The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-11-03
CUT THE GORDIAN KNOT
MOBILE ELECTION BOARD RISES
 TO AN OCCASION.
Impossible to Put the OmeiaI Ballots in the Boxes Provided, So the Trunk Man Is Benefi- efnry
Advertiser Bureau.

Mobile, Nov. 2. The election board and the sheriff of
 Mobile Countey were this morning confronted by a peculiar condition. The blanket ballots and other para phernalia to be used in the coming l election were received last night by Sheriff Powers. He found the election
 boxes not large enough to hold the elec-
 lots. much less the other papers ne- | cessary to a proper conduct of the election by the legal officers. This morning Sheriff Powers called l the Election Board to his ofice. | showed tho members the perplexity confronting him and aked for relief.
 The law requires that the election boxes must contain all the tickets, poll lists and stationery necessary for proper conduct of the election. The boxes heretofore provided were in- adequate. The board. after consulta-
 tion. decided that the only thing left
 was to purchase trunks and they at once set out to purchase the recepta- cles necessary to properly enclose the paraphenrnalia to be turned over to the election officers.
 Dave M. Scott of Selma. Lieutenant Colonel of General Harrison's stan. U. c. V. and Brigade Quartermaster on General L. V. Clarke's stan of the Alabama National Guard. is in Mobile today. Colonel Scott says that almost every Confederate veteran in Dallas County will attend the reunion in this city.
 Colonel Scott was at fifteen years of age private in the 63rd Alabama Infantry. Lockhart's Battalion. He was in the last struggles at Spanish Fort and Fort Blakley. opposite Mo. bile, in Baldwin County being, cap tured at teh latter fort and incarcer- ated at Ship Island until the surren- der. With the exception of Chaplain Hearn of Talladega, of General Clarke's stan. Colonel Scott is the on- ly Confederate veteran in the person.
 mel of the stan. He says he will be present at the reunion. He was pres ent at the meeting of the general re-
 union convention tonight in the Com
 mercial Club.
 The shooting of Clarence W. Dla- lack by Special Policeman Ray last | night, was the principal topic of con- versation on the streets today. Senti-
 ment this morning was with the po- liceman who. was engaged at the de- pot to protect passengers. The wounded man was reported doing as well as could be expected tonight.
 It is understood the father of Blalack will at the trial attempt to show that Ray shot his son in the back and while he was running.
 News by letter received here today was to effect that the island of Grand Cayman. one of the Isles of the Antilles,
 Is suffering for lack of food stuffs, due to the storm of October 8. Fears are | entertained for the schooner Albatross. At the east end of the island is the schooner Clyde, Port of Spain to Gulf Port, Miss, ashore on the reef The
 sloop Gold Fish is reported lost. 
 The election of officers of the Mobile
 Cotton Exchange today resulted as fol-
 lows: D. R. Burgess president; H. c.
 Grimley, vice president; H. D. Lesesne,
 treasurer; J. c. Bush. E. D. Ledyard,
 L. c. Frye, c. T. Hearth, Winston Jones,
 Benjamin Rhett and J. A. Walters,
 directors.
 Mir. and Mrs. Bert L. Feist have returned from their bridal trip
 through the east and north. They
 left this evening for their home al
 Tensaw, Ala.
 Mrs Sarah E. Rowley. after a long
 illness died here today She was a
 native of Charleston. Ind, and had re-
 sided here four years. She leaves four children here.
 After ffty-three days of drought,
 Mobile and vicinity enjoyed twelve hours of slow rain last night and today. Mobile Society News Though the clements had ordained a
 rain for today. it fell very gently and softly as though reluctant to cast any
 shadow of gloom upon the wedding day of Miss Edith Dycke and Mir. VII liam Armistead Christian, Jr Within | the Presbyterian Church where the ceremony took place at noon, all was 1 light and brightness from the sunny | yellow of the cosmos which banked the l altar, to the bright expectant faces of | the friends who filled the church. Mrs. James Wade Cox presided at the organ | and played pretty selections before the 1 coming of the bridal party. The
 bride entered with her father Mir. Robert F. Dycke. She wore a hand some tailor suit of blue cloth with
 lace hat and carried a bouquet of white | chrysanthemums. Miss Margie Lake. who was her only attendant. also wore | a blue street gown and carried yellow | chrysanthemums. Mir. Christian was attended by Mir. Ben Toomer as best