The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-30
REPUBLICANS ACTIVE
 IN SEVENTH DISTRICT
Subscription Started for Snead Semi. nary-Over Hundred Girls Were
 Left Homeless By Fire.

Gadsden October 29-(Speeal) )-Con- gressman Burnett returned to this city last night. having spent the past week making speeches in Franklin and Cullman counties. Colonel Burnett will go to Mar shall county tomorrow and will be in that county and DeKalb the remainder of this week. In speaking of the political stua- tion, Colonel Burnett said that the demo- crats should bestir themselves and get out the full vote on election day, as the republicans were making an aggressive campaign and would exert every effort to make a good showing for their party in the coming election.
 The Evening Journal of this city has started a public subscription for the bene- fiji of the Rebecca McCleskey Girls home of the Snead seminary, which was de- stroyed by fire at Boaz Saturday after noon, and the call Is being responded to liberally by the people of Gadsden. The school is a most deserving institution as it has been the means of assisting girls to get an education who have been here tofore deprived of these advantages. Over a hundred girls were left homeless, and means will have to be provided for them at once or else they will have to return to their homes until the means can be obtained to reconstruct the building.
 Sunday school day was observed yes- terday by the First Presbyterian church, and the morning service was given over to an appropriate programme, consisting of musical numbers and short talks on the importance of Sunday school work, by the pastor, Rev. H. c. Kegley; superin- tendent of the Sunday school, R. V. Dav- idson; Col. w. R. Dortch and Judge J. H. Disque. Judge Disque spoke of the duty of parents in compelling their children to attend the Sunday school regularly, and told of some pathetic examples which had come under his observation recently of children whose parents had let their children go astray and he urged every one present to exert himself along this line of Christian work. Rev H. c. keg- ley spoke of the need for larger quarters, both for the church and Sunday school, and said that he thought this was the proper time for the congregation to think seriously of building a new church in order to keep up with the progress and prosperity of the city
 A heavy white froSt Tell tilfouBHout tnls section last night and lee an eighth of an inch thick formed in many places. The freeze came as surprise to many ana as a result considerable damage was done to flowers which were not protected. The frost which fell here some two weeks ago killed all the cotton and tender veg citation. so the freeze of last night added little damage to the cotton crop.
 The Quinn furnace, charcoal stack which was blown in about month ago, was compelled to shut down on account or the inability to secure labor sufficient to operate the charcoal ovens There are thousands of cords of wood in the yards and although the best of wages are of fered, it has been impossible to get a sufficient force. President Quinn arrived here today and Is making an effort to get enough men to place the furnace in com- mission at once.
 Junie West. a lineman in the employ of the Gadsden Street Railway company, fell from a platform, q distance of fifteen feet to the ground below, this afternoon and was severely injured. West was engaged in work on the trolley wire at the corner of Fifth and Chestnut streets. He had a rope attached to another wire and picked up the slack end of the rope and pulled it and in doing so lost his balance and fell. He was given immediate medical at tention, but the physicians were unable to state just how badly he was injured.