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The Cleburne News March 1918
NEWSPAPER ABSTRACTS FROM "THE CLEBURNE NEWS",  Heflin, Cleburne County, 
Alabama for MARCH 1918

NEWSPAPER Issue of Thursday, March 7, 1918

ELEVEN MEN LEAVE FOR CAMP GORDON MARCH 8th

Eleven men have been notified by the local draft board to report Friday 
afternoon at the court house in prepatory to leaving Saturday morning to go to 
training at Camp Gordon.  Those to leave are:

Joe Rome Robinson
Andy J. Bentley
Will Thrower
Wm. Robert Williamson
Theopolis Vaughan
Marion W. Gill
James M. Watson
M.M. Crumpton
Pitchford C. Teague
Armie Marion Parrish
Roy Hood Bell
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SHOEMAKER ASSAULTED AND ROBBED

Charlie Shoemaker was assaulted and rendered unconscious at a camp car here 
last Sunday afternoon about one o'clock by Jesse Barker, a whilte man about 23 
years old. Barker is said to have robbed his victim of $20. and escaped.  
Sheriff Rowell has offered a reward of $15. for Barker's arrest. Barker's 
right eye is out and thumb, first and second fingers on his right hand are 
off. Shoemaker is at the home of Deputy Sheriff McWhorter where he was carried 
Saturday after being assaulted.  His condition is critical.
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LOCAL News

The condition of Mrs. Staples on Thursday morning was changed but little and 
the good lady is still in a critical condition.
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Mrs. Lizzie Brown who has been visiting in Oklahoma for five or six weeks has 
returned home.
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NEWSPAPER issue of Thursday, March 14, 1918

ARVID WEBB, SOLDIER, DIES AT CAMP WHEELER

Arvid Webb, twenty-seven years old, a son of county commissioner J.M. Webb, 
died in the base hospital at Camp Wheeler after an illness of twelve days of 
pneumonia.  Arvid was among the first of the Cleburne boys to be conscripted 
and he left Heflin last September for the training camp at Macon, Georgia.  
His father, who was informed of his son's serious condition, left here for 
Macon last Friday, but death claimed the young man before his arrival at the 
camp, the end coming at an early hour Saturday morning.  The death of the 
young man is deeply deplored by hundreds throughout the county.  The remains 
of the young man were shipped back to Heflin and conveyed to the home of his 
father, where a few short months ago, he bade farewell to answer the call of 
his county, and Sunday afternoon was laid to rest in the cemetery at Bethlehem 
church, the funeral service being conducted by Rev. J.M. Haywood.  The News 
sincerely sympathizes with the bereaved family in their sad loss.
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LOCAL News

Col. Merrill went over to Camp Gordon this week. Says he met several of the 
Cleburne boys and they all seem happy and content.
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John W. Bentley of Tallapoosa and Archie his son of Hamlin, Texas and J.W. 
Bentley of Muscadine were pleasant visitors to The News office on Saturday.
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Our good friend O.J. Dewberry of Tallapoosa sent his his two year subscripton 
to the News.  Mr. Dewberry was once a resident of Heflin and has many good 
friends here.
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CHARLIE GREEN DEAD IN COLLISION

On Monday afternoon of last week, the family of Mr. and Mrs. George Green were 
shocked to receive a telegram from Memphis that their son Charlie, who has 
been firing on a train out of Memphis to some point in Mississippi, was dead 
in a head-on collision.  Melvin and Eva Sewell, brother and sister of 
Charlie's wife, went to Memphis to come back with the body to Tallapoosa. 
Shortly after dark the same day, their daughter Georgia and husband Mr. 
Wommack came from Birmingham with the body of their child that died from 
whooping cough and pneumonia.  The child was buried yesterday.  The Green 
family has lived here for many years and have the sympathy of many friends.   
Chas. A. Pierce, Muscadine, Ala.
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