Frank Allen of Newnan, GA and Mr. and Mrs. Duston Daugherty of Alabama City have been spending the week with Mr. and Mrs. Terrill Daugherty on Route 2. ___ NEWSPAPER issue of Thursday, August 21, 1924 JOE MORRISON SUCCUMBS FROM TYPHOID ATTACK Joe Morrison, for several years manager of the Heflin Telephone company, was buried at his old home near MIcaville on Sunday afternoon, the funeral services being largely attended by people of Heflin and that section of the county. Rev. Hobart Murphree, pastor of the M.E. Church of Heflin conducted the funeral services. Mr. Morrison died Friday night at St. Luke's hospital in Anniston after an illness of several weeks, typhoid fever being followed by pneumonia. The body was brought to his home one mile south of Heflin Saturday night. Mr. Morrison lived in Anniston for many years before coming to Heflin to take over the management of the local telephone company for Dr. L.R. Wright, and was well and favorably known in that city. He had been actively at work until a month before his death. The lamented citizen is survived by his wife and an adopted daughter, besides several brothers living at other places. ____ MRS. BLACK DEAD After about a year of suffering incident to advanced age and feebleness, Mrs. E.T. Black, one of the best beloved women in Heflin, died at the family ohome at noon Wednesday, the announcement of her death carrying sorrow of the extreme kind into practically every home in Heflin. Mrs. Black's health began to fail about a year ago and for the past few weeks her condition has been regarded as critical. She was about 80 years of age, most of that time being a resident of Heflin. She is survived by her husband, three sons, Lee and Tom Black of Heflin and Owen Black of Birmingham and two daughters, Miss Mary Black and Mrs. H.F. Houston of Heflin. Mrs. Black was a devout member of the Methodist church and before her strength failed she took an active part in every movement having for its object the betterment of her home community. In the passing of Mrs. Black, young and old alike have a feeling of personal loss and her death will create a vacancy in the lives of Heflin people which will be difficult to fill. Funeral services were to be held from the home Thursday afternoon by Rev. J.C. Francis, the burial to follow in the family lot at the city cemetery. ____ LOCAL News A.Z. Owens, who has been making his home in Heflin for many years, has gone to Tampa., Fla., to engage in business in that city. Mrs. Owens and her mother Mrs. Crawford, will leave shortly to join Mr. Owens in his new home. Mr. Owens has been connected with the firm of Bean & McMurray for several years, serving for the last few terms also as a member of the city council. Mr. Owens has sold his home and furnishings here and will be joined by his wife and mother as soon as a new home can be established in the Florida city. The family will be greatly missed by Heflin people. ____ B.F. Hall of Washington, D.C. is visiting his sister Mrs. John Fordham near Arbacoochee. Mr. Hall has been away from Cleburne for the past 17 years and is being given a royal welcome back to his old home. He will return to Washington in about three or four weeks. ____ Federal Prohibition Officer Ben Crumpton and State Officers Draper, Garrett and Lynch on Tuesday arrested J.T. Bentley, Jim Miller and Sol Brymer, three Calhoun county men, and destroyed a still said to belong to them in the Chulafinnee section of this county. The same officers Tuesday afternoon raided the home of Wes Blanton near Heflin and confiscated several gallons of wine and some whiskey, a charge of violating the prohibition law being lodged against them. ____ Mr. and Mrs. Harbon Thrower of Tuscaloosa are spending some time with Cleburne relatives. ___ HIGHTOWER News Mrs. Steadham of Anniston returned to her home on Tuesday after spending several days here with relatives. ___ Johnnie McCord of Newell visited relatives and friends here Saturday and Sunday. __ George Nolen of south Georgia is visiting in this community. __ A reunion of "Uncle" John Nolen's family was held here Sunday. There were about 165 people present, 40 of whom belonged to the Nolen family directly. At noon a large table was set and those present were made to forget panics and hard times as dish after dish of some appetizing food was placed before them. The afternoon was spent singing and listening to a talk by L.T. Lowery and talking over Uncle John's younger days together with the current events of the day. Uncle John has passed the 77th milestone in his life and those that were there wish for him and his good wife many more birthdays. _____ Ezell and Melvin Allen have returned home after visiting their grandmother at Roanoke. ___ FRUITHURST News Raymond Owens, who has been visiting relatives here and in Edwardsville, has returned to Florida. __ LOCAL News T.T. Laminack, Allen Laminack, W.A. McElroy and G.F. Thompson, four good citizens of the Muscadine section of the county were the among the court visitors who came to Heflin on Monday. ___ Mrs. Elizabeth Boman has returned to her home in Heflin after a visit to her daughter Mrs. Roy Turner at Hubbardville. ___ John Campbell of Boaz, has been visiting his sister Mrs. A.E. Boman of Heflin this week. ___ NEWSPAPER Issue of Thursday, August 28, 1924 LOCAL News Mrs. Jas. W. Baber, who has been ill at her home in Heflin for the past few weeks was reported to be considerably improved Wednesday. One of the children of Mr. Baber's brother, an orphan, who is making her home with them, has been stricken during the present week and the hope is general that the next report from her will be satisfactory. ____ BARNWELL LOSES RIGHT HAND IN ACCIDENT HERE Robert Barnwell, a young man who has been making his home with M.F. McWhorter at Fruithurst, lost his right hand as the result of a deplorable accident which occurred in rear of the garage of the Heflin Motor Car company while he was engaged in repairing a car in which he had ridden to Heflin Monday morning. The car had been jacked up to make the change in springs and when the jack slipped his right hand was caught between the spring and the axle, the entire being so badly crushed that amputation was found to be necessary. First aid treatment was given the injured boy by Dr. Wright, after which he was hurried to an Anniston hospital where an emergency operation was performed. Young Barnwell was reported on Tuesday to be resting comfortably at the hospital, much regret being felt by his friends over the unfortunate accident which has deprived him of his hand. ____ James T. Harlan and family of Dalton, GA have been the guests of relatives and friends in Heflin and vicinity for the last week, and will be here for a day or two yet before returning to their home. Mr. Harlan is a brother of tax collector Joe B. Harlan and a former citizen of Cleburne county. The visitors have enjoyed their stay at the hold home to the fullest extent. ___ GANN CASE LIKELY TO BE ENDED ON THURSDAY Taking of evidence in the case of the state of Alabama against Columbus Gann, charged with the murder of Larkin Allen at Abel over a year ago, was completed in the circuit court Wednesday afternoon, the case being scheduled to go to the jury about noon Thursday. A large number of witnesses for the state and defense were examined during Wednesday, the jury having been selected in less than an hour from the time the court convened at 9 o'clock. How the dead man met his death was described in detail by the first state witnesses examined Wednesday, the solicitor bringing out a number of facts concerning the causes which led up to the shooting in his examination of the eye witnesses. Solicitor Sanford prosecuted for the state in the case and the defendant was represented by Judge Hugh D. Merrill and C.W. Allen of Anniston. The court room was filled with interested spectators during the taking of evidence and the arguments of the attorneys a number of ladies following the court proceedings with a close interest. ____ Three cases against Alvin Turner, carrying concealed weapons, breaking jail and violating the prohibition law, were settled in circuit court Tuesday afternoon by the payment of a $75. fine. __ William Bruner entered a plea of guilty to a charge of violating the prohibition law and was fined by the court. ___ Mr. and Mrs. George William Little of Atlanta announce the engagement of their daughter Anne Lucille, to Mr. Neal Morgan of Heflin, Ala, the marriage to be solemnized Oct. 10th at the home of the bride elect. After the marriage in Atlanta, Mr. Morgan and his bride will come to Heflin to make their home. ___ Elisha Jenkins has returned to his home here after spending two weeks with relatives and friends in Mississippi. He was accompanied by C.C. Jenkins Jr. and Miss Lee McMurray. ___ FIRST SHERIFF IN THIS COUNTY A RECENT VISITOR Joe M. Hooper, age 85, is still hale and hearty and in politics. One of the interesting visitors in Heflin and other parts of Cleburne county during the last week was J.M. Hooper, the first sheriff elected in Cleburne county after it was organized in 1867. Mr. Hooper ws renewing many pleasant acquaintances among Heflin people while here. Mr. Hooper moved form this county to Arkansas in 1885 and from that state went to Texas and going to Oklahoma several years ago, and settling permanently in Cotton County. He was recently nominated for representative by the democrats of his county. The former Cleburne man is well, active and hearty despite the fact that he passed the 85th milestone in the journey of his life and despite a slight deafness is in perfect physcial condition. Mr. Hooper was accompanied on his trip to Alabama by his granddaughter Mrs. Jodie Welch of Gainesville, Texas whose sudden and severe illness after her arrival in Fruithurst has been the only thing to mar the pleasure of the visit to their old home. The former Cleburne man talked interestingly of the early day history of Cleburne County while in Heflin last week, and described the antics of the early settlers during his term as sheriff of the county when they tried to force their horses through the door of the first log courthouse built at Edwardsville and which was fittingly described recently in a reminiscent article written by Judge D.S. Baber, the present probate judge. Mr. Hooper was elected sheriff of this county in 1867 and served one term. He was married in early manhood to Miss Susan Bennett, an aunt of Mrs. D.S. Baber, whose death on February 7th of this year saddened many home friends. He has nine children, 110 grand and great grandchildren, most of them living in the west. He is a brother of R.F. Hooper of Fruithurst, the latter coming to Heflin with his brother last week. The Oklahoman was one of the charter members of the Masonic Lodge at Edwardsville and all during his long and eventful life he has kept his membership in the ancient order. ______ "Uncle" Joe Roberts and his estimable wife of Oak Level, are spending this week near Heflin as the guests of Rev. J.W. Grubbs and family and they are being cordially welcomed by their many local friends. Mr. Roberts served one term as sheriff of Cleburne many years ago and is one of the best known men in the county. He is past the age of 85 years and despite this fact is remarkably well preserved. ____ LOCAL News Misses Verda and Nell Crumpton are spending the week in Anniston with their sister, Mrs. Myrtle Steadham. __ Knox Adams of Birmingham spent several days during the week with his mother Mrs. Benton Adams in Heflin. __ Mr. and Mrs. C.M. Elliott have returned home after a short visit at Collinsville. __ Mr. and Mrs. James Fields of Jacksonville are visiting relatives and friends in Heflin. __ BETHEL News Mrs. Nancy Kilgore recently visited his sister, Mrs. John Hart. ___ OAK LEVEL News Mrs. Mae Buttram and son Louis have been visiting relatives here. __ Mr. and Mrs. John Laminack of Tennessee are visiting here. __ Rastus Rogers of Crossville spent last week with his uncle, J.B. Rogers. __ Mrs. R.C. Shell of Gadsden is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J.L. Steed. __ Miss Nan Roach of the SHoal Creek section was a recent guest of her sister, Mrs. J.B. Steed. __ Miss Mae Perry of White Plains, visited her grandparents Mr. and Mrs. C.J. Buttram last week. __ PINHOOK News Mrs. Margaret McKinney was the guest of Mrs. Sarah Dunn on Wednesday. __ S.D. Dunn and wife spent Saturday night with relatives near Edwardsville. __ Mrs. Minnie Morgan and children spent Sudnay afternoon with Mrs. Minnie Pesnell. __ D.A. Daugherty of Newnan, GA is spending some time with Cleburne relatives. ___ File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/cleburne/newspapers/gnw320newspape.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 26.5 Kb