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The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-01-22
NEW LIBRARY BOOKS

The newest books at the public library are announced as follows: Betts, Fathers and Mothers" Bjorkman, 'Is There Anything New Under the Sun?'
 Brummitt, The Efficiency Epworth- ian"
 Butcher, How to Conduct a Radio Club.'
 Carroll, Hunting of the Shark" Cushman, History of the Choctaw, Chickasaw and Matches Indians" Dixon, "Americanization." "Epworth League Handbook" Kerfoot, How to Read.' Krebs, Law of Suggestion" Krebs, Irwin Demons" Lutz, 'How to Collect and Preserve Insects"
 Namier, Germany and Eastern Eu- rope"
 Palmer, Lesson Building Pennsylvania, Industrial Directory" Romanes, Essays"
 Romances, Thoughts on Religion" St John, Stories and Story Telling'' Shute, Letters to Beany and Love Letters of Plupy."
 shute, "Real Diary ofsa Real Boy" Snow, "The High School Prize Speaker"
 Strayer, Some Problems in City School Administration"
 Sturgeon. Studies of Contemporary Poets"
 Sturgis, Psychology of Maeterlinck" :" Thompson, coil Field Development and Petroleum Mining"
 Thompson, Mechanical Equipment ot Federal Buildings Under Control of tffe Treasury Department" Thorold, "Six Masters of Disillu- sion.'
 Zweig, Emile Verhaeren"
 FICTION
 Birmingham, "Simpkin's Plot" Grey, "Wildfire."
 Hough, Getting the Wrong Start"
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Breaches on Commandments

Dr. H M. Edmonds, pastor of the Independent Presbyterian church, preached last night at the Lyric on the first commandment. This is the first of a series of 10 sermons in which Dr. Edmonds will speak on each of tho commandments.
 At Temple Emanu-El yesterday morning, communion service was held
 The annual congregational meeting of the church will be held Wednesday night at o'clock at Temple Emanu- LEI.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-01-22
Young Butler Planter Dies

Greenville, January 21.-(Special) ) Bunyon Mize, young planter living near Forest Home, died late Friday, after having been stricken with ap- pendicitis He died before surgical att tertion could be given him. He was d prominent young man, being highly esteemed by all who knew him. He was a member of the Forest Home Bap- tist church Funeral services were held Saturday afternoon at 2;30 at the Forest Home Baptist church and in- torment was made in the Forest Home cemetery. The deceased is survived by his widow and three small children, one brother and three sisters. His mother, Mrs Frank Mize, and many other relatives also survive him.
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sions will be held both this morning and afternoon, and the convention will prob ably extend through Tuesday, according to announcement made last night.
 Tonight the visiting men will be guests of the Birmingham Automobile Dealers association at a banquet at the Tutwiler.
 Ralph J. Barr of Troy, president of the association, will it is understood, be re- elected to head the association another year.
 Prospects for the automobile business in Alabama during the next F months will be discussed by the association, and ques- tions of interest to the automobile dealers to be brought before the next legislature will be considered.
 A meeting of the executive committee was held yesterday afternoon and final plans for the convention made.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-01-22
Lumber Ship Sunk

Memphis January 21.-A cablegram re- ceived Saturday by the Lamb Fish Lum- Der company of this city from the Omnium D'Enterprise of Paris stated that the French steamship Omnium which left New Orleans December 4 for St. Nazaire, had been torpedoed The Memphis con- cern shipped 10000 railroad ties aboard the Omnium, which was owned by the Omnium D Enterprise, was compara- lively new vessel of -5549 tons.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-01-22
Medal Contest Postponed

Mrs. Andrew Haffner. president of the Bessemer Womans Christian Temperance union, announces that the double silver medal contest which was scheduled for yesterday afternoon has been postponed until the first Sunday in February, when it will take place at the Methodist church at 2:30. In the first contest five little girls will take part and in the second i've boys. Mrs. J. P. Moore. who has trained the little ones. will be in charge.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-01-22
STATE AUTO MEN
 MEET HERE TODAY
Questions of Interest to Au- / tOmObile Dealers To Be
 Considered

Many automobile men from different parts of the state arrived in Birmingham last night to attend the convention of the Alabama Automobile Dealers asso- citation, which opens at Il o'clock this morning at the Tutwiler.
 Between 75 and 100 men are expected to be present when the meeting begins Ses-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-01-22
Gift for Polish Relief

New York. January 21.-An anonymous gift of $1350o0 to the Polish relief sund, was announced today. It set what was declared to be a new high record for war relief contributions from unidentified donors. The largest anonymous contri- button for that purpose previously an- lief.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-01-22
DR. CUNNINGHAM
 |S STILL VERY ILL
Prominent Citizen Was Un- conscious at Home Prac-
 tically all of Yesterday

pr. R. M Cunningham, former lieu tenant governor and acting governor of Alabama, was still critically i'll at his home on Norwood Boulevard last night
 He is suffering from extremely high
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-01-22

blood pressure and was unconscious practically all day yesterday. Once or twice during the day, he barely re- gained consciousness for very brief intervals, but soon 1apsed back into a condition where he failed to recog- nize any of those about him.
 Dr. Cunningham is one of the most widely known men in the state, not only because of his prominence in po- 1itica1 life in years past, but also be- cause of his prominence in the medical profession. His most recent public service was as city health officer of Birmingham.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-01-22
At ahe Photoplay Houses

Triangle: Dorothy Dalton, in "The Female of the Species.
 Strand; Henry Walthall, in Little Shoes"
 Colonial: opustin Farnum. in "The Virginian."
 Franklih, (Ensley) Marguerite Clarke, in HSnow White.'
 Rialto:. Peggy Hyland, in Her Right to Live"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-01-22
TODAY'S EVENTS
At the Theatres

Lyric: Keith vaudeville. Matinee at 8 o'clock. Night performance at 7;So and o'clock
 Bijou :A Musical comedy, Mutt and Jeffs Wedding." Night performance at ,S:30 o'clock.
 Majestic: Musical comedy and fea- ture pictures.
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MEETING IN GEORGIA

Total expenditure. .s14s, 1es. .o5 s217 17.
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OF BIRMINGHAM Statement December 27. 1916 RESOURCES
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-05-02
OFFICES. BrsI> EsS ROOMS. ETC.

pRENEI. BLDG OFFICES. Annual Rentals
suites rms. $3.50. slT5 5000 s225 $3.50, 5000,
suites 2 rms. $500 s275 s3i3 sico $500 5000
First Floor Fifth street Entrance. s25OO
Basement. Corner FItth & SAMSON SITS. s5oV
ELLIS u, WILLIAMS 500 DreNei Building.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-05-02

WYNCOTE--Owner now IN west. VIA s,. ,.,1.
tlfully located corner. modern home, II rooms
baths; Earage for cars. Chaufeurs quar-
ters; sl1 800 Howard Il. Wilson & Co
2122 Germantown ave.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-05-02

CHESTNUT HILIs-Very desirabiy situa ed and
attractively furnished houses in Chestnut Hit
and ST. Martins for rent from June ] until
oct. l. Joseph NJ Jennings. Chestnut Hlll.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-05-02
REAL ESTATE FOR REN1

Continued from precedfn0 column
Factories. Warehouses. Mfs. Floors
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-05-02
r. E-sALE OR EXCHANGE

1909 LOCUST 81,
IIaudsum" modern i-Storr brOwnstou" dwell
ing fitted for professional offices. low price
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-05-02
SHIP ROAD, PA.

with a good view: house Of rooms and bath
srtesian well water: close 10 station on Main
Line =. X. r.; land mostly tillable: small
woods
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-05-02

SUBJ RBAN
REAL ESTATE FOR RENT

COTTAGE at Avalon, furnished. May lS-Jur
is. T. L.. Yarrow East Bryn Mawr, Pa.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-05-02

FOR RENT from June to October. furnished.
house on Aliens lane adjoining Falrmount
Park; ~ rooms. 3 baths. stable, garage. vere.
table and flower gardens, city water. electric
lights. Frank Miles Day. Aliens lane,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-05-02
REAL ESTATE TO EXCHANGE

l HAVE desirable properties Tor exchange.
What have you TO unerP
JAEGER. 3oOs y. 5th.
MAIN LINE PROPERTIES FOR exchange. What
have YOU? What do YOU want
HARRIS REAL. ESTATE. Narhcrth, Pa. ,
ONTARIO. W. Of 1sth--Splendid cor. for suhur-
ban. this side OF Genslde. WorrelI. 800 y l1th.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-05-02
SUBURBAN

IN THE JERSEY PINES
14-room house; bath; superior spring water.
garage; acres in large, shady lawn; room
for garden. farm boating; miles from
Mt. Holly; good roads poss. at once; low
rental for long season. Photo. send for list.
PETERS a SON sos CHESTNUT ST.,PHILA.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-03-18
SOME L. & n. MEN
ARE EXPECTED TO STICK

Louisville, March 17.-Seventy-
five per cent of the Louisville and
Nashville employees are expected to
remain loyal in the event of a strike,
according to an announcement from
the general offices here today. About
one-half of the roads $4,000 belong
to the four brotherhoods.
Confidence that the road could
continue practical uninterrupted
operation was expressed.
Measures of preparations, it was
stated, consisted only in placing
guards at important bridges and in
scanning the employees for men suit
able to take strikers places.
The offer to take over the insur-
ance protection for brotherhood mem,
bers is expected to have a far-reach-
ing effect.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-03-18

and sung in all parts of the world
by all classes of people.
He showed that the average home
is not the quiet, Christian place it
used to be; rather it was noisy,
neglected place, and sit was no Won
der that hell creeps into the home
sometimes and the devil takes a
mortgage on the boy and the girl
before they are sixteen years of
age" He said that parents ought
to spend more time with their chill
dren; that the father who spends five
to seven nights a week at the club,
and outside the society of the little
flock at home need not be surprised
"if God pulled him up with a round
turn some day" eff we spent as
much time trying to put goodness
into them as we did trying to take
the badness out of them, we would
have better children" and illustrated
his point by story of stray child,
'EHome is the moulding room where
character is formed" he said, and re
lated how many had come to him
ABOUT InSlf DOyS WHO drank, ana CHSlI
girls who danced, went to places
where they ought not to, and learned
card playing. He said that parents
who made some of these complaints
had acknowledged that these things
! were allowed in the home. "Start
| them right and they will go right;
but start them wrong and they will
likely go that way" he said. "You
must make a personal effort fol
Jesus Christ; it is your business ano
not only the preachers business. II
! is an awful thing to neglect these
/ love offerings which God has giver
us. Are you starting them right
{ If not, you ought to. You ought tc
be the high priest and the high
priestess of the home. Homes ought
is be place for prayer. The child
has a soul, he is not a beast. There
is beyond, and there ought to be g
! real soul in the home" He said proper
training in the home will cause an
archists, places of evil, etc, to go out
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-03-18
SUNDAY SCHOOLS OF
CITY IN GREAT RALLY
At THE TABERNACLE

Today at the big tabernacle at
p. M, there will be a union rally of all
of the cooperating Sunday Schools.
Every Sunday School in the city is
invited to send all of its members
above the primary grade to take part
in the big rally.
The denominations are requested to
meet at the downtown church of the
denominations at 2:30 o'clock and
march in a body to the tabernacle
where space will be reserved.
The Episcopalians will meet at
Christ Church, Wright and PalafoX;
the Methodists, at the First Metho-
dist Church, Wright, near Palafox
street; the Baptists, at the First Bap-
list Church, Palafox and LaRua
| streets; the Presbyterians at the
| First Presbyterian Church, East
Chase, near Palafox street; the
| Christians, at the First Christian
Church, Seventh and Gadsden
street.
All are requested to assemble
promptly SO that the gathering may
be in place for the meeting time at
the tabernacle at three.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-03-18
EMBARGO ON LIVE
STOCK AND POULTRY

Newport News, Va, March IT,
Agents of the Adams Express Com,
pany in this section received notice
today of an embargo on shipments of
all kinds to New England states and
live stock to all points. It was also
ordered that all shipments not COW
cred in the embargo order be accept
ed subject to delay.
At the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway
Connpany's offices here, it was an
nounced that the embargo announced
Thursday had been modified. Under
the new order, shipments of freight
from one point to another on the C.
& o. lines will be accepted if it is
possible to reach the objective by
p. m. Sunday.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-03-18
UNDER WATER BOYS
TRIMS OZARK TEAM

Ball teams of submarine division
beat the Ozark team yesterday after
noon at Maxent Park by the score of
Is to ,. In the first inning the sub
marine boys chalked up a total of five
runs, and put one or more men across
the plate in all but the fifth, sixth
and eighth innings. The Ozark team
was held to 4 scoreless record until
the fourth inning, when one run was
made, the second run being scored in
the eighth.
Batteries in yesterdays game
were: Submarines, Ramsey, Mslousky
and Winosger; Ozarl1s. Dorff, Vie
mer, Reynolds and Murriott.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-03-18
& NASHVILLE
STOPS SALE OF TICKETS

Knoxville, Tenn, March 1.-THE
Louisville and Nashville railroad this
morning discontinued the sale of
tickets to and through st. Louis ter
minals. This was expected to be
the first terminal to be tied up in
case the threatened strike material
lied tonight. This measure was taken
as a precaution against having pas
sengers marooned away from home
in the event of tieup.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-03-18
to grow in Christless homes"
The Services Today.
Services today will be as folio

Services today will be as follows:
At 8 o'clock this afternoon, there
will be a general rally of all the
Sunday Schools of the city in the
tabernacle. After the Sunday School
members are seated, the general pub
lie will be admitted 1t is planned,
however, to have the Sunday Schools
occupy the reservations set aside for
them before the expected crowd gets
into the large structure.
At $50 o'clock this afternoon, the
young peoples societies will present
a program, and at 7:45 o'clock the
regular preaching by Gypsy Smith
will be held. At tonight's meeting 1t
is expected that quie the largest
audience of the past two weeks will
crowd into the building.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-03-18
RECEIVER OF ROCK
ISLAND ASKS PROTECTION

Chicago, March 17.-Jacob NJ.
Dickinson, receiver of the Rock Island
lines, and William ]. Jackson, re-
ceiver of the Chicago and Eastern
Illinois railroad, today applied to
Federal Judge Carpenter here for
protection of the respective proper
ties and of such employees of the
roads as may remain in service or
shall be employed.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-03-18
SEWANEE UNIVERSITY
TEAM GETTING READY

Nashville, Tenn, March 17.-Ac'
tive work has been begun by the
baseball team of the University of
the South at Sewanee. There are fifty
or more candidates for the team. Two
important places to be filled are those
of Shortstop Ellerbe and Outhelder
Bowden.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-03-18

tatives of the railroads and employees
in New York, expressing pleasure
over the agreement to postpone the
nationwide strike to Monday, and
earnestly urging that further confer
ences be held to draw the two sides
together.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-03-18

America, where the last of the great
composer of the greatest song ever
written, was honored by the great
country of his birth. He said Paine
had won no great battle, had fought
TO great naval engagement, had made
no wonderful discovery, but had
written that song, which was whistled
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-03-18
200 Walk Out in W. Va.

Petersburg, W. Va, March IL
Claiming no order resembling the
strike had been received here, 200
members of the four brotherhoods,
in the Monongahela and Ohio dlvis-
ion of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad,
quit work tonight.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-03-18
Expect An Agreement.

New York, March Nv. G. Lee,
spokesman of the brotherhoods, de-
clared tonight: Il believe by Mon
day we will reach an agreement which
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-03-18
soO in Pennsylvania.

QUO M i OII1rS ~ 1-11-<7
Connellsville, Pa, March 17.-Hav-
ing received no order Of the post
ponement of the strike, 800 members
of railroad brotherhoods, B. & o. and
Pittsburg and Lake Erie railroads,
quit work here.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-03-18

will avert a strike" He said sporadic
strikes in the west resulted in the in
ability of the brotherhoods to get in
touch with the men before the hour
set for the Walkout.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-03-18

material, If the home is right. God
help those little ones whose lot it is
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-03-18

Get Together, Says President.
Washington, March 17.-President
Wilson tonight autographed represen-
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-03-18

by some of the railroads tonight, but
not entirely lifted.
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QuenN Iref Roumana nj h wv he most royal n
EuTea shown in n o
~
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WILSON WINS;
STRIKE SAID
TO BE AVERTED

CONTINUED From Page one)
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of business. 'TThese outside evils will
go for the lack of patronage and
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$50 CHILDREN
SING AT BIG
TABERNACLE

Continued From Page One)
The Pageland journal. [volume] (Pageland, S.C.) 1911-1978, 1917-09-19

very reluctantly, while others
would sell without regret.
The proposed lines would run
somewhat as follows: Beginning
al MCBee and following the
Seaboard right of way TO within
about mile of Patrick; thence
northward 10 Shiloh church;
thence northward to within a
mile or two of Ruby; thence
westward along a line a mile
south Of Guess and four or five
miles south of Pageland; thence
south one mile east of Jefferson
and back to McBee on the east.
ern side of The Jefferson-McBec
road. This takes the heart of
the county, but leaves the best
land and most thickly settled
sections all around the border
The Pageland journal. [volume] (Pageland, S.C.) 1911-1978, 1917-09-19
The Colored Brother and the
War

Nashville Home
The Pageland Journal tells of
a South Carolina negro of mill
tary age who doesn't want to go
to the war and he makes it
known in the following lam
guage: "Dey may concrete me
an make me 60, but | sho amt
gonna vulcanize to 60" But
Marshville colored gent has the
Pageland negro skinned a mile"
when it comes to rhetoric.
Here's the way he puts it: "Dey
saw am millinery age an might
as we'll 60 on an I'se gwine to
take de white folks word an
valentine instead o waiting to
be concreted an lei desc here
skimption boards git holt O. me-"
The Pageland journal. [volume] (Pageland, S.C.) 1911-1978, 1917-09-19
Uruguayan Marines Seize Gt.
man Ships

Montevideo, Uruguay, SEPT.
l4.-Uruguavan marines tod: V
boarded all the German ships in
the harbor here, the government
having heard of plans to sink
the vessels.
The crews of the eight intern
ed German steamers were
brought ashore and the authori
ties took charge of the vessels.
Many loose pieces of machinery,
which the crews had been un
able to hide. were found or
board the steamers.
Last night more mass meet
ings were held here with demon
trations against Germany. Or
der was maintained bv the au-
thOrities.
The Pageland journal. [volume] (Pageland, S.C.) 1911-1978, 1917-09-19
Old S. G. Paper Turns Up

monroe Journal.
Mr.. w. L. Belk brought a
most interesting old land paper
with him to town yesterday one
that he found in his fathers old
papers. 1t was a grant from
Governor Pickens of South Car
olina made in 1887 to Thomas
Nelson for 385 acres in the Cam
den district on Kane Creek, for
the sum of seven pounds, about
$33. The old paper. is we'll pre-
served, but an interesting part is
the seal of the State o. South
Carolina, with which the paper
is folded and tied. 1t is literally
a seal, nearly as large as sau-
Ger and made of war half an
inch thick. On one side is a
palmetto tree and on the other
the raised figure of woman.
"A silk string attaches it TO the
paper. By the way, this old pa
per settles the controversy about
how 10 spell Kane Creek.
MIR. G. G. Birmingham, who
has been with the Seaboard for
a number of years at Whining
ton and other places, has moved
his family 10 Monroe and has a
position as operator at the pas
Senger station.
The Pageland journal. [volume] (Pageland, S.C.) 1911-1978, 1917-09-19
Puts Price on Head of First
American Brought in Dead
or Living

British Headquarters in France
and Belgium, Sept. IS By the
Associated Press).-German mil
ltary authorities on the Western
front have shown concern about
the 1mminnce Of the American
army's entry into the fighting by
Offering rewards for the produc-
ton of the first American prison
er. The general commanding
the Eleventh Reserve Division
recently put the price of 4OC
marks on the first American
soldier brought dead or alive
into his lines.
This information has been
disclosed by the diary of a Prus,
sian sergeant of the Twenty.
third Reserve Regiment. He
wrote at the end of July:
we are supposed to have
Americans opposite us for some
time now and two divisions OF
Portuguese on our right. The
man who brings in the first
American dead or alive to head
quarters has been promised the
Iron Cross of the First Class and
400 marks and II days leave
from the division"
The Pageland journal. [volume] (Pageland, S.C.) 1911-1978, 1917-09-19
Advice Worth While

Save when YOU are young to
spend while you are old.
Do not marry until you are
able to support wife.
Keep yourself innocent if you
would be happy.
Keep good company or none.
If your hands can not be use
fully employed, attend to the
cultivation of your mind.