The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-22
MARRIED IN SPITE
 OF DIFFICULTIES Escape Irate Father and Many
 Suitors ALL BIDS ARE REJECTED J. A. Mordant Claims That He Was Run Down and Almost Whipped
 to Death By Big
 Snake.
ALL BIDS ARE REJECTED

Huntsville September 21-(Speeial) )-
 James Laycock. Il machinist of Ensiey,
 and Miss Hazle Hall, 17-year-old daugh-
 ter of hotel man in Birmingham, elopod
 to Fayetteville. Tenn, by way of this city
 and were married in the Tennessee town
 Friday.
 MT. and Mrs. Layeock are spending part
 of their honeymoon in Huntsville. Lay
 cock says that the suitors of the young
 woman, who is very pretty, had threat
 oned to kill him if he eloped with her,
 and he is rather dubious about going back
 to Birmingham just now. His bride was
 popular in her set, and there was stren-
 uous competition for her favor, the as-
 prations of the whole bunch being op-
 posed by her father because of her youth.
 Accompanied by Sam Pettus, formerly
 of Madison county, Laycock and Miss
 Hall eloped a few nights ago. At De-
 catur they hired carriage to come to
 Huntsville but were unable to get trans
 portation across the Tennessee. They
 spent a night trying to find boatman
 that would take them across, and fail
 ing in this they came to Huntsville on train and went to Fayetteville by private conveyance. The marriage occurred in
 the Bills house at Fayetteville, the Rev.
 Mr. Weakley performing the ceremony. Earl Mitchell, member of the faculty
 of the city schools, has offered his res-s-
 nation to the Board of Education and will
 accept a position in the Dallas academy at Selma.
 The City Council has rejected all Of the
 bids offered for the paving of the public square with vitrifed brick and the work
 will be done by the city force under the supervision of a civil engineer. Being almost whipped to death by
 coachwhip snake is the experience claimed | by J. A Mordant, a well known citizen of Marshall county. In a letter 10 Ars county paper, the Guntersville Democrat. MT Mordant tells of the incident He says he had been calling on his pas tor and when walking towards home through a cotton patch he came upon
 snake that measured about thirteen
 feet in length. Seizing q rock he threw it at the snake. and when the reptile showed fight, he turned and ran but the Snake ONeTiOoh llilli.
 The snake made two coils around the mans body and begun to whip him Mor- | dant had nothing to defend himself with | but a small knife, and for time he was | doubtful whether he would be whipped or l squeezed to death before he could inflicl | a fatal wound on the reptile Almost ex- l hausted, he sunk to his knees and suc- l ceeded in cutting the snakes head from l his body. He was exhausted by the eX- l perience but after recovering he came upon the mate of the dead snake This | time there was no battle, because Mr. | Mordant was the better sprinter. Helion Lodge, No 1, A. r. and A. NJ, l has decided to remodel and beautify the | Masonic hall of this city, which has been | inc home of the lodge seventy-fve years. Several thousand dollars will be expended | in the work Helon lodge is the oldest | lodge of any fraternity in Alabama and l has owned it's own home three-quarters of l a century.
 l Probate Judge W. T. Lawler has re- ceived from the state auditor warrants l for about $500 to be returned to dealers in Madison county who paid the special tobacco dealers license, repealed by the 1 last session of the last legislature Jamie Jones. a young woman of thls city. who was arrested in Shelbyville, Tenn. on a charge of stealing q horse from the Rountree Livery stable, has l been released The woman returned the horse and paid all costs and the prose cutors were satisfied with the adjustment af tho n flair