Randolph County AlArchives News.....Newspaper Abstracts for NOV 1901 November 1901 ************************************************ 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 15, 2005, 3:55 pm The Randolph Leader November 1901 NEWSPAPER ABSTRACTS FROM "THE RANDOLPH LEADER", Roanoke, Randolph County, Alabama for NOVEMBER 1901 (NOTE: There are several missing newspaper issues from the microfilm roll for NOV. 1901) NEWSPAPER issue of Wednesday, November 13, 1901 CENTER News George W. French has been seriously ill for several weeks with that dreaded trouble, Bright's Disease, with other ailments. It is thought and anxiously hoped by his friends that he may get well again. __ Mr. and Mrs. James McManus are both seriously sick. It is not believed that the latter will recover. The neighbors are gathering Mr. McManus' crop. __ A.T. Messer is making more syrup than anyone we have heard of in this section, nearly 200 gallons. __ LOCAL News Miss Stella Whatley of Georgia has bought the J.W. Belcher residence and it is probable that she and her mother will move to this place. __ Miss Leona Maxwell is now making her home with her uncle, J.A. Walden. __ Wm. Cole and wife are ill of fever a few miles from town. __ C.N. Williams died at Glenn, Ga., on Saturday. __ Mrs. Thos. Park died yesterday at her home west of town. __ An invitation has been received at The Leader office, issued by Mr. and Mrs. James S. Dowdell to the marriage of their daughter Miss Elizabeth to Mr. Armstead Brown to be celebrated at noon Thursday, Nov. 21st in the Court street Methodist Church, Montgomery . The congratulations of many friends will be forthcoming. __ About 12 o'clock Monday night Mr. Jos. C. Carter died at the home of his son, Sam G. Carter, a well known merchant of this place. The deceased was about 65 years of age and had been paralyzed for some time. He was well known and esteemed in western Georgia. The remains were interred at Owensbyville, Ga. yesterday. __ NEWSPAPER issue of Wednesday, November 27, 1901 CENTER News Mrs. James McManus passed away day before yesterday and was buried at Liberty Grove cemetery yesterday. The funeral was conducted by Rev. M. Prescott. She leaves a husband, a son and a host of relatives and friends to mourn her death. __ Mr. George W. French is still in critical condition. __ An infant of David Denham died last Saturday night and was buried at Liberty Grove on Sunday. __ Mrs. Edna Noles opened her school at New Hope last Monday. __ Miss Edna Combs of Graham opened school at Plank House last Monday. __ NAPOLEON News Mrs. Fanny Hill and Jack Shepard of Langdale have been spending this week here with relatives. __ Milligen Earnest and Toomins Hester are building a store house at Napoleon. __ WEDOWEE News Mr. J.J. Huckeba was selected by Sheriff Kent as a Deputy. __ Rev. C.T. Culpepper, the new pastor of the Baptist church at this place has moved his family here and is now a citizen of Wedowee. __ Mr. W.K. Upchurch and Mrs. S.S. Shamblee of Wildwood, were married at the courthouse here last Thursday, Rev. J.R. Hood officiating. __ Jas. H. Moore, formerly of this county, but now of Bell County, Texas and Miss Margie Cardwell, daughter of W.W. Cardwell of near Louina, were united in the holy bonds of matrimony at the residence of our fellow townsman, W.L. Stewart, last Saturday afternoon, Rev. C.T. Culpepper officiating. The happy couple have many friends in this county who will wish them a long and happy life. __ LOCAL News Edgar Taylor and Miss Mattie Clark were married last Thursday. __ Mrs. Henry A. Hughes has arrived from her home of the Florida line to spend some weeks with her mother and other relatives here. __ In the Constitution of Sunday is a dispatch from Carrollton, Ga., stating that an eloping couple from Alabama, C.W. McDonald and Miss E.V. Graben, arrived at Bowdon in great haste and telephoned to Carrollton to a friend to procure a marriage license and a justice of the peace. This was soon done and Justice J.T. Norman performed the ceremony over the phone. The romantic couple was from Cleburne County. __ J.W. Bonner and wife left Monday for Texas, where they will remain for some time. Some months ago a brother of Mr. Bonner died in that state, leaving considerable property and the latter goes to wind up the business for the widow. __ S.C. Burpee has again won some prize money on his "Breckenridge" horse, this time in Jacksonville, Fla. __ Mrs. Champion Smith died near Forrester's Chapel Sunday night. She was the last of a family of four that moved to this county four years ago. Her husband, her brother-in-law Jesse Hancock, and a sister, Mrs. John Butler, have all died within that time. __ Luther Davis, a boarding school pupil from Hale County has been dangerously ill at the residence of Rev. A.S. Brannah but he is now convalescing. His far, Dr. A.R. Davis, arrived the first of the week. He is a former citizen of Roanoke, back in the years when it was not the same town it now is. __ Mrs. John W. Stewart began her return to North Carolina on Saturday after spending a month with her brother G.W. Emory of Rock Mills and other relatives. __ Mrs. Annie Simril has been spending some days with her sister, Mrs. Mariah Moon, whom she had not seen in a number of years. She will return to her home in Newnan next Sunday. __ At the home of the bride's parents Mr. and Mrs. R.C. Haynes near Graham, Mr. Mack Carlisle was married to Miss Ludie Haynes. The ceremony was performed last Sunday by Rev. 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