The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-26
SELMA WILL WORK
 FOR TIE COOSA
Recently Discovered Bones of Soldier Inferred By
 Confederate Camp

Selma. June 25.-(Special. )-Quite a number of the business men of Selma will go to Montgomery next Thursday morning to attend the meeting which will be held there to protest against the
 report of the board of army engineers upon the Improvements In the Coosa river.
 Saturday President M. NJ. Lehman of
 the Selma Chamber of Commerce ap-
 pointed the following delegates to attend
 the meeting: o. G. Kelley, w I. Bloch,
 J. L. Clay, Morgan Richards and L. M.
 Hooper It Is very likely that Mayor J. l.. Clay will Monday appoint sev-
 eral delegates to the meeting to repre-
 sent the city of Selma and other bus-
 ness organizations may appoint delegates to the meeting also.
 River improvement Is a question of in- terest to the business men of this city
 and they do not want to see any of the
 work on the river of the state stopped or
 given a setback. Work upon the Coosa
 river will prove beneficial to the Ala
 bama river and anything which helps
 the Alabama. river will prove of bepefit | to Selma and for that reason the bsisi-
 ness men of the city are interesting them
 selves in the meeting which is to be held in Montgomery Thursday. l At a local inflrmary Saturday after
 noon MT. Henry Sumner. a prosperous | farmer of South Dallas county, was
 united in marriage 10 Miss Maude Pierce of Petronla, Perry county. The cere-
 mony was performed by Rev. E. W.
 Gamble rector of St. Paul's Episcopal | church, in the presence of few of the relatives of the young couple. The bride is a trained nurse, but was brought to Selma for treatment Friday afternoon. After reaching here it developed that she would have to undergo an operation, and as MT. Sumner wanted to be with
 her during the illness, they agreed to get married and the minister was quick l ly called in and the ceremony was per- formed.
 A meeting of the Selma District Sum day School association was held this af- ternoon at 430 o'clock at the First Bap- tst church. An interesting programme had been arranged for the occasion and
 the meeting was attended by & large
 number of the Sunday school workers of
 the city. At the close of the meeting the officers of the association for the year were elected.
 With appropriate honors the members of Camp Jones, United Confederate Vet erans, this afternoon inferred in the sol ders' lot in Live Oak cemetery the bones l of a man who is believed to have been
 soldier who was killed during the bat |
 ercises were witnessed by a large num-
 Der of the residents of the city who as-
 sembled In the cemetery to witness the ceremony. About ten days ago a small white boy while digging for bait near | Beech creek in the eastern part of the l city with which to fish, disnterred the
 bones of a man which had been thrown I into a shallow grave. The find was re-
 ported and members of Camp Jones fn-
 vestgated and at a meeting held Friday
 night decided to lay what remained of
 the soldier to rest in Live Oak ceme- | tery.
 | When unearthed by the small boy there | remained but little of the man who had either been a soldier in the armies of 1 the north or who had died in defense | of Selma. The forty-six years which 1 they had been buried had caused them | to crumble away and back to dust, but few remained to distinguish that they
 were the bones of a man. With the bones in the shallow grave was found
 the vizor of a cap which the man had probably been wearing, strand of gold cord which crumbled away when touched
 was also there as was part of rusty and battered sword.
 The bones and the remnants of war
 were gathered up and by order of Camp
 Jones were placed in special prepared
 casket and this afternoon inferred in the soldiers lot at Live Oak It is be- lieved that the man was a northern sol- dier, for In the grave was found
 buckle with U. s. on 1t, and which was
 on the pattern worn by the soldiers of
 the northern army during the conflict
 between the states.