NEWSPAPER ABSTRACTS FROM "THE CLEBURNE NEWS", Heflin, Cleburne County, Alabama for AUG. 22nd thru AUG. 29th, 1935 NEWSPAPER Issue of Thursday, AUGUST 22, 1935 MR. GLASGOW, 87, A PIONEER, PASSES Mr. J.T. Glasgow was born Dec. 26, 1847 in South Carolina, his parents coming to Alabama when he was three years old and has lived here for 82 years on the same farm where death found him last Saturday morning at 10:10. His church came first with him. He was married to Miss Eliza Wallace in 1869. His second wife being Mrs. Ida Cook. He carried about with him his ideal of a true man, written out. Here it is: "Attend carefully to the details of your business. Be prompt in all things, consider well, then decide positively; dare to do right; fear to do wrong; endure trials patiently, manfully; fight life's battles bravely; go not into the society of the vicious; hold integrity sacred; injure not the reputation of another, nor his business; join hands only with the virtuous; keep your mind from evil thought; lie not for any consideration; make friends; never try to appear what you are not." These and a few others were his code, the rules of his life. He lived up to them. He never blazed above the footlights of the world, but the benign light of his christian life constantly was shown, in his home, his business, his church, everywhere he went. Eighty-eight years ago he was born in South Carolina of excellent parents. They gave him the blessing of christian training. He followed that training until death. He united with the Baptist church in early manhood and was a regular attender, ever ready to bear his part of the finances of his church and school. Uncle Jim had been in failing health for the past two years. Often he would say he could tell you that he was fast passing out, yet he remained the same true, happy, jolly christian. Never one time in all his suffering, complaining. He seemed to keep asking himself "Must Jesus bear the cross alone and all the world go free? No, there's a cross for you and there's a cross for me. " He faced death fearlessly and courageously and in dying, gave not only the sorrowing children but to bereaved friends, the divine words which cheer and comfort them in this their hour of grief and despair. Uncle Jim, having fought in the hour of his last extremity gallantly, with steadfastness, uncomplaining, unfailing courage which marked and illuminated his progress through life, surrendered to the inscrutable will of the ruler of life and death. With sublime fortitude, he bore the supreme demand that was made upon him with a resignation which never faltered, he went out in the shadows glorified by the light of christian faith. The beautiful flowers showed the love and respect people had for him. The funeral was conducted by the Revs. H.R. Carter, J.W. Grubbs, W.M. Barr and A.T. Warmack. The suriving children are two sons, Judge A.H. Glasgow and O.W. Glasgow; the daughters are Mrs. Sam Harlan, Mrs. Mattie Prater and Miss Inda Glasgow. All were at his bedside when death came. The pallbearers were his grandsons, Raymond Glasgow, Wilmer Glasgow, Raymond Prater, Wyatt Prater, Hoyt Harlan and Lee Hightower. He has one brother and one sister living in Texas. The funeral and interment were held at Harmony on Sunday at 2 p.m. ------ MRS. VIOLA SHOEMAKER PASSES AWAY SATURDAY Mrs. Viola Shoemaker, age 74, passed away at her home in Beat 3 near Oak Level on Saturday and was laid to rest in the cemetery at Upper Cane Creek on Sunday. Mrs. Shoemaker was ill for two weeks. Eight children and many friends and relatives are left to mourn her passing. -------- FRUITHURST News Aug. 19 Mrs. Katie Fellows of Ames, Iowa (formerly Miss Katie Garrick) is visiting her sister Mrs. Ollie Bishop and brother George Garrick and other relatives and friends here this week. ---- Mrs. Dewey Gorrer, Mrs. Cleve Voss and Mrs. Miles Brown of near Heflin visited their sister Mrs. Vernie Southerland recently in Tennessee. ----- FARLOW DIES OF KNIFE WOUNDS Wilson Farlow, about 40, was cut to death by Vertis Holland, 21, on Monday night about 8 o'clock. He was arrested at 12 o'clock and placed in the county jail at Heflin on Tuesday. Sheriff W.T. Prestridge and Solicitor P.J. Merrill investigated the killing and Holland was placed under a charge of murder in the first degree. It is reported that Holland had Farlow called out of his house about 8 o'clock Monday night and the fatal altercation took place about fifty yards from Farlow's home. He was cut in the side in several places and stabbed just above the heart. He was rushed to a doctor but died before those who were carrying him were able to get to a doctor. It is also reported that Holland made a threat to get Farlow as he left Mountain View Church in Georgia to drive down to Farlow's home. The alleged murder took place in Beat 8, near the Georgia state line. ------- LETTER WRITTEN 71 YEARS AGO The letter below was sent in to The News by Amos J. Inman of Hightower: Marietta, Ga. July 1, 1864 Battlefield Co. B., Reg't 36 Ga To A.M. Haley from A.N. Haley Dear father, mother, brother and sister, I will drop you a few lines to let you know that I am well at this time. I hope that when this comes to hand, will find you all doing well. I received your letter today dated June 21. I was glad to hear from you all. I am glad to inform you that I am yet alive and sound. We are fighting every day and I expect we will have a big fight on the 4th day of July. We have killed a heap of Yankees but they have killed a heap of us too. Pop, you do the best you can until I come. Be as it is, I put my faith in God for He is my Maker and Savior. I have a heap of trouble but I bare it the best I can. I want you to write to me as soon as you get this letter and then I will write to you again. I have not drawn any money since I have been in service and I don't know when I will draw. William stopped at home with his family when we fell back. Pop, write soon, give me all the news in old Randolph county. To his sister, M.C. Haley from A.N. Haley, Dear sister, I will drop you a few lines to let you know I am still alive. I was glad to hear that you was well. I have got the army paten boots that you sent to me. Sis, I want you to tell the girls not to marry until I come home and then I can see them marry, for I don't except to marry if I live to get home myself. Tell Babe Coller that I am glad she was wrotte to me as I am a poor Rebel Soldier and a long ways from home. I hope to God I live to see you all again. Write soon. ------------- MR. THROWER PASSES AWAY EARLY FRIDAY Anniston, Ala., Aug. 16 H.M. Thrower, age 29, of 21 West Fifteenth Street, died early this morning at a local hospital a few hours after being brought there unconscious, for treatment. The attending physician stated that edema of the brain was the cause of death and that such a condition is usually caused by kidney trouble. Funeral services will be conducted at 11 o'clock Sunday morning at Pleasant Hill cemetery near Heflin, by Rev. W.M. Barr. Interment will be in the church cemetery. Active pallbearers will be M.D. Barnwell, J.D. Johnson, A.A. Wright, T.I. Thrower, R.M. Beason, P.D. Moore, E.O. Morris and M.L. Blake. Honorary pallbearers will be Henry Ford, Clarence Green, E.G. Thompson, Claude Kiker, Johnny Green and Luther and Harvey Barnwell. Mr. Thrower had been employed at the local plant of the Monsanto Chemical Company for about two years and was widely known in Anniston. Surviving are his widow and his parents Mr. and Mrs. F.R. Thrower, and Mrs. Eunice Barnwell of Heflin. ------ CARD OF THANKS To our friends and neighbors here in Heflin and at Anniston, we wish to sincerely thank them for their kindness during the brief illness and death of husband, son and brother. May God richly reward you all. Mrs. H.M. Thrower, wife Mr. and Mrs. Forney Thrower, parents Mrs. Eunice Barnwell, sister -------- LANGLEY FUNERAL HELD AT MACEDONIA Funeral services for L.B. Langley, age 72, prominent farmer of Macedonia settlement were conducted at Macedonia church on July 30. Elder Burson conducted the services, Yates of Bowdon in charge. Suriving are the widow, two sons and ten daughters. ------- CARD OF THANKS We wish to express our sincere appreciation to our friends and neighbors for their expressions of sympathy shown us during our recent bereavement. Mrs. James N. Ivey and family ------ UNCLE JOHN NOLEN'S 88th BIRTHDAY The weather was dark and faces seemed likewise until they began gathering on Saturday, August 17, at old Uncle John Nolen's to share with him on his 88th birthday. For years, friends, neighbors and relatives have gathered at this home to enjoy the day together, but each years seems to offer a more pleasant day than the one before. Early Saturday morning, cars, loaded trucks, and other means of travel, found thei rway through the heavy falling rain to this old family. The day seemed brighter soon and it was enjoyed by 250 persons. The day was spent in laughter an talk, mingled with music makers; a string band from Georgia was there full of music to ring from their many instruments. At 12 p.m. the long tables that stand from year to year were loaded with good things to eat, furnished by family, friends and neighbors. Uncle John enjoyed the day more than anyone, it seems. For once more he had his children, grandchildren and great grandchildren with him. The day was later made dark by the message of the death of his brother Joe of Roanoke. This leaving only one sister, Lizzie and Uncle John. They repeat often that they are living on borrowed time but we trust that God can spare a few more years for such a dear old person to be with us. Listen, people, if you want to really enjoy one day, have plenty of good things to eat and have some one welcome you into their midst, just come to Uncle John Nolen's on August 17, 1936. A Niece -------- NEWSPAPER Issue of Thursday, AUGUST 29, 1935 HEFLIN FILLING STATION MAN ABDUCTED AND ROBBED FRIDAY MORNING Heflin, Ala., Aug. 23 A widespread search was conducted by authorities here and in other towns and cities in Alabama and Georgia for two men who early Friday abducted L.L. McEachern, filling station operator, robbed him of about $3. and escaped in the victim's automobile after tying him to a tree near Villa Rica, Ga. McEachern told Chief of Police B.L. Adams of Heflin that the two men called him to fix a puncture on their automobile several miles from there on a highway and that while he was working on the tire they drew pistols and made him get in his own automobile. McEachern was forced to drive his car to Villa Rica area about 50 miles from here where the abductors bought five gallons of gasoline and then made McEachern drive several miles out of Villa Rica where he was tied to a tree, Chief Adams said. McEachern worked himself free and walked to Villa Rica, Ga., where he reported the abduction and robbery to Police Chief G.E. Harper. The two bandits left the automobile they had been driving and fled in McEachern's automobile, Chief Adams said. ----- Heflin, Ala., Aug. 24 Friday morning about 5 o'clock, two men came to the filling station of D.H. McEachern of Heflin and asked that he send someone to fix a puncture. Mr. McEachern sent his son Lester in a new 1935 Chevrolet Coach. While Lester was out on the ground fixing the tire, the men pulled a gun on him and ordered him to get into his own car. They transferred some tools from their car to McEachern's car and ordered Lester to drive toward Georgia. They stopped at the Underpass Filling Station at Edwardsville and made McEachern pay Bob Lee Burgess for gas purchased there. They forced him to drive on past Villa Rica and then they turned around and came back to Villa Rica and drove out in a small ravine on the Villa Rica - Carrollton road. They carried Lester off into the woods about 150 yards and made him back up to a large tree. When his hands would not reach around this tree they moved him over to a smaller tree and tied his hands behind him with tape from off the seat of the automobile. One of the men took off his hat and threatened to "bump him off" but Lester told him that he had done everything they asked him to and promised not to make any noise until they could get away. They finally decided to leave him tied and they left in his automobile. After working awhile Lester got loose, walked three miles to Villa Rica and motified the authorities there and in Heflin. A few minutes after the authorities at Heflin were notified, Mr. Smith, a salesman from Carrollton brought word that a suspicious car with two men in it had pawned a coat for some gas at Bell Mills to Roy Bell and Bell took the tag number. The tag number corresponded with McEachern's car. It was further reported that the bandits asked the way to Anniston without going through Heflin. Authorities at Heflin immediately blocked all roads to Anniston and Chief B.L. Adams began to trace a report that the kidnappers had been seen in the Ai community. At present no authentic trace has been found since they left Bell Mills. Charges of highway robbery, kidnapping, carrying a stolen car across the state line and disposing of stolen property can be brought against the two men if arrested. Saturday's morning papers carried an account of two men treating Frank Johnson of Morgan county is very much the same manner in which McEachern was treated. The car which the bandits left bears a Morgan county tag. ------- SECOND PARTY IS JAILED IN SLAYING Friday afternoon a warrant was sworn out for Raynard Holland, the brother of Vertis Holland, a confessed eye witness to the fatal stabbing of Wilson Farlow. Raynard Holland is charged with the same crime as his brother on the ground that he was an accomplice. Authorities state that Raynard Holland's story was untrue and very unsatisfactory. Holland admits that he is the one who called Farlow off the porch a few minutes before Farlow met his death. ------ IN MEMORY OF LEWIS "WILTZ" FARLOW Lewis Wiltz Farlow, the subject of this brief sketch, was born April 1, 1904 and departed this life August 19, 1935. He leaves to mourn his untimely passing, his faithful companion the former Miss Annie Lee Roberts, and their five small children, Vivian, Wilma, Imogene, Donald and Jay. Also surviving him are his brothers Marvin of Wyoming; Robert, Hobson and Carl of Birmingham and Benjamin of near Hopewell, Ala., one sister Mrs. Mae Robinson of Mississippi, and that truly wonderful old mother of his whom all her neighbors both old and young affectionately call "Ma Farlow". His father, Thomas Asbury Farlow, his two older brothers Horace and Henry and his sister Ruth, all preceded him into the Great Beyond. The writer was proud and happy to call Wiltz Farlow "friend" in the deepest and truest meaning of that sometimes misused and abused word; and with the Editor's kind forebearance, feels moved to pay some small tribute to his memory through the columns of The News. It might be truly said of Wiltz that he literally adopted Romans 12.1 as his life's creed; for no sacrifice was too great for him to make on behalf of his family or friends, or in the interest and well being of the community. The youngest member of a large family, after his older brothers and sisters had married and established homes of their own, he remained in the old home with his widowed mother and was ever diligent in ministering to her comfort and welfare. Quietly, unassumingly, courageously, he met the various stressed and difficulties of life; and unafraid, unflinching, manly, he faced the Grim Reaper at the last. Peace to his soul! Peace to his memory! Written by one who loved him and is sorely distressed by the unhappy manner of his passing. ----- MRS. OTWELL BURIED WEDNESDAY, AUG. 28 Mrs. Silas Otwell of near Crumbley's Chapel died at the family home on Tuesday morning at 4 o'clock after an illness of about ten days, and was buried Wednesday at Ranburne. The husband and five or six children survive. Mrs. Otwell was the daughter of Lee Pollard. ----- KINFOLK OF WILLIAM BEAN, PIONEER SETTLER, REUNION AT FRIENDSHIP A reunion of the descendants of William Bean, pioneer of Benton (Calhoun) county, was held at the Friendship school in the community where he settled in 1835 after moving here from North Carolina. A number of relatives attended the reunion. Born in 1800, William Bean migrated at the age of 35 from Burke county, N.C. to this county, where he resided until his death in November 1860. His second wife was Jane Walker who was born in 1820 near Savannah, Ga. and died in 1908 in Calhoun county. She was the daughter of A. Jesse Walker who was one of the early settlers of east Alabama. Jesse Walker was prominent in the public affairs of Benton county, having represented his county in the Legislature in the session of 1850-51. He was identified with the States Rights party in politics and was an ardent advocate of secession in the stormy decade of the fifties. Related to the Walker family was the Curry family, who migrated with the Walkers from Georgia. Dr. J.L.M. Curry, a member of this family, is well known both in Alabama and Southern history. Lawyer and Congressman in the ante-bellum days he was associated after the War between the States with Richmond College, now the University of Richmond, at Richmond, Va. and later in life was identified with one of the first foundations for the advancement of education among the negroes of the South. Today, he is one of Alabama's representatives in Statuary Hall in Washington, D.C. The Walker and Curry families were closely related to the Lamar family of Georgia which has been prominent in state and national life. Living today are two daughters of William Bean, Mrs. Susan Hood of Oxford and Mrs. I.E. Hubbard of Albertville. Among the descendants present at the family reunion were: Mrs. Hood and Mrs. Willie Anderson and family of Oxford Mr. and Mrs. J.E. Stovall of Oxford Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Hood of Birmingham Mr. and Mrs. J.D. White of Anniston I.E. Hubbard of Albertville Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Hearn and family of Albertville Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Campbell and family of Section Colonel and Mrs. Walter M. Thompson and family of Gadsden Mrs. Walker of Attalla Mrs. J.C. Bean of Heflin Russell Bean of Birmingham Mr. and Mrs. W.G. Bean and family of Lexington, Va. Mr. and Mrs. C.C. Bean of Bowdon, Ga. Miss Ruth Bean of Heflin Coleman Smith and famil of Lineville Mr. and Mrs. Cunningham of Atlanta Mr. and Mrs. Frank Jobson and family Mr. and Mrs. A.A. Anderson Miss Vera Jobson of Oxford The Anniston Star, Aug. 22 ---------