1916 Calhoun Monitor

Submitted by Rose Diamond

August 19, 1915  - Calhoun Monitor - Randolph

[Note: this is the Randolph Community behind the Pleasant Hill Store south of Calhoun City.]
After several weeks’ absence we will come again. Health is very good here at present.

Mr. Jesse Tennell, of Texas, has been visiting relatives here last week. He was accompanied home by his niece, Miss Ella Shaw of this place.

The protracted meeting at Bethel closed yesterday (Sunday) with 16 assessions [sic] by baptism. The new preacher, Rev. Thomas, did some fine preaching and gained many friends while here.

A very sad accident occurred here last Thursday morning when Mr. Herman Lovorn was instantly killed at his saw mill. He was in the best of health, but life is uncertain and death is sure. He leaves a wife, three brothers, an old father and a host of relatives and friends. We extend our heartfelt sympathy to the bereaved.

The sad news reached us from Texas last Monday that Mrs. Alda O. Weeks was dead. She was the wife of J. F. Weeks. She has been in bad health for a number of years. She leaves a host of relatives and friends here. The bereaved have our sympathy. Geneva.

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…Mr. Albert Webb, from Walthall, is visiting friends and relatives here this week. Mr. O. C. Cooper and Miss Letha Taylor, visited friends over in Grenada county last Sunday.

We were sorry to hear our man Aycock for Representative being defeated, tho’ we are ever ready and willing for the majority to rule.

Mr. John Scott, from Hohenlinden, visited D. B. Aycock and people this week.

Mr. Ed Wade and wife visited R. D. Taylor Friday. … Blue Jay

Obituary.   [Date not noted] Harrison Benning, son of Albert and Jane Benning, was born June 17 1880 died May 21 1914 his remains were laid to rest in the Gauley cemetery. Harrison professed faith in Christ when quite young and lived a true Christian until the end. To know him was to love him. He took sick with the measles, got up too soon, and relapsed. He told his uncle Major Benning the day he relapsed, that he would not live to see his crop finished and sure enough the Lord folded his arms around him and took him home…. His wife and children are heartbroken. …[rest not copied]

May 25, 1916J

ohn Jeff Hardin An accident that has brought regret and deep sorrow to many hearts in Calhoun occurred one day last week, when Mr. John Jeff Hardin, of the Hopewell neighborhood lost his life by the falling of a branch of a tree which struck him on the head.

Mr. Hardin was one of the county’s most faithful sons. He was a friend to the needy, an upright, moral, Christian gentleman and a man whom to know was to love. The writer has known him for a long time and reveled in his friendship. Only a short time ago we had the pleasure of seeing and conversing with him here.

His loss is one that his community as well as the whole county will deeply feel and we feel that we have lost a sincere friend. Peace to his Ashes.

Houston, Miss, May 13.

M. L. Mitchell of DeBeque, Col., died here today of acute indigestion. He was on a visit to relatives in Mississippi and was taken suddenly ill at his boarding house and died in a few hours. Mrs. Mitchell, who is in Colorado, has been wired for instructions as to the disposition of the body. Mr. Mitchell wa a brother of James H. Mitchell of Coffeeville, Miss., John C. Mitchell of Calhoun County and Mrs. Murray Boyd of Snyder, Texas. – The Commercial Appeal.

M. L. Mitchell was raised in this county. Went out west … [rest not copied]

June 1, 1916

Obituary  [excerpts] It is with sad hearts that we bow and submit to the will of God in removing from us our dear loved one, relative and friend, J. J. Hardin, who died at his home May the 12th, from fractured skull caused by a falling limb.

He was born Jan 28th, 1850 on the place where he died. He had been a faithful and consecrated member of Spring Hill church for over 35 years. He leaves a widow and ten children, seven by his former wife and three by his surviving wife. …[not copied]

June 15, 1916

Good Communication From “Little Bill” of Alabama. Gordo, Ala. 6-6-16

Dear Mr. Editor:
I promised Bro. W. A. Bruner to write a letter for the Pittsboro Monitor and with your kind permission, I’ll jot down a few thoughts.

Some years ago I had the pleasure of writing a letter for one of your papers and received several letters from your citizens. One man wrote me that my humble letter helped his life and I felt repaid a thousand fold for my trouble.

The Rev. W. A. Bruner, of Pine Valley, wrote me asking many questions about the old settlers of this (Pickens) county – his happy boyhood home. Well, I had the pleasure of meeting Bro. Bruner on the train while on our way to the old soldier’s reunion at Birmingham. I did all I could to make the trip and the stay in Birmingham pleasant for Bro. Bruner and his good friend, Jim Bennett. I will not tell about the good hearty laugh we had on our friend, Mr. Bennett at the Florence Hotel.
Returning from Birmingham Bro Bruner stopped off with us and it was our pleasure to drive him to his old home, long since abandoned and now a wilderness of pines. Though only a boy nine years old when he left here he remembered well the old home site, the old church place (Pentecost) where he attended preaching and went to school long aog, and other scenes of his childhood days. It was touching when Bro. Bruner knelt down and drank form the same old spring and spoke of his dear mother and pointed out the spot where she used to wash his clothes.

He pointed to the place where he fell from a willow and was picked up for dead. He showed me the scar on his arm where my old grandfather bled him and brought him back to life. Indeed it was very interesting to hear him talk of those golden happy days of childhood.

Oh, that we could live them all over again. Wouldn’t we be more loveable playmates? Wouldn’t we be kinder to all our associates? Our mothers! How we miss them. The writer, like many boys, was wayward, yet we do not remember ever speaking an unkind word to mother. Now, since she has crossed over the river, we wish that we had spoken ten thousand more kind words to her, the dearest of all earthly ties.

Since early childhood I have been trying to educate myself to speak kind words only. “He that hath friends must show himself friendly.” is a true injunction. Our schoolmates are gone. Don’t you wish we had been more friendly to them? Many of our parents have crossed the great divide. Don’t you wish we had been more thoughtful and cheered them on the way?
Boys, are you kind to your fathers? If not, God pity you.

Girls, are you kind and affectionate to your mothers? If not, Great God pity you, for she is the best friend you have on earth.

Boys if your best girl is not good and kind to her old mother, then let her alone for she will never be good to you or anyone else in this wide world.
“God is love” – and love in us is only an attribute of God. I feel mean when I happen to speak unkindly of any one. Everybody really wants to be happy. If I tell you how to be happy, will you obey me? Try at all times to make all others happy and you will fid yourself happy, and your friends will rise up and bless you. We must educate our hearts as well as our heads.
Thanking Bro. Bruner for sending us the Monitor and its Editor for space in its valuable columns, I beg to be remembered as “Little Bill.” (S. W. Williams)

Obituary [excerpts] In memory of one of my true friends, Bro. Lorne Carter, who went home to heaven January 10, 1916. He was born near Big Creek, May 21 1856, where he spent all the sixty years of his life. He was married to Miss Cook December 12, 1887. His wife with their seven children are left to mourn his departure. … It was my happy privilege to receive him into the church twelve years ago at his home… signed: R. P. Goar

Mooreman-Stroup   [sic] The folks hereabout had just about decided that our good friend J. Clede Moorman, had made up his mind to go through life in a lonely state of single blessedness and had almost relegated him to the shades of bachelorhood forever, but they were destined to a rude shock. Clede had no such notion. He knew and realized that the Creator had not meant for him to go through life alone and so last Sunday night, Rev. J. A. Killingsworth was called upon to unite him in the hold bonds of wedlock with Miss Alice Stroup, who is a daughter of our friend, Harve Stoup, deceased. The Monitor extends happy congratulation and sincere good wishes.

Notice

I learn that there are a number of people over the county running their automobiles for hire, who have not paid the $5.00 privilege tax which the law declares shall be collected from every person who receives any sum of money for transporting people in an automobile.  This is an extra privilege tax, above the tax that you pay on all cars when you buy your registration tags.  If you have not paid this tax and are or having been running your car for money, you had better pay this tax at once.  Failure to do so will subject you to a fine of five times the amount of the privilege and imprisonment.  J. W. Wright SheriffNotice to CreditorsAll persons having claims against the estate of J. J. Hardin deceased, are herby notified and required to have same probated and registered by the clerk of the Chancery court of Calhoun county, Mississippi, within one year, and are notified that failure to probate and register for one year will bar the claim.

Letters of administration of the estate e of J. J. Hardin deceased were granted to the undersigned as Administratrix thereof of the Chancery court of said Calhoun county on May 31st 1916. This May 31st 1916. Mrs. Clara Grace Hardin, Administratrix