The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-11-07
OTIS WOOD HURT.
Popular Young OpelIka Man Has Pain
 fuN Accident.


 Opelika, Nov. 6.--(Special)- )-Otis T. Wood. an efficient employe of the Opelika Lumber Company, had very serious accident to happen to him Monday morning about 10 o'clock.
 He was helping the drayman haul some heavy plate glass to the Harrl- son store, which is being overhauled. and while trying. to steady one case seven hundred pounds, it fell on his leg. and the weight and pressure was so great that his ankle joint broke. the sktn an inch or two.
 He suffered much pain from his Injuries. until surgical aid reached him. when his wounds were dressed;
 MT. Wood is a former resident of Camp Hill, but during his eighteen months stay in Opellka, has made many friends.
 an employee of the Tuskegee oil Mill, had his right jaw bone. and right arm broken. while working with cotton seed crusher. about two, weeks ago. The lands of the Chwacla Lime Works. according to legal notice given for several days. were sold at public sale at the court house today. This company Is winding up it's business. and accordingly several hundred acres of land were disposed of at good prices.
 bowery. have announced the engage ment of their daughter, Miss Maggie Will to Mir Alexander Torbert. 0f old Spring Hill The marriage will he celebrated at the. home Ot the bride parents In December.
 MT. John T. smith Is having many i'm proVements made on his store that faces North Railroad street. Upon the Burt. on December 1. MT. Smith will occupy his North Railroad Avenue store. while Mir. Burt will stay where the business of the old firm is now
 Marshall, Buttey and Son, of savan- nah, Ga, extensive cotton buyers, have opened an office in this place for the buying and selling of cotton. The firm will be represented in this city by John R. Ellis, who arrived in Opelika Monday morning.
 An atrocious and cold blooded mur- der was committed in this county about six miles below Opelika Satur- day night about o'clock, when Sarah Barnett, a negro woman was shot in her own house. The fatal shot was fired through a crack Of the house, and the shot struck one thigh, pene- trated the bowels. and came through the other thigh. After the woman had fallen, her house was set on fire, and she would have been burned up but a white man. who was passing down the public road. went to her rescue. and moved her from the
 Goiy Williams, another negro wo- man, is under arrest charged with the crime: It Is said, the murder was due to the alleged intimacy of the husband of Goly Williams with Sarah Barnett The woman lived about six hours after she was shot. The alleged murderess will have a preliminary hearing before Judge Lyons of the County Court on the te1th of Novem-, ber.
 John whittlesey has torn down the old steam laundry building at the corner of Avenue A and South Ninth street. He is contemplating building Q modern business house on the lot in the early spring.
 Steven Pittman, whose mother lives in this place, was brought to Opelika Saturday night, with an injured foot He is a flagman for the Central Rail- way, and while in the discharge of his duties Saturday his foot was bad ly mashed, and his injuries will con fine him to his room for several days.
 George and Richard Williams, re- presentatives of the Bradstreet agency at Montgomery. came to Opelika Sun day to spend the day with relatives
 Miss Jeanette Shap9rd, left Saturday