Randolph County AlArchives News.....Newspaper abstracts for FEB 1906 February 1906 ************************************************ 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 September 6, 2005, 1:18 pm The Roanoke Leader February 1906 NEWSPAPER ABSTRACTS FROM "THE ROANOKE LEADER", Roanoke, Randolph County, Alabama for FEBRUARY 1906 NEWSPAPER issue of Wednesday, February 7, 1906 BACON LEVEL News C.B. Ussery and wife have arrived from Newnan, Georgia and are making their home with the former's parents. --- CORBIN News B.D. Carpenter is fixing to build out on the Franklin road. --- T.C. Wilson is getting ready to build two good dwellings on his farm. --- Pete Chaffin is laying down the lumber for a good dwelling on his place. --- Old Grandpa Fincher has been right sick for several days. --- REWARD OFFERED I offer a reward of $10. to anyone who will arrest Sam Gunn, colored and notify me. Hold all money or papers found on him. Sam Gunn is a spare man, about 6 feet high, 21 years old, ginger-cake colored, carried his head very much elevated. Picks a banjo and guitar, has a scar under right eyebrow. He left Saturday night, Jan. 20th. If seen please report when and where and direction going. H.T. Mathews, Roanoke, Ala. ---- LOCAL News Alvin J. Higgins and family left yesterday for Quanah, Texas to make their home. --- Young Blake and children are advertising a sale of their farming and household property on Monday February 12th. They will move to western Texas. Their friends regret their decision to leave Randolph. --- About 9 o'clock last Friday night, the large residence of Young Blake and children near Roanoke, was destroyed by fire. It began in the kitchen stove flu. A large part of the furniture was saved though damaged. It was partially covered by insurance. --- B.B. Adamson and family of Lowell left for Texas yesterday. --- Rev. W.R. Avery was a caller at our office Friday, accompanied by his brother Mr. Needham Avery of Texas, who is visiting relatives in this section. --- Herren Watkins is the express and baggage man on the midday train now running into Roanoke. He is a brother of Mrs. E.M. Sharman. --- Henry Manley went to Ft. Worth, Texas yesterday to make his fortune. --- J.T.Nelson carried his wife to Atlanta last week for treatment where she will remain in a sanitorium for some time. --- NEWSPAPER issue of Wednesday, February 14, 1906 END OF GENERAL WHEELER While every detail of General Joe Wheeler's funeral at Washington on Monday was in strict accordance with Southern sentiment, the ceremony as a while breathed the famous soldier and stateman's cherished belief that sectionalism had been obliterated. The honorary escort was led by the Confederate Veteran's association of Washington and New York and Camp Wheeler's Cavalry of Atlanta; the funeral march was a subdued strain from "Dixie"; the body was buried in the old homestead of his idol, Robert E. Lee, in Arlington, Va., and across the casket was draped the two flags of the Confederacy and the Union. Just before his death, Gen. Wheeler imagined he was in battle and inquired when the firing was to begin. One of the nurses, to quiet his mind, suggested 9 o'clock, and therepon the dying warrior uttered his last earthly words: "Let me know a half minute before nine", he said, "so we can be fully prepared." His death removed a conspicuous figure in national life and Alabama mourns for her distinguished citizen. We offer our sympathy to the bereaved family. The Alabama Baptist. ---- ROCK MILLS News W.M. Yates has moved his family here from LaGrange. -- Mr. and Mrs. Albert Fowler are visiting the latter's father, Isaac Vineyard. --- Mrs. J.E. Bennett is very ill. --- One of the children of Will Turner died this week. Another child is very sick. --- HAPPY LAND News "Uncle" Tom Dunn is in very feeble health. --- Wyatt Dunn has moved into the house with Mrs. Susan Rice. --- Cal Gross and Lon Burditt boarded the train for Texas last Tuesday. --- NAPOLEON News (by G.O. Hill, correspondent) Mrs. Winkle, a widow from Georgia who moved here last year, died, leaving a large family, and was buried last Sunday at Big Spring. --- As a general thing, my birthday slips by unnoticed, but wife and the children took me on a surprise last Sunday by having a big dinner. Six married chldren with their wives and husbands and ten grandchildren and a few invited guests constituted the happy throng. I was 58 that day. After the repast was over, I thought it meet to rehearse a brief sketch of my life, good and bad from my earliest recollection. The children were interested when I related the incident of my first pair of boots with red tops; and how I visited a neighbor a mile off next morning before they got up and got back home by breakfast, and all about my skinned heels. In narrating the time when I was maddest in my life, and the only time when for a while it seemed my temper was beyond my control, required the statement of how I had volunteered in the Confederate Army a few months before I was sixteen years old; but served a year without even a reprimand from one of my officers; that in the evacuation of Savannah a secret guard was placed near me as a precaution against desertion, merely because my father and mother were native Yankees. The children's indignation at this recital sought vent in tears. In closing, I explained the only possible means by which a man of my physical ability could have succeeded in raising so large a family on the farm consisted in never spending a dollar until it was made, and having a place for everything, and everything in its place. ---- SERIOUS ACCIDENT About 3 o'clock Monday afternoon, Will Pittman, a young man, while at work at a shingle mill near Barrett's school house, 6 miles northeast of Roanoke, met with a deplorable accident. A pulley wheel burst and a piece struck Mr. Pittman on the head, penetrating the skull. Several doctors were summoned and pronounced his condition as critical. He was unconscious at last report. --- LETTER FROM TEMPLE, TEXAS Feb 5, 1906 Dear Olin, You will please find enclosed one dollar for which please give me credit. I have thought about you every day this year but at the time just didn't have time to remit. Now, I have been taking The Leader all its life and any time it fails to reach me in due time I expect to pull hair and I only pull the red kind. Wishing you and all your force much success, also all my friends in old Randolph where I believe the majority still live, I am still "Bill Stewart." ---- LOCAL News Mr. Robert Presnal, one of our oldest and most faithful subscribers, was in to see us yesterday. --- A sad note from S.B. Gaston brings the sad news of the death of his son, Randolph, aged 16 years, which occurred on the 6th inst. The funeral occurred at Corinth the following day, conducted by Rev. J.W. Boggs. The Leader sympathizes with those so greatly bereaved. --- Mrs. Estes, mother-in-law of B.F. Walker, died in Lowell last Thursday night and was buried at Zion's Rest. --- NEWSPAPER issue of Wednesday, February 21, 1906 TOMLIN - LANGLEY MARRIAGE The town was treated to a surprise last Friday in the marriage of Mr. D.L. Tomlin and Mrs. L.E. Langley. The ceremony occurred at the Huckeba Hotel in Wedowee at noon and Mr. and Mrs. Tomlin returned to the former's home on Weathers street in this city. They will shortly moved into the residence of Mrs. Tomlin on Stewart street. The couple had prepared to go to LaFayette on Thursday afternoon's train and be married there but a break down of the turntable caused a change of plans. But "all is well that ends well", and the Leader joins their friends in wishing the bride and groom many years of happiness. --- MARRIED IN BIRMINGHAM Last Saturday afternoon, Miss Ione Blake went to LaFayette to visit friends before proceeding with her father and brother to their future home in Texas. In LaFayette, however, she was met by Will Mayfield and on Sunday they proceeded to Birmingham where they were married that afternoon. This news comes as a surprise to the friends of both people here. The bride is the popular daughter of Mr. Young Blake, while the groom is the second son of Jas. C. Mayfield and holds a good position in his father's business in Birmingham. --- NAPOLEON News (by G.O. Hill, correspondent) Another item of importance which I stated to the children at my birthday dinner and which astonished them no little, was that I had never, since I began farming in 1872, bought a horse, mule, cow, hog, chicken, nor a bushel of corn or meat, except on one or two occasions when I had unexpectedly sold two short in the spring. Once I bought a mule, after losing two horses of my own raising within a few months of each other. I always raised all kinds of stock that I needed on the farm, as well, as the wherewith to feed them. This can be done by any one who has a mind to try, and the expenditure scarcely missed. I am reminded of when I came to live where I now reside in 1876. Many were the times I have been to log rollings on neighboring farms and saw cord after cord of the richest lightwood piled into hurge heaps to be burned, when I would remonstrate with the owner for such wanton extravagance and caution him of the time soon coming when such wood would demand a high premium. Today I have neighbors who are lucky when they happen upon a pine knot or stump for kindling. The most noted extravagance that one beholds this day, in passing through the country, is the palpable and wanton destruction of timber and forest and the rapidity in which unprotected are washing away and becoming barren. This is the more reprehensible from the fact it is unwarrantable and originates from a lack of forethought or else abject laziness. --- LEVEL ROAD News Miss Annie Price of Miller Valley is visiting her uncle, Mr. M.P. Stewart. --- LOCAL News A party left yesterday to make their home in the West. Among them we note J.H. Allen and family from Georgia who will locate in Oklahoma. --- Mrs. Nan Goodwin left yesterday for her home in Temple, Texas after a months visit to relatives in this county. --- Bowd Weathers arrived from the West last Thursday. He admits to having a sufficiency of that country. --- Will Pittman, who has so badly hurt last week, at last accounts had slight prospects for recovery. --- Mrs. J.F. McGintey of Opelika is visiting her sister Mrs. A.G. Randle. --- NEWSPAPER issue of Wednesday, February 28, 1906 THE STARS AND BARS AND THE G.A.R. A few days ago the Army of the Potomac Division of the Grand Army of the Republic held a meeting in Washington at which the G.A.R. "resoluted" against the display of the Stars and Bars on public occasions. This action of the G.A.R. brings out the following which is handed us by an ex-Confederate who followed Lee and Jackson and who believes he has been the front and rear of the Army of the Potomac on more occasions than one: " The old Confederate soldier has nothing left of the past to love but an old tattered flag and this he loves with all the admiration of youth for its first moustache or a sixteen year old girl for her first sweetheart, differing only in its lasting endurance. He loved his flag at its birth. He nutured it in its infancy. He carried it above him in its strenth. He waved it in victory over many a battle field where among its bleeding enemies were hired assasins from almost very country on the globe, who had donned "the blue" not for love of it, but from an avaricious hunger for the glittering "bounty" held out by the Federal Government. Yes, he lived it in infancy, in its strength and glory, when it was a menace to its enemies. And he loved it when battling against great odds and the fortunes of war began to change and defeat seemed imminent. He loved it in defeat, because it had been held aloof by a brave peope who had been overpowered largely by men who fought not for love of country but for love of "bounty." The Confederate soldier loves the Stars and Bars as an emblem of purity and because when its final defeat came at Appomattox there was not a spot of dishonor attached to it. He will teach his children and his grandchildren to love and cherish its memory for "sacredness of its birth, the purity of its life and the valor of its defense." Yet the Army of the Potomoc would have us "hide" the flag from which they could not hide when Beauregard, Lee and Jackson flaunted it in their faces at Manassas or when Lee, the Hills, Longstreet and Jackson had them huddled up under their gunboats on James River during the seven days fighting around Richmond, or maybe they saw it at the crater in front of Petersburg or perhaps heard of it at the second Battle of Manassas or even on the heights of Gettysburg and the recollection still gives them the nervous "jimjams." The old Confederate wishes to assure the panicky, bounty-jumping, pension grabbing members of the G.A.R. that the Stars and Bars no longer menace their front and rear as an emblem of war but is loved in Dixie as an emblem of patriotism, valor and loyalty to a cause we all thought was right, just and honorable. To ask us to hide it away now is like asking a twice married man to tear away the monument from his first wife's grave lest it should lessen his affection for his second wife. Our friends of the G.A.R. seem to have overlooked the fact that Fitzhugh Lee and Joe Wheeler, two prominent wearers of the gray, had died in honor under the Stars and Stripes and wearers of the blue. So you may come out from under your seats, spend your pension money in peace and when you see the Stars and Bars, extend to it at least a courteous welcome, but do not try to embrace it; it has never been handled by cowards. " ----- HAPPY LAND News Whitten Brown has been on the sick list but is slowly improving. --- A few days since, Mrs. W.M. Pinkard received the sad intelligence of the death of her mother which occurred in Texas. --- "Uncle" Lumpkin Ward was considered dangerously ill a few days since, but is better at this writing. --- CATHOLIC WEDDING OCCURRED IN ROANOKE YESTERDAY Doubless the first Catholic marriage ceremony ever performed on Roanoke was witnessed at the Commercial Hotel yesterday afternoon at 1 o'clock. Mr. Wm. Parker Kennedy was the groom and Miss Mamie Whiddon the bride. The Rev. Father Doyle, a Catholic priest of Birmingham, was the officiating minister. Under the direction of Mrs. Durr, the proprietor and her daughter Miss Sharp, the long hallway of the hotel had been prettily decorated sith smilax, with a bank of palms and ferns behind the arch, and a liberal shower of violets. Under the arch in the rear of the hall the ceremony was performed and it was witnessed by many guests of the hotel, representatives of the Roanoke railway citizenship, including both ladies and gentlemen, and a few invited guests from the city. Mr. and Mrs. Kennedy left on the afternoon train for a bridal tour to New Orleans, followed by the good wishes of all their friends. ---- FOR SALE - - - Nice dwelling house, servant's house, barn, grass patch, orchard and good garden, near business part of town. Apply to W.H. Stewart. ---- LOCAL News Rev. A.S. Brannan of Roanoke was in the city this morning enroute to Camp Hill to conduct the funeral of Mrs. John Fargason, whose death occurred this morning. The Opelika News, 22nd. --- Mr. W.F. McMurray called at this office Monday on the mission of renewing the subsciption of his father Mr. F.A. McMurray. The latter's name has been on our list for many years and until he became too feeble, "Uncle Frank" always called in person and paid for his paper a year in advance. He is now too decrepit to get out of the home. If he lives till the 27th of next month he will be 96 years of age. --- A marriage of two well known people occurred at Truett last Sunday. Mr. Newt McCreary of Abner was married to Mrs. A.I. Seymour of Truett. --- File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/randolph/newspapers/newspape667gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 16.5 Kb