The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-04-02
EXTRA SNAPS THIS WEEK.
INTERESTING RUMoR.
Lafayette Road Said to Have Been
 Bought by Central.

lafayette Road Said to Have Been Bought by Central.
 Opelika, April 1.-(SpeciaI. )--Re-
 ports have been in circulation several
 days that the Central of Georgia Rail
 road had purchased the Lafayette Rail-
 way and would discontinue the opera tion of the latter road These reports
 were based upon the statements that the Central Road had instructed Its agent here not to transfer any freight to the Lafayette Railway after the 1st
 of May. and the Opelika postoffice has
 been notified by the Department In
 Washington that service over the La
 fayette Railway would be discontinued
 after April goth, and the offices along
 the line of that road would be supplied by star route service after that date. President c. F.. McGehee of the La fayette Railway was fin Opelika on March 30th. and stated positively that
 his road had not been sold to the Gen. tral, that the orders of the Central not
 to transfer any more freight to his
 road would probably be promptly ad-
 justed between the roads and the order to discontinue the mail service was on account of the Lafayette Railway dis continuing the train between Opelika and Lafayette that carried the mall.
 The Lafayette Railway was con- structed by the business men of La fayette several years ago on account of differences with the Central. IL runs between Lafayette and Opelika, and the Central has branch from Opelika to Roanoke via Lafayette. The people of Lafayette have almost sol- idly sustained their road and it has been considered good investment. Lafayette does a fine business and no doubt the competition has hurt tho Central.
 OpeIika Is much interested in the suc- cess and operation of the Lafayette Road. It traverses an excellent sec tion of country and there are several prosperous communities, Oak Bowery' Sturhil and Moorefeld. on the road. The road is a great convenience, and accommodation to the people and has done much for development of the coun- try.
 The Opelika Elks held their annual election on the night of March 30 and elected the following officers for the en- suing year: H. M: Wilson, Exalted Ruler; T. D. Power, Esteemed Leading Knight; T. B. Ingram, Esteemed Loyal Knight J. B. Lyons, Esteemed Lectur- ing night; A. G. Smith, Secretary; F. R. Frazier, Treasurer; H. P. Watson, Tiler; F. M. Renfro Trustee, and H. M Will son. Representative to the Grand Lodge, which meets in Buffalo, N. r., July 18th The Opelika Lodge now numbers 100 members, and is in hourishing condl- tion.
 Elaborate preparations are heinz made for the observance of Decoration Day in Opelika this year and the ex- ercises will be very interesting Judge w. H Thomas will deliver the address the sores will all close and the peo- pie will turn out en masse. The fol- lowing are the Confederate soldiers buried in the Opelika cemetery: Gov ernor W. J. Stanford, Lieutenant Co., lumbus Bedell, Captain Shelton Toom- CT, Colonel C. D. Hooper, Major W. B. Shapard, Captain Clayton, Dr. J. B. Barnett Captain Newsome, the Prussian." J. M. McDonel. John Mel ton, Whit William. Dr. J. W. R. Will Hams, c. s. Devane, T. T. Walton. Forney Renfro. Isaac Ross, Judge T. L. Frazer, Charles Hester, R. W. Hubbard, Captain F M. Dunbar. J. c. Meadors, Charles Trawich. Captain N. Tucker. N. B. Collins. J. F. McCurdy, A. J. Smith. Charles Rush. J l.. Wat son, Jabe McGehee, Rev. E. Denniston, w. H. Smith, Dr. W s. Douglas. Alex Ross, Captain B. Sims, ". J. Carlise, W. D Baugh, A. c. Hamil- ton, J. T. Morris, B. Y Cooper. Judge J. K. Edwards, Berry Edwards, C..