Randolph County AlArchives News.....Newspaper abstracts for JULY 1906 July 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 9, 2005, 2:08 pm The Roanoke Leader July 1906 NEWSPAPER ABSTRACTS FROM "THE ROANOKE LEADER", Roanoke, Randolph County, Alabama for JULY 1906 NEWSPAPER issue of Wednesday, July 4, 1906 LOCAL News In the little town of Livingston in Sumpter county, there is a unique plant, a quilting factory, the only one in the state. It turns out fifty dozen excellent quilts a day. Some ingenious newspaper man has thought to raise the price of cotton by appealing to the patriotism of the women of the entire county to add an inch to the length of their skirts, calculating that such extension would consume the extra supply of cotton and thus raise the price. But this quilt factory offers a more practical way by superceding blankets and covering us with quilts made of Southern cotton. The LaFayette Sun ---- SALE OF TOWN LOTS The Louina Land and Improvement Company having bought a tract of land on the A & B Railroad, on the west side of the Tallapoosa River, near the old Indian town of Louina, has had the same laid out in beautiful lots, suitable for business houses, residences, churches and schools. This new town will be situated in the best section of country in east Alabama and will be fed from the fertile hills and valleys on the Tallapoosa river. This is destined to be the best new town on the line of this new railroad and is a fine field for investment. A public sale of lots will take place Monday, July 23rd. Terms will be made to suit purchasers. Lots for school and church purposes will be donated. ---- ROCK MILLS News Mrs.Martha Hendon and little daughter of LaGrange were the guests of Mrs. W.M. Yates last week. --- W. K. Bennett and wife attended the funeral of Charlie Fomby near Glenn, Georgia on Monday. --- His many friends will sympathize with Rev. R.W. Anderson in the death of his venerable mother, which occurred Saturday at Coldwater. --- R.L. FAUCETT MARRIED Last Wednesday, Mr. Robert L. Faucett of Prattville was married to Miss Elizabeth Caruthers in Texas. There was a vein of romance in the affair, the groom having met the bride through the friendship that exists between his sister and Miss Caruthers, these ladies having taught school together the past two years in Arizona. Mr. Faucett is one of the most popular and elegant gentleman ever reared in this community and all his friends are pleased to know that he has won so fine a young woman as his companion through life. --- LOCAL News W.A. Burden is quite sick. --- Contractor E. Zobel has begun work on the bridge across the A & B Railway on Louina street. --- J.B. Taylor and D. Mitchell left the first of the week on a prospecting tour into Texas and Oklahoma. --- The Leader regrets to learn of the death of Oscar Culpepper, the 17 year old son of Rev. A. Culpepper, which sad event occurred last Thursday night at Lamar. The young man had been afflicted for some time. He was said to be a most exemplary lad. --- While coming to town in a buggy on Saturday, Mr. and Mrs. Warren Hood were in a runaway accident, in which Mrs. Hood was considerably bruised. They were dragged under the overturned buggy some distance. --- Mrs. Lura Stephens arrived in LaGrange on Monday to spend some time with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. M.P. Pittman, near town. Mrs. Stephens is just up from a spell of the fever. --- Will Ferry was shot by Charlie Strong on Saturday night in a negro row near W.V. Taylor's. The ball entered the jaw but the negro will likely recover. --- Mrs. Mary Jeffers returned to Perkins Junction, Ga., on Monday after spending several months with her son, J.A. Jeffers. --- Prof. V.D. Whatley, who for the past several years has been engaged in teaching in this county at Roopville, Bowdon, Villa Rica and Whitesburg, has determined to leave the county and quit teaching and he will go to Lineville, Ala., and embark in the hardware business. His many friends all over this county will regret to learn this. The Carroll County Times --- NEWSPAPER issue of Wednesday, July 11, 1906 NAPOLEON News "Uncle" George Harris was seventy years old in May and last Thursday he ran around four acres of cotton. Three acres are considered a good days work. --- Bro. Paul Long, a venerable Baptist minister of Atlanta, preached a splendid sermon at Napoleon last night. Bro. Long is the only living brother of Mrs. Sarah Bailey, the mother of a numerous family of good citizens here. He will preach at Haywood tomorrow a.m, and at Napoleon in the afternoon. --- WEHAKDEE News A son of Mr. George Lester died last Friday near High Shoals. We are sorry to note that Mr. Lester is very low with the same disease, typhoid fever. --- ROCK MILLS News Mrs. Bailey and Mrs. Mobley of Wedowee visited their sister Mrs. W.K. Bennett last week. --- Mrs. Chastine of Albany, Alabama is the guest of her sister, Mrs. John Ray. --- LETTER FROM ROBERT E. WEATHERS from FREDERICK, OKLAHOMA Dear Editor of the Leader, Oklahoma has been a veritable land of promise in years that have passed. Now it is a land which is abundantly fulfilling the promises that were made in years gone by. When I left Alabama in 1902 I expected to find a good country and that things would be better than they were in the dear old home state, but I never once dreamed that this new country had the glorious future before it that has since developed into actuality. People who came here with absolutely nothing have acquired comfortable homes and are now able to sell these home for four to seven thousand dollars each. Wheat is making this year from twenty to thirty bushels per acre and will probably average as much as twenty-five bushels. Oats made from forty-five to seventy bushels, corn will make from forty to sixty bushels. Cotton will make at least one half bale per acre and often it will go as high as a bale and even more. We raise everything that can be raised in our old home and with less expense and more yield. The idea of a man living on land that he has to fertilize and scrimp and save to make a living on, when there is so great a body of land that will yield such bountiful harvests with so much less labor is beyond the understanding of the citizen here. Having had a number of inquiries about this country from my old home, I would appreciate it if you would allow me to answer some of the questions through your column. The greatest body of wild land that is now in the southwest lies within five miles of this town. I can stand in my back door and look over it for thirty miles away. It is the famous Comanche pasture reservation. This body of land contains 480,000 acres of the finest land in the state, or in the country, as to that matter and the government has ordered that it shall be sold to actual settlers within the next six months. This land will be sold at auction and the payments may be made in five installments. Any man who is willing to work and has as much as five hundred dollars can buy a quarter section of this land and make a home that will rival the bottoms along the Tennessee river. The bottoms along the Red river in this pasture are just as rich as the Tennessee and are not subject to overflow. This is no malaria and no swamps in the bottoms. Water that stands in tanks or ponds does not stagnate. The land itself is of a deep chocolate loam and is from three to seven feet deep and even deeper in places. It lies level with just enough roll to drain well. There is not a quarter section in the whole pasture that will not make a home that will be far better than any upland farm in the whole country back in Alabama. Water can be found by digging all the way from seven to thirty feet. Frederick is the gateway to the pasture, is situated on the Frisco Railroad, twenty-five miles north of Vernon, Texas and is the town where President Roosevelt stopped to have his famous wolf hunt. This hunt was pulled off in the pasture that is now to be sold to the actual settler, the man who wants a home. To be qualified to bid on this land you must not own more than 160 acres anywhere in the United States. Must be twenty-one years old and must not have made a homestead entry before. These qualifications will allow you to bid for one of the three thousand quarters to be sold. If you do not get the first quarter you bid on, you can bid on another until you buy a quarter, or until the land is all sold. Remember that this is the last chance to buy good land from the government at low prices. The speculator cannot buy this land and consequently will not run the price up so that the settler cannot afford to buy it. All the boys out here are doing well and are loud in their praises of the country and when they have said all that they can, the half has not been told. Very truly, Robert E. Weathers, Frederick, Oklahoma, June 26, 1906. ---- ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE State of Alabama, Randolph County Probate Court, July Term, 1906 July 9, 1906 In the matter of the estate of Jno. P. Crowder, deceased. Letters of administration of said deceased having been granted to the undersigned on the 5th day of July, 1906, by the Hon. Jno. T. Kaylor, Judge of Probate of said county, notice is hereby given that all persons having claims against said estate are hereby required to present the same within the time allowed by law, or the same will be barred. W.A. Widner ---- OLD CITIZEN DEAD Last Friday occurred the death of one of the oldest citizens of the county when Mr. Frank A. McMurray passed away. The eath occurred at the home of his son, Mr. W.F. McMurray near Level Road and the interment was at Concord on Saturday afternoon. Mr. McMurray was 96 years of age last March. He was born in Georgia but had been living in this county about 75 years. At one time before the war he represented this county in the legislature. He was one of the pioneer teachers of the county. He held to the old codes of honor among men of his day and was highly esteemed by many friends. He was the grandfather of Messrs. W.H. and G.P. McMurray of this place. ---- DEATH OF MR. WARD Last Sunday the people of Roanoke, turning out en masse, buried one of their oldest and most beloved citizens. At 8 o'clock Saturday evening, after a long illness, Mr. James M. Ward passed peacefully into the reward of a well earned rest. He was nearly 69 years of age and had been living in Roanoke a long time. The deceased was a faithful member of the Methodist church and of the four secret orders of the town. His funeral services were conducted from the Methodist church at 3 o'clock Sunday afternoon by Rev. Geo. Stoves who paid a beautiful tribute to the unostentatious life of the one who had entered into the long sleep. The interment was in the city cemetery and was conducted with Masonic honors. The writer's earliest recollections of Roanoke are associated with Mr. Ward and with the kindnesses then and later shown us by him and his family. We appreciated his heroic character and valued his friendship. We never heard af his having a personal enemy. He was kind and considerate toward all. Mr. Ward was one of the gallant defenders of our Southland in the great civil strife and was several times wounded. He had the distinction of being the first marshall of Roanoke. He was regarded as a man of matchless courage though mild and gentle in his manners. He belonged to that class of men whose places in their passing, will be hard to fill. While the tired veteran sleeps beneath tears and flowers, his name is revered by all who knew him and his daughters, Mrs. A.A. Mooty and Mrs. R.O. Mooty, and other relatives have the heartfelt sympathy of many friends. --- CARD OF THANKS We employ this method to express to all our friends our heartfelt thanks for the many tokens of sympathy and kindness shown us during the illness of our father, Mr. J.M. Ward and upon the occasion of his death and burial. We also appreciate the faithful attention of the physicians who administered to him. R.O. Mooty and wife A.A. Mooty and wife ---- LOCAL News Mrs. Ernest Zobel of Magnolia, Arkansas is visiting relatives in Roanoke. --- Sam Dunkin of Shreveport arrived Sunday to spend two weeks with the family of his father D.S. Dunkin and the many friends of his boyhood days. --- The Leader is pleased to acknowledge the receipt of an invitation issued by Mr. and Mrs. Reuben P. Clay, to the marriage of their daughter Miss Pearl Elizabeth to Mr. Leslie Henry Cox. The ceremony will be performed at the home of the bride-elect in College Park, Georgia, Wednesday afternoon, July 18th at 2 o'clock. Mr. Cox is an excellent young man and his friends here in his old home will be pleased to learn of his good fortune. --- We regret to learn of the death of Rev. Robt. Leslie, which occurred at his home at Lanett, Ala., at eight o'clock Wednesday night. He was about 65 years of age and was well known throughout this section. He was a brother of Mrs. Leslie Dallis and of Mrs. Sallie Beasley. About two weeks ago he came to LaGrange on a visit in hope that a change would benefit his health but as he did not improve, returned home and gradually grew worse until the end. We extend our sympathy to the bereaved relatives. The LaGrange Reporter --- Walter Pittman, son of Joshua Martin Pittman, arrived yesterday after an absence of four years. --- Miss Fannie Watt of Camilla, Ga., is the guest of her sister Mrs. T.B. Wood. --- NEWSPAPER issue of Wednesday, July 18, 1906 ROCK MILLS News Mrs. Posie Bennett and chldren of LaGrange came over Saturday to spend the week with relatives here. --- Mrs. Richard Allen of Goodwater visited her sister Mrs. T.T. Harper last week. --- Brooks Whatley and wife of Hogansville spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. W.Z. Yates. --- Mrs. William Haynes of Langdale is visiting her daughter Mrs. Thomas Brown. --- Mrs. Robert Ussery left Friday to visit her children at Prattville. --- R.D. Bennett and daughter Miss Rebecca had the misfortune to get bitten by a mad dog one day last week. --- Mr. J.W. Fuller reports that Mrs. R.H. Harris had her foot amputated on Sunday at the home of a relative in his community but that her condition was as good as could be expected. --- Twin boys were born to Mr. and Mrs. G.C. Lovvorn on Monday night, but one of them only lived a short while. --- Miss Annie Mae Moore is visiting her aunt, Mrs. Talley. --- LOCAL News Miss Martha Pittman is visiting her sister Mrs. White in Anniston. --- W.H. Marion of Anniston is spending a while with relatives in this section, recuperating his health. --- Capt. Chas. E. Watt and son of Camilla, Ga., are spending a few days with the former's sister, Mrs. T.B. Wood. --- Will Waller arrived from Texas with his wife Saturday to visit his father's family near town. --- Miss Ola Sparks of Temple, Texas is visiting Mrs. W.C. Lane and other relatives in Roanoke. --- Misses Mary and Haywood Molton of Birmingham are visiting their aunt, Mrs. Sanders. --- NEWSPAPER issue of Wednesday, July 25, 1906 ROCK MILLS News J.R. Phillips and family have returned after spending several weeks with relatives in LaGrange. --- Mrs. Philip Mooney is visiting her son at Denver, Georgia. --- Miss Sallie Lou Lancaster of LaGrange is the guest of her cousin Mrs. Lizzie Bennett. --- Mrs. Charlie Brown has been very ill for several days. --- WEHADKEE News Mr. and Mrs. J.W. Veal are the happy parents of a fine boy. --- We are sorry to note that the venerable wife of Rev. J.W. Cliett is very sick with typhoid fever. --- LOCAL News J.M. Robison who has been visiting his son G.W. Robison, left Wednesday afternoon to attend the funeral of a relative at Tifton, Georgia. --- The return of the well known negro John Culberson to Roanoke, after some months absence, was known by his punctual appearance at the callaboose. When the scribe glanced through the bars at the police favorite, John was entertaining himself by placing his cards and humming his invariable tune. --- Mrs. Ida Harbaugh is visiting her brother Whit Whitman. --- J.S. Tompkins and family of Heard county spent several days with the families of A.A. and R.O. Mooty. --- H.R. Oldson left Saturday to spend a week with relatives in Kentucky, his old home. --- Mrs. Frank Shafer of LaGrange is visiting her mother Mrs. Mary Awbrey. --- Clare Purcell left today on a month's tour through the West. He will go as far as the Pacific coast and visit many points of interest. Mr. Purcell will be accompanied on this delightful tour by his aunt, Miss Maggie Callen. --- File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/randolph/newspapers/newspape672gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 17.3 Kb