The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-06-19

o'clock there was great commotion 1 in East Selma. An investigations snow ed that bottles were being taken rom
 certain place and carried into me private house of a citizen and tnis was neither from Grifiin's or Summers drus stores The time has come to phL q stop to it and I for one put my sea, of condemnation upon 1t and the gooo people should arise and put down tnis lawless trafic.
 In a general way the minister then took up the curse of whiskey and dis
 cussed 1t at length m very Aois manner He called the attention or | this curse to business and to sociai | life He said that a bar room was the right name for it. "A bar to Heaven and a door to Hell. whoever named 1t l named 1t we'll" AS to blind tigers ! they were also well named; dian | know the difference from boy or man, | from rich or poor, from the pure girl and the impure man but went through | the world devouring whom they could find, robbing homes and devastating | civilization in every conceivable way | It was stated on the streets this morning that one of the men mention | ed during the sermon which MT. Crymes 1 had delivered last night. MT. sum | mers, had called upon him. During | the interview which took place be- l tween the two men it Is said that Mir. Summers told Mir. Crymes that If he mentioned his name from his pulpit | again that there would pc some kind of trouble between them. It was also 1 said that the minister had replied that | the sermon delivered last night was only the opening sermon Of campaign which he was going to in-
 augurate on the blind tigers which were being operated in the Fifth ward | and that he would continue this war fare until they had all been put out l of business.
 Last week after the drifin boys had been fined $100 each in police court
 they took an appeal to a higher court.
 Later In the afternoon they swore out | warrant before Justice Shafer charg- i ing the negro detective from Birmins- ham with perjury. The case is set Tor hearing this week and when 1t comes up the negre will be defended by City Attorney Young. who will waive exam l ination and the entire matter will then
 be investigated by the grand jury. City Court Meets. | The criminal week of the City Court l of Selma was began this week. the court being presided over by Judge J | w -Mabry while the State IS oeing represented by Solicitor J T. Thompson. 1 After the court convened the juries l were drawn and are as follows | Jury No. f---Joe Perdue, George W. Marshall, John Arlington, Dan McKin- 1 ney, t. L. Bonner. W. c. Agee. J. J. Clark. E. c Edwards, F W. Stevens. NJ s. worrell, Henry F. Vaughan and
 J. L. Day.
 | Waugh. S Kahn. Arthur Day. H. E.
 Stock, L. weisinger, F. W. Berry, M. 1 R. Jones. Percy Dawson. f. B. Ellis and T. C. Love.
 | After the impanneling of the juries | the docket of the court was taken up A number of eases were called, some
 of which were continued until the next session of the court while others were settled without going into trial No case of any importance is on the docket of the court at this sssion-
 ! Gave Police q Chase. l John Spears, negro, was in police court this morning on charge of va- I grancy There was also a charge l against him for refusing to pay his | street tax One of the cases against l Spears had been tried and he was wait 1 ing upon the other case when sudden ly he saw that the officials of the court were not watching him and he | walked out of the room. Soon after Spears was missed l Officer Blanton was detailed to catch | him. The officer followed the negro and was joined in the chase by Oficer Burfett- After running the negro for
 about an hour he was finally captured l in the rear of the Union Iron Works
 and carried back to police headquar-
 ters After he had been returned to police headquarters Spears stated as
 his reason for leaving was that he fthought that the court was. through
 with him. He will probably be tried
 in police court tomorrow morning for
 escaping.
 Personal and General.
 G. W. Watson has gone to Knoxville,
 Tenn.
 J. W. Ferguson Ras gene to waynes.
 vile. N C. t
 E. A. .Triggs has gone to Ashland,
 Va. to spend a few days.
 Albert J. Brame and W. W. Graves of Montgomery, spent today here. Miss Eudora Connolly will leave , Wednesday for Chautauqua, N. Y. 0. D. Steele left to day for Montgom-
 cry and Hayneville on business trip. l MT and Mrs. Roy Pearcs have re- turned from a short visit to Rirming- 7 ham.
 ] Alex K. Parker, who for the past l seven weeks has had charge or the circulation department of the Selma Q Bureau of The Advertiser. left this af- l ternoon for Columbus, Ga, where he Q has accepted a position on the repor-
 torial staff of The Enquirer-Sun of that 1, l city During his stay in Selma | l MT. Parker made many friends who = predict a bright future in journalism
 for him.