The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-24
OPEN NEW ORPHAN
 HOME WEDNESDAY
House Struck By Lightning. Postal Savings Bank
 Opened

Selma. September Special)-
 The new home of the Alabama Metho-
 dist orphanage at the corner of Broad
 street and First avenue. formerly the l Selma Military institute, will be opened
 on Wednesday morning. An elaborate programme for the opening exercises
 has been arranged and will be wit
 messed by large number of the l.friends of that institution from all parts of the state.
 The opening exercises will begin at
 11:30 o'clock Wednesday morning and
 the address of the occasion will be de- livered by Bishop Candler of Atlanta. At present there are about S5 in
 mates at the orphanage. They will o. moved from Summerfield to Selma Tuesday. The owners of a number of
 automobiles here will go to Sumner 1 field and when the children have been
 loaded into the machines they will be brought to Selma and given a ride over
 the city before being taken to their new home.
 During an electrical storm Friday even- ing lightning struck and badly damaged
 tie home of Capt. Frank NJ. Blackwell eight miles west of Selma The bolt of lightning sbuck the roof over the hall
 near the back door. Blinds on rear win
 dcws of the house were torn off, and
 Henry. the 19-Year-old son of MT and
 Mrs. Blackwell, was stunned by the
 shock.
 A number of telephone poles in that
 neighborhood were also torn up by light
 ming during the electrical storm. The
 storm was followed by heavy rain, which
 cid considerable damage to the cotton crop.
 Prof R. B. Hudson, well known ed- ucator of this city and section of the state, has returned home from Pittsburg, where he attended the annual convention Of the National Negro Baptist assoca- tion. During a session of the conven- l lion the rules were suspended and by almost an unanimous vote Professor Hud- son for the sixth time was elected re- l oording secretary of the convention. IT. Benton. farm demonstrator of Dallas county, returned this morning from points in Mississippi and Louis jana, where he has been with other demonstrators from all parts of the
 state studying the boil weevil. MT Benton was well pledSeu WllH HIS lTip and stated that il had been a valuable and interesting one to all of the dem onstrators who made it. The study of the boil weevil which was made dur ing the trip will greatly assist the
 demonstrators of the state in fighting
 the cotton pest when it reaches this section.
 meeting of the travelling men of
 Selma and this section of the state was
 held in the parlors of the Hotel All bert tonight at 7:30 o'clock. The meet ing was for the purpose of selecting day during the fair of the Central Ala bama Fair association to be given dur ing the latter part of October to be known as "Drummer's Day The meet ing was attended by a large number and preparations will be made to made
 the day one of the biggest during the 1 fair.
 l The savings department of the local 1 postoffice was opened this morning at $50 o'clock. During the day a number of deposits were made and these, to- gether with the amounts desoplted, were teegra phed to the postoffice department
 at Washington tonight by Postmaster D. NJ. Scott. It is expected that the list of depositors will grow materially during the next week and that the volume of de-
 posits will increase daily.