The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-26

Harmony club, the well known Jewish social organization of the city, which bid S29,O00 for the Elks' home. Today 1t trans pires that B. J. Schuster and Adolph Eliasberg are the purchasers the price paid being $20,000 They propose to sell to the Harmony club such amount of the lot as is desired and will probably erect stores or an office building on the re- mainder. The lot covers a quarter of d block and is on the street next west of Broad street.
 MT. Finley Coming.
 Meridian, April 24, 1907. Commercial and Industrial Association
 Selma, Ala.
 Have just received your kind invitation. If the arrangement is agreeable to you l will arrange to reach Selma early Sat urday morning, 27th inst and will be glad to meet the business men of Selma at or 915 d. m., as it will be necessary for me to leave on our No. 16 at 1O:4O a, m. regret my inability to suggest any other arrangement In connection with my present trip. Please answer care E. L. Russell, Mobile. w. w. FINLEY.
 Mobile. April 25, 1907. Commercial and Industrial Association, Selma, Ala.
 l am in receipt of your telegram. and l note it will be agreeable to you to have me with you on Saturday morning. I will so arrange W. w. FINLEY.
 The foregoing tells the citizens of Selma Of the coming of President Finley of the southern railway to Selma on Saturday morning. Tuesday afternoon the Com mercial and Industrial association wired MT. Finley at Mobile asking him to stop off in this city. The first telegram quoted above Is an answer received yesterday afternoon to that message Upon its re- celpt MT. Finley was wired at Mobile that such an arrangement as suggested by him would be agreeble, and the second mes- sage confirming the matter was received today about noon.
 President Melvin of the Commercial and Industrial association will name com mittee to meet the railroad officials at the union passenger station and to escort them to the Ellls home, where an informal reception of about an hour will take place. The committee will be named by l. President Melvin tomorrow and the pro gramme made up for the reception to President Finley
 Mobile District Conference.
 The Mobile district conference of the Methodist church has just concluded it's session at Coffeevile in Clark county Among much other important business transacted was the passage of several resolutions or an interesting nature. One of the resolutions passed petitloned or memoralized the state senate to pass the bill passed by the house prohibiting liquors being shipped into prohibition ter ritory Practically all of the Mobile dis trict is prohibition except Mobile coun- ty, hence the interest displayed in the | matter by the conference.
 Another resolution memorialized the leg islature to pass limited compulsory educational bill the resolution recting 1 the fact that iliteracy in some sections even near schools being something as- tonishing. The fact was brought out that there was no use of schools with their necessary expenses unles the people would | ptronize them.
 | Still another resolution was passed ask | ing the Alabama conference 10 make as- 1 sessments for domestic missions at least | equal to those for foreign missions Walter R. Sanford. son of the lemented | Governor Stanford. was licensed to preach | by the conference. A general collection was taken up for the Summerfeld orphan age and the endowment fund of the two conference colleges was swelled several l hundred dollars.