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The Randolph Leader June 1902
NEWSPAPER ABSTRACTS FROM "THE RANDOLPH LEADER",  Roanoke, Randolph County, 
Alabama for JUNE 1902

NEWSPAPER Issue of Wednesday, June 11, 1902

WEHADKEE News

Mrs. Jack Young is still very sick.
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A little child of Robert Harlan died last week with scarlatina.
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ROCK MILLS News

Donie Yarbrough and Miss Florida Knight were united in marriage a week ago.
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W.M. Yates and family are visiting relatives in LaGrange.
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Alec Almon of Yellow Dirt, Ga., visited relatives here last week.
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LOCAL News

G.W. Cox visited relatives in Macon county on Sunday. He was accompanied home 
by his wife's sister, Mrs. Daughtry.
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Mrs. T.B. Wood returned Thursday from Alexander City where she visited her 
sister, Mrs. A.S. Smith.
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A.E. White of North Carolina was a visitor to Roanoke a few days recently.
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Mrs. J.W. Fargason of Camp Hill is visiting Mrs. S.W. Lane.
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John T. Carroll was taken dangerously ill yesterday but is convalescing.
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J.T. Talley is making some nice improvements about his premises. He has built 
rock terraces in his yard and is enlarging his verandas.
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Our good friend "Uncle Bud" Hester called at our office Saturday and told us 
of a severe hail storm that visited his section around Hester's Ferry on 
Friday and did considerable damage to crops.
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NEWSPAPER issue of Wednesday, June 18, 1902

LOCAL News

C.L. Parker of Wedowee was in Roanoke on Sunday, having come down to meet his 
mother and sister of Panama, Florida who are on a visit to relatives and old 
friends in Randolph county.
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Miss Matilda Zobel and her little niece Miss Bertha Stiritz who has been 
attending school here, left Monday for St. Louis.  From there they will go to 
Indiana, the home of the latter, where the former will spend two months 
visiting relatives.
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A.A. Trammell, the negro whose wife was recently killed by the train, had his 
house burned Sunday with all its content. He is a good man and deserves help.
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Mrs. J.C. Burson died at Omaha on the 9th inst.
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W.A. Water's mother and sister-in-law, Mrs. Tice of Columbus, came to visit 
relatives here Monday.
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Mr. and Mrs. C.A. Prescott, Mrs. C.C. Enloe and Louise Thomason arrived here 
yesterday from Florida. Their many friends will be glad to hear the party will 
remain several weeks.  The Wedowee Star
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NEWSPAPER issue of Wednesday, June 25, 1902

NORTH RANDOLPH News

Old "Uncle Johnnie" Sellars, an aged citizen of this section, died on the 13th 
inst. He was about 90 years old.
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ROCK MILLS News

Mrs. Holley and her little daughter Mildred returned from Atlanta recently 
where they have been staying for several months.
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Mrs. S.H. Striplin and her son Hiram of Atlanta are spending a few days with 
the former's daughter Mrs. T.T. Harper.
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Emory Mapp and Miss Winnie Harper were married a week ago yesterday.
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Charlie Laws of Texarkana, Texas, formerly of this place, visited relatives 
and friends here recently.
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WEHADKEE News

Sam Arnett and wife of Georgia visited the latter's parents at this place 
Saturday and Sunday.
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Joe Allen has moved his saw mill over on the place of Thomas Weathers. He will 
cut the lumber for the new bridge.
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Albert Barnes has returned home after spending several months in Texas. He 
says he is willing to remain in old Randolph.
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LOCAL News

O.W. Bradley from Griffin, Ga., is visiting his father's family here.
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In response to telegrams stating that Robt. Brown Jr. was critically ill in 
Tampa, Florida, his brother Joe Brown accompanied by Dr. Disharoon, left for 
that city on Monday.  We trust that the sick man may speedily recover.
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Mrs. Clark Rawley of Lockhart, S.C. and Mrs. W.J. Ratchford of LaFayette, left 
Monday after a visit to their sister, Mrs. T.L. Belcher.
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The Wedowee Star makes mention of the marriage of Eli Hester, youngest son of 
J.M. Hester, to Miss Roxie Parker.  Congratulations.
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A contemptible act was committed in beat seven last Wednesday night. Joseph 
and Frank Bradford had just purchsaed and put in place a saw mill plant and 
that night some wretch blew up the machinery with dynamite. The engine and 
boiler were wrecked.
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Mr. and Mrs. Worrell are spending some weeks with their daughter, Mrs. J.C. 
Wright.
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