Cleburne County AlArchives News.....Newspaper Abstracts for AUGUST 1929 August 1929 ************************************************ 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 30, 2005, 2:46 pm The Cleburne News August 1929 NEWSPAPER ABSTRACTS FROM "THE CLEBURNE NEWS", Heflin, Cleburne County, Alabama for AUGUST 1929 NEWSPAPER Issue of Thursday, August 1, 1929 ALBERT NORTON SERIOUSLY HURT Albert Norton, age 31, was injured seriously at about 10 o'clock Saturday night near New Harmony after having been dragged about 30 feet by an automobile driven by Homer Jones, railroad section foreman of Heflin. Jones told The News that he saw a bulky object lying in the road and thinking it a bundle of papers cut the car wheels slightly to straddle the bulk. Not until the auto was almost upon the object did Jones recognize it as a man. He applied both the foot and emergency brakes in order to stop the automobile. It is believed that the crank of the car stuck in Norton's right side ad he was badly gashed and torn. The injured man was carried to an Anniston hospital by F.P. Owens Co. ambulance. Norton received a deep cut in the right side and there were cuts and bruises on both legs, it was reported by the hospital. ___ EDMONDSON BRIDGE Community News Tom Vise visited his brother H.M. Vise on Tuesday. __ Mr. and Mrs. Sylvester Willingham of Columbus visited the former's parents here last week. __ Felton Vise spent last week with his sister, Mrs. Bertha Cavender. __ H.A. Crow, formerly of Cleburne but now of Arp, Texas carried back with him a new Chevrolet. __ LOCAL News T.W. Jackson of Temple, Texas visited his sister Mrs. J.J. Wager last week. He is visiting at Carrollton, Whitesburg and Cedartown and will be present at the Jackson family reunion at Bowdon on Sunday. __ Miles Brown and family and Bob Norton and family of Cane Creek are spending the week with relatives at Leoma, Tennessee. __ Bob Edwards and Lige and John Hogan left Saturday morning for their home in Louisiana after spending several days with Cleburne county relatives. __ Mr. and Mrs. Irvin Edwards, together with Mrs. Lige Edwards, returned last week from Louisville, Miss., where they spent several days with relatives. They saw a number of former Cleburne residents while away. __ HAPPY HILL Community News Mr. and Mrs. Zebadee Hale and Mr. and Mrs. I.V. Hale and children of Phil Campbell have been visiting relatives here. __ Mr. and Mrs. Miles Brown and children are visiting relatives in Tennessee. __ A family reunion was held with Mr. and Mrs. G.R. Hale on Friday. Five children, 26 grandchildren and many other relatives were present. ___ Ai News Wesley Stamps is spending the week with his sister, Mrs. Grady Gaines. __ Leonard Kerr spent the weekend with his sisters, Mrs. Sam Edwards and Ida Edwards. __ JULY MARRIAGES Homer Markman and Effie Lee Elkins Bob McCurdy and Mildred King Ernest Dodson and Minnie Bell Phillips Fred Moore and Estella Addison T.W. Austin and Eunice Argo L.A. Smith and Blanche Almon Luther Reynolds and Virgil Hardon R.W. Sabin and Nancy Hurst Hugh C. Woodard and Inez Rooks Ernest Morris and Agnes Vera Palmer Samuel Sherill and Wedell Johnson John C. Howle and Margie Vise Blake Kelley and Irene Jackson R.F. Teague and Mrs. Viora Cook Otis Berry and Cleo Smith Wm. S. Sisk and Gardie Mae Sidney Eugene Davis and Ethel Mae Staton Forest Hale and Bonzie Wooten Horace Cole and Julia Bell Parker W.H. Garrett Jr. and Nannie Lee Miller Emory Woodard and Izora Creel ____ NEWSPAPER issue of Thursday, August 8, 1929 FRUITHURST News Several from here attended the funeral of Mr. Gus Pollard on Saturday afternoon. __ CUPID BUSY The following couples were married on Sunday by Judge A.H. Glasgow Elbert Loveless and Rubie Lambert Walker V. Bailey and Ruby Myrtice Brown Edmond Maxwell and Lilla Baughan ___ CRUMPTON RITES HELD SUNDAY Anniston, Ala., Aug. 5th Funeral services for William T. Crumpton, age 35, who died in the United States Veterans Hospital at Osteen, N.C. on Saturday, were held from DeArmanville Methodist church Sunday afternoon at 4 o'clock, Rev. L.S. Wessinger of Heflin officiating. Interment was in DeArmanville cemetery. Surviving Mr. Crumpton are his widow, two sons, Don and Otto of Anniston; three sisters, Mrs. Dave Young, Mrs. Lucie Cummings and Mrs. Mattie Suggs, all of Texas; and three brothers, D. Crumpton of Delta; Dick and Willie Crumpton of Texas. Pall bearers were F.M. Pitts, W.J. White, B.L. Statham, Roy Duncan, J.O. Weir and Otto Barnett. ___ GOOSE NECK News Russell Cofield will leave this week for Texas. He expects to remain there. __ Ed Hammond who suffered a knee injury a few weeks ago is on the road to recovery. __ EDWARDSVILLE News Mrs. Ethel Bell is visiting her mother Mrs. Elsie Entrekin in Tallapoosa. __ Lois Coleman visited her sister Mrs. Perlie Stanley in Blue Mountain last week. __ Mrs. Berta Reese and children went to Atlanta Sunday where they will spend several days with her daughter Mrs. Pat Patilla. They will go from there to Tampa, Florida where they will make their future home. ___ T.H. Zimmerman and Edward Owen went to Quitman, Texas where they will spend several weeks with relatives. __ BENEFIELD - VANCE Marriage Of interest to their many friends is the marriage of Miss Erthel Benefield and Mr. J. Herman Vance which was solemnized Tuesday evening at six o'clock, Judge A.H. Glasgow officiating. The bride is the accomplished and only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R.W. Benefield of Plainview and the granddaughter of Mr. and Mrs. J.W. Couch of Macedonia. Mr. Vance is the eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. T.E. Vance of East Point, Georgia. He is a popular young businessman and has been connected with the Oakland Pontiac automobile division in Pontiac, Michigan, for the past four years, where they will make their future home after a two months' stay here. ___ LOCAL News Mr. and Mrs. C.C. Thompson of Atlanta, Cass county, Texas arrived in Heflin early Tuesday morning to visit the former's parents, Mr. and Mrs. J.W. Thompson in south Cleburne. __ Mr. and Mrs. Geo. W. Thrower and two sons, accompanied by Forney H. Thrower of Chulafinnee spent Saturday and Sunday on Sand Mountain. __ NEWSPAPER Issue of Thursday, August 15, 1929 BACK FOR VISIT AFTER 18 YEARS After an absence in Oklahoma for 18 years, J.A. Blake is visiting relatives and friends in Cleburne, the scene of his boyhood days. Mr. Blake, a brother of Mitchell Blake, left Cleburne county eighteen years ago to seek his fortune in a "new country" and is said to have accumulated quite a lot of good property and is living on the "shady side of easy street". Mr. Blake said that with favorable weather conditions he would harvest 200 bales of cotton this year. His home is at Elmer, Oklahoma. ____ MAKES DONATION TO CHURCH Mrs. M.R. Bell (Aunt Palina), mother of Walter J. Bell, before her death several years ago donated the land where Pine Grove church stands, and also that of the cemetery, some three acres. For some sixty years or more Aunt Palina was a member of the church there and through her kindness and love for the cause of religion she made the gift. Mr. Walter Bell has had the deed duly recorded in the probate judge's office. Rock markers will be set up showing corners of the church and cemetery property, Mr. Bell said on Tuesday. ___ BELL MILLS News Mrs. J.J. Williams of Boaz spent last week with her daughter Mrs. John Davis. __ LOCAL News Mrs. B.H. Buchanan and two daughters Misses Nora and Esther of Ranburne, returned from Blount county the first of the week where they enjoyed a four day visit with relatives and friends. ___ Mr. and Mrs. C.M. Elliott Sr. of Moundsville spent the weekend with Mr. and Mrs. C.M. Elliott Jr. __ Friends of Mr. and Mrs. J.M. Crumpton will regret to learn that Hugh, their little 7 year old son, is confined to his bed, threatened with fever. Mrs. Crumpton, too, is reported ill in bed. __ Mrs. Effie Martin has returned to her home in Oxford after a visit here. __ William L. Hilton of Ruston, Louisiana, son of the late Jim Hilton, is expected to arrive here soon. __ Miss Louise Hogan WRITES OF TRIP TO CLEBURNE (From Louisiana) To Editor of the Cleburne News, Thursday, July 19th, my father W.E. Hogan, two cousins, R.N. Edwards and J.W. Hogan and a neighbor, G.W. Gillum and I left Choudrant, Louisiana for Alabama. We took our time in driving for this was to be a pleasure trip. At nine o'clock we were in Mississippi, laughing and joking and noting the points of interest. Night found us in York, Alabama. Here we decided to stay until morning, congratulating ourselves on having no car trouble and nothing to "grumble" about. Except a few miles of rough roads over which we drove in a downpour of rain. We accepted this misfortune as part of the trip and said it would cause us to appreciate the good roads more fully. Next morning we were to resume our journey by way of Birmingham. After we had driven about one hundred miles we could see mountains in the distance, then the road began to wind around the hills and as I gazed first at the huge rocks on the hillside above and next into the valley below my head became dizzy and I almost lost control of the car. At Birmingham Mr. Gillum took a route southeast, as he had relatives near Kellyton, the rest of the party traveling on toward Heflin, and had no trouble until we game to the winding rough road from Anniston to the Cleburne county line. I was not accustomed to the road and made slow progress; but at eight o'clock, our party of four, tired, dirty and sleepy people, drove up to the Jackson Hotel. I had about concluded that if all of Cleburne roads were as bad as the one we traveled before reaching Heflin, I was ready to leave for home when daylight came. I enjoyed a night's rest and felt very much refreshed in the morning, so we began to call on the old friends of my father and his cousins. The first home that we visited was that of Sheriff Rowell and I made another decision; one entirely different from the one of the night before; I thought that if everyone in Cleburne county were as friendly and entertaining as the Rowells, I would be content to stay even longer than we had planned. We called on several old acquaintances and in the afternoon, we visited Cane Creek church, the one attended by myf ather and his two companions in their childhood days. Our next stop was at Edwardsville, going through the old hotel, known as the Cleburne Hotel at one time, owned by my grandfather I.D. Hogan, many years ago. It has been vacant for some time and is dilapidated both inside and out. Father showed me the old ball room and the one occupied by my grandmother in the olden days. The place of most interest to me, though was fathers "retreat" when he was a child. He said that when he had committed a "crime" in the eyes of grandmother, knowing that she would use the rod unspairingly, he 'retired' to this secluded spot and stayed until grandmother was busily engaged in her household work. We spent a week among the people in Cleburne county; with some we spent the night, with others we took dinner and with some we only stayed a few minutes as our time was limited. I hardly think that we could have been treated nicer or had a more pleasant time anywhere else. I met many people and learned that all of them were just as hospitable as the first whom we visited. When I again decide to make a trip, I will know where to go for an enjoyable time. Saturday morning we turned our faces toward home and as we motored along we discussed our visit and remarked that we had never eaten so much fried chicken in one week before; after we had gone fifty miles two of the party suggested that we go back to Heflin and spend another week. At Vicksburg, Miss., we stopped at the national park cemetery and spent some time looking over the old battlefield. At six o'clock Sunday afternoon we drove into Choudrant with record of no accidents and no car trouble and we were eager to relate the events of our trip to all who were interested. Miss Louise Hogan, Choudrant, La. _____ NEWSPAPER Issue of Thursday, August 22, 1929 RITES FOR MRS. BOMAN HELD AT BOWDON ON SUNDAY Funeral and burial services for Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Boman, beloved wife of Rev. G.B. Boman, were held in Bowdon on Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock, the Methodist Church being filled to capacity with friends, many of whom had driven many miles to pay their last tribute to one they had learned to love. She was born January 12, 1865 in Hall County, Georgia and was married to Rev. G.B. Boman September 14, 1882 and besides her husband, is survived by the following children: Mrs. Pauline Hackney of Cedartown, Georgia John H. Boman of Milwaukie, Wisconsin J.O. Boman of Orlando, Florida Dr. T.W. Boman of Laurel, Mississippi Mrs. Pearl Morris of Heflin, Alabama Spurgeon, Miss Mary and Clyde Boman of Bowdon, Georgia The brothers and sisters are: J.W. Morris of Heflin, Alabama Mrs. Evie McEachern of Texas Tom Morris of Stilesboro, Georgia John Morris of Emerson, Georgia Mrs. Mindy Hallums of East Point, Georgia Mrs. Carrie Ervin of Rome, Georgia G.R. Morris of Cedartown, Georgia Mrs. Louetta Bell of Birmingham, Alabama A good woman, wife, mother and friend is dead. Th heartbreaking weight of woe behind these simple words can be realized in full only by those to whom it has a personal meaning. At a time like this words become meaningless to express the deep emotions of sympathy and sorrow that flow from the hearts of the hundreds of friends of Bro. Boman and family. But those same emotions are not meaningless and such balm as there is in fraternal love, in sincere friendship, in community of feeling which makes the misfortune of one the sorrow of all, goes out to the stricken ones. We rejoice, however, that love and memory are subject to no limitations of space, not even the gulf between time and eternity. Loved ones can take comfort in the assurance that it is well with wife and mother. Mrs. Boman was known and loved not only here in Heflin where she resided for several years but throughout the county. In Bowdon she won the love of the entire community as was clearly shown by the beautiful floral offerings contributed by friends. Beautiful tributes to the memory of this splendid christian woman were paid by Dr. Warren Cutts, pastor of the Baptist Tabernacle of Carrollton and Rev. John W. Grubbs, a life long friend of the family. Appropriate music was rendered the the local choir. About four weeks ago Mrs. Boman was taken critically ill at the family home in Bowdon and was immediately removed to an Atlanta hospital where she underwent an operation, soon to be followed by a second that proved too much for her frail condition, death coming to end her suffering Friday morning at 10 o'clock. The Cleburne News with hundreds throughout Cleburne and adjoining counties offer sincere sympathy to the bereaved family in their great loss. Pall bearers were the sons, John, Owen and Tom, son-in-law J. Houston Morris; Dr. Will Barrett and Paul Morris, nephews. ___ EDWARDSVILLE News Mr. and Mrs. J.H. Bell and daughters Lillian and Vela and Mrs. Ellen Bell left Sunday for Oklahoma; they will also visit in Texas. __ BORDEN SPRINGS News Jim Cooley and son Will of Mexia, Texas visited relatives here the latter part of the week. __ Mr. and Mrs. Bill Gray of Chattanooga, Tennessee are visiting relatives here. __ ENJOYS VISIT AND WATERMELON CUTTING Sunday afternoon, I, with my friends, visited Mr. and Mrs. John Bell at their home just across the river from Howle and Turner and found them eating watermelons and of course we were all soon in line. Mr. Bell, who owns and operates a 7 horse farm, was soon walking me over the plantation among the towering corn, then into a cotton field extending over a large area from waist to shoulder high, now and then stumbling upon a big melon. I asked Mr. Bell how he managed to cultivate so much; he said he prepared all his land with a tractor, except nooks and corners where the tractor could not be operated, never lanting a piece of land until he had it fixed as he wanted it, than it was always in condition for cultivating. Said he had all the modern machinery he wanted. I found that Mr. Bell does not only superintend this farm but he makes a regular hand, notwithstanding, he has accumulated enough of this world's goods to "go through on" and live on the easy side of life. As we approached a melon patch near the river, with the ground literally covered with the juicy fruit, he spoke of the "old swimming hole". I was convinced that John was a great sport; finally we returned to the house and loaded his Buick with the children and to the swimming hole we went, and such a time! Then back to the house and we ate and ate melons for an hour, and my car being loaded with a number of fine melons, we bade our friends good by, promising to call again. W.C. McMahan ___ LOCAL News Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Ballenger and daughter Dorothy J. have returned from a visit to Mrs. Ballenger's parents, Mr. and Mrs. S.W. Fenell at Wardsworth, Ala. __ NEWSPAPER issue of Thursday, August 29, 1929 HOME FROM LOUISIANA VISIT Mr. and Mrs. H.L. Norton returned Sunday morning from a pleasant trip with relatives and friends in Louisiana. Henry declares that the "old Alabama" boys out there showed him one of the best times he ever experienced. He visited at Choudrant, Ruston and Munroe, being joined at Munroe by sevel of the "Paul Jones" boys who accompanied a party 40 miles south of that city. Mr. and Mrs. Norton declare they never enjoyed a trip more. ___ GOOSE NECK News E.T. Hammond is visiting his brother in Cullman County. __ Mrs. Ella Winham and granddaughter visited Mrs. A.W. Lee Saturday evening. __ Mrs. Jim Thompson is visiting her daughter Mrs. Henry Morrow at Roopville, Georgia. __ LOCAL News John Rooks returned to his home at Dolomite after spending several days with Cleburne relatives. __ On Sunday, Aug. 25th, N.E. Holley of Fruithurst was made happy when his children and grandchildren, numbering 44, and 14 of his neighbors gathered for his seventy-eighth birthday anniversary dinner. The occasion was thoroughly enjoyed. ___ File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/cleburne/newspapers/newspape526gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 18.9 Kb