The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-10-17
5. B. BARKER DEAD
FORMER EDITOR or SELMA TIMES
 ag PASSES AWAY.
u.a Been III fer Several weeks--sscre Entered and Robbea- other Selma .8 ts
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Advertiser Bnreau.

Selma. Oct. 1es
 E. B. Barker. former editor of The Selma Morning Times. and we'll known newspaper man of Alabama. died at the home of his niece. Mrs. J. D. Summers, or Water Street, about o'clock this morning. MT. Barker has been desperately i'll for the past three weeks and his death has been daily expected by the relatives who watched by his bedside.
 During the early summer Mir. Bar ker's health began to fail and he took a vacation. going to Philadelphia. where he spent several weeks with his daughter. who accompanied him to Att lantic City in the hope that his health would be benefited. He returned to Selma a few weeks ago. As his health had not improved very much during his absence he resigned his position as editor of The Selma Morning Times and went to Uniontown where he broke down completely.
 He was brought back to Selma and since that time has grown weaker un- til the end came at an early hour this morning. Mir. Barker was born in Cahaba and except when his work call- ed him to other places has made this city his home all his life. He had worked on Selma newspapers at dif-s ferent times since his early manhood. For a number of years he was con- nected with different papers in Floriaa.
 MT. Barker came to Selma from The Uniontown Heeald and took charge of The Selma Morning Times. when that papers former editCr, J. HI, Npnneiee. was appointed Recording Secretary to Governor Conner. He was vigorous in his editorial writing and was an fn- defatigable worker. His devotion to his work probably hastened his death.
 He is survived by daughter. Mrs. J. M. Donneiiy of Philadelphia, who was at his bedside at the time of his death, and a niece, Mrs. J. D. Sum- mers. These have tiis sympathy of their many friends in the hour of their bereavement. The funeral services over the remains took place from the Catholic Church this afternoon at o'clock and were followed to Live Oak Cemetery by 8 large concourse of friends.
 A Store Robbed.
 The retail grocery store at Selma and lawrence streets owned by Peter Hamilton. was entered late last night by thief. From the cash drawer the thief took between $3 and $4 in change which had been left there over night. Besides the money little else was found missing from the store
 Late last night Police Ohicer Buritt found the front door of the store open and telephoned to Mir. Hamilton. The thief evidently had a key as Mir. Ham iiton distinctly remembers having lock- ed the front door last night when he closed.
 Skipped Potatoes to New York.
 Mir. J. E. Crawford, a we'll known Dallas County farmer. today shipped five barrels of sweet potatoes to a dealer in New York. Mir. Crawford for several years past has been rais- ing a potato which he branded as the Crawford Yam and has always found a ready market for it. Several days ago he received the order from the New York concern to ship all the po- tatoes he could. This shows that truck farming can be successfully carried on in Dallas County and that there is mora money in it than in raising cotton.
 All Three Fined.
 On the night of September 24 there was a cutting scrape at the house of a negro woman named Fanny Stanford on Lawrence Street. Tom Adams cut his father-in-law, Bruce Cook, who with his son Walter Cook went after Adams to try and get him to como home. All three were arrested for the otff1cuity ,0ut aIter ne mauS tne nec- essary bond Tom Adams ran away and his bondsmen were not able to get hold of him until this morning when the case was called.
 On the charge of having had aa as- sault and used a weapon Adams was fined $25 or fifty days on the streets. Bruce Cook and his son Walter Cook were both bound over to await the ac- tion of the next grand jury in the sum of S150 each.