The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-12
NEW DECATUR AGAIN WITHOUT SERVICE New POstOffice Is Made Sub
 Station of Decatur MAIL IS CONGESTED Arrangements Are Being Made for Meeting of W. c. T. U.-Nu-
 merous Diphtheria Cases
 Adams Inspects Jail
MAIL IS CoNGEsTED

Decatur, October 1.-(Special )-New Decatur Is without a postoffice again, only a sub-station of Decatur, after having had fourth class postoffice with William A. Warner as postmaster for only two days.
 The New Decatur postoffiee was con solidated with the Decatur postoffice On July l. last, but recently the new Decatur office was made fourth class office and William A. Warner took charge of the office on last Sunday and on that date the office passed from a sub station of Decatur to a fourth class office.
 Yesterday Postmaster Warner tele- graphed the department at Washington for instructions concerning the city free delivery. Later Postmaster William Moseley of Decatur received a telegram from the department at Washington in structing him to continue the New De- catur office as a branch of the Decatur office until October 15, on which date he was to transfer clerks and carriers to the New Decatur office. The tele- gram to Postmaster Mosetey also stated that fuller instructions would follow. 1t is believed here that it Is the inten- ton of the department to make the New Decatur office a second class office on October 15.
 As a result of these instructions to Postmaster Moseley, MT. Warner is for the second time out of the New Decatur postoffice and for the second time New Decatur Is only a sub-station of De- catur. s4es With the clerical force that MT. War ner had in the office as a fourth class office and with the city carriers off it was impossible for the mail to be handled at the New Decatur office. As a result in the two days that New Decatur was a fourth class office the mail was in a very bad congested con dition there and it was next to impos- sible to get mail at that office within a reasonable time after 1t was received It is believed that on October 15 the situation in the New Decatur office will be releaved and that the mail sys- tenn in that office will then be as ef- ficent as it was before the office was first consolidated with Decatur, when New Decatur was a second class of flee.
 And thus another chapter in the New Decatur postoffice muddle. which has given the heads of the departments at Washington so much trouble ever since the consolidation, has been enacted. New Decatur people hope to have a second class postoffice again sor,e' time in the future,' but how far In the future seems uncertain at this time, since so many orders have been issued and re- cinded by the Washington authorities.
 Arrangements are being made for the meeting of the Woman's Christian Tenn perance union, which meets in annual session in New Decatur at the Central Methodist church, October II to 20, in- elusive.
 Local members of the organization say that this meeting will be the largest and best ever held in Alabama that workers of national reputation in the prohibition field have been secured and given most prominent places on the programme of the four days session. The prohibition situation in Alabama will be discussed by men and women of national reputa : tion, as will other questions pertaining to the liquor traffic in the United States.
 Various committees have already been selected and already many homes have been provided for the visitors and good deal of money has already been sub scribed to help defray the expenses of No 1A1ne toe, from all sections of the state they will find a warm welcome in the homes of the people of the two Decaturs. Local members of the union are feeling espe- cially jubilant, owing to the fact that pro- hibition won such decisive victory In this county at the local option election on September II. last, and the members here say that on account of this vic tory in Morgan county that the Deca- turs are fitting place for such an or garization as theirs to hold their annual meeting at this time. The programme for the session will be completed within a few days and it will be quite a lengthy and interesting one.
 Owing to the fact that there have been number of cases of diphtheria in the two Decaturs, the state health office has had sent here a quantity of anti-toxin, 
 it is needed the state of Alabama pay ing for it. While there have been a number of cases of diphtheria here, 1t has been mild and only one fatality has resulted. that of young baby. A num- Der of grown people have had the dls- ease.
 John D. Adams of Montgomery, one of the assistant state jail inspectors, was here yesterday. MT. Adams had been to Huntsville. looking over the coun- ty jaii there again. which jail was con- demned by the inspectors some time ago. The inspectors say that the Decatur jail is all right with a few slight excep- tions.
 Innes' orchestral band of New York will give concert in New Decatur next Sunday, October 15, on it's return from the Alabama State Fair at Birmingham to New York city.
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