Randolph County AlArchives News.....Newspaper Abstracts for DEC 1904 December 1904 ************************************************ 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 July 11, 2005, 3:12 pm The Roanoke Leader December 1904 NEWSPAPER ABSTRACTS FROM "THE ROANOKE LEADER", Roanoke, Randolph County, Alabama for DECEMBER 1904 NEWSPAPER Issue of Wednesday, December 7, 1904 LEVONIA News Jane Melton recently departed this life. __ WEDOWEE News Samuel Henderson will move to Gadsden this week to practice law. __ Miss Mooty from Franklin, Georgia is spending some time with her sister Mrs. Enloe. __ Mrs. L.J. Enloe expects to start to Florida this week to spend the winter. __ NAPOLEON News Mr. Will Joiner and Miss Ruby Barton were happily united in marriage last Sunday at the residence of Bro. M. Earnest. __ Mr. Leonard Willingham and Miss Ada Hester eloped to Franklin on Sunday afternoon and were married there. __ Mr. Chuck PIke had his sale on Tueday and will soon leave for Sand Mountain. __ Jeff Green was compelled to postpone his trip to Texas in consequence of the illness of his wife. __ LOCAL News Mr. and Mrs. J.H. Windom from Tallapoosa, Ga., have come to make their home for a while with the latter's parents, Mr. and Mrs. J.A. Walden. __ Mayor R. H. Harris of Albertville has suffered a stroke of paralysis. His many friends in Randolph county hope for his complete recovery. __ Mrs. Joe Durham and Mrs. G.W. Nelson of Chipley, Ga., returned home Sunday after a visit to their brother J.T. Nelson. Mr. and Mrs. Nelson accompanied them to Columbus. __ NEWSPAPER Issue of Wednesday, December 14, 1904 WEDOWEE News Mr. Hyatt Reaves and Miss Lula Washburn were married Saturday afternoon at the home of Rev. C.M. Dollar. __ WEHADKEE News Rufus Bartlett has sold his place and is moving to Chambers county. __ Miss Bertha Pittman is spending several days in Carrollton, Ga. She is in feeble health and is under treatment of physicians. __ HAPPY LAND News Mrs. Zach Kitchens of Double Head is on the sick list. __ ROCK MILLS News W.M. Allison and family expect to leave for Hopkins County, Texas after Christmas. __ Miss Sallie Wood and Mr. John Henry Howze went to Georgia on Sunday and were married. __ E.M. Yates is in Jonesboro, Ga., visiting relatives. __ THURMAN News Robert Burdette had a sale last week. He will move to West Point. __ LOCAL News On the first of December a celebration occurred at Wildwood in Beat 2. On that day, Mr. H.D. Landers was 74 years old. A fine dinner was prepared and all the family and all the old folks in the community were invited to be present. Mr. Landers is one of the most prominent citizens of the county. The Leader wishes him many returns of his natal anniversary. __ Mrs. J.C. Pound, mother of Mrs. John Carlisle and the latter's brother and sister Mr. and Mrs. E.E. Pound of Wayside, Ga., returned home yesterday. __ Mrs. J.W. McDonough is critically ill at her home in east Roanoke. __ From our Napoleon correspondent, we learn that Mrs. McGaha who some time ago went to Georgia to wait upon her only living sister Mrs. Lizzie Todd, writes that her sister is dead. __ W.A. Brumbeloe of this county is preparing to move to Sand Mountain. __ Mrs. Lindsey is visiting her sick sister, Mrs. McDonough. __ Another car load from this section left yesterday for Texas. Among those who went are the following heads of families: S.B. Harris, R.A. Burdett, John Wood, J.W. Wood, J.E. Banks, H.D. Hester, T.J. Green and Harvey Jones. __ NEWSPAPER Issue of Wednesday, December 21, 1904 AN OLD NEGRESS DIES On December 9th a death occurred in Roanoke that is worthy of notice. On that date a venerable negress, Fannie Handley, departed this life. She was undoubtedly the oldest person in this county. Her age was upward of 100 years and some held that she must be far towards 125. This old woman nursed Hon. W.A. Handley when he was an infant and Mr. Handley has, through all of her old age, provided for her needs. She died in a house near G.H. Handley's, where she was cared for by members of the Handley family, with that love that has always existed between the old time negro and the Southern people. ___ WEDOWEE News Samuel Sanders was married in this place Saturday to Miss Della Stevens. Judge Kaylor officiated. __ Warner Sikes was married Sunday to Miss Ella Earnest at the home of the bride's parents. __ WEHADKEE News Robert Stitt of Harris county, Ga., is visiting relatives at this place. __ J.F. Lewis and family left Friday for Marion county where they will make their future home. __ Mr. Jesse Jennings and Miss Pearl Moses were united in marriage at the bride's home near Beulah. W.A. Moses, Esq., officiated. __ Mrs. Alfred Hester died suddenly last Friday night from a stroke of paralysis at her home near Potash. She was a consecrated member of the Baptist church and was much loved by all who knew her. The funeral services were conducted by Rev. Milligan Earnest on Sunday evening at Big Spring after which the body was laid to rest to await the morning of the resurrection. We extend our sympathy to all the bereaved ones. __ NAPOLEON News We have here, near Napoleon, a man very, very old and very poor. He has lived to see one hundred and three Christmases should he live to see the twenty- fifth of this month. He is worthy and hopeful. For years I have visited him on Christmas morning and have been delighted by his childish pleasure. Are there any readers of The Leader who wish to fellowship with me in joy this time? Are there any children at Roanoke who desire to send him a nice present and that I should convey their sweet prayer to Uncle Burrell Nail? Is there any business man there with an overflowing charitable heart who wishes God to smile on him and his for disbursing his blessings to this old disciple of his dear son? If not providentially hindered I will be at Roanoke on Thursday before christmas to the special purpose of conveying to Uncle Burrell such donations. __ Mr. F.M. Spears, widower and U.S. pensioner, will be married tomorrow at the bride's home, to Miss Bailey who is only fourteen years old. __ F.P. RANDLE DIES The death which it becomes our sad duty to announce today carries sorrow to many hearts throught his and adjoining counties. Hon. Fountain Pitts Randle has passed away. His demise came peacefully a quarter before twelve o'clock last Monday morning at his home in this city. At his bedside were his faithful wife and brother, his pastor and several neighbors. Though sad this scene, the entry into rest of a faithful, noble soul was doubtless hailed with joy by sainted spirits on the river's farther brink. For several years Mr. Randle had been in feeble, failing health. The breakdown of his physical man, over the protests of his heroic will power and after a life of remarkable activity, was occasioned by a fearful wound received during the Civil War. The immediate cause of his death was pneumonia, which developed a few days before. Mr. Randle was a member of the famous Kentucky Orphans' Brigade and was a gallant defender of the Stars and Bars. In one of the great battles of that bloody war he received the wound, from a broken shell, which ultimately led to his death. But in times of peace he was no less a hero than in war. Coming from a fine old family of Tennessee, he inherited many strong characteristics. To strength of intellect and culture he added an unselfish zeal and an integrity of purpose that made him, in the years of life's meridian, a model of manhood worthy the emulation of his fellows. Looking back over the pages of this useful life, as far as memory carries us, with grateful recollections of kindnesses shown, we are profoundly impressed that the world is poorer and that humanity has lost a friend, now that Fountain P. Randle has fallen. But it is not for us to praise him. His ten thousand kindly deeds do that. Many widowed and fatherless ones, who have felt his helping hand along life's rugged way, will bless his memory so long as love and gratitude shall live. Ever since the close of the war between the states, Capt. Randle has been prominently identified with the public and business life of this section. He was born in Tennessee Sept. 25, 1839 but married in West Point and afterwards engaged in business there. Later he came to Rock Mills and for years had charge of the cotton factory at that place. The history of Rock Mills and Randolph county could not be written without ascribing to F.P. Randle a prominent and worthy part of it. At one time he represented this county in the legislature. He was always foremost and fearless in every fight where the moral interests of his people were at stake. For all this he did not escape criticism, but he modestly met it and judging now by the fruits of his life, he has received the commendation of "well done" from Him whose wisdom never errs and who said "them that honor me I will honor." The Prince of Israel of whom we write was a life-long member of the Methodist church. Practically all of his mature life he was an official in that church. Yet he was a man of great catholicity of spirit. His hand of charity was extended to all who came within his reach. To his wife and brother and only son he bequeaths a memory of constant, unselfish devotion and to his fellow men a life whose influence is an inspiration and blessing. Funeral services were held at the Methodist Church in this city at 10 o'clock yesterday morning conducted by Revs. W.T. Andrews and H.M. Stevenson. Owing to a failure to circulate the notice in time, comparatively few of the friends of the family were present. The interment was in the family burying ground at Rock Mills, where a short service was held. ____ LOCAL News W.N. Randle and family arrived from Atlanta Monday evening, missing the connection that would have gotten them here before the death of the former's father, Capt. F.P. Randle. They will remain through the holidays. __ Mrs. F.C. Andrews arrived yesterday to attend the funeral of her brother-in- law, F.P. Randle. __ Henry Lewis and family of Ocampo, Ala., will arrive this week to visit the family of J.F. Lewis in Roanoke. __ Information has been received that Will Hunter stabbed Jack Moncus at a wedding on Sunday and seriously wounded him. __ Mr. Jeffer's mother went to her old home in Georgia on Friday to spend Christmas. __ Mrs. Bettie Brittain and daughter Miss Clara have moved to Houston, Georgia. __ J.H. Allen's wife is spending some days with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J.G. Kirk. __ NEWSPAPER issue of Wednesday, December 28, 1904 LOCAL News After a painful illness of several weeks, Mrs. J.W. McDonough died at one o'clock yesterday morning at her home in the eastern section of the city. She has lived in Roanoke a number of years and leaves a husband and two sons. The funeral will occur from the residence at 10 o'clock this morning. __ W.W. Langley was called here Sunday from Anniston on account of the wounding of his brother. __ "Uncle" Peter Miller is over here from Atlanta, shaking hands with his many friends. __ James Cadenhead had the misfortune to fall from his wagon last Thursday and dislocate his shoulder. __ Among the well known citizens leaving yesterday for Oklahoma we noted, S.D. Chewning, W.M. Allison and C.H. Lane with their families. __ We met J. Fletcher Jordan on the street Monday and asked him about Texas. He had just returned from that state and says he has no notion of moving. This country is good enough for him. __ Sam G. Carter was called to Georgia last Saturday by the death of his brother who was accidentally shot by the latter's son while out hunting. __ A CARD OF THANKS Our friends and neighbors and all who shoed us kindnesses on the recent occasion of the death of him we loved so well, will please accept this expression of our sincere thanks and gratitude. Respectfully, Mrs. L.C. Randle, A.G. Randle, W.N. Randle __ J. Roy McGinty and Rupert A. McGinty of the Opelika Post were welcome callers at The Leader office on Monday. They, with their parents and little brother were visiting their relatives, A.G. Randle and family. __ C.J. Ussery of Temple, Texas is visiting at his old home here. __ Perry Mooty will arrive from Texas today. __ A CHRISTMAS TRAGEDY About 8 o'clock Saturday night, Christmas Eve, Julius A. Langley and W.B. Davis, well known citizens of this place, became engaged in a difficulty in front of R.B. Hester & Sons store. Blows were followed by pistol shots, both men firing several times. One bullet struck Davis in the head but glanced and did but little damage. Langley was shot in the stomach. He was carried home and given medical attention but continued to sink steadily till he died just about 12 o'clock Monday night. He was conscious and talked of his various interests a few hours before. He was buried in the city cemetery yesterday afternoon with Masonic and K. of P. honors. Mr. Davis at first made bond but was afterwards taken to the Wedowee jail. He is to have a preliminary trial before Judge Kaylor next Monday. It is understood that the difficulty grew out of a contest by the two men for the appointment of bailiff for this beat. Both parties have relatives who are among our most respectable people and the tragedy is universally regretted. ___ File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/randolph/newspapers/newspape638gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 13.9 Kb