Cleburne County AlArchives News.....newspaper abstracts for SEPT 1921 September 1921 ************************************************ 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 May 7, 2005, 11:33 pm The Cleburne News September 1921 NEWSPAPER ABSTRACTS FROM "THE CLEBURNE NEWS", Heflin, Cleburne County, Alabama for SEPTEMBER 1921 NEWSPAPER issue of Thursday, September 8, 1921 FRUITHURST News Mr. Isaac Holder and children of Douglasville, Georgia have been visting Mr. and Mrs. J.P. Carnes, Mrs. Holder's parents. ___ Mrs. S.E. Moore has returned from Cullman where she spent some time with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Laminack. __ Mr. Brooks of Atlanta is visiting Mrs. Hardy this week. He is Mrs. Hardy's son- in-law. __ LOCAL News Neal Sutton and wife of Rome, Georgia are the guests of Mrs. Sutton's sister Mrs. D.D. Perryman. __ The News is in receipt of a letter from Sylvester Hall who is stationed at Alexandria, LA with the American Red Cross. Hot over there, Sylvester writes. ___ IN MEMORY OF MRS. LAURENE MCCAGHREN The Great Jehovah, who doeth all things well, on August 19, 1921, looked down from his throne and saw the suffering body of Mrs. Laurene McCaghren, beloved wife of Mr. J.H. McCaghren and said "it is enough" and with his great power called the life from the body to come higher wherer it would be free from all pain and sorrow and where all tears are wiped away, there to take up its abode in that mansion her lord said he had prepared for his own, and to be with that great heavenly host on through eternal ages. Mrs. McCaghren professed her faith in the lord about the age of 18 and joined the Methodist church and lived a consecrated christian until her death. She leaves a devoted husband and seven sweet little children and a host of friends to mourn her death. She told her neighbors that she was ready to go and meet her lord. Dear husband and children, weep not as those who have no hope; we shall meet again in the bye and bye, some sweet day. "It was hard to see her suffer, broke our hearts to see her die, But she's now around the angels, in that home beyond the sky. Good bye our dearest mother, but we cannot say farewell, For we trust our loving saviour who we k now doeth all things well." Her body was laid to rest in the Harmony cemetery on August 20th, the funeral services being conducted by Revs. R.L. Skinner and W.M. Barr. Mrs. McCaghren was 42 years of age. R.L. Skinner ______ NEWSPAPER Issue of Thursday, September 22, 1921 JOHN LAMINACK KILLED BY MCCOY John Laminack, about nineteen years old, was shot and instantly killed at Muscadine between nine and nine thirty o'clock on Wednesday night by Jim McCoy, age about sixty-five years old. The killing occurred in a store where McCoy and a daughter were doing some shopping. It is said that Laminack and a daughter of Mr. McCoy were engaged and were to be married today, Thursday. McCoy was detained by the citizens at Muscadine until Sheriff Adams could be notified and come fo rthe accused who was brought to Heflin and placed in jail. ____ NEWSPAPER Issue of Thursday, September 29, 1921 ARGONNE HERO BURIED SUNDAY The remains of Joseph Irvin Ayres, who was killed in action in France, in the battle of the Argonne Forest, October 15, 1918, arrived in Heflin last Friday night and was carried to the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Pat J. Ayres near Dothard's Mill. The burial occurred on Sunday, September 25, 1921 at Hepsabah, the funeral services being in charge of Rev. J.W. Grubbs, who made a splendid talk. Hymns were rendered by Misses Mollie and Delia Morris, Pearl Boman, Messrs. H.F. Morris, H.D. Landers and others. Cleburne Post, American Legion and Chulafinnee Woodmen of the World (W.O.W.) conducted the burial services. Capt. Earl Jones made an impressive talk at the grave after which the Woodman took care of and conducted the burial service. " Live nobly as they died, Toiling for truth denied, Loyal to something bigger than we are, Something that swings the spirit to a star." Irvin was a member of Co. B, 326th Infantry, 82nd Division and fell near the Aire River, October 15, 1918 during the fiercest fighting in the Argonne offensive, in which more than 1,200,000 American soldiers, the flower of the army, were hurled Kaiser ward, with a determination that nothing but death could stop, and did not stop until the Germans were defeated and the Armistice signed. Men of the 326th infantry and other units of the 82nd division fell at times as rapidly as the watch ticked off the seconds. Offensives were waged often in the black of night when it seemed as though they were plunging forward in the teeth of a terrific electric tornado, the streaks of fire, and flying shrapnel as a vertiable spray of molten lava thrown from the bowels of a maddened volcano, puncturing the blackness with a rain of red that was as merciless as the fire of hell; but the men of the 82nd kept going, their blood reddening the valley streams but killing and capturing the enemy as they plunged forward to victory or death, Irvin to the latter. "They sleep, they took the chance, in Italy, in Belgium, in France. For us they gave their youth to the last breath, For us they plunged on into the gulf of death." _______ HIGHTOWER News J.E. Walker, who has been suffering with typhoid fever, is much better. __ Mrs. W.J. Fowler spent the weekend with her son Fred at Mt. Zion. __ LOCAL News The body of Adair Harper has arrived in Heflin from France and is in charge of the local Post, American Legion. Burial services will be held at Chulafinnee on Sunday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock. All ex-service men are urged to wear full uniform, including helmet. E.P. Dodson, Post Commander, C.L. Wager, Post Adjutant ____ ARBACOOCHEE News F.M. Price has been on the sick list for several months. __ Mr. John Henry Craft and MIss Marietta Dennis were joined together in matrimony on Sunday, J.A. Loveless, Esq. performing the ceremony. ___ MCCOY TO BE GIVEN PRELIMINARY HEARING J.H.McCoy, 72, alleged to have shot and killed John Laminack at Muscadine last week, will be given a preliminary hearing before Judge D.S. Baber today and his bond will be fixed at from five to ten thousand dollars, it is rumored. Solicitor Joe C. Nichols will represent the state and Merrill & Jones will represent the defendant. Mr. McCoy who is 72 years old has been quite sick since being in jail. ____ FRUITHURST News Cicero and Robert King of Texas are visiting their father, Mr. T.C. King, who resides a couple of miles from town. __ File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/cleburne/newspapers/newspape471gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 7.0 Kb