The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-10-15
WILL PAY ITS fIREMEN
SELMA COMPLIES WITH INSURANCE
 MEMS DEMANDS.
r.,~ prou,,.e. to Be of Great Interest and Large Crowds Are Expect. cd to Re In Attend
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Advertiser Bureau.

Advertiser Bureau, Selma, Oct. 14. Tomorrow will see the establishment of A paid fire department in this city. The ordinance was passed last Monday nigbt and tomorrow the department will he organized. Nine men have al- ready been selected. who willogo to work tomorrow. and another oNe will nrobably be put on Monday. Besides inc nine paid men there will be six call men from the volunteer depart ment who will do service at each fire.
 These fifteen men will be equally di- yideJ among the three stations. The uptown station, where the aereal truck and the chemical engine are stationed will have the majority of them.
 At the engine house in East Selma there will be stationed three paid men, Joe Davis and Louis Maloney being two of them. The third man will be select ed Monday and put to work immediate iy. In addition to the three paid men at the station in East Selma, there will be appointed Monday three call men from the Mechanic Fire Company, who will do duty in that part of the city. firm alarm and for this service they will be paid $1 and 25 cents extra for every hour they work at a fire.
 At the uptown station will be six men: J. l.. Marshall. J. w. Johnson. J. F. Brown, Brice TinchyA. J. Bell and G. W. Bohlia- Mir. Bohlia will be cap tain of the squad and the men will be under his command except when they are working under the direction of Chief Blakeiey. The call men from the volunteer department at this sta tion will be Will Paulovitch. J. J. Mo- ran and John Wagner, who will re- ceive the same compensation that the three call men at the station in the | eastern part of the city will receive. Chief Blakeley, who Is organizing the paid department, is picking out oughly drilled by him. While the de- partment Is small the force Of men will be added to as demand is made upon it, and citizens can feel safe now in the knowledge that they have Q capable fire department.
 | The establishment Of the paid fire | department Is the result of an effort tc get cheaper insurance rates and to have Selma made a second-class city by the Southeastern Tariff Association The Tariff Association imposed certain | conditions and among them was the es- | tablishment of a paid fire department here. The city has been rerated by the association and 1t is claimed that insurers here are now reaping the ad- vantage of a 20 per cent. reduction ir rates. All of the conditions asked oi the city by the Southeastern TariH Az | sociation have been complied with. A Youthful Thief.
 Wilbert Hurd, a negro boy about Ii years old, appeared In Police Court this morning on a warrant charging him with larceny. The case wa: clearly proven and as he was too little I A. ~ulr AAz r4~ An srx over to await the action of the next grand jury in the sum of $200. Witt the little negro In court there appeared his mother, who had been arrested or the charge of receiving stolen money The case against her was dismissed. Yesterday afternoon Wilbert Hure went into the store of Tobe Edwards at the corner of Union and Nortf Streets. The negro who runs the store and his clerk were outside at the time and Wiibert went behind the counter and took from the cash drawer $14. He left the store without being detected but the theft was traced to him ana later Officers Blanton and Philen ar. rested him.
 Besides the boys mother, Sam Johns and Elvira Stewart were also arrested as being implicated in the theft. They were tried in court this morning, but no case could be proven against-them and they were discharged.
 Tobe Edwards. who runs the store also was in police court this morning
 While at police headquarters in conse.
 quence of the arrest of Hurd. he was | ordered by Turnkey Ahern to stop his
 loud talking. Tobe told MT. Aherr
 that he would as soon hit him as any | other man.
 The negro was arrested and this morning was tried for the offense. The charge was proven against him, and
 Mayor Atkins fined him $45 or ninety days on the streets. Edwards and he took an appeal to the higher court, and his bond was fixed at $500.
 Mrs. Scott Dead.
 Mrs. Scott, an aged lady who lived
 near the Schuh- Miller lumber plant