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The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-02-08
SEVEN DAYS OF FREEZING

On seven days in January, 1925 there was freezing weather in Talla- dega. On January the thermometer registered 26 above 20 on January 5, 10, Il, and 30 above on January 16, IT and 26. In January, 1922, there was also seven freezes, as follows: January 2. 19 above; January 5, S2; January 12. 24; January IS. 27; Jan uary IA, 20; January 26 and 27. 32. Snow and sleet on January 25 and D.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-02-08
BUILDING FLAMING MILi

The Star Mercantile compan' of Parrish is putting up at this placs one of the largest blaming miFs in Walker county. The mill will t'e in charge of T. J. Norris of the Star Mercantile company The new mill will take the entire output of sew eral sawmills.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-02-08
Rug Dwn Upon Americas Part World War As Troops Retur
Flashes Off Wire
MRS. HALL SAILS

NEW YORK, Feb. 7.-while scores of reporters sought her on another liner, Mrs. Frances Noel Stevens Hall. widow of the Rev. Edward Wheeler Hall, of New Brunswick, N. J., who was murdered last September with Mrs Eleanor R. Mills, choir singer, sailed for Italy on the steamship America.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-02-08
SHORT COURSE OPENS

The International Harvester conn pany's two days short course opens in Jasper Thursday. T. J. Wolf, ad- vance representative of the extension department of the company says everything is moving along nicely and that the company will give every as- sistance possible to make the short course of lasting benefit to this com munity,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-02-08
BRANDON o KS SALARY BILL

turc Wednesday to the bills increas- ing the salaries of the probate judge. circuit clerk and register of Jeffer- son county. They were introduced in the senate by Senator Brewer and passed the house Tuesday. The pro bate judge in the future will receive S7500 a year, the circuit clerk S4S00 and the register s4.S00. The salaries will be paid out of the county treas ury.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-02-08
Why Have a
 Sour Stomach
Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets After Meals Insure a Sweet Stomach
 From All Dyspeptic Distresses.

You have probably been through the experience when your stomach went sour and filled with gas and
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-02-08
DEAD BABY FOUND

The body of white baby boy was found in trash can on Noble street here Wednesday morning and carried to the city incinerator plant, a negro workman discovered that the bum dle contained the body of a child.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-02-08
wANTE CHARTER DISSOLVED

One of the oldest laws of the ytat;le books of Alabama will be repealed if the legislature passes bill intro- duced in the house by Representative Dowdle of Pickens county. The bin proposes to repeal the charter of the town of Pickens, now known as Pickinsville. The town was incor porated by law January '. 1926. and the bill of Representative Dowdle proposes the repeal of the law whcih has been in existence 97 years.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-02-08
EARTH TREMoR FELT

MEXICO CITY, Feb. 7.-An earth shock, plainly perceptible, was recor- ded here at 5:34 o'clock this eve ming.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-02-08

service commission today by Sam Laing for an order requiring the Louisville and Nashville railroad to erect stock loading facilities at Me Gehee switch. Mir. Laing said cat tie shipments from that point are fre quent. The case will be heard at the March session.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-02-08
SLEIGH RIDING POPULAR

With the ground covered in snow three or four inches deep and Walker county almost isolated from the rest of the world. sleigh riding wac the most popular sport in Jasper during the first three days of the week Many automobiles were seen drawing one or two sleighs crowded with young women. school children and others. Northern born citizens, of Jasper are especially fond of sleigh riding,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-02-08
TO HOLD SHORT COURSE

A two-days' short course covering all phases of problems of the farm will be held next Mon day and Tuesday, February 12 and 1S, at the court house in Talladega. The short course has been made possible by the cooperation of the business men of Talladega with the Interna tional Harvester company, the latter furnishing the talent which will pre- sent in lectures and moving pictures the various forms of farm. life, in- eluding dairying, live stock, all crops, home economies.
 GLEE CLUB PERFORMS
 The Auburn Glee club arrived in the city Tuesday and gave concert al the Elks' theatre Tuesday night for the benefit of the Graham school Parent Teacher association.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-02-08
EXPECT LIVELY FIGHT FOR NOLEN'S PLACE.
 AS STATE SENATOR

A1 Special. )-If Governor Brandon fol- lows his announced intention of ap- pointing Roy l.. Nolen of this city state senator from the Tenth sena- torial district, m member of the state convict board, it will mean that this district will see one of the hottest po- ltical campaigns in recent years among candidates who will want to complete his term in the senate.
 The thing that will preeipitcte such warm fight will be the tight Ines tha. have been drawn in legislative matters in the cenate. It will be re- membered that the Bonner Sunday observance law was postponed on the strength of ha1ing one majority, and inasmuch a. Mir. Nolen cast his vote for postponing the matter, it appears that the man who succeeds him may have the deciding vote when that bill comes up at the short session.
 The eyes of the whole state. and especially the larger cities, will watch the fight in this district with inter- est, because they do not want to see Sunday baseball. moving pictures and the like eliminated on Sunday, while on the other hand there will be still larger number who will striNe lo see tHaI d iHah IS eieSeeN who will cast his vote against such things on Sunday.
 There is already much talk of his probable successor and in this con- nection J. Sanford Mullins of this city, formerly of Elmore county. is being prominently mentioned as prospective candidate but so far Mir. Mullins has not committed himself one way or the other. It is Talla- poosa county's time to furnish the state senator and whoever is selected will be from Tlllapoosa county.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-02-08
TO ATTEND ROAD MEET

The United States Good Roads as
 soeiation and the Bankhead Highway association will meet in GreenYille. S C.. April 16-21. To attend the meetings, President Harding and Vice President Coolidge and three cabinet officers will be invited. Leon c.. Jones of Talladega has receved notice of his appointment as member of the delegation to call upon the Pres ident on February Ia and present the invitation. MT. Jones is treasurer of the Bankhead Highway association.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-02-08
VANCE WINS OUT

Clifton Vance of TaIIadega coun- ty is not a bigamist because he didn't have two wives when he was tried and convicted of bigamy under decision of the court of appeals today. The court reversed the de- cision of the Talladega circuit court and rendered one discharging Vance.
 Vance had obtained a divorce from his first wife when he married the second, but the 60 days required by law had not expired when he took unto himself the second wife. The court of appeals held that although the time had not expired. Vance did not have one wife when he married the other and could not be guilty.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-02-08
HEAR GLEEs CLUB.

The Auburn Glee cluz gave a de- lightful ntedtainment in the audito- rum of the Alexander City high school last night that WAS witnessed by a large crowd. The club is begin ming it's annual tour and is pleasing the crowds wherever it goes.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-02-08
JoNEs-MCLUEN WEDDING

A wedding which came as a sur prise to a large circle of friends wa that of Mrs. Johnella Jones and c. l McCluen of Sheffield.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-02-08
SEWERAGE SYSTEM IS. BEING INSTALLED BYI RESORT IN TALLADEGAI

TALLADEGA, Ala, Feb. 7.-(Spe- cial.)-Many improvements are being made at Shocco Springs, a popular summer resort about two and a half miles from Talladega, the most inn portant of which will be the install! lation of a complete sewerage sys- tenn which is now under way. The system being installed is designed to take care of 200 guests in the hotel and cottages. Shocco has one of the finest swimming pools in the state as well as other amusements, such as bowling, tennis and horseback riding
 FINED IN LIQUOR CASE
 Paul Mcconnell was tried in county court Monday and fined s25 and costs on a charge of public drunkenness.
The Washington times., 1923-01-28

because she had no moral delinquency to
charge. He might not relish such prop
osition.
And she couldn't suggest that Adair
should get a divorce from her because
then the record of the case would have
to show an immortality on her part-an
awkward thing to have come to light in
her betrayal" and "injured innocence"
suit she was getting ready to bring against
young Whitney.
So, the best thing to do YVES to fix up
an annulment of the marriage This
would be very neat way out of the diff
Guilty without any stain on the moral
character of either Adair or Evan. And
that is why she wrote her husband in Feb
ruary, 1920, proposing an annument of
their marriage.
brought her an annulment she was in
proper legal position to bring that million
dollar suit, she thought. And in her aft
davit in that suit the Fontaine woman
says that it was in May, 1919, that young
Whitney began offering to make her his
wife.
Nothing gives such sympathetic atmos-
phere In court room as a fatherless
baby. If Evan could add Such convinc-
ing exhibit to the jury along with her own
heart-breaking sobs-who could doubt
that the jury would award her that ST.
100000 she was after?
So baby was produced. And COM
menting on that baby, Supreme Court JUS
tice BOrst remarked
There is no proof that there is or ever
has been any child born from her"
But the crushing blow which torpcdocd
Miss Fontaine's whole fabric was a little
string of photographs. When Evan and
her husband, Adair, frolickcd about one
afternoon on The roof garden of the Hotel
Des Artistes Studio Building, on Central
Park West, they were very happy, and
when one of the artists took a bunch of
snap-shOts-whO could fOrcsec that these
photographs were destined to come into
court later on and knock the foundation
out from under her case?
=. Ana this is the reason why those merry
little snapshots, which are shown here on
Ihe page to-day, were so important
When Evan Fontaine decided to try to
squeeze million dollars out of the mil
lonalre Whitney boy she realized that it
never would 10 to pretend she had been
betrayed" while she was married
woman. To convince a Jury it is neces-
sary to give dates and places. So, when
She brought suit in February, 1920, for
annulment of her marriage to Adair-who
has since died, suicide, it is thought
she and her mother swore that thew had
parted from Adair on the very afternoon
OF his wedding, April II, 1918, and that
The Washington times., 1923-01-28

Evan had never lived with him as wife.
Indeed, she had never even seen her hus-
band since the day of the wedding, she
swore.
But the bathing-suit photographs were
taken in July, 1918, witness testified
three months after the marriage.
Instead of living in broken-hearted soil
tude because Adair had told her, on their
wedding day, that he had been married
before, she was rollicking about with him
In affectionate embraces, according to the
testimony of the photographs, at least
three months after the time she and her
mother swore they had parted from Adair
for good and all.
The photographs, and other testimony
that Evan and Adair had lived together
after their marriage, caused Judge Temp
kins, who had granted the decree of an
nulment, to reopen the annulment case
and declare the decree null and void
Judge Tompkins's upsettng of that
fraudulent annulment paved the way for
Judge Borst's action in dismissing the mil
llon-dollar breach of promise case
Young Whitney had offered marriage,
Evan Fontane charged, between May 25,
1919, and October %, 1920
She did not begin her action for annul-
ment until nine months after she claimed
Sonny Whitney first offered to marry
her. She did not get her final annulment
decree until seventeen days before she
said the last offer or promise was made.
throughout all but a few days of this
period she was the wife of Adair.
All that, however, could be explained
away by the annulmcnt decree, which
showed she was "wife in name only"
But Evan had completely forgotten
about those rollicking bathing-sut pic
lures taken on the roof o. that gay art
lists studio building up near Central Park
one had sworn in her annulment suit that
she had separated from Adair on the we'd
ding day, and that while the marriage
ceremony had been performed, yet it was
not really marriagc-she had never
really been Adair's bride. All this was
chocrtully cOrrObOratcd in testimony by
Evans obliging mamma.
The poor girl had been woefully de-
ccived by Adair, so she explained For
tunatcly the bridegroom had confessed to
her that he was really married man Just
in time to save her from the humiliation
of being bigamist's bride. With sorrow
and, of course, outraged feelings, dear
Evan had renowned the wedding cere-
mony then and there and Adair had put
on his hat and gone his way-she was,
she told the court in the annulment pro-
ceedings, truly a wife in name only; she
had never seen him since.
But, as already mentioned Evan for
got about those jolly photographs taken
The Washington times., 1923-01-28

HEADERS of these pages have, per-
N haps, been rather surprised at the
revelations of sordid life among
some OF those stage favorites known as
I"Show Girls" as they have been unfolded
from week to week by young Daniel Cas-
well, the millionaire youth who spent a
fortune and married one of the best
known stage beauties
But CaswelPs experiences and observa-
lions among these footlight butterflies are
ecIpsed by the court records of very
interesting case which have just come to
light. By the narrowest margin of good
luck and hard work by his lawyers young
Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, of New
York, managed to escape from a trap,
which was skillfully laid for the youthful
millionaire by Evan Burrows Fontaine. a
former 'Follies" beauty.
Miss Fontaine is an actress, and she
played her part of injured innocence"
very well, although in taking on the role
of betrayed woman" Evan was faced
with few disadvantages.
At the time the Fontaine girl saws
young Whitney betrayed her. under
promise of marriage, she was already
thoroughly married woman-she was Mrs
Sterling L. Adair Of course, this would
be rather awkward-for the jury to dis
cover during the trial of her 81 ,0OO, 900
damage suit that the innocent young
thing was married woman and had no
business flirting (and worse) with an
unsophisticated boy lover.
So Evan set about to straighten out
that embarrassing difficulty. She hired a
lawyer and fixed up an annulment of that
bothersome marriage. 1t was a pretty
raw proceeding and Evan was not as care
full about it as she ought to have been
She was foolish enough to write Adair
her husband, more or less about what she
was up to, and one letter produced in
court said:
"Of course, things must be righted in
some way, and as in order to do so lie
must be sworn to somewhere, | would
be glad to know if you would be inclined
to deny and oppose it if could secure
an annulmcnt of our marriage by saying
We had never lived together"
Later in the same letter this young
woman writes, with shrewd eye to her
standing in court when her prospective
mllllon-dOllar damage suit came to trial :
81 feel that it would hardly be fair to
my reputation to allow you to obtain a
divorce, for, naturally, your friends, some
Of whom are mine, too. would very natur-
ally suppose you really had some cause
for divorcing me-"
Mr.. Adair, the husband, had left her
and was at his home down in Texas. His
wife hardly had the courage to suggest
that, she should get divorce from him,
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on that July day three months later. And
if she did remember them; well, they were
only little string of snapshots taken by
an artist friend and, no doubt, had long
since passed into oblivion through the
waste basket.
Evan did not know that her husband,
Adair, was rather proud of those pictures
and sent set of prints down to his good
mother in Texas. And so those jolly little
photographs turned up. g.
In the course of the most thorough and
painstaking search of the private life and
career of the Fontaine woman young
Whitney's lawyers left no stone unturned.
The firm of Nicoll, Anable, Fuller &
Sullivan, and James A. Leary, of Schenec-
tady, were engaged to protect the young
millionaire from what was realized was
very queer-looking suit. The lawyers, of
course, hired detectives, and in the course
of time located Mr.. Adair in his Texas
home.
A member of the law firm went to
Texas, and when he got on the train to
come home he had in his pocket that little
string of tell-tale photographs with a
sworn affidavit from Mr.. Affair." and the
name of a man who would tell the
date on which they were taken. And
along with the photographs, the lawyer
brought back the Fontaine woman's let
ters which revealed the whole scheme for
the bogus claim for an annulment of the
marriage, and it was in one of these let
tiers that Evan had written: ain order
to do so, a lie must be sworn to some
where"
Now, the law is sort of game which
has to be played according to established
rules of the game. If Evan Fontaine was
a married woman in May, 1919. then she
had no business to be listening to any,
body's offers to marry her, because she
was already a married woman. 1t was
only because Evan had cleared away this
dlthculty by marriage annulment that
there was any ground for her to stand
on in bringing that mllion-dollar, damage
suit.
But if the court that granted the decree
of annulment had been imposed upon and
lied to and the decree had been granted
upon false testimOny-then the first step
IN the legal game for young Whitney's
lawyers was to have that marriage annul-
ment set aside.
And so it was that the lawyers of the
Nicoll, Anable, Fuller G. Sullivan firm
got together the Fontaine woman's letters
to her husband in Texas and those photo
graphs which showed Evan and her hus-
band rollicking around together at time
when she swore they were having nothing
to do with each other, and the affidavit of
Mr.. Adair, and they went to the court
where the annulment had been granted.
Great Britain Rights Ressrved
The Washington times., 1923-01-28
Mrs. Florence Fontaine, the
Mother of the Young Woman,
Who Helped Her Daughter
in the Annulment Proceed
ings and Is Now Herself
in Trouble Over it.

1t was not a difficult thing to have that
decree set aside.
AS soon as that had been accomplished
the Fontaine woman became Mrs Sterling
Adair once more. The upsetting of that
annulment made her a married woman all
the time when she pretended young Whit
ney was begging her to be his wife.
Having accomplished this first step in
the legal game, the lawyers next went to
court and insisted that there could be no
grounds for a married woman to bring
milliondollar breach of promise suit,
and petitioned the court to dismiss it.
And Supreme Court Justice Henry B.
Borst, reading all the evidence and look
ing through the record of the marriage
annulment and its cancellation dismissed
the million-dolar suit and had this to say:
''1n this case proof has been submitted
which clearly shows that the plaintiff does
not come into this court with clean hands
and is not entitled to any consideration
from the court; that at the time she
charges the promises were made and the
debauching committed she was a married
woman annulllng her marriage
with Adair by fraud and by perjured evil
dencc which she and her mother presented
to the court.
''This judgment of annulment of that
marriage has recently been vacated, so
that plaintiff is now and all the time since
April, 1918, mas been a married woman.
-. She being married woman, the
alleged promises to marry, if made, were
null and void. However, | am not inn
pressed, from the evidence submitted,
that any such promises were made. or any
such child born, as she alleged.
From these affidavits and proofs it is
clearly established that the plaintiff is
unworthy of credence and that this action
is an effort on her part to unjustly obtain
money from the defendant"
So much for the tell-tale bathing-suit
pictures which upset the Fontaine
The Washington times., 1923-01-28

a lie must be
sworn to somewhere.
I would be glad to
know if you would be
inclined to deny and
oppose it, if I could
secure an annulInent
OF our marriage by
saying we had never
lived together"
Facsimile of Letter Of
fered in Court AS Hav-
ing Been Written BY the
"Follies" Girl to Her
Husband.
The Delta independent. [volume] (Delta, Colo.) 1886-19??, 1923-04-27

the community are asked to help by
attending the services which their re-
spective churches will hold.
Monday is Education Day" Spe-
cial programs are being arranged for
the boys in connection with the High
School and also in the Junior High.
Prof Foster has charge of the pro-
grams.
Tuesday is Loyalty Day." 1t is
hoped that a parade of all the boys
in the community can be arranged for
that day. At eight o'clock in the eve
ming meeting will be held in the
High School auditorium. A Loyalty
program will be put on. This meet
ing will be for all the people in the
community who are interested in
boys. Every loyal citizen Of the COM
munity ought to be at that meeting.
The parade will he in charge Of Jack
Hillman and the evening program in
charge of Rotarian Herbert Chase.
Parson Sherman, as chairman of
the Boys Work Committee, will have
charge of the program at the regular
meeting of the club on Wednesday.
Further announcements will be
made in the churches Sunday.
The Delta independent. [volume] (Delta, Colo.) 1886-19??, 1923-04-27
NORTH DELTA

MI and Mrs. Paul Leittles called on
Mr.. and Mrs. l.. Q. Lewis Sunday az
ternoon.
Mrs. Frank Crowley and Mrs. Lucy
Springer called on Mr.. and Mrs. II.
Poundstone on Sunday afternoon.
Mrs. Moffett was calling on friends
In North Delta one day last week.
Mrs. Gall Patterson and three small
children autoed to Montrose Saturday
returning Sunday. staying with Mr..
Patterson all night.
l.. r. Dingman accompanied quite n
large crowd Of Odd Fellows to Grand
Junction one evening. last week.
Fred Farmer and family have NOV.
ed over to Delta.
William Hauser took the train one
day last week for California in order
to take Job to be near his brother.
who went out there early this spring.
Mrs. L. f. Dingman autoed to Pa.
onia with a number OF other Wood.
craft ladies and initiated eighteen
new members into the lodge at Paonia
last Saturday evening.
The Delta independent. [volume] (Delta, Colo.) 1886-19??, 1923-04-27
BOYS WEEK

Each year during the first week in
May the Rotarian Clubs Of the coun-
try observe Boys Week. The object
is to interest the people of the local
community in its greatest asset, its
boys.
The Rotarians of Delta will observe
this week by putting on the following
program:
On Sunday, April 20 the pastors OF
all the churches in town are asked to
hold some kind of service of special
interest to boys. All of the boys OF
The Delta independent. [volume] (Delta, Colo.) 1886-19??, 1923-04-27
PEACH VALLEY

Tommie Cover and family of Eek
ert spent Sunday afternoon at the
home of his sister Mrs. J. e. Thomp-
son.
Charles Blackburn's family moved
to town last week. Charles is work
ing at the brick yard. His brother
Earl is looking after the crop on the
homestead.
]. j. Fedler and children spent last
Thursday visiting Grandpa Dari. who
recently had a stroke of paralysis, at
the home of his daughter Mrs. Ed
Sheetz on Ash Mesa.
Mrs. L. B. Scott gave her husband
"a surprise party in honor Of his
birthday. There were about sixty in
attendance. They spent the evening
dancing and playing cards At late
hour Mrs. Scott served lovely re.
freshments. All had good time.