The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-02
Dr. Cooke Well Known
 in Columbus, Miss

l Columbus Miss, August 1.-tSpe-
 cial) )-Dr. Paul Lee Cooke of Birming ham, a member of the medical reserve
 corps who was recently killed on a
 French battlefield was the brother or Cary Cooke a wel1-known planter re-
 siding in the prairie section west of Columbus. and his death is keenly re-
 gretted here.
 l Dr. Cooke had been in France sew
 eral months. and in letter recently written to his brother stated that he
 had been assigned to a base hospital
 near the battle front He said he was
 delighted with the assignment, as 1t afforded him a splendid opportunity
 to serve his country and his fellow
 men. No details regarding the man.
 ner in which the gallant young man , met his death have been received here, l The qualified electors of three sep arate road taxing districts in Lowndes | county on Tuesday voted on bond is-
 sues totaling $60,o00, for the improve
 ment of public highways and in all | three instances the proposed bond is sue was authorized by decisive ma | jorities.
 in two of the road taxing districts,
 West Port and Artesia, the amounted voted on were $25,o0 each, while in | the old Zion district the sum author | ized to be expended was $1o000 Both 1 the Artesia and West Port road taxing districts are located in the prairie sec | tion, west of the Tombigbee river.
 while the old Zion district is situated l i,, l,a h aCfn n
 county.
 | The recent issuance of a new city
 directory has furnished local workers 1 with a list of large number of peo- pie to whom appeals have never been made, to buy War Savings stamps, and Prof. F. A. Stanley, chairman for
 Lowndes county has a large force of clerks engaged in the work of send r. ing out letters to these citizens. urg- ing them to pledge themselves to buy i stamps.
 l Homer Atkins and Miss Ella Keeler
 Randle were married at the home of the brides parents, MT. and Mrs. J. R. Randle on Main street Wednesday afternoon, the ceremony having been 1 performed by the Rev. s. L. Pope, pas tor of the First Methodist church. | Local advocates of woman suffrage
 are circulating a petition memcrializ- ing the legislature to submit to the people constitutional amendment granting the right of the ballot to
 women. The petition is being gen.
 erouslv signed, many prominent Co., lumbians having affixed their sigma lures thereto.
 Fire which broke out in building used as a blacksmith shop at the Southern Railway shops at an early l hour Tuesday morning partially de- stroyed the structure. and for a time the entire plant was threatened with 1 destruction. Efficient work on the part of the municipal fire department, however, finally enabled them to sub
 due the flames, and the damage was confined to the building originally at tackled
 | Fred Egger. who for sometime past has been in training at Camp Shelby, but who is now at home on a furlough,
 was married Tuesday afternoon to Miss Josephine Duncan, the ceremony 1 having taken place at the home Of the brides parents Mir. and Mrs. w, l H. Duncan, The marriage is attended
 by unusually romantic circumstances, for not only is Mr. Egger soldier, but his bride recently had an exceed ingly narrow escape from death. she
 was suffering from a headache and swallowed a dose of medicine which she believed to be aspirin, but which in reality was biohlorda of mercury. She
 was made violently i'll by the lethal dose, but finally recovered. and her narrow escape from death caused the young people, who had been engaged for sometime, to lealize how dear they
 were to each other, so they were mar
 ried without further delay.