The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-28

was instituted at the Masonic theatre, New Decatur, yesterday afternoon at 0 clock, with about 100 charter members MT Lavelle gave lecture on What Social Order Is Good For" large
 crowd was present and listened to the
 lecture, after which the lodge was insti- tGted. hNg
 The Rev. pr. A. J. Dickinson, pastor Of the First Baptist church of Birmingham, delivered prohibition addresses at the Central Methodist church this afternoon | at o'clock and tonight at o'clock in
 the interest of the local option election.
 which takes place in this county on Sep
 tember H. Large congregations attended
 both meetings. pr. Dickinson has the
 reputation of being one of the most able
 pulpit orators and prohibition speakers in the south.
 | The city of Decatur has rented rooms in the Elks' lodge for temporary quar- ters for the city offices until the new city hall can be built. The clerk and marshal were ordered to move the offices into the new quarters by September 1. This move was caused by the fact that
 Mrs Leila Seton Wilder had notified the city that she would on September 1 in- crease the rent on the building now occu- pied by the city as 8 city hall. This the
 city refused to stand. The building now
 occupied by the city as city hall is the
 old state bank building, which was built r the early f1fties. Within the next few days the city will commence work on a
 s2o,0oo city hall and the building will be completed about November 1 next. Miss Lillian Crawford was married to B. l.. Blach at the home of the brides parents, MT. and Mrs. J. M. Crawford, near Union Grove, this county, Friday afternoon. The Rev. J. E. Weaver of
 New Decatur officiated. MT. Bach re-
 sides at Notasulga, Ala. Both the bride
 and groom are school teachers, and both have taught in Madison and Morgan coun- ties for several years past.
 A few days ago at an election held at Hartselle for a commission form of city | Government, the commission carried by vote of 107 to 101. Now Governor ONeal
 has named the following as commission
 CTS for Hartselle; M. D. Wigglns, Pierce
 Patillo and P. W Williams It is re-
 ported here that MT. Wiggins has refused to serve.
 United States Senator John H. Bank head will be one of the members of the Decatur to Montgomery highway scout ing party to arrive here next Monday Ievening, according to g. communication just received. Arrangements have been completed for the entertainment of the party.
 The party will come from Birmingham in 10 automobiles and the personnel of the party is as follows: Senator Bank head, F. B. Almon, speaker of the house of representatives of Alabama; John Craft, president of the Alabama Coed Roads association; J. Asa Rountree, sec retary of the Alabama Good Roads asso- citation; Culpepper Exum commissioner of Birmingham; Victor Atkinson. Cieon B. Rogers, Dr. w. F. Lovelady, Job Co., ing, commissioner of Jefferson county J. R. Taylor, county road supervisor of Jef- ferson county; John W. O'Neil president Jefferson County Good Roads association; B. H. Cooper, of the Birmingham Board
 of Trade; Judge Jno. A. Green, Leo Loeb IE. w. Brownell. Harry Kuhn, Judge Lewis Reynolds, Dr. w. s. Rountree, Dr. IA. c. Watts, W. T. Estes, James K. Smith, A. c. Jenkins, E. B. Norman and Oscar Hunt.
 Word has just reached here from Som ervile this county, saying that Dr. Peck of that place has just taken up a team of mules that were stolen from the barn lof c. T. Dinsmore at Flint, seven miles south of Decatur. a few nights ago. The mules were hitched to a wagon and there was no driver with the team. In the
 wagon was a large quantity of merchant disc, which came from the store of E. M. Odom Dry Goods company, New De- lcatur. This store was burglarized about the time the mules were stolen. On the same night the store of MT. Moore, in
 East New Decatur was broken into and a quantity of goods stolen. And on the same night also the stores of R. H. Sam lple and MT. Dunnaway. in Somerville, were broken into and quantity of goods taken from them, but 1t is not known whether or not any goods from these
 stores were found in the wagon. There | is no clue as to who stole the mules and
 the goods. Where the wagon came from | is not known.
 J. O. Burleson, a well known farmer of
 the east end of the county, is said to