Randolph County AlArchives News.....Newspaper Abstracts for NOV 1912 November 1912 ************************************************ 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 November 4, 2005, 9:40 pm The Roanoke Leader November 1912 NEWSPAPER ABSTRACTS FROM "THE ROANOKE LEADER", Roanoke, Randolph County, Alabama for NOVEMBER 1912 NEWSPAPER issue of Wednesday, November 6, 1912 APPROACHING MARRIAGES Mr. and Mrs. A.C. Park announce the approaching marriage of their daughter Miss Clyde to Dr. Wyatt Avery of Birmingham, the ceremony to occur at their home near Roanoke at 12:30 p.m., Tuesday, November 19th. -- The following invitation has been issued: "Mr. and Mrs. William Bartow Rogers request your presence at the marriage of their daughter Annie to Mr. Albert A. Lee on Tuesday, November 12th, 1912 at one o'clock at home, Roanoke, Alabama. --- WADLEY News Nov. 4th The children of Mrs. James Pearson near Almond community, were called to her bedside last week on account of her serious illness. She is thought to be some better today. --- H. McIntosh is moving his family to Dudleyville. --- ROCK MILLS News Sunday afternoon, Mr. J.R. Whitaker and Mrs. Maggie Bonner drove down to Evansville and were married. Also going to Evansville on Sunday to get married, were Mr. E.J. Bagley and Miss Era Mathew. --- Mrs. Green of Atlanta is visiting Mrs. Andrew Coats. --- The little two year old child of Mr. and Mrs. Tom Yarbrough died Tuesday morning. --- BACON LEVEL News Nov. 4th Johnnie Anglin is quite sick. --- LOCAL News Mrs. Tom Yates returned from LaGrange Monday where she has been attending her mother who is quite sick. --- NEWSPAPER Issue of Wednesday, November 13, 1912 J.M. PEARSON DEAD J.M. Pearson, tax collector of Chambers County, died at his home in LaFayette on Monday, following a stroke of paralysis. He was very popular as a man and an official and was recently re-elected to serve a second term. --- C.C. EMBREY DIED TODAY Rev. Charles C. Embrey died at 5 o'clock this morning at Newton in southeast Alabama, where he was attending a denominational school. This information came in a telegram from his brother H.R. Embrey. His father Mr. T.J. Embrey, was also there, having been called to Newton on Friday by his son's illness. The remains will arrive in Roanoke at 11 o'clock over the Central railway tomorrow morning and will be taken to Macedonia for interment. The premature demise of this fine young man will be widely lamented. ---- WEHADKEE News Nov. 11th A daughter was born to Mrs. J.L. Heard last week. --- A ten pound boy arrived at the home of Robert Young on Saturday. --- Mrs. Malcolm Manning has gone to Chilton county to teach school. Mr. Manning will move later. --- Mrs. Jack Burson died this morning after a short illness. Funeral services will be conducted by Rev. W.J. Layton at Big Spring tomorrow. The deceased leaves a husband and eight children and a large number of relatives and friends to mourn her death. She was a member of the Baptist church. --- NAPOLEON News We learn that Mrs. Mary Benefield's recovery is beyond hope. --- Last week Ross Kirby had his horse fall on him, receiving a fractured leg. --- LOCAL News Mrs. Josie Dean is ill with the grippe. --- Mrs. David Bagley returned to Birmingham on Sunday after a visit to her parents Dr. and Mrs. Floyd. --- J.A. Nall, an experienced artisan in the marble business has accepted a position with the Roanoke Marble Works and will move his family here from Americus shortly. --- W.T. McDow, G.A. Sears, E.C. Driver, W.D., J.A. and J.T. Smith, representing the lodge at Sewell, were in Roanoke Monday enroute to Lanett to attend the district convention of the Odd Fellows. --- W.J. and J.M. Ballard captured Minnie Belle Pike in LaGrange on Sunday and returned her to the state convicts quarters near Birmingham. She was sent up there from this county last summer on a charge of vagrancy but escaped a few weeks later. --- Land For Sale - - 1200 acres near Cusseta, Ala., known as the Vernon homestead. Write or call M.H. Radney in Wadley, Ala. --- Mr. E.A. Lee, father of A.A. Lee, and his brothers Carl and Charlie Will Lee and sisters Misses Mae and Fannie Will of LaFayette, attended the marriage of A.A. Lee to Miss Annie Rodgers recently. --- Mrs. Lacy and daughter Mrs. Strickland returned to Birmingham this morning after a visit to the former's daughter Mrs. J.S. Robertson. --- Mrs. L.C. Hardy of Eldodrado, Arkansas is visting relatives in Roanoke, her old home. --- H.L. Kitchens returned Saturday from Harris County, Georgia where he had been to attend the funeral of his brother T.J. Kitchens who died in Columbus on Wednesday night. --- Allen Ray left last week for Norfolk, Virginia where he will make his home. --- NEWSPAPER issue of Wednesday, November 20, 1912 WADLEY News Last Saturday evening, Mr. C.W. Clegg and Miss Ruth Wood drove over to Wedowee and were married. Miss Wood, whose home is in Georgia, was on a visit to relatives here. --- Sunday morning, at the home of Mr. and Mrs. M.W. Wood, in the presence of a few friends, their daughter Miss Nannie was united in marriage to Mr. Lee Thomason of Dickert. Rev. C.C. Godbey performed the ceremony. --- WEDOWEE News Nov. 18th Charlie G. and Thomas L. Adcock of Roanoke were here yesterday visiting their brothers and sisters. This splendid family has the sympathy of the entire community in the loss of their mother Mrs. Winnie Adcock whose death occured in Roanoke last Thursday. --- At the home of her sister, Mrs. W.M. Holder in Roanoke, where she was making her home temporaily, Mrs. Winnie V. Adcock died last Thursday night, after an illness of some days. The interment was at Lebanon on Friday afternoon, after services conducted by Elder J.M. Joiner. Several grown children who survive have the sympathy of many friends in the loss of this good mother. --- FUNERAL HELD FOR C.C. EMBREY FRIDAY AT MACEDONIA A very sad occasion was the funeral of Rev. Charles C. Embrey, who died in Newton last Wednesday and whose remains were carried to his former home near Level Road. The services were held at Macedonia church Friday morning in the presence of a large throng, and the interment was in the nearby cemetery. Besides the father and brother of the deceased, his body was accompanied here by two of his school mates, Otis Cooper and Ernest Jackson, and by Rev. S.E. Burrows, pastor of the Baptist church at Newton. The funeral services were conducted by Mr. Burrows, assisted by Revs. H.R. Moore and F.H. Farrington. ---- WEHADKEE News Nov. 18th A.J. Hester is confined to his bed with rheumatism. --- Mrs. Turner Hester is quite sick at this writing. --- F.E. Webb is quite sick at his home near Omaha. --- Miss Katie Head was happily married Sunday evening to Mr. Pearce Hill. --- ADMINISTRATOR'S SALE Under and by virtue of an order of sale granted by the Probate Court of Chambers county, Alabama on the 11th day of November 1912, in the estate of James A. Wise, deceased, the undersigned as administrators of said estate, will sell on the premises of the late deceased James A. Wise, about two miles west of Marcoot in Chambers County, to the highest bidder for cash, the following described lands belonging to said decedent: All of section 22 in Twp. 23 of R. 25 in Chambers County, Alabama, that lies north of the public road that runs from LaFayette, Alabama to Chisholm's Ferry on the Tallapoosa River, except from the above forty acres in the south E 1/4 section 22, being the forty acres on which said decedent resided with his family at the time of his death. All said lands described as belonging to said decedent containing 319 accres more or less; also five acres in the southeast corner of section 22... P. Monroe Wise, Ida E. Wise, Administrators of the estate of James A. Wise, deceased. ---- LOCAL News Mrs. J.B. Gresham and child are visting the former's parents Mr. and Mrs. R.L. Gillam. --- R.W. Griffin spent Saturday and Sunday in Opelika, being called there by the death of a relative, Tobe Summers. --- MALONE News Nov. 18th Mrs. L.P. Mason of Knoxville, Tennessee, arrived last Wednesday to spend some time with her mother Mrs. Malone, and other relatives. --- Last week, R.E.L. Daniel and J.E. Malaris went to Winston County prospecting for a home. These gentleman expect to move their families there soon. --- CORBIN News Nov. 18th Mrs. Geo. Bradley was called to Roanoke last week to attend the funeral of her mother Mrs. Winnie Adcock. -- Mrs. Benefield, who fell some time ago and broke her hip, died last week at the home of her daughter Mrs. Hoodie Johnson. Mrs. Benefield leaves a host of relatives and friends to mourn for her. --- NEWSPAPER Issue of Wednesday, November 27, 1912 DEATH OF W.F. HARRIS Mr. W.F. Harris died suddenly at 8 o'clock Saturday night at the home of his daughter Mrs. Louie White in this place. He had been in feeble health for several years but had returned from West Point only the day before and a few minutes before he died, he expressed himself as feeling better than usual. Mr. Harris was a member of the Methodist church and of the Masonic fraternity. The funeral services were conducted at the cemetery near Rock Mills Sunday afternoon by Rev. A.S. Brannah. The remains were then interred by the Masons with the usual ceremonies of that order. The deceased was a quiet, inoffensive citizen. He leaves a widow and three grown children. He was a brother of L.E. Harris of this place and Louis Harris of Birmingham. --- A NEGRO KILLED SUNDAY In the early part of Sunday night, Henry McMurray, a well known negro, was shot by another negro named Lee Dickson at a house in Beat 2. The weapon used was a shot gun, the load taking effect in the negro's stomach. He died at four o'clock the following morning. Dickson escaped and has not yet been captured. --- LOCAL News Policeman John Daniel bloomed out in a new uniform and helmet a few days ago. --- J.R. Hollinger arrived at M.W. Carlisle's Saturday in his large touring car from Waynesboro, Pa. He was accompanied by his wife and aged mother. They were joined here by Mr. R.J. Higgins and Monday the party proceeded to Columbus enroute to Wewahitchka, Florida to spend the winter. --- NAPOLEON News Nov. 21st Lawrence Townsend, an old Confederate soldier and an old resident of this community, will be buried here this afternoon. He was in the Confederate Navy and came here after the war from North Carolina. He taught school many years in this county. He was a good citizen and respected by all who knew him. --- MISS CAMERON TO WED The Leader is in receipt of the following invitation: " Mr. and Mrs. Ben Lee Cameron invite you to the marriage of their daughter Gabrella to Mr. Louis Philip Harris on Wednesday, December the fourth, at three o'clock at home in LaGrange." Miss Cameron, who is a lovely young lady, has frequently visited her sister Mrs. R.P.Price in this place where she has many friends who wish her much happiness in her married life. --- SALE NOTICE On Tuesday, Dec. 3rd, we will sell to the highest bidder at the old homestead of N.T. Foster, 1 mile above Rock Mills, the following property: Three good mules Lot of Corn, Fodder and Hay 5 cows and yearlings One Mower and Rake 1 Top Buggy and Harness 1 two-horse wagon Set of blacksmith tools Syrup Mill and Pan Farming Tools Four Head of Fattened Hogs W.C. Foster, R.E. Foster, Executors ---- LOCAL News Mr. and Mrs. J.L. Fails arrived Friday from Butler county to spend some time with the family of the latter's father C.F. Birdsong. --- T.J. Hearn and family moved yesterday to Decatur, Georgia, to the regret of their friends here. --- Henry W. Smallwood, while out hunting Friday with a friend, was accidentally shot in the back of the head, inflicting a painful but not thought to be serious wound. --- Mrs. I.D. Nolen of New Site, after a visit to her brother Dr. Hooper, left Tuesday to visit her parents at Albertville. --- T.E. Mayberry of Datona, Florida, visited his brother-in-law E.P. Newman this week. --- Hugh West has been quite sick for several days but is convalescing. --- J.E. Almon and A.E. Barnes with their families are looking to locate in Cullman or Winston counties. S.J. Gladney, R.A. Burdett and Ade Albright also went along on a prospecting tour. --- MALONE News Nov. 25th While hauling logs last Tuesday, J.B. McGill happened to a serious accident of getting badly hurt by a log. --- Friday morning the families of R.E.L. Daniel and J.E. Malaris boarded the train to Winston county to make their future home. --- W.L. Daniel, having sold his home to Henry Fetner has gone to Winston County prospecting for a home. --- Mrs. Malone and daughter Mrs. L.P. Mason left yesterday for Macon, Georgia to visit relatives. --- WEHADKEE News Nov. 25th F.E. Webb continues very low and is not expected to live. --- Woodrow Wilson Pittman, youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. Homer Pittman, was born a week ago Saturday night. --- Travis Alsobrook is building a new dwelling house. --- A son was born to Mr. and Mrs. W.L. Alsobrook Saturday night. --- Aunt Mary Stitt who has been very ill is some better. --- LOCAL News Mrs. A.J. Langley and Mrs. W.H. Brittain are attending in LaGrange today the marriage of their niece Miss Margaret Dollens to Mr. Marvin R. Ansley. --- Louis Harris of Birmingham was called here the first of the week by the death of his brother W.F. 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