The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-05-27
EILks HOME CATION.
District Deputy Brandon Will Deli
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 Corner Stone Address.
 Huntsville, May 26-(Special )-The Alabama Association of Elks will meet in Huntsville on June and 5, and the local committee on entertainment is preparing to receive and entertain sev- eraI hundred Elks from all parts of the State.
 The feature of the meeting will be the laying of the corner stone of the hundred thousand dollar Elks' theatre and home when addresses appropriate to the occasion will be made by dis tinguishedf visitors.
 District Deputy w w Brandon, pres- tdentI of the State Association, will be master of ceremonies. The committee has received with rtgret a letter from (5ra1d Exalted Ruler Brown of Louis- vile, who expected to deliver the ded- Aaation address, stating that he will not be able to be present from the fact that he has just returned from his ena- urgency trip to San Francisco.
 On Monday evening of the flret days meeting, the visitors will be rendered . smoker by the Huntsville lodge and on Tuesday a special train will convey the crowd to the banks of Flint River where an old fashioned barbecue and fish fry will be held.
 The day will be spent in athletic sports and prizes will be awarded the handsomest Elk. the most popular, small est, largest and youngest Elk. The city will be turned over to the visitors and they will be given a hearty wei come.
 The directors of the new company organized here to establish a natato- rum have awarded contract for ex- cavation to W. J. Bennett and Company and contract for the wood work to C. A. Plummer. The natatorium will be located near the Huntsville spring.
 Captain W. H. Morgan, aged fifty five years, one of the best known engi- neers on the Huntsville division of the Nashville. Chattanooga and St. Louis Railroad, died last evening at his home in Flora, Tenn. Death occurred very suddenly following a hemorrhage of the lungs. He had been unable to work in the last two months but was ap- parently recovering. Five sons and daughters survive him. Mrs. Russell and Mrs. Higgins of Pratt City. Mrs. Wag- goner of Lynchburg, Tenn. Thomas and Wilse Morgan of Birmingham. Cap tain Morgan was an Odd Fellow.
 Miss Ada Hallum of Dallas village. died at her home of her parents last night after a lengthy illness and her body was shipped to her former home in Smithville, Tenn. today. Mss HaE- gin was thirty years old.
 News reached here from Coaiton of the poisoning and subsequent danger ous illness of Mir. and Mrs. J. B. Nelson and Mir and Mrs Robert Hunter and their two children. The families live together. All of them were taken vio- lently i'll after eating strawberries for dinner and for three or four days two physicians worked with them to save their lives. The manner of getting the poison is not known.
 The closing exercises of the State school were held in the Huntsville Opera House last night and an inter esting program of music and recita- tions was heard by full house. Rev, c. B. Sullivan. pastor of the McNeilly Memorial Church of Nashville, deliver ed the annual address on Royal Man hood" and pointed out the pitfalls that lie along the pathway of the young men through their life Misses Mamie Old field and Maude Phillips and James Terry were presented with certificates of graduation by James H. Pride, city superintendent of schools This ended the first year of the state school, an institute maintained in Huntsville at the expense of the State of Alabama County Superintendent s. R. Butler Is principal
 Tne annual musical event of i'm terest and entertainment at every com nnencement of the Agricultural and Mechanical College for Negroes was held last night III the chapel of Pal mer Hall and a long musical program was rendered by the students of the music department and the students brass band. The literary societies held their annual meeting today and the annual address was delivered by Laura P. Lemon of Atlanta
 Erie Miller, former manager of the 5ulfport baseball team, has taken a position with the Merrimaek Manufac- turing Company, to coach the mill team The mill employees have one of the best amateur teams in this section and are open to challenge from any quarter.
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