Randolph County AlArchives News.....Newspaper abstracts for JULY 1917 July 1917 ************************************************ 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 January 17, 2006, 12:02 pm The Roanoke Leader July 1917 NEWSPAPER ABSTRACTS FROM "THE ROANOKE LEADER", Roanoke, Randolph County, Alabama for JULY 1917 NEWSPAPER Issue of Wednesday, July 4, 1917 LOWELL News Mr. J.W. Bradley and Miss Maud Bailey were married in the court house in LaGrange on Sunday. Mr. Bradley is 74 years of age and is a respected resident of Lowell, the mill section of Roanoke. His bride is 45 years old and formerly lived in Randolph county. The couple proceeded to West Point and will return to Roanoke the latter part of the week. ---- James Vinson and Miss Fannie Mae Young went over to Evansville Saturday night and were quietly married. They proceeded to LaGrange where they will make their future home. --- PRETTY WEDDING AT ROCK MILLS Celebrated Tuesday evening when Mrs. Golden became bride of Mr. Lisenby. Tuesday, June 26th, just at sunset, the pretty wedding of Mrs. Blanche Sims Golden and Mr. Asa W. Lisenby was solemnized on the spacious porch at the home of the bride in Rock Mills....Rev. W.E. Faust, the officiating minister, preceded the groom and his best man, Mr. J.S. Lisenby, to the altar. Here the groom waited for the bride, who was most lovely in a handsome suit of yellow, carrying a gorgeous shower bouquet of bride's roses and valley lilies as she entered on the arm of her brother, Mr. Courtney Bonner. Mrs. W.W. Bonner and Mrs. Gerson Bonner welcomed the hundred or more guests into the hall where orangeade was served. Immediately after the reception the bridal party motored to LaGrange where the bride and groom left for Atlanta. There the bride's uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. W.C. Harper, entertained for them a roof garden party at their lovely home. Afterward they left for Daytona Beach and Palatka, Fla. Mr. and Mrs. Lisenby will make their home in Dothan. ---- LOCAL News Mrs. Ora Trent is ill with the fever. --- Mrs. A.C. McCarley is ill with the fever. --- Mrs. W.O. Terrell is visiting the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. William Gilbert at Abanda. --- NEWSPAPER Issue of Wednesday, July 11, 1917 W. A. KITCHENS INJURED W.A. Kitchens was painfully injured by being thrown from his automobile while returning from a trip to Gadsden Tuesday night. The accident occurred four miles from Talladega and is said to have been caused by the driver attempting to make a quick turn at high speed on being told that he was about to take a wrong turn at a fork. Several other passengers were in the car when it capsized but escaped without injuries. Mr. Kitchens was taken to the hospital at Talladega where he is being cared for. His injuries are said to be internal and it is not yet known just how serious they are. The Ashland Progress ---- LOWELL News The entire community was shocked last Thursday afternoon when it was learned that Millard Whitten had been drowned in Ussery Lake. A Mr. Webb made a heroic effort to save the lad and in the effort was almost drowned himself. Whitten could not swim and got beyond the rope and thus met his fate. All efforts to resucitate him were without avail. The funeral was conducted from the Second Baptist church Friday afternoon by Rev. J.W. Rucker and the interment was in the city cemetery. Besides his parents, the deceased leaves one brother, Robert, of Athens, Ga. and three married sisters living in LaGrange, and one sister making her home with the parents. All were present at the funeral. Millard Whitten bore a good man. The superintendant at the mill where he was employed, praised him highly. --- Another citizen of Lowell was a victim of a regrettable accident Saturday afternoon. While driving a horse to a buggy in front of the Roanoke Warehouse Company's buildings, the horse ran away and threw the occupant, Mr. George Norton, to the ground. He was seriously injured and at best will be confined to his room for many weeks. --- A TRAGEDY ENACTED SUNDAY; Negro Boy in Roanoke Killed Sister and Self; Buried in Same Grave One of those unusual, depressing tragedies in which children are the principals was enacted in Roanoke early last Sunday morning. John Williams, a negro about 13 years of age, shot and killed his sister Caridel, about 11 years of age, at the home of their mother in the number two section of town. He had previously struck the little girl in the head with a rock. The boy ran off a piece and then returned to the house; fearing that the officers would get him, he fired a shot into his own body, dying at 2 o'clock in the afternoon. That such a tragedy should have occurred, perpetrated by one so young, affords a most melancholy reflection. The victims were the children of John and Ida Williams. The former made his home in LaGrange. The latter had gone out to see about getting something for breakfast about sun up, leaving the children at home, when the shocking double crime was recorded...At ten o'clock Monday morning the bodies of the slain were interred in the same grave in the colored cemetery in this city. ---- LOCAL News Miss Jane Toler died Saturday night at her home near Rock Mills. --- Mrs. McAlpine went over to LaGrange Saturday morning where she was taken seriously ill. Her daughter Mrs. Rucker went to her bedside immediately. Mrs. McApine is reported as improving at this writing. --- W.J. Snow and family moved to Atlanta on Saturday. --- Mrs. Catherine Wing of Macon, Ga., spent the past week with her sister Mrs. H.F. Roller. --- Wm. B. Turbeville went to Birmingham last week to join the Army. --- Leslie Roller had the misfortune to have his right arm badly injured by the back action of the crank of an automobile last Thursday. --- NEWSPAPER Issue of Wednesday, July 18, 1917 WEHADKEE News July 16th Jim Will Stitt is at home from the Army on a ten day furlough. --- A son was born to Mr. and Mrs. Wyatt Bryant last Friday. --- DR. GRADY IS ARMY SURGEON Dr. Henry W. Grady, eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. J.W. Grady of this city, received Monday from Washington a telegram notifying him that he had been assigned to active duty as a surgeon in the United States Army with the rank of First Lieutenant. Dr. Grady left this morning for Washington where he will be in training for three months. He will then probably be sent to the front in France. This excellent young man is admirably equipped for his arduous duties and his hundreds of friends throughout Alabama will wish for him, an honorable, useful career and a safe return to his native land. ---- LOCAL News Mr. O.D. Baker of Calvert, Texas, a native of Roanoke, and now editor of the Calvert Courier, was in town Sunday for the first time in 51 years. --- George Thomas, a negro drayman for the express company, fell from his wagon Friday near Arnold's shop and fractured his skull. --- NON-RESIDENT NOTICE FOR PROOF OF WILL State of Alabama, Randolph County, Probate Court July 13, 1917 In the matter of the estate of I.M. Edwards, deceased Notice to: J.M. Cobb who resides in Dawson, State of Georgia Rowena C. Ward who resides at Arlington, State of Georgia Troupe A. Cobb who resides at 1125 State St., San Diego, State of California Sol Arnold who resides at Granger, State of Texas Mrs. Eliza Covington who resides in the state of North Carolina, Post office address unknown Martha Fay Cobb who resides at Shellman, State of Georgia Harold Cobb who resides at Shellman, State of Georgia Dave Furguson, guardian of Martha Fay Cobb and Harold Cobb who resides at Shellman, State of Georgia You are notified that J.L. Arnold has filed in this court on the 19th day of December 1913 (?), an instrument in writing signed by I.M. Edwards, and attested by D.C. Camp and J.M. Morrow, subscribing witnesses, purporting to be the Last Will and Testament of I.M. Edwards, deceased, petitioning the court to probate the same. You are, therefore, notified that the 10th day of September 1917 has been set for the hearing of said petition, on which day you may appear and contest the same if you choose to do so. This the 13th day of July 1917. John T. Heflin, Judge of Probate ---- NEWSPAPER Issue of Wednesday, July 25, 1917 LOCAL News Twin boys were born to Mr. and Mrs. H.H. Cauthen last night. This makes five boys for this family. --- Mr. J.W. Stallings was a caller at this office Monday, returning from a visit to his sister Mrs. Ray, near Wedowee. Mr. Stallings is a Confederate veteran, 76 years young, and carried his age well, notwithstanding he suffered the loss of a leg in the defense of his country. He is in active charge of the jail at Lafayette. ---- MARRIED AT BACON LEVEL At the home of the parents of the bride, Mr. and Mrs. N.C. Henry near Bacon Level, their daughter Miss Blanche Henry was married to Mr. R.P. Gross of Glenn, Georgia in the presence of the family and a few friends. These popular young people have the best wishes of their many friends. ---- LOCAL News Jake Ragland returned to the Army encampment at Montgomery on Monday, having been here on a five days furlough. --- Mrs. C.A. Pye and children are visiting the family of the former's father, Mr. W.H. McMurray. --- H.M. Rankin of Wynder, Ga., was the guest of his brother E.G. Rankin the first of the week. --- A boy was born to Mr. and Mrs. Elmer McCarley Saturday night. --- File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/randolph/newspapers/newspape821gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 9.9 Kb