Randolph County AlArchives News.....Newspaper abstracts for MARCH 1923 March 1923 ************************************************ 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 18, 2006, 9:57 pm The Roanoke Leader March 1923 NEWSPAPER ABSTRACTS FROM "THE ROANOKE LEADER", Roanoke, Randolph County, Alabama for MARCH 1923 NEWSPAPER Issue of Wednesday, March 7, 1923 CARD OF THANKS We wish to extend our heartfelt thanks to Mr. Whit Owens and family and other dear friends and relatives who so tenderly and faithfully cared for our dear father G.F. Weaver during his sickness and death. May the Lord reward each one of them with his richest blessings. His Children in Texas; Woody, Hardy and DeWitt Weaver, Ida Duke, Carrie Hornsby, Edna Liles and Nina Camfield. ----- (NOTE: There is an obituary for R.J. Hooton on the front page of this newspaper issue, however the page is torn so badly on the top left side with a large missing section so that it cannot be transcribed.) EXPRESSION OF THANKS In the midst of the sorrow that overwhelmed us in the death of our husband and father R.J. Hooton, we have been wonderfully sustained and comforted by the kind ministrations of so many friends. We could not conceive of any service that might have been rendered that was not freely given. We are utterly unable to convey our gratitude in words or to reach the many who helped us in any way during this trying experience. We would have each one know that we will treasure through our lives the memory of such a beautiful christian spirit. Mrs. R.J. Hooton and children ----- UNION HILL News Mar 5th Mr. Dave Nixon continues very ill. --- Mrs. Lon Kelly of Lowell is spending a few days with her brother Mr. Tom Bailey. --- Mr. Loomus Oliver of near Wadley visited his sister Mrs. Mark Green on Saturday and Sunday. --- NEWSPAPER Issue of Wednesday, March 14, 1923 MR. M.R. TAYLOR DIED LAST MONDAY MORNING After being confined to his home in this city the greater part of the past three years, Mr. M.R. Taylor died last Monday morning. He reached the fine age of 76 years last October. He was born in this vicinity and spent his entire life here. He served in the Confederate Army and has long been a prominent figure in his native county. Funeral services were conducted at 2 o'clock Tuesday afternoon from the home by Elder O.A. Moore. A large company of relatives and friends were in attendance. The interment was in the city cemetery. The deceased leaves a wife and six grown children. ----- NEW HOPE News March 12th J.C.A. Henderson was stricken with paralysis last Thursday. There seems to be but little chance for his recovery. ---- Mrs. Mollie Fincher died yesterday morning at 3 o'clock at the home of her son- in-law and daughter Mr. and Mrs. A.B. Sikes. Another good woman gone to her reward. She will be buried today in Liberty Grove cemetery. Mrs. Fincher had been sick for a few days but was up most of the time and no one thought her condition was serious until Saturday evening when she began to grow worse and continued to get worse until the end came. Mr. Bob Duke of Tyus, Ga., and Mrs. Will Hayes of Bowdon are here to attend the funeral of their mother Mrs. Fincher. ----- MOUNT CARMEL News March 12th Miss Ruby Perry and Mr. Rufus Benefield went Sunday to Evansville, Georgia and were married. ---- CARD OF THANKS I wish to express my sincere thanks to my neighbors and friends and let them know I appreciate my new rolling chair that they bought for me. It is so nice and so much help. It makes me feel like I have so many good neighbors, friends and relatives. And for other times that they have helped us in so many ways during my long spell of sickness. May God's blessings rest upon each and every one. Mrs. C.B. Yarbrough, Rock Mills, Ala. ---- BROUGHTON News March 12th Mrs. Margaret Lynch visited her sister Mrs. Fannie Anderson in Cleburne County recently. --- LOCAL News Mr. and Mrs. Roy Slaughter will attend the funeral this afternoon in Opelika of Mr. Charlie Mitchell, an uncle of the former. --- Mr. B.J. Mitchum returned Monday from a visit to his daughter Mrs. Henry Harris near Wadley. His health is improving, we are pleased to note. --- E.R. Taylor, prominent business man of LaGrange, was called here Monday by the death of his father Mr. M.R. Taylor. --- Mr. T.C. Goodwin has been confined to his room by illness the past several days. His nephew and namesake Dr. Tom Gauntt of West Point was called to see him. --- Last Sunday afternoon at the parsonage of St. John's Methodist church in LaGrange, the pastor united in marriage Mr. Arthur L. Phillips of LaGrange and Miss Ethel Swann of Roanoke. The young people will make their home in LaGrange. The bride is a daughter of Mr. Thomas Swann of Roanoke. ---- Mrs. W.J. Clark and Mrs. R.L. White and children of Arab, Ala., spent the weekend with Mrs. W.R. Avery, the former's daughter of Lanett. Mrs. White is a granddaughter of W.J. Clark. --- OFELIA News March 12th Mrs. Jim Warren happened to a sad, fatal accident Saturday at the Ofelia Mill. While crossing the shafting her coat caught and jerked her against a post several times. Her head was badly injured and almost every bone in her body was broken. Mrs. Warren had gone to the Mill to carry her husband's dinner. He was operating at the mill. She was a good christian woman and will be badly missed in this community. She leaves a husband and four little children besides several married children. Her body was laid to rest at Christiana on Sunday. ---- We were very much surprised to know that Mr. Newt Gibson went over to Ashland on Saturday and brought a wife home with him. She was Mrs. Nora Mullens. They were married early Saturday morning. ---- MT. ZION News March 12th Mrs. Mattie Hodges of Radney's Chapel is critically ill. --- Mrs. W.F. Ballard of New Hope is attending the bedside of her mother Mrs. J. Walls. ---- PINE HILL News March 12th Last Friday morning the death angel called at the home of Mr. W.J. Traylor and claimed for his victim his mother, "Aunt" Nettie Traylor. She was one of the oldest settlers of this community and lacked only a few days of being eighty- three years old. Her remains were laid to rest in the cemetery at Harmony church of which she was a member. ---- Miss Heaton Traylor of West Point attended the funeral of her grandmother, "Aunt" Nettie Traylor last Saturday morning. ---- NEWSPAPER Issue of Wednesday, March 21, 1923 AGED VETERAN BROUGHT TO ROANOKE HOSPITAL Last Thursday, Dr. R.C. Haynes and other citizens of Graham community were in Roanoke to arrange to have Mr. R.M. Wilson of Graham, a Confederate Veteran, 79 years of age, whose right arm was shot off while fighting in defense of the South, placed in the Knight Sanitorium for an operation. Notwithstanding his age and his disabled condition, Mr. Wilson has made a crop every year until now. He lives alone with his aged wife. Mr. Wilson was operated on Monday. No charges were made by the surgeons and the Sunday schools of the town kindly agreed to take care of the necessary hospital expenses during the stay of the old hero on Roanoke. The length of his illness and his final recovery, is, in the nature of the case, very uncertain at best. Dr. Haynes, Mr. J.E. Sherard and Mr. W.E. Phelps came down Monday to be with the aged veteran. They state that Mr. Wilson is a highly respected citizen who moved last year to Graham from near Bowdon, Georgia. Due to his change in residence he is not at this time getting a state pension. His neighbors have been helping him, we are informed. ----- WEHADKEE News March 19th Three couples from our community got married last Sunday: Mr. Perry Webb and Miss Dovie Lou Fincher got married in Georgia Mr. Clinton Hood and Miss Ula Pearl Kent got married in Georgia Mr. McElroy and Miss Lula Henley eloped and were married. --- Mrs. T.J. Green arrived last Friday from South Georgia to attend her father Mr. A.L. Hester who has been ill for some time. ---- WEDOWEE News March 19th Ex-Sheriff G.N. Cofield has just returned from Aberdeen, Miss., where he was summoned in court as a witness in behalf of Louis Cavender who was being tried for the murder of Amos Key. Both Cavender and Key formerly lived in Randolph County, Ala. ---- Mr. Dan McElroy of Wedowee and Miss Lula Hendley of Wehadkee were married here this morning, Squire J.T. Owens officiating. --- MT. ZION News March 19th Mrs. Handley Waller of Adele, Ga., is spending a few days with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur George. --- Mr. and Mrs. A.J. Newell were called to Stroud on Friday to attend the funeral of the former's father on Saturday. ---- Mrs. Mattie Hodge of Radney's Chapel community died on Thursday and was buried at Concord on Friday. Rev. E.M. Carter conducted the funeral. --- LOCAL News Mr. A.J. Newell Sr., a highly respected citizen of Stroud community and a Confederate veteran, father of A.J. Newell Jr. of Mt. Zion, died last Thursday. The interment was at Mt. Pisgah. --- J.W. Langley of near Wedowee, will leave this week to visit his son Keney who is in a serious condition in a government hospital in Little Rock, Arkansas. --- A.J. Green, a well known colored minister was considerably bruised and battered in a car collision at Stroud on Saturday night. ---- Mr. W.W. Wallis is very low as the Leader goes to press. --- Mr. and Mrs. E.A. Lee of Chipley, Ga., spent Sunday with their son Albert Lee. They were accompanied by another son, C.W. Lee. --- ROCK MILLS News March 19th Mrs. Winnie Mapp of LaGrange is visiting her sister Mrs. J.M. Keeble and other relatives here. --- Mrs. C.M. Hall was recently called to the bedside of her brother Mr. Billie Hollis, a former resident of this place, who died at Fairfax. --- BROUGHTON News March 19th A very sad event occurred here Sunday morning when the death angel visited the home of Mr. and Mrs. W.J. McCarter and took away the former. Mr. McCarter fell from his wagon last Thursday morning while hauling wood. He was paralyzed and unable to get up. It was some time before he was found. The deceased was about 73 years old and had been a member of the Baptist church at Macedonia for some thirty years. He leaves a wife and two sons and a host of friends and relatives to mourn his loss. Interment will be at Macedonia today at eleven o'clock. ---- Mrs. Jim Luther Hodges will move this week to her father's place, Mr. J.C. Marshall. Mr. Hodges will leave this week for Ohio where he has a position. --- WOODLAND News March 19th Mr. and Mrs. Louis Sears were bitten by a dog that had hydrophobia. They are taking treatments at home. --- Leonard McCarley, Robert Ramsey and Ernest Daniel have gone to Akron, Ohio where they have positions. --- LOCAL News Mrs. Vera Willingham of Lowell community was operated on at the Knight Sanitorium Monday night. Mrs. Pollie Sikes of Route 2 underwent an operation there on Tuesday. --- John L. Dennis is a patient in the Roanoke Infirmary where he underwent an operation yesterday morning. --- Mr. and Mrs. J.C. Wright and Mrs. B.C. Jones Jr. were called this morning to Tuskegee by the news that the former's venerable mother Mrs. W.H. Wright was seriously ill. She has been ill for some weeks and but little hope is offered for her recovery. --- NEWSPAPER Issue of Wednesday, March 28, 1923 DEATH CLAIMS GOOD CITIZEN; Herbert H. Cauthen Enters Into Rest Roanoke sustained the loss of a good citizen when Mr. Herbert Hamilton Cauthen passed from life at his home in this place. He had been in impaired health for quite a while and had grown worse rapidly in late months. Finally his condition became exceedingly grave and in spite of all that medical skill and the care of loved ones could do, he sank into final slumber. Mr. Cauthen came from a fine South Carolina family in which were numbered prominent members. He was not cast in the ordinary mould. He spoke his convictions fearlessly and found himself on the right side of public questions. He was a resourceful man of affairs and had accumulated a nice estate since moving to Roanoke some 25 years ago. He came here as a telegraph operator, later acquiring the Roanoke Telephone Co., and also was involved in the insurance business. He was 51 years of age. Mr. Cauthen was a member of the Methodist church which he joined in childhood and from the sacred altars of that church in this place his body will be borne to its final resting place, after services conducted by his pastor, Dr. Turner, assisted by Revs. Chadwick and Hines. Friends of this stalwart citizen sympathize with the wife and five sons, and will gather to pay their tribute of love and respect to one whom we all shall mourn. ---- W.W. WALLIS DIED TUESDAY After a long and painful illness, Wilson W. Wallis died on Tuesday afternoon at his home on Wedowee street. Funeral services will be conducted at 2 o'clock this afternoon at the residence by Dr. Turner. Interment will follow in the cemetery of this city. Mr. Wallis was about 65 years of age and was a well known and respected citizen, having spent his entire life in the southern part of Randolph county. He is survived by his wife and two daughters, the eldest daughter Ava Wallis being a teacher in the public schools on this city. In their distress the family has the warm sympathy of this community. --- CARD OF THANKS We wish to extend our heartfelt thanks to our many friends for the kindness, love and sympathy shown us in the sickness and death of our husband and father. We desire to express to you all our sincere appreciation for every kind word and loving deed. We can never repay you for your kindness but we pray that the dear Saviour may richly reward you all and may we all meet together with our loved ones in that beautiful Home where sorrow and parting shall be no more. Mrs. Susan A. Henderson and children ----- DEMISE OF AN AGED WOMAN IN LOWELL ON SUNDAY Mrs. Martha Jane Fetner died Sunday afternoon at the home of her son, Mr. Henry C. Fetner, in Lowell community, at the advanced age of 78 years. A husband and three children of this good woman survive her. The remains were carried to the former home of the deceased near Malone, and interred Monday afternoon at New Harmony church, after services conducted by Rev. H.R. Moore. ---- LOCAL News Mr. and Mrs. Wilburn Cauthen were called here from Atlanta on Sunday by the critical illness of the former's brother Mr. H.H. Cauthen. Messrs. Otis and Willie Cauthen, also brothers and Mrs. L.C. Kinard, a sister, all of South Carolina, came later to attend the funeral of their loved one. ---- Mr. M.H. Mears was in town Saturday to attend the meeting of the Confederate Veterans. He is 77 years of age but does not look it. Many men of no more than fifty would not like to tackle him in a wrestling bout or a foot race. Mr. Mears was reared in North Carolina. He was one of six brothers who entered the service of the Confederacy. Of this gallant half dozen, three were killed. ----- CRITICAL ILLNESS OF A CONFEDERATE VETERAN The editor of The Leader is pained to record the critical illness of Mr. J.B.C. Ambrose, a gallant Confederate veteran and former newspaper man of Virginia, at the home of his daughter Mrs. Ora Trent. As this paper goes to press all hope of his recovery is abandoned. Their son Mr. Frank Ambrose of Jacksonville, Fla., is with them. ----- WEDOWEE News March 26th John Harris, a negro, cut Dee Carter, a white man eighteen years of age, at Green's sawmill eight miles west of Wedowee last Thursday afternoon. Harris and another negro were put in jail. Carter received a number of severe gashes but will likely recover. --- Rev. J.C.A. Henderson, an aged minister of the Congregational church, died Wednesday in the New Hope community at the age of 70 years. He was a fine christian character. --- UNION HILL News March 26th Mrs. M.M. Rice came home last Saturday from LaGrange where she had spent several months with her daughter Mrs. J.B. Underwood. --- NEW HOPE News March 26th Last Wednesday morning about ten o'clock, the spirit of Rev. J.C.A. Henderson took its flight back to the God who gave it. The family has our heartfelt sympathy. He was buried at Liberty Grove on Thursday, with Masonic honors. Bro. Henderson was one of the best men we ever knew. He had served the Congregational Methodist church faithful about forty years. He was a very poor man so far as this world's goods went, but was extremely rich in faith. He was loved best by those who knew him best. ---- LOCAL News Mrs. T.T. Martin returned Monday to Athens after spending a few days with her daughter Miss Nancy Martin in the home of Mrs. Belt White. She brought here her orphan nephew, John Pippen Hill, who will attend school in this place. ---- The Leader had a call last Thursday from James Shelley Sledge, son of the late Mr. Thomas Sledge. He belongs to the U.S. Navy and was in the service during the war, being attached to the Argonne. He was visiting relatives near town several days last week. --- BACON LEVEL News March 26th Mrs. Thomas M. Hudson who has been spending some time with her husband's family, left Sunday for LaGrange where she will prepare to move in a few days to Missouri where she will join her husband who has a job with the Frisco Railway. --- WOODLAND News March 26th On March 18th, Miss Eula Mae Traylor of Lamar and Mr. Hoyt Wilson of Bowdon were married. Also on the same day, Miss Glemer Ramsey and Mr. Lengo Carter were married. --- File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/randolph/newspapers/newspape936gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 18.2 Kb