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The Cleburne News 1911
MISCELLANEOUS ABSTRACTS FROM "THE CLEBURNE NEWS", Heflin, Cleburne County,
Alabama for SEPTEMBER ,OCTOBER , NOVEMBER, DECEMBER 1911 (newspaper editor,
Alf M. Turner)
NOTE: There were two Cleburne County, Alabama newspapers in 1911; The
Cleburne New Era and The Cleburne News. By 1912 - 1913 time frame, the
Cleburne News bought out the Cleburne New Era. These abstracts are from The
Cleburne News:
NEWSPAPER issue of Wednesday September 13, 1911
CARD OF THANKS
We wish to extend our sincere thanks to the many friends who in the sickness
and death of our dear husband and father, so kindly administered to his wants
and assisted us at his bedside. The many expressions of comfort and cheer has
been a great consolation to us in our dark hour of bereavement. May god's
richest blessing attend you all. Mrs. Gibbs and children.
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LOCAL News
Mrs. J.M. Evans is on the sick list this week.
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Mr. Bruce Evans spent Sunday in Anniston.
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NEWSPAPER issue of Wednesday, September 20, 1911
LOCAL News
Mr. Dick Owens of Pensacola, Fla., is spending a few days at home.
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Bismark Evans is spending a fe days with homefolks and friends here.
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RESOLUTIONS OF RESPECT FOR J.C. GIBBS
Whereas the grim reaper, death, has invaded our ranks and taken from us our
dear brother, J.C. Gibbs, and whereas Bro. Gibbs was a man of unswerving
intregity and loyalty to truth and right and whereas he was a loyal and
faithful member of Heflin Chapter No. 33, Order of the Eastern Star; a kind
and loving husband and father; a faithful friend; an upright christian
gentleman, therefore, be it resolved by Heflin Chapter No.33, Order of the
Eastern Star, first;
That our chapter has lost one of its very best members, and that we mourn our
loss, but not as those who have no hope, for we feel that what is our loss is
his eternal and infinite gain. Second, that we recognize and bow to the will
of god for this dispensation of his providence; that as Longfellow has
expressed it, "we see but dimly those mists and vapors, amid these earthly
lamps, what seems to us but said funeral tapers, may be heaven's distant
lamps."
Third; That his father has suffered an irreparable loss; the church a loyal
and faithful member and the community an estimable citizen.
Fourth, that we tender to his loved ones our deepest sympathy and commend them
to god of all grace, who has promised to be a husband to the widow and father
to the fatherless.
Fifth, that a copy of these resolutions be sent to the bereaved family, a copy
recorded in our book of minutes and a copy furnished the Heflin papers for
publication. Respectfully submitted,
G.B. Boman
Lou Atkins
Mattie Hunnicutt, Committee
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NEWSPAPER issue of Wednesday, September 27, 1911
LOCAL News
W.T. Coppock and Miss Annie Singleton of Iron City were happily married on the
17th in the Probate Judge's office by Judge Glasgow.
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Last Thursday night, Miss Lilly Belle Chambers and Mr. Frank Norton were
married at the home of the bride. The ceremony was performed by Bro. Wilson,
pastor of the M.E. Church. Miss Chambers is a very beautiful and charming
young lady of this town who has many friends. Mr. Norton has a good position
on the Southern Railway and is well liked and respected wherever he goes. The
News wishes them a joyous and prosperous voyage through life.
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HOPEWELL News
With deep regret we note the deaths of Mrs. Elizabeth Woodly and Mrs. Mary
Lott, both died on the 23rd inst. They were both interred at 3 o'clock Sunday
evening at Concord cemetery where their silent dust will await the summons
from the tomb. We are assured that while their bodies slumber in the dust,
their tongues are tuned to chant the rapturous strains of redeeming love in
the climes of unfading bliss. We would tender to the bereaved our heartfelt
sympathy.
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NEWSPAPER Issue of Wednesday, OCTOBER 4, 1911
LOCAL News
Mrs. Sutton of Atlanta is the guest of her sister Mrs. D.D. Perryman.
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"Uncle" Little Berry Turner, aged 84 years, obtained a license to marry Mrs.
J.F. Stovall. Success to this couple!
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COUNTY COURT
At the regular term of the county court the following cases were disposed of:
The State vs. W.L. Miller; abusive language; waived to general grand jury.
Bond, one hundred dollars.
The State vs. Jeff Palmer; abusive language; plea of guilty; fine five dollars
and costs.
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OBITUARY OF MRS. MARY LOTT and MRS. ELIZABETH WOODLEY
Mrs. Mary E. Lott departed this life September 23rd at 3:30 o'clock a.m.,
having attained her three score years and ten. Mrs. Elizabeth Woodley deid
September 23rd at 8 o'clock a.m., full of years and good works.
These two good woman were lifelong friends, affectionate in their friendship
and intimate in their association, they lived and died together; for no sooner
had Mrs. Lott crossed the mystic river than did Mrs. Woodley weigh anchor and
push off from the shores of time to join her friend and neighbor on the other
side, "where the wicked cease from troubling and the weary are at rest."
They both professed religion, but while Mrs. Woodley was a church member,
Mrs. Lott never joined any church. They were buried the same day in the same
cemetery, and the same minister, Rev. A. Willingham, assisted by Rev. Wm.
McDonald and J.J. Turner, officiated while loving hands laid the remains away
in the silent tomb to await the glad morning of the resurrection, when god,
the father, by that power whereby he subdueth all things unto himself, shall
call their sleeping dust to life again.
Mrs. Lott, whose husband died several years ago, was childless, but Mrs.
Woodley leaves a husband and one child to mourn her loss. Say not that they
are dead, they have gone on before to wait the coming of those they loved and
left to join them in that bright clime where all that is good is paired off by
itself to hang forever in a firmanent of grandeur and beauty.
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NEWSPAPER issue of Friday, October 20, 1911
LOCAL News
Mrs. J. Owens is away on a visit to relatives in Virginia.
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Mrs. J.M. Owens, who has been quite ill for a week or more is but little, if
any, improved.
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J.W. Wade of Hightower, has moved to town and opened a blacksmith shop in the
south part of town. Mr. Wade is a good smith and will make Heflin a good
citizen.
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Davis Phillips of Beat 9 was in town Monday selling cotton, accompanied by his
son Colquitt, who is a bright young fellow and his father is justly proud of
him.
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F.O. Roberts happened to a painful accident last Thursday. While working
around the gin in some way his hand was caught by the saws and badly cut.
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FRUITHURST News
Mr. and Mrs. P.M. Way returned to Fruithurst to live. After a trial of living
in North Carolina and Florida this summer, they are satisfied that this part
of Alabama is ahead of anything they have seen yet.
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After four and one half months sojourn in Minnesota visiting relatives and
friends, Mr. and Mrs. W.A. Maust returned Sunday night. Mrs. Maust attended a
family reunion in Chicago last week.
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G. Gilbert, who is visiting in N. Dakota writes that he is longing for
the "sunny south". He will return soon.
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LOCAL News
Last Sunday morning at the home of the bride a quiet wedding took place. Mr.
John Hilly and Miss Lonie Champion were the contracting parties, Rev. W.M.
Barr officiating. The News extends congratulations and wishes them much joy
and happiness through life's journey.
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NEWSPAPER Issue of Friday, October 27, 1911
LOCAL News
T.J. Works, manager of the famous Clear Creek gold mines eight miles south of
Heflin, was in town Monday. Mr. Works is a hustler and a practical miner. He
informs us that he will in the near future install machinery at a cost of
almost $50,000. Cleburne needs many more such men to help develop our
resources.
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Charlie Wager has accepted a position in the post office in Atlanta. Success
to Chas.
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Mrs. L.R. Wright spent a few days in Oxford as the guest of her sister, Mrs.
Bagley.
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Mrs. McWhorter and Mrs. Ida Beck of Bowdon, mother and sister of Mrs. J.M.
Evans, visited the latter last week. Mrs. Evans is still very much indisposed.
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NEWSPAPER issue of Friday, NOVEMBER 3, 1911
ARBACOOCHEE GOLD MINING DEVELOPMENTS
Renewed activity is now the order of the day in the Arbacoochee gold mining
district. The Clear Creek Gold Mining Company, which for the past two years
has been operating there, doing work largely of an experimental nature, has,
through its expert leadership, solved many of the problems peculiar to the
section and will begin at once to extend and enlarge their equipment.
The president of the company is T.J. Works, a gold miner of large experience
in the California and Colorado gold fields. Mr. Works is both practically and
theoretically, a gold miner. He is a man of pleasing personality, affable and
courteous and posseses a conservatism that augurs success for the enterprise
his company has undertaken. The company makes its headquarters at the mines
at Arbacoochee. Its material equipment consists at the present time of a
twenty five room hotel, assay office, boiler and engine house sixty by eighty
feet in dimensions, mill building fully equipped with modern milling
machinery and a number of boilers and pumps together with experimental washing
plants. The company owns three hundred acres of land lying in a body.
Operations at present are being confined to placer mining. The plan inauraged
for hauling the gravel has proved entirely successful and there being no
longer any doubt as to the effectiveness of the methods used, a permanent
plan along the same lines is to be installed in the immediate future will will
necessitate an expenditure between thirty and forty thousand dollars.
It might be of interest to recall that in the early days of Alabama's history
a very large portion of the gold of the United States was produced from the
Arbacoochee district and other gold mining sections of the state, the
remainder of the country's gold then coming fromt he states of North and South
Carolina and Georgia. Arbacoochee was at that time a little city of five
thousand inhabitants, one of the most prosperous towns of the state.
The discovery of gold in the states west of the rockies caused an egress of
population that wholly depopulated Arbacoochee and resulted in the abandonment
of the the enterprise in this district from which more than three million
dollars of gold had been taken, as shown by the government records at New
Orleans alone.
The gold found in this section is the purest yet discovered in the United
States. Pure gold runs $20.67 per ounce. Arbacoochee gold runs $20.25 per
ounce. Colorado gold, next best in the country, runs $18.00 per ounce.
The Arbacoochee gold field is located in the geographical center of Cleburne
County and covers a broad area of country. The Clear Creek Mining Company's
property is eight miles from the southern railway and Heflin, Alabama, the
county seat of Cleburne County. It now appears that the gold fields that once
made Alabama famous in earlier days will be so develooped as to make Cleburne
one of the wealthiest counties of the state.
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MRS. H. G. NOEL BURIED IN HEFLIN
Mrs. H.G. Noel was buried in the cemetery at Heflin last Saturday. A large
concourse of relatives and friends were present. Funeral services were
conducted by Rev. George Stoves of Anniston. Mrs. Noel was born in this
county near Riddle's Bridge about forty years ago. She married H.G. Noel in
1881 and lived in this county twenty years when they moved to Anniston where
they lived until her death. She leaves a husband and four children to mourn
her loss. Mrs. Noel lived a consistent christian until the time of her demise
and will be missed both in church and social circle. The News extends sympathy
to the bereaved and may heaven's richest blessings comfort them.
___
BELL MILLS News
Mrs. T.C. Bell left Bell Mills on Thursday for Ensley, Ala., to spend a few
days with her son, T.C. Bell, then she will to to Mt. Pleasant, Tenn., to
spend the winter with her daughter Mrs. Warnock.
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Two of the McCulleys, Claude and Cliff, have the fever and are very low,
especially Cliff.
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Joe Brown, son of John Brown, has the fever.
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Mrs. W.K. Owens is still very sick and not improving.
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Mrs. Laster is still improving but not yet able to be up.
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T.H. Evans, who has been suffering for quite awhile with cancer on the face,
is very low at present and the doctors claim that in addition to this trouble
he also has cancer of the stomach.
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Mr. and Mrs. John Hilley are at their father's, J.R. Hilley, at Lecta.
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Miss Kate Prather of Atlanta has returned home after spending a few days with
her aunt, Mrs. Tom Champion.
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FOR SALE
A five room dwelling and one acre of ground in a desirable part of town, for
sale. Price right for cash or terms. See me at Atkins and Owens. O.J.
Dewberry
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NEWSPAPER issue of Friday, November 10, 1911
LOCAL News
Mrs. W.B. Garner of Atlanta is the guest of her sister, Mrs. Davis.
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Mrs. J.A. Owens returned home Saturday after a visit in Richmond, Virginia.
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W.J. White of Hightower, with two hundred lbs. guano and two wagon loads of
stable manure made on one acre, 460 pounds of lint cotton.
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Miss Sennie Turner and Charlie Chandler were quietly married at the home of
the bride last Thursday night. The News extends congratulations.
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Mrs. Alex Rowell, wife of "Uncle" Alex Rowell, died at her home amile north of
town Friday night and was interred in the cemetery at Heflin on Saturday.
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Prof. Enoch Middlebrooks, one of the Cleburne's most popular teachers was in
Heflin Sunday looking after school matters.
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BELL MILLS News
Enoch D. Owen and family returned to Edwardsville on Monday after spending a
few days with his mother Mrs. W.K. Owen.
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T.L. Richardson has ginned a little over four hundred bales of cotton this
season, Rens says he will get five hundred, possibly more, before the season
ends.
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Raymond and Roy Bell have gathered seventy five bushels of corn on their prize
acre. They would have raised one hundred bushels but for the fact that a
portion of the land was ruined by the river overflowing.
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Rev. T.H. Evans was carried to Anniston on Tuesday to be treated for cancer.
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MUSCADINE News
Mr. and Mrs. T.E. Thars of Lithia Springs, GA have just returned to their home
from visiting her sister, Mrs. W.R. McDonald. ALso, Mrs. Mollie Sorrels and
Mrs. Wm. P. Clegg of Walton County, relatives of Mrs. McDonald have returned
to their home in Georgia.
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LOCAL News
Lee Blanton died at his brother's near Beason Mill last Wedneday and was
interred in the Heflin Cemetery on Thursday. Lee was reared in Heflin and had
many friends. The News extends sympathy to the family.
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Mr. and Mrs. R.J. Owens of Pensacola, Fla., and Dr. W.H. Owens of Joiner,
Ark., are visiting the father, B.F. Owens and family.
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NEWSPAPER issue of Friday, November 17, 1911
LOCAL News
Sam Harlan and Miss Davis of Beasons Mill were married on Saturday. The News
extends congratulations.
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Elbert O'Harro presented ye editor with two of the largest potatoes we have
seen in many a day. They are evidence of what can be grown in the soil around
Heflin.
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E.C. Gilmartin, six miles south of town, operates a large farm, probably the
largest in the county, but employs the latest methods in farming and makes
money. He is progressive, owns an automobile, tractor engine, steam plow, etc.
He is a hustler and does things in a scientific way. Mr. Gilmartin is young
and energetic and we predict that he will make his fortune on the farm.
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L.T. Beason & Co. of Beasons Mill have been in business there a number of
years, starting at the foot of the ladder but by diligent work and close
application to business, have acquired a good deal of property and operates
one of the largest stores in the county.
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HOPEWELL News
About 7 o'clock Sunday morning a tornado struck our little town doing
considerable damage but there was no less of lite. The big store house of
M.F. Smith and son came very near being blown away, the building is
considerably damaged. Two large oak trees were blown up in the yard of Mr.
McRay smashing the front porch to pieces. The front porch of O.E. Summerlin's
store house was blown away. There was some damage done to livestock. We feel
sure in three seconds longer, Hopewell would have been blown from the map of
Cleburne county. It is said that Bro. M.F. Smith was returning from his barn
just as the storm was raging. It beng so far from the barn that he could not
return and not near enough to the house to reach it. Viewing the situation and
the need for immediate help and not remembering any particular form of prayer,
he said "Lord, make us thankful for what we are about to receive". It is
Monday morning and cold and we feel as if we had been blown to some frozen
zone to live in icy balls of dazzling splendor to gaze upon eternal snows.
J.P. Houston
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BELL MILLS News
Miss Senorah Howle is teaching at Hopewell.
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W.C. and John Tumlin were here Saturday looking after their timber interests.
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J.A. Baughn and Miss Bloss McElroy were united in marriage at the home of J.H.
Crumpton.
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Belton Faulkner and Miss Dora Martin were married Sunday near Hightower.
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Joe Teal and Miss Etta Gay were married Sunday at the home of the bride's
parents.
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EDWARDSVILLE News
C.E. Bell died at his home Nov. 7th. The funeral services were conducted by
his pastor W.D. Stephenson at 12 p.m. Nov. 8th. The pastor, church and
friends extend to the family in their affliction their deepest sympathy. The
brothers John and Henry Bell after attending the funeral services returned to
their respective homes in Monroe, Okla, and Atlanta, GA.
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NEWSPAPER Issue of Friday, DECEMBER 1, 1911
LOCAL News
W.A. Parker left Tuesday for Childersburg where he goes to eat turkey dinner
with his daughter.
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BELL MILLS News
One of the twin babies of Mr. and Mrs. Harley Ralston was buried at Pine Grove
on Monday.
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Uncle Tom Evans has returned from Anniston where he has been taking Dr.
Curlee's cancer treatment.
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NEWSPAPER Issue of Friday, December 8, 1911
LOCAL News
J.H. Howle of Ranburne is a good farmer; does things in the right way and
produces stuff on his farm in wholesale quantities. This year he made on one
acre of land, one hundred sixty five bushels of corn measured, and two hundred
fifty bushels on two acres; on six acres six hundred seventy bushes or an
average on six acres of 111 and two thirds bushels per acre.
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Mrs. Jim Ivey of Birmingham spent Friday with her mother Mrs. J.C. Gibbs.
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BELL MILLS News
Mrs. J.D. Wheeler who has been very sick is now improving.
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Mrs. W.K. Owen is no better.
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Harvey Ralston left a few days ago for Copper Hill, Tennessee where he will
spend the winter.
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NEWSPAPER Issue of Friday, December 15, 1911
LECTA News
We have been informed that Mr. Ben Fordham will open up a store at this place
very soon.
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The fox hunters have not caught that fox yet but Perry Lott says he got his
part last Saturday night. Mr. James Norton is still here and says he will have
the fox before he leaves.
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Will Weaver of this place is putting up a sawmill on M.F. White's place.
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