Randolph County AlArchives News.....Newspaper Abstracts for JULY 1902 July 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 19, 2005, 2:03 pm The Randolph Leader July 1902 NEWSPAPER ABSTRACTS FROM "THE RANDOLPH LEADER", Roanoke, Randolph County, Alabama for JULY 1902 NEWSPAPER Issue of Wednesday, July 2, 1902 HAPPY LAND News Last Sunday at the residence of the bride's brother Mr. Will Moon, Lucius McKnight and Miss Mollie Moon were united in marriage, Rev. W.W. Turner officiating. __ NAPOLEON News Mr. Jeff Green and Miss Hattie Hester hied away to Georgia and got married on Sunday. The bride is the daughter of Mr. Alf Hester and is quite young. The groom is the son of A.J. Green. __ Oscar King, a young farmer in our community, was attacked in the pasture by a vicious sow and severely bitten. He has been laid up several days. __ LOCAL News Will Carlisle of Texas visited his sister Mrs. W.H. Hill in this place last week. __ The little fourteen months old son of Mr. and Mrs. A.J. Brumett died Sunday afternoon, after having been ill several weeks. The funeral services were conducted from the New Baptist church at 5 o'clock Monday afternoon by Rev. H.C. Risner. The entire community sympathizes with the grief stricken parents in their sad loss. ___ Invitations have been issued to the marriage of Miss Eva May, the charming daughter of Mrs. Mary T. Carlisle, to Mr. James Walter Hart of LaFayette, which will occur at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. M.W. Carlisle at half past twelve o'clock on Tuesday, July the eighth. __ Mrs. Mary Wood's son John of Langdale, is seriously ill at her home in this city. __ A daughter weighing eleven pounds joined the family of W.A. Waters last Sunday. __ Mr. Thomas Blake was called to Columbus on Saturday where his son Peter died that day of paralysis. Deceased formerly lived in Roanoke. He leaves a wife and ten children. __ Mrs. H.J. Holliday who has been so dangerously ill of fever at the home of her parents in Troup County, is improving bu ther mother is now quite ill with the same disease. __ "Uncle" Frank McMurry is the second oldest citizen of this county. He is 93 years old. __ Roanoke people will be interested in the marriage of Mr. Frank Turner, formerly of West Pont to Miss Tempie McDonald, which occurred at the latter's home in Conyers, Ga., at 6 o'clock last Sunday afternoon. Miss McDonald spent several months recently with her sister Mrs. J.D. Weathers in Roanoke, where Mr. Turner was also a frequent visitor. After the first of August they will make their home in Roanoke where Mr. Turner will engage in the grocery business. __ NEWSPAPER issue of Wednesday, July 11, 1902 LOCAL News Oates Manley is ill with the fever. __ Young Blake has moved out to the old Pate place. __ Elbert Ryan has gone to South Carolina to spend a few weeks at his old home. __ Mrs. Chadwick and her daughter Mrs. Stoves are visiting Mrs. J.W. Radney near town. __ T.J. Radney of Beat 8 was a pleasant caller yesterday. He reports his mother- in-law Mrs. Seymour as being very ill. __ W.D. Chewning of Chatfield, Texas was married in Langdale last Sunday to MIss Amanda Liles, daughter of the late Mr. Jack Liles. Rev. A.S. Brannon officiated. __ MRS. PRUETT DEAD Early last Friday morning the spirit of Mrs. Newton Pruett was called to its eternal home. She had been ill only a few days and her death was a great shock to her loved ones, especially so since coming so soon after the sudden death of her husband. But she had served well her day and generation and her rest will be sweet. She leaves one daughter, Mrs. H.J. Turns. Funeral services were conducted Saturday morning from the Baptist church by Rev. H.C. Risner. __ Mrs. Risner and children left this morning to visit relatives in Louisville, Ky. and Richview, Ill., and will be away till the last part of August. __ Frank Thornton's mother-in-law is very ill. Geo. Thornton and son of Georgia and Jake Barnhill and wife of Lineveille are here at her bedside. __ Little Miss Lottie Ray left yesterday to visit her sister in Charlotte, N.C. __ We regret to note that Mrs. W.H. Welch is quite sick with the fever. __ NEWSPAPER issue of Wednesday, July 16, 1902 LOCAL News Frank Mayo and Miss Ella Redmond were married on Sunday. __ We notice in the LaGrange Reporter of last week the news of the death of the mother of C.H. Hearn of Wehadkee. __ W.C. Whitlock and wife arrived here from Texas last week on a visit to relatives. __ Mr. and Mrs. Jake Brown, James Brown and Mrs. Mary Awbrey and son Dan, all of Georgia, attended the funeral of Robt. Brown in Roanoke last Saturday. __ The residence of F.P. Brock in LaFayette was burned by fire Saturday night. __ Mrs. E.P. Mickle and child are visiting relatives in Opelika. __ H.J. Turns and wife left Monday for Kentucky where they will spend two months with Mr. Turns' relatives. __ W.A.J. Bailey who has been very ill with typhoid fever is improving. __ The Leader regrets to note the sad death of Miss Erin Johnson, sister of Geo. B. Johnson, formerly of this place. Miss Johnson died in Dadeville last week. She was a sweet, christian girl. We tender sympathy. __ Joseph H. Brooks has been selected night Marshall to succeed Mr. Miller. He will begin his duties the first of August. __ Mayor Wright was called to Dadeville Saturday on account of the serious illness of his uncle Fred Vaughan. Mr. Vaughan died Monday morning. Mr. Vaughan was once president of the bank of Roanoke. His friends here regret his demise. __ A YOUNG MAN DIES Especially sad was the death of Robt. M. Brown, son of Mr. Robert Brown of this city, which occurred in Tampa, Florida last Thursday night. The deceased was a young man of fine physical appearance and was hardly 24 years of age. He had gone to Tampa less than six months ago and in that short time had worked his way up to a fine position with the Tampa Electric Company. The Tampa Tribune says he was very popular throughout that city. Upon the occasion of his sickness and death his employers gave substantial evidence of the esteem they had for him. The best attention was given the unfortunate man. A fine physician and nurse were employed and his brother Joseph M. Brown was with him for several weeks. But after a partial recovery, a relapse came, as is so often the case with typhoid fever, and there by the beautiful Tampa Bay, his fever brow fanned by its friendly breezes, his spirit went out over the waters of the untried sea to the mystic shores of the other world. The faithful and stricken brother began the tedious journey homeward with the remains of the deceased, and after traveling nearly 900 miles, arrived here Saturday before noon. A party of friends were at the station and bore the casket to the nearby residence of Mr. Barron, where it rested till 2 o'clock. Borne by six companions into the Baptist church of which the deceased was a member, touching services were held by the pastor, attended by a large number of sympathizing friends, after which the interment occurred in the city cemetery. Mr. Brown was a quiet, well disposed young man, actively identified with church work and seemed to be entering upon a successful career. In his untimely death the hearts of all our people go out in sympathy to the bereaved family, who are among the best people of our community. __ NEWSPAPER Issue of Wednesday, July 23, 1902 NAPOLEON News (by G.O. Hill, correspondent) We are trying to arrange a good program for Uncle Burrell Nail's birthday celebration. Many will want to come and see a man one hundred years old. He will be if he lives till the 6th of September. __ W.A.J. Bailey of High Shoals who has been so low with fever is better and appears to be recovering. __ Mrs. John Cummings of Haywood, who has been down with dropsy five or six months, and expecting every day to be her last for the last sixty days, was buried at the Pike Cemetery on the 5th inst. She was a splendid woman and suffered awfully before the end came. ___ WEHADKEE News Mrs. Noah Culpepper and daughter Miss Kate of Atlanta have been spending several days with relatives here. __ W.C. Enloe was called to Langdale last Tuesday to attend the funeral of his brother J.T. Enloe, whose sad death occurred last Monday. __ LOCAL News J.B. Duke and family of Birmingham are visiting Mrs. Duke's parents, Mr. and Mrs. A.J. Stephens at Radney's Chapel. __ W.C. Whitlock who came out from Texas some weeks ago with his wife and nephew William Whitlock, will return next month to close out his business there and then come to Randolph to stay. The young Mr. Whitlock is now at the residence of W.F. Harris of this city and is in very feeble health. __ J.H. Bass and wife went to north Randolph to attend the marriage on Sunday of their cousin Miss Sallie Smith to Keely Johnson. __ J.M. Robison of Lakeland, Fla., spent Monday night in Roanoke with his son G.W. Robison and proceeded to visit relatives at Ashland and other points. __ Miss Nora Wright went to Atlanta yesterday with her sister Estelle where the latter will be treated for deafness. __ B.E. Satterwhite left for Hot Springs, Arkansas on Saturday. He is suffering with a crippled foot. __ Mr. R.J. Higgins and his daughter Mrs. Hollinger with her little son arrived from Florida yesterday to visit Mr. and Mrs. M.W. Carlisle. __ Messes Maggie and Mittie Ray have returned from a visit to Columbus accompanied by their cousin Mrs. Otis Harbuck who will be their guest for some time. __ NEWSPAPER issue of Wednesday, July 30, 1902 LOCAL News Durward Cox and family are over from Birmingham to spend some days with the family of G.W. Cox. __ Mrs. Fuqua, the wife of a traveling man from North Carolina, has been seriously ill at the boarding house of J.A. Walden. __ We regret to chronicle the death of Henry Pool which occurred night after a long illness of typhoid fever. The funeral was conducted at High Pine church Monday afternoon by the pastor of the deceased, Rev. W.W. Turner. Mr. Pool's father, mother and brother died of this same dread disease. __ Night Marshall Miller who goes off duty at the end of this month, informs us that he has been in the service of the city for 33 consecutive months and in that time has only missed one night from his post of duty. This is a good record. __ Wyatt Avery was here Monday, returning to LaFayette from a visit to his father's. __ Roanoke people learned with regret yesterday of a tragedy which occurred in Birmingham Monday night. Hollis Parrish, a lawyer and son of Rev. D.L. Parrish, presiding elder of Tuscaloosa District and formerly pastor of the Methodist church in Roanoke, shot and instantly killed a man with whom he had been quarreling and who had just been arrested. The tragedy occurred on a street car. Parrish was placed in jail. It is said insanity will be his plea. He is not more than 25 years of age. We sympathize with the good old father. __ Tom L. Mathews and Miss Lola Gamble eloped from the home of the latter's parents, Mr. and Mrs. W.H. Gamble near Lime last Friday and were married in Franklin, Georgia. They are now staying at the home of the groom's father H.T. Mathews near town. __ File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/randolph/newspapers/newspape610gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 11.8 Kb