The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-09
HEAVY HAIL STORM
 IN SOUTH ALABAMA Windows Are Broken in Rail-
 way Coaches SPRING FESTIVAL OPENS The Rev. E. W. Elliott of Kentucky Is Called to the First Christian

Selma, April S.-(Special )-Passenger
 and crew who came up on the Louisville
 and Nashvilles Pensacola train Sunday
 evening report having passed through the
 heaviest hailstorm ever experienced. The
 hail commenced falling about the time
 the train passed Minter and the frozen
 pellets poured down In heaps until Der
 lin was reached.
 The engineer of the train stated that the stones were as large as eggs and that
 they rolled in heaps on the ground along
 the side of the track to a depth of sev- eral inches. One of the largest stones
 smashed in the glass in the engine head light and several of the windows of the
 coaches were broken out.
 The size of the hail stones was con firmed by more than one passenger on the
 train, and it is supposed that great dam
 age was done to growing crops and to trees and shrubbery.
 The same storm swept on through Lowndes county and at Letehatchie the
 stones were reported to have been equal ly as large as those that fell between
 Berlin and Minter, this county.
 Spring Festival Opens. Tonight the first annual spring festival for Selma opened and quite a number of attractions were thrown open, being fur | nished by the Parker Amusement com pany. The railroads have granted exeur- | sion rates to the event for the entire week | and Selma expects to keep open house 1 until Saturday night. Tickets are on sale | at all points within a hundred miles of l Selma and are good to return to the ,dap t1ityIt New Preacher Called. | Yesterday at the First Christian serv- l ices the action of the official board in | extending a formal call to Rev. E. w.. | Elliott to become pastor of the church | was duly ratified. It is not known defi- nitely whether or not the call will be ac-
 cepted, but in all probability it will be. | Mr Elliott has been in the ministry about | fifteen years and in that time has served | but two churches. His present post is in | E.minence Ky, and his time will not be
 out in that church until November. Should | he accept the call the church will make arrangements to supply the pulpit in this
 city by Rev. MT. Lee, a student in the
 Bible college at Lexington. Mir Lee is | a native of Lowndes county and is quite
 a bright young man.
 | Mir Elliott, who has been rendered the | call, was a visitor to Selma about year | ago, having stopped here while on visit l through the south. He is an earnest. | zealous divine of lovable disposition and will receive a cordial welcome from the
 people of Selma.
 Change in Salvation Army. Envoy and Mrs. Calear who have been l in charge of the Salvation Army post in | this city for several months. have re-
 ceived orders transferring them to Baton | xr.t1I laatf fnr | new post tomorrow. The two ofheers
 had made preparation to remain in Selma | for a year and had been doing splendid | work. As result of their labors there | were ten conversions from sin at the serV-
 ices held last night and every meeting | has been blessed with conversions. l Envoy and Mrs. Callear will be sue | ceeded in Selma by Captain and Mrs. | Lamb who are expected to reach the city
 tonight The assessment against this post | for the self-denial fund is $100 and the l officers who have been at work during | the past few months have raised the ma | iority of the amount Captain and Mrs. l Lamb will have to raise the rest and will | no doubt be met with ready response | Local and Personal. l The case against the negro Gabe Brown, | charged with the murder of his wife, which was to have come up before the | mayor this morning, was continued uhtii l tomorrow.
 | Senator Pettus and Mir. Edmund F. Lacy
 reached home this afternoon from Wash | ington
 | Mrs. l. N Rhodes and daughter, Miss | Alma. will leave tomorrow for Hot | Strings to be gone about three weeks.
 F. K Marshall is quite sick at his homo 1 on Alabama street.
 In addition to the list published few | days ago, the following will attend the | Sunday school convention in Birmingham | tomorrow: Mrs Harrington, Mrs. F. G. | DuRose. Miss Laura Force, Miss Lettie | Wharey, Mrs. J. F. Hooper, Miss Estelle I've and Messrs. w. E. Morrison and w. | w Hunt