Randolph County AlArchives News.....Newspaper abstracts for MAY 1905 May 1905 ************************************************ 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 August 27, 2005, 8:59 pm The Roanoke Leader May 1905 NEWSPAPER ABSTRACTS FROM "THE ROANOKE LEADER", Roanoke, Randolph County, Alabama for MAY 1905 NEWSPAPER Issue of Wednesday, May 3, 1905 WEHADKEE News J.C. Prestridge is confined to his room with slow fever. --- Robert Harlan has a sick child. --- TWO DEATHS ON FRIDAY Last Friday morning about 9 o'clock, Mr. Jas. L. Higgins, a prominent citizen of the Double Head community, died very suddenly at his home. The funeral occurred Saturday at the family burying ground. Friday night about 8 o'clock, Mrs. J.W. Bonner died at her home a few miles southeast of Roanoke after an extended illness. Rev. T.S. Hubert conducted the funeral services at Bethel on Saturday afternoon. Among the children left are Marshal Bonner of this place and Dr. Bonner of Rock Mills. --- LOCAL News J.W. Hardy and wife of Troup County visited J.D. Hunter and family the past few days. --- B.G. Sanders accompanied his wife Thursday to an infirmary in Montgomery where she will remain a month. --- A two year old child of Fonsa Weathers died Saturday at Springfield. --- S.A. Davis of Hogansville visited R.L. Scheussler and family the latter part of last week. --- Woody Robinson who has been a soldier in the Philippines the past five years is spending a few days in Roanoke. --- G.C. Freeman returned Saturday from an extended business trip accompanied by his mother Mrs. Waller of Notasulga who will remain some time. --- Near Potash community on Saturday night, Jerry Wright was shot and probably fatally wounded by Will Watkins, who then made his escape with the woman over whom the row occurred. --- Bob Harlan, living near Wehadkee, lost a child two years of age last Sunday. --- Mrs. John M. Windom is improving after a dangerous illness. --- W.H. Purcell left Monday for his home in Columbia, visiting relatives enroute. He leaves many friends in Roanoke. --- Capt. Handley, commander of Camp Aiken-Smith, has secured admission to the Soldier's Home at Mountain Creek for W.H. Ellsberry of this place, who went to the home yesterday to spend his last days. His comrades say Mr. Ellsberry was as fine a soldier as ever served the Confederacy and was several times wounded. ---- Mr. W.W. Campbell returned Saturday evening from a stay with his father in Atlanta. All will regret to learn that the condition of our aged friend grows more serious every day. The Tuskegee News ---- Mr. M.R. Dudley of Lowndes county arrived Monday to spend the summer in Roanoke and is boarding at Mr. Hodges. His friends are pleased to greet him. --- Marvin Chatfield has returned to his home in LaFayette. --- NEWSPAPER Issue of Wednesday, May 10, 1905 WEDOWEE News Mrs. J.D. Bradley and Miss Willie Belle Stewart are visiting relatives in Albertville. --- CAMBRIDGE Community News May 3rd Mr. T.E. Disharoon who is well known in Randolph county and has been a citizen of the county for many years, and who has a number of relatives living in Roanoke and surrounding area, died yesterday morning at 10 a.m., after a long illness and great suffering. He will be laid to rest at Union cemetery, three miles from Cambridge. --- B.C. JONES IS ORATOR FOR MEMORIAL DAY SERVICES IN FRANKLIN, GEORGIA Memorial Day exercises will be observed in Franklin, Georgia on Saturday the 20th inst. A well known citizen of Roanoke is honored with the principal place on the program which is announced by The News and Banner as follows: " Hon. B.C. Jones of Roanoke, has been selected to make the memorial address. Mr. Jones is well known in this county. He is the son of the late Leonidas Jones, one of the best educators this county ever had. Mr. Jones is a fine speaker, full of fire and eloquence and we are sure all will be entertained. The Bevis band will make music for the occasion. The old soldiers will be assigned to different homes in town for dinner. Their comfort will be looked after by A.L. Bevis and W.S. Trent. The exercises will be held in the court house beginning at 2 o'clock p.m. ---- LOCAL News Miss Tommie Wood is ill with slow fever. --- Dr. Disharoon attended the funeral of his uncle, T.E. Disharoon in north Randolph last Wednesday. --- Mr. G.W. Campbell, father of W.W. Campbell, formerly of this place, died in Atlanta last Friday morning after a long and painful illness. His remains were carried to Tuskegee for interment. J.C. Wright went to West Point Friday morning and joined the funeral party. The deceased was one of the oldest and most prominent citizens of Macon county. ---- Mrs. B.G. Sanders has returned from Montgomery and is still quite sick. --- Olin Mooty has a fine boy just a week old. --- NEWSPAPER Issue of Wednesday, May 17, 1905 ROCK MILLS News Mrs. Posey Bennett of LaGrange is visiting her father J.R. Phillips. --- E.D. Yates who has been working in Atlanta is home for the summer. --- NAPOLEON News (by G.O. Hill, correspondent) "Others may do as they please but for me, while life lasts, I shall not forget the Confederate soldiers, either fallen or yet surviving." "They who forget the heroes of the country ought to be forgotten." The above expressions from the patriotic and erudite Memorial address delivered by Judge J.M. Carmichael at Montgomery April 26th are so forcibly impressive that I rejoice having the opportunity to quote them in this communication. Immediately prior to Memorial Day every year since I began to scribble for the county press, it has been customary with me in my weak way, to say something appropriate and necessary concerning the dreaded fear of the old soldiers, especially the poverty stricken ones, being neglected and forgotten. The thought that it was so much easier for following generations to keep in memory the achievements of heroes on the winning side, and the tendency to lose sight of those vanquished in the struggle was the origin of that dread. Now, I am so glad that we need no longer have any such fears and that there are organizations perfected by sons and daughters, for the perpetuity of brave acts of southern soldiers as well as memorial arrangements and inquiry into the care, pleasure and welfare of the old survivors. Hereafter we are perfectly willing to leave all arrangements to such loving care. I have only one suggestion which is well worthy of their investigation however. There are many old Confederate soldiers in our county, not members of our Camp and who do not enjoy our memorial services yearly, merely, I think, because they do not feel able to pay annual dues. They feel themselves intruders unless they are able to pay. If this impediment could someway be removed and a general invitation announced for all to come and enjoy themselves to the full the attendance would be largely increased. There will be only a few more roll calls in our Camp at best anyway. A short while only will anyone be taxed to feast Confederate soldiers and to their faces express praises of their valorous deeds. Very soon the newly freshened sod will expose the mound of the last one to go. Those who exert themselves to make the old veteran's last days his best days will possess a heritage priceless through life. ----- A son was born to Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Willingham of Haywood, last week. --- LOCAL News Horace Collier fell and dislocated his elbow yesterday. --- Mrs. J.S. Prescott was the guest of her brother T.M. Swann the first of this week, returning from a visit to Dr. Swann in Atlanta. --- A daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. R.M. Causey on Monday morning. --- A child was born Sunday night to Mr. and Mrs. W.L. Wilson at the home of the latter's parents near Evansville, Georgia, but the little one only lived a few hours. --- The venerable mother of R.J. Hooton, who recently sustained a fall that dislocated her hip and broke both bones in her left arm, is still in a serious condition at the home of her son Luther, though improving some. --- J.C. Wright is spending this week in New Orleans, attending a meeting of the cotton seed oil men of the South. --- Mrs. Belt White is expected to arrive from Anniston on Friday to visit her old home. She will be welcomed by many friends. --- Charlie Bell Eichelberger had one hand badly cut in some of the machinery of the cotton mill on Monday. --- NEWSPAPER issue of Wednesday, May 24, 1905 ROCK MILLS News Miss Sallie Breed, who has been sick for some time is still very ill. --- WEHADKEE News (by S.D. Lewis, correspondent) May 22nd Mrs. Lewis is preparing a birthday dinner. We are 44 years old today. --- We are sorry to note that Mr. Green Crenshaw is in failing health and not expected to live very long. --- J.H. Nix of Swag community was in town Wednesday and says Mr. Jno. D. Ayres is going to build a bridge across the big river at Foster's Ford. The citizens in that community need a bridge very badly and Mr. Ayres says he will build it himself and give it to the public. No more enterprising citizen lives in Randolph than Mr. J.D. Ayres. The Randolph Star --- STRUCK BY LIGHTNING The rain storm that reached Roanoke Sunday afternoon was accompanied by considerable lightning. The house of Reed Seymour, a respectable colored citizen, in the suburbs of town, was struck, a hole being torn in the roof and the front veranda being damaged. Seymour, his wife and several children were severely shocked. The wife and the mother were seriously injured but now improving. ---- DEATH OF MRS. M.J. RUGGLES; From Suffering to Rest At 5 o'clock Sunday morning the spirit of Mrs. M.J. Ruggles departed this world from the hoje of her dutiful son H.G. Ruggles, in this city. The deceased was 63 years of age and had been an invalid for eight years. She was a native of Georgia and a member of the Christian church. In her long illness she was lovingly cared for by her son and two daughters. Now that she has gone these have the consolation of knowing that they did what they could to alleviate her sufferings here and that she has passed beyond the reach of pain. Funeral services were conducted at the residence at 2 o'clock Monday afternoon by Rev. T.S. Hubert, assisted by Mr. G.W. Hill. The interment was in the city cemetery. ---- CARD OF THANKS We wish to thank our friends and neighbors, also her physician, Dr. Trent, for their great kindness shown to our mother in her long and fatal illness and for the many expressions of sympathy for us in the hour of sorrow and loss which has come to us. But words cannot convey our feeling of gratitude. We pray that God may reward you all. H.G. Ruggles and family ---- LOCAL News Mrs. Davis came last week to spend some time with her daughter Mrs. Jeffers. --- Mrs. Fannie Hopson boarded the train here Thursday to join her husband in Oklahoma. --- Major F.M. Handley has taken the degree of grandfather, a daughter being born to Mr. and Mrs. Mitchell Handley in Birmingham last week. --- Handley Mann boasts of a fine son born last Friday evening. --- C.R. Ruggles of Rome, Georgia arrived Monday to attend the funeral of his mother. --- NEWSPAPER issue of Wednesday, May 31, 1905 MEMORIAL DAY to be celebrated June 3rd Next Saturday, June 3rd, is the birthday of Jefferson Davis and on that day the local camp of Confederate Veterans and the F.P. Randle Chapter of the U.D.C. will unite in decorating the graves of the Confederate dead who are buried in Roanoke's cemeteries. How the hearts of the few survivors of the faithful followers of Jefferson Davis must swell with pride each year as their pulsations grow weaker, to witness the loyal and devoted efforts of their wives, sisters, daughters, to keep green the memory of those of their comrades who have already passed "over the river" and now "rest in the shade" with the gallant Lee, the immortal and intrepid Jackson, the hard fighting Longstreet, the alert Beauregard, the two Hills, A.P. and D.H. Turner, Ashby and Jeb Stuart, the daring Gordon, the sterling Hood, the gallant Bragg and hundreds of their able lieutenants, together with thousands of privates who made their commanders great by their heroic obedience to orders, by daring acts of bravery and self sacrificing devotion to a righteous cause. Then Jefferson Davis, whose birthday Saturday is, is with them and is still their president in the bivouac of the great majority that has passed over ahead of us. Let all the surviving Confederates so live that they may be ready at final "taps" to re-enlist under the great Lee and Jackson who now rest under the great white throne, whose color bearer is Jesus Christ. Let us see every surviving Confederate veteran in Randolph here in Roanoke next Saturday. They should come to manifest their love and respect for dead comrades. But if nothing else will bring them, they should come to shake the hands of the patriotic women of Roanoke who are striving to emulate the deeds of their mothers in the troublous days of the '60's. Come, our people will welcome you! Living comrades will grasp your hand. The U.D.C. will be encouraged by your presence. ----- NAPOLEON News (by G.O. Hill, correspondent) Mrs. Lee Shelnutt of Peace community was buried at Haywood on Wednesday. She leaves three small children and a husband in grief. --- Mrs. Ella Smith, my neice, informs me that her stepmother was buried at Waverly Hall in Harris County, Georgia. Her father, Levi Gauntt, is an old Confederate veteran, one tried and true. May the Lord extend to him condolence in his bereavement! --- CORBIN News Mr. Osman Messer and Miss Martha McManus were happily married yesterday, Rev. W.H. Stevens officiating. We wish for them a long and happy life. --- LOCAL News At the home of the bride's mother Mrs. R.C. Haynes in Roanoke last Sunday evening at 7:30 o'clock, occurred the marriage of Miss Florence Haynes to Mr. W. Albert Kitchens. Rev. T.S. Hubert was the officiating minister. Mr. and Mrs. Kitchens left Monday morning to spend a week with the latter's brother in Chattanooga after which they will be at home at the residence of Mrs. R.C. Haynes. Mr. Kitchens is a son of Oliver Kitchens of Heard County, Georgia and is a salesman at M.W. Carlisle and Bro's. He is an upright young man and is to be congratulated upon winning so lovely a woman as his life companion. --- R.B. Jordan is critically ill of pneumonia at his home south of town. --- While giving some instructions to his deaf negro servant boy on Saturday, Major F.M. Handley had his left hand severaly cut in an attack made upon him by the boy who then escaped. --- Mrs. R. Kyle and children and Miss Ida Ryan left yesterday to spend four week at their former home in Trenton, South Carolina. --- Last week a daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. T.R. Burgess and a son was born to Mr. and Mrs. Ed Fincher. --- Mrs. W.I. Manning arrived Saturday from Phenix City to spend some time with relatives in this vicinity. --- B.F. Thornton moved his wife and most of his children to Lineville the first of the week. Lloyd Thornton and his aunt will remain here for awhile. --- Ike Pinkard shot and probably fatally wounded John Lancaster in Wedowee Sunday afternoon. The former was arrested. Both are well known negroes of that community. --- Moses Wright returned to Roanoke yesterday. He is regaining his health and strength. --- The Leader is in receipt of an invitation from Rev. and Mrs. W.J.D. Upshaw to the marriage of their daughter Elizabeth Anne to Mr. Albert Elliott Weatherbee of Toronto, Canada, the ceremony to be performed on Wednesday morning, June 14th at 9 o'clock in the home in Fort Deposit. We join the many Roanoke friends of Miss Upshaw in wishing her a happy married life of unalloyed happiness. --- T.L. and J.M. Belcher are recovering from their recent severe illnesses. --- A daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. Jet Moon yesterday. --- A daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. Carlton Fuller in Lowell Sunday night. --- File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/randolph/newspapers/newspape658gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 16.7 Kb