The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1917-12-25
ALBANY

| Albany December %. = Especially
Both the Albany and Decatur chapters
of the American Red Cross went over
the top" in the membership campaign
in the great drive of Saturday. This
became certain when the final count
was made late last night. The Albany
chapter reported 1880 new members.
| its quota being 1881. The Decatur
! chapter reported nearly zoe members,
| it's quota being 664. The drive will be
| continued through today and Monday,
and it is expected that the stipulated
quota will be largely exceeded. Mrs.
| w. e. Todd, campaign manager for the
Albany chapter, is squirting the local
workers on to a membership of 1900.
This does not include the present MEM
bership of 43S, it being the ambition
of the leaders to make the total en-
rollment here nearly 1000.
| With 800 members to secure, the
chapter workers made a drive through
the big Louisville and Nashville shops
Saturday, having secured permission to
make the invasion from the railroad
authorities. The men inferred into the
spirit of the occasion with zest, and
did their "bit' when catured. Many OF
them, however, to enliven the pro-
ceedings insisted that they be run
down and cornered by the women
workers. The challenge was accepted
and the solicitors climbed onto tops
of box cars, darted under engines and
otherwise baffled their fleeing victims.
The campaign in Albany will conclude
with the singing of the Christmas
carol, "Silent Night" on Second avenue
at o'clock tomorrow night. One thou
sand and thirty-one children will take
part in the singing, which will be I'M
der the direction of Miss Florence
Bassett.
The blue laws" were not enforced
so rigidly in Albany today as on last
| Sunday Timorous news vendors, their
spirit reviving, audaciously sold The
| Age-TIerald on the streets and even
went so far as to deliver the paper to
| their route subscribers. Milk wagons
ventured out again. In Decatur the
postoffice kept open all day and mail
was delivered by the city carriers. The
postoffice here was open part Of the
day. Drug stores, as a rule, remained
closed.
The swiping of hogs head from a
barrel of meat in transit cost Gus Rood
and Jake Bradley, negro brakesmen,
! the round sum of $27.50 in fines and
| costs, this being the levy made by
Judge F. M. Hamilton of the New De-
catur inferior court when he held the
men guilty as charged.
1
months map salesman for Swift g.
Co. at Hattiesbug, Miss. and a well
| known resident Of Albany is here to-
/ day en- route to Jacksonville fla,
4 where he has been accepted as a first
class storekeeper in the quartermas-
| ter's department of the national army
and will go into training.
! A double funeral was held here to-
day for Mr.. and Mrs. S. W. Donaldson,
man and wife, who died within r.
hour period at the home of Mr.. and
Mrs. Grady Morris. Mr.. Donaldson sue
| cumbed at 12:40 a. m. Saturday and
Mrs. Donaldson died exactly IL hours
later. Paralysis caused the death of
the husband and heart trouble that of
the wife. They were about IS years of
age. Surviving relatives are daugh-
ter, Mrs. Grace Stinson of Kansas City,
anu Two SOILS, harley donaldson or MT.
Roswell, and Harper A. Donaldson of
Binghampton, Tenn.
Clyde Nichols of Albany was a pas
senger on Louisville and Nashville ex-
press train No 7. which ran down a
local train at Shepperdsville, KY, tax
ing death toll of 46 persons and in
juring many others. On his arrival
here today he gave vivid description
| OF the accident Two bodies were
| thrown on top of the coaches of the
express train as it ploughed through
the accommodation he stated Mr..
Nichols assisted in removing the
wounded and dead from the wreckage.
He was not hurt