CRENSHAW COUNTY CRITIC NEWSPAPER Personal Paragraphs
JULY 10,1902
Justice L.Best late Postmaster at Best,Crenshaw County appeared
yesterday at the bar of the United States District Court and pleaded
guilty of trading in Unite States postage stamps.Best was given a
#30.00 fine and sentenced was suspended until the Nov.term of the
court.
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AUGUST 07,1902
In a base ball game at Honoraville last Friday.Mr Pleas Roper was
struck on the head by a ball and received serious injuries.For a while
they thought he was dead.
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SEPTEMBER 11,1902
Nels Mahone,colored,of Beat 6 was beat by two other Negroes last
week and received painful wounds.
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SEPTEMBER 18,1902
The Jury in the case of Wesley Rogers returned a verdict of guilty
as charged in the indictment.
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Brantley Bridge across the Conecuh river has been completed.It is
1600 feet long.
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J.S.Knot who resides in Beat 12 was jailed Saturday.He is charged
with assaulting his own daughter.The child is only about 13 years of
age.The indictment was found by the Grand Jury that is in session.
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One night last week some parties were stealing cotton from Mr.Ike
Parks and from the tracks of blood found the next morning,it is evid-
ent that Mr.Parks Winchester did some damage.
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Rutledge was torn up Saturday night by a crowd of hoodlums.They de-
stroyed well curbings and filled wells with trash,boxes,etc.The Rut-
ledge guardhouse was broken open and furniture wrecked.
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OCTOBER 23,1902
A man named cooper,who resides in Butler County,was caught in a gin
belt and cut to pieces last Friday.He was a grandson of a Rev.M.Cooper
who was well known in Crenshaw.The gin where the accident occurred is
located between Oaky Streak and Van Pelt.
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OCTOBER 30,1902
Centenary Church near Honoraville Sunday,Mr Henry Crowell and Miss
Tula Pollard were united in wedlock.
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I'll give you an account of a shooting that occurred last Sunday in
Vidette on the place of Mr.T.B.King.A Negro named Julius Ford shot
another Negro and dangerously.Julius Ford quit his wife and she secur-
ing a divorce,married this other Negro,and while on his way to church
was hailed by Ford and without saying anything else,commenced firing
on him.He fired 5 times,3 balls taking effect,one in the arm,one in
the hip,and the other in his breast,just below the heart.Mr.King lives
about 2 miles North West of Glenwood.Ford was at large when last heard
from.
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NOVEMBER 06,1902
Mr.E.G.Williams of Beat 7 is now representing E.E.Forbes Piano
Company in this County.
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Saturday evening at Joquin,two children of Mr.Al.Thompson,were
playing with a pistol and a girl about 9 years old was seriously shot,
and the accidental discharged of the weapon in the hands of her little
brother.
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NOVEMBER 27,1902
Clark Heath,escaped convict from Georgia is boarding at the Sheriff
May's Hotel.
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From Cookstand,syrup making is the order of the day here now,If rum
is as short according as sugar cane in this section.the fiery stuff
will never get to the worm of the still.
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JANUARY 01,1903
Mrs.O.C.Walker received from her brother in Texas a tinned sheep
skin sofa cover,with the bust of an Indian chief burned on it.It is an
excellent present.its a beauty and something rare.
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It appears that we well have a dry town the ensuing year,as our bar
keeper in Dozier,Mr.G.B.Dozier does not seem to want to sell tangle
foot again.He says it does not pay and besides he is a ear behind on
his fishing.
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JANUARY 08,1903
Miss Nellie Kendrick received a very serious hurt last week.She was
kicked in the face by a colt that belongs to Mr.Morrison.
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At Opp,during the Christmas festivities,town Marshall Turner shot
and killed a Negro.Mr.Turner was formerly a citizen of Crenshaw County
and is a brother of Mr.John W.Turner of Honoraville.
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JANUARY 15,1903
Mr.Robert Harbin came near being killed last Thursday morning.He
was in the woods cutting,as a tree fell a limb flew back striking him
on top of the head,cutting an ugly gash.
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JANUARY 22.1903
Last week George Cook,son of Joe Cook,of Beat 1 shot a hole through
his foot with a shot gun.
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JANUARY 29,1903
John Ginwright was accidentally cut with an axe last Monday chopp-
ing wood,while uplifted the axe flew from the handle,the edge striking
John on the head,he is getting along all right.
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Prof.Haynes of Dozier preached at the Court House Saturday night
and Sunday morning.
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FEBRUARY 19,1903
A pet coon gave the family of Mrs.Kate Martin quite a scare several
nights ago.
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FEBRUARY 26,1903
A mule was sold in Luverne last week for 50 cents.
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Mr.Charles Baxter fell off a lumber wagon last week and cut a gash
in his head about inches long.
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MARCH 05,1903
Mr.Shorter McDougald of Beat 10 showed the Critic newspaper a hen
egg that was shaped like a figure 8.
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Breaking a Mustang on the streets of Luverne by a colored preacher
last Tuesday offered no little amusement for the boys.
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An Oyster supper under the auspices of the ladies Aid Society,will
be given at the home of Mrs.S.W.Webster in Lapine on the evening of
Friday March 6 for benefit of the church and parsonage funds.
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APRIL 16,1903
Aunt Eliza Huffman aged 102 years old was before the commissioners
court asking for assistance.
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Mr.Pete Edwards and Dr.Felix Tankersley left Sunday morning for
Tuscaloosa,they carried Mr.William Knowles of Beat 1 .who has become
insane.
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APRIL 30,1903
At a mass meeting held in the office of Mayor T.W.Shows,April 2,
1903 it was decided to establish a picnic grounds at the Mash Shingle
Mill,and grounds to be known a Riverside Park.
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MAY 14,1903
Mr.William Welch of Patsburg has discovered his father-in-law has
been absent for 18 years.He was supposed to have been dead for eleven
years.His name is G.W.Moye and is 94 years of age.
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MAY 28,1903
Messrs.M.M.Barrington,Sim Roberson and Louis Williams were in the
Critic office Monday,wasn't that a team?.
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JUNE 11,1903
At the singing at Gravel Hill last Sunday,Mayor Jones was jumped on
by two men,who beat him with knucks and cut him-Claude Stephens who
tired to separate them,was cut on the thigh.
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JUNE 18,1903
There was an all day Sacred Harp singing at the Christian Church
last Sunday in Best,l.at an early hour the wagons and buggies begin to
roll in and by 10:00 a large crowd had assembled the class was prompt-
ly formed and led by R.J.A.Stringer.
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Mr.W.L.Coker of Honoraville won a prize at the fiddlers convention
recently held in Greenville.
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JULY 16,1903
Wesley Rogers of Crenshaw County was convicted of assault & murder
in the fall term of the Circuit Court and sentenced to 3 years impris-
onment.C.R.Bricken recommended the pardon.Stating that his doubt's of
the man's guilt were serious.
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JULY 30,1903
The small pox is getting pretty close by for the says that it is in
about two and one-half miles of Petrey.some citizens are getting un-
easy as they fear it well soon be in Patsburg.
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AUGUST 06,1903
Rev.Dobbs after being run out of his cotton patch by the bumblebees
he slipped back last week to take a peep at the situation and found
the 'possums scratching for the honey.
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SEPTEMBER 03.1903
Rural free delivery started from Luverne and Goshen on the 1st of Sept.
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OCTOBER 15,1903
Sheriff May id having the scaffold in which Lon Shaw & Jim Chambers
are to be hung erected on the Coston pasture.
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Mrs.Mary Wilson celebrated her 90th birthday last week among her
guests was Mr.Miller Byrd aged 82 years.
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NOVEMBER 12,1903
Elder Petty will preach at Zion primitive Baptist church in Luverne
on Tuesday.
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On last Thursday Judge Walker married 2 widowers and 2 widows.The
contracting parties were M.C.Compton to Mrs.N.A.Battle and J.S.Taylor
to Mrs.L.E.Cook.
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FEBRUARY 04,1904
Mr.Marion Cornett had a musical at his house recently.The young
people from our community attended and reported a fine time in Dorman,
Ala.
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Mr.W.D.Norsworthy will celebrate on Feb.29th his birthday.The first
one he has had in 8 years.
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FEBRURY 04,1904
R.H.Stallings of Honoraville,Crenshaw County was in the Troy comm-
unity today,this is the first time he ever visited Troy,having lived
since 1859 within 31 miles of us.Mr.Stallings settled in 1899,where
he now lives,then as Butler Co.,since Crenshaw.
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A little boy of Mrs.John Barrington of Dozier was badly burned Fri-
day evening,but is doing very well at present.
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FEBRUARY 18,1904
Mr.John Fowler was 71 years old Feb.09,1904,He spent his last
birthday with his on W.H.Fowler.
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FEBRUARY 11,1904
Last week Bud Petty who resides near Effort,had his throat cut by a
man named Jack Cunbie,who resides near Honoraville.Petty is reported,
he will recover.
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MARCH 03,1904
Miss Jennie Boan,daughter of Mr.J.C.Boan of Beat 1 was accidentally
shot through the thigh Thursday evening.She was visiting in the neigh-
borhood and some children were playing with a pistol,when it went off
with the effect stated above.
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MARCH 17,1904
J.H.Marler and J.M.Sexton drove into the gully beyond Jon Trainum,
killed a horse,wrecked a buggy and seriously injured the two gentleman.
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APRIL 07,1904
John McLendon says somebody was black-balled by the Masonry of
Crenshaw County,McLendon not being a Mason,Its a reflection on Masonry
to tell John McLendon the secret of the order.
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MAY 05,1904
Mr.Walter Tatum has resigned the position of town Marshall and Mr.
Will Parks has been appointed to fill the vacancy.
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MAY 12,1904
On Friday evening T.J.Welch had better luck,he cut 2 trees and got
as much honey as e and several of his friends could eat and carried
home a bucket full.
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MAY 26,1904
Mr.J.H.M.Tucker was robbed of $35.00.The robbery took place between
the 9th and 18th of April.The thieves took the money from a trunk in
Mr.Tucker's house.
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On May the 22nd was born to Rev.T.T.Dobbs and wife the 7th son,and
the 13th child.The aged couple being 53 and 43 years from Effort,Ala.
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JUNE 07,1904
Mr.W.A.Stringer and family spent today with Mr.W.J.Holland at Salsoda.
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JUNE 23,1904
On Thursday morning at 7:25 the pay train of the Atlantic Coast
Line as wrecked at Petrey,A Negro had his ankle sprained by jumping
from the train.
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JULY 06,1904
Mrs.Fannie Cornett who has been ill for some time is now improving.
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Mr.William Stringer and Miss Blanche Bozeman were married at the
home of the bride's fathers residence in Gravel Hill at 3 o'clock
Sunday June 26,Rev.T.E.Morgan affiliating.The ceremony was witnessed
by a large concourse of friends and relatives.
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JULY 21,1904
Last Friday morning at Brantley,Frank Langley was shot by Mrs.J.L.
Bryan.It was only a short time since Langley was severely cut by the
husband of the lady who did the shooting.Slanderous statements are
said to be at the bottom of the affair.Mrs Bryan was arraigned before
Judge Walker on Tuesday.The preliminary trail is set fro July 22.The
bond was fixed at 500.00,Langley is in a critical condition.
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AUGUST 25,1904
On last Saturday a difficulty arose between Mr.Will Dean & Herbert
Rogers,living in Beat 6 in which Rogers shot Dean with a pistol in the
left breast the ball ranging downward.The two men are brother-in-law
and the trouble originated over a family matter.
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SEPTEMBER 01,1904
A difficulty occurred last Saturday in Rutledge between Mr.Yancy
Thaggard and Mr.Walter Sikes in which the former was cut by the latter
in several places but not o a serious nature.
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OCTOBER 13,1904
A shooting scrape occurred in Rutledge Saturday in which Virgil
Walker shot Judge Thaggard,a son of Mr.R.K.Thaggard.The wound is not
fatal but young Thaggard may lose one eye.
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DECEMBER 08,1904
Sheriff May carried Mr.Preston Byran Sr. to Tuscaloosa Wednesday.Mr
Bryan is years of age and resides in Beat 15,during an insane rage on
Tuesday he stabbed his son Preston Byran Jr.
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DECEMBER 22,1904
A very destructive fire occurred at Highland Home last Saturday
night in which the boarding department of the College which was Mr.Sam
Jordan's residence,burned together with he barn and all out houses.In
this fire Mr.Jordan lost 5 horses,10 head of Jersey cow,1000 bushel of
corn and several ton of hay.The whole property destroyed was estimated
to be worth 10,000.00 on which there was a policy for $1,800.00 .All
of the boarder and the baggage were safely taking from the room and no
one was hurt.
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APRIL 20,1905
Joe Barton formerly of Crenshaw County has been sent to the asylum at
Tuscaloosa.
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MAY 18,1905
A leather bottom chair was lost at the grave yard during memorial
exercises.whoever has the chair,will you turn it over to D.H.Patterson
or to this office.
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AUGUST 10,1905
Mrs.Margaret RICHBURG is a Mother of the Confederacy.She was 81
years of age on the 2th of June.Her son,Charner F.Clements,was en-
listed in 1862.He lives in Crenshaw County,being 59 years of age.
Mrs.Richburg was born in Sumter district,S.C.in 1824.Her father was
a soldier in the Indian War and her grandfather was a soldier in
the Revolutionary War.She had five brothers in the war between the
States ,one of whom survived.
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The Luverne colored school give a concert at St.John Baptist Church
on Friday night Aug.11,1905
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SEPTEMBER 14,1905
Mr.William Warner of Lapine shot Mr.W.L.Grissett the clever depot
agent at Lapine on last Saturday evening.The trouble was caused over a
case of whiskey which Warner had ordered sent in a Negro's name.Warner
father found it out and had the Negro go in and sign for the whiskey
to prevent hi on from using it,Warner's son then thinking that Griss-
ett had notified his father about the whiskey armed himself with a
pistol and axe and walked in to the railroad office,where Grissett was
working and told Grissett that he had come to kill him.He fired four
shots at Grissett from a 38 caliber pistol and all struck him except
one.
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OCTOBER 05,1905
Trail starts for Walton Sikes charged with the murder of Virgil
Walker.
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JANUARY 04.,1906
We regret to learn that Dr.Manley Morgan is now seriously ill with
pneumonia.He is at his Father's home in Beat 4.
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FEBRUARY 22,1906
A horse run away with Albert Cornett,son of Wiley Cornett and
injured him Severely.
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MARCH 08,1906
Born at Hope,Arkansas to Mr.and Mrs.Charles Routon,a boy,they were
there visiting family.
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MARCH 15,1906
Married in Troy on last Sunday Mr.T.J.Dobbs to Miss Willie Lee
Barrington,all of Crenshaw County.The groom is a son of our old friend
Rube Dobbs of Beat 6 and the bride is a daughter of another old friend
of Crenshaw Mr.William Barrington.
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APRIL 19,1906
Prof.J.M.Williams,principal of the Luverne Negro school has re-
turned from Mobile,where he attended the meeting of the Alabama State
Teachers Association of his race.
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MAY 31,1906
Mr.John Hollis of Beat 8 is reported to be critically ill.
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JUNE 14,1906
Mr.Albert Stringer is very attentive to the fair sex.
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OCTOBER 25,1906
TO THE PUBLIC: I have a son,Manning Riley,15 years of age,who has
run away from me.I forbid any man white or black to hire this boy.He is
under age and I can collect his wages at any time.
--James Riley Honoraville,Ala.
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FEBRUARY 07,1907
Luverne ;s new hotel will be called the St.Charles,after the famous
Crescent City Hostelry.
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FEBRUARY 14,1907
Henry Tremont, a one armed white man was arrested Tuesday.He is
charged with burglarizing Sport's store and Bentley's commissary at
Theba. In his possession was found various skeleton keys that are
usually considered the tools of profession at burglaries.
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