Randolph County AlArchives News.....Newspaper Abstracts for OCT 1897 October 1897 ************************************************ 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: Candace Gravelle tealtree@comcast.net January 30, 2005, 8:44 pm The Randolph Toiler NEWSPAPER ABSTRACTS FROM "THE RANDOLPH TOILER", Wedowee, Randolph County, Alabama for OCTOBER 1897 NEWSPAPER issue of Friday, October 1, 1897 LOCAL News Deputy Sheriff A.J. Kent left for Tuskaloosa yesterday morning with Mrs. J.A. Parrish of Level Road who is affected with some mental malady. It is hoped treatment at the asylum will soon restore her. __ Dr. Howell Heflin of Roanoke went to Birmingham a few days since to make that city his future home. It is presumed he will be associated with his brother Dr. Wyatt Heflin. __ ROCKDALE News Mr. Fred Kitchens accidentally got two of his fingers caught in the cogs of his cotton press and torn up badly. He is getting along allright. __ The family of Mr. J.S. Levins who recently died of fever, are all recovering. Also Mr. H.L. Nelson's daughter is recovering under the care of Dr. Daniel C. Harris of Delta. __ Mr. John Wilder is very ill with a severe attack of fever. __ ABNER News On last Friday night at the exhibition at Wesobulga, some four miles south of here, Walter Gauntt, formerly of your city, stabbed Asa Lashley with a knife, inflicting a considerable wound on the right arm and cutting his coat in several places. The trouble arose from Lashley asking Gauntt his name, so I am informed. __ On Tuesday last, Miss Angaline Taylor died at her home at Blake's Ferry of typhoid fever. She was about 25 years of age and leaves one sister and a host of relatives and friends to mourn her death. We extend the bereaved sister and relatives our sympathy in this hour of sadness. __ There has been almost an epidemic of marriages in this area. On Sunday last, Pinkard Nichols led Miss Etta Ferrall to the altar. And on the same day, Walter Wilburn and Miss Nellie Baker were also united in the holy bonds of matrimony. __ We are sorry to note that Mrs. N.E. McCrary is quite sick. __ NEWSPAPER Issue of Friday, October 8, 1897 LOCAL News Mitchell Gay, son of Mr. Harmon Gay, who is home from West Point on a visit, is reported quite sick of typho-malarial fever. __ There are now four prisoners in the county jail, all colored, as follows: Henry Wright charged with murder; Sol Boland, theft of a sheep; Austin Sterling, theft of a mule; Hayes Phillips, criminal assault. __ J.W. Young, the blacksmith and wood workman is again at his old stand making the anvil ring. __ Miss Hattie Aderhold and her music class expect to give a musical entertainment in the not distant future. Miss Hattie is an accomplished musician and we learn her class is making satisfactory progress. __ Wyatt Shearer, a young white man, started to the assocation at High Shoals last Sunday on horseback. He was intoxicated and while running his horse across the bridge the latter fell through, throwing Shearer and breaking his jaw. He is seriously hurt. The horse was also injured. Roanoke Leader __ Mr. W.C.S. Robertson has been appointed as a Deputy United States Marshall by Marshall Bryan. Mr. Robertson is well qualified for the duties of the position and being well known and popular throughout this section, will probably come as near giving general satisfaction in this position as anyone could. __ TRIBUTE OF RESPECT TO JOSEPH C. BAILEY Joseph C. Bailey, who lived near Corn House, Randolph County, Ala., died September 28, 1897. Brother Bailey was sixty-five years of age. At the tenth hour he was said to be well and at work, at eleven he was a corpse. He was buried at Union Hill, three miles north of Roanoke, Ala. A few years ago his first wife was called from her afflictions to enjoy that rest which remains for the people of god. Since, he was married to Miss Mary Stewart, a devout woman, who is left with a sad and heavy heart. He leaves many children, near relatives and brethren who will miss him very much. May we all lived devoted to the service of god so that when we depart we too can be missed and may we have faith to say like David, "we cannot call him back but can go to him. While it is sad to chronicle his departure, it is sweet to feel that he is resting from his labors, and that he yet liveth with Him. May his dear ones be consoled in the thought that they will see and meet him again in that house not made with hands and ever be with the lord. This Brother belonged to the church for thirty years. He was faithful and appeared to be glad when they said "let us go into the house of the lord." And he seemed to realize that it was good to be there. He never asked to be excused, esteemed his brethren better than himself and claimed to be less than the least of them. At our last prayer meeting he seemed to be in good health and as he exhorted us and gave us his hand, as he usually did, he said "it will be a wonder if we all ever meet here again." Before the next meeting, Brother Bailey was bidden to "come up higher". G.F. Weaver ___ NEWSPAPER issue of Friday, October 15, 1897 NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION Land office at Montgomery, Ala. Oct. 11, 1897 Notice is hereby given that the following named settler has filed notice of her intention to make final proof in support of her homestead claim, and that said proof will be made before the Register of the Chancery Court at Wedowee, Ala., on December 1st, 1897, viz: Julia Ann Neal, widow of Richard Neal, homestead entry no. 26,348 for the SW 1/4 of SW 1/4 Sec. 5, SE 1/4 of SE 1/4 Sec. 6, NW 1/4 of NW 1/4 Sec. 8, twp. 19 south, range 10 east. She names the following witnesses to prove her continuous residence upon and cultivation of said land, viz: John Duke, William J. Cofield, Whit Mattox, James Fuller, all of Christiana, Ala. __ LOCAL news W.J. Goodwyn of Kelleyton, Coosa County, a mining expert, was here Saturday. He was prospecting for Mica. __ Mrs. Araphra Sharpe of Carrollton, GA and Mrs. H.W. Davis of Roanoke visited the family of Dr. P.E. Dean this week. __ The friends of Mr. N.B. McPherson will be glad to learn that his little son Albert, who has been dangerously ill of fever, is now considered out of danger. __ We learn that Rev. E.B. Norton, pastor of the Methodist Church at Roanoke, was presented by Mrs. Norton with a litlle daughter for a birthday present on the 9th inst. __ Mr. Olin Ward of Chambers county and Miss Augusta Amos of Roanoke were married last Sunday. __ Looney Gibbs, son of Mr. Tom Gibbs near Gold Ridge in Beat 14, and nephew of Dr. Gibbs, was killed accidentally by the falling of a tree while coon hunting with some other boys about two weeks ago. He was about 13 years old and an exceptionally bright boy. Dr. Gibbs was much grieved at his shocking death. __ Cards are out announcing two most happy events; the marriage of Mr. Robert E. Taylor to Miss Precious Kirk on the evening of the 29th inst., and the marriage of Mr. John P. Scroyer to Miss Lena Ussery on the evening of the 27th inst. Roanoke Leader. __ A son and daughter of Mr. J.M. Johnson of Graham, the former a young man and the latter about 12 years old, are reported very low of typho-malarial fever. Mr. Johnson is the father of Mrs. Turner, whose obituary is published in this issue. She had only been married about two months. The family has our sincere sympathy. __ Mrs. McKay received the following unique document one day this week and turned it over to the Toiler. It is given for the information of parties whose buggies have gone astray. Oct. 10, 1897 Franklin, Heard County, Georgia To the Post Master at Wedowee, Ala. Please put up this notice: If any body are inquiring for a buggy that they miss at the camp meeting some body is got my buggy and I got somebody's buggy. They took the buggy in the nite and left theirs rite where mine was. If anybody want this buggy, who has got mine? Write me. This buggy is a narrow gage buggy and has had a top on it spring back. My address is Ridley, GA., Heard Co. F.H. Dukes ___ A tragedy was enacted about 8 o'clock Monday night at an old house on the west side of town, owned by Mr. J.W. Stewart and ocupied by a number of colored laborers who are employed about the court house work. There had, it seems, been some previous misunderstanding between Dock Hill and Ed Whitaker, two brick kiln hands, and while seated around the fireplace, Hill suddenly rose up with a skillet in his hands and struck Whitaker a ferocious blow on the right side of the head, two legs of the skillet penetrating the skull and going their full length into the brain. Drs. Dean and Swann dressed the wound shortly after it was inflicted and removed twelve pieces of skull bone; yet strange to say, the pulse and temperature of the man are about normal and he remains conscious. Dr. Dean says his recovery is hardly possible and not at all probable. Hill ran away, pursued some distance by another negro who was present, but made his escape. He is said to be from Atlanta and had only been here about three weeks. Whitaker, his victim, has worked for Mr. McPherson about five years and it is said bears a good reputation. ___ OFELIA News Hamp Knight visited his sister, Mrs. Rice, Saturday and Sunday near Lineville. __ WEHADKEE News Mr. J.B. Camp and wife spent several days last week visiting relatives at Glenn, GA. __ IN MEMORY OF MRS. D.G. TURNER Death visited our community Oct. 1st and plucked one of the fairest flowers that ever bloomed. Fare the weel, dear Geneva! There's not an hour of the day or dreaming night but I am thinking of thee; not even a wind but whispers thy name, and not a flower that sleeps beneath the moon but in its fragrance tells a tale of thee. Only yesterday week was this dear friend looking well and happy and yesterday her body was put away to await the resurrection morn. She said in her last hours on earth that she was going home to live with god and bade us all go with her. May god help her noble husband who is today grieving his life away to live so that when he leaves this world he may meet her where there will be no more parting. Weep not for her, dear sister, for she is resting, sweetly resting, in the arms of our dear savior. Grieve not for her, dear brother, for you shall meet in that bright home beyond the skies where there shall be no more parting or tears to dim thy eyes. Weep not for her dear parents, for she has gone to that happy home on high to sing his praises forever more. Emma, a friend. ___ NEWSPAPER Issue of Friday, October 22, 1897 LOCAL News Mr. Z.N. Lipham of Wildwood visited us here yesterday. __ J.T. Bennet of Chambers county was in town yesterday taking the preliminary steps toward securing the pardon of his son who was sent to the penitentiary from this county a few years since. __ Ed Whitaker, colored, whose skull was crushed by Doc Hill, is still living and apparently doing well. Dr. Dean is attending him like there is a chance he will recover but he still has very little expectation that such will be the result. __ Married, at the residence of the bride's father near Wedowee on Sunday night the 17th inst., Mr. G.P. Edwards to Miss Mary E. Spence. __ OFELIA News Mrs. Floyd is quite sick, also Mrs. Knight. Aunt Frankey Forkner is not expected to live. __ Mrs. Davis of Clay is on an extended visit to her sister, Mrs. Monroe Knight. Mrs. Davis has softening of the brain. __ NEWSPAPER issue of Friday, October 29, 1897 LOCAL News Maj. A.D. Starnes of Milner called on us yesterday. __ Mr. John Radney of Roanoke has his right arm seriously hurt and received other injuries last Monday by being caught in the cogs of a cotton press. While seriously hurt, his friends will be glad to know that he is expected soon to recover. __ Tom Davis, a youth of 16, was thrown from a mule near Potash a few days since, and had an arm broken. Two other accidents occured in the same neighborhood within a few days, one boy being kicked by a mule and another falling from a tree while possum hunting. __ Ed. Whittaker, the colored man who had his skull crushed and was expected to die within a week from the time he received the wounds, is now in his third week, and yesterday was rationale and able to talk and take nourishment. Last Sunday he was in a stupor and supposed to be dying but rallied on Monday. His vitality is something wonderful. __ Mr. James H. Woods, a young man living near Cambridge, was brought to town on Thursday of last week in a deranged state of mind. It was supposed to be the effect of a severe mental strain and loss of sleep on account of sickness in his family and he was kept at the jail for three days and three night when it was thought the rest and quiet had sufficiently restored to allow him to return home. His wife died, however, on Wednesday morning and he became quite wild and his mind completely unbalanced. He was brought in late Wednesday afternoon by some of his neighbors and again confined to jail. It is thought he will have to be sent to the insane asylum and the quicker the better for him. Mr. Woods is represented as a good, industrious young man. ___ The local column of the Roanoke Leader contains an unusual number of obituary and marriage notices: "Aunt" Martha Disharoon passed away at her home on Friday morning, aged 74 years. She was on one of the oldest residents of Roanoke and her life had been full of good works. She had been a member of th Baptist Church for over 50 years. __ Mrs. J.M. Ward died at her home on Monday evening, aged 63 years. She was a devoted member of the Methodist church, an efficient teacher and worker in the Sunday School and loved by all. The Leader pays a high tribute to her memory. __ Mr. George Heard of Landale was married to Miss Frankie Hendon at the residence of the bride's stepfather, Mr. Ben Mitcham, on Sunday morning. __ Robert Emmett Taylor, the popular young attorney, was married to Miss Precious Kirk, one of Roanoke's most lovely and accomplished young ladies, at 8 o'clock Wednesday evening of last week. __ Mr. John P. Scroyer and Miss Lena Ussery were married last Wednesday night at the Handley House, the home of the bride. __ CAMBRIDGE News There are several cases of fever. Mrs. Emma Woods is dead, we regret to learn. Mr. J.B. Davis also has the fever and little Joe, a son of J.L. Kerr is down. __ File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/randolph/newspapers/nw138newspape.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/alfiles/ File size: 15.0 Kb