The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-02-12
DECATUR

Decatur, February 1l.-tSpeoial.)-W T.
 Giles we'll known plumber of Decatur,
 Is suing the city of Decatur for slooo dam-
 prisonment.
 Sometime ago Giles was arrested by
 Officers Bass and Thompson, charged
 with interfearing with an officer in max
 ing an arrest. He was later discharged
 by the city. n
 Giles is represented by Judge 0. Kyle.
 while the city is represented by City At
 torney W. W. Callahan.
 Fire at midnight last night destroyed
 the residence at 1513 and 1515 Sixth avenue.
 south, New Decatur The loss will be
 seevral thousand dollars, partly insured.
 One house was occupied by Will John
 son and family and Win Jennings and
 family, and the building owned by pr.
 " R. Shelton. The other house was oc-
 cupied by A. D. Somerford and owned
 by Claude Acker of Birmingham Nearly
 all of the household goods were burned.
 Several other residences nearby were
 saved after hard work by the fire de-
 rartment
 
 The grand jury of the Morgan county law and equity court adjourned yester- day after docketng 21 cases and finding
 15 true bills They reported that they found the moral conditions in .his county
 most excellent. The grand jury adiourntd
 to meet again on April F. ! The suit of z. P. Evans, as ad.ninistra- tor of the estate of William Evans against the Louisville and Nashville railr,oad for $1o 000, resulted in a verdict for tne rail- . road company in the law and equity eourt here
 Sometime ago William Evans. who was an employe of the Louisville and Nash vile railroad. was killed while at work here
 It IS quite probable that Morgan county will have a government crop demonstra- ter.
 C. NJ. Mauldin of Birmingham. United upon the board Of county commissioners today and to them outlined a plan by which this county can get farm demon- strator. The plan in brief is that the county appropriate s1000 a year towards the expense, and the government will Fay tlic TtilldlHutl MT Mduiuln IS or tne opinion that the commissioners will do their part and that this county will have the demonstrator this season. The funeral of F. w. Smith, the young man who was killed by a locomotive Tn the Southern railroad yards at Sheffield yesterday, took place here today and the interment followed in the city cemetery.
 The remains reached here last night. Mir. Smith married short time ago Miss Mamie Seamon, daughter of MT. and Mrs. ". T. Seamon, of New Deca- tur. His widow survives hlm Late yesterday the dry cleaning de. partment of the Quality laundry was de- stroyed by fire by the explosion of gaso- lene. A young man who worked in this department was so badly burned that he had to be taken to the hospital. The building destroyed was separate from the main laundry building. The
 main building was not damaged. Malcolm Robertson, son of Assistant Postmaster Felix NJ Robertson, fell and
 broke one of his arms while at play on the public school playgrounds here yesterday. He is resting as we'll as could be expected.
 News of the death of Mrs. A F. Ed wards. which occurred in Ohio yesterday, has just reached here. She was the sister of Mrs. A. D. Jervis of Decatur. Mir. Jervis is president of the Decatur Ice and Coal company. Mrs. Jervis was with her sister at the time of her death. The funeral services of Capt. Porter Bibb were held late yesterday afternoon from his plantation home, Belle Nina" in Limestone county. A number of citi- zens from the two Decaturs and from this county attended the funeral and it was one of the largest funerals ever wit messed in this part of the state. Captain Bibb had been in i'll health for some months. He was IT years of age. He was a grandson of William Wyatt Bibb and of Thomas Bibb. the two first governors of Alabama.