Randolph County AlArchives News.....Newspaper abstracts for MARCH 1906 March 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, 9:01 pm The Roanoke Leader March 1906 NEWSPAPER ABSTRACTS FROM "THE ROANOKE LEADER", Roanoke, Randolph County, Alabama for MARCH 1906 NEWSPAPER issue of Wednesday, March 7, 1906 LOCAL NEWS Ed Chappell, the negro who killed Marshall W.E. Satterwhite in December, was found guilty of murder in the first degree and sentenced to be hanged. The jury was out only a few minutes. The execution will take place Wednesday, March 28th. The hanging will be private and a new gallows will be erected just behind the jail for this purpose. Wedowee Star The Leader is pleased to note the statement that the hanging will be conducted privately. We trust this will be strictly adhered to. Hardly anything can be more demoralizing and prove more fatal to the finer sensibilities than the making of a gala day of the execution of a human being. Editor O.H. Stevenson ---- WEHADKEE News (by S.D. Lewis, correspondent) Mr. Ed Pittman of Monessen, Pa., arrived last Friday to attend his brother in his last hours of suffering. --- Mr. W.T. PIttman who was fatally wounded at a shingle mill three weeks ago, died last Friday night after intense suffering. We have known him from childhood. Willie was a moral, upright, noble young man and his sad demise is lamented by all. He was about 25 years old. He was a son of Mr. and Mrs. Joshua M. Pittman. The funeral services were conducted at Springfield on Sunday at 11 o'clock by Rev. W.P. Cofield in the presence of a large congregation, after which the body was laid to rest in the Pittman cemetery. We extend our sympathy to all the bereaved ones in their sorrow. May Heaven's blessing rest upon them. --- TOURING THE ORIENT Mrs. Nora Miller left here Feb. 1st to spend four months in the old world and to visit the Holy land. She sailed from New York Feb. 8th to Cadiz, Spain where she is today. She will go from there to Gibralter, Algiers, Greece, Turkey, Jerusalem, Egypt, Italy, Switzerland, Germany, France and England and Ireland. This is a most desirable trip and will be a profitable one and a great pleasure to Mrs. Miller and her associates on the trip. The Dadeville Courier. Mrs. Miller is the widow of the late A.C. Miller and is well known throughout this section. ---- SUDDEN DEATH OF REV. J.D. ELLIS IN BIRMINGHAM BRINGS SORROW TO MANY HEARTS IN ROANOKE WHERE HE HAD RELATIVES The sudden death of Rev. J.D. Ellis in Birmingham last Thursday afternoon was a shock to many friends and admirers in every part of the state. The news was received with special regret in Roanoke, because of the deceased's being brother-in-law to Mr. Jno. W. Radney and Rev. George Stoves. Mr. Radney had just returned from Birmingham this evening, leaving Mr. Ellis well as usual, though his general health had not been good for some time. Brother Stoves and Mrs. Radney went to Birmingham Friday morning. The funeral was held Saturday afternoon from the First Methodist church and the interment was in Woodlawn cemetery. Many ministers of the gospel and other friends attended the services. Mr. Ellis was barely 40 years of age. He leaves a wife and five children, four of whom are girls. Mrs. Ellis is the sister of Mrs. J.W. Radney and Mrs. George Stoves. --- LOCAL News G.W. Summers visited his brother-in-law, H.L. Griffin last Saturday. --- We have a pleasant note from Mr. J.F. Barron, now in Texarkana. He rejoices at the coming of the new railroad and every other token of Roanoke's prosperity. --- Young Blake and son left some days ago to make their home in the Indian Territory. --- Mrs. F.A. Neal continues quite sick. Her sister is with her. --- NEWSPAPER issue of Wednesday, March 14, 1906 HAPPY LAND News Ernest Piper has returned from Texas. --- LEVEL ROAD News Mr. R.G. Hodges has been suffering with a sore hand since christmas and we regret to say it's still no better. --- NAPOLEON News Mr. Leonard Willingham has had a very sick child for several weeks. --- A son was born to Mr. and Mrs. Bob Kirby last week. --- Mr. Martin Moon's daughter Mrs. John Strain is down with a spell of fever. --- J.Y. SIMMONS DEAD About 2 o'clock yesterday morning, Mr. J.Y. Simmons died at his home on Rock Mills street. He had been paralyzed for years. During all this time the heroic devotion of his wife has been a matter of much favorable comment. The remains will be buried this morning at Mt. Pisgah. --- LOCAL News Ed Pittman began his return to his distant home in Pennsylvania. He has many friends in Randolph who are pleased to know he is doing well up North. --- NEWSPAPER issue of Wednesday, March 21, 1906 WEHADKEE News Mr.Milton Webb, an old citizen, died last Monday and was buried Tuesday at Big Spring. --- We are sorry to note that Mr. Green Davis of Omaha community is very sick and is not expected to live very long. --- LETTER FROM ERNEST ZOBEL FROM ARKANSAS We quote the following from a personal letter from Ernest Zobel in remitting for his subscription. He is in Magnolia, Arkansas: " I would not be without my paper for five times the subscription price. I am glad to see the good work that you are doing and feel that is every man's duty to help his home paper for all he is worth. The trouble with a great many of us subscribers is that we overlook the great good that is being done by the local press and that we sometimes forget to come to the aid of our paper with that which it takes to make every business a success, the hard cash. Well, we are having some very nice weather at last, after quite a lot of rain and cold. Magnolia is a real nice little place, about as large as Roanoke, but the surrounding country is very low and marshy and I would not like to make my home here for good. We are building a very fine courthouse here and are progressing about as well as we could expect with the weather we have had. Ernest Zobel, Magnolia, Arkansas ---- LOCAL News Mrs. Martha Lane, living south of town a few miles, has been quite sick but is improving some at this time. --- NEWSPAPER issue of Wednesday, March 28, 1906 LEVEL ROAD News Mrs. Della McMurray is on the sick list. --- Mr. Noel George's house was burned on the 15th, lost everything he had. It caught from the stove pipe. --- Mrs. Gatling has been quite sick for the past few weeks and we regret to say she is no better. --- ROCK MILLS News Sydney Farr and Miss Eva Lee Johnson of near here were married yesterday. --- Mrs. W.W. Bonner is visiting her daughter Miss Blanche Sims in LaGrange this week. --- RESOLUTIONS OF RESPECT FOR VIRGIL T. BONNER Masonic Hall, Sawyer Lodge No. 93, A. F. and A.M., Wedowee, Ala. Feb 10, 1906 We, your committee, appointed to draft suitable resolutions, a tribute of respect, in memory of our deceased brother, Virgil T. Bonner, report as follows: That whereas on Jan. 27, 1906, Brother Virgil T. Bonner was called from labor in the Lodge below to eternal refreshment in the Celestial Lodge above. Bro. Bonner was born April 20, 1841 and made a Mason in Sawyer Lodge where he labored unceasingly for the uplifting of our sublime order. He lived a life of rectitude squaring his actions with all mankind by the square of virtue, ever keeping in mind that Divine Ark which safely wafts us over the tempestuous sea of trouble and that anchor which safely moors us in a peaceful harbor where the wicked cease from troubling and the weary find rest. Therefore be it resolved 1st that we his friends and brethren bow in humble submission to the Divine Will of our Supreme Grand Master who has called him from labor to refreshment in the celestial lodge above. Second, that the state has lost a worthy and respected citizen. The church an earnest minister of great piety. The Lodge a loyal and upright Mason. His family a kind and affectionate brother and father. Third, that in token of our love and appreciation for his faithful labors, the lodge wear the badges of mourning for thirty days and that a copy of these minutes and a page of the same be dedicated to his memory. Fourth, that a copy be sent the family of our deceased brother and also to the county newspapers for publication. Respectfully submitted, Nixon Lucas W.C.S. Robertson Douglas Smith, Committee ----- LOCAL News Mrs. T.J. Barrett returned Sunday to her home in Cusseta, Georgia after spending a week with her parents, Dr. and Mrs. Floyd. --- Mrs. A.T. Messer, who lived near Wedowee, died Saturday in the hospital at Tuscaloosa, where she had been for a few weeks. The remains were brought home for burial. Many friends of the bereaved family offer sympathy. --- File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/randolph/newspapers/newspape668gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 9.3 Kb