The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-09-22
Postal Department Will
Be Requested to Change
the Name of PostoJGlce
NeU Decatur to A lbUny

Albany September 21.-(Special)
The newly named city of Albany was
busy today getting accustomed to the
change of name from New Decatur.
Most Of the old timers still wrote it
New Decatur" and some of them will
proba bly, stick to this form until after
the postiffice is changed. Application
will be made at once to the postoffice
department to authorize the change,
and it is expected that quick action
will result, as there is some confu-
SIGN attendant to the names of the city
and postoffice being different.
There will be change in local NOM
enclature as the result of the change
of name of the municipality. 1t was
announced today that the Decaturs
Daily would change its name to the
Daily, while the New Decatur Adver-
tiser, a weekly publication, will In
future be known as the Albany Ad-
vertiser The name of the Louisville
and Nashville shops here will proba bly,
remain the same. as its official desig-
nation is the Decatur shops of the
Louisville and Nashville railroad. Just
how soon the name of the railroad sta
ton will be changed has not been
made known here
The special session of council made
effective the vote of Monday authorize
ing the change last night at 9:17
o'clock. Many citizens who had gath
cred at the council chamber to wit
ness the formalities cheered the an
nouncement of the birth of the new
municipality.
The council also canvassed the vote
of the recent election for municipal
~ fn1
jorityt of f. c. Payne for mayor to
be Al, and the majority of w. B. Cobb
for chief of police as FL. Aldermen
Dillehay, Mccullough, Wolfe, Proctor,
Tidwell, Buck, Redding and Harvey
were declared to be elected on the face
of the returns, as was John Patter-
son for president of the council. Mr..
Patterson was unopposed. The council
also received the resignation of Alder
| man C. e. Able, rendered on account
of i'll health. but did not fill the va
! cancy.
w. T. Green, manager of the branch
| office of Swift & Co. here, is report
ed as critically. i'll with heart disease.
The first shipment of goods by freight
| to be addressed to Albany was re-
ceived here today by j. A. Buttrey. de-
partment store. Mr.. Buttrey ordered
the goods shipped from New York
some weeks ago. confident that the
name of New Decatur would be
changed.
The Morgan County Sunday School
association will hold it's thirty-sixth
annual convention at Antioch church.
Somerville, on September 26-27S accord
ing to announcement today of Presi-
| dent A. G. Patterson. A number OF
speakers from various parts of Ala
bama are on the programme.
For the first time in 10 years local
cotton interests are enjoying the lux
ury of a cotton exchange. The ex-
change opened today in the knights
of Pythias building, Decatur, and is
being conducted by Jack L. Julian OF
Sheffield. nephew of former State Rail.
/ road Commissioner Frank Julian. II
has direct wire to New Orleans.
The Womans Missionary conference
of the Decatur district will be held a
Hartselle on October "a, according tt
the announcement today of Mrs. S. D
Johnson. district secretary.
William Papenburg of Albany. VIII,
recently entered Branham Hughe
school at. Spring Hill, has been elect
ed secretary treasurer of the second