Cleburne County AlArchives News.....Newspaper Abstracts for JANUARY 1913 January 1913 ************************************************ 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 March 16, 2005, 11:15 pm The Cleburne News January 1913 NEWSPAPER ABSTRACTS FROM "THE CLEBURNE NEWS", Heflin, Cleburne County, Alabama for JANUARY 1913 NEWSPAPER issue of Thursday, January 2, 1913 EDWARDSVILLE News Misses Ruth McLendon and Bessie Laminack together with Casie and Grady Laminack spent Xmas Eve night with J.D. Laminack. ___ "Uncle" Joe Hooper and wife together with James and Arch Hooper of Okla., were guests of D.S. Baber last week. ___ Mr. and Mrs. C.B. Byrd spent some time with homefolks in Tallapoosa. Also Dr. J.E. Burgess and family who went up to witness the marriage nuptials of Miss Johns and to be with homefolks also. __ Mrs. Lizzie Birmingham visited her mother Mrs. Bell on Xmas week. __ Mrs. J.D. Lee was confined to her room the latter part of last week. Hope she may be out soon. __ HUBBARD News Miss Pearl Howle and Mr. C.O. Hubbard were married at the home of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. E.A. Howle, by the Rev. G.B. Bowman, on Monday e vening December 23rd. ___ LEM HYATT SURRENDERS; TRIAL SET FOR JANUARY 9th. Last Monday about 12 o'clock, Lem Hyatt, charged with killing Charlie Woodard, voluntarily surrendered to Sheriff Cook and is now confined in the county jail awaiting trial. Judge Glasgow set Thursday January 9th as the date for the preliminary trial. Hyatt was represented by W.B. Merrill who has been retained to defend him. Friends of Hyatt claim he acted in self defense and express themselves as being confident of his acquittal. ___ WHEELER KILLED Robert Wheeler of Borden Springs of this county and son of Henry Wheeler, was run over by a train at Blunt's Springs December 25th, his head being severed from his body. How the accident occurred at this time is unknown. ____ FRUITHURST News Mr. and Mrs. Jas. Donahoe of Dora, Ala., are visiting their daughter Mrs. Homer Brown. __ Mr. Fred Roberts of McConnellsville, Ohio arrived Tuesday evening. He is a brother of our townsman C.A. Roberts with whom he will spend the winter. ___ Mr. Armstrong Younblood and Miss Vernie Burchfield were married last week. We wish them much wedded bliss and along and happy life. __ Mr. E.P. Jennings and family of Gadsden, Ala., arrived Wednesday to make this place their home. We are glad to welcome them. ___ LOCAL News Mrs. Peoples of Anniston has been visiting her sister Mrs. R.B. Fincher. __ Mrs. John Barker is on the sick list. __ Mr. and Mrs. Cooper of Birmingham are visiting the family of W.U. Almon. __ "Uncle" John Campbell passed through town last week on his way to Sand Mountain. __ Miss Delia Strickland spent Xmas day in Heflin with her aunt, Mrs. Jane Bowdon. __ HOPEWELL News Those who married within the past ten days are: Mr. Grady Gaines and Miss Stamps Arlen Gaines and Miss Amie Jacobs Mr. Jefferies and Miss Deese Mr. Strickland and Miss Pounds Duff Cunningham and Miss Grizard ___ Larkin McMahan has moved to Abernathy. ___ LOCAL News Mr. Austin Jones and Miss Pearl Vaughan both of Heflin, were married December 25th at the home of the bride by Rev. J.R. Barker. ___ MARRIAGE LICENSES ISSUED DURING THE HOLIDAYS BY JUDGE GLASGOW E.M. Thompson and Miss Ada Maxwell J.L. Williams and Zeora Langley B.F. Crumley and Rosa Harris T.J. Brown and Eta Wilson Wm. J. Morris and Minnie Shockley J.M. Vise and Arbie Taylor O.N. Gregg and Artie Ayres E.P. Beason and Mande Brown C.O. Hubbard and Pearl Howle Chester Johnson and D. Roach S.O. Crumpton and Ammon Rooks W.C. Hand and Mattie Nelson Homer R. Chieves and Ida Hicks Richard Pounds and Alva Dodd Hiram Singleton and Miss Beulah Keel Francis M. Hester and Sarah Jane Hutcheson J.V. Bain and Pearl Phillips A.J. Jones and Pearl Vaughan Neal Holmes and Agnes Jones Wesley Stricklin and Georgia Pounds J.P. Chappel and L.V. Taylor A.P. Cheatwood and Zetha Pruitt A.J. Gaines and Anna Jacobs Jessie Treadaway and Jesse Mae Hanvey I.L. Fields and Mary Jane Boyd J.H. Davis and Mary Jane Green J.L. Cunningham and Estelle Grizzard E.E. Whatley and Maggie Buttram COLORED John Aaron Speliard and Helen Stephens ___________ LOCAL News Mr. Alford Ayers of Commerce, GA has been visiting the family of R.B. Fincher. __ Mrs. Lake of Woodlawn has been visiting here. __ Mrs. Molly Branham of Texas is visiting relatives in town. __ NEWSPAPER Issue of Thursday, January 9, 1913 MR. A. C. BURGESS DIES Edwardsville again suffered the loss of one of our good citizens, in the death of Mr. A.C. Burgess who died January 4th. This death comes as a heavy blow to the family and community. He took great pride in the family being very devoted to both wife and the two boys. His highest ambition was to educate his boys and enable them to make noble men. To this end neither time nor means were spared. He with his devoted companion were true friends of both public school and the Seminary, ever doing all in their power for the success of both. As a citizen, a member of the council, a member of both public school and seminary board, as a father and husband, Acy Burgess will be missed but by none so much as the boys and companion. By these he will be sorely missed and their grief, and disappointment will be keenly felt. It is the prayer of your correspondent that the spirit of god may sustain them all and so lead them that some good day the widowed mother, the children and all the connection by an undivided family around the throne of god; god bless them all. _____ DEATH OF JOHN R. BARKER Death has claimed one of our best citizens. Mr. John R. Barker has gone to his reward. Bro. Barker was one of our very best citizens. He had lived in this county about thirty years. He was law abiding, moral, religous and upright in all his dealings with his fellow man. Bro. Barker was the father of our fellow townsman Rev. J.R. Barker. He leaves a sorrowing wife and a number of children to mourn his loss. If all our citizens were such men as Bro. Barker we would have a good world to live in. We would have no business at all in our criminal court. The county will miss him but his influence will live on forever. Peace to his ashes. ____ IN MEMORIAN of CAPT. W.P. HOWELL And whilest we stand and look with eyes aglow, a fountain of tears of sympathy beclouds our vision; and thus we look through the mist of love and tears to this dear one whom memory calls so vividly to us all. We listen but no response. Memory speaks to us and we remember so often to have heard from this solent form so many sweet messages as they rang forth from the inward home of this heavenly brought picture before us..... Oh that we could have had a vision and caught a glimpse of the angelic host as they descended and ascended home with the sainted spirit of our husband, father and friend. In the distance far beyond us, we turn our thoughts homeward, homeward bound and listen it seems we catch the sound which last we heard drop from his trimphet voice which echoes back home, home at last. ________ CARD OF THANKS We wish to express our thanks and appreciation to our many friends and neighbors who were so kind and helpful to us during the sickness and death of our beloved husband and father. Your sympathy has made us better able to bear our grief. Mrs. M.E. Forsythe, Mrs. Ida M. Butler and family. Jan. 5, 1913. _____ LOCAL News Mr. Borden who has been living in Heflin for the last year has moved this week to the farm of Col. Shackleford four miles south of town. ___ Black Bro's have moved their store to Kitchens old stand where their old customers will find them every ready to serve them. ___ Mrs. George Moore is seriously ill with pneumonia. __ John T. Heflin's estate was sold the 4th of January at public auction for cash, F.L. Blake the purchaser. ___ We are glad to report that Pierce Owens is better of his rheumatism. He was out walking Sunday afternoon with his father's walking stick. ___ Marcus Milligan returned Saturday from a three weeks visit in Okla., with the family of W.O. Black. __ NEWSPAPER issue of Thursday, January 16, 1913 HISTORY OF TOWN OF HEFLIN The town of Heflin was founded about 1883 and was named for Dr. Heflin of Randolph County. The town is one of the products of the Georgia Pacific Railroad, now a part of the great Southern Railway system. The men who started the town were W.R. Hunnicutt and Son, C.A. Smith and Sons, Charles Prescott, Mark Pinson, J.F. Morgan and Young and Bean, merchants. There was until 1888 but one hotel, The Central, and until 1893, there was but one church building in the town; that was the Baptist Church. From the organization of the town until 1890 there were five to seven liquor saloons operated here. Only one brick building stood here; that was built by the Woodstock Iron Company of Anniston. It is now part of the great mercantile building of Atkins & Owens. Among the pioneer physicians of th town were Doctors W.A. Neal, J.L. McClintock and Dr. Martin. The only machinery operated in Heflin was a small ginnery built and operated by Howard Bell & Sons of Bell Town. There was not a family grocery store here until 1887. The schools were being taught in a small wooden building that stood where the public school building now is. The morals and government of the town were not of the best kind, although there were a number of good substantial citizens. The population was composed of people from rural pursuits who came largely from Randolph County. Every mercantile business, shop, profession or other occupation was owned and operated by men who came from the farm. And to this day, with few exceptions, every business in this town is owned and operated by men who have experienced farm life. Heflin has never been a boom town. Its growth has been slow, but steady and healthy. It now has three good church edifices, two school buildings, that cost approximately twenty thousand dollars. The public school building is a large frame structure that will accomodate two hundred and fifty pupils. The state high school building is a substantial brick building, having a capacity of two hundred pupils, and is destined in the future to do a great service for the people of Cleburne County. There is a good telephone system, an electric lighting plant, two good blacksmith shops, a large ginnery and grist mill, a good lumber finishing and saw mill, three hotels, three boarding houses and two restaurants, one bank, the county court house and jail, sixteen mercantile establishments, all on a sound business basis, and are ready to cater to the wants of the people. The mercantile business is as follows: One millinery store, two drug stores, barber shop, one meat market, five grocery stores and eight general merchandise stores. We have six lawyers, three physicians, one dentist, several stenographers and employ six teachers in our schools. Two large commodious warehouses are operated here. Among our population, all the useful trades are represented. There are three stock yards, two livery stables, one marble works and an undertaker's establishment. There are fourteen good brick structures, about one hundred handmade and cozy homes, besides, as many more of less pretentious and last, but not least, a real live newspaper. It does justice to no one to say that amount our merchants, the firms of Atkins & Owens, Perryman Bros., Bean & McMurray and Wright Drug Co. have risen to the foremost rank in their chosen fields. We have a quiet town, a hospitable progressive people, good water, find natural drainage, proverbially healthy, with a number of fraternal organizations, an altitude of a thousand feet above sea level, fine railroad service, fourteen passenger trains daily, good telegraph facilities and telephone connection with various points. About seventy five percent of our population is white. The surrounding country has fine farming lands, beautiful mountain scenery with enough available water power to furnish fifty thousand horse power. There are many other things conducive to thrift and happiness. With all of these good advantages and the best of citizens, it cannot be said that we have not an inviting town. A generous welcome awaits all deserving people who will make their homes among us. Our town is not finished; its borders are large and its progress is steady. ________ The New Year Marriages to date L.C. Pollard and Miss Geneva Kaylor R.L. Clathyn and Miss Zella Garner Newell Gay and Miss May Edna Bachelor H.A. Lepham and Miss Gusta Phillips _______ LOCAL News The paupers moved into the new home on Wednesday. They are quartered in a large spacious new building half mile east of town. The county is to be congratulated for giving these unfortunate people a comfortable home in which to live. ____ NEWSPAPER issue of Thursday, January 23, 1913 HOLD UP ON SOUTHERN RAILWAY Marshal Moon, a white man, aged about 25 years, was arrested Monday afternoon about 4:30 o'clock at his home in Woodlawn charged with holding up and robbing the mail car on the Southern passenger train No. 12 between Birmingham and Atlanta near Lincoln early Sunday morning. Moon denied the charge when arrested by officers. His father lives at Lincoln near where the bandit is said to have left the train. The officers refused to give out any of the evidence against Moon. The preliminary trial will be held in a few days. ____ LOCAL News Mrs. Jane Bowdon is seriously ill at her home on Almon street. __ EDWARDSVILLE News A large company of both young and old called on Mr. Hatfield on Wednesday night of last week carrying with them a glad surprize by way of many eatables and other useful articles, thus making old Uncle Hatfield feel that both his friends and his heavenly father had not forgotten him, but in his tenderness, still cared for him. ___ Edgar Crumpton entered the Seminary on Monday January 13th. __ C.B. Byrd and family took dinner with J.D. and Mrs. Laminack on Sunday. __ NEWSPAPER issue of Thursday, January 30, 1913 LOCAL News On Sunday, January 26th, Mr. W.P. Evans and Dessie Zaner were married by Rev. G.B. Boman at the home of J.T. Glasgow near Bell town at 10 o'clock. The groom is the son of John Evans, a prominent citizen of the county. The bride is a daughter of Mr. W.P. Hammonds of Bell Town. They will make their future home at Bell Mills. ____ EDWARDSVILLE News Mr. Grover Fordham spent some time with his sister, Mrs. Henry McEachern last week. He was on his way to Texas. ___ Miss Bell has been visiting her sister Mrs. Jones for a few days. __ Mrs. T.N. Crumpton was called to the sick room of her sister at Hightower last week. __ FRUITHURST News J.W. Burchfield returned Friday from an extended visit to friends and relatives in and around Chattanooga, Tenn. __ Mr. Monroe Vann and wife of Birmingham are spending a few weeks in town with Mr. Vann's parents, Mr. and Mrs. F.A. Vann. __ Mr. O.H. Baxter who is operating a saw mill at Esom Hill came home Saturday to spend a few days with his family. __ Mr. Tuskin Reese and wife of Tallapoosa gold mine, spent Saturday and Sunday with Mrs. Reece's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Medows. __ File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/cleburne/newspapers/newspape355gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 15.8 Kb