Newspaper abstracts from "The Cleburne News", Heflin, Cleburne County, Alabama, for DEC. 15th, 1938 NEWSPAPER Issue of Thursday, DECEMBER 15, 1938 DEATH CLAIMS GOOD WOMAN The funeral for Mrs. Lorena Ann Morris, 78, who died at 5 a.m. Sunday at the home of M.W. Turner in Chulafinnee Beat, was conducted from Pleasant Hill church Monday morning, the Rev. Mr. Eason officiating. Interment was in the church cemetery, directed by Brown-Service Funeral Home of Heflin. Mrs. Morris was born April 18, 1860 and was a native of Cleburne county, and will be missed in the community in which she lived. Among survivors are four daughters, Mrs. Della Brown, Mrs. Bessie Williams, Mrs. Minnie Turner and Mrs. E.A. Riddle; four sons, W.J., W.C. and E.A. Morris of Chulafinnee and L.C. Morris of Talladega. The Cleburne News extends sympathy to the bereaved children and other relatives. ------ FINAL RITES FOR CLELLON WHITEN Clellon, the 15 year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Davis Whiten of near Old Salem of Heflin, Route 2, died at the residence of his parents at 6 p.m. Monday, after being in bad health for several months. The lad suffered much during the last period of his illness but death has removed him from all earthly pain. Funeral services were conducted at Pine Grove Baptist church at 11 a.m. Wednesday, the Rev. DeWitt Stovall of near Oxford officiating. Burial was in the church cemetery, Brown-Service of Heflin directing. Besides his parents, Clellon is survived by four brothers, Willis, Marvin, Mallory and Wallace DeWitt and three sisters, Louanna, Margaret and Betty Jo. The parents, brothers, sisters and other relatives have the heartfelt sympathy of a large circle of friends, together with The Cleburne News. ------ FUNERAL SERVICES FOR M.P. PRICE M.P. Price died at his residence near Graham at 2:35 a.m. Tuesday, after a short illness. He was well known in the southern and eastern parts of Cleburne county. He was a good neighbor and a good man and will be greatly missed in the community. Funeral services were conducted from Hurricane church near Arbacoochee at 11 a.m. Wednesday, the Rev. M.A. Gann and the Rev. R.L. Skinner officiating, with interment in the church cemetery, Brown of Heflin directing. Survivors are the widow, Mrs. Blakely Price; a son Talmadge Price of Anniston; three sisters, Mrs. J.F. Cox of near Hurricane; Mrs. Ellen Allen of Graham and Mrs. Nicie Baughn of Birmingham. The Cleburne News joins a host of relatives and friends in extending condolence to the bereaved ones. ------ ARBACOOCHEE MAN KILLED ON HIGHWAY Anniston, Ala., Dec. 7 Henry Craft, age 40, of Arbacoochee, was fatally injured when he was struck by an automobile on the Bankhead Highway about five miles east of Oxford shortly after 4 o'clock this morning. He was pronounced dead on arrival at Garner Hospital. J.L. Kaylor of Gramah, the driver of the automobile was absolved of all blame following an investigation of the accident. The witnesses to the accident told the same story as to how it occurred. Craft had been in a taxi-cab with Lewis McCormick of south Anniston since about midnight. Leland Burt was the taxi driver. Statements made by Burt and McCormick were the same, eaching stating that Craft got out of the taxi cab and while they waited for him to return, he stepped into the path of Kaylor's automobile. Craft's companions estimated the speed of Kaylor's car at 25 miles per hour, the same estimated by Kaylor, his daughter and companion L.B. Duke. The injured man was placed in the taxi-cab and Mr. Duke rode with the taxi to the hospital. Coroner Gray said that death was due to a fractured neck and a crushed chest. Funeral services for Craft were conducted at 2 o'clock in the Cedar Creek Baptist church in Cleburne county. Burial was in the church cemetery with Usrey of Anniston in charge. Surviving are the widow and two children, Charles and Bertha of Arbacoochee; his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J.W. Craft of Anniston; three brothers, Grady Craft of Atlanta; Munroe and Gross Craft of Anniston; two sisters, Mrs. Pearl Bentley and Mrs. Lily Campbell of Anniston. ------- OLD TIME CORN SHUCKING By W.C. McMahan When my father had finished that big log rolling and had given the men a big supper and their farewell smile, at the little brown jug, he told them that he would give them an unusual corn shucking the next fall, as he was looking for the Lord to bless him with a wonderful crop of corn, and that his friend Tom Yarbrough could make as good whiskey as he ever could and that there would be plenty and that there should be no whiskey on the place except his, so that no man would get drunk. For about three weeks, my father and the older boys and hired men were gathering and putting corn under a big shed beside a big crib which shed was 20 x 50 feet as full as corn as could be crammed in, and while there were bushels of muscadines along the creek banks that sent their aroma out across the fields, and just back of the smokehouse was a fine orchard of golden apples ready to use, and about a week before they were through gathering the corn, father put boys on mules and sent them all over the surrounding country, from the Georgia state line on the east, from Turkey Heaven mountains on the south, from Bell Mills on the north, inviting men and boys to come on a certain afternoon to shuck corn. The appointed hour arrived and by the middle of the afternoon, the place looked as it were alive with men, boys and mules, as many of them come on horseback, and they kept pouring in, and about dark, father had a boy bring a big basket of those fine applies and pass them among the men. While this was going on, my mother was in the old log kitchen with a dozen or more neighbor women before that five foot fireplace, preparing supper for those faithful, tired, hungry men and boys. Just then father stuck his head in a little window and said "Adeline, when will supper be ready and how many men do you want at a time?" She replied that supper was ready when he was, and she could seat 20 at a time. Then father took the little brown jug and the little boys helped him with water, sugar, etc. and gave every man there a drink of liquor just as he wanted it, and when he would come to a boy, father would call to the father about giving the boy a drink and his father would holler to him to give it to him as he would his own boy, and it came out right. After a while a lot of men got on top of the pile of corn and pushed it out to the men so they could get to it, and directly, just to cheer the boys up a bit, two of the young men got to shooting wit at each other and for a time it was real funny to everyone. Hix Wise, Tom Campbell and John Jacobs being the contestants and seemed that Jacobs was about to win in their contest, when Campbell's comrade Brate Burt who was on the pile of corn proposed to get into the contest with knives and pistols, and my father who had been at the house for something, came back and saw what was going on, and lost no time in getting to the boys, but for a time it seemed ss if my father was apprehensive that the top would blow off or the "boiler would burst". But there was Uncle Tom Yarbrough who was a Justice of Peace and Uncle Alex Chadwick who was Constable, who ran in and commanded the peace and assisted my father in quelling the near riot. But Burt did not go back into the corn pile, and for a time santered about just back of Jacobs and father had told one of my brothers, F.L. who was quite a man, to keep an eye on Burt and as Burt was coming up with a rock to strike Jacobs, F.L. took hold of him and he dropped his rock and that trouble was all over. Supper was over by ten o'clock and a little more than half the corn shucked. Some of the men went to putting shucks in big rail pens while others got in and tramped the shucks down and others kept shucking corn. Father seemed to know just when to bring forth the little jug and when to withdraw it so that no man would get too much. About the time they had finished the corn and putting up shucks, my mother sent a boy to father at the barn that she had plenty for everybody to eat and for him to bring them, and all that would, had their fill a second time. When all was over, it was customary for the hands at a corn shucking to take hold of the landlord and "tote" him to the house but father asked them to tote one of the big boys. They got F.L. and there were not men enough to get a hold of him to carry him, and from that, a free for all scuffling and wrestling took place among the boys for a half hour, and the amusement was in excess of a circus. Every one bragged on that old time "slish tater pie" , sweetened with syrup and baked in a pot in the fireplace. My next article will be on the old time country dance. --------- LEGAL NOTICE OF PUBLICATION State of Alabama, Circuit Court of Equity Tilithie Martin Duncan vs. Ruthie Martin Brown In this cause it is made to appear to the Register by the affidavit of Young Wall, Attorney for Complaintant in the above stated cause, that the defendants: Ernest Martin Nora Martin Faulkner Belford Faulkner Katie Mae Faulkner Grace Lorine Faulkner Virginia Ann Faulkner (Mrs. Robert Gray); are non-residents of the state of Alabama and that in the belief of affiant, said defendants are over the age of twenty-one years and that the defendants: Grace Faulkner Johnnie William Faulkner Syble Gen Faulkner Belford Faulkner Jr. William Walter Faulkner; are not residents of the State of Alabama, and under the age of twenty-one years. It is therefore ordered by the Register that publication be made in the Cleburne News, a newspaper published in Cleburne county, Alabama, once a week for four consecutive weeks requiring the said defendants to plead, answer or demur to the bill of complaint in the cause by the 5th day of January 1939 or in thirty days thereafter, a decree pro confesso may be taken against them. This 10th day of December 1938. J. Lebus Casey, Register ----------