Coweta County GaArchives News.....Newspaper Notices for JULY 5th thru JULY 12th 1907 July 1907 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Candace Gravelle http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00023.html#0005680 November 3, 2004, 9:26 pm The Herald & Advertiser, Coweta Co. GA NEWSPAPER NOTICES FROM "THE HERALD & ADVERTISER", Newnan, Coweta County, Georgia for JULY 5th thru JULY 12th 1907 NEWSPAPER Issue of July 5, 1907 Mr. Sam. J. Arnold has received a letter from his nephew, Mr. Arthur H. Allen, dated at Shanghai, China June 1st telling of the death of Dr. Young J. Allen, from which we have been permitted to make the following extract: " Poor father died at 1 a.m. on May 30th with typhoid fever, after being sick only six days. He was delirious all day on Tuesday and unconscious all day on Wednesday and was unable to speak to any of us. He was buried on May 31st at 5 p.m., Mr. Geo. R. Loehr reading the ceremony. A great many beautiful wreaths were sent and his death, though sudden was a peaceful one. Ethel is in Pekin and Edgar in Tien-tsin but they have been telegraphed for and ought to be here tomorrow or Monday. Mary is in New York City and Mellie with her two children is in Florence, Italy. I feel too sad to write more." ________ The following business was disposed of at the regular term of the Ordinary's Court last Monday: Last Will and Testament of Gabriel L. Johnson admitted to probate in common form. In the matter of the probate of the Will of Joel J. Herndon, deceased, the caveat filed by W.J.L. Herndon, one of the heirs was sustained by the court and the probate denied. Twelve months support set apart to Mrs. Georgia Rigsby out of the estate of John T. Rigsby, deceased. Mrs. R.H. Hardaway, Mrs. Mattie H. Strickland and Mrs. Jennie H. McBride, executors of R.H. Hardaway, deceased. Edgar Meriwether appointed administrator on the estate of Mrs. Mary E. Meriwether, deceased. S.P. Condor qualified as administrator de bonis non on the estate of John Condor, deceased. _____________ TURIN News Mrs. Dora Walker of Texas has come to visit the home of her childhood after an absence of forty years. She is the guest of her nieces, the Misses Page. ___ After a stay of three months in Turin, Mrs. Jessie Howell has gone to visit her niece, Mrs. Jean Young near Newnan. ___ Mrs. W.F. Waldrop is quite sick at present. __ Miss Margaret Gay is visiting her grandmother at Welcome. ___ LUTHERVILLE News Mrs. Dr. G.W. De la Perriere of Winder is at the bedside of her sister, Mrs. C.F. McWilliams who is quite ill. ___ Mr. Wesley Willingham went to Newnan last week to visit his sister, Mrs. J.A. Pendergrast who is still quite sick with fever. ___ MORELAND News Mrs. Mary Lyle and Mrs. Martha Moore left Tuesday for Arkadelphia, Arkansas to visit their brother, Mr. Terry Reynolds and will be gone about a month. ___ NEWNAN HOME AFFAIRS Mrs. M.K. Word, an estimable lady of Hogansville, died last Saturday. __ Miss Ruth Capers of Acradia, LA., is visiting her aunt, Mrs. Jas. Stacy. __ Mrs. Florrie White and Miss Bettie Lou White of Macon are visiting her sister, Mrs. T.E. Atkinson. __ Mr. and Mrs. Tom Fisher and Mrs. H.C. Fisher left this morning for Borden Springs. __ Sam Dominick, colored, was this week admitted as an inmate of the county farm. __ Mrs. W.H.S. Harris of Jonesville, S.C. is visiting her brother, Mr. J.H. Foster this week. __ Jim Bledsoe, colored, who was adjudged insane at a hearing before Ordinary Perdue last week was carried to the asylum Monday by Sheriff Brewster. ___ Mr. Wade Dent and family of New Orleans are expected next week and will spend a month or so in Newnan. __ The many friends of Mr. Jas. Leigh throughout the county will be pained to hear of his death which occurred Monday morning at the home of his father, Capt. Thos. Leigh in this city. He had been ill about two weeks but his condition was not such as to excite serious alarm until Saturday when there was an unfavorable change and he grew rapidly worse. He lingered until 11 o'clock Monday morning when he breathed his last. Mr. Leigh was a congenial, companionable man and had scores of friends. He was for several years a member of the police force and at the time of his death was filling the office of sanitary inspector. He was 39 years old and unmarried. The funeral took place Tuesday afternoon with interment at Oak Hill. ____ From Our Carrollton Correspondent It has been the vogue for forty years or more for soldiers, sailors and others to narrate incident that befell them by flood and field, in that internecine, cut-throat paststime known to history as "The War Between the States". Since each one, burdened with his bit of history has had his say, I desire to give you an adventure of that gallant and intrepid Confederate veteran, Capt. Jim Martin of the 56th Georgia Volunteers, as related to me by one of the men who composed a scouting party, which is the subject of this story: " The yankees, in considerable force, were hovering around Sequatchie valley and to prevent forays by these ready made vandals, Gen. Ledbetter. C.S.A., with a detachment of 3,000 men was sent to repel the threatened invasion. The Condederates, under this officer went into camp near Bridgeport, Ala., at a small place called Tunnel Hill. The 56th Georgia, commanded by Col. E.P. Watkins was a part of Gen. Ledbetter's command. The enemy, learning of our presence in that vivinity, confined their infamous activities to the countryside beyond our picket lines. Our forces had been in camp for a month or more and during this period we had not seen a yankee, but had heard much of them, though nothing definite. Their exact locality was conjectural. We had been expecting them to advance upon us daily since our arrival and their failure to do so caused considerable anxiety on the part of our commandment, who was desirous of locating and ascertaining their exact numbers. To accomplish this end he sent out small detachments daily under the command of a lieutenant, with order to penetrate the intervening country and find the enemy. It was huckleberry time and instead of hunting yankees these scouting parties would go out on the mountain sides and gather berries all day and returning at night they would report no enemy found. These berrying picnics lasted for a month or more and never resulted in finding the yankees. Becoming tired of thse fiascos, Capt. Martin requested Col. Watkins to permit him to take twenty picked men and go on a scouting expedition. The colonel was only too glad to accord the request, for everyone knew that Capt. Martin would get the desired information, or at least make a desperate effort to do so. The expedition set out immediately and crossed the Tennessee river. We sunk the boat and marked the spot, as it would be necessary to re-cross the river should the expedition prove successful. Capt. Martin pushed his way cautiously forward for several miles. At length he discovered the head of a large column of infantry coming out of the forest. The enemy being close upon him, he ordered the men to seek shelter in a swamp close by, which was covered with a dense undergrowth of brambles. Snugly ensconced, we waited for the column to pass. Much to our consternation it halted on the surrounding hills and began to bivouac. After night had fallen our gallant little band sought to make its escape at a point supposed to be free from the presence of the enemy. On approaching this point we found yankees galore. After making two other unsuccessful attempt we found that the enemy had us entirely surrounded. Our meager store of rations was exhausted. On the following morning we discovered an apple orchard on the mountain side laden with fruit. How to get some of these apples and not be captured was a scheme that taxed Confederate ingenuity to the bending point. Finally it was agreed that Dan Kennan, an Irishman, who was arrayed in a half-yankee uniform (a pair of blue trousers) should make the attempt to get some of the coveted fruit. Dan was a daredevil cuss who would take all kinds of chances when occasion demanded. "If the yankees ask you to what regiment you belong tell them it's none of their business" was the parting injuction given Dan by Capt.Martin as the former was disappearing under the brushwood. He reached the orchard without hindrance and swarmed up a fruit-laden tree and proceeded to fill the three or four haversacks he had taken along for that purpose. We were somewhat susrprized to see three or four yankees up the same tree and felt some apprehension for his safety. It appears that none of the yankees asked him any perplexing questions and Irishmanlike, he fraternized with his "friends the enemy". During the three or four days we were confined in the woods Dan kept us supplied with apples. In the meantime, Capt. Martin who was familiar with the several bugle calls of infantry, cavalry and artillery made a careful note of the regimental bugle calls and from this data concluded there must be about 30,000 federals. The yankees appeared to be in no hurry to break camp and our little band, becoming desperate with hunger, determined that something must be done. Whereupon, Capt. Martin called a council of war to determine what course we should pursue. He told us he would be governed by whatever we decided to do. We informed him that we did not want to take that reponsibility and requested him to do what he thought best. We had discussed the questions both of surrender and escape. When the responsibility was thrown upon Capt. Martin he determined to make an effort to escape. He formed the men into five squads of four each. They were numbered one, two, three, four, five. It was agreed that we would wait until the yankees should retire for the night or just before they had all gone to bed. Capt. Martin led the way ten paces in advance and each squad was to follow him, each squad keeping ten paces behind the other. Before starting we placed our guns down our pant legs and he concealed his sword in a similar manner. We passed by hundred of sleeping yankees and met a few others but fortunately failed to attract their attention. After getting outside the immediate camp we approached some sentries whom we could plainly see walking their beats. We halted and held a hasty consultation. Capt. Martin ordered us to crawl as closely as possible to the guard and when the sentries met on their beats and turned their backs on each other, ordered us to crawl hastily through the lines as the guards walked to the far end of their beats. This we did with perfect success. Passing the guards we moved hastily Dixie-ward. Marching three or four miles directly ahead of us, was which Capt. Martin pronounced the yankee picket line, a thing we all seemed to have forgotten. He deployed us across the road, saying we would charge them. He ordered us to fire three or four volleys, give the rebel yell and then charge. We responded in gallant style and swept down the road like mad, making night hideous and the yankees flew in all directions. In passing their line we discovered a number of them had run off and left all their belongings. We reached camp next day and reported to the commanding general who had thrown the pontoons across the river to advance on the yankees. Capt. Martin while making his report, was corroborated by the appearance of the yankees in our front. The surprise we had given the pickets the night before had caused the advance of the yankee army. The papers reported some days afterward that the yankee force was 30,000 strong." Chas. M. Speer _____ NEWSPAPER issue of Friday, July 12, 1907 COURAGE OF A GEORGIAN IN CAMP DOUGLAS, by J.N. Hunter, article from The Confederate Veteran: " I was a member of Company K, 2nd Tennessee Cavalry, under Forrest and was a prisoner of war in Camp Douglas from December 22, 1862 to June 19, 1865. On the morning of the 15th of April 1865, after the assassination of President Lincoln, flags were ordered to half-mast. The lanyard of the garrison flag was caught and hung a few feet from the top and could not be moved either way. Col. Sweet, the post commander, ordered a man detailed to climb the pole, one hundred and eight feet high to fix the rope. The detailed soldier climbed the pole but just as he reached the top and before he could fix the pulley he lost his hold and fell to the ground. The entire garrison of three thousand men and thousands of prisoners witnessed the appalling sight. The man lived about two hours. On the morning of the 16th the Colonel called for a volunteer to climb the pole but out of the entire force of three thousand men not one would volunteer for the hazardous climb. Then a reward of five hundred dollars was offered but strange to say, no one could be found to accept the offer. "Try the Johnnies", said Col. Sweet. "Out of the twelve thousand prisoners we will find a man who will climb that pole. The prisoner who climbs it and adjusts the lanyard and flag shall have five hundred dollars and transportation home at once." Barracks No. 1, near the gate was called out, one hundred and fifty in number. The proposition was explained and a volunteer was called for. Instantly, a lean, lank, Georgia boy, an artilleryman, about nineteen years of age, stepped to the front and went at once for the flag pole. It was now the evening of the 16th. In the prison and garrison and even in the city excitement was intense. Thousands watched that Georgia boy climb the pole. The entire garrison was off duty and gathered around the flag pole, sailors swarmed in the rigging of their ships on the lake and people on the housetops, all watching one of the most daring and thrilling acts of the war. The boy from Georgia reached the top of the pole, swaying in a gale of wind, and in a few seconds fixed the rope, then waving his old Confederate hat three times about his head, threw it at the crowd below. A mighty cheer went up as he started his descent. The prisoners caught it up and for the first and only time the rebel yell was heard in a Northern prison. As he came down and in reach the Federal soldiers pulled him off the pole and onto their shoulders carrying him to the provost officer near by, where he signed the oath of parole and there was handed to him five one hundred dollar bills and his transportation papers home. He started home on that evening. I would like to know who he was and if he is still living. " ___________ BOLTON'S CROSSING News Miss Mary Bolton and Mrs. W.L. Askins and baby spent several days last week with the latter's grandmother, Mrs. North of Sharpsburg. __ Mrs. W.L. Askins and little daughter and Miss Rogers left Saturday for their home at Lake City. S.C. They were accompanied as far as Atlanta by Miss Kittie Bolton and brother. ____ BAPTIST REST News Mrs. Nancy Suttles of Carroll County is visiting her niece, Mrs. J.B. Cleckler. ___ Mrs. Lee of Red Oak is visiting her daughter, Mrs. J.B. Cleckler. ___ Mr. and Mrs. Cleckler visited the mother of the latter a few days ago. She is quite feeble at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Tom Smith near Welcome. ___ Messrs. Shell Cochran, M.E. Cochran and Fletcher Cochran of Atlanta attended the singing at Rock Spring last Sunday. __ Mr. and Mrs. W.A. Maddox visited Mr. and Mrs. J.S. Cochran Saturday and Sunday. __ NEWNAN HOME AFFAIRS Mrs. T.L. Camp and Miss Kate Faver are at Borden Springs. ___ The many friends of Mrs. T.B. Jones of Riverside will regret to learn of her critical illness. ___ Mrs. P.L. Sutherland and children came up from Quincy, Fla., this week and will spend the summer in Newnan. __ Miss Grace Hendricks of Newnan is visiting her grandmother, Mrs. Susan Hendricks. Franklin News and Banner. ___ Mrs. Leonora McKown who has been visiting her daughter, Mrs. C.D. Crane returned to her home in East Point. __ Mr. J.B. Sims of Coweta has just returned from Mississippi where he went to visit his son Mr. Tom Sims, whose wife is very sick. Her father Dr. J.F. Jones is still there and will remain some time. ___ File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/coweta/newspapers/nw1658newspape.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/gafiles/ File size: 16.6 Kb