The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-06-27
LOTHIAN IS AROUSED
REMARKABLE RELIGIOUS REVIVAL
 CONDUCTED BY MIR. JONES.
Dispepsary Has Been Closed and stock Sold and Hundreds of Persons Have Joined the
 Church.

Dothan, June Especial. )-The re- ligious revival meeting which Rev. R. R. Jones has been conducting at the First Methodist Church here for the past ten days, was closed with last nights services.
 It Is said that this was one of the most remarkable religious meetings ever held here, and by many who have been in other meetings, to have been the most wonderful ever conducted in any place Thousands of persons have listened to the preacher.
 Notwithstanding revival had just closed at the First Baptist Church at which there were about sixty access sions to the church, as a result of the meetings just closed there were about 150 new members added to the rolls of number about 100 aligned themselves with the Foster Street Methodist Church. A great many Of them are the leading business men of the city, bankers, merchants and others.
 Probably the most important and far-reaching result of the revival was the closing of the dispensary here. Out of about TOO registered citizens, about 800 signed petition asking the town Council to close 1t. The Council met Monday afternoon and ordered the dis pensary commissioners to close the dis pensary immediately. This was or dered by the commissioners, and 1t was decided that all stock on hand would be disposed of at wholesale only.
 Not more than fifteen or twenty of those who were apT.oached declined to sign the petitions.
 The rush during the last hours of the dispensary Monday reminded one of Christmas.
 Notice of proposed legislation has been published to have introduced at the coming session of the Legislature, acts forbidding the sale of liauor and kindred drtnks in Dothan and in Hous- ton County.
 The druggists of the city have signed a request asking the physicians of the town not to write any prescriptions for spirituous or malt liquors, and agreeing not to fill any such prescrip- ton.
 the church voluntarily raised the sal ary of its pastor, MT. Hurt, to $2,50O and raised money to send him on vacation. He will leave In few days for the Jamestown Exposition, ant go on to North1eld, Mass
 Rev. R. K. Jones left here today for Camden where he will begin revival next Sunday.
 Mrs. l.. B; Millikin left this morn ing for Creston, Canada, to visit her sister. She will be away about year.
 A mass meeting of the citizens of Houston County has been called here Saturday to organize county prohi- bition movement.
 A great deal of interest was created this morning by John Fowler bringing to town a genuine South American Ar madIllo, about two feet in length from nose to tip of tail. He claimed to have killed 1t fast night under the store of Mir. Lee about twelve miles west of here.
 Much speculation was indulged in as to how it came to this country.
 An attache, who lives here. of the Wells Carnival Company. which was in this section last fall, and which dis banded here, claims that his company owned two of the little animals and that while they were at Opp one of them died and one escaped. He saw the one brought here, and said 1t was the same size but could not identify 1t as being the same one that went astray from Opp.