Randolph County AlArchives News.....Newspaper Abstracts for NOVEMBER 1922 November 1922 ************************************************ 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 April 12, 2006, 12:36 am The Roanoke Leader November 1922 NEWSPAPER ABSTRACTS FROM "THE ROANOKE LEADER", Roanoke, Randolph County, Alabama for NOVEMBER 1922 NEWSPAPER Issue of Wednesday, November 1, 1922 LEVEL ROAD News Oct. 30th Mr. Keller McGill and family of Mt. Vernon, Texas motored to this community last week and visited Mr. and Mrs. Bill Camp. --- BACON LEVEL News Oct. 30th Mr. Mack Talley who is guarding convicts in Georgia is preparing to move his family to LaGrange. --- Mr. F.M. Ragland will have a sale today for the purpose of selling his corn and fodder an farming implements. Mr. Ragland's health has failed so that he is not able to farm and he has moved to Fairfax to live with his son Sam. --- NEW HOPE News Oct. 30th Virgil Huey is preparing to move to Macon, Georgia. --- WADLEY News Oct. 30th We are sorry to note that Mrs. John T. Fuller is very ill at this writing. --- LOCAL News Mrs. M.D. Boulware underwent a serious operation at Knight Sanitorium on Saturday. Her condition this morning is reported as favorable. --- Roanoke relatives attended the funeral of Mrs. Vernon Sherman at Fenton on Sunday afternoon. --- Five local clansmen went over to Bowdon, Ga., last night to a speaking held in the interest of the Ku Klux Klan. --- NEWSPAPER Issue of Wednesday, November 8, 1922 CARD OF THANKS We wish to express our heartfelt gratitude to our neighbors and friends for their many deeds of kindness and expressions of sympathy in the illness and death of our father Mr. T.J. Camp. We also appreciate most highly the faithful ministry of our physicians. May God reward each one of you. His Children ---- ROCK MILLS News Nov. 6th Mr. Walter Bailey and Miss Minnie Lee Burdette went down to Evansville, Ga., and were happily married Friday night. --- BACON LEVEL News Nov. 6th Mr. N.W. Phillips was stricken with paralysis in the left side last Wednesday afternoon. We are glad to learn that he is doing well at this writing, though he is still confined to his bed. --- Bro. Shadix's son-in-law, Mr. Norman Lipham and family of Newell community will move here next week. We are glad to have these good people come to our community. --- MT. ZION News Nov. 6th Mrs. Annie Knight and children of Texas, Georgia spent last weekend with the former's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jim Swann. --- LOCAL News S.V. Windsor and family leave today for Albertville where they will make their home. --- ROCK STAND News Nov. 6th "Uncle" William Norred was taken severely sick on Saturday. --- WOODLAND News Nov. 6th Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Yates of near Wedowee are visiting Mrs. Yates' father and mother Mr. and Mrs. Ben Prescott. --- WEHADKEE News Nov. 6th Mr. W.W. Green who was stricken with paralysis some time ago is much improved. --- Mr. and Mrs. Searcy Veal will go to Atlanta this week to make their home. --- Mr. T.J. Camp died Sunday at his near Omaha after a long period of declining health. The deceased was 75 years of age and was one of our best citizens. He had been a member of the Baptist church over fifty years. He is survived by four grown children. Rev. H.R. Moore will conduct the funeral at Big Springs today at 11 o'clock. ---- (NOTE: The newspaper issue of Wednesday, November 15th 1922 was not filmed for this microfilm roll.) NEWSPAPER Issue of Wednesday, November 22, 1922 DEATH OF MRS. JOHNSON OCCURRED THURSDAY MORNING At 7:30 last Thursday morning death brought release to the spirit of Mrs. C.A. Johnson who was making her home with her daughter Mrs. C.H. Vann, in this city. Through a resident of this town only a short while, Mrs. Johnson made friends among those with whom she associated by her bright, cheerful spirit. She had attained the age of 78 years. Funeral services were conducted at the home at 10:30 Friday morning by Rev. John R. Turner. The casket was surrounded by beautiful floral offerings. Mrs. Johnson was a member of the Presbyterian church and the pall bearers were chosen from the members of the local church of that order. The interment was made in the city cemetery. ---- WEDOWEE News Nov. 21st Mr. C.L. Smith and family left this morning for Jay, Florida. Mr. Smith goes to take charge of Mr. A.L. Kent's farm there. --- Mrs. Asa Wright died Sunday at 11 o'clock and was buried Monday at 2 o'clock at the Masonic cemetery. Rev. J.E. Johnson conducted the funeral services. She was the mother of Dr. C.B. Wright of Wedowee and was 77 years old. At the time of her death she was staying at the home of her son-in-law Mr. John Yates in Wedowee. She was a good woman and reared a fine family. ---- ROCK STAND News Last Saturday, Nov. 18th, the many relatives and friends of Mr. and Mrs. J.R. Kirby gathered at their home to celebrate the 78th birthday of Mrs. Kirby. This day had been looked forward to with fond anticipation by the family and friends, but shortly after the guests began to arrive, Uncle Ranse, as he is familiarly known, was taken violently sick and the immediate services of a physician were necessary. He is still very low and the outcome cannot be forseen. ---- ROCK MILLS News Nov. 21st The body of Mr. Emory Mapp was brought here for burial last Tuesday from LaGrange. He was 68 years of age, leaves wife and several children and a host of friends to mourn his death. May God reach out His tender hand and caress the bereaves ones. ---- WOODLAND News Nov. 20th Mr. J.W. Moon and family had as their guests on Saturday his brother-in-law Mack Kaylor and his son and daughter Deward and Amer of Carrollton, Ga. --- At the home of the groom's cousin Mr. David Sears, the marriage of Mr. Louis Sears and Miss Evie Pointer took place Sunday morning. The ceremony was performed by Rev. J.H. Hester. --- LEVEL ROAD News Nov. 20th Mr. Webb McCarter was stricken with paralysis last Thursday morning and continues very ill. --- LOCAL News Mrs. O.L. Ray of Talladega is visiting Mrs. W.L. Smallwood. --- Messrs. Walter and Lloyd Johnson of Birmingham were called here last Thursday night to attend the funeral Friday of their mother Mrs. C.A. Johnson. --- NEWSPAPER Issue of Wednesday, November 29, 1922 WEDOWEE News Nov. 27th Mr. W.T. Beck, wife and son Hoyt of Bowdon visited their daughter and sister Mrs. T.A. Perry on Sunday. --- Mr. Jim Smith and wife of Bowdon visited his father and mother B.H. Smith on Sunday. Mr. B.H. Smith happened to the misfortune last week of getting his arm broken. So far "Uncle Ben" is doing fine. --- LOCAL News Mrs. J.H. Leftwich of Mellow Valley has come to spend the winter with her daughter Mrs. Jack Padgett. --- J.A. Jeffers has been spending several days with relatives in and near Savannah, Georgia where he went to recuperate his health. His long years of faithful service as railway and express agent at the Central depot has begun to tell on him. The host of friends of this big-hearted lovable gentleman trust that he may have his health speedily restored. ---- HIGHWAY News Nov. 27th Little Annie Pearl, the 2 year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Kirby died last night from diptheria after suffering about 24 hours. Dan Kirby of Springfield community is here at his son's, arriving a few hours before his little grandchild died. --- Mr. Bud Wilson of Napoleon community and Mrs. Emma Johnson of Haywood were married last Thursday. --- LEVEL ROAD News Nov. 27th A mistake appeared in the Level Road column last week. The mistake was "Mr. Webb McCarter was stricken with paralysis some days ago." It should have been, "Mrs. Webb McCarter". At this writing, Mrs. Webb McCarter is thought to have improved a little. --- File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/randolph/newspapers/newspape932gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 8.3 Kb