Randolph County AlArchives News.....Newspaper abstracts for FEB 1925 February 1925 ************************************************ 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: C. Teal Gravelle tealtree@comcast.net June 3, 2006, 9:01 pm The Roanoke Leader February 1925 NEWSPAPER ABSTRACTS FROM "THE ROANOKE LEADER", Roanoke, Randolph County, Alabama for FEBRUARY 1925 NEWSPAPER Issue of Wednesday, February 4, 1925 MR. R.T. YARBROUGH AND MISS M.B. GROSS MARRIED R.T. Yarbrough and Miss Mary Bertha Gross were united in the bonds of matrimony at the court house on Monday in the presence of a few friends and witnesses. Judge C.E. Fuller officiated. Both the bride and groom are residents of Randolph county where the groom is a prosperous farmer. The LaFayette Sun --- SISTER OF LATE W.A. HANDLEY DIED JANUARY 29th Last Thursday, January 29th, at her home near Cragford, Mrs. Mary Walker, widow of the late Mr. Samuel Walker, passed from this life. Mr. G.H. Handley of this city, a nephew of the deceased, attended the funeral in that community on Friday. Mrs. Walker was 85 years of age and had been a member of the Wesobulga Baptist church 65 years. She is survived by four sons and one daughter. She was a sister of the late Capt. W.A. Handley and F.M. Handley and was the last surviving member of that immediate family. ---- SON WRITES OF CAREER OF THE LATE DR. JOS. R. HOOD To the Editor of The Leader, My father's mother told me that Dr. Hood was so small when he was born that she could hide him in an ordinary coffee pot and estimated his weight at about three pounds. This was surely a small beginning for one who afterward became the champion runner, boxer and wrestler for miles around in his young manhood before he married, and whose average weight in the prime of life was 220 pounds, and who as we all know became a nonogenarian. The latter, no doubt, was brought about by the fact that he was temperate in all things and did not indulge in tea, coffee, tobacco or intoxicants and led a strictly moral life. If there is one thing more than another aside from his strict moral code that stands out as a shining light and guide to others it was his industry, his busy life, his habit of keeping employed, in fact, work, useful work, was a part of his moral creed and practice, a part of his religion and in his lexicon he found no such word as loafer. He had no sympathy for idleness or laziness in anyone. Dr. Hood, like many young men and women of today are doing, educated himself. His real education started after he married. He worked through the day and read at night by the light of a pine knot fire and when he could save enough to take a course in college he would do so, and kept this up, literally battling his way through. My father was raised by Baptist parents and when about 18 years old he joined the Methodist church and was baptized by immersion. Dr. Hood was a consistent, persistent and uncompromising enemy of booze and the rum traffic from boyhood to the grave and praised God that in His infinite wisdom that curse was outlawed from length to breadth of the land in his day, and as the forces of law and righteousness going hand in hand are each day drawing the net tighter and tighter about those would violate the law of the land, he saw in it all, the hand of God. My father told me that he was an Irishman, full blooded and when I reminded him that his great- great- great grandfather was born in America, he called off the names of his forebearers, tracing them back on both his mother and his father's lines, among which I remembered the names as the Hood's, the Baker's, the Padgett's, the Robertson's, the Mayo's, the Curtises, the Horton's, so of course I conceded him the point. My father took an equally strong and uncompromising stand against tobacco as he took against whiskey, both from the standpoint of the physician and the christian gentleman. I cannot close without mentioning a sad event in Dr. Hood's life, namely the accident on the A.B. & A. railroad. He was 84 years old at that time and was so seriously injured that he was transformed from an active, practicing physician and preacher, also attending to the business of running twenty-six farms, a hale and hardy man hardly past the prime of his active life, to crutches and helplessness. Among his papers are five ex-ray photographs taken at the Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia and a written statement from a professor of that department to the fact that the fifth vertebra from the base of the brain had a compound fracture but with it all, the grace of God sustained him. Yours very truly, L.S. Hood, Springfield, Mo. ----- NAPOLEON News Feb. 2nd "Aunt" Nan Shelnutt continues very low. --- Mrs. Jack Williams of LaGrange is spending the week with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. H.N. Shelnutt. --- MOUNT OLIVE News Feb. 2nd Mrs. Henry Burdette and children left Saturday for Fairfax where they will remain until spring. --- LOCAL News T.P. Hanson and family were called to Clay county on Saturday afternoon by the death of the 19 months old son of the former's brother A.J. Hanson. The child died of diptheria after an illnees of only a short time. On his return home, Mr. Hanson was accompanied by his uncle, Mr. Edwin Hanson who is 77 years of age. --- Mrs. O.W. Tenney of Talladega spent last week with her sister Mrs. E.G. Jordan. --- Mr. and Mrs. W.C. Hunter left yesterday to make their home in Tampa, Florida where two of their children reside. The other one lives in St. Petersburg in the same part of the state. Many of their friends regret to see them leave. Mr. Hunter has been in the employ of the Roanoke Oil Company the past 29 years and has made a fine record of service. --- HOSPITAL News Mrs. Zora Kirby of Lowell community came to the hospital on Tuesday for treatment. --- Mrs. J.M. Walls' wife underwent a serious operation yesterday. --- Mrs. E.C. Harper of Lowell community was operated on Jan. 30th. --- C.M. Thompson of Graham community is undergoing treatment and is in a very serious condition. --- NEWSPAPER Issue of Wednesday, February 11, 1925 NEW HOPE News Feb. 8th Iverson Wilson is very low and not expected to live. Mr. and Mrs. Taylor Wilson and Rhudy WIlson are at home attending their brother Iverson during his sickness. --- HOSPITAL News Two deaths occurred during the week. C.M. Thompson of Lamar who was reported to be in such desperate condition last week died, and Mrs. Zora Cummings of Lowell community died. Miss Dora Amos of Wedowee and Mr. Guy Creasey of Roanoke, and a negro woman Hattie Treadwell of Malone have undergone successful operations since last week. --- MRS. MARY BRADSHAW TO BE BURIED AT OLD HOME The remains of Mrs. Mary Bradshaw will be interred at the old home church, Friendship, at Bacon Level, this afternoon after funeral services conducted at the church at 2 o'clock. Mrs. Bradshaw died at 11 a.m. Tuesday at the home of her daughter Mrs. Ernest Howell at Fairfax where she had been visiting since Christmas. She made her home with her sons at Fitzgerald, Georgia. Six children survive her. The deceased was a sister of Dr. S.W. Lane of Roanoke. She was 66 years of age. The greater part of Mrs. Bradshaw's life was spent at Bacon Level. Her husband Mr. John T. Bradshaw died a good many years ago. This has long been a prominent family in this part of the county. Mrs. Bradshaw was a highly esteemed lady and had been a member of the Friendship Baptist church since early life. ---- IVERSON WILSON IS DEAD Mr. Iverson Wilson died Tuesday afternoon at his home at New Hope, this county, after a long illness. He was the youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. George A. Wilson. Interment will occur at Liberty Grove at 2 o'clock this afternoon. --- ROCK MILLS News Feb. 9th Mr. Ed Middlebrooks, a prominent citizen, died at his home near Waresville, Georgia on Friday the 7th at the age of 75 years. He was the father of W.O. Middlebrooks of this place. --- Mr. C.G. Adamson who has purchased the store of Adamson & Son, expects to move his family here from Glenn, Ga., soon. --- LOCAL News Mrs. J.A. Hurst and little son arrived yesterday afternoon from Birmingham to spend a week or so with the former's sister Mrs. Gittings. --- Mrs. Edna Alsobrook Jones was called to Five Points this morning by the news that her sister Mrs. E.W. Smartt was critically ill from a stroke of paralysis. --- M.T. Rotton, a well known citizen of Lowell, died Monday night. He was 44 years of age and leaves a wife and several children. Interment will be at Fairfax today. --- Mr. Whiteman, a Hebrew citizen of this place, recently received word of the death of his father Mr. O. Whiteman which occurred in New York City February first. --- WEHADKEE News Feb. 9th Mr. Parker Noles, an aged citizen, died last Thursday at the home of his son Mr. Zack Noles in Beat 4. Interment was made Friday at Macedonia, Geogia. His wife proceded him across the river of death four weeks ago. --- BACON LEVEL News Feb. 9th Mr. Roy Bailey, son of Mr. and Mrs. Allen Bailey, near Lime, and Miss Nina Lee Adamson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C.G. Adamson were married Sunday afternoon. --- NEWSPAPER Issue of Wednesday, February 18, 1925 DEATH CLAIMS LOVELY LADY AT FIVE POINTS The village of Five Points, in Chambers county, suffered an irreparable loss last Wednesday afternoon when the spirit of Mrs. E.W. Smartt was called to the "Home of the Souls." Born in that vicinity 52 years ago, the eldest child of Mr. and Mrs. John N. Alsobrook, prominent citizens of Chambers county, she had lived her useful life among the same people and in all that time she had grown in the love and confidence of her neighbors. When the news of her brief illness of apoplexy and resultant death was learned, many friends were grieved and sought to render service in every way possible. The testimony given at 10 o'clock Friday morning when the funeral was held at the Methodist church at Five Points was eloquent. A congregation assembled that overflowed the house, included in which were numbers of friends from other points. The expressions of love in floral offerings were unusually numerous and beautiful. The tributes spoken by the pastor, Rev. L.D. Atkins and a former pastor, Rev. J.T. Self, were from the heart and well deserved. Mrs. Smartt had long been one of the most faithful and efficient workers in the church and community. At the time of her death she was president of the Woman's Missionary Society and a teacher in the Sunday school. She was of a bright, cheerful disposition although she had been a great sufferer at times for many years. The loss of a good woman, a loving wife, a devoted mother, a dutiful daughter, cannot be computed here on earth. "Who can find a virtuous woman, for her price is far above rubies; strength and honor are her clothing; and she shall rejoice in time to come. She opened her mouth with wisdom, and in her tongue is the law of kindness. She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness. Her children rise up and call her blessed; her husband, also, and he praiseth her." ----- MR. R.T. WEST IS VERY LOW; CHILDREN SUMMONED Mr. Robert T. West has been growing steadily worse for several days and it is not thought probable that he can live through today. The news will be read with much regret by many friends throughout this section. All the children of Mr. and Mrs. West are here except Mrs. J.A. Hornsby of Texas and she is expected. Mr. W. Wade Wood of Birmingham, brother of Mrs. West, has arrived. Mr. Fricks of Atlanta drove through last night with his friend Dr. Hugh West. ---- DEATH BY FIRE IS TRAGIC FATE OF MRS. J.T. PIKE A horrifying tragedy occurred Monday evening at the home of Mr. J.T. Pike on Roanoke Route 2, near the home of Mr. E.M. Sharman, when Mr. Pike's wife had a convulsion and fell into the fire, being so badly burned that death ensued at 11 o'clock that night. Besides her husband, the deceased leaves eight children, the oldest of whom is 20 years of age and the youngest two years of age. At the time of the sudden attack of illness, Mr. Pike and all the children except the baby had gone out from the house a distance to watch the operation of a gasoline enginie on the place. This unfortunate feature adds to the sadness of the event, which appeals most strongly to the sympathy of all. The interment was made after funeral services at the Pike family burying ground on Tuesday afternoon. ---- WEDOWEE News Feb. 17th Mr. Hugh Perry will leave tomorrow for Montgomery, Ala., where he has been appointed Deputy U.S. Marshall. Mr. Perry is one of Wedowee's foremost young men. His many friends are proud of his success. --- FORESTER'S CHAPEL News Mr. Andrew Kent is improving after having been stricken with paralysis a few days ago. His children and several grandchildren have been called to his bedside. --- Mrs. Mat Gatlin is suffering from a broken leg. --- HAYWOOD News Feb. 16th Mrs. Josie Willingham was called to the bedside of her daughter Mrs. Orbia Kirby on Sunday, near Rock Stand. --- UNION News Feb. 17th Mr. and Mrs. S.L. Bonner and family attended the double birthday dinner at Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Middlebrooks' near Franklin, Georgia on Sunday. --- Miss Annie Lizzie Lane is spending the week with her sister Mrs. Eva Gay at Stroud. --- ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE State of Alabama, Randolph County Probate Court In the matter of the estate of Jesse Tucker, colored, deceased Letters of administration of said deceased having been granted to the undersigned on the 7th day of November, 1924 by the Hon. E.M. Moore, Judge of Probate of said County, notice is hereby given that all persons having claims against said estate are hereby required to present the same within the time allowed by law or the same will be barred. Sam Tucker, administrator ---- LOCAL News Quite a number of Roanoke friends attended the funeral in Five Points on Friday of Mrs. E.W. Smart, who was a sister of Mrs. Edna Jones, a teacher in the Roanoke high school. --- IN LOVING MEMORY OF MRS. BELLE LESLIE In August 1924, after a long life full of usefulness and devotion to duty, Mrs. Belle Leslie died at her home at Mr. Jas. W. O'Neals. She leaves one sister, Mrs. Jas. W. O'Neal of Waresville, Georgia; two brothers, Mr. Thomas Pepper of Lanett, Ala; Mr. Roe Pepper of West Point, Georgia, and a number of nieces and nephews and a host of friends to mourn her death. Her husband preceded her several years ago. Mrs. Leslie was a devoted christian, a true and noble woman of high ideals and purpose in life. She was a member of the Paran Baptist church for many years and was a faithful, conscientious follower of her master. "She gave herself to every cause she upheld, and that's the greatest gift." As a friend she was kind, loyal and true. She was a special friend of the children and how they miss her kind words, her gentle touch and sweet smiles. She had suffered much and had reached her 76th year. For several years her friends realized that she was failing in health but her death was a shock to all. She bore her suffering patiently and in her last illness she said, "I am ready to do" and with a serene smile on her face she passed away. We extend to the bereaved loved ones our heartfelt love and sympathy. May God's richest blessings rest upon each of you and may He help you to bear this, your deep sorrow, is our prayer. Whereas, after a life of service, love of her fellow man and devotion to duty, Mrs. Belle Leslie, a loyal friend and devout christian, has been called from her labor to her reward beyond; Whereas, we knew her as a devoted christian, a loyal and enthusiastic laborer of the church where she was a member for 64 years; Be it resolved, that we, the committee of said church, do express our feeling of loss at her death, and an appreciation of her long and faithful service as a member of this church. Be it also resolved, that a copy of these resolutions be sent to the family of the deceased, and that a copy be printed in the Roanoke Leader. Eris Kitchens J.L. Pritchett J.H. Kitchens, Committee -------- BACON LEVEL News Feb. 16th The remains of Mrs. Mary Bradshaw were interred here Wednesday afternoon of last week after funeral services conducted by Rev. Singleton in the presence of a large concourse of friends and relatives. Mrs. Bradshaw was born and reared in the community where she lived until a few years ago when she saw fit to go live with her children. She was a member of the Baptist church at Fellowship, was always faithful to attend the meetings as long as she lived near enough to go. She was a kind and loving mother and wife, a good neighbor, one that was loved by all who knew her. She leaves two daughters and four sons and four brothers to mourn her death. The bereaved family has the sympathy of their many friends in this community. ---- Mrs. D.L. Bishop was called to LaGrange the past week on account of the serious illness of her sister Mrs. Jane Crouch, who is not expected to live. --- Mr. Charlie Bunch is visiting his sister Mrs. Sallie Bradshaw and family. Mr. Bunch, we learn, has been in most all parts of the United States. --- HOPEWELL News Feb. 16th Last Saturday evening while grading the road through here, Mr. Wes Adamson was shot badly by about 50 dynamite caps. His face was torn up badly. --- MALONE News Feb. 16th Sorry to note that "Aunt" Mearkie Wilkinson is quite ill. --- Mr. Marce Wilkinson from north Alabama is a visitor here. --- MOUNT OLIVE News Feb. 16th Mrs. Mat Simmons is spending a while at Mr. F.M. Burdett's. --- LOCAL News At the home of Mr. W.E. Brumbeloe near Friendship church, his venerable mother celebrated her 81st birthday last Sunday. A company of kinfolks and friends enjoyed the happy occasion with her. --- NOTE: The newspaper issue of FEBRUARY 25th, 1925 was not filmed for this microfilm roll. ------ File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/randolph/newspapers/newspape1007gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 18.5 Kb