The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-09-05
PROHIBITION AGIrArFD.
Saloon Men of the Decaturs are Be
 coming Uneasy.

Decatur, Sept. 4-(Special. )-DiLk Adams Rifles, Company F, Alabama Ma
 tional Guard, have-elected former First
 Lieutenant Hal Long, captain of the com
 pany. and Walter Smith. first lieutenant
 of the company. Both of these young
 men are well known in the military cir
 cles of the State and their elections is l a we'll deserved honor to both. l The prohibition question in the Deca- l turs is being strongly agitated, and it seems that the saloon men are getting quite uneasy.
 l There will be introduced in the State | Legislature, now in session at Montogm- | cry, a bill providing for prohibition for the two Decaturs. The bill provides that
 an election be held Dec. 8, 19O3 and should | the measure carry 1t will go into effect | Jan. l. 1904. The saloon men of the two | Decaturs are cirulating petitions, which | will be sent to the State senator and members of the Legislature from this county, asking that the law, in the event it becomes a law, not go into effect until
 July l. 1904, in order that the saloon men
 of the Decaturs may have time to dis
 pose of their stock of goods, fixtures, etc. By many it is believed that the bill
 will pass both branches of the Legisla-
 ture, and that it will become a law by the vote of the people.
 Under the new constitution many of the voters of the Decaturs have been disfranchised and a majority of the ones disfranchised afe men who favor open- saloons. Thus 1t is argued by many that prohibition would win in the Decaturs. Any way a strong fight will be made. At the present time the Decaturs are the | only towns in the ounty where liquor is sold, 1t having been voted out of all the other precincts some years ago.. The prohibitionists believe if they should fail in getting prohibition for the county they will succeed in winning on the state dispensary measure which will come before this session of the Legisla- | ture.
 A telegram was received from Col C.. c. Harris from New York this morning ating that the remains of his son, William w. Harris, who died in a hos pital in Long Branch, N J., yesterday, would reach here by the Southern Rail- l road tomorrow night at Il o'clock. The funeral will perhaps take place here Sun- day afternoon and the body will be in- tered in the city cemetery here. MT. Harris was one of the best known young men in the State, he having been secretary to the Supreme Court Judges of Alabama at Montgomery for many years. His fatherp Col. c. c. Harris, is a prominent lawyer here, and is presi- dent of the First National Bank of De- catur.
 Many telegrams of coincidence have been received from prominent men all over the State.
 John Knight has received a telegram rom Andrew Carnegie stating that he has deposited to the credit of the Deca- tur library s1O.0OO, subject to the order or the library committee of which MT. Knight is a member.
 The lot has been purchased for the building. and Mir. Knight says work will commence on the building within thirty days.
 Mrs. Freda RudicelI died in East Deca- tur yesterday after a long illness with consumption. She was the wife of tt~ Rev. MT. RudicelL,