The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-12-03
SCHOOL WORKERS
 DISCUSS METHODS Ladies of State Hold Meeting
 In Montgomery SEVERAL PAPERS READ Mrs. j. D. Matlock of Birmingham Is Chairman-Wade H. Hunter
 Goes To Penitentiary for 10
 Years for Murder.

Montgomery, December 2.-tSpecial)-
 School interests were given over Monday
 to a meeting of the ladies behind the
 school improvement work of the state.
 of which a committee of the Alabama
 Federation of Women's clubs is at the
 head. The meeting was held in the
 large dining room of the Exchange hotel
 presided over by Mrs. J. D. Matlock of
 Birmingham. the chairman. There were
 about 100 women present from all parts
 of the state.
 The meeting was called by the Alabama education committee, of which State Sup erintendent of Education H. c. Gunnells
 is chairman. The programme, however,
 was given over to the ladies. Besides
 Mrs. Matlock the committee of the feder-
 ation is composed as follows: Mrs. Erwin
 Craighead, Mobile Mrs. James Brock
 Florence; Mrs. Charles Henderson, Troy;
 Mrs. A. L. Dowdell, Opelika. Miss Mar
 garet Pierce of the department of educa-
 tion was secretary.
 The Rev Neal Anderson opened the
 meeting with prayer. Mrs. Matlock then
 made a report of the work of the year.
 Then came the following programme of
 papers,
 County Campaigns" Mrs. Charles Hen
 derson; Local Associations,' Mrs. R. E..
 l.. Neil; Teachers Opportunity Miss
 Sara E. Luther; School Improvement
 Work" Miss Sara Clark; "School Build
 ings.'' Mrs. G. w. Brock; Furniture and
 Decoration," Miss E. M. Haley "School
 Grounds, Misses Mary Forney and Jean
 Craik; "Libraries,' Miss Nimmo Greene;
 Entertainment, Mrs E. D. Thames.
 ..The Night Session.
 At the night session Mrs. Erwin Craig
 head spoke of school improvement and
 public sentiment, and Dr. J. J. Doster of IIniNnrGifU n oh After that there was a reception. which was largely attended. Among the gen. tlemen who attended was MT. Edgar Gardner Murphy, secretary of the South ern Education Board, who is very much interested Tn this line of work. The organization of the school im-
 provement associations about the state began three years ago when State Sup erintendent of Education I. w. Hill in- terested the Womans Federation in the movement, as a result of which the committee was named. There has been little money and often little sympathy but the ladies have gone on until they have advanced the interests of the schools many times over. They are now looking to the best of school buildings growing out of the use of the s67,O00 a year for the erection of such given by the state. The Night Session. Judge William Fl. Thomas of the cits | court has sent E. c. Marion to the peni- | tentiary for five years for living with . negro woman He said that just sucf l crimes as this in fact this one, had nor, l to do with trouble between the races | than any other one thing. He gave tn, 1 man the full limit of the law, the woman I he let off with the minimum fine, twl 1 years, saying that she was not the one | to blame.
 | Wade Hampton Hunter. who shot and | killed Thomas Summerall several weeks ! ago, has taken his sentence of 10 years without appeal and will begin service at once. Judge Thomas has sentenced him and 20 others already this week. Deputy Insurance Commissioner A. c. Sexton has ordered an investigation of the fire at Luverne Saturday night, when about $5000 worth of property was de- stroyed. The town has had a number of fires the last year. the losses running nearly to $40,000 The last fire caused a loss of $500 to Searcy Bros, and half as much for Sikes Dry Goods company, the latter having $500 insurance and the former sG200
 The law prohibiting the exhibition of nude pictures in public places, other than in art galleries, is now in full force and effect and the solicitors and sheriffs are preparing to inforce it. The fine Is not under $50 nor over $500. Many pie lures of this kind are shown in the sa- looms of Montgomery and other cities and it is the intention of the officers to put them out.