Randolph County AlArchives News.....Newspaper Abstracts for JULY 1898 July 1898 ************************************************ 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 June 4, 2005, 10:03 pm The Randolph Leader July 1898 NEWSPAPER ABSTRACTS FROM "THE RANDOLPH LEADER", Roanoke, Randolph County, Alabama for JULY 1898 NEWSPAPER issue of Wednesday, July 6, 1898 ROCK MILLS News Mr. Will Emory who has been very ill with fever, has sufficiently recovered to be carried back to his home near LaGrange yesterday. __ Miss Bela Bishop is very sick at her home with fever. __ JOHNSON'S CROSS ROADS News Miss Lecta Brown has the fever. Dr. Floyd is treating the case. __ Lula Clack is suffering from poison, probably the result of coming into contact with thunderwood. Dr. DeVaughn is treating her. __ Mrs. Thomas Smallwood has been right sick but under the treatment of Dr. Liles is recovering. __ Probably many a brave boy now engaged in the war between our country and Spain will fill a soldier's grave before the expiration of duty. Our prayers are with them. __ Uncle Tommie Clack of Columbus is visiting relatives here. __ John H. Morris has gone back to South Carolina to look after business interests. __ W. Worth Stevenson has been right sick for the past week but we are glad to say seems to be improving. __ Miss Anna Manning left Saturday to visit her brother in Milledgeville, Ga., She will be absent a month or more. __ NEWSPAPER issue of Wednesday, July 13, 1898 WELSH News Mrs. Charlie Higgins is convalescing after a long and serious illness. __ LOCAL News Misses Ella and Della Burdett of Roanoke, who have been visiting here returned home Sunday, much to the regret of some of our gallant young men. The Dadeville Herald __ Mrs. Sallie May of Columbus and her cousin Mrs. A.J. Stewart of this city are visiting the family of Dr. Weathers near High Shoals. __ Miss Ida Norton left yesterday for her home in Bullock County. __ NOTICE I hereby forbid all persons from trespassing and hunting on my lands. R.A. Moon __ NOTICE OF SUBSTITUTION State of Alabama, Randolph County Probate Court July 12, 1898 Notice to: Solomon Hornsby and Nancy Hornsby who reside in Atlanta, in the state of Georgia Frances Hornsby and Dorcas Hornsby, whose place of residence is unknown Martha Betts who resides in the state of Louisiana J.R. Saunders, W.M. Saunders and Wood Saunders who reside in the state of Texas You will take notice that J.C. Hornsby and others have filed their application in the probate court of said county praying that certain papers accompanying said application be substituted for and instead of the original Will of Wm. Hornsby, deceased, the petition to have said Will probated; the notice to the next of kin of said William Hornsby, deceased, of the filing of the Will for probate, and the day set for hearing of the same, the proof of the subscribing witnesses to said Will written down by the Judge of Probate on said hearing, the certificate of the Judge of Probate endorsed upon said Will, that the same had ben proven and probated and the decree of the probate court admitting said Will go probate, on the ground that the originals of said proposed substitutes have been destroyed by fire and that the 8th day of Aug. 1898 has been set apart by the court in which to hear and pass upon said petition at which time you may appear and defend if you see proper. A.J. Weathers, Judge of Probate ____ NEWSPAPER issue of Wednesday, July 20, 1898 UNION Community News We are glad to note that Mrs. J.H. Dennis, after a long and severe spell of illness has recovered. __ Mrs. Henry Vinson and Mrs. W.Y. Bass, visited Mr. Isaac Burden of Rock Mills on Sunday. Mr. Burden is very ill at present but we hope he may soon recover. __ Mr. and Mrs. Pace of Roanoke visited their daughter Mrs. John Cook last Saturday and Sunday. __ Mrs. John Arnett is visiting relatives and friends at LaFayette. __ Miss Mollie Howe who has been visiting here for three or four weeks has returned to her home in Langdale. __ MT. OLIVE News Mrs. W.H. Burdett is very sick at her father's home. __ Mrs. T.N. Smallwood is very sick at this writing. __ Mrs. B. Brown is suffering from a stroke of paralysis. __ RESOLUTIONS OF RESPECT FOR JOHN C. JACKSON Died, on the 19th day of June, 1898, John C. Jackson, age 78 years. Whereas it pleased almighty god to remove from our midst our much esteemed brother and elder, J.C. Jackson, therefore be it resolved, 1st, that in the death of Bro. Jackson the church has lost a zealous worker in the Gospel and a most efficient member, and the community a model citizen. Resolved 2nd, that the church at Mt. Carmel extends to the widow of our departed brother, our bereaved sister, our prayers and sympathies in this hour of bereavement and commend her and her bereaved family to god and the great shepherd who will console them and prepared them to meet the loved one beyond this world of troubles, where parting will be no more and the weary will be at rest. Resolved 3rd, that these resolutions be published in the Gospel Messenger; spread on the minutes of the church and a copy of them be presented the family of our departed brother. By order of the church conference, July 16, 1898. Elder T.J. Parrish, and T.J. East, Clerk. ____ LOCAL News Miss Clyde White of West Point is visiting her cousin Miss Claude Awbrey. __ John Mayfield and his sister Miss Annie are expected to arrive today from Texas for a visit here. __ Grady, the son of Mr. H.H. Whitten, living near town, is reported quite ill. We hope he will soon recover. __ Miss Lena Allen of Montgomery who has been visiting her cousin, Mrs. J.T. Talley for several days, has gone to Georgia to visit relatives there. __ Mrs. I. Burden is very low with typhoid fever at his home in Rock Mills. __ Mr. J.H. McConnaghy, the pleasant jeweler of LaFayette, is here to attend to his father's etablishment, while the latter is enjoying the Veteran's Reunion in Atlanta. __ Mr. P.H. Huckeba of Ashland, with his family, visited relatives here the first of the week. Randolph is his native county. __ Jas. W. Stephenson was in Roanoke on Monday after a long absence in south Alabama. He wants it understood that it was his brother Theodore and not him who was married some days ago. __ Captain Handley headed a large delegation of Confederate veterans to attend the reunion at Atlanta this week. __ Last Monday, J.P. Jordan and his brother Glenn brought us a peck of surplus peaches. Thanks brothers, they were delicious. __ Dr. E.H. McClendon is lying at the point of death at Rock Mills. He is paralyzed. __ NEWSPAPER issue of Wednesday, July 27, 1898 JOHNSON'S CROSS ROADS News Mittie Kitchens has the fever. __ Uncle Feland Robert is confined to his bed. __ WELSH News Mr. J.S. Gauntt is very sick at this writing. We would be glad to be able to note his recovery soon. __ Cephas Jordan of Lanett was here Sunday shaking hands with his friends. __ ROCK MILLS News We are pained to note the death of Dr. E.H. McLendon, one of our oldest and best physicians, which occurred at his home last Wednesday night. The remains were interred at Wedhadkee cemetery. __ Mr. William Meacham and Maud Johnson were married near Bacon Level last Wednesday night. __ Mr. J.S. Yates is attending college at Bowdon, Ga. __ Mr. James Patterson of River View, the only brother of Mr. M.M. Patterson of this place, fell from the factory door last week sustaining injuries from which he died in a short time. __ Mrs. W.R. Sharman of Hawthorne, Fla., is the guest of Mrs. Wilson. __ LOCAL News Mr. C.R. Power and wife spent last week with their children and other relatives in Georgia. __ Durwood Cox is expected to arrive today from Birmingham to spend several weeks with his parents. __ The Misses Sanders of Spartanburg, S.C. and Miss Thompson of Birmingham are the guests of Mr. and Mrs. B.G. Sanders. __ Mr. John Talley is one of the old veterans out here from Texas who stopped over to visit friends and relatives in Roanoke. __ Mr. Gus Lane's child died at Langdale and was brought to Lane's Chapel and buried last Wednesday. __ After an absence of some two years in Texas, John T. Mayfield and his sister Miss Annie are enjoying a visit to their old home in Roanoke where they are welcomed by many friends. They were accompanied by Mr. Allen and by Mrs. Renfro. __ J.F. Barron, wife and daughter have been a enjoying a visit for some days with relatives at Cedartown, Ga. One very pleasant feature of the visit is the presence of Mr. Barron's father who is out here from Texas. It is the first time father and son have met in about twenty-seven years. __ "Uncle" Noah Hornsby showed us the other day, several old battered minnie balls that he found on the field of battle fought near Atlanta on July 22nd, thirty-four years ago. He found them while attending the reunion last week. Mr. Hornsby was there once before when he was not looking for bullets but when they were looking for him. ___ File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/randolph/newspapers/newspape550gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 9.6 Kb