The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-01-15
Will Ride Thirty Miles Cross
 Country Teday
SHOP RESUMES OPERATION
Montana Joe, Walking For Purse of $500 From Denver To New York, Reaches Decatur-Walked
 Around the World.

Decatur, January 14.-(Special. Jon
 horseback, Governor B. B. Conner. Audi
 tor of State William ". Brandon and State Superintendent of Education H. c. Gunnels will take trip of 30 miles across
 a rugged mountain section of North Ala bama tomorrow in spite of the bitter cold weather which is now being experienced
 in this section The trip on horseback
 will be made from Moulton, in Lawrence county, to Russellville, in Franklon coun- ty, for the purpose of locating county high schools
 Governor Conner, General Brandon and Professor Gunnels arrived in the Decaturs l last night from Hartsele where they de- 1 livered speeches yesterday afternoon. Yes | terday morning they spoke at Falkville, also in this county. They were to have gone to Valhermosa, in this county, also, 1 but on account of the roads being in such
 bad condition and the weather so dis agreeable they deferred this trip until a later date. Valhermosa Hartselle and Falkville are all asking for the high | school for this county.
 | Governor Conner and Professor Gunnels delivered speeches at the city public | schools here this morning and were greet l ed by all the teachers of the schools and | several hundred children.
 l At 9:42 this morning the governor and | party took the westbound Newsboy ! train on the Southern railroad for Court land, in Lawrence county. From Court land they will go by hack to Moulton. | the county seat of Lawrence county, about II miles across the country from | Courtland
 | A large delegation of Falkville citizens
 called on the governor and party at their
 hotel here last night in the interest of the | high school being located at Falkville. Fine Cows Sold. C. N Robinson of this city, who owns a | large dairy farm at Flower Hills, in Law renee county, has just sold his dairy | cows, consisting of 100 head of fine Jer-
 seys, to A. J. Johnson of near Indian | apolis, for the sum of $5o00.
 1 MT Johnson will take the cows to In | diana, where he has large creamery near Indianapolis, and will be used for
 milch cows on MT. Johnson's creamery i farm. MT. Johnson said that these cows were the finest he has seen in any section
 of the country.
 Woman Leaves Babe. l With a babe of but few weeks old in | her arms, and leading a boy of about 3 | years, a pitiful looking white woman, d | stranger in the city, applied at the head | quarters of the Salvation Army in New ] Decatur last night and asked Envoy | Worcester if he would keep her and her children over night. The request was granted, and they spent the night in the Salvation Army home.
 Early this morning, the woman left | unexpectedly, taking with her the boy of
 years, but leaving behind the helpless babe of 3 weeks to be cared for by Envoy and Mrs. Worcester. Now they are seek ing a home for the babe.
 May Lose Foot. J. o. Pettey happened to a serious acci- dent while working in the car department of the Louisville and Nashville railroad shops in New Decatur this morning. A large piece of iron fell on his foot, in- | turing 1t so badly that amputation may | be necessary.
 Shops Resume Work. After having been closed down for the past few weeks, the forge shop of the Louisville and Nashville railroad shops in New Decatur resumed operations again yesterday, taking on 100 men.
 In this department of these shops, all kinds of railroad car axles are forged for the Louisville and Nashville railroad system, and, the men who are employed in this department, are all expert me- chanics, and make from $S to $10 a day. Thus the opening up of this department again will add very materially to the monthly pay roll of the city. Walks For Wager. A man, calling himself Montana Joe,
 and who says he is walking for a prize of
 $1500 from Denver Colo, to New York,
 reached Decatur yesterday afternoon.
 He says that the prize was put up by the West End club of Denver Colo, and that he left Denver with only l cent in
 money on November 15, and that in order
 to win the prize he must be in New York by April l. He says it is a part of the contract that he is to make his own lv- ing on the road the best he can. As
 means of obtaining money he is selling
 post cards containing a picture of him
 self and an Egyptian, who is eight feet
 two inches tall.
 around the world on a wager for the
 Police Gazette, leaving the city of Chi
 cago in 1900, and returning to that city
 in 1901. He says that on this trip he was
 arrested by the Turks in Damascus, and
 kept in jail for Il days on the suspicion
 of being a military spy.