Randolph County AlArchives News.....Newspaper Abstracts for NOV 1903 November 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 26, 2005, 1:06 am The Roanoke Leader November 1903 NEWSPAPER ABSTRACTS FROM "THE ROANOKE LEADER", Roanoke, Randolph County, Alabama for NOVEMBER 1903 NEWSPAPER Issue of Wednesday, November 4, 1903 CORBIN News Mrs. Geo. Parker has returned from Mississippi in very feeble health. __ Joe Parker is fixing to move to Texas to try his fortune. __ William Huey is moving to Cleburne County. __ Mrs. Jas. Strain is dangerously sick. __ Joe Shelnutt is down with rheumatism. __ "Uncle" Tarpley Fincher has been right feeble for several days. __ LOCAL News Mrs. Jesse Fausett, we regret to note, continues quite ill at her home near town. __ Brit Belcher has a case of smallpox. He is getting along favorably. __ J.H. Baxley and T.C. Freeman of Notasulga were the guests of G.C. Freeman on Sunday. The two last named are brothers. __ C.M. McCarley died at his home two miles north of town last Wednesday and was buried at Forrester's Chapel on Thursday. He was a good citizen and leaves a wife and four children. __ Secretary of State J. Thomas Heflin returned yesterday from Randolph County where he attended the annual reunion of the Heflin family. The reunion, lasting a week, was at Indian Springs near the old homestead. There were eighteen members of the family present and they spent the week in tents. The Montgomery Advertiser __ Miss Johnnie J. Askew went to Newnan, Ga., on Saturday to attend the marriage of her sister Miss Rosa Askew to Mr. Roy Brown, of Atlanta. The ceremony will occur this evening. The bride-to-be is well and favorably known in Roanoke, having frequently visited the family of Mr. Robert Brown. __ Mrs. Peter Blake and five small children passed through Roanoke yesterday, returning to Birmingham from a visit to her father-in-law. __ Nixon Lucas was in town yesterday to meet his brother W.P. Lucas who has been visiting their sick mother in North Carolina. __ Mrs. Hays is ill with typhoid fever. __ J.W. Brumbelow landed here from Texas on Monday and says he has enough of Texas. __ Jim Cummings, a brother-in-law of J. I. Mickle of this county, was found dead near the Western Railroad on Sunday morning. There were evidences of foul play and the authorities are investigating the case. The remains were brought to Fredonia for interment. __ J.R. Ryan went to Alexander City this morning to attend the marriage of his brother J.B. Ryan to Miss Sallie May Adams. __ At Notasulga twelve days ago Ralph Armstrong, son of the late H. Clay Armstrong, shot his first cousin Miss Allie Armstrong, with whom he was reportedly in love. Last Sunday night she died. It is said that young Armstrong was under the influence of whiskey when his committed the act. It is said that he had driven to a house in the country and procured a gallon of home made wine. __ NEWSPAPER issue of Wednesday, November 11, 1903 WEHADKEE News J.P. Bartlett, while returning from Roanoke a few nights ago, had the misfortune to fall from his wagon, hurting himself very badly. He is doing nicely now. __ NAPOLEON News Leonard Willingham left for Texas a few days ago. __ Mrs. M. Laney is very ill. __ Mrs. Alice Fincher gave birth to a boy last week that died shortly after birth. __ Mrs. M.A. White and her son- in- law, J.F. South of Omaha community, visited relatives in this community recently. __ S.M. Adamson, an old citizen and Baptist minister, died Sunday night at his home in Louina beat. __ J.P. Robertson and wife and their adopted daughter Mrs. Pate, arrived here Friday from Texas and proceeded up the country to visit the former's parents. __ We regret to note the illness of Thos. R. Burgess with the fever. __ Hez Estes and Miss May Holliday were married near Evansville, Ga., last Sunday, Rev. H.J. Holliday of this city performing the ceremony. __ Mrs. R.W. Hornsby and children arrived from Texas on Sunday, stopping overnight with the family of R.L. Brunbelow and proceeding to visit relatives up the county. __ WEDDINGS TO BE Mrs. Elizabeth Tucker has issued invitations to the marriage of her granddaughter Miss Sarah Elizabeth Hart to Mr. Asa Robert Noel, the happy event to occur on the afternoon of the 18th at a quarter past 4 o'clock at the home of Dr. and Mrs. W.D. Gaines in LaFayette. __ Mr. and Mrs. Simpson D. Burdette invited a number of friends to witness the marriage of their daughter Miss Della Pearl to Tyler McEwin Swann at their home in this city at half past 8 o'clock on the evening of the 18th. __ Mr. and Mrs. William H. Wright invited a number of friends to the marriage of their daughter, Miss Inez, to Mr. Lemuel David Askew, at the home of the bride- to-be's parents in Tuskegee at 5 o'clock Wednesday afternoon on the 18th. __ NEWSPAPER issue of Wednesday, November 18, 1903 CORBIN News "Grandma" Chaffin is dangerously ill at this writing. __ Mrs. J.S. Strain who has been improving is now reported as being worse. __ Dock Mitchell and Rufus Canady are arranging move to the factory. __ Weldon Hester has moved back from Sand Mountain. __ Larkin Reeves is fixing to put a good saw mill in operation in our community right away. __ Edgar Sikes and Will Shelnutt are starting to Atlanta on Monday with a drove of cattle. __ Dolphus Huey spent Sunday here with the home folks. __ NAPOLEON News Mr. Bob Graham of Omaha and Miss Dessa Lester of Napolon community werer married Sunday morning. Bro. Milligan Ernest tied the knot that bound them together as one. __ Grover Williams cut his foot seriously with an axe last week. __ George Lipp informs me that he has failed to sell his place so he will stay with it and not go to Arkansas. __ HAPPY LAND News W.M. Pinckard of Elmore county visited relatives here this week. _ Rev. M.A. Key is preparing to go to Texas. __ UNION Community News Emory Jordan is up again after a six weeks illness. __ "Grandma" Dodgen of Standing Rock is visiting the family of her son, Mr. J.P. Dodgen. __ John Tom Rorie skipped out to parts unknown last Tuesday night taking his family with him. __ LOCAL News The LaGrange Reporter appreciated a call from Mr. Shirley N. Sledge of Roanoke, Ala., one day last week. Mr. Sledge was born and reared in Troup county but has been away 28 years. He is an old Confederate soldier, having joined the Thirteenth Georgia Regiment. He is well known to many of our oldest citizens. The LaGrange Reporter ___ Mrs. J.W. Belcher and little grandson, in the same home with Brit Belcher, now have mild cases of smallpox. __ A daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. W.T. Yates in Lowell community on Saturday. Commissioner Yates is now a smiling grandpa. __ Miss Jane May died at White's Chapel last Wednesday night. __ Miss Mae Johnson died near Welsh on Sunday night. __ C.R. Ruggles spent a few days recently with his brother H.G. Ruggles. On his return home to Rome, he took with him his children who have been in school here. __ Allen Bailey who lives three miles north of town was in our office yesterday. He has rented land from F.M. Pitts at Lime and expects to move there about the first of next month. __ Jas. J. Awbrey, a large planter and an estimable citizen just over the Georgia line, came to town Monday and on his wagons were 25 bales of cotton grown on his place. He sold the fleecy to W.H. McMurray at 11 cents a pound which netted $1353. And this is not the first or the last of Mr. Awbrey's crop. __ NEWSPAPER issue of Wednesday, November 25, 1903 LOCAL News Mrs. Doc Arnett has the fever. __ Monroe Hester is quite ill with lagrippe. __ Mrs. Mary Kirby spent Monday night in Roanoke enroute to Texas. __ Ben Langley, a white man of this county who was sentenced to the penitentiary for five years for attempting to bribe a jury, was pardoned by the Governor last week. __ DEPLORABLE DEATH A death occurred at Hickory Flat last Friday. Only recently Dr. T.H. Bonner and wife came to sudden deaths at that place and Dr. E.P. Green moved with his wife to the Flat to succeed the former. Friday morning, Dr. Green left home to go to his wife's parents home in Georgia. Returning in the afternoon, he was horrified to find his wife dead. She was known to have had heart trouble. The deceased was a handsome, charming young woman and she and her husband were finding success and happiness in their new home. Mrs. Green was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H.C. Allen and a sister of Mrs. J.T. Talley of this place. The interment was at State Line, Georgia on Saturday. Dr. Green and the relatives of the deceased have the profound sympathy of many friends. __ A social occasion in the Welsh community occurred last Sunday afternoon in the marriage of Mr. A.F. Smith of near Double Head to Miss Mary M. Alford of near Welsh, the writer officiating. A very large crowd of people in the community were present to witness the marriage. Both the parties are earnest and respectable young people and many friends wish them a long and happy life. Jno. P. Shaffer ___ File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/randolph/newspapers/newspape625gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 9.7 Kb