The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-04

Ter for probate judge and that instituted by Tom Phillips in the nomination of John Moseley for tax collector will come up before the executive committee this week,
 and it is intimated that material for a grand jury investigation will be forth coming at that time
 Dothan.-George Wilkes, charged with
 murder for killing Dewey Paramore, was | given a sentence of 16 years in Houston county circuit court here. The case did
 not go to trial an agreement being
 reached by the state and the defense. | Young Paramore was shot one Sunday
 night about month ago while he was walking along the road by Wilkes, who | was passing with several companions in | a wagon. Wilkes claimed that he did not see Paramore; that he was shooting his pistol into the dark along the road and
 expressed great surprise when arrested
 later in the night and told that he had killed Paramore The tragedy occurred about one mile east of Dothan on the Ashford road.
 | Bay Minette.-The county commissions
 CTS of this county are in session again flor the purpose of considering further | the matter of contracts for the trunk
 highway through the length of the county
 and have secured large amount of val I
 to be constructed, which information they secured during their recess which lasted several weeks. It is fully expected that I within the next day or two they will be | able fully to determine upon which course | to pursue, and their procedure will doubt | less be one which will meet with entire approval of the county as they know what they are doing since they have made full investigation of all things which enter into the building of the road and | the contracts.
 | Troy.-The contests for the Pike county probate judges office will be heard Wednesday before Chairman A. c. Seay and the Pike county democratic commit | tee. The contest was filed by Frank l Johnson against John G. Key. The gen. l eral charges are that there was a mis- count of votes and that illegal votes were cast Both sides claim the casting of illegal votes. Attorneys in the case are E. R. Brannen of Troy and Ray Rushton | of Montgomery for MT. Johnson: C. A. 1 Brannen of Troy and Hill, Hill. Whiting l & Stern of Montgomery for Mir Key. Ninety-six witnesses have already been
 summoned and many more will receive | summons. It is not known how long the hearing of the contest will take.
 1 Fort Deposit.-The board of trustees of 1 the graded school of Fort Deposit met ! Friday afternon in called session at l the directors office of the Fort Deposit I bank for the purpose of electng fac
 ulty for the next ensuing term, with J. D. | Lamar acting chairman The following teachers were elected: Mrs. w. G. Fore 1 head, principal; Miss Irene Carr, first as- 1 sistant; Miss Corrie Goldsmith, second assistant; Mrs. c. E. Hawkins, third as- sistant Miss Virginia Carter was re- elected principal of the music department. | Mobile.-Sunday schools of Mobile coun- | ty expect to soon establish a practice which it is believed, if successful, will spread in many other parts of the south
 It is to transport Sunday school pupils 1 to the school and back home, the same as lis now being done by the educational authorities of the county At a meeting l held today of the Eighth Sunday School l district of the county, at Crawford s
 chapel, the transportation question was brought up for discussion. Noting the ! success of the school commissioners plan 1 the convention referred the proposition tc a Committee for an early reprt
 AnniSton.-F a tip which was given to Jailer Timmons by an unknown
 party, who telephoned from Jacksonville | that Reuben Rayburn, a prisoner lodged
 in the county jail on a charge of safe blowing, would be out of jail last night unless he was already out Jailer Tim 1 mons discovered that the prisoner ha( really sawed three bars of his cell, anC had the warning not been given Ray
 burn would have been among the missing 'EThe prison was searched from one end tt the other, but the jailer was unable tt find saw or anything which the pris