Randolph County AlArchives News.....Newspaper abstracts for NOV 1928 November 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: C. Teal Gravelle tealtree@comcast.net August 1, 2006, 6:16 am The Roanoke Leader November 1928 NEWSPAPER ABSTRACTS FROM "THE ROANOKE LEADER", Roanoke, Randolph County, Alabama for NOVEMBER 1928 NEWSPAPER Issue of Wednesday, November 7, 1928 BONNER LOSES HAND IN GIN Guy Bonner of Rock Mills, had the misfortune to have his left hand caught in a cotton gin a few days ago and was brought to the Knight Sanitorium where it was found necessary to amputate the hand. --- UNTIMELY DEATH OF MISS SIMMIE L. CLACK ON FRIDAY The untimely and unexpected death of Miss Simmie L. Clack last Friday night at Bacon Level, where she was teaching school, was a profound shock to the family and many friends of this estimable young lady, who was just twenty-three years of age. She was taken ill Thursday night and died about twenty-four hours later. The body was brought to the home of the mother, Mrs. Lydia Clack in Roanoke, and from this place was taken Sunday morning to Milltown for interment at 11 o'clock, after funeral services conducted by Revs. Cecil Ray and G.D. Hunt, in the presence of a large gathering of sorrowing friends. Besides the mother, Miss Clack is survived by four sisters, Mrs. J.W. Slagle, Mrs. Jack Ford, Mrs. Walter Carroll and Miss Verda Clack. She was making a fine record and her death at so early an age is exceedingly sad. --- WEDOWEE News Nov. 6th Judge E.M. Moore was hurt in an automobile accident Sunday evening when his car, driven by Mr. Pierce Seegar, ran off the highway on Needham hill about five miles south of Wedowee. Mr. Seegar received only minor scratches while Mr. Moore received painful though not serious cuts on the head. He was carried to the hospital in Roanoke and was able to return to his home here Monday. --- UNION HILL News Nov. 5th Mr. Barry White and two sons Phil and A.J. White of Walker county, who were on a visit to relatives in Georgia, stopped long enough Sunday to view the old home place of the former's boyhood days near White's Chapel. Mr. White left this county fifty years ago and has been working for the Southern Railroad Company for 43 years. --- WADLEY News Nov. 5th Mrs. Jack Conway and children of Birmingham are guests of Mrs. Conway's parents, Mr. and Mrs. J.P. McGill. --- NEWSPAPER Issue of Wednesday, November 14, 1928 D.S. SATTERWHITE HURT IN AUTOMOBILE WRECK To Editor of The Leader, As D.S. Satterwhite takes your newspaper and always talks of his home paper and says he once worked for the paper, perhaps you will regret his accident. He was seriously, probably fatally, injured Tuesday night when a passenger train struck his Victory Six Coupe near the city of Jimenez, Mexico in the state of Chihuahua. He was returning from the interior of Mexico where he had been for two weeks on a hunting trip. His cousin, J.B. Satterwhite, received the message yesterday and left last night for the city of Jimenez, whre D.S. Satterwhite was carried to the hoshpital. No more of the details have been learned yet. Cordially yours, H.D. Lightsey, Brownwood, Texas, Nov. 7th. ---- SUDDEN DEATH OF MRS. PYE SHOCKS COMMUNITY This community is shocked to learn of the sudden death at her home in Ellaville, Georgia, of Mrs. C.A. Pye, which occurred at seven o'clock Tuesday evening, after an illness of only twenty minutes. The remains will be brught this evening over the Central of Georgia to the home of the parents of the deceased, Mr. and Mrs. W.H. McMurray, this city. Funeral and interment will be at some hour tomorrow. Mrs. Pye is survived by a husband, two sons and one daughter, a father, mother, two sisters and two brothers. She was a lovable character and her untimely end is lamented by all who knew her. The mother is prostrated with shock. Sincere sympathy goes out from the many friends of this good family in this dark hour of sorrow. --- BURDETT - SCOTT WEDDING A wedding of interest to their many friends was the marriage of Miss Sallie Fannie Burdett to Mr. Ernest Scott on Saturday afternoon, November 10th. The bride is the only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Sammie Burdette of Double Head, a graduate of Handley High school of 1921, and also of the State Normal College in Jacksonville. Since her graduation she has been a popular teacher in the Ridge Grove High School. --- WADLEY News Nov. 13th Mr. Cleve Harris celebrated his 75th birthday last Friday with a big dinner and about 25 of his friends present. All report a wonderful day and hoped for many more birthdays for this fine christian gentleman. --- Mrs. J.A. Fuller has been called to West Point by the critical illness of her brother W.M. Prince. --- WEDOWEE News Nov. 13th The body of Mr. John A. Dobson, formerly of Randolph county, was brought to Midway on Tuesday where interment took place. Mr. Dobson had been residing in Lanett for the past several years. --- Mrs. Harry Meek of west Texas, who was before her marriage to Mr. Meek, Mrs. Joe Holder, spent Friday and Saturday in Wedowee as the guest of Mrs. Monk Mashburn. --- Mrs. Taylor Wilson, formerly Miss Odessa Johnson, was the guest of Mrs. Floyd Wilson during the past weekend. --- NEWSPAPER Issue of Wednesday, November 21, 1928 BIG SPRINGS News Nov. 19th Mrs. Frances Arrington died at her home at Frolona, Georgia on Sunday night after a long illness. The funeral was held at Big Springs on Monday afternoon. --- WADLEY News Nov. 19th Mrs. G.A. Sears of Roanoke spent the weekend here with her mother Mrs. Palestine Waller. --- DEATH OF MR. JAMES PERRY On Nov. 10, 1928, a messenger of God said, "Well done, faithful servant" and lifted the spirit of "Uncle" Jimmie Perry across the mystic stream to dwell in the land of beauty and song. Almond community is saddened because we feel like we have suffered a great loss in a friend, a church member and a citizen. On Sunday, Nov. 11th, his friends laid his body to rest in Almond cemetery near the church of which he had been a member for many years. He loved all mankind and felt nothing between him and Heaven. Mr. Perry leaves to mourn, his wife, two sons, three daughters, two brothers, two sisters and many relatives and a host of friends. Mrs. Cludie Clegg, Almond, Ala. ---- HOBSON News Nov. 19th Mr. Pete Chaffin and Mrs. S.C. Gross were called to Iredell, Texas last week on account of the fatal illness of their father Mr. J.B. Chaffin who formerly lived in Randolph county. --- TAYLOR'S CROSS ROADS News Nov. 20th This community was very sorry to learn of the death of Mrs. D.C. Cunningham which occurred Monday night at nine o'clock. She leaves three sons, three daughters, two sisters and a host of friends to mourn her going. --- WEHADKEE News Nov. 19th Sorry to report that Mr. A.J. Pittman was striken seriously early this morning. --- LOCAL News Mrs. Arthur Zobel has gone to visit her mother in Iuka, Mississippi, before joining her husband in Petersburg, Virginia. --- Among the relatives called to Roanoke last week by the death of Mrs. C.A. Pye, in addition to immediate members of the family, were Mr. Pye's sister from Jacksonville, Florida, Mr. and Mrs. H.A. McMurray, Rudolph McMurray, Mrs. Fred McMurray and Mrs. Lou Bean of Heflin. ---- John H. Finley died Monday night suddenly at his home, four miles east of Stroud. Funeral and interment were at Bethel at 11 o'clock today. --- Mr. and Mrs. O.O. Gay were called to Roanoke the first of the week by the serious illness of the latter's mother, Mrs. J.A. Pinkard. Mrs. Gay remained over to attend her mother. --- NEWSPAPER Issue of Wednesday, November 28, 1928 LOCAL News Maj. J.W. Stewart underwent an operation last week for a serious trouble which has been a great worry and which caused him much suffering for nearly fourteen years. He is getting along nicely at this writing and he says that the great trouble about the matter is that he will have to lay up for several days before he can go out and work again. Mr. Stewart is in his 87th year and is a constant worker. ---- DEATH OF MISS NUNN Miss Bernice Nunn died Monday afternoon at the home of her father W.R. Nunn, at Level Road community and was buried there yesterday. Miss Nunn was 23 years of age and had been in bad health since she was seven years old. --- WADLEY News Nov. 26th Mr. and Mrs. Lee Thomason of Columbus were the guests of Mrs. Thomason's mother Mrs. Lizzie Wood on Sunday. --- WADLEY News Nov. 26th Mr. C.A. Wright, planing mill foreman for the Hackler Lumber Co., went over to Atlanta on Tuesday night where he was married to Mrs. Margaret McFalls, returning here with his bride Friday night. At present they are at the hotel but will live in the Camp house after Christmas or as soon as it is vacated by Mr. Charlie Dollar. --- IN MEMORY OF LITTLE OLLIE BEATRICE BAILEY On the 16th day of November, 1927, at eleven o'clock at night, little Beatrice came to brighten the home of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Bailey. On October 4, 1928, about eleven o'clock at night, the death Angel came and bore her sweet little spirit to that beautiful home of the soul, this making her stay on earth ten months and seventeen days. She was a sweet little babe, always greeted everyone with a smile, but that dreaded disease, diptheria, took her precious little body away from us. She was sick ten days and bore her sickness with the best of patience, never refusing any asisstance that we offered her to make her pains easier. She was too precious to stay in this cold and unfriendly world. But, oh, how sad it was to stand by our precious little darling and see her suffer when we knew she could not tell us what to do for her and knowing that she had never committed a sin, but God's will, not ours. She had taken a few steps and could tell us "Ty, Ty". SHe had been with us just long enough to wind her dear little fingers around our hearts, and oh, such wounds it leaves to tear them aloose. The scars will forever remain in our hearts. But we have nothing to grieve for, but the absence of her little presence. We know she can never come back to us, but as David said, "we can go to her." "The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away; blessed be the name of the Lord." But is is hard to become reconciled to His holy will in such trying times as taking our loved ones away, and without His grace we could not bear it. How precious was that rosebud, but God saw fit to pluck her away from us saying, "come now, you must bloom in Heaven." So now, dear father and mother, bow in submission to His holy will, for you know she is in Heaven. Her place here is vacant but her soul is now enjoying the celestial scenery and if we could only behold her, we would say "stay on, little Beatrice." She leaves a heart broken mother and father, one sister, grandmothers and grandfathers, a great grandmother and a host of other relatives to mourn her untimely death. Her remains were placed in Glenn cemetery on Oct. 5, 1928 to await the resurrection morn. Written by her heart broken grandmother, Mrs. J.A. Jackson, Glenn, Georgia. ---- LOCAL News Sybil Adamson, the four year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Awtrey Adamson near Rock Mills, died last Friday morning and was buried Saturday morning. --- File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/randolph/newspapers/newspape1077gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 11.8 Kb