The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-20
NEWS OF RUSSELLVILLE Third District Sunday School ConveT tfon Meets-Prixc Winners at Fair

Russellvile, October 19.-(Special.)-Th Third district Sunday school convention will be held at Belgreen Sunday, Octo- Der 30. A number of prominent Sunday school workers will make addresses on
 interesting subjects at this session. Among the addresses will be the following: How to Widen the Horizon of Superintendents and Teachers" J. H. Walston. superin- tendent of Russellville Methodist Sun day school; "The Simplest and Most Prac- tical Way of Putting New Life Into the
 Sunday School.' w. H. Key; ''The Im- portance of a Thorough Preparation of the Lesson on the Part of Teacher and Pupil" F. T. Folding. principal of Red Bay High school; Preachers Training Course" the Rev. F. D. Totherow, pastor Belgreen Methodist church.
 Strong efforts are now being directed
 to have the Franklin County Sunday School association placed among the ban
 ner counties of the state, this honor hay ing been lost last year by failure to
 perform certain duties required by the State Sunday School association.
 The progressive republicans of Alabama
 will have two speakers in Russellville to-
 morrow. The speakers are Maj w. F.
 Tebbetts. nominee of the progressive re-
 publican party of Alabama for lieutenant
 governor, and Joseph c. Manning of Bir-
 mingham, a fluent speaker This is the first invasion of this county by this fac ton of the republican party.
 number of prizes at the Alabama State Fair were awarded to Franklin county people, more receiving prizes at | I. .s~ kL,~. lxofA bert Hollingsworth led off with second
 prize for the best acre of corn in Ala
 bama. This exhibit was entered in the name of the Boys Corn club of Alabama
 Holllngsworth raised 75 bushels to an acre of ordinary land. he only being ex- celled by one, with 761a bushels to the
 acre. Mrs. Walston. S2 years old, carried off the prize for the best silk quilt on exhibition; Miss Jessie Partridge of Rus- sellville for the best sofa pillow. sec ond prize, and Miss Elizabeth Dearing won four different prizes, for the best still life charcoal drawing, first prize for best water color work, second prize; best alarming of stockings. first prize; and
 one prize in the culinary department. For an indefinite period washers Nos. 1 and of the Sloss-Shefield Steel and
 Iron company in Russellville have been closed down and washer No. 8, which was recently damaged by fire, was closed except in day time, the night force be- ing cut of. This makes a number of men who have been employed by the company idle, probably half of the force of the company now being out of work. Chile Wants Battleships
 Valparaiso, Chile, October 19.-German and French bidders for the construction
 of the two battleships proposed for the Chilean navy have made representations looking to the postponement of the open ing of the bids now set for October 30 un- til Januanry. when the government of- ficials here will have had chance to see the visiting dreadnoughts of the German
 and French navies. As drawn the specl- l fications favor British shipbulding com panies as certain equipment of British
 manufacture Is required.