Cleburne County AlArchives News.....Newspaper abstracts for FEBRUARY 1915 February 1915 ************************************************ 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 April 7, 2005, 11:57 pm The Cleburne News February 1915 NEWSPAPER ABSTRACTS FROM "THE CLEBURNE NEWS", Heflin, Cleburne County, Alabama for FEBRUARY 1915 NEWSPAPER issue of Thursday, February 4, 1915 LOCAL News Rev. J.H. Howell is spending the week at Blackwell, Georgia assisting in a revival meeting there. __ J.L. Adams and P.E. Lott have opened a new blacksmith shop at the Wade old stand and are prepared to do all kinds of work in their line. ____ COUNTY COURT CASES Sam Smith, colored, unlawfully riding on trains, was fined $10. Zeb and Lem Edwards, assault with attempt to murder, case was continued. Tom Robertson, giving away whiskey, fined $50. Tom Robertson, assault and battery, was fined $10. ______ MR. SAM ADAMS BURIED AT ANNISTON Owing to the wishes of Mrs. Adams, wife of Sam Adams who recently died in Colorado, the funeral and interment was in Anniston instead of Heflin as was first planned. Mr. and Mrs. L.E. Adams wish to thank the many friends for their offer to assist them during the dark hours of sadness caused by the death of their dear brother. ____ MARSHALL OF HEFLIN BADLY BRUISED UP WHILE ATTEMPTING TO MAKE AN ARREST Last Saturday afternoon, Zeb and Lem Edwards, who are reported to have been drinking, approached Policeman Gentry and demanded the release of a negro who had been placed in the city lock up. Mr. Gentry explained to them that he could not release the negro without the consent of the mayor whereupon the Edwards became boisterous and upon Mr. Gentry attempting to arrest them, he was knocked down and badly bruised up so that he has been scarcely able to be out since. Lemon Edwards was arrested but Zeb escaped and then was later arrested. Warrants were sworn out for both Zeb and Lemon Edwards charging them with intent to murder. They made bond and waived before the grand jury. _____ HIGHTOWER News Mrs. J.A. Lindsey is very low at the present writing. __ L.C. Fowler, who sustained severe injuries from falling from a train at Tallapoosa is getting about on crutches. __ Mr. and Mrs. R.E. White are the happy recipients of another blessing, a girl. __ LOCAL News Mr. Pierce Owens has been quite sick for several days past. __ Mrs. A.J. Adams continues very ill at her home in east Heflin. __ Mr. Raleigh Gibbs attended the funeral of Mr. Sam Adams in Anniston on Saturday. __ Miss Eunice Lancaster of Wellington is visiting her aunt, Mrs. W.A. Mays. __ Mrs. J.D. Hudson was called to the bedside of her daughter, Mrs. Melvin Johnson, Friday at Fyffe. __ Born to Mr. and Mrs. B.H. Turner on Monday night, a fine girl. __ Mrs. Sadie Freeman left Saturday for a visit to relatives in Anniston, Birmingham and Laurel, Miss. __ BORDEN SPRINGS News Mr. and Mrs. Anderson Putnam have returned from their honeymoon to their home at Mr. I.F. Putnam's. __ A.G. Hardin of Esom, GA was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Wheeler on Sunday. __ Mr. Collins of Tennessee has moved to Borden Springs to live this year. __ Rev. and Mrs. Mays were called to Anniston on Tuesday on account of Mrs. Mays' brother-in-law, M.W. Screws. one of the policemen who was shot Monday afternoon. ___ NEWSPAPER Issue of Thursday, February 11, 1915 FRUITHURST News Mr. Grady Meadows of Newnan, GA arrived here last Tuesday morning and spent a week visiting with his sisters, Mrs. Walker and Mrs. Reese. He returned home Sunday morning. __ Born to Mr. and Mrs. J.M. Holder on Friday, February 5th, a baby boy. __ Mrs. P.C. Jones is spending the week with her daughter Mrs. Joe Robertson who is quite sick. __ As we go to press, we learn that Mr. W.C. White of Hightower, one of Cleburne's best citizens, is dead. ___ BELL TOWN News Mr. Hudson had the misfortune to get his store burned down Thursday night at Beason's Mill south of here. __ Guy McWhorter, who is working at Starr's saw mill, got his arm badly cut a few days ago but is getting along all right. __ RANBURNE News Mr. Louis Crook and wife of near Graham visited the latter's parents Mr. and Mrs. J.H. Howle on Sunday. __ Mr. M.E. Gibbs has been ill for some time but is improving some. __ LOCAL News Miss Nannie Waldon has been quite ill at her home in south Heflin. __ Mrs. K.C. Davis went up to Atlanta Sunday morning where she will spend some time with her sister Mrs. W.B. Garner. __ F.P. Owens has been confined to his room the past ten days on account of illness. __ Mrs. A.J. Adams was carried to the hospital in Atlanta on Tuesday. __ NEWSPAPER issue of Thursday, February 18, 1915 BORDEN SPRINGS News J.W. Rankins is very ill with lagrippe. __ Mrs. Will Alsabrooks of Birmingham is in our town for a few weeks. __ BELL TOWN News Our good mail carrier, Mr. Henry Campbell, who has been in feeble health for some time seems to be improving. He is taking the mail again. We wish him good health again. __ Mr. George Hurd who has moved back to Randolph, spent last Tuesday night with Mr. J.J. Hanvey. __ DEATH OF MRS. BEDWELL Mrs. J.P. Bedwell, who was living with her daughter Mrs. A.A. Dean, at Stamford, Texas, passed to her reward on the 30th of January last. The remains were taken to Yarnaby, Oklahoma for burial, where her husband was buried several years ago. Mrs. Bedwell was 75 years, 2 months and 27 days of age at the time of her death. She was a member of the Missionary Baptist Church for 56 years, and was a devoted christian lady. She leaves two sons, J.P. and R.L. Bedwell, and three daughters, Mrs. M.B. Dempsey, Mrs. J.B. Crysal and Mrs. A.A. Dean, all of whom were at the bedside of their mother during the last week of her life. Mrs. Bedwell, together with her husband were among the pioneer settlers and were for many years residents of Heflin, where she made many friends who will be grieved to learn of her death, and all join in sympathy of the bereaved in the sad hours of sorrow at the loss of their mother. ____ MRS. ARTHUR VAUGHAN DEAD Mrs. Arthur Vaughan, who had been a sufferer from the dread disease pellagra for the past year, died at the family home in the west part of town last Sunday. Mrs. Vaughan was about 26 years of age and leaves a husband and three small children. The funeral was conducted at the M.E. Church, South, on Monday by Rev. W.A. Mays and the burial was made in the Heflin cemetery. The News extends sympathy to the bereaved in this hour of sadness. ____ CARD OF THANKS We wish to thank the many friends for their kind help and attention during the illness and death of our mother. We will ever remember this timely help with a sense of feeling that we have not words to convey. A friend in need is a friend indeed. May the blessing of heaven be theirs. W.H. Lindsey ____ LETTER FROM G.W. REID, FROM NAPLES, TEXAS Dear Editor of The Cleburne News, Will you allow me a little space in your paper a few dots from an old time Cleburnite? I was born in Cleburne County Nov. 7, 1857 and left there in 1892, so you see that I have been away from home some 23 years, but I have been back several times. I was last there in June 1913. I have a host of relatives and friends in that county whom I dearly love and whom I hope to see again some time and be with them in some more good old time revival meetings. Health is good here. Crops were not very good last year. Cotton did very well but corn was short. Say, Mr. Editor, can you tell me what makes leather goods so high. We know it cannot be for the want of hides since they have taken all the hides off the south. I wish a prosperous year fo the editor and his readers. G.W. Reid ____ MUSCADINE News Herschel Woods has been very dangerously ill for some time. __ LOCAL News Mrs. A.J. Adams who is in a hospital in Altanta is critically ill. __ Mr. C.L. Middlebrooks of Bell Mills took the train here Sunday for South Alabama for a prospecting trip. __ Mr. Bob Robison a former Heflin citizen but now of Carrollton spent Monday night with his brother Mr. Boss Robison. __ Mrs. Hill, who is pleasantly remembered here as Miss Bell Owens, of Tallapoosa, GA, is the guest of her sisters Misses Alice and Minnie Owens this week. __ "Uncle" Wash Cook of Bowdon, GA spent Tuesday night here with his son Mr. V.A. Cook. __ "Uncle" Tom Campbell was on our streets Tuesday in his usual jolly mood. __ PROMINENT CITIZEN AND WIFE BOTH DIE OF PNEUMONIA Last Wednesday night, Mr. W.C. White of Hightower, one of the best known and most highly esteemed citizens of the county, died of pneumonia, after an illness of two weeks. Mrs. White, who was also sick with pneumonia at the time of Mr. White's death, died last Sunday. This is the third death in the family recently from pneunonia, a son having died only a few weeks ago from the same cause. ____ Last Wednesay, at the family home, little Ralph Turner, the three year old son of Mr. and Mrs. J.J. Turner, passed from earth to the further better shore. The funeral was held on Thursday and the burial was at Concord Cemetery. We join with the friends of the bereaved in extending sympathy. ____ NEWSPAPER Issue of Thursday, February 25, 1915 MR. WYATT U. ALMON DIES SUDDENLY, SATURDAY; Was Heflin's Oldest Resident and Pioneer of The Town Last Saturday morning the people of Heflin were shocked and made sad by the report that Mr. W. U. Almon had dropped dead at his home on Oxford street. Mr. Almon had gone to the barn to hitch his horse to the buggy to go to the train to meet his daughter, Mrs. Yeatman, who was expected to arrive from Anniston. He had caught the horse and hitched it to a post preparatory to currying it, and when Mrs. Almon found him, he had the curry crub in his hand. Mr. Almon had answered the summons, his spirit had flown to the further shore and his body had fallen to the ground without a struggle. Mr. Wyatt Uriah Almon was born at Franklin, Heard County, Georgia on April 4, 1846, and therefore would have been 69 years of age April 4th next. He grew to manhood in Heard County. On June 9, 1874 Mr. Almon was married to Miss Mary Longmire at Decatur, Miss. Mr. and Mrs. Almon located to Ashland, Clay County, where he taught school. After teaching for a number of years in Clay county, Mr. and Mrs. Almon came to Cleburne County and located here in 1883 and became pioneers of the town, and Mr. Almon was at the time of his death the oldest resident of the town except Mrs. Almon. Mr. Almon taught here in the early days of the town and it was largely through his influence that a good school house was erected, thus insuring for the future a good school for the town and community. In fact he had always been identified with any and all movements which had been for the upbuilding of the community and county. Mr. Almon was in the mercantile business here for six or eight years during the eighties. From 1890 to 1892 he represented Cleburne county in the House of Representatives at Montgomery. To Mr. and Mrs. Almon were born six children, four sons and two daughters, four of whom are living, one having died in infancy and one after reaching maturity. One son, Willie, lives in Birmingham and the other, Spurgeon, resides in Ashville, N.C. The two daughters are Mrs. John L. Yeatman residing in Anniston and Mrs. L. Cooper residing in Tuscaloosa. Mr. Almon was a member of the Missionary Baptist church and a licensed minister of that denomination, having been ordained in 1873 and had served churches but gave the greater part of his life to teaching as he regarded that field the one in which to accomplish the most and especially for the young people. The funeral sermon was preached by Rev. G.B. Boman on Sunday at 2 p.m. at the M.E. Church, South, to a large audience, and the burial services were conducted by the Masons in their most beautiful and impressive way, Mr. Almon having been a worthy and valued member of the Masonic fraternity. To the life companion and widow, the children and all to whom bereavement has come, we extend sympathy in this hour of sadness. _________ LOCAL News Mr. and Mrs. John L. Yeatman of Anniston were here Sunday to attend the burial of the latter's father. __ Mrs. Rosa Warren, an aged lady who had fell soon after stepping from the train here last Thursday morning and who had to be carried to her home at Cane Creek on a cot after the fall, is reported as not doing so well. ___ Mr. and Mrs. L. Cooper of Tuscaloosa attended the funeral of Mrs. Cooper's father, Mr. W.U. Almon, here on Sunday. ___ Hon. John A. Brown and Mr. W.R. Ford of Bells Mills boarded the train here Monday for Atlanta where Mr. Brown carried Mr. Ford to be advised whether an operation might restore Mr. Ford's sight which was lost by an accident last April. ___ We are sorry to report that Mrs. A.J. Adams is still reported quite sick. __ NOTE FROM W.R. FORD A sad thing occurred to me the 18th day of April 1914. At the fire of a gun the beauties of the world were lost from me. I have been in the dark ever since. How good my friends have been to me, but best of all, Mr. John A. Brown of Bells Mills, with his kindness on the 11th of May took me to Atlanta, GA to an eye specialist and took as good care of me as he would one of his own children, and I believe god will bless such a man. Mr. Brown is going to take me again the 22nd of February for an operation. I desire the prayers of all the christian people that I may see the beauties of this world again. W.R. Ford ______ CARD OF THANKS We wish to thank neighbors and friends for the many acts of kindness and the sympathy and help they so willingly gave during the sad hours that have come to us because of the death of husband and father. May the blessing of the father above be abundantly theirs. Mrs. W. U. Almon and children ______ File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/cleburne/newspapers/newspape386gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 14.5 Kb