Cleburne County AlArchives News.....Newspaper Abstracts for JUNE 1913 June 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 19, 2005, 10:29 pm The Cleburne NEWS June 1913 NEWSPAPER ABSTRACTS FROM "THE CLEBURNE NEWS", Heflin, Cleburne County, Alabama for JUNE 1913 NEWSPAPER issue of Thursday, June 5, 1913 CASES TRIED BEFORE COUNTY COURT The following cases in the County court were heard on Monday: State vs. John Messer, charged with public intoxication John Wes Johnson, charged with assault with weapon, waived to grand jury Fred Johnson, charged with assault with weapon, waived to grand jury Mr. Moore, charged with unlawfully riding of train, sentenced to 39 days hard labor J.C. Smith, charged with unlawfully riding of train, sentenced to 38 days of hard labor Will Davis, charged with abusive language, fined $10. John Blanton, charged with selling whiskey without a license, fined $50. James Godwin, charged with disturbing public worship, fined $25. _______ MR. W.W. FOWLER WRITES ON COBB COUNTY To the Cleburne News, Heflin, Ala; Dear Editor, Will attempt to give you and your readers a few items from this place. Am feeling more at home in the county now and find that I have some of the best neighbors in the world, almost. The people in this county have not the time for any little foolish things and are studying along progressive lines and of course, that means they are studying for big things. Will tell you something about the telephone system that we have here. We have one of the best systems imaginable. Every subscriber buys a telephone and then keeps line in repair or helps keep up line to switch board and that expense never amounts to anything practically at all; I have access to something like 3,000 telephones here, over country, including two or three towns on R.R. and we have good service all the time. And must say that Mr. D.L. McCleskey and family make excellent operators and are courteous all the time. Can't say as much for some other places. These telephones only cost us $1.30 per quarter. I certainly enjoy Dr. Jno. P. Houston's letters, also other correspondents from over the county, and trust they will keep up an interesting department. We are having excellent Sunday Schools here and interest seems to be growing. Prof. Worley of Marietta is teaching a singing class at this place now. I have been attending and must say that he is a good teacher and is getting along with class nicely. Trust this will get us an up to date choir here. With kind regards for ye Editor and your readers, I remain a former Cleburnite, W.W. Fowler _____ LOCAL News Mr. and Mrs. T.A. Johnson left Tuesday morning for Hugo, Okla., to see their daughter Elizabeth who is sick at this time. ____ EDWARDSVILLE News Mrs. Kelley is visiting children in Birmingham and near by towns for some time. __ A.J. McEachern, daughter and little niece Floraetta and Irene took in the reunion at Chattanooga last week. They report a fine time and a great many people were there. ___ MRS. BURGESS DEAD In the early pasrt of last Thursday night, Mrs. Burgess who had been sick so long, quiety, easily and peacefully passed away from her home here surrounded by the devoted husband, children and friends to her fathers home in the skies. For a week she had been in a sleeping condition. How good in our heavenly father to thus prepare the transit of his children from earth to heaven. She has lived the life of a devoted wife and ever tender loving mother. Well might we say here in the words of Bro. Buttram who conducted the funeral services that "the children have lost their best friend." The devoutness and love of Bro. Burgess and these children was manifest by staying by her bedside through all her sickness until the good angel from the home beyond came to take the weary tired spirit home to a deserved reward. They were joined at home for funeral services by a host of friends, seeming all the town showered their esteem of this good woman and their sympathy with the family by moving slowly and quietly to the cemetery with the bereaved ones where the body was gently laid to await the wakening in the morn of resurrection while loving voices sang appropriate songs. When the mound was finished, the friends covered it with flowers, thus once again expressing a loving memory for sister Burgess and an abiding sympathy for the bereaved. May our good father and husband, children, relations and friends to so live here that at the gate afar, all may find an entrance into the city of god which he holds in everlasting keeping for the faithful. _____ LOCAL News Webb Garner of Hugo, Okla., is visiting relatives and friends in town. __ FRUITHURST News Mr. Julius E. Gilbert of Hurly, South Dakota, arrived here Thursday morning. Mr. Gilbert is a son of Mr. and Mrs. Gustave Gilbert. He stopped over for a visit with them on his way home from an extended tour of the south and Mexico. Mr. Gilbert left again Monday morning by way of Atlanta and Chattanooga ccompanied by Sargent Adolf Saugesrt, U.S.A., now stationed in Texas who has been visiting his uncle and sister of this place. ___ NEWSPAPER Issue of Thursday, June 12, 1913 LOCAL News Charlie Wager and Miss Maybelle Johnson of Atlanta were happily married at the home of the bride on Sunday afternoon at 2:30. Immediately after the ceremony the couple left for Heflin to spend a day or so with the family of G.W. Wager, then returned to their home in Atlanta Monday night. ____ There was a family reunion and dinner at uncle Joe Evans on Sunday. __ EDWARDSVILLE News Mrs. Boblet who has been visiting in Talladega has returned home much improved. __ Edgar Crumpton has gone to Bowdon to work for the summer. __ W.A. Brown and family spent last Sunday in Gadsden visiting Mr. and Mrs. Pope. __ NEWSPAPER issue of Thursday, June 19, 1913 LOCAL News W.G. Milligan of Pensacola, Fla., is spending a few days in town. __ Mrs. Manget and children of Atlanta are spending the week with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. M.D. Robison. __ Spencer Sox was in Randolph Co. last week assisting in the capture of some liquor pots. __ Capt. John Floyd Smith and family are staying at their camping place at Spout Springs, six miles from town. __ Mr. and Mrs. B.S. Dorman of Anniston visited Mrs. J.R. Moore the first of the week. __ Mr. W.T. Prestridge of Hopewell has moved to the historic place of Arbacoochee where he will work at the lumber business. ____ Mrs. Annie Mae Vaughn, Mrs. Tena Franklin and Rev. Geo. Reid left for their home in Naples, Texas on Thursday after a visit here. ___ W.A. Hubbard and daughter Bela will leave next week for Oklahoma and Texas and other points where they will spend a few weeks with relatives. __ The house owned by J.D. and T.I. Landers occupied by Wylie Springer, one mile east of town, was burned by fire Saturday evening, resulting in a complete loss of household goods. The fire started in the roof of the building. ____ NEWSPAPER Issue of Thursday, June 26, 1913 W.A. PORTER LEAVES FOR GETTYSBURG TO ATTEND REUNION W.A. Porter will leave here on next Saturday to attend the reunion of the Blue and the Gray on the battlefield on Gettysburg, to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the great battle there on July 1st to 4th, 1863. He will likely spend several days at Fredericksburg and Richmond on his return and will be away until about July 20th. We have made arrangements with him to furnish brieflets from Gettysburg while there and to write a full account of the great affair when he returns which will be quite interesting for many of the young people. Mr. Porter was in every day of that greatest of all battles of the civil war. ____ IN MEMORIAM OF MRS. J.A. EVANS Margie Ethel, wife of J.A. Evans died March 23, 1913; was born at Merit, Texas March 10, 1891, living there until 1908 then going with her mother to Tucumcari, New Mexico where she made her home until March 23, 1911 when she was married to J.A. Evans of Hugo, Okla., where they made their home until her death. J.A. Evans is an old Cleburne county boy, having spent his entire life in Ala. until 1910, going to Hugo, Oklahoma where he still resides. Mrs. Evans was only sick 10 days having developed a very bad case of small pox. She was conscious until the last moment. About ten minutes before she crossed the river she called her husband, sisters and physician to her and told them good bye. Her husband asked her if her heart was right. She was too weak to speak but looked up and smiled and then passed from this world to a world where there is no more pain or sickness. Mrs. Evans was converted at Merit, Texas when she was 16 years old and joined the Baptist church and lived a christian life as best she knew. Her sister from the family home reached Hugo on Saturday before she died on Sunday. It is so hard to give up our loved ones but one consolation, if we live right and die right we will meet again in a better world. _________ LOCAL News Lee Evans of Hugo, Oklahoma, an old Cleburne boy, has been visiting relatives here several days. __ Alex Rowell is the happiest man in town. He moves around as glib as a boy in his teens. The reason is, he is a grandpa. ___ Born, to Mr. and Mrs. L.O. New on Sunday morning, an 11 pound boy. Grandpa Alex Rowell says he feels as young as he did twenty years ago. __ Ed Hammond and his two beautiful daughters were in town shopping on Wednesday. __ Mr. J. Alta Brown went to Muscadine this week to attend the funeral of his niece, the daughter of his brother Carl Brown. She had been afflicted during all of her life therefore the immediate object of the mother, which fact made the little one all the dearer and harder to give up and the more missed, yet does not our heavenly father know best and the dear one is free from pain and future anxiety. ___ Thos. A. McEachern received the degree of Master Mason last Thursday night. __ FRIENDSHIP News Mrs. Lilly Bowman and Lester Underwood are quite sick at this writing. __ Paul Luckey and Amos Rigsby visited relatives near Carrollton on Saturday and Sunday. __ File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/cleburne/newspapers/newspape360gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 10.7 Kb