The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-02
SELMA WILL ERECT JOINT MONUMENT Will Be Dedicated to Morgan
 and Pettus WILL TAKE A CENSUS A Destitute Family Is Cared for By Selma PeopIe-Fire Escapes
 Will Be Built on Dal-
 las Academy.
TAKE A CENSUS

Selma August 1.-(Special)- has been decided by those having the matter in charge of erecting a suitable monument to the memory of Senator Morgan. to change the scope of the project and to make the memorial joint one for both of Selma's distinguished statesmen whose deaths have come within so short a time John Tyler Morgan and Edmund Winston Pettus.
 Mrs. B. H. Craig. who is chairman of the committee to rase the fund, yesterday wired Mrs. M. R. Jarvis, the vice chair man, suggesting that the change be made and that the work be pushed on securing the memorial to these two great states men. That matter was taken up and it was agreed upon at once and today Hon. A. D. Pitts, who Is endeavoring to get an appropriation through the legislature to assist in the work, was notified of the change.
 The purpose is to raise anywhere from $90 900 to $50O00, the kind of monument to depend upon the amount raised. It is possible that a monument comprising two figures may be secured or two sep arate monuments or just one shaft dedi- cated to the memory of both Senator Nor gan and Senator Pettus. The location of the monuments will be at the intersection of Alabama and I,auderdale streets, where is situated the county court house and where is the site for the postoffice build ing.
 The committee having the matter in charge hopes at an early date to push the work. circumstances having caused sev- eral unavoidable delays
 Cut By Negro Woman.
 Last night in a house in the Second ward Will Wallis. a negro, was severely cut by Sallie Turner. a negress. Just tho particulars of the affray have not become public, but the man was cut in several places, his injuries being such that it was not deemed expedient to permit him to appear at mayors court this morning. The trial was, therefore, postponed until tomorrow.
 Take School Census.
 As soon as the chairman of the execu- tive committee of the Dallas County Sun day School association, Hon. H. s. D. Mallory. Is able to attend at his office after his recent illness it is proposed to take up the matter of the Sunday school census for Dallas county, which was de- cided upon and to which was pledged the assistance of many workers at the late county Sunday school convention held a Orrville
 The president of the association. MT. w. T. Atkins, Is getting ready a call for
 
 ecutive committee all district presidents and all the pastors and school superin- tendents in the county, at which meeting will be taken up the preliminary plans for l the stupendous work. A house-to house canvass, taking the census of all the Sunday school attendants and those who ought to be, has twice been taken in Selma with splendid results, and now it is planned that on a certain day to be named by proclamation, there shall be house-to house canvass not only In the city but in the whole county.
 All the work will have to be done from 9 a m. o5 D. m. and it will require hun dreds of volunteers. Headquarters will be opened a short while before the date and the work will be systematzed so that not a single house in the entire city and county will be overlooked. Destitute Cared For. James Hazel, wife and two children, who have been in destitute circumstances on the Wood place, near the city, have received attention and will not suffer as long as the good people of Selma are able to prevent it. The entire family were i'll and in destitute circumstances when their wants were made known. Captain Lamb of the Salvation Army visited the place upon learning of their condition and after relieving their immediate wants secured from the mayor and the Society of United Charities a permit to take them to the infirmary and yesterday afternoon they were carried to the latter place, where they will have every attention. The entire family was i'll with malaral fever
 Fire Escapes for School.
 For years the necessity of fire escapes in the Dallas Academy has been manifest