The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-24
COLUMBUS, MISS.

Columbus, Miss, May 23.-(Special)
 Saturday will be 'Doughnut Day. in the
 Salvation Army home service fund cam
 paign, and the local committee has ar.
 ranged to erect a hut at the intersec-
 tion of Main and Market streets, where
 the crisp circlets which brought the Sal
 vation Army so much fame on the battle-
 fields of France will be offered for sale.
 It is planned to hold an auction sale,
 at which doughnuts will be auctioned
 off by Capt. Frank L. Whitman, who
 ory' division in many hard fought bat
 ties, and the following fair Columbians
 will serve as salesladies in the hut: Misses
 Eleanor Steele, Nina Weeden Oliver
 Katherine Banks, Trixie Turner Eunicc
 Lipscomb, Ruth McEachin. Frances
 Woodward, Marie Street, Elizabeth Ken
 nedy, Ruth Senter, Katherine Maer,
 Clendennin Baird, Ruby Duncan, Mar garet Hardy, Ruth Schrauhstadter, Re- becca Mcdowell, Annie Ramsey Longino.
 Rebecca Stratton, Mamie Knalls, Kate Ray, Bettie Davis, Anne Watson, Dora Evelyn Connor.
 Johnston Alter, who owned one of the
 buildings destroyed in the disastrous fire which visited the business district of Columbus cn March IS, has arranged to erect a new structure to replace the one which was burned. The location is a desirable one, being just east of the Co., lumbus National Bank building on Main street. The contract for the conStruc- tion of the building, which will be a sub stantial brick structure, two stories high, has been awarded to Ben Cline, a loca. contractor, and work has already begun Fire caused by lightning early this
 morning destroyed barn on the planta- ton of W. F. Tennison, nine miles east of Columbus, on the Air line. The build ing contained several cultivators ana other farm implements, which were also destroyed. The loss is estimated at $4Ooo
 and is partially covered by insurance. Mayor D. S. Mechanism and several members of the local municipal council visited West Point. Miss, yesterday for I the purpose of inspecting the city water plant there The council is considering the advisability of installing a centrifu- gal pumping system at the local water works, hoping thereby to reduce the ex- pense of operation and the officials went l to West Point to secure first hand infor- nation regarding a similar system which has recently been introduced there.
 1 Members of the board of supervisors | of Lowndes county yesterday visited the | plantation of Rev J. E. Thomas, seven miles southeast of Columbus, on the Pickensville pike, for the purpose of es- l t;mating the damage which his property will sustain as the result of proposed change in the route of the above named highway MT. ThomAs estimates his damage at $45o0, and has filed claim i against the county for that sum. It is understood that majority of the board | reached an agreement regarding the sum which should be paid, but the amount will not be made public until the next regular monthly meeting, which will take place on the first Monday in June.
 Charles Martin, a negro who was re- gently arrested by Chief of Police Glover and Officer Noble on the charge of hay l ing liquor in his possession in violation of state prohibition laws. had hearing before Mayor Mechanism today. There were two cases against him and he was given fine of s15O and a penal sentence | of 60 days, while in the second his fine l was fixed at $50 and his term of pena l servitude at 20 days.
 l Marion Wise. assistant federal director of operation for the Mobile and Ohio rail- road and the Southern Railway in Mis- | sissippi, and O. B. Hays, vice president | of the latter line, were recently in Co
 lumbus on official business.