The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-31
SELMA ABOUT READY
 FOR COMING FAIR Finishing Touches Are Being
 Put on Grounds FINE HORSES WILL SHOW Committees From City Council Take Up Petition for Running Tracks Down Water Street-Other
 News of Selma.
FINE HORSES WILL SHOW

Selma, October SO.-lSpecial.) )-This
 morning over hundred carpenters labor
 CTS and teams began work in earnest
 putting on the finishing touches to the
 grounds where the Central Alabama Fair
 association will hold its first annual event.
 The old Driving park has been utilized
 for the fair, and the track acknowledged
 to be one of the best in the south, has been
 put in flrst-class shape. It was at this
 track that Ed Geers trained for several
 winters some of the famous harness
 horses of the Village farm. among them
 the we'll known Robert J. Mir Geers has
 not been here in several years and his
 coming next week is hailed with consid-
 erable interest. The securing of practical
 ly all the entries from the Birmingham
 horse show for the Selma horse show
 and the employment of Memolis band are looked upon as distinctive feathers in Selmas cap. Decorators from Birming-
 ham, who placed the state exhibit, have reached the city and gone to work mak-
 ing ready for the big exhibit that has been seen and admired during the past week in Birmingham. In fact Selma ex- poets to reproduce on a smaller scale the Birmingham fair and thousands of vis- itors from this territory are expected. Cotton Receipts.
 Up to last Saturday night Selma has received 52,131 bales of cotton since Sep tember 1 last Up to the same date last year the receipts were 52,S56 and the small difference with the admitted shortness of the crop seems to indicate that Selma merchants have made inroads into new territory.
 Deaths in Dallas.
 Today at noon upon the arrival of the Southern railways train from Akron oc- 1 cured the funeral of Mrs. W. A. Hugh | ston, whose death occurred yesterday morning at her home in Tuscaloosa MT. | Hughston was formerly conductor of | the Southern railway but left that sys- | tenn to take a position with the Mobile | and Ohio. He quit railroading to enter | the mercantile business In Tuscaloosa. | Mrs. Hughston was Miss Alice Lanham of | Rome. Ga, and was a most excellent | woman. The pallbearers were J. A. Free | man, F. J. Hardcorn. F. J. Bowline, B. A. | Hogg, s. T. Walker. George Eason, all | members of the O. R. C.. of which MT. | Hughston was a prominent member. | The funeral of Mrs. E. N. Medley oc- | cured this afternoon at 3:30 o'clock from | her late residence on East Water street. | Mrs. Medley died suddenly yesterday | morning. She had been up and about her | usual household duties when she was | suddenly seized with an appoplectic | stroke, death resulting almost imme- | diately.
 Railroad Hearing.
 l At o'clock this afternoon the joint | committees of the city council on ordi- | nances, and on streets and lights met at l the council chamber and begun the hear | ings on the petition of the Southern rail- | way to run a double track down Water l street. There were many citizens pres 1 ent and the matter was taken up and | considered carefully by the committee | tings until the evidence Is all before | them. when they will make up their re- | port and submit to the city council. Local and Personal. Miss Kathryn has as her guest Miss | party was rendered in honor of the lat | ter by Miss Eilene Hunter tonight. l MT. S. A. Reynolds has returned from | Denver, Col, where he accompanied Mrs. | Reynolds in the hope of the climate bene- | fitting her
 | A. F. Fahnestock, who has been spend- | ing the summer in the mountains, has re- | turned to his home in this city. | Mrs. A. A. Little. wife of Rev. A. A. | Little pastor of the Broad Street Presby- | terian church. underwent serious oper- | ation this morning at sanitarium In this l city. Dr. Little was operated upon al | the same institution about a month ago | for appendicitis.
 | The news of the death at Carrolltor | few days ago of Archibald Willett was | received in Selma yesterday with great | sorrow by many friends. MT. Willett was | a bright young man.