Cleburne County AlArchives News.....Newspaper abstracts for FEBRUARY 1916 February 1916 ************************************************ 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 April 16, 2005, 8:09 pm The Cleburne News February 1916 NEWSPAPER ABSTRACTS FROM "THE CLEBURNE NEWS", Heflin, Cleburne County, Alabama for FEBRUARY 1916 NEWSPAPER issue of Thursday, February 3, 1916 LOCAL News Word has been received in Heflin of the sad and untimely death of Mrs. S.M. York which occurred at the home of her husband at Union Grove, Ala on January 20th. Mrs. York was taken with lagrippe which later developed into pneumonia. The husband who is a brother of Mrs. Cook of Heflin and Mr. J. York of Maben, Ala is known by hundreds in Cleburne County who deeply sympathise with him in his great loss. ___ Mr. J.R. Rooks and daughter Mrs. Oscar Crumpton are visiting Mr. and Mrs. C.W. Scott in Rockmart, Georgia and will return the latter part of the week. __ CARD OF THANKS We wish to thank our many friends and neighbors for their help and loving kindness toward us during the death of our beloved daughter Ola. May god's richest blessings be with you all. Mr. and Mrs. J.E. Conkle ___ NEWSPAPER Issue of Thursday, February 10, 1916 LOCAL News Considerable lumber is being shipped from Heflin these days. The Starr brothers and Mr. Wagoner seem to be the principal lumber manufacturers in this immediate section. Much poplar lumber is being shipped from here which is said to demand a fancy price in market. __ Mr. G.P. Starr, living out on Route 5, boasts of one of the finest milch cows in the section. What makes Mr. Starr value this cow so highly is the fact that she has twin calves, male and female. ___ LETTER FROM A.J. LOTT FROM IREDELL, TEXAS Mr. Editor, You will find enclosed one dollar for one years' subscription to The Cleburne News. I don't know when my time is running out. The paper was sent to me by Mr. Henry Williamson. There is a lot of sickness in this part of the world, and lots of rain and cold weather since the first of January. But it looks like it would fair off one more time and everybody would like to see it. The farmers are getting behind in their work. Well Mr. Editor the bell is calling me to dinnner so will have to close for this time. A.J. Lott ____ BURGESS AND KELLEY ESCAPE FROM JAIL During Sunday night or early Monday morning, Forest Burgess and General Kelley, two white men, succeeded in breaking jail at this place and fled the country. The escape was perfected by the men picking a lock to the cell, and after leaving the cell they had but a few minutes between them and their freedom, for it required but short work to pick a hole in the brick wall through which they passed on to the front shed then to the ground. So complete was the getaway that Sheriff Rowell did not learn the fact until early Monday morning. Sheriff Rowell has offered a reward of $50. for Burgess' apprehension and $25. for the capture of Kelly and the sheriff feels confident that the men will soon be back in his charge. Burgess is charged with shooting at another man and Kelley with disturbing the public worship. ____ IN MEMORY OF MR. HUMPHREY LANDERS On the morning of January 29, 1916 at the hour of five o'clock, the spirit of Mr. Humphry Landers took it's flight to be with god. He was laid to rest in the Corinth cemetery by loving hands on January 30th. Mr. Landers had been sick in bed four months. He was about sixty-two years of age. He was loved by all his friends and they mourn his death. We tender our heart-felt sympathy to his wife and children in their bereavement. We all mourn his loss but are cheered by the thought that he has gone home, "to die no more." Mr. Landers was a member of the Primitive Baptist church for several years. As he grew older he grew stronger in the faith. Weep not fir him, dear wife and children, for he is not dead, but only sleeping. Only live to meet him in that beautiful home where sad parting never cmes, is the prayer of a friend. Mollie Morris _______ A CHRISTIAN WOMAN CALLED TO HER REWARD; MRS. POLLY WEATHERS On February 6th, at her home about ten miles east of Heflin, the spirit of Mrs. Polly Weathers, wife of the late T.A. Weathers, passed into the great beyond, to sojourn in the beautiful realms above where all is peace and love. Mrs. Weathers had lived in Cleburne county all her life. She had been a member of the Baptist church at Ai for many years and was one of its oldest and most faithful members. Her bright face, gentle and kindly nature will ever be a source of inspiration to all those who knew her, for to know her was to love her. There are indeed few like her, and the death of this good christian woman means the passing of one truly representative of the meek and lowly Nazarene. No community ever possessed a truer neighbor, a devoted mother and affectionate sister than Mrs. Weathers, always anxious to lend a helping hand toward relieving the suffering of others. Five sons, Messrs. Jasper, Thomas, Frank, LaFayette and James, and one daughter, Mrs. Poley Tumlin, survive the mother, one daughter having preceded the mother to the great beyond several years ago. Mrs. Weathers was a sister of Mr. M.L. Gaines and an aunt of the editor of The News. The interment was at Ai on Monday afternoon. _____ NEWSPAPER Issue of Thursday, February 17, 1916 AGED MOTHER ENTERS HER REST; MRS. S.E. NICHOLS DIED LAST MONDAY The following is an account of the death of Mrs. Nichols, who died in Roanoke last week. Mrs. Nichols is the mother of Mrs. B.T. Foster of Heflin and was known and loved by many of our people. When death entered the portals of the home of Mr. E.P. Nichols in the early hours of last Monday morning and bore to rest the venerable mother, Mrs. Sarah Nichols, many hearts were saddened with sorrow. Soon the home was filled with friends, eager to tender any service possible. When the funeral hour arrived last Tuesday morning, the Baptist church was filled with friends. The floral offerings were numerous and most beautiful. The old songs were used. The message brought in scripture readings, with eulogy and prayer which were a comfort and inspiration. At the conclusion the remains were laid to rest in Cedarwood. Mrs. Nichols was almost four score years of age. She was the wife of the late W.B. Nichols and is survived by seven children. All were present at the funeral save one daughter in Oklahoma. Besides the relatives, many friends came from LaFayette and other points to pay their tribute of respect. Mrs. Nichols served well. May her rest be sweet. The Roanoke Leader ________ MUSCADINE News W.H. Gentry is building a new dwelling house on Route one. __ Mrs. Marian Monroe has been very sick but is improving some. __ RESOLUTIONS ON THE DEATH OF MRS. W.W. CAMPBELL December 23, 1915 Sister W.W. Campbell was called from this to another world. Sister Campbell was 33 years old. She leaves a husband and four children and a host of relatives and friends to mourn her loss. We say to those who mourn, to mourn not as one who has no hope. Sister Campbell had been a consistent member of the Baptist church since her childhood. Her christian character and devoted life that she lived caused all who knew her to love her. She was an affectionate wife, a loving mother and a true friend. In her death the church has lost a faithful member, the children a christian mother. We commend them to the one that doeth all things well. Henry Padgett Dr. Baxter Rittenberry Emerson Austin, Committee ____ NEW HOPE News Mrs. J.M. Monroe who has been very sick is better at this writing. __ Mr. and Mrs. Grant Todd visited the latter's mother Mrs. N.R. Pounds last Saturday and Sunday. __ S.J. Pruitt of Mars Hill and Mrs. Jim Chandler of near Aberthany were joined in the holy bonds of matrimony at the home of the bride last Thursday night. __ NEWSPAPER issue of Thursday, February 24, 1916 LOCAL News Perry Lott traded his motorcycle for a Ford car and after doing quite alot of repair work is about ready to ride. __ FREIGHT TRAIN WRECK; YOUNG MAN KILLED Southern Freight 73, west bound, went into a ditch just four miles west of Heflin last Friday, and was one of the worst wrecks that has occurred in this section in years. It happened just beyond the overhead bridge on the public road leading from this place to Anniston, only a few yards west of the triple- deck trestle. The train consisted of fifty to sixty cars, many being loaded with merchandise and groceries, paints and oils and hardware. The smashup came just as the long train had reached the summit of what is known as the Iron City mountain and was passing down the mountain. Jumping his way on the train was Hamp Cartwright, 21 years old of Temple, Georgia, the nephew of Mr. W.S.Nicholson, section foreman on the Heflin section, who met instant death in the wreck, his body being found by his uncle who was called to the scene of the trouble after it happened. More than three hundred feet of the road bed was torn up, rails being twisted, crossties shattered by the long line of cars that had been thrown from the track. In all, sixteen cars loaded and empties were smashed into kindling and piled high on both sides of the road. A wrecker from Birmingham arrived on the scene at about ten o'clock that night and work was begun to clear the track but traffic was delayed several hours, passenger trains between Birmingham and Atlanta being run around by Rome. The cause of the wreck is said to have been due to a broken flange under one of the cars. The unfortunate young man whose life was so quickly snuffed out is survived by his father and mother and other relatives at Temple, to which place the body was sent for interment on Saturday, accompanied by Mr. and Mrs. Nicholson and daughter Miss Essie. The tragic death of Hamp Cartwright, the Temple, GA young man whose life was snuffed out in a twinkling, should serve as a great warning to those boys who take the perilous chance of riding freight trains. This boy left his home Friday in the bloom of health, his body, in a few short hours to be shipped back all broken and mangled. ____ HIGHTOWER News G.W. Duncan was at the bedside of George Gibbs last Saturday night, who is very sick. __ A.C. White, our mail carrier, has sold his property at this place and will move to Georgia shortly. __ Mrs. L.C. Fowler visted her mother Mrs. Blake last week. __ Mr. G.W. Duncan and family spent last Sunday afternoon with Mr. L.C. 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