Randolph County AlArchives News.....Newspaper Abstracts for SEPT 1911 September 1911 ************************************************ 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: C. Teal Gravelle tealtree@comcast.net October 25, 2005, 6:21 pm The Roanoke Leader September 1911 NEWSPAPER ABSTRACTS FROM "THE ROANOKE LEADER", Roanoke, Randolph County, Alabama for SEPTEMBER 1911 NEWSPAPER issue of Wednesday, September 6, 1911 PUBLIC SALE OF LAND 283 acres known as the Burden old place, will be sold to highest bidder for cash, on the premises, between 11 and 12 o'clock on Wednesday, Oct. 4, 1911. Parties wishing to look over the place call on W.A. Burden of Roanoke or C.J. Burden of LaFayette. By consent of all the heirs. ---- SILVER WEDDING OF DR. AND MRS. LILES Last Thursday evening one of the happiest social events in many months was witnessed at the attractive home of Dr. and Mrs. John P. Liles. It was the occasion of the Silver Wedding of this admirable couple. Twenty-five years ago John P. Liles and Miss Mary Emily Woodall were united in marriage at Milltown. Theirs is one of the happiest homes in the land and is blessed by five dutiful children. Upon this occasion the home was bright with Japanese and electric lights and made doubly attractive with ferns and flowers. At one end of the veranda guests were served fruit punch by Misses Nell Floyd and Vicie Heflin. In the parlor, Dr. and Mrs. Liles, their daughters Misses Mamie and Annie and Judge and Mrs. John T. Heflin graciously received the many friends who called to offer their congratulations and good wishes. Mr. and Mrs. Heflin were attendants at the wedding twenty-five years ago and will celebrate a like anniversary in November. The dining table was a scene of artistic beauty around which the guest gathered to enjoy the refreshments of the evening. On tables in the hallway were displayed a shining array of gifts presented by admiring friends. Chief among these was the very handsome silver service, engraved and presented by Dr. Liles' fellow members of the medical profession. Many sincere wishes were expressed that the bride and groom of this Silver Anniversary might live to celebrate their Golden Wedding and in these the Leader heartily joins. --- WEDOWEE News Mrs. J.C. Grant has been ill with the fever but is able to be up again. --- LOCAL News Mrs. H.D. Land of Jacksonville, Fla., visited her sister Mrs. S.W. Lane last week. --- Mrs. G.S. Foster has moved to the home of her father Mr. Carter, one mile south of town. --- T.L. Hodge and wife of Langdale visited the latter's mother recently, Mrs. Jesse Fausett who has been quite sick. --- Dr. F.M. Oldham returned yesterday to his home at Cisco, Texas after a visit to the family of his father J.H. Oldham. --- Mr. and Mrs. Charles Tolliver of Birmingham were called here last week by the death of their uncle, Prof. W.E. Randle. --- Mrs. Oldham and grandson Frank Cauthen returned Friday from a visit to Florence. --- H.W. Vinson continues quite ill. --- R.F. Reynolds and son Robert of New Orleans are visiting the former's sister Mrs. C.W. Pace. --- Mrs. Duncan and Mrs. Nichols of Eunadillo, Ga., and Edwin Martin of Fort Malley, Ga., attended the funeral of their uncle, J.E. Mann, in Roanoke on Saturday. --- Miss Mae Young of Lineville is visiting her aunt, Mrs. I.G. Hill. --- J.B. Howard and famly of Beach Island, South Carolina are visiting the family of R. Kyle. --- Nora Satterwhite, a young negro, was shot and seriously injured Saturday night by Walter Blackmon, also a negro, who escaped. --- Saturday, Mrs. Wiley E. Randle accompanied by her two sisters Mrs. Borders and Mrs. Spight, left for Nashville, Tenn., where she will make her future home. --- NEWSPAPER issue of Wednesday, September 13, 1911 ARNETT JURY DISMISSED; NO CLUE WAS FOUND IN MYSTERIOUS MURDER CASE Coroner Caudle has dismissed his jury which for the past four weeks has investigated the murder case of E.C. (Doc) Arnett, who was shot and killed on Saturday night, August 5th. Coroner Caudle stated that the jury had investigated every clue obtainable and had examined more than 200 witnesses in the case but was unable to get sufficient evidence to convict anyone of the murder. The reward of $200. has been offered for the slayer of Arnett. The murder has been one shrouded in mystery so complete that none of the city or county officers have been unable to uncover the slightest clue. Wayne Jones, a suspect, was arrested but by reason of the inability of the jury to connect him with the crime, the prisoner was discharged. The LaGrange Dispatch --- LOCAL News Invitations have been issued by Mr. and Mrs. Robert P. Phelps to the marriage of their daughter Miss Mary Anderson Phelps to Mr. Daniel David Hurley at noon, Sept. 27th at home. --- WEHADKEE News John W. Veal is quite sick with typhoid fever. --- BACON LEVEL News Miss Cordelle Morgan of Roanoie is visiting her aunt, Mrs. Juddie Crowder. --- MALONE News Tom Jordan and family of West Tennessee are visiting the former's old home after an absence of many years. --- Webb Jordan and wife spend Sunday near Almond with the latter's sister Mrs. Perry who is reported to be in a dying condition. --- WADLEY News The remains of the three year old child of Mr. and Mrs. Adolphus Berry, which died at a sanitarium in LaFayette on Sunday, were brought to Wadley on Monday for burial. --- LOCAL News I would like several boarders or roomers. House is near Christian church. Mrs. Stella Meadows --- S.D. Lewis passed through Roanoke yesterday enroute to Talladega where he went to enter his niece Miss Carrie Davis in the state school for the Deaf. --- Mrs. W.C. Guinn of Columbus is visiting her brother, J.W. Ray. --- BROUGHTON News Taylor Keeble and two of his sons are ill with typhoid fever. --- NEWSPAPER issue of Wednesday, September 20, 1911 LOCAL News Wallace Pinkard died of appendicitis near Pool's Cross Roads last Wednesday. --- Last Thursday evening an old negro preacher Ben Heflin who lived on Route 5 was killed suddenly by falling off a fodder stack. He was regarded by all who knew him as one of the best men of his race in the county. --- MALONE News Mrs. Flora Kennedy has returned home after spending several days with her daughter Mrs. Perry who is improving. --- BACON LEVEL News "Aunt" Sine Chafin is quite feeble. --- CORBIN News Jim Strain had the sad misfortune to get his arm dislocated and one of the bones fractured in a runaway scrape. He is badly bruised. C.L. Parker was also in the runaway but escaped unharmed. --- Mrs. J.D.W. Strain is seriously ill. --- NEWSPAPER issue of Wednesday, September 27, 1911 CULMINATION OF A ROMANCE AT NOON A pretty romance will find its culmination in Roanoke at noon today when Mr. Daniel David Hurley and Miss Mary Anderson Phelps will unite their lives at the home of the latter's parents in this city, Mr. and Mrs. R.P. Phelps. The beginning of their acquaintance dates back only to last March when Mr. Hurley came to Roanoke from his home in Sayre, Oklahoma on the sad mission of accompanying the remains of his bosom friend, Mr. Gordon Phelps, brother of the young lady who today becomes the former's bride. Upon that occasion the young Westerner remained over several days and expressed himself as being very much pleased with our country, the rocks and trees, but developments proved that he was more charmed by the fair one whose friendship he had suddenly become as the friend of the departed loved one. A correspondence followed this first meeting which led to a second visit, upon which the young lover comes to claim his bride. After the ceremony, Mr. and Mrs. Hurley will leave on the A B & A train for their future home in Sayre, Oklahoma, stopping a few days in Oklahoma City to attend the state fair. Mr. Hurley is a railroad man. Both he and his bride have many friends who trust their future years will be as happy as their first meeting was melancholy. ---- WEDOWEE News Mrs. Reeves died yesterday at the Mitchell residence. --- LOCAL News Anniston, Ala, Sept 25th - - - Aged 107 years, still hale, hearty and mentally alert, Mrs. Martha Woodruff, at Forney, has just completed a tour through this country with her son A.J. Tillery, himself 76 years of age. Mrs. Woodruff talks interestingly of events that are familiar to most people of this day merely through the printed page. She was born in Butts County, Georgia in 1802 and has been married twice, having two surviving children besides the son who accompanied her through the country; Wyatt Woodruff, a son, of Kansas, age 76 and Mrs. Elizabeth Hamilton, age 74, a daughter. ---- WADLEY News Mrs. J.F. Anderson continues quite ill. A trained nurse from Birmingham is with her. --- Mr. John Tom Fuller is seriously ill with typhoid fever. Miss Pearl Treadwell, a trained nurse, is with him. --- WEDDING IN ROCK MILLS At 3 o'clock this afternoon, at the home of Mr. and Mrs. A.J. Kilgore in Rock Mills, their daughter Miss Lola will be married to Mr. Grady Dewberry of Standing Rock. Esq. Hearn will perform the ceremony. --- LOCAL News Mrs. Mollie Rose has been ill with the fever for some days but is convalescing. A trained nurse is with her. --- WEHADKEE News Sept. 25th A son was born to Mr. and Mrs. J.W. Walker last week. --- Jim Gay Jr. is building a nice dwelling house on his farm near Midway. --- Misses Mattie and Sallie Greer have sold their home at Springfield to J.R. Shelnutt and will move to Bowdon, Georgia. --- ROCK MILLS News Sept. 25th Grady Bennett is confined to his room with the fever. --- Mr. and Mrs. Holt of near West Point are at the bedside of their son George who is critically ill with typhoid fever at the home of Dr. Bonner. Miss Lowe, a trained nurse, was called from Atlanta on Saturday. --- MALONE News Mr. Nixon Lucas is away on a trip to his old home in North Carolina. --- LOCAL News Ed Harmon and wife returned to their home in Texas yesterday after a few weeks visit to relatives in this community. --- Mrs. Steiner Garrett and chldren, who have been spending time with Mr. and Mrs. Robt. Brown, will leave in a day or so for their home in Dadeville. --- Mrs. Fred Shaffer returned to Atlanta last week after a two weeks visit to her brother Ware Awbrey. --- Mrs. Rowland Roberts is critically ill at her home across the Hill branch. --- W.J. Carden of Dallas, Texas was in Roanoke a few days recently. --- Mrs. Belt White and little son Charles left this morning for their future home in Athens, Ala., where Mr. White had preceded them. --- Mrs. Bryan was called to Opelika the first of the week by the severe illness of her mother. --- File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/randolph/newspapers/newspape731gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 11.2 Kb