The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-30
l|TY OF ALBANY IS .'OW RECOGNIZED BY ! s. GOVERNMENT 5 tn Ending of Today New Decatur as POstOffice Is
 No More and "All
 Is We'll"

Albany, June 29.-(S Special )-At the close of business tomorrow night Al | bany will have it's name on straight. office will be changed from New De- l catur to Albany. Eight months ago | the name of the town was changed | by vote of the people, who disliked l the similarity in the names of De- catur and New Decatur and preferred | a name with a stronger identity. Then the name of the depot, the express office and of various industries and | businesses, including the name of the 1 Decaturs Daily, were changed. The l last link connecting the new name ! with the old was that of the post office. This change was not allowed | to become effective until Postmaster Claude McMillan had served out his | four-year term Mr. McMillan will be
 succeeded tomorrow by T. H. Alex
 ander, the youngest postmaster of the | first or second-class in Alabama, a well known newspaper man, connect | ed for two years with the Albany I Decatur Daily and previously 70 that | for some years with the Nashville l Tennessean and American. The elec- | tric sign over the postoffice will also | have it's name changed This is said | to be the only sign of it's kind in the 1 United States.
 l Albany. with it's identity firmly es-
 tablished, begins doing business with
 population of about 10000. It is probably the largest city of its age
 in the world, although part of the | credit must be given to New Decatur, which existed on the same spot for
 30 years.
 At an organization meeting of the l Albany chapter of the American Red l Cross officers were elected as fol- | lows: Permanent chairman, Dr. J. L. | Gunter; permanent secretary, H R. | C. L. Odom; second vice chairman,
 Mrs. w. R. Hall: third vice chairman,
 Mrs. R. E. Sanders; treasurer, F. A. Bloodworth; executive committee,
 Rev. l.. F. Goodwin, Prof R. W. Cow
 art, F. c. Payne. Mrs. A. L. Jolly, Mrs. W. B. Strong, Mrs w c. Watson, | | The Decatur city council has appro- ! priated $500 for the purchase of a l penny a-day' fiction shelf for Car 1 negie library, which is to be thrown 1 open to residents of Albany and De- l catur on equal terms according to an- 1 nouncement today of Mrs. John D. 1 Wyker, secretary and treasurer of the 1 library board.
 1 One thousand ice cream cones were | served at lawn party given here ! last night by actual count accord | ing to the statement today of H. R. | Thompson, secretary of the Y. M. c. A.. | and host of the occasion. The gath ering was largely attended
 l Funeral services were held here | Thursday for Mrs Minerva Logan sis- ter of W. D. Cobb, chief of police of Albany, and were conducted by Rev J. c. Persinger and Rev. J. l.. Good win. Mrs Logan Is survived by her father. J. s. Cobb of Athens; two
 brothers, w. D. Cobb of Albany and J. T. Cobb of Mooresville, and one sister. Mrs, Schrimser of Athens.
 A. A. Hardage, former mayor of New Decatur was called to Somerville l today by the death there of his sis ter, Mrs. Otis Chunn, who died after an illness of some weeks. Mrs. Chunn Is survived by her husband and three children and by three sisters and two brothers.