The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-09-20
DECATUR

Decatur september 19.-(Special)
Members of tae Albany board of com
merce win meet next Thursday night
to name officials for the ensuing year
and to appoint a committee to lock
into the matter OF obtaining secre-
tary. That decision was reached by
the board of directors at their regular
meeting. The conference Thursday
night will be opened with a brunswick
stew to be served at $50 o'clock and
the business meeting will be open at
s o'clock The board recently was left
without a secretary through the de-
parture of H. +. Henley, who left for
Chicago to accept a position with the
American Aities Bureau.
With 23 candidates out for the
varsity, prospects are exceedingly
bright for the championship football
team at the Albany high school Under
the leadership of Captain Barrett Shell
ton and Business Manager Joe Bell,
drive will be conducted Saturday for
additional funds from the business men
to purchase more equipment. The
heavy registration in the schools this
year has caused so many candidates
to appear for place on the team. the
school has not sufficient equipment TO
/ clothe them
Lafayette street. from Bank TO Rail-
road streets, may be made one-waN
! thoroughfare. The Question was dis
cussed at length by the Decatur city
council without final action being
1 taken.
| Recently the street has become very
| congested and difficulty is experienced
/ in passing when cars are parked there.
| it is claimed
Miss Audrey Matthews, i9-year-old
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. j. r.
! Mathews Of Priceville near here. d'S;l
suddenly last night and was buried
| this afternoon in Ratliffs cemetery
near her Old home. Miss Mathews had
beea slightly i'll several days and last
might told her parents she was worse
| Medical assistance was summoned at
, once but she died in a short time.
! Delegates to the New Fra confer
ence which ended at noon at thH
| Westminster Presbyterian church here.
were leaving tonight for their hor4es
! in Tennessee. Alabama and Misstssippi-
A feature of the final session tnss
morning was an address by DR.. 5, r..
Logan. now OF Columbia. Tenn, form 81
pastor of the local church.
Al last nights meeting Or. Barclay
.Acheson. one of the prominent church.
/ men attending the meeting here, urged
the necessity of large publicity for the
plans and deeds of the church. as the
divine agency through which Christ IS
| to win the world.
| eve make this distinction, said Pr.
| Acheson. 1--WE seek not to advertise
Yourselves. but the service demanded Of
all end the claims and power of Christ.
We advocate and practice buying
space in secular papers to set forth the
needed work of the kingdom, and what
may be expected by those who really
wish TO be whole-hearted and earnest
workers. I believe that if certain
chewing gum company can profitably
spend a million or more dollars per
year in advertising that the great It'd
ings of the kingdom can be advertised
to great advantage. Wherever you Sea
those little red men you at once know
wha, gum is advertised We should
so familiarize the world with the work
Of foreign Christian missions that the
least suggestion win bring the oren
field of missions to their vision"