The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-08-29
.EPWORTH LEAGUE
CLOSES SESSION
Next Conference Will Be Held
AT Florence
FINE LEGAL QUESTION
Judge Crook Must Decide if Officers
Violated Law in Arresting Ship
ment of Liquors Before It
Reached Destination.

Admission, August 2S.-(Special.)- THE
final session of the conference of the
North Alabama Epworth league, which
has been in session in this city since last
Tuesday, came to a close last night with
an inspiring address by President Hugh
A. Locke and an earnest devotional talk
by DR.. f. s. Parker. President Locke
spoke of the growth and needs of the
work, and when DR.. Parker asked those
who had dedicated their lives to Christ
to stand, nearly every delegate in the
room arose.
Mr.. Locke referred to the fact that the
membership of the league has been
doubled within the past year, yet the
underlying and constantly recurring
theme in his address was the fact that
there are 10000 young Methodists in Ala
bama who are not identified with the
league, "and how" he asked. ARE we
to reach that 46,000?"
Mr.. Locke is a rising young attorney
of Birmingham. He has worked indie
fatigably for the league, and its success
is largely due to him. He is also prom
inently identified with the Law and
Order league of Birmingham. He re-
manned over in the city today on visit
to friends.
DR.. Parker, who is connected with the
central office; Miss Head, assistant sec
rotary of the Woman's Home Mission So
ciety, and Miss DeBardeleben of the
Nashville Training school return to their
home city. Two other very popular dele
gates who returned to their home in Biz
mingham Saturday were the Rev. l.. D.
Patterson, who took the founders medal
and several other prizes offered in the
theological department of Vanderbilt uni
versity last year, and Attorney A. ].
Walker, league editor of the Advocate,
who did excellent work in securing the
news notes of the convention. H. E.
Mooers, formerly editor of the Florence
Herald, who made an excellent single
handed fight for the next convention,
left for home Friday night.
Before adjournment Friday night, reso-
lutions were passed pledging support to
Miss Hunt of the orphans home, and
thanking the people of Admission for the
cordially, the musical committee and the
speakers for their services. the press for
the publicity given the proceedings and
to the railroads for their reduced rates
The music on the final night was prob
ably the best yet, the vocal solo by Miss
| Nunnally of Birmingham being the fea-
ture, but besides this there were quartet
selections and orchestra Accomplishments.
The interesting question as to whether
the defendant violated the Fuller liquor
law or whether the arresting officer VIC
lated the interstate commerce law by
interfering with the prompt delivery of
a consignment, will be threshed out be-
fore Probate Judge Emmett F. Crook
next Friday afternoon in the case of
Rufus Mack, who was arrested by Con-
stable Denvoir Green yesterday afternoon.
1t Is charged that the defendant VIC
lated sections "a and % of the Fuller
law, which prohibits the hauling of liquor
through public highways The negro was
employed as an extra agent of the South
ern Express company, and that corpor-
alton will stand behind him in his fight
for acquitta1, alleging that this is not
a violation of the law, as the negro mad
in his possession at the time of the ar
rest a book of the company for taking
receipts from the consignee to whom the
whisky was to be delivered.
The drayman has been released on
$500 bond, and no little interest is mani
tested in his case, as this is the first ar
rest here under the provisions of the
Fuller measure.
No little amusement was caused in
police court this morning in connection
with the arrangements for the first hear
ing under the new juvenile court law
Three little negresses were arraigned, so
the recorder proceeded to clear the room
of onlookers, reporters, city hall attaches.
etc. but just about that time 1t was
ascertained that no one in the court room
knew what the new juvenile law IS, so
the case was continued until the recorder
and lawyers could read up on the bill
for BARNS.
Sheriff W. C. LeGrand has sent Deputy
John Rowland to New Orleans for H. B.
Wherritt who is wanted here on a charge
of forgery. Wherritt Is well-known
hotel clerk of Cincinnati, and the warrant
for his arrest was sworn out by c. H.
Mitchell, manager of the Alabama who
alleges that Wherritt used the name of
his brother-in-law in securing the pas
sage of q check on Mr.. Mitchell for $50.