Randolph County AlArchives News.....Newspaper abstracts for OCT 1903 October 1903 ************************************************ 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 25, 2005, 3:52 pm The Roanoke Leader October 1903 NEWSPAPER ABSTRACTS FROM "THE ROANOKE LEADER", Roanoke, Randolph County, Alabama for OCTOBER 1903 NEWSPAPER issue of Wednesday, October 7, 1903 WEHADKEE News Henry Veal is the happy father of a new girl. __ NAPOLEON News F.M. Spears is lying very low and not expected to live long. __ Dr. George Traylor reports twenty-six cases of fever in Lamar beat. __ Miss Katie Barton was taken to the asylum last week. Katie is quite a favorite in the community and her numerous friends hope to learn of her speedy recovery and return home. __ LOCAL News Ollie Yates is quite sick. __ Will Wallace is ill with fever but improving. __ Oscar Bradshaw went down to Russell County to teach school. __ On Sunday, two couples of Lowell inhabitants went into Chambers county and were married. They were Chas. E. Dudley and Miss Daisy Sharman and Dal Ark and Miss Hazie Sharman. The brides are the daughters of W.C. Sharman. __ J. Lee Wimbush who worked at Kirk & Ruggles shop until three weeks ago, was shot and killed in Columbus a week ago. The remains were brought to the deceased's former home at Fredonia for burial. __ Posey Baird has gone to LaGrange to clerk for his uncle. __ W.W. Walls, who has been selling sewing machines for Griffin & Satterwhite, received a telegram Sunday announcing the death of his son in Columbiana and he left for that place on Monday. __ NEWSPAPER issue of Wednesday, October 14, 1903 LOCAL News Miss Kittie Lee Amos arrived Friday to spend some time with her sister Mrs. Spinks. __ D.P. Slay Jr. of Texas is visiting his uncle, J.L.B. Taylor near town. His father, who went from this county to Texas, spent some time here last summer. __ J.A. Longshore and wife have gone to Camp Hill to make their home. W.O. Longshore will be in Wedowee all this Fall, winding up his brother's business. __ Mrs. W.H. Stewart attended the Bradley - Stewart wedding in Wedowee on Sunday. __ Mrs. A.J. Noles and family have moved to Atlanta. __ T.M. Swann and his sister Mrs. Lizzie McMurray went to Atlanta yesterday afternoon to spend a week. __ The Stewart Hotel in Wedowed was the scene of a happy, quiet wedding Sunday morning at 10 o'clock. At that hour Mr. J.D. Bradley and Miss Jimmie Stewart united their lives and fortunes. Mr. Bradley is an admirable young gentleman, a member of the firm of Dobson & Bradley. His bride is the attractive daughter of Mr. J.W. Stewart. The Leader extends congratulations and good wishes. __ Mrs. J.F. Jordan and her son-in-law Frank Lane, living near town, are reported to be quite sick. __ NEWSPAPER Issue of Wednesday, October 21, 1903 NAPOLEON News Thomas Willingham of Haywood community will move with his family to Texas this winter. Jim Brumbeloe, who left here last December for that state is coming back to the place he left this Fall. __ George Lipp is hustling to get off to Arkansas as soon as his crops are gathered. Several of the young men who left here for the Lone Star State a while back have written that they will return soon. __ LOCAL News Joe Hodges died Monday morning in the Peavy community and was buried at Concord the following day. Rev. W.W. Turner conducted the funeral services. __ W.J. Snow's fifth child is a daughter and was born on the 17th. __ Born to Mr. and Mrs. J.C. Wright yesterday, a girl. __ Last Thursday night, T.W. Atchison, a well known citizen of the Corbin community, was shot while passing along the highway. Small shot was used and the wounds are not thought to be serious. Jim Norton was charged with the shooting and was arrested but he denies being guilty. __ Last Saturday afternoon a mild tragedy occurred out in Rock Mills beat. The well known character Doss Prophet who has a boistrous disposition went to the home of his son-in-law Charlie Tittle, whose wife and young child were sleeping. It is said that Doss became boistrous and that Tittle remonstrated to him, whereupon the former cut his son-in-law in the head with a knife. Tittle then picked up a shot gun and peppered his adversary with small shot. Neither is said to be seriously injured. __ OLD MANUSCRIPT (written by O.H. Stevenson) A matter of more than ordinary importance to the writer, concerning an old manuscript, may prove of some interest to some of our readers. At the risk of being criticized for the personal feature of it, we will here refer to it. One night recently, while removing the contents of the drawer of an old table that had been in our home since our earliest recollections, we found, among other trinkets, an old but well preserved manuscript of odd size and color. It was marked "Stevenson Genealogy" and was in the handwriting of this editor's father, the late Rev. John B. Stevenson. It was dated December 1858. The paper spoke interestingly of the times and characters of the Revolutionary period. The scene was North Carolina. Among other things the manuscript states, "The entire ancestry of my parents were all Whigs during the Revolutionary War; and many of them fought, bled and some died in the service. William Payne (the author's mother's father) was under the command of Charles Washington James Stevenson (his other grandfather) volunteered at the age of 16 years under Capt. Hall and was several years in the service, sometimes subduing the tories and sometimes meeting the trained legions of the King." As the moral of this, we wish to suggest that parents would do well to write a brief history of themselves and their ancestry to hand down to their children. In this way an interesting and accurate genealogical table could be kept and future generations would have a more intelligent idea of who they are and whence they came. Act on this suggestion and your children will bless you. O.H. Stevenson _____ Col. J.M. Falkner has taken much interest in the matter of the Legislature increasing the appropriation for the ex-Confederate soldiers and widows. Col. Falkner has spent a great deal of time and money for the comfort of those old fellows in their last days and has done it with a cheerful heart. He expressed regret that the Governor vetoed the bill appropriating one hundred thousand as an increase for pensions. Col. Falkner has succeeded in establishing a home for old soldiers who have no home or relatives to take care of them. This good man who has been more fortunate than many of his old comrades, has never failed to help those of his old comrades who need help. Such men as Col. Falkner deserve the love and admiration of every Confederate soldier and the descendants of same. Let us not forget the kindness of the big hearted old Confederate veteran. His life and works should be a guiding star to every true southern boy and girl of our land. The Marshall Banner ___ NEWSPAPER issue of Wednesday, October 28, 1903 NAPOLEON News Mr. Sam Smith and Miss Dora Yates were married at the home of the bride's father, Joel Yates, last Sunday mornong. Rev. C.T. Culpepper officiated. The bride is a beautiful young lady. The happy groom and his beautiful bride then attended services at Rocky Branch and listened to a sermon from Brother Culpepper that, if heeded, will be of lasting benefit to them through life. __ WEHADKEE News Rufus Bartlett has bought the Dock Benefield place. The latter will move to north Alabama. __ EXECUTOR'S SALE State of Alabama, Randolph County In accordance with a provision contained in the Last Will and Testament of J.P.D. Murphy, deceased, I will sell to the highest bidder for cash, on Saturday, the 14th day of November 1903, in front of the court house door in the town of Wedowee, the following property: One store house and lot described as follows: part of Lot No. 106 in Wedowee in Section 3, Township 20, Range 11, bounded as follows: Beginning at the SE corner of said lot and running sixty feet west, thence 22 feet north, thence 60 feet east, thence 22 feet south to the beginning. Also lots No. 140 and 141 with dwelling house in the town of Wedowee. Also one undivided 1/2 interest in a lot in the NW 1/4 of SE 1/4 of Sec. 3, Township 20, Range 11. Said lot is bounded on the north by the Masonic Cemetery lot, west by the western boundary line of said section 3, township 20, range 11 and south by a street running and waest which is a continuation of Broad St. in the town of Wedowee and east by a street running north and south, nearest the west side of the survey known as the Masonic survey of said subdivision of land. All of the said property is a part of the estate of the said deceased. Emil, Zobel, Executor of the Last Will and Testament of J.P.D. Murphy, deceased. ___ LOCAL News Brit Belcher is quite sick. __ Sam Bonner, a brother of Marshall R.R. Bonner, and Miss Ila Meacham, daughter of W.B. Meacham, were married Sunday at Evansville, Ga. __ Hattie, the little daughter of Rev. J.D. Ellis of Decatur, has come to Roanoke to attend school and is boarding with her aunt, Mrs. J.W. Radney. __ Ed Hearn, son of L.H. Hearn, and Miss Blanche Harper, both prominent young people of Rock Mills, went to Georgia last Sunday and were married. __ Henry Yarbrough and Otis Fincher of Lamar beat, boarded the train this morning for the school for the blind in Talladega. __ Mrs. Flem Cummings died suddenly at the home of her son Bartow Cummings at Stroud community Monday night. __ Mrs. Jesse DeLoach died Monday in the Double Head community. __ Mrs. Hays has typhoid fever. __ DELEGATES SELECTED At a called meeting of the Confederate Veterans of Aiken-Smith Camp No. 293, Oct. 24th, the following were elected delegates to the annual state reunion of Veterans at Birmingham, Ala. Nov. 4th and 5th: DELEGATES W.A. Handley B.F. Weathers A.J. Driver W.C. Osborn H.D. Pearson J.W. Pitts J.W. Stewart Dr. D.B. Rodgers G.B. Henson W.V. Taylor Thos. J. East Dr. Wm. Weathers ALTERNATES J.W. Belcher J.W. McDonnough J.A. Hardy H.M. Mickle Joe L. Higgins S.S. Waller Richard Head T.L. Hardy F.M. Handley Geo. W. Hill M.R. Taylor J.T. Coleman ____ MOOTY - ARNOLD WEDDING At half past one o'clock tomorrow afternoon at the home of Mr. John Willis Arnold in Grantville, Ga., his daughter Miss Jennie will be married to Marvin Mooty. Immediately after the ceremony, Mr. and Mrs. Mooty will board the train for Roanoke where they will be the guests for several days of the groom- to-be's brothers, Messrs. A. A. Mooty and R.O. Mooty. Mr. Marvin Mooty is a young man of bright mind and fine principle. He belongs to one of the leading families of this section. The young lady who has consented to share his fortunes with him is said to be one of the most lovely of Georgia's many charming daughter's. The Leader extends its good wishes in advance. __ File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/randolph/newspapers/newspape624gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 11.5 Kb