Birmingham state herald., 1895-11-23
.SELM|A'S NEWS BUDGET
Dangerous Fire in a Cotton
 Sample Room.
SELMA TO BE ADVERTISED
Marriage of Two Prominent Couples Cele- brated-A Good Romance Spoiled by a Young Woman's Non-appearance.

| dark last night Dan Gardner struck 0
 match to light the gas in Maas & 1 Schwarzs cotton sample room, and the head of the match broke off and blazing fell into the cotton samples with which | the room is filled. In the twinkling of an eye the room was a mass of flames. | The alarm was immediately sent in, and. when the fire department reached | the scene the flames had made their way through the windows and were leaping | high above the top of the front building. | For a few moments the entire block seemed doomed to fiery fate. The fire men, however, soon got the fire under control and it was extinguished before | great deal of damage was done. MT. Schwarz says their loss IS slight | The stock of groceries of s. Maas below was badly damaged by water. Amende Honorable. To make amends for their failure to mention Selma in a pamphlet recently issued the authorities of the Atianfa and West Point road have agreed to issue Selma supplement to contain a Write-up l of Selma. her resources and institutions. l the same to be illustrated. Secretary | Mckee of the Commercial and Industrial | association will go over to Atlanta this afternoon to consult with the authorities of the road as to the amount of matter, etc, needed and will return Monday and l begin preparations for same at once. A Negro Shot. Water Jones' negro who works on Rev. Byrd Moore's place, near Summer field, was shot in the lower part of the abdomen with shotgun in the hands of | MT. Archie Samples, superintendent of | the plantation, yesterday morning about o'clock
 She Failed to Show Up. l Two Southside young people tried to marry in Selma Thursday. They both | live near Sardis. and had an appoint l ment to meet at the residence of MT. | Henry Bowdon, in East Selma. The par | ties were MT. Humphreys Laster and Miss Mamie Huffman MT Laster | showed up at MT. Bowdens residence | expecting to met his would-be-bride but | for some unaccountable reason she failed l to show up. Both the parties are well | known, MT. Laster being a substantial young farmer of the Southside. It is 1 not known why the parents object to the marriage, as both of the parties are l of age. After going to the residence of MT. Bowden and failing to find the young | lady he left for Sardis with the intention of finding her It is supposed that her people caught on to the little racket and | frustrated their plans.
 A Valuable Stamp. A few days ago the little son of Con stable Aycock found a stamp issued from the IJniontown postoffice during the war. Little Goodwin Wilkins offered him 90 cents for it and the stamp changed l hands. Goodwin wrote on to a stamp | collector and asked him what he would give him for it. That individual asked the owner what he would take for it and Goodwin named the sum of $225. He was just guessing in the dark, but utterly to his astonishment litter came accept ing the offer and a few days later check came for the amount, after the stamp collector had seen the stamp and was convinced that it was genuine. Goodwin Wilkins feels very proud or his pickup, but it would be hard to im- agine the feelings of the little 1eiioW who sold it for 50 cents
 Clay-Fowlkes Nuptials. Probably the largest number of the elite of Selma ever gathered at one time and in one place weere gathered at the First Methodist church last night to Wit ness the nuptials of Maj. James Burns Clay and Miss Marguerite Edna FowlKes. Many could not as much as gam aonlls- sion to the church.
 promntly at o'clock the march to the bymeneal altar commenced. The ush- CTS. w. N Compton, A. J. Goodwin, pr.
 Samuel Kirkpatrick, w. $. Woolsey, E. c. Jones and E. Gilman, came first. fol-
 lowed by the attendants, J. T. Russell,
 Jr. and Miss Carolyn Haralson. C. M.
 Howard and Miss Lucille Fowlkes, A. F.
 Armstrong and Miss Page Jones, Col. l..
 l., Herzberg and Miss Louise Melvin,
 Capt. R. D. Walker and Miss Louise
 Compton, L. o. Davidson and Miss Lucy
 Burns. Then came Major Clay on the
 arm of his best man, A. A. Hobdy, fol-
 lowed by the bride-elect on the arm of her
 sister, the maid of honor, Miss Alieze
 Fowlkes Rev. A. J. Lamar performed
 the wedding ceremony.
 Immediately after the ceremony a re-
 ception was given at the palatial home
 of the brides mother. Mrs. B. J. Fowlkes,
 on Church street. which was attended by
 the members of Sema's 400.
 Major and Mrs Clay will leave this
 morning for Washington, where they
 will spend their honeymoon. Than Ma
 jor Clay no more popular or deserving
 young man ever won the heart and
 hand of one of Gods best gifts to man.
 In social, business and military circles
 he stands second to none.
 Than Mrs. Clay no more admirable
 woman ever vouchsafed her love and
 life unto any man. She is a woman of superior mental endowments, of queenly grace and beauty.
 Personal and General Notes.
 , H. T. Brown of Columbia, Tenn, a
 mechanical and electrical engineer, and graduate of Cornell university of Yonk- CTS, N Y, is now n~charge of Selma's electric light plant.
 : J. J. Hooper received yesterday by ex- press sixteen Mexican quails. a present From his nephew Charles M. Adams, merchant of Colorado City, Tex. MT. Hooper proposes to release the quails on h favorite hunting ground and try to raise more from them. They are about the size of the ordinary quail and are
 pretty dull color.
 1 Mrs F.. K. Carlisle and MT and Mrs. o. M. Cawthon returned from Atlanta yes terday morning.
 1 J. N Ross of Autauga county and J. Leon Clay of this city had a fisticuff on Water street yesterday morning, about a business transaction. Both were arrest
 ed.
 Mrs. I. R. Eskew and Mrs George Phillips left yesterday afternoon for Huntsville, to attend the state eonven-
 tion of the Young Mems Christian asso-
 citation.
 R. D. Shuptrine and family left yester
 day for Atlanta, to see the exposition.
 Mrs. G. H. Peacock has returned from
 a visit to Faunsdale.
 Mrs, H. U. Mckinney returned to
 Greensboro yesterday.
 Mrs. J. C. Wilkerson and Miss Lucy
 Miller are visiting the Atlanta exposition.
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