Randolph County AlArchives News.....Newspaper Abstracts for APRIL 1902 April 1902 ************************************************ 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 17, 2005, 9:37 pm The Randolph Leader April 1902 NEWSPAPER ABSTRACTS FROM "THE RANDOLPH LEADER", Roanoke, Randolph County, Alabama for APRIL 1902 NEWSPAPER issue of Wednesday, April 2, 1902 LOCAL News John Lee has again set his foot on Randolph county soil, coming from Atlanta to try his luck at home again. __ Mr. Knight is now domiciled at the residence on Wedowee Street with his sister Mrs. Boulware and her family. __ M.D. Lovvorn, former superintendant of education, was an appreciated caller at the Leader office on Thursday. He showed us an old blue-back speller in which he first learned his alphabet in 1867. It was thorougly thumbed but well kept for its age. Mr. Lovvorn will preserve it as a relic. __ The birthday of the good mother of W.H. Welch was celebrated in a becoming manner on Sunday last at the home of the former's daughter Mrs. Troy Kitchens at Double Head. It was a matter of regret that the high water kept some of the family from attending. Mrs. Welch is now 81 years of age and we trust she may be spared yet many years to bless her children and her friends. __ See Zobel & Davis for grills, mantels and ornamental work at their Mill on Louina Street. __ Miss Clara Baker of Antioch, Ga. is visiting her sister Mrs. John Moon. __ Miss Beulah Collier is ill with typhoid fever. __ The friends of Rev. P. Mooney, a venerable old Mexican War veteran, will be pleased to know that Congressman Thompson has succeeded in raising the former's pension to $12. per month and securing a back pension of $3. per month from 1893 to date. Mr. Mooney is a good man and worthy of this reward for faithful service to his country. __ WEHADKEE News Mrs. Robert Harlan is quite sick with pneumonia. __ Mrs. Noles who was very low at our last writing is still living. __ NEWSPAPER issue of Wednesday, April 9, 1902 LOCAL News Geo. A. Pate is very sick at his home a few miles from town. __ Call on Zober & Davis for lumber and planing mill work at the McPherson Planer. __ Mrs. Alexander Mattox of Whitesville, Georgia is visiting her daughter Mrs. Will Brittain. __ Mrs. E.L. Adams, daughter of Dink Buckalew, died Sunday near Wedowee and was buried at Bethel on Monday. __ L.M. Stephenson left Monday to visit relatives in Lawrence county, Alabama and in Giles county, Tennessee. He will be absent two or three weeks. __ Jno. A. Dobson returned Monday to Lanett where he has been living since Christmas. He had been spending a few days with his venerable mother in the Corn House community, she being very feeble. __ Guy Weathers is expected to leave this week to join his brother Ernest who is operating a photograph gallery in Savannah, Ga. __ Mrs. L.N. Webster arrived Friday from North Carolina to attend her brother Frank Ray who is dangerously ill, we regret to note. __ W.W. Campbell returned Saturday from Atlanta where his honored father had undergone the amputation of one of his hands. He is recovering nicely at this writing. __ As the passenger train was coming into the suburbs of Roanoke yesterday evening, near the colored Baptist church, the wife of Alex Trammell, a colored woman, attempted to spring across the track just in front of the engine. She was struck by the cylinder and killed instantly, her neck being broken. Coroner Coleman, after the preliminary investigation, turned the remains over to her husband, for burial. __ DR. W.L. HEFLIN'S BIRTHDAY (Photo of Dr. W.L. Heflin shown) From The LaFayette Sun The above cut is the likeness of Dr. W.L. Heflin, of Roanoke, Ala. He was 74 years old March 21st and on that evening at the Hillman in Birmingham, the family celebrated the occasion. Dr. Heflin has had a remarkable and trying career. Mrs. Heflin died when only two of her children were of age and the doctor has not since married. He is the father of Dr. Wyatt Heflin of Birmingham, Solicitor H.P. Heflin of Birmingham, Rev. W.W. Heflin of Bessemer, Atty. John T. Heflin, Roanoke, Dr. H.T. Heflin, Birmingham, Atty. J. Thos. Heflin, LaFayette, Robt. L. Heflin, farmer, Roanoke, Mrs. H.B. Reid, Roanoke, Rev. Marvin R. Heflin, east Birmingham. Dr. Heflin, in an old age and as the frosts of time crown his head with the glory of declining years, enjoys the love and respect of his home people. He also rests confident in giving to his state a family who are striving in various departments of life. We can only wish Dr. Heflin that his last days be the happiest of his long and useful career. ___ NEWSPAPER Issue of Wednesday, April 16, 1902 ROCK MILLS News Thomas Brown and Miss Maggie Hayes were united in marriage yesterday. __ LOCAL News J.L. Moore of Griffin, Ga., is now making his home in Roanoke. He succeeds C.E. Bailey as boss of the spinning room at the cotton factory. __ J.E. Ellington of Gold Hill spent Sunday with his sister, Mrs. W.Z. East. __ ROMANTIC MARRIAGE There were in Roanoke night and Saturday morning a bride and groom the consummation of whose love affairs constitutes a pretty romance. Both had formerly visited in Roanoke, where they will be pleasantly remembered. The groom was Mr. Leslie Newman, formerly of Opelika but who has been in the far West the past three years. He embarked in the drug business in Rocky Branch, Wyoming, and we learn is accumulating a fortune. A few days ago he came back to Alabama to claim as his bride Miss Leta Clarke, who has remained true to her promise. They were married in Hawkinsville, Ga., on Wednesday and came by to visit Mrs. Newman's sister, Mrs. E.R. Finney, before departing for their distant home. ___ NEWSPAPER issue of Wednesday, April 23, 1902 Maj. A.D. Starnes with his wife and son Will were in Roanoke on Friday and boarded the train Saturday morning for Texas, where they will make their future home. We wish them happiness and luck. __ The mother of H.C. Cooper died at her home near Lamar last week. __ Mrs. and Mrs. J.P.D. Murphy visited their daughter Mrs. Emil Zobel on Sunday and Monday. __ Mr. and Mrs. S. Henderson went to Shelby county yesterday to visit relatives. __ J.R. Noles and wife spent Saturday and Sunday in Roanoke with the latter's parents, Major and Mrs. J.T. Coleman. __ Frank Ray continues very ill. __ NEWSPAPER issue of Wednesday, April 30, 1902 WEHADKEE News (by S.D. Lewis, correspondent) J.F. and T.J. Lewis of LaGrange came over Friday to attend the funeral of their grandmother. __ On last Thursday morning the messenger of death visited our home and wafted the spirit of our dear mother to her eternal home, after a short illness. She was in her 80th year. Oh how we will miss mother! But our loss is her eternal gain. The funeral services were conducted by Rev. J.W.H. Cliett on Friday and the interment was at Big Spring. We are very grateful to our neighbors and friends for their many acts of kindness during our mother's illness. May heaven's blessings rest upon them. S.D. Lewis __ CORBIN News Dolphus Huey was at home a few days ago to attend the funeral of his grandmother, Mrs. Wm. Cooper. __ Mrs. Joe Huey fell and hurt herself seriously last week but is getting along reasonably well. __ FRANK RAY DEAD Just before 3 o'clock Monday afternoon, Frank Ray, son of Mr. and Mrs. J.W Ray, died at their home in this city. At 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon the funeral service was conducted bgy Rev. G.L. Jenkins from the Methodist church of which the deceased was a member. Frank was a bright, manly fellow about 18 years of age and was very popular among all who knew him. He had been remarkably industrious for one of his years. He will be greatly missed by his loved ones and friends, with all of whom we sympathize. __ The Zobel brothers have purchased the McPherson Planing Mill and the ground upon which it is located and will continue to fill all orders in that line. __ Mrs. J.S. Dowdell and children spent several days past with the former's sister, Mrs. G.L. Jenkins. __ Miss Lovie Duke, a sister of Henry Duke, had her ankle broken Sunday afternoon over in Lowell town. __ N.W. Benefield arrived here Friday from Missouri and will again make his home in Wehadkee neighborhood. __ There were two marriage in north Chambers county recently; L.P. McKnight to Miss Mollie Moon and J.F. Beaird to Miss Carrie Gross. ___ David McConnaghy, one of Roanoke's old and well known citizens was married in Grantville, Ga.. on the 10th inst., to Miss Lizzie Simms. The fact was not known in Roanoke until days afterward. It is reported that Mr. McConnaghy will go to Grantville to engage in business. __ Rev. W.W. Turner went to West Point on Saturday to attend the funeral of the wife of Rev. M.J. Williams, pastor of the Methodist church in Lanett and Langdale. Mr. Williams himself is dying of consumption. Three little children are to be made orphans. They were carried to the Orphan's Home at Summerfield. This is a case of paticular sadness. __ Mrs. Mollie Martin of Opelika, sister of J.W. Ray, attended the funeral of Frank Ray yesterday. __ Mrs. W.G. Sutherlin was called to LaGrange last week by the serious illness of her father, J.H. Cleaveland. __ Mrs. Kate Traylor and Miss Ruth Robertson of Wedowee visited their sister Mrs. H.L. Zobel on Sunday and Monday. __ File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/randolph/newspapers/newspape607gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 9.9 Kb