Randolph County AlArchives News.....Newspaper abstracts for FEB 1924 February 1924 ************************************************ 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 May 8, 2006, 12:36 am The Roanoke Leader February 1924 NEWSPAPER ABSTRACTS FROM "THE ROANOKE LEADER", Roanoke, Randolph County, Alabama for FEBRUARY 1924 NEWSPAPER Issue of Wednesday, February 6, 1924 SUIT FOR HEAVY DAMAGES AGAINST ALABAMA POWER COMPANY A civil suit of interest, involving a large amount of damages claimed, was filed in the office of the clerk of the circuit court of Randolph county in Wedowee last week. The suit is brought against the Alabama Power company, a corporation. The plaintiff is Mr. J. Wyatt Farr, as administrator of the estate of his wife, Mrs. Agnes Gladys Farr, deceased, who lost her life on Sunday August 19, 1923 at her home on Rock Mills street, as a result of an electrical shock, it is alleged, which was transmitted from the clouds during a storm, through a drop cord in the bedroom of the Farr home. Besides the husband, five children survive the deceased. The cause of the action rested on the alleged negligence of the defendant company in not putting in the necessary ground wires. The amount of damages asked for is $50,000. The plaintiff is represented by Vann & Parker of this city and Barnes & Walker of Opelika. The outcome of this case will be watched with interest not only by local people but as far as it is reported throughout the state. ------ DISPOSITION OF COUNTY COURT CASES ON MONDAY The Leader has been handed a report of the County Court cases of Monday showing the disposition of the cases as follows: Blake Hall, violating the prohibition laws, fined $50. Price Green, violating the prohibition laws, fined $50. Dan Atchison, violating the prohibition laws, fined $50. J.C. Harris, assault to murder, waived to grand jury Robert Kidd, abusive language, defendant dead Robert Leonard, bigamy, case continued ------ DEATH OF MRS. DELOACH Mrs. Martha DeLoach died Saturday at her home at White Plains in Chambers county after a long illness. She was 74 years of age and was the stepmother of Messrs. John and George DeLoach of this city. The funeral and interment was at Mt. Hickory at two o'clock on Sunday afternoon, after services conducted by Elder J.T. Satterwhite. ----- GOODMAN WILLIAMS DIED IN LAFAYETTE ON SATURDAY Mr. and Mrs. Thomas H. Adair of this place were called to LaFayette last week by the fatal illness of their son-in-law, Mr. Goodman Williams, whose death occurred early Saturday. The deceased was in the employ of Stanley & Singer. He leaves a widow and three children. Interment was at Agricola in Tallapoosa county on Sunday. Mrs. Williams and children will come to Roanoke this week to make their home with her parents here. ----- WEDOWEE News Feb. 4th Captain A. Banks, an old negro who lived around Wedowee for many years, died last week. He was buried three miles north of Malone. He was for a long time a minister in the Baptist church of his race and was respected by all. ---- CONCORD News Feb. 4th Mr. Jim Vaughn and mother of Level Road spent Sunday with the latter's daughter Mrs. J.O. Duke and family. --- Mr. Wash Cardwell of near Abanda visited his brother Mr. J.F. Cardwell and family last week. --- Mr. Sam Parrish and family visited the former's sister Mrs. J.W. Birchfield near Wadley on Sunday. --- MALONE News Feb. 4th Mr. J.B. McGill celebrated his 67th birthday on the second. All his children and grandchildren were present and many other relatives. There were 44 people present. All had a nice time and hoped Mr. McGill will enjoy many more birthdays. --- Mrs. Myrtle Gosdin spent last week with her parents Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Fisher. --- Mrs. Montana Conner and little girl Evelyn of Roanoke with at Mr. McGills' on Saturday. --- LOCAL News John S. Sledge went to LaGrange on Saturday to attend the funeral of his aunt, Mrs. Vic Griggs. --- Mrs. J.E. McClain returned to West Point on Saturday after a visit to her sister Mrs. Bessie Cofield. --- Grady Dunlap, who formerly lived near Roanoke and who moved last Christmas to near Waverly community, was killed Monday for a falling tree while cutting wood. The remains were brought to Mt. Zion and interred on Tuesday. ---- ROCK MILLS News Feb. 4th A pall of sadness was over our entire community Saturday morning and everyone sympathized with Rev. and Mrs. W.T. Overton in the death of their daughter Bernice. She was only thirteen years old and was sick eleven days. Physicians, a nurse and family and friends did all within their power to save her but their efforts were in vain. The summons came at three o'clock Saturday a.m. and released her from her intense suffering. She was so pure and good that we can but feel that our loss is Heaven's gain. The remains were carried to Mt. Pleasant on Sunday and interred in the family cemetery. --- UNION HILL News Feb. 4th Master Grover Lee Rice spent Saturday and Sunday with his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. J.A. Arrington in Roanoke. --- ROCK SPRINGS News Feb. 4th "Uncle" Bud Sudduth is very ill at this writing. --- Mrs. Bob Boone from Langdale spent the weekend with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W.M. Mickle. --- Mr. A.J. Broach from LaGrange is visiting his son, Mr. F.A. Broach in this community. --- ALMOND News Feb. 4th "Aunt" Mary Hodge celebrated her seventy-fifth birthday on Sunday. --- NEWSPAPER Issue of Wednesday, February 13, 1924 TWO MINISTERS OF NORTH ALABAMA CONFERENCE DEAD Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'clock, the funeral of Rev. George G. Smith, a superannuate preacher of the Methodist church, South, was conducted at his home church, Pleasant Hill, three miles west of Wadley. This veteran minister and confederate soldier was well known throughout this section and other parts of North Alabama. He was noted for clear and vigorous thinking, unyielding devotion to duty, and unwavering faith in his Maker. He never filled conspicuous positions but lived his simple, faithful, christian life in such a way as to be an inspiration to those within the sphere of his influence and to leave a priceless heritage to his children. The funeral services were conducted by the pastor, Rev. S.A. Dunn of Wadley, assisted by Revs. G.E. Driskell of Langdale, J.R. Turner of Roanoke and B.T. Waites of Bessemer. A widow, two sons and three daughters are left to hold in grateful memory the life of him who has gone on before them. At the same service it was announced that Rev. John H. Harris of Jonesboro, Ala., had died on Tuesday morning at 4:30 and would be carried from the same church on Wednesday morning at 10 o'clock. "Uncle" John Harris, as he was familiarly known by many friends throughout this section, was a product of the Pleasant Hill church and community, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Cleve Harris. His wife was Miss Elliott of the same community. She and three children survive him. Mr. Harris was a good, faithful true man and minister, serving his Master, his church and his generation with singleness of purpose and purity of heart. The deaths of these two ministers and their funerals from the same church and buried in the same cemetery within hours of each other have produced a feeling of sadness in the community from which one of them went out in his young manhood to enter the ministry and to which the other came when his active ministry had reached its end. ----- MR. AVERY C. BAKER DIED LAST FRIDAY IN WADLEY Many readers of the Leader will regret to learn of the death of Mr. Avery C. Baker which occurred last Friday in Wadley. Interment was made at Friendship on Saturday. The deceased is survived by a widow and a number of children. Mr. Baker was well known in this section, having lived in several places in Randolph county. A number of recent years were spent in Roanoke, moving from here to Wadley about a year ago. He was a member of the Methodist church. For months he had been a great sufferer and his death was not a surprise to those were acquainted with his condition. ---- WEDOWEE News Feb. 11th "Uncle" Jim Sikes who has been lying at the point of death for several months, passed away yesterday. He will be buried today at Liberty Grove church, five miles north of Wedowee. The Masons will have charge of the services. Uncle Jim was 73 years old and has belonged to the church at Liberty Grove for many years and was a faithful member. He had many friends in Randolph county who will be sorry to learn of his death. His son, Mr. T.A. Sikes who lives in Florida has not reached home yet. The other son, Mr. Will Sikes, came on Sunday. ---- NEW HOPE News Feb. 11th The community was very much grieved over the death of Mr. Jim Sikes which occurred Sunday afternoon. Mr. Sikes was a good man, a true christian and before death came, he said he was ready and willing. He leaves a wife, two sons and a host of friends to mourn his death. --- CONCORD News Feb. 11th Mr. and Mrs. J.O. Duke spent the weekend with the former's brother, Mr. Vinson Duke and family near Broughton. --- Elbert and Welch Moore of Broughton spent Sunday with their grandfather Mr. J.F. Cardwell and family. --- LOCAL News Mrs. Garrett came up from LaFayette on Saturday to visit her daughter Mrs. C.A. Holliday. --- Mr. and Mrs. B.W. Sudduth and baby are here from Atlanta to spend the week with the parents of the former, Mr. and Mrs. J.C. Sudduth. --- Mrs. Ed McClain of Glenn, Georgia is a patient at the Knight Sanitorium, having undergone an operation on Saturday. --- UNION HILL News Feb. 11th Mrs. William Woodruff and children spent last week with her father Mr. Louis Bowen near Roanoke, being called there on account of sickness in the family. --- Mr. and Mrs. Ed Simonton visited the former's brother Nick Simonton in Harris county, Georgia on Sunday, who has been sick for several weeks and is still seriously ill. --- Dewey Jones, son of Mr. and Mrs. L.R. Jones, moved here with his family from Heard County, Georgia on Tuesday. Mr. Jones will work for Dr. Yates. --- W.H. McMurray visited his sister yesterday, Mrs. S.G. Watson who is ill. Mr. McMurry's mother is also very sick at the home of her grandson Mitchell Owens. --- NEWSPAPER Issue of Wednesday, February 20, 1924 A GOOD CITIZEN GONE TO REST; MR. F.P. NICHOLS DIED AT NOON YESTERDAY AFTER LONG ILLNESS When F.P. Nichols ceased to live and entered into rest, Roanoke, Randolph county and his native state of Alabama lost a useful citizen and an honored son; his family was bereft of a husband and father of strong affection and tender solicitude. The end came to Mr. Nichols surrounded by the members of his household, at his home in this city shortly after noon on Tuesday, February 19th. He has struggled with fine spirit to regain his health but as the weeks and months wore on he recognized the situation and arranged every detail for his departure. It was given to him to come to the end in peace, his struggles over. According to his wishes, only religious services will be held in his memory, although the deceased stood high in the circles of some of the secret orders. The funeral will be held from the First Baptist church at 3 o'clock this Wednesday, afternoon. Interment will be made in the cemetery of his beloved home city to which he had given so many years of devoted service. As a well deserved tribute of respect, the public schools of the city are closed for the day, the session of circuit court in Wedowee over which Judge Denson, a brother-in-law of the deceased is presiding, will adjourn on Wednesday and the business houses of Roanoke will close during the hour of the funeral. Franklin Park Nichols was born in Pike county, this state, sixty-five years ago last June. In early life he came to Chambers county where he resided until he moved to Roanoke over thirty years ago. Largely on his own resources and initiative, he made his way in life until he early attained a position of usefulness and esteem among his fellow men. The world was not all smooth sailing for him, but he met success as his goal and was not a man to be defeated by difficulties. As the years wore on he grew in the esteem of his friends and in the broader fields of public service. The writer doubts if any man ever lived in Roanoke and Randolph county who gave more of his time and thought and means to advance the public welfare, than Park Nichols. He was ambitious for his town, his party and his country and did not spare him in their service. He possessed the elements of a diplomat and was able to straighten out many tangled situations. He knew how to use the mailed fist as well as the gloved hand when he found it necessary to maintain the right as he saw it. Mr. Nichols was of a jovial, social disposition and was gifted in partee. He knew how to take care of himself in any situation. It was often said "there is but one Park Nichols." And by this token there is no one who will fill his place. He will be missed. He was especially good to the sick and the distressed. He is gone, but he has not lived in vain. His memory will be long enshrined in garlands of love. He has earned his rest. May his sleep be sweet. ----- LOCAL News Miss Annie Mae Hood, daughter of Mr. Wyley Hood of this city, was married in Franklin, Georgia on Feb. 12th to Mr. Judson W. Leslie. They are making their home near Franklin. ---- Last Thursday night at John McCosh's place on Wadley Route 4, at a negro frolic, Will Rowe was shot and probably fatally wounded. Fred Moseley and Joe Birdsong are under arrest, charged with the crime. --- Mr. Nick Simonton, brother of Ed Simonton of this city, died in a hospital in LaGrange on Thursday and was buried Friday at Mt. Pisgah. He was well known in Chambers county where he was raised and had many friends. --- Mr. Jeff Richards was called one day last week to the burial of his father near LaFayette. The elder Mr. Richards died in Montgomery county. --- The Birmingham News last Sunday carried the picture of Mrs. P. Ferrell Reed who before her marriage last month was Miss Mary Emma Radney. --- Roanoke friends of Miss Doris McCarley, who formerly visited her sister Mrs. H.C. Tucker, will be interested in the news of her marriage in Scottsboro last Wednesday to Mr. Robert Chandler of Detroit, formerly of Scottsboro. --- ROCK STAND News Feb. 18th Last Sunday was enjoyed immensely by the people of this territory. After services at both churches a great number of people gathered at the home of Mr. W.E. Brumbeloe in honor of his mother who celebrated her 80th birthday. Mrs. Brumbeloe is in good health and very active for one of her age. Interesting talks were made during the day by Revs. L.C. Earnest and J.P. West. A considerable part of the afternoon was spent singing whichw as not the least feature of the occasion. --- MALONE News Feb. 18th Mr.and Mrs. Nixon Lucas left Friday for Ashboro, N.C. where they will spend some time with relatives. --- WEHADKEE News Feb. 18th Mrs. Quincy Walls died early this morning at her home near Omaha following a relapse of pneumonia. The deceased was formerly Miss Docia Arrington. She leaves a husband and seven children. Interment will be at Ridgeway at 10 o'clock tomorrow. ---- Mrs. C.A. Alsobrook who has been sick several weeks and recently underwent an operation, is improving very slowly. --- RADNEY'S CHAPEL News Feb. 18th Mr. T.W. Hodges has been called to the bedside of his sister Mrs. Ruf. George near Potash, who was thought to be dying. --- Mr. and Mrs. Jim Owens of Abanda spent Sunday with their mother Mrs. F.M. Reeves. --- NEWSPAPER Issue of Wednesday, February 27, 1924 LOCAL News John Nelms, an old and favorably known colored citizen, died last week. Some of his friends asked the Leader to express apprecation for the assistance given by the white citizens in defraying the cost of the funeral expenses. --- ROCK MILLS News Feb. 25th John T. Bailey continues quite ill with typhoid fever. --- LOWELL News Lee and Bryce Nolen left Sunday for Chattanooga to attend the trial of the man who killed their brother a few months ago. --- LOCAL News W.F. Pinkard, a well known citizen of Roanoke, died last Thursday after a long illness. Interment was at High Pine on Friday. He is survived by a wife and several children. Many friends sympathize with them in the loss of a good father and husband. --- BACON LEVEL News Feb. 25th We are very sorry to learn of the death of Mr. Jesse Crenshaw of Hickory Flat, the past week. The family has the sympathy of their many friends in this community. --- LAFAYETTE News Feb. 25th Mr. Clyde McClendon has gone West to the oil fields. --- File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/randolph/newspapers/newspape973gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 17.3 Kb