Cleburne County AlArchives News.....Newspaper Abstracts for MARCH 1928 March 1928 ************************************************ 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 21, 2005, 9:47 pm The Cleburne News March 1928 NEWSPAPER ABSTRACTS FROM "THE CLEBURNE NEWS", Heflin, Cleburne County, Alabama for MARCH 1928 NEWSPAPER issue of Thursday, March 15, 1928 FORMER CITIZEN DIES IN GEORGIA LAST FRIDAY Garry Grice, age 72, a former citizen of Edwardsville, this county, was found dead in bed at his home near Roopville, Georgia early Friday morning, having died during Thursday night. Mr. Grice had been a resident of Edwardsville for more than 30 years and was the first rural mail carrier out of that place when this service was established several years ago. He moved to Georgia about two years ago and was engaged in farming, owning a large plantation in Carroll County. Mr. Grice was a Master Mason and Grotto and is said to have carried several thousand dollars insurance with fraternal orders and old line companies. Surviving are his wife and one brother, A.G. Grice of 1105 Boulevard Drive, Atlanta; nephews, Floyd Coggin of Heflin, Ala., and Ray Coggin of Riverside, besides other relatives. Interment was in the family burying ground near Roopville on Sunday afternoon. ___ U.S. VETERAN HOSPITAL PRAISED To Editor of the Cleburne News, I returned recently from the U.S. Veterans Hospital No. 88 in Memphis, Tennessee and I know there are lots of ex-soldier boys who need hospital treatment but fear to take it, believing they will not be treated nice when in the hospital. Boys, I will say a few words in regard to old 88; it is a fine hospital and nice as one as there is in the south and they have the best of surgeons and physicians to be found anywhere and their ages range from 45 to 60 and went through the World War with us. My advice to former soldiers in need of hospital treatment is to not hesitate in going to No. 88. You will be treated there just as kindly as if you were at home. Jesse Otwell, Bowdon, GA, Rt. 4 ____ LAST RITES FOR J. BENJAMIN COOK LAST MONDAY The funeral services for J. Ben Cook, 34, who died Sunday morning at his home near Nelms bridge, were held at New Harmony on Monday, the Rev. J.W. Grubbs officiating. Interment was made in the church cemetery. Impressive ceremonies were conducted by the Beasons Mill Odd Fellows. Mr. Cook was sick only a short time, stricken March 2nd while attending the district Odd Fellows Convention in Anniston. He returned to his home before the session adjourned on account of being sick. His condition grew rapidly worse, pneumonia having developed, and he passed from this life early Sunday morning. Mr. Cook was a member of New Harmony Baptist church moving his membershop from Cedar Creek Church. Pallbearers were Virgil Vise, Henry Thompson, E.W. Beason, Tom Lawler, W.B. Dennis and Roy Howle. Surviving are his widow, five children, his mother, two brothers, Rollin Cook of Manchester, Georgia and Orlin Cook of Phoenix City, Alabama. The Cleburne News extends sympathy to the bereaved ones. ___ CROSS ROADS News Mr. and Mrs. David Hamrick and family of Cullman visited relatives here last week. __ Mrs. Roberts of Sand Mountain is visiting her daughter Mrs. Oley Perry. __ Hubert Walton of Tallapoosa visited here last Wednesday. __ Emerson and Elbert Perry visited spent last week with relatives on Sand Mountain. __ GEORGE VOSS IS KILLED BY TRAIN George Voss, age 36, died in an Atlanta hospital early last Wednesday morning, following injuries received Tuesday night when struck by Southern passenger train No. 26. Both of his arms and both legs were said to have been broken as were several ribs and his skull fractured. Voss, who was to board the train for Muscadine, is said to have stepped in front of the engine as it slowed down for the station, thinking perhaps that passengers boarded the train on the opposite side of the tracks from the station. It is said that the engineer saw the unfortunate man on the tracks and did everything within his power to bring his engine to a stop but to no avail. The injured man was placed aboard the train and carried to Atlanta where he succumbed at 5 a.m. Wednesday and the body returned to Fruithurst that night. Mr. Voss was single and a Veteran of the World War. He was well known in this section of the county. Mr. Voss was born Feb 3, 1892, three miles from Muscadine, where he grew to manhood. He was one of 14 children of Mr. and Mrs. M.P. Voss. Surviving are four sisters and four brothers. He served 14 months in France in the World War and reenlisted for one year after the Armistice. Funeral services were conducted Thursday at Lebanon, with the Rev. A.T. Warmack in charge. Burial was made in the church cemetery. ____ LOCAL News Mrs. McIntyre who has been visiting her sister Miss Louise Jones, left Wednesday morning for her home in Texas. __ F. M. White, who is in the hospital at Anniston, will be removed to his home in Lecta by Friday, it is said. __ Mr. and Mrs. J.T. Connell and son Jimmy of Blue Mountain spent the weekend with relatives near Edwardsville. __ APPLICATION FOR PAROLE After the expiration of 2 weeks, application will be made to the Governor and Pardoning Board of Alabama for the parole of Albert James who was on the 28th day of Sept. 1927, sentenced to the penitentiary for the term of 1 year on a charge of making whiskey. J.H. James ___ CIRCUIT COURT CASES Paul Merrill, distilling, mistrial Hoyt Hyatt, distilling, two and half year sentence, appealed Bud Gann, distilling, two and half year sentence, appealed Joe Gann, distilling, 18 months sentence, appealed Ernest Chandler, distilling, case continued Warren and Eula Porter, distilling, 2 years sentence for Warren, 1 year for Eula Bud Messer, distilling, case continued Luther Pointer, violating prohibition law, nol prossed George Smith, distilling, one year sentence Ada Porter and Luther Pointer, distilling, one year sentence Jim Owen, distilling, nol prossed Robt. Henson, violating prohibition law, $100. fine and 6 months hard labor Lemon Edwards, distilling, two and one half year sentence Jess Miller, distilling, continued Rawley Pledger, distilling, continued ____ LOCAL News Mrs. J.A. Newell of Abernathy is recovering from an operation she underwent in an Anniston hospital Thursday of last week. __ NEWSPAPER issue of Thursday, March 22, 1928 W.C. WHITMAN DIED FRIDAY W.C. (Lum) Whitman, age 42, died last Friday at his home in the Redlands, after an illness of about five weeks. A carbuncle was attributed as the cause of his death. The funeral and burial services took place at Hurricane church on Saturday, the Rev. Minus Gann being in charge. Mr. Whitman is survived by his widow, children, brothers, sisters and other relatives. ___ FORMER CLEBURNE WOMAN PASSES AT TALLAPOOSA HOME Mrs. Fannie Chieves, wife of T.S. Chieves, died at her home in Tallapoosa on Friday night, March 16th of pneumonia. She was born and raised at Muscadine and had been a member of the M.E. church at that place for more than 20 years. She was 66 years old and had been a resident of Muscadine until about 15 years ago when the family moved to Tallapoosa. Surviving are the husband and nine children: Homer, Everett and Frank Chieves; Mrs. Lois Albright of Birmingham; Mrs. Maude Jones and Lebus Chieves of Alabama City; Maggie Chieves of Tallapoosa; and Guy Chieves of the U.S. Navy, now stationed in Cuba. Funeral services were conducted by Rev. O.N. Todd of the Pentacostal church, Tallapoosa, a large number of relatives and friends being present. ____ EARLY GARDENER The News thanks Rev. Terrell for a nice bunch of shellots give us last week. Rev. Terrell is noted for his garden activites, being among the first to gather vegetables in the spring from his garden. ___ MRS. ALLEN PASSES Mrs. J.N.T. Allen passed away at her home early Wednesday morning of last week. She was one of the best beloved women of this community. She had attained the age of 64 years and 24 days when the brittle thread of life was cut. She had been confined to her bed for the last four months but all know that she is at rest now, where there is no more suffering and all tears are wiped away. She joined the Missionary Baptist church at the early age of 14. She is survived by her husband, Uncle Joe Allen, one son, Virgil of Oak Level; two daughters, Mrs. T.B. Gray of Oak Level and Mrs. Lovella Lankford of Palm Beach, Florida. Interment took place in the Oak Level cemetery on Thursday morning of last week, Rev. Warmack officiating. ____ HARP SINGING By request of A.J. McLendon of Hopewell, there will be a Sacred Harp singing at his home the fourth Sunday, March 25th, in honor of his 70th birthday. The News predicts that scores of Uncle A.J.'s relatives and friends will be present. ___ LOCAL News Rev. J.W. Grubbs returned Tuesday from DeKalb county where he visited his brother H.C.A. Grubbs who has beein in failing health for some time. __ J.W. Warren and children Vernon and Effie returned Thursday to their home at Dutton after spending a few days with relatives on Cane Creek and in Heflin. __ Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Coggin have moved into their new bungalow, "Breezy Heights" on Bankhead Highway west of town. __ IN APPRECIATION AND MEMORY OF MRS. L.T.J. McMURRAY (1828 - 1928) Death comes to all, yet with personalities such as that of Mrs. McMurray the transition is hard to accept. She loved life and found it good. In spite of her ninety years she maintained an interest in her friends as well as in her large family connection. Her visits here were always an occasion for pleasureable mingling with old friends. It was noticeable the perfect at- homeness she felt in the family of her son, H.A. McMurray. Her devotion to her son was not exceeded by the admiration and love she felt for his wife. The relationship was ideal and beautiful. In the passing of Mrs. McMurray, Randolph County loses one of its noble types of womanhood. She not only appeared to believe in god but one felt she walked with god, yea, talked with god. The violence of nature fills us with awe but the calm that folows comforts us; so in the life of our friend the long years of experience in rearing a large family had problems but in solving of those issues a great peace seemed to have come to her. And peace is obtained only through merit; it is a baptismal of the spirit by the father. It was for peace that the master came to comfort a troubled world; the nearest approach we have to the christ-love is the mother love. In childhood we turn to her with our wounded feelings, just as in maturer years we turn to him who never denies us an audience. The stamp of her image on our memories is so deeply engraven that it can never be erased. Mrs. McMurray belonged to the type of womanhood now fast becoming obsolete. Her years of greatest activity came before the modern trend for women had crystalized. In her period the home and the church constituted the life activites of mothers. Times were different. Social life at the time of her young ladyhood was as full of spirit as it is today but markedly different in contrast. The home of her father, the late Mitchell Gay, was one of bounty and hospitality. In lower Randolph, the Gays, Heflins, Towles and other families of outstanding prominence in the early struggle of the county were accustomed to meet yearly at Old Corn House Camp Ground where they met the other early representative families of the county and state. I recall one such meeting in my childhood. The tents, and camp houses were scenes of social life after the services were over. Always the evening was enjoyable and hospitality was at high peak. Old families kept open house. This same spirit of life obtained in the life of Mrs. McMurray as long as she kept her home open. In the passing of these queenly types many things are suggested to my mind. Every step onward, every decided change in our lives, compels us to leave behind something dear to us. Modern women have, as they are prone to think, every point of vantage over their mothers, but sometimes I am brought to question the ways of our times. When we look upon a race radiant with peace that passeth understanding we are made to think on the fullness of life. Such a countenence was Mrs. McMurray's. She sought the good, forgetting what the world terms evil; she recognized the goodness in all; thus interpreting the fuller meaning of charity and love for mankind. Her ninety years had taught her many lessons in life; these she lived quiety and without ostentation. Through the ages lessons have come down to us. The Greeks taught that we must know ourselves; the Romans that we must control ourselve, but god taught that we must give ourselves. The last incorporates the other two and is an attribute clearly defined in the life of our friend. The mother of a large family of sons and daughters whose privilege it will be to carry on the high ideals maintained by her. She was preceded to the beyond by her husband, the late W.F. McMurray by some 14 years. Besides her children, she leaves a goodly number of grandchildren and great grandchildren to call her blessed. Written by Hattie Perryman, Heflin, Ala. ____ NEWSPAPER Issue of Thursday, March 29, 1928 A.W. LEE CALLED TO THE BEYOND The funeral for Arthur W. Lee, 53 years old, who died Thursday at his home in Gooseneck Valley, was held Friday at Cedar Creek Baptist church, with the Rev. F.M. Zaner in charge. Interment was made in the church cemetery. Mr. Lee was widely known in Heflin and surrounding territory. He had been seriously sick for about two months, suffering with asthma and his death was a shock to his family and friends. Mr. Lee was a member of the Missionary Baptist church and was a Spanish-American War veteran. Surviving are the widow, Mrs. Mary Lee, daughters Mrs. Rebecca Smith, Misses Alice and Lois Lee; sons, Woodson, Earl, Lowell adn Hilton Lee. ____ FORMER CITIZEN DIED SATURDAY John T. Connell, age 72, died Saturday night at his home in Blue Mountain, where he and his family lived for the past 14 months, moving there from the Harmony Grove section of Cleburne County. Mr. Connell had been in declining health for some time. Death came suddenly last Saturday night, just after he had eaten supper, according to word received here. He was a member of the Baptist church. The body was brought to Ai on Sunday where the funeral and burial services were held, the Rev. J.H. Darden of Blue Mountain officiating. Surviving are the widow, four sons, Homer and Noah of Cleburne County; W.D. of Birmingham and Jimmie of Blue Mountain; daughters, Mrs. J.M. Gaines of Ai; Mrs. G.W. Phillips of Oxford; Misses Ola, Myrtle and Bertha Connell of Blue Mountain. ___ CROSS ROADS News Miss Martha Nelson spent last week with her sister Mrs. Albert Zimmerman at Oak Level. __ FORMER CITIZEN DIES IN TEXAS Word has been received in Heflin of the death of Rev. Hanibal Allen, the end coming to the aged minister at his home near Meridian, Texas on Friday of last week, according to information received from his daughter, Mrs. J.G. Jones of this place. During his citizenship in Cleburne county, Rev. Allen was recognized as among the leading Baptist ministers of the state and was popular with all denominations. Mr. Allen had reached the advanced age of 86 years and is survived by his wife who is three years his senior, and five children. The Cleburne News extends sympathy to the wife and children. ___ LOCAL News C.A. Winham returned last week from Birmingham where he spent several days with his brother, W.A. (Bill) Winham who has been seriously ill with pneumonia. Charlie reported that Bill was on the road to recovery. __ John H. Campbell of Mongtomery is spending the week with his parents Rev. and Mrs. W.J. Campbell at Belltown. __ File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/cleburne/newspapers/newspape509gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 16.5 Kb