The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-17
.DECATURS RAISE
 LOUD PROTEST
Mass Meeting Claims Prop erty Owner Is Blocking
 New Railroad Line

Decatur, June 16.-(Special. )-There was a large gathering of the citizens of the Decaturs and of this county at the coun- ty courthouse here last night, who held an indignation meeting for the purpose of giving their stamp of dsapproval to the injunction proceedings filed in the courts at Nashville, Tenn. against the double-tracking of the Louisville and Nashville railroad from Nashville, Tenn, to Decatur. The Injunction Is filed by an individual residing near Nashville nd over whose farm the double track sur vey passes.
 At the meeting here last night strong condemnation resolutions against this in junction were unanimously adopted amid great applause. The building of this double track will mean an expenditure of something like $s,0Oo,o0o and will mean much to the Decaturs.
 l The good roads train of the Southern | railroad arrived here this morning at 10 o'clock on schedule time and was met at the union station by large delega- tion of citizens of the Decaturs and the surrounding country.
 At Il o'clock this morning the mem
 bers of the party were escorted to the | Star theatre, on East Church street,
 where a number of illustrated lectures
 on good roads were given to a large and enthusiastic gathering of good roads advocates, who came with the train, rep resentng the United States agricultural department, the American Highway as- sociation and the Southern railroad. 1 A number of boys of the Decaturs have organized harvest club. The boys have gone to Wichita, Kans., where they will work in the harvest fields. The boys are: Lewis Cover, Lewis Hardage, John l Watson, Joe Cornish. They will go through Memphis, where they will be joined by D. Jeff Miner and a party of boys from Auburn college.
 After working in the wheat fields of Kansas for several weeks they will then take trip over Colorado, Montana, the | Dakotas and Canada and expect to re- turn home in September in time for the opening of the various colleges. Nearly all of the boys are college students. They have taken this method of seeing some of the United States.
 Prof J. NJ Collier has just been re- elected for another year as superintendent 1 of the Decatur public schools. It has just I been decided to open these schools on l September Il. All the teachers have been | selected and are as follows: Miss Lillian 1 Odom. Miss Ethel Morrison, Miss Flor ence Tilman, for the High school: Miss Florence Tillman Miss Lillian Odom, Miss Willie Moore, Professor Collier. seventh grade; Miss Fannie Collier A4iss Lillian Odom, Miss Willie Moore, sixth grade; Miss Louise Collier. Miss Ola Lee, Miss Willie Moore, third fourth and fifth grades; Mrs. Cora Cartwright, second grade; Miss Eleanor Kidd, first grade; Miss Pauline Magness. piano; Miss Will lie Moore, expression; Mrs. Fred Knight, art
 On next Sunday the members of the Odd Fellows lodges of the two Decaturs and the Decatur district will hold their annual memorial and decorati services at the city cemetery at o'clock in the afternoon The members of the order will meet in the lodge rooms of Deca- tur lodge No. 52. Bank street, Decatur, at o'clock Sunday afternoon and march In a body to the city cemetery. Tho memorial address will be delivered by Henry c. Pollard of Huntsville, grand secretary for Alabama for the Odd Eel lows.