The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-05-27
THE ELKS AT SELMA
SECOND ANNUAL STATE C0NVEN-
 TON IN SESSION.
The Antlered Tribe . Welcome Guest and Felicitous Speeches Are
 Made-J. Robert Jones Of
 Huntsville Presiding.
Advertiser Bureau,

| l Alabama State Elks Association con- vened in the Elks Home in this city to- 1 day at 1 o'clock. The meeting was called to order by District Deputy w. R. Peacock of Selma Lodge, No. 167. Immediately after the convention | had been opened Mir. Peacock in few | appropriate remarks introduced to the | body Ex-Mayor A. L. Mcleod, who in behalf of Mayor Atkins welcomed the | association to Selma. MT Mcleod told | the delegates that they needed no well | come to the hospitable city of Selma or | to the Elks Home, as 1t nestled upon the banks of the Alabama River. He | said that he di dnot offer to them the keys of the city, for that was unnec- essary, as the symbols of the order were of themselves enough to cause the keys of any city to be delivered over to them.
 R. H. Mangum then, on behalf of Selma Lodge, No. 167, welcomed the delegates to the city and to the home. He said that the tenets of the order made the delegates welcomed to the home of every Elk in the city and wanted the whole antlered tribe to make themselves at home. MT. Man. gums address was well received by the delegates and he was frequently interrupted by the applause of the
 members of the association as some
 
 to the order was made by him. The addresses were responded to by J. Robert Jones of Huntsville. Mir. Jones's remarks were very appropriate
 and were highly appreciated. He paid a high tribute to the Selma lodge and
 to the beautiful home which the lodge had erected.
 J. F. McClusky of Talladega Lodge
 on behalf of the Alabama Marble Com pany then presented to the Selma Lodge
 a piece of polished Alabama marble which he asked be used by that lodge to be rapped upon by the gavel and hoped that the Selma lodge would al- ways be as solid and as pure as it. In a few appropriate wordsaExaIted Ruler
 John W. Marshall of the Selma lodge expressed the thanks of the lodge to
 Mir McClusky for the token and said that the Elks would always remember him and the Elks of Talladega. A telegram was read from R. W.
 Brown, chairman of the Board of
 Trustees. The telegram was dated Louisville and was addressed to Pres
 ident Jones. It wished for the asso- ciation pleasant and prosperous ses-
 sion. A motion was made and carried that nn appropriate answer to the telegram should be forwarded. District Deputy Peacock vacated the
 chair and J. Robert Jones of Hunts Nllicp OL tHe a5SOClaLlOn, LOOK the chair and called the meeting to
 order In the absence of State Chap
 lain Hern of Talladega MT. Chambliss
 Keith of Selma Lodge offered prayer
 and the convention was declared open and the regular routine business was gone into.
 After the appointment of various committees, at o'clock the convention
 adjourned for dinner to reconvene at
 4 o'clock.
 The convention reassembled at o'clock and the reports of officers were
 made. President Jones presented the following synopsis of reports from su- bordinate lodges in the State: Member ship, March 31, 1904, 2,403; initiated | during the past year. 561; affiliated and
 reinstated, 41; making a total of 3,005. l Suspended, dimited, expelled and de- ceased, 375, leaving membership in the State of 2,630. The sum disbursed for | charity during the past year was | $S,97444. The total value of the prop
 erty of lodges in this State is $177,- 91977.
 The following officers were then elected: w. W. Brandon, Tuscaloosa, | President; First Vice President, Hor-
 ace A. Adams, Birmingham; Second Vice President, Geo. A. Reviere. Mo- | bile; Third Vice President R, E. l.. | Mel, Selma; Fourth Vice President, W. L. McCaa, Anniston; Fifth Vice Presi- | dent, M. T. Ormand. Tuscaloosa; Sixth Vice President, L. c. Cardinal, Mont gomery; Seventh Vice President, Bor- | den H. Burr, Talladega; Eighth Vice l President, Frank B. Jones, Decatur; | Ninth Vice President, S. Funkenstein, Demopolis; Tenth Vice President, Burr Fennell, Huntsville; Eleventh Vice President John F. Golson, Blocton; Twelfth Vice President. w. E. sorrell. Bessemer; Thirteenth Vice President, s. E. Jordon, Gadsden; Fourteenth
 Vice President, I. Johnson, Flor | ence; Fifteenth Vice President, Arthur | G. Smith, Opelika; Sixteenth Vice Pres ident, w. B. Markstein, Eufaula; Sev-
 enteenth to be supplied. from Troy. Secretary, John s. Leedy, Birmingham; Treasurer, Norman G. Winn, Demopo- | lis; Chaplain, Rev. w. c. Hearn, Tal- ladega; Sergeant at Arms, J.. E. Shel- by.
 Huntsville was selected as the next place of meeting, which will be held | during the last of April or first of
 May. President Brandon was then
 asked to the chair and the retiring
 President J. Robert Jones, of Hunts
 vile. made few remarks to the as- | sociation and moved that the influence
 which the State chaplain had exerted over the order in the State had been
 90 helpful that the association send
 the chaplain, Dr. W. c. Hearn, to Buffalo, as delegate from the State and that the association pay all of his
 expenses. The motion was carried.
 President Brandon then appointed the
 executive committee, which is com posed of J. R. Jones. Huntsville; J. T. Glover, Birmingham; V. B. Atkins.
 Selma; NJ. T. Orman, Tuscaloosa; w. J. Park. Mobile.
 The meeting then adjourned sine die. l A social session was held in the | rathskeller of the Home and during 1t
 retiring President J. Robert Jones was blem watch charm. Tomorrow a big
 barbecue will be rendered the dele | gates at Lake Lanier.
 William Banks, the negro porter at
 the jewelry store of J. Hirschheld. on | Broad Street. was caught late yester- | of that establishment At the time of | the robbery there was no one in the
 store but a watch repairer. who was working near the front of the store It
 was very still and the watch repairer
 h ard the faint rattle of money, and | getting up quietly, he tiptoed to the | back of the store and saw the negro
 porter lying on the floor. reaching up and taking the money out of the cash
 drawer. He asked the negro what he
 was doing. and the negro then took a handful of money out of his pocket and put 1t back in the drawer and as he
 made a break for the back of the store
 he also threw dollar on the floor.
 Reaching the back of the store, the
 negro went upstairs and came down en 1n h {s