The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-04-12

4HS Ai8ntinB QutHtioH WAt Oc tHD principal topic before the meeting and the two committees which were ap- pointed at the citizens meeting We'd nesday will make their reports.
 The Orntorfcal Contest.
 Next Friday the Southern Railway will operate special train from Greensboro to Selma. for the purpose of accommodating the students of the Southern University at Greensboro and the Judson scholars who will come to Selma to attend the debate of the State Oratorical Society which. will take place at the Academy of Music on the night of April IT.
 The train win leave Greensboro at noon on Friday. April IT and will reach this city about o'clock.
 It Is expected that large number of the students from the Southern Uni- casion. It Is also expected that large number of the young women students at the Judson will attend. A number of the students from Tuscaloosa and Auburn are also expected.
 Murder, Charge Dismissed.
 Before Justice of the Peace B J. Boykin Beaton. Sherman Beaton. Ed williams and Tom Mitchell, negroes, who were charged with murder. was heard. r
 The cases against four of the negroes were dismissed after the evidence had been heard as Justice Gayle did rot think that it was strong enough to war rant his binding the negroes over.
 It was thought that the four negroes were guilty of the murder of sn old negro, Abe Beaton, who was Killed near Richmond. in the southern part of the county on the night of April 1. Some one entered the old negro's house tn that night and shot him twice. Either of the shots would have been fatal and death was instantaneous.
 Cothran-vaughan. At the residence of Mrs. William Weaver on Church Street. nt 3:30 o'clock this afternoon. the marriage Of her sister, Miss Ethel Riggs Vaughan to George Frank cothran took p ace. The ceremony was performed by IT. w.P. Dickinson of the Church Street Methodist Church. in the presence of the immediate relatives of the young couple.
 The bride is the daughter of Mfr. and Mrs P. T. Vaughan and is most beautiful and accomplished young ~o- man who has a large number of friends throughout the State. The bridegroom is a well known young man of the city and a son of Mir. and Mrs. c. K. Cothran.
 Mir. and Mrs. sCothran left this af- ternoou for New orleans upon their wedding journey.
 Enlargement is Announced. Mir. and Mrs. J. T. Slater have an- nounced the engagement of their daughter, Bertha Vert Slater, to Giles Bradley Bond. The marriage ceremony will take place on the evening of June 1. at o'clock at St. Paufs Episcopal Church. The bride-to-be is most charming and attractive young woman of this city. The bridegroom is well known young man.
 Corner Stone Laying. Wednesday afternoon at { o'clock | the laying of the corner stone Of the Selma Military Institute. will take place. The corner stone laying will be under the auspices of the Grand Lodse | of Masons of Alabama and will be un- der the supervision of Grand Master H. S. D. Mallory and officers or the Grand Lodge from all over the state will assist in the ceremonies. | The principle address of the occasion I will be delivered by Hon. Samuel D. i weakley of Birmingham. 1 The new ScnOoi DullulhB VI thS oSA ma Military Institute which Is located at the corner of Broad Street and First Avenue is nearly completed and Is one | of the handsomest buildings in the city l and will be ready for occupancy by the opening of the next year of the school.
 | Moonlight Picnic. | A jolly party of five young couples chaperoned by Mfr. and Mrs. W. P | Cook, enjoyed a moonlight picnic las ! night at Cahaba when Miss Hickerson
 who is visiting Mrs. Al Stoddard wal
 guest of honor The trip was mad' II in the Brown rubberneck wagon and Il tempting lunch was enjoyed about
 o'clock.
 Fl An Enjoyable Picnic. Fl 4 large number of young people par
 ticipated in a picnic today at tn
 Stephens home about twelve miles iron
 town. Besides a picnic lunch a deli
 cious barbecue was served. Social and Personal.
 Mrs Herbert Smith. who has bee
 here for the past ten days visiting he