The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-02-17
ALBANY HOTEL IS
 ID BE ENLARGED ID CARE FOR GUESTS

Albany, February 1e.-(SpeciaI) contract for the s0-room annex to the Lyons hotel one of the leading hos telries of the Twin Cities, has been let to the Inglenook Construction com pany of Birmingham, and ground for the structure will be broken on Mon day. Announcement to this effect was made today by Mir and Mrs. F. Lyons and Mir. and Mrs. William McNeili of Decatur. owners of the property. When the annex is completed the Lyons will have 125 rooms. the majority of which are equipped with private baths. Many new sample rooms will be added and the architectural outline of the pres ent building preserved. The annex will
 front on Bank street and will join the
 original building on the south Joy
 6 Gallup, a Birmingham firm, are
 the architects. At the meeting of the
 council last night permission was
 granted the hotel to move its electric
 sign from across Bank street to Rail
 road street, so that it will be visible from the Union station.
 Gordon McDuff. star shortstop of the South Atlantic league, has signed for
 another season with the Augusta club, with which he played last year. Mir. McDuff will leave for Augusta next month and will make the trip over land in his new Buick car, accom- panied by Mrs. McDuff. The Augusta team won the pennant for the first half of the split season last year and also won four straight post-season games for the championship, defeating Columbia. Mir. McDuff spends his win
 ters here in the employ of the Gulf
 Compress company.
 1 The Crawford division of the Ath-
 ens-Decatur pike is nearly completed. , Only one mile between the Tennessee i river and the bridge over the lake re- 1 mains to be built. The road is a link in the Bee Line" highway and com
 pletes the Limestone county unit in
 the lakes-tot the-gulf thoroughfare. It i was named in honor of W. E. Craw- ford, postmaster 1t Decatur.
 1 The high cost of living has landed an- 1 other body blow. This time it has ad- vanced the rates charged at Benevolent 1 hospital, according to announcement to-
 day of Mrs. E. c. Payne. chairman of the
 publicity committee. The hospital was
 built and is owned and operated by the | Ladies Benevolent society of the Deca-
 turs. Mrs. Payne. in announcing that prices had been advanced all along the | line, stated that the raise was due to the enhanced cost of food, drug supplies and | other articles.
 ! Miss Mamie Askenburg and Luther Bry- l ant were married here today at the home ] of MT. and Mrs. W. F. Clarkson, the cere-
 mony being said by Rev. Guy Ponder Mir. and Mrs. Bryant will reside in Law renee county.
 1 In memory of Frances Willard, the To- | cal w. c. T. U. held memorial exercises 1 tonight at the home of MT. and Mrs. W R, Smith. An interesting programme | was carried out
 1 Indications are that large number of north Alabamians will attend Mardi
 Gras at Mobile, Pensacola and New Or | leans this year. Many of them will go
 to Birmingham to catch the through specials to their point of destination.
 The Madison County High school bas-
 ketball team will play the Decatur five on the local grounds tomorrow after
 noon. the game being called at PTS
 o'clock.