The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-02-21
TORRENTIAL RAIN
 DOES B|G DAMAGE
 IN CALHOUN COUNTY
.AnnistOn Was Flooded and Business Delayed Child Welfare Work Is Dis
 cussed by Judge

l Anniston, February 20.-(Special.( Damage that will run into several thou
 sand dollars resulted in this city Monday night as the consequence of the ~s>Yy
 rain that fell during the early morning hours Tuesday. Streams have risen in
 every part of the county and the roads
 are almost impossible In addition to
 this persons living in the southern part
 of the city had difficulty in getting to
 their work Tuesday morning. In all the i ilow-lying sections of the city, cellars were l flooded with water, several pipe shops
 suffered and small lakes appeared in va
 cant lots on account of the inability of
 the storm sewers to carry off the surplus ksurface water.
 Mayor Scarborough was out bright and
 early to see what damage had been done
 and found that about dozen foot bridges
 and several wagon bridges had been dam aged by the high water. Will Parker.
 supervisor of roads, started out later in
 the morning for tour of some of the
 roads in the county to ascertain to what
 extent the heavy rainfall had damaged l them.
 1
 way to Oxford Lake, on account of high water and a number of farmers who live across Cane creek were unable to come 1 to town until late in the day, when the
 water had subsided.
 1 Cane creek, Choccolocco creek and Snow creek were all bank full this morn | ing and in some places had overflowed as | the result of the storm. R. H. Dean,
 weather observer, said that the rainfall l for the "A hours ended at o'clock this
 morning was slightly less than two inches
 and had often been heavier for the same period, but it was not often that such Q great quantity fell in a single shower as l fell in the heavy shower last night. Anniston was 35 years old Friday, but 1 her birthday was not celebrated except 1 by few people who had birthdays on the same date. The last great celebration of
 Annistons birth was in 1898, when there
 was big street parade. At that time l the United States and Spain had on
 their fighting clothes and every one was 1 talking war.
 Since the frigid weather of 10 days a.o the big clock on the courthouse has | VI under the weather" For the past few 1 days it has been slow and a number of people have missed trains and appoint
 ments by reason of it's bare-faced men, dacity. Before that it was several min- utes fast and insisted on striking the
 hour before the hands indicated it, and
 when it did strike it was not particular what it struck. The county commission
 CTS have made arrangements to have it
 adjusted.
 | Following an address by Luther V.
 Lilies, judge of the Anniston juvenile
 court before the Anniston Pastors union Monday afternoon, steps have been taken 1 looking to the formation of juvenile
 protective association in this city. Con- siderable interest has been manifested in the question of child welfare ever since
 Judge Lilies court was established and : lie is said to be doing a great work along constructive lines.
 1 It is now intended to coordinate the
 several associations that are working for 1 the benefit of juvenile delinquents and to 1 this end a committee was appointed I to look into the matter and see what ! measures could be taken to bring about 1 the desired results. This committee will
 make it's report at the next regular meet l ing of the Pastors union.
 l This committee is comprised of Rev. | K N. Matthews, Rev. l.. N. Claxton, 1 Rev. s. R. Hodges, Rev. Garlond R.2Farm- | CT and Judge L. V. Lilies. This committee will make thorough investigation of l the child problem in Anniston and draw l up recommendations TOT improving con- dtions that exist in some quarters of | the city, which Judge Lilies has charac- terized as being exceedingly bad. ] Aaron Crow, negro boy preacher, l aged 6, who has been drawing large | crowds in this city, ending with big | meeting at the courthouse Sunday, at which time the circuit courtroom was packed almost to suffocation, left Mon l day for Talladega, where he will hold series of sevces. In his talks here the l boy did not preach a regular sermon, but | gave evidence of a marvellous memory, displaying a vast knowledge of scriptural | texts that he was able to put together correlatively The boy has been touring the country with his parents for two years and his ability to quote from the Bible is so marvellous that he attracts big audiences wherever he goes. Congressman Fred I. Blackmon, who has been in this city at the bedside of his mother for several days, has returned to Washington to resume his duties. While in the city MT. Blackmon mani fested much interest in the army post proposition upon which he has been work ing for several years.
 WINTER ST0RM D0Fe