The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-12-11
SELMA WANTS 4 SIX FOOT CHANNEL City Council Adopts Resolution
 to This Effect. TO ADOPT THE NEW CODE Mrs. Pink Ellis Dunaway Dies At Her Home At orrville After Several
 Weeks of Critical Illness.
 Under Municipal Code.

Selma. December 1O.-(Special)- )-At the last night the following resolution was unanimously adopted:
 Whereas, the area included in the Mo bile Basin contains vast and valuable de- posits of cement, coal, iron, marble and other minerals, and is also exceedingly rich in agricultural products, and
 Whereas, the problem of transporting the wealth of this region to the markets of tile world can be satisfactorily solved only by the improvement and utilization of the navigable inland waterways cx- isting in the Mobile Basin, and
 Whereas, the completion of the Panama canal will direct the eyes of the world to the Mobile Basin and to it's wealth, and Invaluable business opportunities will be lost to our citizens unless some bet ter and cheaper means of transporta- tion is furnished to us. now, therefore
 Be it resolved, by the city council of Selma as follows:
 That they join with other municipal and Commercial bodies of the Mobile Basin in requesting Congress to put on the continuing contract system on every portion of this water system hitherto sur veyed and reported improvable by the en- gineering forces of the war departments; and that they earnestly request, that the matter of giving the Alabama river a six-foot channel throughout the en- tire year from Montgomery to the gulf be given immediate attention.
 hat 0f resolution be sent to the senators and representatives of Alabama; to the rivers and harbors committee of Congress and to the commercial bodies and municipal corporations within the Mobile Basin.
 Adopts Municipal Code. | J The city council of Selma last night passed the proper ordinances which will bring Selma under the provisions of the municipal code bill on January l. The council also provided for the redistrict- ing of the wards of the city and for taking a census of Selma. The last cen sus of Selma only showed about 5000 in- habitants. This was the 1900 census The limits of the city have been extended and a large increase in population has come from other causes. The saloon men want a census in order to see whether they will have to close at I, 8 or 9 o'clock It is confidently believed that the census will show 15,0o0, and perhaps more than 20,0O0 inhabitants.
 si Death of Prominent Woman.
 Tuesday morning at her home in Orr. vile occurred the death of Mrs. Pink Ellis Dunaway. wife of J. F. Dunaway For several weeks she has been critically i'll, but few days ago there were symp- toms of improvement and her many friends and family were hopeful for her recovery. The end came peacefully this morning at o'clock.
 Mrs. Dunaway was toe second daughter of Col. and Mrs. B. F. Ellis and a sister of J. B. Ellis and of Mrs. R. l.. Sutton She was married to John D. Dunaway about fourteen years ago and four chil- dren came to bless the union, all of whom with the sorrowing husband survive her She was a zealous member of the Baptist church and possessed those characteris- tics that make an ideal wife and mother true woman.
 Her death is indeed a sad blow not only to the devoted husband and bereaved chill dren, but to the mother, father. sister and brother who, within the past year saw her sister, Mrs. Ashcraft, called away To all of these sorrowng ones there goes out the sincerest sympathy oi hundreds of friends.
 The funeral will take place Wednesday morning from the Louisville and Nash vile depot immediately upon the arriva of the B. s. and N. train at o'clock.