The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-21
ITEMS FROM OVER THE STATE

l ton Unity High school at Thorsby. The Rev. J. A. Beal of Montgomery will preach the commencement sermon. l Cuilman.-The conference of the De- catur district Epworth league will meet in session in Cullman at the First Methodist church Friday night and plans for an extended Epworth league over Alabama, especially the Decatur district, will be laid before the con- ference The Rev. John R. Turner, pas tor of the First Methodist church of Cullman, states that the members of the local Epworth league will enter- tain the visitors in their homes flor the short stay in Cullman.
 | Miss Mary Moore, president of the Athens Female college and a great worker in the Epworth leagues. of north Alabama, will deliver an fad- dress at the conference.
 | SeIma.-Thursday was Dokey day in Selma, and Royal Vizier Sam Rogers of Antares temple of Khorassans made | in Selma. Arriving at 3 o'clock from f Montgomery in special train and bringing the temple band, the members I of the organization saw that the aft ernoon was filled with interest to the members and to the public generally. A band concert and torchlight parade preceded a ceremonial session in the Pythian castle during which 30 novices l from all over the black belt were ini- ! tiated into the mysteries of the or der.
 | Bay Minette.-Anticipatin the con- struction of many good roads through out Baldwin county, the residents of Foley and vicinity are contemplating the consolidation of a number of rural schools into one large, centrally To- cated school within the town of Foley. which can be easily reached by all the patrons and which will enable the county to furnish better teachers, who l in turn will be able to give>Ahe scholars lbetter attention.
 | Auburn-A distinguished visitor to Auburn today is President w. s. Cox ! of Cox College, College Park, Ga, l President Cox offers annually gold medal to the winner in the Alabama state oratorical contest, which was in- augurated in 1902 He is greatly in terested in the coming contest which will be held in the Sidney Lanier High School auditorium. Montgomery, S:15 Friday evening. The colleges taking part in the oratorical meeting are Au- burn, Southern university, Howard col llege and Birmingham college. The Au- | burn representative is J. Warren An drews, Montgomery boy. The stu dents of Barnes school, Edgar's, Starke's, and Sidney Lanier High are especially invited, and seats will be re- served for the young ladies of the Womans college.
 | DemOpOlis-The barn of E. R. Berry, about one mile from Demopolis, was destroyed by fire yesterday evening at | ' o'clock. The barn was full of hay and is partly covered by insurance.
 Evangelist F. M. Finder of Lancaster. Ky, has been holding a revival meeting here for the past week in the Chris tian church The revival closed yes- terday.
 I ROgersville-That one man at least in Lauderdale county does not think that cotton Is the only source of money is evidenced by the fact that he has recently visited this place several times and each time with wagon load of sweet potatoes of the Nancy Hall va rlety finer potatoes never grew in any section than the juicy yellow ones Jones Bailey brings from his farm up among the hills of Sugar Creek He says he produced 147 bushels last year on little less than one-half acre of ground. He is readily getting $1 a bushel for them now both for eating purposes and for seed bedding.